El Viejo Loco
@getoffmyyardkid.bsky.social
Curmudgeon. Girl Dog Dad. Retired roadie. Public Educator. I drink beer & know things. Cleveland & Buckeye sports, hard wired in my DNA. Living in hostile (Domer) land. F1, IndyCar, IMSA. Craft Beer Geek. Cruise ship aficionado
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
My ancestors got here in 1639. My Ohio-born great grandfather used to say our family sacrificed for this country so that the immigrant who arrives here tomorrow would have the same rights we do.
Casey and his post-Civil War family can kindly fuck off.
Casey and his post-Civil War family can kindly fuck off.
For those not following at home, “Heritage American” is a category of white supremacy covering people whose ancestors were white folks who were pioneers.
December 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
My ancestors got here in 1639. My Ohio-born great grandfather used to say our family sacrificed for this country so that the immigrant who arrives here tomorrow would have the same rights we do.
Casey and his post-Civil War family can kindly fuck off.
Casey and his post-Civil War family can kindly fuck off.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
i really don't know the answer to this but what percentage of white americans like me have absolutely no idea where our ancestors were living more than a few generations back because most people in the family have not cared that much
For those not following at home, “Heritage American” is a category of white supremacy covering people whose ancestors were white folks who were pioneers.
December 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
i really don't know the answer to this but what percentage of white americans like me have absolutely no idea where our ancestors were living more than a few generations back because most people in the family have not cared that much
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."
Public Universities FTW!
Public Universities FTW!
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s wild so many people are willing to go to bat for prisons as a reserve for rural jobs when universities are better in every aspect for such a role.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s not “losing money” any more than air traffic controllers or public highways or street lights or fire departments are “losing money.” It is a government service. It’s not SUPPOSED to make money. It’s supposed to reliably deliver to anywhere in the US, even the unprofitable places.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
People like Ben Shapiro, who draw a line at antisemitism, insist (for reasons beyond just morals of course) that there must be unacceptable beliefs. People like Vance oppose excluding anyone, as long as they hate the right people. 3/
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
People like Ben Shapiro, who draw a line at antisemitism, insist (for reasons beyond just morals of course) that there must be unacceptable beliefs. People like Vance oppose excluding anyone, as long as they hate the right people. 3/
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Trump found a cheat code in 2015: If you say you're a Christian, you don't have to act like a Christian as long as you keep the Christian base happy. Others on the right mirror that: Say you're a Christian and then support right-wing Christian positions and you can get away with a lot. 2/
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump found a cheat code in 2015: If you say you're a Christian, you don't have to act like a Christian as long as you keep the Christian base happy. Others on the right mirror that: Say you're a Christian and then support right-wing Christian positions and you can get away with a lot. 2/
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
It's because megachurches are both MASSIVE small cities onto themselves, but also incredibly insular, which is why they think mainstream culture is freakish and evil and begin manipulated by radical leftists because they don't know most people are fine with all the things they object to.
These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It's because megachurches are both MASSIVE small cities onto themselves, but also incredibly insular, which is why they think mainstream culture is freakish and evil and begin manipulated by radical leftists because they don't know most people are fine with all the things they object to.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Trump could win because he gave supporters plausible deniability (to themselves, if not to outsiders). He's putting on a show, messing with the media, trolling the left, that's just the way he talks, seriously but not literally, etc.
Vance's unabashed, creepy white nationalism doesn't have that.
Vance's unabashed, creepy white nationalism doesn't have that.
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trump could win because he gave supporters plausible deniability (to themselves, if not to outsiders). He's putting on a show, messing with the media, trolling the left, that's just the way he talks, seriously but not literally, etc.
Vance's unabashed, creepy white nationalism doesn't have that.
Vance's unabashed, creepy white nationalism doesn't have that.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
interesting thread. Trump is talking about Reiner the way he has always talked about immigrants, people of color, his political enemies, etc except now it's about a deeply beloved and famous white guy who was not a perceived threat to his racist base
December 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
interesting thread. Trump is talking about Reiner the way he has always talked about immigrants, people of color, his political enemies, etc except now it's about a deeply beloved and famous white guy who was not a perceived threat to his racist base
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
These guys love the fascism fantasy, being the man in uniform asking people for their papers.
What they haven’t noticed is it’s JUST THEM. There’s no millions-strong SA, no national network of party cadres. Just a few hundred dudes assuming they can safely play-act as jackboots.
Dangerous game.
What they haven’t noticed is it’s JUST THEM. There’s no millions-strong SA, no national network of party cadres. Just a few hundred dudes assuming they can safely play-act as jackboots.
Dangerous game.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
These guys love the fascism fantasy, being the man in uniform asking people for their papers.
What they haven’t noticed is it’s JUST THEM. There’s no millions-strong SA, no national network of party cadres. Just a few hundred dudes assuming they can safely play-act as jackboots.
Dangerous game.
What they haven’t noticed is it’s JUST THEM. There’s no millions-strong SA, no national network of party cadres. Just a few hundred dudes assuming they can safely play-act as jackboots.
Dangerous game.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
When fear is the only tool you know how to use, you're pretty much cooked the minute people stop being afraid of you.
December 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When fear is the only tool you know how to use, you're pretty much cooked the minute people stop being afraid of you.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
No rule of law in the US. The King decides who deserves punishment.
Rolling Stone: “Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.”
Rolling Stone: “Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.”
December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
No rule of law in the US. The King decides who deserves punishment.
Rolling Stone: “Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.”
Rolling Stone: “Trump has issued over 2,000 pardons and commutations this year, letting a string of drug dealers, corrupt politicians, and MAGA-friendly businessmen off the hook in a gross abuse of the Constitution.”
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
TBF, I'm not sure they're actually trying to make Americans suffer and die. I think they just don't care if Americans suffer and die, as long as billionaires get tax cuts and shareholders get more profits.
More than half a million people, a number that grows every year.
Their response? They want to make it worse.
How many ways will they find to make Americans suffer & die?
Their response? They want to make it worse.
How many ways will they find to make Americans suffer & die?
December 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
TBF, I'm not sure they're actually trying to make Americans suffer and die. I think they just don't care if Americans suffer and die, as long as billionaires get tax cuts and shareholders get more profits.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
The sleight-of-hand here - which Hawley understands but many people, including Trump, obviously don’t - is that deducting something on your taxes doesn’t magically mean uncle Sam pays for it. It just reduces the amount of income that is taxable. You still gotta shell out for whatever you deduct!
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The sleight-of-hand here - which Hawley understands but many people, including Trump, obviously don’t - is that deducting something on your taxes doesn’t magically mean uncle Sam pays for it. It just reduces the amount of income that is taxable. You still gotta shell out for whatever you deduct!
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
in other words, hawleys plan here is that if the median american family spends $25,000 on healthcare (around a third of their gross income!), the government will give them a $3000 tax break the following april. What a deal!
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
in other words, hawleys plan here is that if the median american family spends $25,000 on healthcare (around a third of their gross income!), the government will give them a $3000 tax break the following april. What a deal!
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Trump hits a new low: He just pardoned a man who killed more Americans than Osama Bin Laden. Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras--was a key figure in flooding the US with cocaine. Nearly 30,000 Americans die from cocaine overdoses per year. Many from Hernandez's cocaine.
December 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Trump hits a new low: He just pardoned a man who killed more Americans than Osama Bin Laden. Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras--was a key figure in flooding the US with cocaine. Nearly 30,000 Americans die from cocaine overdoses per year. Many from Hernandez's cocaine.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Keep in mind on this Venezuela shit:
Trump just pardoned a cartel boss convicted for bringing TONS of drugs into the US.
Trump just pardoned a cartel boss convicted for bringing TONS of drugs into the US.
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Keep in mind on this Venezuela shit:
Trump just pardoned a cartel boss convicted for bringing TONS of drugs into the US.
Trump just pardoned a cartel boss convicted for bringing TONS of drugs into the US.
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
This thread is good and Daniel is smart ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This thread is good and Daniel is smart ⬇️
Reposted by El Viejo Loco
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.