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Benjamin O. Anderson

@kemek.bsky.social

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Grad school dropout. Professional chemist. Reluctant realist. Former Democrat.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · Nov 15

America has no king.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 19m

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 20m

Did Disney make it?

Not interested.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 21m

No, but they don't need to erase laws, just ignore them.

Don't believe me?

Tell me how long Trump's sentence was for violating the emoluments clause.

In his first term.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 22m

If any of this bullshit were true, people would just go to the ER and say they're illegal immigrants.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 23m

The longer the federal government goes unfunded, the safer I feel.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 24m

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 25m

They also gave Biden immunity.

If they had given ME immunity, I promise you I would have conjured a way to use it to keep Trump from being president again.

But apparently Joe Biden was too good for that.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 56m

They don't care.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Peaceful #protest has its place.

But it's not a panacea.

At some point you have to draw a line in the sand & stand your ground.

#Resist

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Indefinite peaceful protest is just surrender with extra steps.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Also this dude.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

We all have to decide where we are going to draw the line.

I'm drawing the line at ICE pigs aiming a weapon at me.

What will the end result be? I'll probably be killed. But I'm not young. I've had a good life.

I really don't want to grow old in the kind of country this place is turning into.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Why am I saying this?

Because you need to understand that remaining peaceful indefinitely is nothing more than surrender.

If we don't draw a line somewhere, then by this time next year our country will be a Christian theocracy run by ignorant autocrats.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

"Escalating it is what they want"

I need you to understand something.

Republicans do not have a red line with Trump.

They will support him no matter what.

There is 👉LITERALLY👈 nothing he can do that would cause them to stop supporting him.

👉👉 LITERALLY NOTHING👈👈

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think Trump telling federal workers that they might not get back pay is the best way to get people in ATC to work without compensation

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

The Secretary of Transportation is focusing on the color of one crosswalk in Florida rather than the impending #ATC disaster that's about to unfold.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

If people could get free #healthcare by pretending to be illegal #immigrants, they would do it in a heartbeat.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Greg Abbot never stands up for the Constitution

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

I'm pretty sure the line of thinking was, "I don't want to die."

And then they left. It's really not more complicated than that.

But people who commit crimes against humanity love historical revisionism.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats need to change their mascot from the donkey to the lawn chair.

Because it folds so quickly.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

Keep the government shut down.

I think not having a federal government is the safest course at the moment.

Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

#CNN is complicit in the rise of fascism.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 1h

If you're self-displaced because the alternative was death, I don't think you should be referred to as self-displaced.

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Benjamin O. Anderson @kemek.bsky.social · 2h

Oatmeal Brain Biden