Skotty Skeets
@erstwhilecon.bsky.social
"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual. The secret freedom which you can supposedly enjoy under a despotic government is nonsense, because your thoughts are never entirely your own." — Orwell, April 28, 1944
...my journey to realizing that these people are haters above all else, haters of people like you and me. And even Obama's charm and compassion and government competency couldn’t change this hate for "liberals." I've had enough of coddling them and trying to "reach" them.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
...my journey to realizing that these people are haters above all else, haters of people like you and me. And even Obama's charm and compassion and government competency couldn’t change this hate for "liberals." I've had enough of coddling them and trying to "reach" them.
Didn't you think that maybe, just maybe, I might have seen what you posted before I called you out? You're an asshole pretending to be smart and cool. Take it to Twitter, where it belongs.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Didn't you think that maybe, just maybe, I might have seen what you posted before I called you out? You're an asshole pretending to be smart and cool. Take it to Twitter, where it belongs.
It seems mildly relevant to me in all this Epstein stuff that the president of Columbia, in apparent reference to Tr-mp and friends, just said "a clan of pedophiles" wants to destroy Columbia's democracy. Maybe it's just me.
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It seems mildly relevant to me in all this Epstein stuff that the president of Columbia, in apparent reference to Tr-mp and friends, just said "a clan of pedophiles" wants to destroy Columbia's democracy. Maybe it's just me.
My three favorite signs of the day in Scottsdale, Az.
October 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My three favorite signs of the day in Scottsdale, Az.
Tom here, an anti-Tr-mp conservative, has posted before about the direction the Dems should be headed (to him, the center). He cites the shift to Tr-mp among typically Dem base voters. He's not wrong about the shift, but it is unclear *why* the shift--and I'm not sure anyone knows.
Some Pew data:
Some Pew data:
September 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Tom here, an anti-Tr-mp conservative, has posted before about the direction the Dems should be headed (to him, the center). He cites the shift to Tr-mp among typically Dem base voters. He's not wrong about the shift, but it is unclear *why* the shift--and I'm not sure anyone knows.
Some Pew data:
Some Pew data:
No matter what we find out about the motive(s) of Charlie Kirk's killer, the right will use this murder for years to come. That's why it's so important to understand who he was as a public figure and the press shouldn't shy away from telling the whole story.
www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...
www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No matter what we find out about the motive(s) of Charlie Kirk's killer, the right will use this murder for years to come. That's why it's so important to understand who he was as a public figure and the press shouldn't shy away from telling the whole story.
www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...
www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for essentially daring to speak the truth about the environment we're in--much of it created by MAGA influencers like Charlie Kirk.
Maybe cable "news" should just air reruns of Andy Griffith, if they're not interested in sober, honest analysis of these dangerous times.
Maybe cable "news" should just air reruns of Andy Griffith, if they're not interested in sober, honest analysis of these dangerous times.
September 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for essentially daring to speak the truth about the environment we're in--much of it created by MAGA influencers like Charlie Kirk.
Maybe cable "news" should just air reruns of Andy Griffith, if they're not interested in sober, honest analysis of these dangerous times.
Maybe cable "news" should just air reruns of Andy Griffith, if they're not interested in sober, honest analysis of these dangerous times.
Not a single evangelical leader has wondered out loud why their cultural savior Tr-mp hung around people comfortable with pedophilia.
But then pulpit pedophilia is not that uncommon.
But then pulpit pedophilia is not that uncommon.
September 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Not a single evangelical leader has wondered out loud why their cultural savior Tr-mp hung around people comfortable with pedophilia.
But then pulpit pedophilia is not that uncommon.
But then pulpit pedophilia is not that uncommon.
One of the founders of the lunacy and corruption we're seeing now was talk radio propaganda master, Rush Limbaugh. Here is a great truth about him:
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One of the founders of the lunacy and corruption we're seeing now was talk radio propaganda master, Rush Limbaugh. Here is a great truth about him:
Theodore Bilbo, governor of Mississippi twice & US Senator three times, was a corrupt white supremacist and a proud KKK member.
His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.
His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.
August 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Theodore Bilbo, governor of Mississippi twice & US Senator three times, was a corrupt white supremacist and a proud KKK member.
His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.
His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.
Everyone should read Ta-Nehisi Coates, at least this excerpt taken from his book, "Between the World and Me," a letter to his young son:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Everyone should read Ta-Nehisi Coates, at least this excerpt taken from his book, "Between the World and Me," a letter to his young son:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, as powerful a writer as America has produced, wrote the following in his book, "Between The World and Me," written as a letter to his adolescent son: (You can find this passage in The Atlantic, gift-linked below.)
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
August 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates, as powerful a writer as America has produced, wrote the following in his book, "Between The World and Me," written as a letter to his adolescent son: (You can find this passage in The Atlantic, gift-linked below.)
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Obviously this isn't a civil war because the southern troops don't have their battle flag with them.
August 17, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Obviously this isn't a civil war because the southern troops don't have their battle flag with them.
Yes, educators, of all professional people, ought to reject MAGA policies and support Democrats.
But here's the real world:
But here's the real world:
August 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Yes, educators, of all professional people, ought to reject MAGA policies and support Democrats.
But here's the real world:
But here's the real world:
Here's a famous evangelical who has seen the light about God's priorities regarding pedophilia and presidents:
August 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Here's a famous evangelical who has seen the light about God's priorities regarding pedophilia and presidents:
"Socialists are capitalists" is, of course, nonsense. You can be one or the other, but not both. What you can be, too, is an advocate of a heavily regulated capitalist state, such as some of those found in Europe. But the DSA seems to go farther, as an essay on its site demonstrates.
July 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Socialists are capitalists" is, of course, nonsense. You can be one or the other, but not both. What you can be, too, is an advocate of a heavily regulated capitalist state, such as some of those found in Europe. But the DSA seems to go farther, as an essay on its site demonstrates.
Why isn't it on every cable news chyron that the governor of our country's most populous state just called Tr-mp "a stone cold liar"?
June 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Why isn't it on every cable news chyron that the governor of our country's most populous state just called Tr-mp "a stone cold liar"?
I appreciate your condescension, but I've been studying the Bible for, oh, about 45 years now, admittedly as an aspiring evangelical Christian minister who finally figured out the folly of my efforts.
But here is the opinion of a real scholar, & former fundy, making my point about Revelation Jesus
But here is the opinion of a real scholar, & former fundy, making my point about Revelation Jesus
May 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I appreciate your condescension, but I've been studying the Bible for, oh, about 45 years now, admittedly as an aspiring evangelical Christian minister who finally figured out the folly of my efforts.
But here is the opinion of a real scholar, & former fundy, making my point about Revelation Jesus
But here is the opinion of a real scholar, & former fundy, making my point about Revelation Jesus
So many people have been trying to find Jesus, and he's been hiding in the Merchant Marine Academy basement all this time!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
May 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So many people have been trying to find Jesus, and he's been hiding in the Merchant Marine Academy basement all this time!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Here in "democratic' Missouri, we have to:
April 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Here in "democratic' Missouri, we have to:
The great @pkrugman.bsky.social pretty much sums it up, except for one thing: he left out "corrupt"
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The great @pkrugman.bsky.social pretty much sums it up, except for one thing: he left out "corrupt"
I thought the lead distribution graph below, presented as a reason why Generation X is stubbornly friendly to Tr-mpism, was bullshit at first. But there is something to it. And it may explain a lot of what we have seen.
news.virginia.edu/content/gene...
news.virginia.edu/content/gene...
April 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I thought the lead distribution graph below, presented as a reason why Generation X is stubbornly friendly to Tr-mpism, was bullshit at first. But there is something to it. And it may explain a lot of what we have seen.
news.virginia.edu/content/gene...
news.virginia.edu/content/gene...