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The Local Crank

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Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan #copolitics

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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · Feb 19

A Reading List to explain how we got into this mess

Dreamland by Sam Quinones
The Most Dangerous Branch by David A. Kaplan
The Death of Expertise @radiofreetom.bsky.social
Nixonland, The Invisible Bridge @rickperlstein.bsky.social
Rise of the Warrior Cop @radleybalko.bsky.social

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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 11h

Kind of mild for Republicans, really

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 11h

They’re laying plans for more of this in the future

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is the Anti Captain America: the living embodiment of everything wrong with this county, racism, arrogance, ignorance, greed, cruelty

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 19h

Weird how the states with the most guns per capita have the highest violent crime rates

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 21h

Shhhh! We can't say that!

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 22h

Well, as someone whose name we cannot dare mention because of free speech or something, once said, dead children are a small price to pay for a totally invented history of the Second Amendment

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 22h

It's time to talk about putting grampa in a home

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 22h

Parents rights are like states rights, they only apply in furtherance of Right Wing goals

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

But I was told it was important to have a president you could have a beer with...

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

How did I guess it would be the British?

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

I will agree to not coach Penn State for 1/4 that

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

There are a LOT of creepy abusive laws lurking in the US code that have accumulated for decades if not centuries. Assuming democracy survives, we should really look into repealing them.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Removal requires TWO THIRDS of the Senate. That's 67 votes, which is 20 more than we have now. Also impeaching Cheeto Mussolini would make JD Vance president.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

As soon as voters elect 67 Democrats to the senate. That's 20 more than they currently have, btw.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer looks quietly appalled

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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

JFC, he is such a lumbering humiliation for this country

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the Golden Age we were promised?

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The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

This syphilitic bloated old fraud hasn't even been in office a year...

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Something something something and then The Revolution comes

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

That's why I'm ignoring them. Eventually, their mom will yell down into the basement that their pizza rolls are ready and they'll move on.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

many many MANY reasons America needs a new constitution.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Deaths with assault weapons plummeted during that period. Other gun crimes? Not so much. Unfortunately, thanks to SCOTUS inventing history out of thin air, virtually any gun laws are now presumptively unconstitutional. SCOTUS is about to rule that private property owners can't keep guns out. One of

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

It's comforting to think that America is violent because we have too many guns. The disturbing truth, however, is that we have too many guns because we are violent. And always have been.

The Local Crank @thelocalcrank.bsky.social · 1d

Most. Accurate. Username. Ever.

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