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2024-08-17 22:04:30

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@npub1e4g…jtyh
Mitch McConnell rigged the Supreme Court, and Trump really had very little to do with it. In these lists of Trump's crimes, few mention that he murdered, at a minimum, 340K Americans in what amounted to bioterrorism, and covid deaths directly attributable to him continue.

2024-08-03 13:43:37

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@npub1ccz…7l0l
I bought at least one sci-fi a week. Bought my copies of the Lord of the Rings off the drug store rack.

2024-08-03 12:45:44

#20books20days
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2024-07-31 18:44:38

#lawyers #congress
There are 173 lawyers in the House and 57 in the Senate. Lawyers are taught to believe that they are always right (the exact opposite of scientific thinking), as the title of Gerry Spence's book shows:
How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, Everywhere, Every Time
Facts and truth are irrelevant, explaining why so many of our politicians are slimy morons: less than 1% of the workforce are lawyers, yet 40% of the House and 57% of the Senate are lawyers.

2024-07-26 10:38:38

I think we've all heard the "shoot somebody on 5th Ave", but we need to update it. I think we've reached the "rape somebody on 5th Ave and not lose any votes" stage. Continued support of this demented moron is in itself a form of insanity.

2024-07-20 19:01:00

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@npub1xr8…3q0g
Women still make more than unmarried men.

2024-07-14 17:19:12

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@npub1qg4…augv
I vaguely remember a story from the 1930s, where a miner asked why the mine owner cared so much about the mules but not the miners. "Replacing a new mule costs me $40, but I can replace you for nothing."

2024-07-04 02:23:08

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@npub1zlf…jxfl
I keep hearing people referring to Trump as a "great liar". This sounds entirely too much like a compliment. How about "big fat liar" instead?

2024-06-30 16:29:58

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Volcano of prevarication

2024-06-28 20:32:32

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@npub1grx…uxfe
An essential part of the US gov't, to maintain clean water, clean air, protect wildlife, limit harmful pesticides, regulate chemicals and drugs, et hoc genus omne, has just gone up in smoke.

2024-06-20 12:40:47

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@npub15zu…s7lx
Nixon created the EPA, now the GOP is trying its best to get rid of it.

2024-06-10 01:27:37

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@npub1se6…cmph
It [poison ivy/oak] is the one thing that should not go to the #compost pile.
Actually, don't put grass clippings in there either if you use lawn chemicals.

2024-05-15 01:09:21

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@npub132h…f594
We can only hope he's right for a change.

2024-05-01 13:20:46

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
50K pounds for five years is 250K pounds, not 2M pounds. Where's all the extra money going, bribes?

2024-04-21 21:22:02

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@npub16nx…rj8k
Having Blinken as Secretary of State when the Middle East is ablaze is idiotic. He's a multi-generational Zionist. It's like having a self-proclaimed NAZI as Secretary of State in 1943.

2024-04-19 23:15:34

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@npub1lzz…jhl3
Maybe she can move to Moscow and hook up with Ed Snowden.

2024-04-15 19:01:02

#CitizenTrump #trumptrial
Consider this: when Citizen Trump was POTUS, he typically tweeted until 3 in the morning and didn't show up for "work" until 11, then he'd take off to play golf. He's never had to put in a full day's work in his life. Having to show up in court at 9:30 and sit there all day will be torture for him.
SchadenFreude TO THE MAX!

2024-04-12 01:47:16

#Christianity
Let's assume you don't believe that wine and wafers ACTUALLY turn into the blood and flesh of Jesus when you take communion, that it's merely symbolic; instead, you believe that symbolically eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Jesus is somehow spiritually beneficial. I mean...Xianity involves EATING GOD! You are literally EATING JESUS if the Pope's word is anything to go by, but even if you're a Protestant, *symbolically* eating Jesus is creepy, make-believe cannibalism.

2024-03-20 14:04:16

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@npub132h…f594
Now that the US imports 3 billion barrels of oil a day while simultaneously exporting 3 billion barrels a day, it seems that both importing and exporting oil should stop in the US. This zero-sum import/export game does nothing but keep oil tankers and dock workers busy with make-work, with pointless pollution and waste of energy moving oil back and forth across the ocean to no real purpose. We should just pull our of the ME at this point; those countries have nothing to offer us now.

2024-03-19 13:27:16

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@npub1zh2…7965
Ah yes, Joe's plastic spouse. Geeting #CitizenTrump with grins and giggles in 2016 (he had already been credibly accused of child rape), Mika spent a cheerful session with Hair Furor. Not long afterwards, Joe Biden encountered a hostile Mika, grilling him about bogus sexual molestation charges some woman had brought up that week, snarling out questions like a TV cop in an interrogation room.

2024-03-18 12:06:44

An absolutely infuriating Morning Joe. They're now discussing the "problem" that the US birthrate "lags" behind the global average, as if that's not a good thing, as if a high birthrate is something to be proud of like the national literacy rate. Mika and Joe somehow always let their GOP-ness slip through, managing to champion White Xian Nationalism's desire to force women to carry pregnancies to term and simultaneously ignoring overpopulation as a driver of #climatechange.

2024-02-24 16:06:54

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@npub1zh2…7965
Xian Nationalism is curiously at odds with the New Testament and not Xian at all; the vengeful, sadistic crap in the Old Testament seems far more apropos to their movement. After the creepy Mike Johnsons and sociopathic Greg Abbots take over, I wonder if they'll tolerate Catholics.
Non-believers are the second largest "religious" demographic in the US, with 26% polling as atheist, agnostic, or no religion, and Citizen Trump once called for the execution of atheists.

2024-02-24 13:19:48

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1m9a…025m
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2024-02-24 02:35:06

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@npub1grx…uxfe
College isn't what it used to be by any means. When I took my degree in '66, a bachelor degree required two semesters of a slide-rule science (physics, chemistry, biology, or geology), two years of English, two semesters of calculus and analytic geometry, and two years of a foreign language. A degree meant you knew something. College today teaches intramural sports and some marketable skill or another, eg, a lawyer need not know anything at all except law, viz. the SCOTUS.

2024-02-19 14:45:50

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1spp…s0wq
I've been badmouthing the Zionists since 1967, when I was at NSA and saw that we shared Top Secret info with the Israeli. Nothing has changed my mind about Israel in all these years; they are still a merciless theocracy, still an occupying army, still stealing land and killing the people who used to live there. They've now advanced to the next level of religious tyranny, murdering their own people.

2023-12-28 23:21:37

Allowing Nikki Haley to spout nonsense in front of a classroom of impressionable children should be punishable as child abuse.
What a moron. The abominable Chris Christie is the only Republican POTUS contender with a brain. She can't even state the standard "the South will rise again" line, that it was a matter of states' rights including the right of citizens to own slaves if their state allowed it) .

2023-12-24 18:43:06

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@npub1y7x…jrl4
At this point, I think the only solution is thermonuclear exchange to completely destroy civilization and rapidly bring down the population a to billion or so.

2023-12-19 14:31:06

Peloton commercials are now and always have been absolutely unbearable, but the frenzied, frantic, psychosis-inducing new one is the worst yet.

2023-12-18 14:20:15

How is Giuliani's case any different from Alex Jones? Everybody says Rudy's financially destroyed, but what if he just refuses to pay anybody like Alex Jones does. Apparently the US is incapable of enforcing civil judgments against wealthy people and politicians who are scofflaws. The only reason Trump pays up (when he does) is because the fines are puny relative to the RNC funneling political donations to pay his lawyers and fines, not to mention his gofundme activities.

2023-11-25 19:49:39

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@npub1mmf…eknq
Amazing. Psychopathy is contagious they say. Zionism has gone from psychopathy to sociopathy, even murdering its own people, even its own soldiers.

2023-11-25 19:44:58

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@npub1mmf…eknq
So, is tear gassing the reporters merely for entertainment or is it stop them from reporting something?

2023-11-24 21:51:58

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@npub1d7s…4ern
Reminds me of a study back in the 1960s that showed 5 year-olds like to be the center of attention. Of COURSE the Republicans are and have been actively killing people, and the media does not care, nor does the Republican base. Republicans have killed hundreds of thousands, maybe even a couple of million Americans, with their covid bioterrorism, by preventing the passage of national healthcare legislation, not to mention opposition to gun legislation.

2023-11-17 17:44:57

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@npub1ccn…czwu @npub1q3a…ft4h
But they never show but the one monster and the invisible one that's after them in Krell Central. There should have been one for all the crew members and Anne Francis.

2023-11-17 17:21:11

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@npub16nx…rj8k
There is really no reason for computer voting terminals (or even in-person voting for that matter), but computers are the quick and easy answer to drawing voting precincts. An off-the-shelf GIS can draw equal population adjoining polygons without resorting to weirdness, totally unbiased and fair without human intervention. To stop gerrymandering we have t take humans out of the creation of voting maps completely.

2023-11-15 19:07:14

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@npub1mmf…eknq
The analogy is almost perfect, but I think you meant that of his SISTER had him and he responded ...

2023-11-13 16:23:53

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@npub155h…sn96 @npub19gl…mrne @npub1rvt…ta0m @npub1ccn…czwu
Basic definitions of the word "religion".
The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe.
A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice.
A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.
Note that atheism has no "practices". We have no doctrine. You are not speaking English.

2023-11-13 14:01:17

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@npub155h…sn96 @npub19gl…mrne @npub1rvt…ta0m @npub1ccn…czwu
"Bald people don't insist they have hair."
Non sequitur. It would appear that you have untidy thought processes, likely a root cause of your delusion that supernatural gods exist. I believe in your god(s) as much as you believe in:
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2023-11-13 13:44:48

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@npub155h…sn96 @npub19gl…mrne @npub1rvt…ta0m @npub1ccn…czwu
'Atheist are DEFINED by their "faith"' Like saying that totally bald people are defined by their hair color. Give your god(s) the boot. They're just a waste of time and money, unless you're making money off of them.

2023-11-12 20:46:57

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@npub1ccz…7l0l
Specifically, one of the great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans), complete with ischial callosities.

2023-11-10 15:54:52

"The financial services bill’s failure underscores the challenge Johnson faces as the first big test of his speakership: avoiding a government shutdown..." - Huffpost
What's with journalists these days? They seem completely oblivious to what's going on. Johnson has NO interest in avoiding a government shutdown. He voted to overthrow the government in 2021 and he's still at it. There are a substantial number of Republicans in Congress who would just as soon not fund the government at all.

2023-11-07 19:22:43

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@npub1gha…ffp5
Really. Hate to badmouth Krugman, but he had to be on LSD or something to write such an article. Bizarre. The absolutely outrageous aircraft, aircraft carrier, nuclear submarine, and DoD R&D contracts totally belie Krugman's claim.

2023-11-07 17:46:06

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@npub1lnm…624t
"...racists, misogynists, bigots and haters..." There's a word for that: Republicans.

2023-11-06 22:53:14

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@npub1vyd…jph3 @npub192y…7pyw @npub1uhs…m93j @npub14pn…rag6 @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
I think of "Nordic" as Scandinavian, but these gods were held in common from Iceland to Poland. I think "Germanic" includes "Nordic" but not vice versa, but I'm not an authority for sure. For example, the Saxons are Germanic but not Nordic, and the Saxons believed in Oden, Thor, Frigg, Tews, etc.

2023-11-06 19:22:52

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@npub12ez…uyf6
And everybody except psychologist Dr. Mary Trump refuses to say that he's out of his mind. Trump is WAY more than a mobster, he's a demented, delusional psychopath with serious cognitive impairment who should be in an institution for the criminally insane.

2023-11-06 18:15:39

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@npub1gha…ffp5
They should refer to the war in Iraq as Cheney's war.

2023-11-06 18:05:15

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@npub1ccn…czwu
The English/Germanic days of the are all pagan, named after the Teutonic pantheon,, except for Saturday. Xianity didn't really go over big up north until deep into the Dark Ages.

2023-11-06 15:52:17

We have arrived at a point where one political party claims that journalists are enemies of the people, and in response journalists continue to meekly report on the political doings of that party as business as usual, in essence making themselves *actual* enemies of the people. Journalists also continue to report climate change as a "both sides" issue, where the truth is no longer even remotely arguable.

2023-11-06 15:27:24

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub14pn…rag6 @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
The NT authors tell us that Herod was killing first born Jewish sons to preempt a Messiah from dethroning him, retelling the Ramses legend and Passover. Besides the fact that the Jews themselves do not remember this - and they do remember stuff like this - the Romans didn't either. Romans were real bean counters, and they would have kept records of both Herod's edict and how many Jews they killed, day by day. They don't exist.

2023-11-06 15:14:30

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub14pn…rag6 @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
The Herod stories are the ones that truly label the NT as fiction. First, the underlying reason for Mary and Joseph being in Bethlehem at all was to pay taxes, showing that the authors knew nothing about the procedures Romans used to collect taxes. Second, why in the world would Joseph take his late term pregnant wife with him - riding on a donkey!? It's interesting to note that Mary doesn't become a virgin for another 3 hundred years.

2023-10-30 22:36:10

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@npub1lfs…2cez @npub1jkm…ndsx @npub1p90…5svf @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1t07…nm3q
Libertarians prefer Trump to Biden, so your "threat" just means they wound up with their second choice. Libertarians are just Far Right Republicans without the Jesus angle.

2023-10-30 12:26:28

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@npub1ywq…rmf9 @npub1g0t…tvm4
The amount of energy required to build a car is substantial, from mining the raw materials, to transporting the raw materials, to processing the raw materials, to transport workers to and from the factory to put the car together... If one replaces an ICE car with an EV car, it will take years to recover the energy deficit.

2023-10-29 20:04:32

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@npub1fql…nma7 @npub1p90…5svf @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1t07…nm3q
Whether they owned slaves or not, these people represented the Enlightenment, the shrugging off of religious idiocy and the ascent of science and reason. They created a Constitution that ultimately did free the slaves and has provided ever more opportunity for the disadvanted over time. All but one of these "slave owners" voted to abolish slavery in the original drafts of the Constitution, and only Massachusetts voted to keep it.

2023-10-29 18:59:51

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@npub1p90…5svf @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1t07…nm3q
Americans no longer learn American history or civics, and there is no sense of duty or social obligation to vote; no one is taught that a society "of the people, by the people, and for the people" requires people to take part. A dictator is so much easier. Americans are the most intellectually lazy population on the planet.

2023-10-26 14:18:48

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@npub1ccz…7l0l
The Democrats would have been better of voting for Gym Jordan.

2023-10-21 12:33:03

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@npub1ccn…czwu
"If it's been blasphemy for you, it's been a blast for me too." J. Whitney Brown

2023-10-17 21:36:17

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@npub1gha…ffp5
Let's see...we blew up Iraq after Saudi Arabia flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, so why not blow up Iran after Israel commits war crimes in Gaza? Republicans make no sense at any level.
And Biden will be getting advice to help Netanyahu exterminate the Palestinians from his Zionist Secretary of State, Blinken, so that's a given.

2023-10-17 13:58:28

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@npub1gha…ffp5
They aren't God's Chosren children, so they are of no concern to Zionists. Goy children have no value.

2023-10-11 21:55:10

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@npub1mzx…hrk8 @npub1k4q…3lsq @npub1yrh…ujcw
Betweem Scalise and Jordan, it's a choice between Jack the Ripper and Jeffrey Dahmer.

2023-10-09 17:06:51

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@npub12ez…uyf6
Stop calling them schools. They're juvenile Xian seminaries. The US public education system cannot recover until we get rid of private and religious schools entirely, forcing all students to attend public schools. This is the only action that would force the wealthy to support their local public school systems in order to provide their children with a decent education, barring sending them to Europe.

2023-10-04 17:03:00

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@npub1ccz…7l0l
What's with spiffy razor blades? About 30 years ago, I bought a bag of 100 Wilkinson Sword double blade disposable razors for maybe $15 at BJs. I'm almost out now. Really nice disposable razors. I have a pretty average beard and a razor lasts me weeks. You can still get a bag of 200 razors just like them at Amazon for $35 and I just don't believe fancy razors shave any better at all.
Spiffy razor blades have to be the ultimate men's cosmetics advertising sucker punch.

2023-09-29 13:45:34

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@npub189n…satx
Not be argumentative, because I think 75% of white Americans are the most selfish, self-absorbed, inconsiderate, socially and civically irresponsible people in the world, but when people were masking up, 2020-21, it seemed that in bus/subway scenes, store scenes or street gatherings on TV half the white people would be masked up and NONE of the Black people (or even Latinos) would be. I usually agree with your badmouthing white people, but I think you're missing the mark here.

2023-09-10 11:15:32

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@npub1tpj…fmcs
I believe most of the twitter criticism is well-directed, since time spent there gives direct financial support to an enemy of the United States. This isn't a matter of favorite ice cream flavors, this is a matter of national security. Not only has #Musk provided military assistance to Russia *directly*, but he is murderously engaged in undermining the government of the United States, ie, sedition. Beyond twitter, how he still maintains US government contracts completely escapes me.

2023-09-08 18:51:44

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@npub189n…satx
Mitch McConnell for one.

2023-09-04 16:56:37

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@npub16nx…rj8k
They were/are able to do this because of our moronic SCOTUS that removed people's ability to sue insurance companies and hold them liable for damages, both punitve and actual damages that resulted from denial of valid claims. Another gift from the Reagan years, a decision on a par with Citizens United.

2023-09-01 12:35:59

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@npub189n…satx
Although I'm an atheist, I've always been struck by this passage from the Old Testament, Ezekiel 9:11.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

2023-08-30 12:18:57

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@npub189n…satx
It's the legacy of Jim Cantore, the pioneer of broadcast storm coverage. My favorite Jim Cantore episode was when the Weather Channel journeyed to Albany, NY to cover a 2 foot snowfall, expecting to see total chaos. As Cantori stood by the side of the 4 lane, snowplows were whizzing past at 50mph and traffic was virtually unaffected. It never occurred to the people at the Weather Channel that Central NY is barely phased by 2 feet of snow. Total anti-climax. 8^)

2023-08-29 18:04:36

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1kpa…kn20 And profoundly rude.

2023-08-26 22:15:20

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@npub1s9z…9g85 @npub189n…satx
Nobody seems to mention how lonely it will be without the songbirds, the crickets and lightning bugs, the whales, the dolphins, the penguins, bears, deer, hawks and owls, crows, and the silence of humans being the only things left alive on Earth.

2023-08-26 12:35:18

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@npub189n…satx
Publicly stating "I'm not a doctor, but I think abortion..." should be a criminally prosecutable crime, comparable to shouting "FIRE!" in a movie theater, with penalties tripled for men.

2023-08-24 23:50:58

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@npub1k6v…wdqx @npub189n…satx
Just send him to GITMO.

2023-08-24 22:08:19

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@npub1xpc…3t05
When I worked at NSA, they had to take 6 photos before they had one BAD enough to put on my badge. The photo they release to the press should you become a fugitive would be one that will not inspire the public to be on your side and help you out.

2023-08-24 18:07:05

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@npub189n…satx
My biggest concern is that half the population WANTS fascism. "Psychpathy is contagious." #Trump has infected people in thesame way that Jim Jones talked a otherwise sane people into poisoning their children then committing suicide by drinking the cyanide themselves. Same thing with the Heaven's Gate crew.

2023-08-20 13:30:14

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@npub147p…lnth @npub1nqz…838y
Catholics are basically polytheists anyhow, what with their pantheon of saints, Virgin Mary, Jesus and Jehovah, not to mention demonic possession (what are demons if not demi-gods?), Satan, and Jesus physically reincarnating in your stomach from wafers and wine, right before you digest his blood and flesh and later presumably shit out your sins. (Actually ALL of the Abrahamic religions are polytheistic, complete with cherubim, seraphim, archangels, et hoc genus omne.)

2023-08-20 11:44:33

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@npub147p…lnth @npub1nqz…838y
The Republicans have systematically removed all the sane, well-educated people from their party. While a lawyer CAN be well educated, a law degree is no substitute for a real education. The GOP is wall-to-wall grifters, preachers and lawyers.

2023-08-19 13:23:25

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@npub189n…satx
AND, I think it was...damn, I just read this yesterday...sigh...maybe Larry O'Donnell? Whoever predicted that Rudy's going to wind up with a public defender! 😎

2023-08-15 15:48:35

I would like to retract an earlier toot, that Kevin McCarthy was the most stomach-turning Republican politician in my lifetime. (I'm 80.) Execrable bag of flesh that Kevin is, I just saw Newt Gingrich sneering about the Fulton indictment and it all came rushing back. If anybody needs proof that there is no god, the fact that New Gingrich hasn't been stricken with boils and his home overrun with toads yet should suffice. One would think he'd poison himself with his own spittle.

2023-08-11 11:42:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8
Same thing with #mosquitoes. A couple of people in #Syracuse contracted equine encephalitis back in the 70s, so with eyes bulging, the panicky locals sprayed Cicero Swamp, killing all the spiders, frogs, dragonflies, hummingbirds, fish, and everything else that ate mosquitoes. Environmental advisors told them not to do it. Syracuse University scientists told them not to do it. They did it anyhow. Now there are TWENTY TIMES as many mosquitoes during infestations - they keep spraying.

2023-08-11 10:53:56

Wow. Turned on the TV to be greeted by #ChrisChristie railing against Hunter Biden, furious invective normally reserved for gang rapists and mass murders. And Joe Biden is as evil and awful as any president in our history. Chris Christie. Disgusting. Maybe I missed the beginning that would explain it, but I couldn't take more than 20 seconds of it before I went to the weather channel. For some reason I had thought Christie was little less awful, but he's just another psychopathic Republican.

2023-08-10 19:18:06

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@npub12ze…hunm
McConnell was basically given a large interest in an asbestos plant somewhere in Russia. Don't forget China, either. McConnell's wife, the daughter of a Chinese shipping magnate, was made Secretary of Labor, a post that oversees the ports of all things! Apparently marriages of state are still a thing.

2023-08-10 19:14:06

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@npub12ze…hunm
I don't understand how the Church keeps its tax exemption, because it OFFICIALLY meddles in our politics, to wit, the abortion issue. Archbishops giving public speeches, nuns demonstrating...but then, religion should simply be classified as part of the entertainment industry, with no special tax status of any kind. All religions. Temples, synagogues, churches, and mosques should have to pay ordinary local property taxes that support fire and police departments and maintain the roads.

2023-08-10 17:48:48

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@npub12ze…hunm
Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the table at the UN and promised to bury us. Joe McCarthy's entire shtick was about covert Soviet infiltration of America, everything from the movies, to Congress, to local politics, almost all fiction of course, but it inspired lots of TV shows like The Prisoner. There were even rumors about American style villages in Siberia teaching Russian spies how to be Americans. What we actually have is the gradual buying up of American politicians.

2023-08-10 17:28:27

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@npub1swy…snpj @npub1wj2…g03d @npub189n…satx
#FL is full of rich Republican Yankees avoiding taxes and cold weather, and people who did not have the benefit of a decent K-12 education. The Yankees like what's happening (or don't care) and the rest don't know any better.

2023-08-10 17:13:26

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@npub12ze…hunm
Could it get any stupider? Well...I guess grifting and fraud aren't really stupid, but the suckers sure are in this case.

2023-08-08 15:24:14

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@npub1f9h…ah92 @npub189n…satx
Sad to say, it won't be long before all aquatic life is gone. Enjoy fish for dinner while you can.

2023-08-06 11:58:54

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@npub189n…satx @npub1r3y…ep08 @npub1j5x…5frn
It's a statistical thing. Our schools are dedicated to team sports now, where our children are taught to cheat if you can get away with it, injure the star players on the other side if you can, and winning games is the most important thing a school provides its students. Follow the money. HS football and basketball coaches make large multiples of teachers' salaries and more is spent on sports facilities than on classrooms. Team loyalty becomes nationalism.

2023-08-05 22:19:43

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@npub1j5x…5frn @npub189n…satx
Sadly, America is all about individual rights, freedom, and not having to do anything you don't want to do. The idea of civic responsibility is an alien thought in the US. The concept of duty is only something one runs into if one chances to join the military for some reason. We a country of selfish people concerned about their personal rights, not about obligations and responsibilities. We're a fun loving people and nothing is more important than fun.

2023-08-05 17:52:57

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@npub14cx…qwkm @npub189n…satx
Trump is a dangerously decompensating Narcissistic psychopath. He should be placed not in a prison but in a facility for the criminally insane.

2023-08-04 22:10:51

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@npub1pgn…kr4r @npub189n…satx @npub1msm…hjpd
Almost. #Trump is a bioterrorist and mass murderer (covid), in addition to his other charged crimes. After his conviction, he should be sent to Guantanamo where he will be safe and there won't be any demonstrations outside the facility to cope with.

2023-08-04 21:17:42

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@npub1nqz…838y
Everything from his very weird Bible verse tweets (frequently from the Old Testament, which seems odd from a Catholic turned Mormon turned Catholic), to his unparalleled dissociation from whatever current event he comments on. He seems genuinely oblivious to reality, often not even following the GOP talking points, blasting off at strange tangents, seemingly unaware of what is actually being discussed in public or debated in Congress. No fact is too big or too obvious to ignore.

2023-08-04 16:40:20

#Trump has been a Russian asset all along, and the Russians have supported all his activities, from trying to cripple Ukraine to threatening NATO. The #MoscowSeven and others in Congress, including #McConnell, are in thick with the Russians. The GOP is crippling the US from within, following the Russian/Soviet plan that has been in place since the 50s. In this light, #FOX, #McCarthy, #Cruz, OANN, etc, aren't pro Trump as much as pro #Russia.

2023-08-03 22:38:14

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@npub12ez…uyf6
He misspoke. He meant to say, "We'd like to start waterboarding people on day one," but fell victim to a Freudian slip.

2023-07-19 18:05:10

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@npub13y6…dylg
Clean coal anyone? How 'bout some fracking and "Clean, abundant, natural gas"?

2023-07-19 17:17:47

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@npub13y6…dylg
There was also the 1958 Bell Science Hour series, with "Unchained Goddess". We watched it during biology class in 1958 on the 16mm films Bell provided schools. I remember this scene vividly and I've been worried more and more with every passing year. By the time I read #LimitsToGrowth, in 1970, I was in full hippie mode to stop the cars, the swimming pools, the McMansions...the American way of life itself.
https://vimeo.com/242927715

2023-07-17 12:08:44

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@npub1jnh…lfd7 @npub1qzc…yetl
Nuclear war may be the only thing that could save humanity and life on Earth. The humans who are left would be few, but if they survived perhaps Earth could repair itself. Destroying civilization could be the only answer.

2023-07-13 22:26:49

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@npub189n…satx
Who would they have been? Even if Italians count as non-white, I"d bet there were precious few Italians in England in 1200. France and the British Isles didn't have anybody but white people living there in 1200. Marco Polo hadn't found a land route to China yet. Neither Brendan the Bold nor the Vikings in Vinland brought back indigenous people with them. If there were any Black people in England in the 13th Century, I doubt white men were stealing slots from them at Cambridge.

2023-07-13 20:12:55

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@npub189n…satx
When colleges started, there were nothing BUT white men to fill slots. There were no non-white people to fill slots in Oxford or Paris in 1200 and women couldn't do ANYTHING back then, never mind attend college.
"Old white guys" like me are the most reviled people in the US. I've never voted for a Republican in my life, but I'm not a Xian, not LGBTQ or other than cisgendered, live ENTIRELY on SS and worst of all I've read the Odyssey and the Iliad in Homeric Greek.

2023-07-12 13:15:26

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@npub189n…satx
I attended an exceptional HS, class of '61. In Honors English, we had to subscribe to the New Yorker and Scientific American, given homework based on their articles. A Japanese outfit bought Scientific American ~1960 and suddenly there was a spastic sentence seemingly in every other paragraph; the teacher had picked Scientific American because articles were well written/edited, exposing us to good scientific writing. The homework turned into editing assignments.

2023-07-09 02:32:05

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@npub1ahq…wjwd
John said sweetly, with a Seraphic smile on his face, the smile last scene on an Inquisitor as he sentenced a heretic to life at the oar, serenely confident that Jesus was on his side, which, as today, was all that really mattered.

2023-07-08 00:42:48

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@npub1edc…0q44 @npub1w69…5muu
It's not safe hanging around with Right Wing Xian xrazies no matter whether the platform is real or virtual.

2023-06-12 11:59:56

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@npub1eeu…u43z @npub1s45…fdj3 @npub1dc6…uzts
My time at the NSA gives me a glimpse into the methods of the intelligence community; I followed Snowden's case carefully at the time. PRISM and domestic spying should not be allowed, but Cheney/Dumbya Patriot Act allowed it.
Snowden stole a CD from the NSA and flew to Hong Kong, where he marketed it to the Chinese who had no use for it. He then flew to Moscow but the Russians had no interest either.
Manning and Assange were honorable. Snowden was a traitor.