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T.D. Powers

@tdpowers.bsky.social

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An American on a quest to work in political messaging, speech writing, strategy, advertising, and/or communications on behalf of DEMOCRACY. A human being for humanity. T.D. is for True Democracy.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 20

Questions:

If you do not care about the well-beings
of all of your fellow human beings,
are you Christian?

If you are driven by hate
against your fellow human beings,
are you Christian?

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · 10d

I think I understand you. I am just saying that Bluesky ordered me to unfollow upward of 30,000 people, which doesn't make sense to me for a social media site to say about its own site/users. I am at a loss, for everything, at the moment. Again, my apologies.

T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · 10d

My apologies. Things are sometimes nuanced, complex, or grey-area. Bluesky is making me unfollow tens of thousands of people. It is difficult to curate that. I can only do it as en masse as I can. It's kind of ridiculous.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 25

A chant—or simply two word-choice options for you to use?

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 11

Insecurity again?

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kind of, yes. Good question. It's a comedic paraphrasing, plus a response from the press that SHOULD have been. Read this brief article please, especially paragraphs 8 and 9: thehill.com/homenews/adm...

thehill.com

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 6

Some have different words to describe this, but here is certainly one to consider—
insanarchy.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 3

Words matter.

Let’s stop simply saying, “tariffs,”
and take care every time just to say, “taxes,”
or let’s say, “tariff-taxes,”
a redundancy that creates a needed emphasis.
And/or fill in the following blank with a name,
“_____’s tariff-taxes,”
every time, please.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Jun 1

Greetings. They are humanity's. Thank you!

T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 30

About that non-government non-department causing inefficiency… and corruption… and job losses… and class warfare… and death… and direct destruction to the United States of America and its relationships and standing in the world…

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks! (I'd call it a post, but feel free to call it either.)

T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 24

Some Further Points

Further Points Regarding Insecurity

It is the insecure who fret about constructs
like manhood and masculinity
supposedly being attacked;

others tend to define these terms within themselves,
and they do not clamor to meet imagined parameters
around persons they feel are the same or better
nor do they demand sameness from others
whom some might see as similar or lesser.

This post is, in part, related to the following earlier post:

Let’s not call people “strongmen,”
especially when they are obviously insecure,
which is why they covet power
in the first place:
such insecure-men take
all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane,
and sociopathic actions that they do
because they feel insecure in their positions
and their largely illegitimate grips on power.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 22

HILL [Read “woke” as “Black”]

EXEC: I know a lot about her. But I know nothing about her, yet the guy bobble-heading here is Speaker of the House. All of this woke stuff has to stop.

REP FROM FREE PRESS: There's no evidence the congresswoman assaulted anyone, yet YOU give pardons for beating cops.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 17

Words matter.

Let’s not call people “strongmen,”
especially when they are obviously insecure,
which is why they covet power
in the first place:
such insecure-men take
all of the unjust, antidemocratic, inhumane,
and sociopathic actions that they do
because they feel insecure in their positions
and their largely illegitimate grips on power.

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True Democracy

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 13

Have you ever noticed how much "X" looks
like the Nazi version of the swastika?

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 8

What would Vlad desire?

Weaken the US’s name, currency, economy, stability, reliability, alliances, national security, military, Congress, Constitution, judiciary, international aid, diplomacy, democracy, and moral standing; spread disinformation; make more vulnerable the American people’s personal information and classified information; threaten neighbors and the takeover of other regions; wage a global trade war; and incite internal divisions? The principle at work: What would Vlad desire (WWVD)?

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · May 6

Even the word “agent” doesn’t quite cover it.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 30

Orwellian world:

Project 2025
Project 1984

When a party’s “priests of power” say,
“WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”
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Strength is ignorance
“Slavery is freedom”
Peace is war,
what is your response?

“Was it possible that [people] could swallow [the party’s lying]? . . . Yes, they swallowed it.” “Have you forgotten about doublethink?” Or, the “memory hole”?

In the light of all that has been happening in recent years to control news, books, and information itself, consider another slogan or modus operandi of a party worshiping power:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
However, “[t]houghtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever.”

(Orwell, George. 1984. Signet Classics. 264, 4, 264, 58, 266, 37, 50, 248, 27)

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 27

I'd love it you added me to Virginia. Thanks! Much appreciate everything you are doing. Keep at it!

T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 20

Keep at it! And thank you very much for that recognition!

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 20

Questions:

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 19

Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.

The causes of most of our nation’s and its people’s ills,
unsound theories, hateful thinking, and so on
are the shows—and they are mere SHOWS—and publications
dumping antidemocratic writing, audio, and visuals all around us,
every day, year after year:

partisan messaging purporting to be news/journalism;
political ads; and talk shows on TV, radio, and the Internet, including podcasts.

Some are simply willing to grab money and power
by feeding people poison—and it is very lucrative.

Think. Question. Share. Enlighten.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Not sure how your text reader reads the last line, but pro- l i should sound like "lie." It's a punch line in a way, but not sure how it works in alt text.

T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Not sure how your text reader reads the last line, but pro- l i should sound like "lie." It's a punch line in a way, but not sure how it works alt text.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Thank you! Apologies. There was supposed to be alt text. Doesn't look like it went through. It should be here now:

Pro-WHAT?

We’ve all been witnessing a political party that is…

anti Venezuelan people/lives,

anti immigrants of many ethnicities, in fact—a position causing the destruction of the family (parents and children, or whomever).

anti Ukrainian people/lives,
anti Palestinian people/lives,
anti Muslim people/lives generally—and most anyone not purporting to be Christian,
anti Black lives mattering too,
anti LGBTQIA+ folks/lives,
anti life of the mother,
anti life-saving science,
anti healthcare for all,
anti low-income people,
anti children and others in dire need—of our AID, and yet

pro-pathogen/illness-spreading
pro-war (nearly all wars and offensive actions with which we’ve been involved in most of our lifetimes),
pro-guns (anti gun safety/regulation),
pro-execution by police, vigilantes, and rogue actors, due process be damned
pro-torture,
pro-death-penalty,
pro-li— WHAT?

Wait. Actually, “pro-li” sounds about right.

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T.D. Powers @tdpowers.bsky.social · Apr 18

It's a play on words/sounds with at least two relevant options. You have to fill in the blank(s) after the "i." ;)

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