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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 15h

Seems unfair to the moose.
Although, the bull would probably express that opinion with rack and hooves before intimacies could commence, so there is that.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

The rest of us, including people like me who don’t live in the United States, but are observing from other places in the world, are watching this unroll like it is the some bizarre version of the old tale of the Emperor’s New clothes.

borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 22h

They keep spinning, wilder and wilder claims, despite evidence to the contrary. Those claims, however, fantastic they may be, are enough to keep their base, satisfied. Satisfied in the sense that they don’t need to examine themselves to the point of existential crisis.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Personally, I certainly feel like that’s the less traumatizing image of the two. Not very much! To be fair, any image involving him is, at best, strongly ick inducing.

Me? I think of him more as a walking pustule, always hair’s breadth away from explosively 🫟ing vile poison in all directions.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

It’s worth bearing in mind that SM is less a flunkey of 47 then he is a protégé and workhorse for the Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel and company.

47 is and has been a useful figure head, and a convenient purveyor of chaos.

SM is among the puppeteers pulling his strings.

borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly, I doubt it would take very long for someone in that pathetic excuse for a governing party to find a way to construct some sort of ridiculous loophole, one just as illogical and illegal as so many others they’ve created and leveraged so far, to get SM out of trouble.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

The image isn’t meant to show an ass. A different kind of head, if you will.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

… the agents violating traffic laws, can they call in and get a reward from the FBI?

Kangaroo court in support of the Banana Republic.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

… no further threat to public safety or to the safety of the agents.

And what is the legal basis for the FBI getting involved with traffic violations.

Further, are they sure that they can prove that the ICE agents violated no traffic regulations themselves?

If anyone has information on the

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

If traffic violations were the things that the people pacing, the ICE vehicles were guilty of, what legal basis are they pretending is their excuse for escalating the situation to shooting a human being (one whose vehicle had been stopped by the ICE vehicle that rammed it, and thus posed

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

… being shot, the victim of the shooting is being charged, and the government is going after anyone else who was trying to prevent precisely this sort of madness by being there to observe and record, to document the abuse of authority and lethal power by these agents.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

… of being detained, the ICE agents did not do so, and for her own safety, the driver had to find somewhere else to get help.

She had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

But instead of an investigation into the use of force, including the discharge of a service weapon, that resulted in her being

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

Without waiting for her to do something or not, that same agent exited his vehicle and fired his service arm multiple times into the woman’s car.

Despite the fact that law-enforcement is supposed to contact EMS or similar services in the event that an individual is injured in the process

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

… their communities from being seized without due process.

The authorities lied about the circumstances, despite the fact that there was a body cam evidence indicating that it was an ICE agent who rammed a citizens car trying to provoke the driver into “doing something”.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 2d

So to summarize: there were a bunch of drivers who were following supposed ICE agents. While some of those drivers allegedly committed traffic violations, they are now being threatened by the FBI, rewards out for information on vehicles that were identified trying to protect members of

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

I imagine that would be part of it. But I also think that he likes to have, or to believe he has, other wealthy people feeling “gratitude” towards him, because he thinks he is the master manipulator.

He fails to understand how easily he is being led around by various factions, working on his greed.

borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

Entirely possible. My point still stands. 47 is perfectly willing to put other people’s lives and livelihoods at risk in order to protect himself.

He works for himself.

It makes him easy to manipulate: other ruthless ppl can bribe or flatter him that their interests are in his best interest.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

The difference between being a white Christian nationalist and a wealthy black man in the entertainment industry.

The black man will still be made out to be more of a monster, and will be expected to show gratitude and humility when he is pardoned rather than having been protected like Ep’s besties

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

… certainty, recognized immediately.

Half out of the window, I hollered over my shoulder to my parents, “Hey! Look guys, it’s Klinger!”

I was extremely excited despite the fact he wasn’t wearing a dress.

I have no idea how the man reacted, but my parents were not nearly as delighted as I was.🤭

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

My parents didn’t really think about having their small child watch this show. So I watched it long before I could understand it.

I thought Klinger was great.

One day while we were driving down the road with the windows down, I saw a gentleman crossing the road that I, in my youthful

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

I was a kid when it was running on TV, watching episodes I didn’t understand until years and years later. But especially once Alan Alda took over as a writer and Director, there were some episodes that just grabbed onto your brain and stayed there.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

This is true of his so-called friendships, of his business partners, of his wives, his mistresses, his children, his cabinet members, and his voting base.

He only ever does anything if he believes, correctly or inaccurately, that it will benefit him directly. The moment that’s not true, they’re 💨

borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

Ultimately, he works for himself. That is the only person or entity he has ever put any effort or investment into.

Anyone and everyone else with whom he has forged some sort of short or long-term alliance has been someone who could do something for him, at least from his perspective.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not you.

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borealisphoenix.bsky.social @borealisphoenix.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if he was mixing it up in his head, creating a malapropism? Perhaps he had a hankering to answer that question so he hoped it would be asked.