Jeff Smolens
@jebronomicon.bsky.social
Bartender, Psychologist, Politician, Amateur Wood-Worker, Non Practicing Science Fiction Writer, Grateful Dead fan...
Racism makes strange bedfellows...
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Racism makes strange bedfellows...
Is it just “some” legal experts? I would guess that it’s a lot more than “some”…
October 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Is it just “some” legal experts? I would guess that it’s a lot more than “some”…
Yeah I just watched the whole interview. Not great.
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yeah I just watched the whole interview. Not great.
I don’t understand what happened here.
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I don’t understand what happened here.
Reposted by Jeff Smolens
No fucking shit.
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No fucking shit.
The enemy of your enemy…
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The enemy of your enemy…
That’s the same argument they made when they shipped all the jobs (one that didn’t disappear to technology) to cheap foreign labor markets after the Soviet collapse
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
That’s the same argument they made when they shipped all the jobs (one that didn’t disappear to technology) to cheap foreign labor markets after the Soviet collapse
I'm back in and waiting for the host to join
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I'm back in and waiting for the host to join
The numbers don’t work any more
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The numbers don’t work any more
Waiting my host to join
October 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Waiting my host to join
Nice try. Birds aren’t real. Next…
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Nice try. Birds aren’t real. Next…
It’s already over
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It’s already over
Power doesn’t need a coherent reason to lie to its base. The deception works better when you can’t make sense of it.
September 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Power doesn’t need a coherent reason to lie to its base. The deception works better when you can’t make sense of it.
November 5 2024. That was the day we became the country you can’t fathom.
September 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
November 5 2024. That was the day we became the country you can’t fathom.
Democrats need to figure out that America is over. Half the country is actively supporting fascism. We are in a cold Civil War. There is no going back. The Constitution is a meaningless document. Stop following rules the other side has no intention of adhering to…
September 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Democrats need to figure out that America is over. Half the country is actively supporting fascism. We are in a cold Civil War. There is no going back. The Constitution is a meaningless document. Stop following rules the other side has no intention of adhering to…
You don’t need to worry about foreign threats when you are actively turning your country into a Christian police state populated by the very wealthy few and the very poor masses. A country that trades innovation and education for incarceration and white supremacy.
August 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
You don’t need to worry about foreign threats when you are actively turning your country into a Christian police state populated by the very wealthy few and the very poor masses. A country that trades innovation and education for incarceration and white supremacy.
I vote for Democrats. Only because the alternative sucks. Elected Democrats need to stop pretending they are not in a party that has helped create the very system and conditions which produced Donald Trump. What Reagan started, Clinton perfected.
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I vote for Democrats. Only because the alternative sucks. Elected Democrats need to stop pretending they are not in a party that has helped create the very system and conditions which produced Donald Trump. What Reagan started, Clinton perfected.
Yes, without having read or knowing anything about the issues at stake. Yes.
July 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Yes, without having read or knowing anything about the issues at stake. Yes.
It was the neo lib economic shift of both parties that brought racism and nationalism to the mainstream of right wing politics. The Rep Party employed Fox News to push distraction and culture war because the jobs and wages were disappearing into foreign labor markets after the fall of communism.
July 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It was the neo lib economic shift of both parties that brought racism and nationalism to the mainstream of right wing politics. The Rep Party employed Fox News to push distraction and culture war because the jobs and wages were disappearing into foreign labor markets after the fall of communism.
It feels dirty to have agreed with Tucker here…
June 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It feels dirty to have agreed with Tucker here…