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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

If I had a nickel for every time a huge leftist account posted a stormfront meme because it was anti-Israel, I wouldn't need a retirement plan

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 9h

If I had to guess, he probably is thinking less about his political career here, and is thinking more about how he lived the rest of his life, which by all accounts was marked by pointless excess.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 9h

I think people want this to be a recognition by him that he knows he’s a bad guy, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here.
I think he’s an old man who knows it could happen any day which is freaking him out like it does a lot of people.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 9h

Old man has existential crisis

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 10h

It doesn’t get much press for obvious reasons, and it only shows up occasionally, but there’s a version of Trump that appeared after he took office again that’s atypically melancholic and resigned.

It also showed up in his first (but very much not his second) National Prayer Breakfast speech.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
32nd President of the United
States: 1933 - 1945
Address at the Dedication of the
Thomas Jefferson
Memorial, Washington, D.C.
April 13, 1943
Today, in the midst of a great war for freedom, we dedicate a shrine to freedom.
To Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Freedom, we are paying a debt long overdue.
Yet, there are reasons for gratitude that this occasion falls within our time; for our generation of Americans can understand much in Jefferson's life which intervening generations could not see as well as we.
He faced the fact that men who will not fight for liberty can lose it. We, too, have faced that fact.
He lived in a world in which freedom of conscience and freedom of mind were battles still to be fought through-not principles already accepted of all men.
We, too, have lived in such a world.
He loved peace and loved liberty-yet on more than one occasion he was forced to choose between them.
We, too, have been compelled to make that choice.

Generations which understand each other across the distances of history are the generations united by a common experience and a common cause. Jefferson, across a hundred and fifty years of time, is closer by much to living men than many of our leaders of the years between. His cause was a cause to which we also are committed, not by our words alone but by our sacrifice.
For faith and ideals imply renunciations. Spiritual advancement throughout all our history has called for temporal sacrifices.
The Declaration of Independence and the very purposes of the American Revolution itself, while seeking freedoms, called for the abandonment of privileges.
Jefferson was no dreamer-for half a century he led his State and his Nation in fact and in deed. I like to think that this was so because he thought in terms of the morrow as well as the day—and this was why he was hated or feared by those who thought in terms of the day and the yesterday.
We judge him by the application of his philosophy to the circumstances of his life. But in such applying we come to understand that his life was given for those deeper values that persist throughout all time.
Leader in the philosophy of government, in education, in the arts, in efforts to lighten the toil of mankind-exponent of planning for the future, he led the steps of America into the path of the permanent integrity of the Republic.

Thomas Jefferson believed, as we believe, in Man. He believed, as we believe, that men are capable of their own government, and that no king, no tyrant, no dictator can govern for them as well as they can govern for themselves.
He believed, as we believe, in certain inalienable rights. He, as we, saw those principles and freedoms challenged. He fought for them, as we fight for them.
He proved that the seeming eclipse of liberty can well become the dawn of more liberty. Those who fight the tyranny of our own time will come to learn that old lesson. Among all the peoples of the earth, the cruelties and the oppressions of its would-be masters have taught this generation what its liberties can mean. This lesson, so bitterly learned, will never be forgotten while this generation is still alive.
The words which we have chosen for this Memorial speak Jefferson's noblest and most urgent meaning; and we are proud indeed to understand it and share it:
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

This is awesome I loved this one

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Jake F. @kfastley.bsky.social · 2d

After being inspired by the recent collaboration between @jj-mccullough.bsky.social and @ryangeddie.bsky.social, I decided to make my own American political archetypes meme inspired by the art of @beanytuesday.bsky.social. I'm not the best artist, but I like the personality I put into these.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

I love that I can see when people like my repost now it feels like I’m providing a service

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

So the absolute insane stupidity of this is the idea that he could set up a theocratic state and also get a 'significantly smaller government.'

The folks on the authoritarian right do really seem to be believe there is a secret government liberalizer ray they can just switch off to change society.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

Is he sharp as a tack though

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 2d

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

Not all libertarians and not all neo-cons, obviously.
But a lot of the neo-cons did actually think America was good, and the ones that thought it was good for something beyond being a vehicle for the conservative culture war became never-trump.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been circling around this point in a couple different settings lately but one of the reasons so many libertarians went all in for Trump is because they fundamentally didn’t like America.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2d

Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.

Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 2d

My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

He’s weird but in a way that isn’t totally off putting
I don’t love it but who am I kidding I’m going to vote for whoever the democratic nominee is in 28

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

Woke panic discourse started making more sense to me when I realized that none of the people who write these opinion pieces have ever witnessed kids being bullied because they didn’t go to southern baptist church

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry that the woke made you feel uncomfortable at your prestige media job in one of the most liberal cities in America.
Comparing this to the police arresting people for social media posts in Britain (bad and illiberal btw)
Or literally anything the Trump admin is doing right now is absurd

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe I’m the one with the misunderstanding here, but when I hear “post-liberal” I’m not thinking “post Obama era politics” I’m thinking “post liberal democracy”

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

Ross Douthat really abuses the term “post-liberal”
In this piece he compares the progressive left to the populist right and calls both “post-liberal”
I understand he doesn’t like progressives. That’s fine, but they generally believe in liberal democracy.

ROSS DOUTHAT
Can Left and Right Understand the Other Sides Fears?

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

Jeffersonian propaganda about federalists wanting an American king wasn’t wrong, just early

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

Fairweather federalists: A coalition of MAGA attorneys general file amicus brief supporting Donald Trump’s militarization of a sovereign state and city.

Of note: This is not surprising, given some of these same actors supported overturning the election results in states Joe Biden won.

Counsel for State of Iowa

ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SUPPORT
Austin Knudsen
Attorney General of Montana
Gentner Drummond
Attorney General of Oklahoma
Lynn Fitch
Attorney General of Mississippi
Catherine Hanaway
Attorney General of Missouri
Alan Wilson
Attorney General of South Carolina
Steve Marshall
Attorney General of Alabama
Tim Griffin
Attorney General of Arkansas
James Uthmeier
Attorney General of Florida
Chris Carr
Attorney General of Georgia
Raúl R. Labrador
Attorney General of Idaho
Theodore E. Rokita
Attorney General of Indiana
Kris Kobach
Attorney General of Kansas
Liz Murrill
Attorney General of Louisiana
Michael T. Hilgers
Attorney General of Nebraska
Marty Jackley
Attorney General of South Dakota
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
John B. McCuskey
Attorney General of West Virginia

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

The second post is more accurate to my views than the first post but sometimes you gotta post from the hip

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

I’m obviously being simplistic but I do think it basically broke the spirit of a lot of millennials to go from the optimism of the early Obama years to 10 years of Trump

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3d

Millennials got cynical after Obama wasn’t as transformative as they thought he would be.
Gen Z must break the cycle and be optimistic again

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