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Courage is fear faced with resolution. Benjamin Franklin said “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Come and get me, you effers.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t think of myself as fearless. I’m afraid but the definition of courage is fear faced with resolution.

Courage is something Donald Trump wouldn’t know, recognize, admire or appreciate much less possess if it came up and kicked him in the ass.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 23m

Dang. Who is this man? And what do I have to do to get him a promotion.

Well done!

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

I’d rather not get to that position any earlier than God intended by stupidity.

So I mask. /end

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

and longer for us to find out about it.

The worst of it is that it is, for now, completely unpredictable.

We won’t find out the full bill for this for decades, until long after I’m in the ground, pushing up daisies.
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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

It’s obvious every time I go out walking and have to dodge entitled maniacs and their cars.

The worst of it is that not EVERYONE, or even the majority, are showing deficits, at least not yet. Like other problems now seen, no thanks to the FDA or CDC, it takes years for the damage to show MORE

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

This goes beyond intellectual capability, or ability to focus, or ability to understand, and also affects behavior. Have you noticed how much more impatient, how much ruder, how inattentive to details many of our fellow humans have become?

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Worse, I suspect that each Covid infection knocks some as yet identified but significant number of points off the top of IQ.

Many of the victims literally lack the intellect to do better, or make good decisions, any more.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Keep himself current. Keeping up isn’t easy. TBF, there’s plenty of info to try to keep current on, and the current administration is dumping an increasingly large amount of false data into the system while systematically blocking the release of anything that contradicts their position.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

He has had several Covid infections. I notice he relies far more heavily on his computer to look up medications, or make recommendations, than he did even two years ago.

Why? Because I suspect he cannot remember and no longer can MORE

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Mask (sheep like cowardice and personal comfort right now trump common decency to others or avoiding possible consequences later) AND partially from decreased intellectual capability.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

My own doctor, age 55, but with two young children, doesn’t mask any more and declines to mask when I appear. I’d dump him except I can’t find anyone better.

It’s mass amnesia.

My theory is the amnesia stems partially from unwillingness and lack of guts to do what it takes—wear the damned MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

with a walker. If I get sick, there will be NO ONE to take care of me. If I get disabled, we’ll have to pay someone to help us sell our home and move into assisted living.

I plan to avoid this. Wearing a mask is a simple—but neither painless nor emotionally cost free—extra bit of insurance. MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

I mask in “public” (stores, offices, doctors, even church) and at home when I have workers in, without exception.

I do so to protect not just me but my nearly totally disabled husband.

We’re mid-70s and live in a two-story home. I am his sole carer. He can still get around a bit, MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Belenko’s defection ended years of Western speculation and showed that Soviet engineering favored rugged practicality over high-tech mystique.

In this case, the engineers did not fall for the myth out of plain old stupidity.

Tesla? Well, do the math. /end

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

The brownish stains on its fuselage turned out to be plain old rust. The Soviets had chosen strength and simplicity over exotic materials, relying on enormous engines for speed rather than light, heat-resistant alloys. MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Ordinary aluminum. But when Japanese and American engineers inspected the plane, they were astonished to find it was built mostly of nickel-steel—about 80 percent of the airframe—with only small amounts of aluminum and titanium. MORE

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

giving the West its first chance to examine the mysterious jet that had long baffled NATO analysts. Before the defection, Western intelligence believed the MiG-25 must be made of some advanced composite or titanium alloy, since it could fly faster than Mach 2.8—speeds that would melt or deform MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

I have some experience in untangling “mystique” from “myth” dating from my long ago days as a Soviet intelligence analyst.

In 1976, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to Japan in his MiG-25 “Foxbat,” MORE

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

People have been taken in and swallowed completely the “mystique” of Elon Musk, Tesla, and his cyber truck.

I thought from jump that the “mystique” was a myth, as the company grudgingly and probably at as close to legal gunpoint as is possible for a supplicant of Donald Trump to face, admits. MORE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

Out of American businesses (it would be better if crooked C-suite denizens also went to jail, but enough money will do) to get them to see common sense.

What I didn’t know at the time was that slimer Oz had a financial stake in taking down J&J.

I stand or rather sit, with my cuppa Joe, amended.

Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

I suggested that J&J etc tried to “buy” protection from Trump via cash campaign donations and a million bucks to his coronation gala. I then noted TrumpCo doesn’t STAY bought, and J&J was getting, in some respects, exactly what it deserved.

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Judy @virginialady16.bsky.social · 7h

And there we have it, folks. Three days ago (look in my threads) I wrote a multi-thread post about the Texas lawsuit against Tylenol, pointing out that if successful—and the main evidence seems to be RFK Jr’s public statements that Tylenol causes autism—J&J and Kenvue will be bankrupted.
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zenweb.bsky.social @zenweb.bsky.social · 7h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

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Linda Rey 🦋 My emotions identify as Sigh. Gulp. Haha. Sob. @lindarey.com · 21h

NOW WHERE ARE THE OTHER GUILTY RICH POWERFUL PREDATORS who paid to rape girls and young women?

screenshot of NYT article with title "PRINCE ANDREW to be stripped of his royal title"

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Moe Davis @moedavis.bsky.social · 1d

My message for Congressman Chuck Edwards

Hey Chuck! I bet Jesus would be for folks having food and healthcare instead of making them suffer so rich people can get richer. If you’re not willing to lead, why don’t you sit down and let somebody who will get the job done.

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