Juke Slytalker

Juke Slytalker

@blackskyeddie.blacksky.app

A guy with a keyboard, talking about politics and race relations. I was calling myself a liberal back when FOX News tried to make it a slur.

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Obama once again reminds that no matter how much after-the-fact mocking that the "tan suit controversy" brought on the Rightwing doomers, it will never stop them from dressing up anything he does & says as "anti-American"

It also reminds us how the MSM will bend over backwards to justify that reaction from Republicans so they seem partisan. Meanwhile, they'll ignore Republicans calling native-born citizens fake Americans bc that would too far...

No one should ever let Republicans forget how they cheered & clapped like seals when Trump went on his umpteenth explicitly racist screed against Black ppl. These are the same ppl who called claimed we were lying about Trump calling African nations shit-hole countries behind closed doors.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

I don't care how many people believed it, but MSM would NEVER give airtime to someone who wouldn't vote for a candidate bc they were Jewish and Jews run the world. Yet CNN and FOX insist on letting us know some random voters won't vote for AES bc he's Muslim and might be a terrorist.

You can't convince me that putting Black ex-athletes as announcers bc of their personalities and not their ball-knowledge (Shaq, Barkley) is just so White audiences can laugh at them. It's clear that ESPN & Fox News have a type... Black folks that their audience hates or can mock.

I hope someone has some good news for us, bc history is not making me optimistic.

Juke Slytalker@blackskyeddie.blacksky.app

I need someone to address that the racism that's carried the GOP to wins for the last 15 years has been reduced to a secondary concern for enough voters to cover the flip. IME racism is the only thing permanent in politics, and my gut isn't buying that high prices is what upsets that apple cart.

If Democrats win the Senate, I hope the new class refuses to vote for Schumer and uses his silence during the DoJ's blatant witchhunt as just the lastest reason why he's unfit to be the top Dem

You ever notice how the people who want to switch seats on planes never want to move to the BACK to keep their family together? They always want to move UP. Maybe ask the strangers in the back in they want to move up and trade seats? Then yall can be one happy family in the back of the plane.

This man has 100% paid a dude to have sex with his wife

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

The media NEEDS the Left to be anti-semitic bc it allows them to cover Republican Republican racism without looking partisan. That's why you can always expect them to overly focus on Dems and ignore Republican racism. Another reason why you shouldn't trust MSM

More parents have given their teens guns that were then used in a school shooting than have put their teens through gender-confirming surgery. More kids have died bc parents gave their teens guns that were then used in a school shooting than have died bc of teens getting gender-confirming surgery.

As great as it is to see him use his political capital to attack Trump, we need to look to game theory to understand why we need to reciprocate the GOP's worst behaviors. The fact that even Obama is stepping out of the shadows shows just how bad the actions are that we need to deter

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Two tax policies I'd make to benefit the people: 1. Eliminate income tax for the bottom 90% and raise it on the top 5% 2. Federal tax credit for property tax paid by senior citizens and offset with a new tax on second homes, luxury homes, and certain investment activities.

Here's why I respect the late stage conversion to begrudging Democrat from someone like Bill Cristol: 1. He admits he was part of the reason the GOP is where it is now 2. He refrains on telling DEMOCRATS what the platform should be, and focuses on yelling at other Republicans for still being loyal

The fact that Barack Obama is out here outright defending Ilhan Omar while Chuck Schumer has been sitting on his ass doing nothing is exactly why he's not fit to be the Senate leader. Get his ass out of there.

I love takes like this. Distilling something ostensibly great or interesting into something so basic and understandable that you ask yourself "why didn't I think of that?" And now, I definitely DON'T want flying cars .

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

Zelenskyy's plea for Americans to open their eyes just goes to show just how destructive racism & bigotry are to humanity. The pull to attack others is so overwhelming to these people that it overrides basic decency towards those they tell themselves they're fighting for.

Do you know how much Civil War porn you have to consume to bring back the burnsides?

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

maybe there is some obscure requirement that you have to have 19th century facial hair to hold the office

You know what this tells me? They have no idea what they're earning and are just spending what's in their account. And that just means even if you tax them, they're going to be in the exact same boat because they're just going to spend what they have.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

I think the real finding from surveys like this is that a lot of self-pitying rich people don't know what "paycheck to paycheck" means. If you are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on voluntary expenditures like prep school tuition, you don't count. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...

This is like professional athletes. Despite earning 10 times as much as players did 30 years ago, the same percentage go broke after the same 5 and 10-year window. The fall off from taxing them is irrelevant to their lifestyle because they're just going to spend what's in their account either way

Liberal "anti-semites" want Israel to stop the rampant bombing of civilians and find peace w/ Palestine. If Israel did that, there would be no further beef b/w these libs and Israel/Zionists. Conservative anti-semites want Jews to stop secretly controlling the world. There is no off ramp for that.

For the record, Israel defends killing Palestinians doing the same thing to TANKS.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

I wonder if Zelenskyy's reversal on how he talks about Trump is due to midterm polling for Republicans? I gave him a pass before for deference bc it was more important for him to appease Trump w/ a GOP controlling Congress. But his attitude now makes me think he sees the writing's on the wall...

When Senate Dems take control, I want one of the core arguments against Schumer to be how silent the "party leader" has been on racist attacks directed at sitting Black Congress members, particularly Ilhan Omar. I want him and his defenders to stew in that argument in front of the country.

I think one of the things we need to look at is how public political figures suddenly change their personalities once they don't have to cater to voters... Bc it's weird how all these Republicans suddenly develop spines and morals once they're not dependent on GOP voters...

It'll be peak irony if the Leftist energy propels a Blue tsunami this year (as opposed to a tighter Dem majority) that produces margins being big enough to handle Leftist defections on the votes for House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader.

My pitch to the IOC is that every host country/city gets to add a wildcard sport to that Olympics. Ideally the host would pick a sport that's native to their country or region. It would be so cool to see who fields a baller ass team within 8 years and how they do against the host country.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social

How is this not in the Olympics? The skill, speed and nerve on display here would give plenty of official sports a run for their money.

Apparently Netflix is doing reshoots of Greta Gerwig's Narnia movie because it doesn't get to Narnia until the 3rd act. Which is understandable because that was my same complaint about the book.

I really want to be in the room when these executives are making the decision to literally put their employees in the line of fire. Am I missing something or are these shipping CEOs telling their employees that it's their duty to deliver, no matter what...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

A container ship has sunk in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by an Iranian attack amid an escalation in violence in the critical waterway. The Singapore-registered vessel, the GFS Pride, was one of four ships struck in the strait on Tuesday.

So these ship ppl get hazard pay? OT? A pizza party? What are they telling their employees to get them to board a ship that has instructions to test the accuracy of Iranian missiles? Who is signing up for this?

It's past time that political affiliation be part of the credentials we look at when it comes to staffing institutions that are dependent on gov't regulations to function. There's zero reason for any university to hire a MAGA acolyte in any administrative, budgetary, or hiring role.

Polling is another institution that rightwing culture is subverting for partisan gains. I've said that since Obama's administration, rightwing culture has made it a point to make polling as unreliable as possible. Does no one remember "unskew the polls"?

And media is once again showing why they're ill equipped to counter that bc they keep trying to think of ways to offset the sabotage, which just means the saboteurs are going to dig in deeper. Rightwing voters are not interested in giving the rest of us ammo to shit on their policies.

There is no polling fix. The second we make a correction, the rightwing voters will adjust. They'll pull back until it feels right and that suddenly overrepresent themselves in polls and give a false impression of overwhelming support. And the media will be slow to respond bc they'll be gunshy.