Ducati4

Ducati4

@ducati4.bsky.social

Mechanical Engineer, Motorcyclist, Flyfisher, Home brewer, boat builder dyed in the wool liberal Dog owner.

733 followers161 following187 posts

Ducati4 reposted

The city of Mesa, Arizona is suing major fire truck manufacturers for allegedly colluding to drive up costs and delay deliveries. A key player in the dangerous consolidation of this market has been private equity. Watch.

Ducati4 reposted

Thank you to the outdoor industry for your quick response and standing up again for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Once again, companies across the outdoor community joined together to defend the places that inspire millions of people to hike, camp, climb, hunt, fish, and explore.

Ducati4 reposted

“The American military is tremendous. It is the greatest in the world.” I applaud the members of our military and we have very expensive technology. But organizations are only as good as their leaders, and we have some dumb people running our military. It shows. Repost if you agree #BlueCrew

I am going to quit listening to the news and read it instead because I can't tolerate the monotone drone of the criminal in the WH. If someone could create an universal, automatic mute for every device, I for one, would greatly appreciate it.

In the sixties and early seventies the Republican party still believed in science but in eighties and beyond they have become the science denying party. Where was the inflection point? Was it a slow slide to science denial or was there defining event? Please help me understand?

Here's a (short) list of people who should be in prison after this nightmare is over. 1. Donald J Trump 2. DJ Vance (or what ever pseudonym he's going by) 3. Stephen Miller (the very definition of evil) 4. Pam Bondi (after she is disbarred by the Florida bar) 5. tie: Kristi Noem Russel Vought

This is a very short list. Obviously others should be here. Steve Bannon and Pete Hegseth (except for Kennedy Jr.) the most unqualified Cabinet Member ever.

Almost every action that Trump has made over this term and last has benefited Russia/Putin. The bizarre push to acquire Greenland which would shatter NATO (which has lead to 80 years of peace in Europe) only improves Putin's position. Trump is a Russian asset who should be impeached for treason.

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable...if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering" - (Doctor Who: The Face of Evil, 1977)

The trump regime has announced they intend to close the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Golden CO. The scientists at this Center and at their Super Computer at Cheyenne WY are the preeminent scientists the study of climate and weather. But science doesn't matter to MAGA.

I'm celebrating TACO Tuesday by having three street tacos from my local taco shop. I hope to have tacos every Tuesday until the TACO demon is out of office.

I just heard Trump say that Canada is paying tremendous tariffs to America. He obviously is willfully ignorant of simple macro-economic principles. Canada doesn't pay tariffs on Canadian goods sold in America, WE do.

Ducati4 reposted

For anyone confused, FEMA is overseen by DHS, and their function is 90% planning and preparedness, not just showing up to hand you a check. Natural disasters happen. When leaders don’t plan, fund, or take preparedness seriously, the consequences are far worse. That’s the point.

So a (delusional) man who has gone bankrupt 6 times and who has taken a good economy into the shitter thinks he can make better economic decisions than an experienced and skilled economist. I think not.

Do we need any more evidence that Trump is a Russian agent after he directed no more military intelligence for Ukraine and a pause in military assistance?

I generally watch CBS Mornings because I like the people BUT now that Gayle King is going on Jeff Bezos funded space flight I may have to find a new source of morning news and entertainment.

W. Edward Demings, the quality guru, who happened to be from Wyoming, who helped Toyota be the quality benchmark of industry, said that when you make changes to a system without knowing the results of those changes, that is not management, it is meddling.

To the World: We're sorry. We could have had a smart and qualified woman, instead, because just enough people in gerrymandered districts believed his lies, we got a deranged megalomaniac Putin puppet. We'll do better next time. Just give us a chance. Promise.

Looks like I've joined many others on canceling my on-line Washington Post subscription. I can get good news and opinions coverage from other less compromised sources. The news reporters @WP are excellent but Bazos' capitulation to Trump is too far.

If you need further evidence that Trump is a Russian stooge here it is. He claimed that Ukraine started the war with Russia when we all saw the Russian missiles, drones and artillery attack Kyiv. Trump sided with Russia on a UN resolution calling for stopping the hostilities.

The unwarranted firing of Federal employees will cause generational damage to our society. Most of these employees are hardworking, doing their jobs because they believe in the mission of their agency. They aren't in it to get rich but they enjoyed the stability that a Federal job should provide.

If DOGE were actually concerned about "waste, fraud and abuse" they would have kept the Agency Inspectors General who actually know how to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse and worked with them. Instead the IG's were fired without cause.

What is happening to Federal Employees should be considered domestic terrorism because DOGE is using intimidation against civilians for political gains. The chaos generated in agencies through the thoughtless elimination of positions has caused more stress among the workers who have been spared.

Congress was up in arms that TikTok might harvest personal information from TikTok videos but when an un-vetted foreign national plugs into what should be our most secure gov't systems revealing ALL of our personal information... crickets. They need to stop this rogue attack on freedom NOW!