Drew Abides

Drew Abides

@drewabides.bsky.social

Dad, husband, counselor. Believer in selfish altruism. Lifting others up makes us stronger. Helping others helps ourselves. Not getting into pointless arguments on the internet is an act of revolution.

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This is playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social

Breaking: Trump says he'll close East Potomac golf course Nov 15 and begin his overhaul. "The current Course is old, broken, dilapidated, and of no further use or effect," Trump wrote. Officials didn't immediately respond to Qs about cost and other parts of project. More with Rick Maese →

Speaking of term limits for the Legislature, we need limits of service for the Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas has been on the court since I was in high school, and now I’m nearing retirement age.

Jesus. This is embarrassing. Can we get some 40 year olds, please? If someone in this condition was hired to be principal of a school, the community would be in revolt. Instead, their occupation as senators and presidents is business as usual.

C’mon, do we need to have the whole “Starship Troopers was satire” conversation with this dummy. With the amount of time he’s online, you’d think he’d have run across that by now and not have so conspicuously copied Paul Verhoeven’s homework.

This is, as always, a tragic illustration of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.

Whoever inherits this is in January 2029 is going to be standing in a smoking crater of failure and corruption that will make the end of the Bush administration look like a vacation.

Are we collectively so numb to this criminal behavior that it simply goes unchecked? Are we so used to his, “nuh-uh” defense that an argument is pointless?

Poorly thought out war. Economy’s on fire. One senator has been absent for 45 days (because he’s likely dead). Another was just replaced by his sister, who has no political experience. But, sure, let’s drag Dr. Fauci.

If you just dropped one of my siblings into my job, the learning curve would be so severe that things would be done incorrectly and inefficiently for months. The same goes for me in one of theirs. The senate just needs a warm body?

The American economic system is completely antithetical to the real needs of average citizens. The middle class is a lie that was told to people to keep them from wholeheartedly embracing communism, and it has been slowly eroded since communism’s fall.

I don’t feel like is celebrating anything. The storms rolling through northern Illinois now are an apt metaphor for how I feel about today.

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We have to have the will to leverage the power of the government and the taxes we pay to help everyone, not build 80-100 million dollar fighter jets in the age of asymmetric warfare.

We don’t need to convince or coddle or win over hatred, and we don’t need to outdo it either. We need to outnumber it. We need to outlast it. We need to outlove it. We need to outvote it.

John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

I think it’s time to stop saying that we need to understand these people. We do understand them: We understand that they have dug in their heels so deeply, they will not be moved by anything: not facts or data or truth or their own eyes... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-cant-ch...

Not in my wildest dreams would I have believed this tabloid bozo would come to dominate the global narrative for more than a decade. I’m so sick of him.

Reading about the Obama Center opening, seeing photos, videos, hearing speeches, reading commentaries confirmed a STARK contrast between two presidents. DJT's is consumed with hate, anger, delusions of grandeur and getting retribution. He is evil. He's NOT presidential. He needs to be removed.