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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · Mar 26

I believe the pitch for this season of The Apprentice: Presidential Edition was, "It's Veep meets Schindler's List"

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Mar 26

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder how many adherents to Prosperity Gospel Christianity became millionaires after joining their churches? I'm guessing just the preachers and, of course, the grifters who joined and convinced their fellow church goers to buy into their MLM scheme.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 10h

Even if your crimes victimized other Republicans! www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/s...

Republicans who kept Rep. Santos in Congress are lining up to oust him after scathing ethics report

Santos, who was already facing related criminal charges in New York federal court, announced that he would not seek reelection in 2024.

www.cnbc.com

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 10h

Santos ripped off his fellow GOP congresspeople. Here's hoping those who got ripped off start to see that Trump will turn on them as soon as it's convenient for him.

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 10h

This is where rando internet denizens are held up as the paragons of the Democratic party but actual leaders of the GOP spewing vile racism are dismissed as young people saying crazy things by JD Vance.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 11h

As a non-republican over the last 50 years I've heard a whole lot of racist shit(as vile as what was in the exposed chat) from Republicans. I think the author doth protest too much.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 1d

In the 90s when the GOP went after Bill Clinton for his infidelities a whole bunch of the same type of actions came out about GOP pols. Those were all dismissed as "youthful indiscretions" even though they had occurred while these dudes were in their 30s and 40s. Who knew GOP men were all Peter Pan.

🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 2d

“Kids”
My daughters are 26 and 29
One is a physician
And one is a TESOL Teacher in China
Neither are children
Neither get to speak like children who don’t know right from wrong anymore
And I hate to break it to these pathetic little cucks
But neither can they

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 1d

Because there are specific definitions. Words still mean things.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

It's the same people who argue that it is equally illegal for a rich man to sleep under a bridge as it is a poor man.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

I'm hoping "Kavanaugh Stop" becomes as well known in jurisprudence as Dred Scott.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sure you would be perfectly fine being grabbed by a bunch of dudes off the street and shoved into the back of a vehicle and driven away. I'm sure you would be cool if it was your son or daughter, right?

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

It's time for the democrats to roll out their own Contract with America where at the top are Constitutional Amendments restoring the balance of powers and limiting the Executive Branch's power

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

The racist Pat Buchanan wing stopped immigration reform dead in its tracks in W's second term. A festering, racist sore in the GOP became a metastasized cancer that is now eating our entire body politic.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

This will certainly help Ciattarelli's chances in the NJ governor's race!

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

I won't disagree that social media has in large part created our current mess. However, while the press in the 18th & 19th centuries were "free" (unless you were abolitionist in the south or west) outlets were extremely polemic and biased. Our conception of unbiased media is a 20th century invention

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Big Brain - to ethnically cleanse an area the cleansers need boots on the ground to push out, mop up, and arrest all the people there.

The excuses people make for war crimes is astounding.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 3d

Eugenicists and Libertarian ideologues

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John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 3d

If it was an accordion or banjo then sure, maybe they have a point

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

Selective environmentalism at it's finest all over the internet: alternatives to oil, gas, and coal have to be perfect but oil spills, slag pits, groundwater contamination, and vast habitat destruction is fine (and there is no such thing as climate change).

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

The funny thing about the firehose of bullshit MAGA spreads is that even something like this will get lost in the haze in a week's time. It is interesting that Epstein remains in the public consciousness, though, and may be Trump's undoing.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

Because we got rid of municipal owned utilities in exchange for privateers soaking most of us for whatever they can get

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

C'mon, all they want is to get next to you! But maybe that hat's just a canary in a coal mine.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

Can we just say, under current ownership and management, that the answer to every question that begins, "should the Jets regret," is always, "yes."

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

It's so the GOP fully owns the issue of healthcare. The GOP wants complicity by the Dems so the GOP can blunt any attacks in 26 and 28 (assuming there are elections). Dems are counting on bread & butter issues to pin on the GOP. I don't think that's right, but I've been wrong before.

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 5d

"lower" prices - so not negotiated but at thee whim of the manufacturer. The Trump administration is nothing but cruelty wrapped up on a PR campaign

Daily Herald @dailyherald.com · 5d

AstraZeneca agrees to lower drug prices for Medicaid under Trump administration deal

WASHINGTON -- AstraZeneca on Friday became the second major pharmaceutical manufacturer to announce it had agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration that avoided its threats of steep tariffs.

www.dailyherald.com

John Coltrane Lives @aminhnow.bsky.social · 6d

Duh, it's not antisemitic when THEY do it