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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 2h

The Affordable Care Act didn’t lead to hospital closures, but the “reformed” Medicare part of their big bill sure did.

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 2h

“Please don’t go now”
Ars Nova
Sunshine and Shadows album 1969

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 2h

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 3h

I should have mentioned that if the government makes up the difference the republican reaction is the same. They don’t want the healthcare providers or the government to pay. They want the people to pay.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 3h

That’s it exactly. If the beneficiaries pay less the providers earn less.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 6h

www.wonkette.com/p/trump-gonn...

Another bad idea among the hundreds of other bad ideas from this second trump administration. It’s always shoot from the hip and blame the democrats for the inevitable consequences.

Trump Gonna Sell Student Debt To Wall Street. Remember How Great That Worked With Mortgages?

This shit again? We could subprimal scream.

www.wonkette.com

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 7h

www.rawstory.com/texas-cops-c...

Much more and far worse than male misogyny, it’s persecution aimed directly at controlling women’s bodies and their lives and rights.

Texas cops caught in lie after nationwide hunt for woman who took abortion pill

Police in Texas—led by a county sheriff later charged with an unrelated felony sex crime—lied about their motive for using artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology to search for a woman...

www.rawstory.com

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 9h

It’s the steady diet of hatred.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 9h

Good idea!

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 11h

Isn’t that their purpose?

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 12h

When they can’t find an organized anti-fa they will create one using agents provocateurs to infiltrate peaceful protests to stir up trouble and cause a law enforcement or a military response. That is when the 💩 will really hit the fan.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 12h

Bought

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 12h

This stupid

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 13h

Conducting United States business via DM to avoid accountability. Can you just imagine the monumental uproar if Biden or Harris had done that?

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump derangement syndrome actually does exist. Trump himself and just about all of his appointed sycophants are totally deranged.

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting which, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got ri...

www.independent.co.uk

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

Both Canada and Mexico should shut down the delivery of auto parts, or at least slow it down.

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

They need a bunch of really big and powerful fans to blow the smoke right back in their faces.

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

Is he confusing Portland with Gaza?

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

If someone points a weapon at me I’m not going to waste time trying to determine if it fires pepper pellets, rubber bullets, or FMGs. These people need to realize that most states have open carry or concealed carry laws and that many of us take that seriously.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

Whine whine whine all the time about how much they are being discriminated against, while at the same time they are constantly discriminating against anyone who they disagree with or who they believe are unworthy of respect and human dignity.

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

How did republican politicians catch it.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the Texas NG general feels the same way? I’m skeptical.

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rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

8 years in the south hasn’t changed mine, but I must say that I really like the expression y’all and have enthusiastically adopted it!

rsmith670.bsky.social @rsmith670.bsky.social · 1d

Fire! Ready? Aim???