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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 5h

Time will tell but I'm a little curious as to whether this is Trump worried about mortality, being influenced by fundie talk around him at work, or possibly acting like a toddler, i.e. "if I can't get what I want I might as well be dead and not even in heaven"

Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 5h

That genius's reply has one like: The OP of that thread, who apparently also thinks Democrats voted to confirm Vought. Which they didn't.

I wish the "do something" people would actually pay attention to what's being done and what's already been done

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of people on here want to have thousands of people paying attention to their every word while also being smol beans who can't possibly be held responsible for anything

They also act like they're victims of a crime if someone with 27 followers mildly disagrees with them

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 8h

The only time we hear about Sally Jenkins is when she posts ragebait and basks in the attention, which Bluesky insists on giving her

Starting your post with "I know it's bait but" doesn't absolve you of falling for the bait.

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 17h

My first thought was that "DO SOMETHING" was idiotic because, I mean, he's the president, who is he asking for help? Then I realized that it's probably his clumsy of him asking his followers to go do "something" about it, a vague "will no one rid me of this troublesome priest" sort of thing

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

Geoffrey Garin was NOT in charge of Harris's campaign. He's not even listed as a key member of her campaign.

If you're going to make stuff up, at least make it interesting.

Geoff Garin (born 1953) is an American pollster, who served as co-chief strategist for the latter part of Senator Hillary Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign and was part of the polling team for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. He was a pollster and strategist in 2011–2012 for Priorities USA Action, a superPAC that supported Barack Obama's reelection, and served in those same roles for Priorities USA the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Key people in Kamala Harris campaign: Julie Chávez Rodriguez (manager)
Jen O'Malley Dillon(campaign chairwoman)
Jeffrey Katzenberg (co-chair)
Mitch Landrieu (co-chair)
Cedric Richmond (co-chair)
Gretchen Whitmer (co-chair)
Quentin Fulks (deputy campaign manager)
David Plouffe (senior advisor)

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa means anti-fascist. The United States is anti-fascist. That is one of America's core traits. We're defined by being a country which has repeatedly stood up to fascism.

If the president has decided to fight to make America fascist, you should plainly say so.

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

It's also frustrating because we're watching this in real time and people are declaring within minutes that Pritzker has abandoned everyone, it's like they think it's an 80s action movie and he can just call the cop manning the precinct desk and end the conflict in two minutes

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

Alec Baldwin and Wallace Shawn are still in the running!

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't defended anyone, you weirdo, you're claiming Garin advised Walz and he didn't, he advised Harris and she told him to pound sand

Probably because he was only part of her polling team and not an actual advisor (but he shouldn't have even been on the polling team because he sucks out loud)

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

No, that's exactly the point. You were right when you said no one told Walz to stop; one consultant may have told Harris to stop, but she said no.

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

But it says right at the top of the article that Garin told them to dial back the "weird" talk and they said no

Geoff Garin, summarizing their analysis, stop saying, “We’re not going back.” It wasn’t focused enough on the future, he argued. Second, lay off all the “weird” talk — too negative.

Harris’ advisers listened. They considered the arguments. They decided to stick with what the crowds were chanting in the arenas.

When advisers who had been on the call briefed the vice president on the suggestions, according to CNN’s conversations with close to a dozen people involved with internal campaign decisions, she told them she wasn’t going to listen to the pollsters herself and would instead trust the instincts she had buried under self-doubt for so long.

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

It's so frustrating because the article that started the whole lie about the Dems "not saying 'weird' anymore" was VERY clear that one person suggested it and Harris's team said no, were going to keep saying it

Some big account lied about what the article said and now the lie is all we hear

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that Walz kept hitting the "weird" thing to the very end, neither Harris nor the vaguely defined "consultants" told him to stop, and the difference was the press stopped covering it

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday!

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NIGHT,
HERMAN

NANCY SAYS GOOD NIGHT TO HER PET FISH HERMAN.

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 1d

I've said that in real life though! I don't remember what joke it was that you posted, but I told my husband and he was like who's Marcy and I said "she's on Bluesky, she's really nice"

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

Oh fuck you turning off comments this is AI generated the windows on the building arent even consistent

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 2d

I went to school with a guy like that, he ended up working w ICE in CO but missed out on the current fun because he didn't think COVID was real, it killed him a few days before Christmas in 2021

He "loved people and believed in the power of prayer" which is why his FB was all memes abt killing libs

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 2d

The culture on Bluesky of medium to large accounts just fucking lying and everyone believing it has turned a lot of people's brains into mush

I see small accounts every day posting the truth and they get ignored and blocked

It needs to stop but it just gets worse and worse

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 2d

There was also the time Vitup Herb started saying certain local, legitimate NYC news sources were fake when they weren't, because he made an assumption which was wrong and their articles proved it, and his ego couldn't handle it

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 2d

The best I can tell, the reason Propter Malone went around individually @'ing people who liked a quote from a CNN article that I posted, telling them I was posting misinfo when I wasn't, is because he believed some big account's lie about the quote being fabricated

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Scaryname Jones @staciajones.bsky.social · 2d

Misinfo on here is fucking insane

No, it was not an "AI call." Machado called Trump! It actually happened! And this guy knows this by now but won't delete his lie.

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