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Robert C. Padilla

@robertcpadilla.bsky.social

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Writer living in Tucson, AZ; retired IT Executive; happily married; politically left-of-center; tennis player; classical pianist; lover of great art; youthful 77-year old runner. NO DMs PLEASE! As a rule, I ignore all DMs.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1h

Excellent.

I suggest that we rename ICE the US Taliban. Or how does this sound?

The US Gestapo.

Choose one.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 2h

I like this.

ICE agents should not be allowed to act lawlessly with impunity.

Morally and legally, that is simply wrong.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 3h

Question.

What if that boat was NOT carrying drugs?

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration's priorities are upside down.

The man in the street means nothing. Billionaires are everything.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 4h

Trump will never win the Nobel Peace Prize anymore than Jack the Ripper will be canonized as the next saint.

Won't happen.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 4h

Jim Jordan has the IQ of a pet rock.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 5h

Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about democracy.

He (and Stephen Miller) just want to make America white again...at any price.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 5h

Kristi (you little hooker), you're losing this fight, aren't you?

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 5h

Most major polls (Gallup, Ipsos, Washington Post, Quinnipiac) have Trump’s popularity at 38-41%.

Pushing back against him shouldn't be that difficult.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 5h

If the ICE agent refuses to unmask and identify himself, then how do I know he's an ICE agent?

He could easily be an imposter.

Therefore, I'd fight back. And as a blackbelt in karate, I could do real damage.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Johnson: We have lots of ideas.

No they don't. Otherwise, we would have heard of them by now.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 17h

For the 8 Obama years, racists like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan seethed.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Tyrants fear protests.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

We have a difference in ideology.

We have a difference in morality.

We have a difference in philosophy.

We have a difference in values.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings, folks.

Get out there and protest as if our democracy were at stake.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is hallucinating.

The dementia is getting worse.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is losing it.

This, of course, is not news.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

We need another 20 Democratic governors like Pritzker (and Newsom) willing to fight back against this administration.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is the ultimate gallery of thieves.

They are lawless and, amazingly, proud of their lawlessness.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

I'm surprised that Donald Trump hasn't claimed that he wrote King Lear, painted the Sistine Chapel, and discovered the Theory of Relativity.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

I Justice Barrett going to give equal time to MSNBC?

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually, I believe, the fascists will lose.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a video game. This is reality. People are being killed.

Trump should be held accountable for his actions.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 2d

War-torn Portland.

And its insurrectionists.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 2d

When the Reichstag (the German Parliament) burned to the ground, Hitler declared an emergency, blamed the Communists, and seized absolute power.

There is some speculation that the Nazis may have set that fire themselves.

Beware the Insurrection Act.