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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · Nov 12

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 8h

The public hates inflation. Whether it drives a particular election is subject to a 100 other factors.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 9h

Vance lies about everything

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 10h

The most uptopian thing about Startek is that somehow the Federation overcame Marin NIMBYism

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe soon they won’t need paramedics in rural as Trump’s cuts are closing rural hospitals all over the country so there will soon be no where for paramedics to take people expirencing a medical emergency.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 11h

This is a garbage article by an increasing unreadible NY Times.

No mention of whether running expirenced fire fighters and paramedics out of rural Texas will have any negative consequences for the people who live there.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 12h

The Robert’s Court has convinced me that the Supreme Court should be rebooted as institution with membership on the court drawn randomly from appeal court judges for 2 year terms.

The Constitution says judges have lifetime appointments but it never says that the Supreme Court must have same members

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarian regimes often keeps copious records. The good news about this is those records can be used to find and prosecute these thugs after the regime falls.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Blue states should start revoking the drivers licenses of these goons if they cause car crashes.

That may or not stop them from driving while on duty but it will remove their ability to drive off duty.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Blue states will have to set up their own CDC replacements.

Red states will just let people get sick and die.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

This is completely illegal as RIF’ing people is not an essential government activity. RIFs take effort and so RIFs have to wait until government is reopened.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

If nuclear created housing

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, Americans not dying of infectious diseases is “Democrat oriented”

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

If half the population dies in pandemic, their wealth won’t be very useful and much of what it is invested in will collapse.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaires should be more concerned about the tail risk from pandemics than anyone else.

Their wealth insulates them from many risks but not deadly pandemics.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is by far the most corrupt president in US history.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

Just the most stunning open corruption imaginable.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

I’m fine if they want to call-in sick till the shutdown is over.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 1d

End qualified immunity and create a constitutional violations small claims federal court.

Officers would learn the law when they were personally paying out $5000 judgements for their violations of the law.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

And this administration gets mad when we call them Nazis.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Schrödinger’s terrorism: when you look for it, it magically disappears.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Police should keep pulling them over. If they refuse to stop, use spike strips. There’s no way to tell from the outside these a federal officers. So they need to be pulled over every time they are spotted and identification verified.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

This entire thing is so pathetic. Trump is loser who thinks he should get every prize. The right media is even more pathetic for going along with this absurdity.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

The choices are build more and liberalizing zoning codes is part of that or accept high prices.

Prices will keep rising unless there is more supply.

Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not my job or the government’s job to protect builders or investors from making bad investments.

Yes, some will fail. That’s how market economies work.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Keep building. Investment funds only buy these properties because they are betting are very limited future construction.

How do I know this? Those funds tell you themselves in their financial reports.

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Thought Politik @thoughtpolitik.bsky.social · 2d

Do you current prices and rents are acceptable?

Are you good with them rising in the future?

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