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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 11h

Look up 'sarcasm' on Google

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

And you know the rule: anyone who campaigns for the Prize and loses is no longer eligible

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

We have those those people in Florida--mainly around Orlando --but they are not free-ranging. They are confined to reservations with names like "Disney World"

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

As a Floridian, the outstanding thing here is the car that patiently puts on its signal and goes slowly by the pedestrians--under no condition would that happen here--pedestrians get near a curb at their own risk

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Who looks threatening--these guys or the frogs?

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Who are you going to believe: Kristi Noem, puppy killer, or your own eyes

milsma.bsky.social @milsma.bsky.social · 2d

War zone Portland

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

The horror

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, and the residents are lying and videos and photographs are lying, and the journalists are lying, and everyone with friends and family who are reassured that everything is fine in Portland and Chicago are lying, the Portland dogs out on their walks are lying, the IPA is lying, the truth is lying

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 2d

If the federal government were really interested in solving the violence problems in midwestern cities they would swoop in o the hand-full of firearms stores in NW Indiana that supply most handguns to gangs throughout the region and shut them down

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 3d

Check out candidate Whitney Fox whitneyfoxforcongress.com

Whitney Fox for Congress

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

Bald-faced lie

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

To borrow a phrase 'every word (he says) is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’”

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

From the front in war torn Portland--notice the terror in the eyes of the police officers! The horror!

This is the Big Lie unfolding in real time--one third of the country thinks two of our greatest cities have crumbled into disorder--and its a complete fabrication

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

We are all Oranians now, if that's a word

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

Or the plague, which is why Camus is relavent today

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

So says Hobbes—many have noted that fear is an insufficient means of securing collective action—legitimacy must be secured. Some basis of legitimacy has to exist so that most people go along as if they believe the order of authority has a basis in reason or faith—we are in a legitimization crisis

secured.in

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 6d

Rarely does photojournalism capture the realities of the front lines in urban warfare so vividly! This has Pulitzer written all over it!

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 8d

The Democratic backsliding began with Newt Gingrich in the House violating established norms, Fox News broking journalistic norms to pander to grievance, and the Supreme Court blew up limitations on the wealthy dominating electoral communications, and other structural changes in the 1990s

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms, held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape, & we’re all out of shared norms & have shredded our last rolls of tape.

“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Is this satire? I can’t tell anymore

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Batman on METV: Egghead, played by Vincent Price, takes over Gotham City and fires everyone competent, and bans the dynamic duo—prophetic?

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

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Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 9d

Also: 'Oh my God!'

Old Fitz @citizenfitz.bsky.social · 9d

These people do make me pray--as in 'Oh, for the Love of Christ!'

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