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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 13h

Very mixed feeling about this.
It would be a disaster, but it will also be much harder to make the case that Dems have anything whatsoever to do with it.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 13h

I remember him in his prime.
He has always been ignorant and dishonest.
But, he used to be quite clever and perceptive.
Charming, even.
He is definitely losing that ability.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 13h

It has happened before.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

When a secret president ran the country

All during September of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson became thinner, paler and ever more frail. Unfortunately, the president refused to listen to his body. He had too much important work to do.

www.pbs.org

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 16h

AND nvidia is up 2%, which shows how crazy this is.

Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry. Chicago:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 17h

The Republican Party has always apposed the New Deal.
We are now at the point where nobody remembers what it was like before it.
Well, we are going to get a reminder.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 17h

Trump has dictatorial control over US trade.
Nobody (including Trump) has a clue what he will do tomorrow.
There is no 'policy' there is no 'framework' there are no 'deals'.
There is just what an addle brained, ignorant, grifter feels like doing today.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 17h

It will get worse before it gets better.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 17h

The odd thing is we have government polices that are subsidizing housing on the one hand and making it difficult to build on the other.

Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 19h

The NAZIs had better costume designers.

Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's both.
I've built a good bit of 'me'.
But it is sitting on a foundation of qualities I just have.
For better and worse.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

This is a big problem with the left.
Some want equality.
Some just want change who is on top.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

Although I wish it weren't true, conservatives are consistently more active in the day to day workings of government. Voting, attending meetings, joining boards, fundraising, bugging elected officials, etc.

Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

Until Trump gets pissed about something he saw on TV or social media.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.
Trump is no Putin.
He admires Putin, but that is different.
He is a mid-tier fraudster who became President by an accident of circumstance. His 'inner circle' is a combination of grifters, climbers, simpleton marks and a few lunatic ideologues. They don't form a coherent 'regime'.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

Most white men have never been in charge of anything.
Powerful white men have conned working class white men (and even white women) into believing they have common interests.
It is the oldest, and most successful, lie in American politics.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

It is an strange fact that the most vocal supporters of 'survival of the fittest' racism are usually not, in fact 'the fittest'.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

I once had a local Republican politician explain to me (with a straight face) how being anti-racist is racist.
Trump has normalized Orwellian doublespeak.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's fundamental worldview is feudal.
He doesn't want to take us back, he is honestly unaware that anybody takes democracy seriously. He believes democracy is a con the elites run on the peasants.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 3d

The US is, in fact, huge.
It is also mostly empty.
So cars make allot of sense for the few people who live in the empty parts of the country.
But not for most Americans.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 3d

Hassett is a very smart and well educated guy who has made a successful career saying stupid stuff for hire.
Somehow I find that more depressing than the number people who believe him, despite the fact that he is consistently, demonstrably, publicly, very very wrong, all the time.

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Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 4d

Being a top cyclist means you are the best at getting your body to function beyond its normal limits.
It's not going to be healthy.

Jack Kliever @silverhorseman.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, it's amazing how quickly they got all the variances and permits and stuff.
Oh that's right, Roberts say Trump is exempt from all that stuff.

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