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Robert C. Padilla

@robertcpadilla.bsky.social

5.7K followers 5.4K following 2.5K posts

Writer living in Tucson, AZ; retired IT Executive; happily married; politically left-of-center; tennis player; classical pianist; lover of great art; youthful 77-year old runner. NO DMs PLEASE! As a rule, I ignore all DMs.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson: We have lots of ideas.

No they don't. Otherwise, we would have heard of them by now.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 10h

For the 8 Obama years, racists like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan seethed.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 21h

Tyrants fear protests.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 21h

We have a difference in ideology.

We have a difference in morality.

We have a difference in philosophy.

We have a difference in values.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 22h

No Kings, folks.

Get out there and protest as if our democracy were at stake.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is hallucinating.

The dementia is getting worse.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is losing it.

This, of course, is not news.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

We need another 20 Democratic governors like Pritzker (and Newsom) willing to fight back against this administration.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is the ultimate gallery of thieves.

They are lawless and, amazingly, proud of their lawlessness.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

I'm surprised that Donald Trump hasn't claimed that he wrote King Lear, painted the Sistine Chapel, and discovered the Theory of Relativity.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

I Justice Barrett going to give equal time to MSNBC?

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Eventually, I believe, the fascists will lose.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

This is not a video game. This is reality. People are being killed.

Trump should be held accountable for his actions.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

War-torn Portland.

And its insurrectionists.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

When the Reichstag (the German Parliament) burned to the ground, Hitler declared an emergency, blamed the Communists, and seized absolute power.

There is some speculation that the Nazis may have set that fire themselves.

Beware the Insurrection Act.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Donald, if they do let you into Heaven, something tells me you'll be cleaning the latrines.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

The Republicans in Congress are, of course, supine.

They are lapdogs quivering at the feet of Donald Trump.

Pathetic.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Parent: Are you complaining?

Worldly-wise 9 year old: Of course not. I'm simply excercising my 1st Amendment right to express myself openly without fear of consequence.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

I know the Upper Midwest. (I attended the University of Michigan.)

In 3-4 more weeks, the national guard is NOT going to want to go to Chicago. Not without their mittens.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

The ignorance of the American voter.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Are they scared of frogs?

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a bully, a narcissist, and a racist with dementia.

He is also president of the United States.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

When I first saw this photo of Kristi Noem, I could have sworn I was looking at a hooker.

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Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump is a man-child with the maturity of a 12-year old who happens to have the keys to the nuclear code.

No offense to the 12-year olds out there.

Robert C. Padilla @robertcpadilla.bsky.social · 2d

The decline continues.

Trump is descending into the abyss of dementia. I know it well. I've seen it.

He has it.

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