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Ryan Geddie

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 7d

New video with the fantastic @jj-mccullough.bsky.social !
Check it out!

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MORE American Political Archetypes With ⁨@JJMcCullough ⁩

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1h

This is awesome I loved this one

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Jake F. @kfastley.bsky.social · 1h

After being inspired by the recent collaboration between @jj-mccullough.bsky.social and @ryangeddie.bsky.social, I decided to make my own American political archetypes meme inspired by the art of @beanytuesday.bsky.social. I'm not the best artist, but I like the personality I put into these.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1h

I love that I can see when people like my repost now it feels like I’m providing a service

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

So the absolute insane stupidity of this is the idea that he could set up a theocratic state and also get a 'significantly smaller government.'

The folks on the authoritarian right do really seem to be believe there is a secret government liberalizer ray they can just switch off to change society.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 3h

Is he sharp as a tack though

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4h

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 4h

Not all libertarians and not all neo-cons, obviously.
But a lot of the neo-cons did actually think America was good, and the ones that thought it was good for something beyond being a vehicle for the conservative culture war became never-trump.

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve been circling around this point in a couple different settings lately but one of the reasons so many libertarians went all in for Trump is because they fundamentally didn’t like America.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 5h

Because they saw, and still see, America as something far superior to the tinpot shithole regimes we opposed. And there's nothing more insulting to them than seeing someone go and try to turn America into *exactly* that kind of country.

Binzie @binns.bsky.social · 5h

My boss is a Reagan Republican and has been enraged since this all started. I seem to remember being plenty angry at that group of Republicans back then but again, nothing like this.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 23h

He’s weird but in a way that isn’t totally off putting
I don’t love it but who am I kidding I’m going to vote for whoever the democratic nominee is in 28

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Woke panic discourse started making more sense to me when I realized that none of the people who write these opinion pieces have ever witnessed kids being bullied because they didn’t go to southern baptist church

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry that the woke made you feel uncomfortable at your prestige media job in one of the most liberal cities in America.
Comparing this to the police arresting people for social media posts in Britain (bad and illiberal btw)
Or literally anything the Trump admin is doing right now is absurd

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I’m the one with the misunderstanding here, but when I hear “post-liberal” I’m not thinking “post Obama era politics” I’m thinking “post liberal democracy”

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat really abuses the term “post-liberal”
In this piece he compares the progressive left to the populist right and calls both “post-liberal”
I understand he doesn’t like progressives. That’s fine, but they generally believe in liberal democracy.

ROSS DOUTHAT
Can Left and Right Understand the Other Sides Fears?

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Jeffersonian propaganda about federalists wanting an American king wasn’t wrong, just early

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d

Fairweather federalists: A coalition of MAGA attorneys general file amicus brief supporting Donald Trump’s militarization of a sovereign state and city.

Of note: This is not surprising, given some of these same actors supported overturning the election results in states Joe Biden won.

Counsel for State of Iowa

ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN SUPPORT
Austin Knudsen
Attorney General of Montana
Gentner Drummond
Attorney General of Oklahoma
Lynn Fitch
Attorney General of Mississippi
Catherine Hanaway
Attorney General of Missouri
Alan Wilson
Attorney General of South Carolina
Steve Marshall
Attorney General of Alabama
Tim Griffin
Attorney General of Arkansas
James Uthmeier
Attorney General of Florida
Chris Carr
Attorney General of Georgia
Raúl R. Labrador
Attorney General of Idaho
Theodore E. Rokita
Attorney General of Indiana
Kris Kobach
Attorney General of Kansas
Liz Murrill
Attorney General of Louisiana
Michael T. Hilgers
Attorney General of Nebraska
Marty Jackley
Attorney General of South Dakota
Ken Paxton
Attorney General of Texas
John B. McCuskey
Attorney General of West Virginia

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

The second post is more accurate to my views than the first post but sometimes you gotta post from the hip

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

I’m obviously being simplistic but I do think it basically broke the spirit of a lot of millennials to go from the optimism of the early Obama years to 10 years of Trump

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

Millennials got cynical after Obama wasn’t as transformative as they thought he would be.
Gen Z must break the cycle and be optimistic again

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Dbggⵣ @dxtt.bsky.social · 1d

millions must believe in liberal democracy and the american dream or something

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 1d

I’m declaring cynicism OVER
We are in a HOPE ONLY ERA

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

Voters might not care about democracy in the way we want them to but it’s a big mistake to write off voters ability to care about anything other than inflation.
We don’t have this argument when we’re talking about how religion influences politics, for example.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

Starting to believe in the end of history thesis because even the chuds literally cannot imagine a world not based fundamentally on popular sovereignty.

Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

Google the first Nation State and be amazed that the history of nationalism is literally inseparable from the history of liberalism.

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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 2d

BEGGING the “America isn’t an idea” guys to have even a basic understanding of the history of nationalism

Nalin Haley @Nalin_Haley
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Wrong. America is NOT an idea. Otherwise Liberia, which has a similar constitution, would be like the US. Also, the makeup isn't working for you.

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Chance Townsend @offbrandchance.bsky.social · 2d

Two new features out: one on annoying celebrity ad culture and the other on the terminally online and annoying Trump cabinet. S/O @ryangeddie.bsky.social for his help on this one

mashable.com/article/why-...

Trump administration wields X like a weapon

Trump cabinet members and his administration's departments use X to hurl insults and push their nativist agenda.

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