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That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia
It Is A Reality......
It Is A Reality......
December 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
That's Not Fair,But In Chumplandia
It Is A Reality......
It Is A Reality......
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Sadly, medicine is only one of the areas where the public's lack of knowledge is relentlessly exploited. But when people lack curiosity or a healthy sense of skepticism, it's an inevitable state of affairs.
December 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Sadly, medicine is only one of the areas where the public's lack of knowledge is relentlessly exploited. But when people lack curiosity or a healthy sense of skepticism, it's an inevitable state of affairs.
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Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?
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This pretty much tells you everything you need to know about America.
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This pretty much tells you everything you need to know about America.
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@maryltrump.bsky.social: “[Donald Trump] is terrified. He knows his poll numbers are terrible. He knows his policies are unpopular... He knows on some deep level he’s losing his cognitive abilities at an alarming rate”
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@maryltrump.bsky.social: “[Donald Trump] is terrified. He knows his poll numbers are terrible. He knows his policies are unpopular... He knows on some deep level he’s losing his cognitive abilities at an alarming rate”
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U.S. Democracy fails when we convince ourselves that voters are always right & should be told what they want to hear to earn their vote.
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
U.S. Democracy fails when we convince ourselves that voters are always right & should be told what they want to hear to earn their vote.
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
Actually, a healthy democracy MUST contradict voters. Leaders MUST tell ignorant voters what they NEED to hear when they don't know how the world works. 🧵
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
The Gutter President, a man lacking in decency, and too intellectually bankrupt to even pretend to care about anyone but himself.
NY Times: “This a presidency that celebrates nastiness and spite, not empathy or grace, a reflection, perhaps, of a coarser era in American life.”
December 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Gutter President, a man lacking in decency, and too intellectually bankrupt to even pretend to care about anyone but himself.
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Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.
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Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. When he feels humiliated, he lashes out. Every authoritarian action he is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Like any bully, Trump is fundamentally a coward. When he feels humiliated, he lashes out. Every authoritarian action he is taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
Will a reporter ask him the question Joseph Welch asked Sem. Joe McCarthy?
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Will a reporter ask him the question Joseph Welch asked Sem. Joe McCarthy?
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
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Another shooting. The details will shift, the outrage will fade. That’s the danger. Repetition trains acceptance. A country doesn’t collapse at once…it gets conditioned to look away.
December 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Another shooting. The details will shift, the outrage will fade. That’s the danger. Repetition trains acceptance. A country doesn’t collapse at once…it gets conditioned to look away.
This is a vague statement. The Preamble of the Constitution lists its purposes with more specificity. It seems balance ibetween the authorities & responsibilities of government and the rights & freedoms of the people.
Political society is complex. Slogans like this are inherently reductionist.
Political society is complex. Slogans like this are inherently reductionist.
The purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit the power of the Federal Government, not the American People. #Truth
December 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is a vague statement. The Preamble of the Constitution lists its purposes with more specificity. It seems balance ibetween the authorities & responsibilities of government and the rights & freedoms of the people.
Political society is complex. Slogans like this are inherently reductionist.
Political society is complex. Slogans like this are inherently reductionist.
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Stop accepting the cynical notion that “nothing can be done” about guns, or anything else for that matter. Every time you give up hope, the emperor has already won.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Stop accepting the cynical notion that “nothing can be done” about guns, or anything else for that matter. Every time you give up hope, the emperor has already won.
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The image of the fearless crusading journalist is a fading mirage in the memory of those of us old enough to remember when they existed
The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The image of the fearless crusading journalist is a fading mirage in the memory of those of us old enough to remember when they existed
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I feel sympathy and anger that critical thinking is not being taught in the schools or in the home. This is intentional by the government but parents are abdicating their responsibility too.
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I feel sympathy and anger that critical thinking is not being taught in the schools or in the home. This is intentional by the government but parents are abdicating their responsibility too.
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This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"
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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
--Teddy Roosevelt (R)
--Teddy Roosevelt (R)
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”
--Teddy Roosevelt (R)
--Teddy Roosevelt (R)