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@chimsquared.bsky.social
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque. Austin-ish
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The trick here is that farmers aren't regular voters. Most farmers are professionals like her who know on which side their bread is buttered. They're wealthy landowners with perpetual cash flow issues. Even if Trump threatens the latter, Dems threaten the former, & the former is their identity.
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Plus the whole "Evil has existed during all human history and it's not just one guy, or even 100K guys" thing.
Everyone thinks the world will magically get better after the midterms when shit is actually going to hit the fan This isn’t a rebuke of Trump, it’s a rebuke of the Epstein class and they don’t give power easily
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If there's an America in 2126 it's going to be the Coalition of homeowners associations, not the United States
i have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that eventually the boomer property tax revolt will foment a reverse-polarity version in young people ("well then why should i keep paying Social Security taxes?") and the entire concept of cooperative public goods disintegrates
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Yeah, you could explain the price-to-income ratio. Or you could just say American Baby Boomers are self-aggrandizing pieces of shit who had historically easy lives. But the latter would never fill out the word count. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
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We are doomed if we / because we belive they are redeemable. If eggs go up a nickel or they hear Spanish anywhere, they'll be back on their hate train. They won't be part of what saves us.
Lifelong Texas Republican says data centers are why he’d vote Democrat: “This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me.” (Again: only when it impacts them personally)
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Lost amid the "growing loneliness epidemic" (epidemics grow because that is what makes them that) and "increasing isolation of modern life" think-piece blather is the essential consideration of "Have you ever met any Americans in 2026? They really are just the fucking worst. Stay home at all costs."
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We voted for racism when eggs went up a quarter. We are not a tough country.
To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.
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