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You go, Brazil! #LulaPresidente2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp0a...

I have no words to say about Ethan Klein and the fact that he lied and backstabbed his own wife Hila like that. It's just, like, he's worse than Daniel Greene. And that's saying something.

Okay, since we're in the middle of a shitshow of a Presidency, I'm going to say something that I think I've believe this whole time but people will think I'm too racist for saying it. I do not care for race swapping at all. It's just studios using virtue signaling to disguise them not...

... understanding characters at all. And those who defend it, especially those who aren't people of color and never lived through their experiences, like how I am, we should really look at ourselves in a mirror and try understand what real representation looks like.

Also, it's worse when a character who is a person of color is retrofitted into becoming a white character, a trend nicknamed, "whitewashing". Because it erases any contribution that many marginalized communities have in media and history.

Has anyone spotted deer walking through your neighborhood late at night? Because I just did.

A lot of comments on this post are seriously lacking in nuance when it comes to Ethanol, and calling it a "wasteful fuel" and "blatantly unclean". When in actuality, Ethanol (Or "E85" or something.) is actually probably the cleanest fuel out there, especially when compared to gasoline, coal, and...

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

The Metro East is poised to become the ‘Silicorn Valley’ with a $15 million ethanol research boost. The National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIUE will help turn our crops into new products all while creating more opportunities in the region.

... and it's mostly from food waste. I think we should use our compost as the primary source for Ethanol to fuel our cars, just so leftovers don't go to waste for no reason. This should require massive regulations, especially for such a fuel. Now, do I think Pritzker should go blindly handshaking...

... these people? No. But we shouldn't just dismiss Ethanol as another dirty fuel, when, if sourced properly, and well regulated, really isn't.

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov

... even electric. Because they're all sourced unethically in different ways, like how oil comes from a fossil of a dinosaur's corpse, coal is a rock extracted from the Earth's core, and electric actually does rely on the latter to actually function. However, Ethanol can be sourced ethically...

HOT TAKE: Fat Head is significantly more problematic than Supersize Me. Because Supersize Me is mostly just an understanding but misguided half-documentary trying to raise awareness about the evils of fast food, while Fat Head is just blatant pro-corporate propaganda that spreads conspiracy...

... theories about pasteurization and seed oils that aren't true, and it's also pretty racist as it in a deleted scene defended school segregation.

@bsky.app, my name is NOT an invalid handle. It's my real name, it's part of my Italian heritage, and I'm proud of it. You can never ever take that away from anyone, and I won't let you do it now.

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What's a bad/mediocre TV show that weirdly has a good theme song that doesn't have any right to go this hard, but it does anyway? I'll start with Puppy in my Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville. (Man that title is a mouthful.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzb...

Please double check the meaning of my post before you comment on it. He donated to the Haganeh, a militant group that preceded the IDF, which committed displacement against the Native Arab Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/...

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Last I recall, Frank Sinatra spoke out extensively against the Holocaust, which he explicitly referred to as a critical global issue that needed to be taught to future generations, even donating $100,000 (and later more) to help fund the Academy Award-winning documentary Genocide.

I'm not here to start personal drama. I think people should be educated on how their favorite artists might not have been the perfect angels. Frank Sinatra sounds like one of the biggest hypocrites out there if I'm being honest. Genocide is wrong no matter who's affected.

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Robert Reich

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I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

This actually does bring up an interesting topic I've wanted to talk about. And that is, since the 6th Party System is now coming to an end, with 2028 likely to be the first election under this new party system (Democratic Socialists vs. Paleoconservatives), I want to look back on every...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

A lot of people don’t want to hear it but Joe Biden’s entire legacy will likely be as the guy who let the worst president in American history come to power again and who funded and armed a genocide abroad. History will not remember him well.

... for better and/or for worse. And any MAGA supporter still believing that Trump's reputation will recover, I honestly have to say, you're completely deluisional, just as people thinking that Biden's somehow been vindicated, or God forbid, Bush too. (Okay, maybe I can't escape my own biases...

... but look at Trump's approval rating, and how well AOC's now doing on betting markets and some polls and tell me otherwise.)

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... into one ultimate fail of a Presidency. Reagan's outdated economic philosophy, Clinton's personal scandals, Bush's foreign and immigration policy, Obama's increase of drone warfare, and Biden's poor health and inaction when the people yearn for it. The only semi-new thing I'll add is, his...

... Presidency will end on such a bad note, it is the moment where we finally reach the final nail in the coffin for the 6th Party System, just as Carter's failures were for the 5th Party System. And we'll elect a President (Possibly AOC or someone) who could go down as a transformative POTUS...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... other thing he passed and failed to pass, I will hold it against him. And his failures are what led to the people wanting to give Donald Trump a second chance with a second term.

Donald Trump (R) (2017 - 2021; 2025 - 2029): I've said a lot about Trump, and so I won't go into as much detail about him. But, no way is he ever getting vindicated in the long run. He takes the bad stuff about Reagan, Clinton, Bush, and Biden (Maybe some of Obama too), and meshes them together...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... the coup on January 6th. All of those things paved the way for Trump to make a comeback in 2024. Now, before you say that Merrick Garland was more to blame for one of them, same with Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, he appointed them, and people are accountable for whom they've hired in the...

... first place. Now, I won't hold the withdrawal from Afghanistan against him, as it was a policy he inherited from Trump, similar to how Kennedy was with Bay of Pigs being inherited from Eisenhower. Same with Ukraine, since Russia was and still is the aggressor in that conflict. But every...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Joe Biden (D) (2021 - 2025): Now, I will state that he did pass infrastructure and inflation reduction, and was probably more pro-working class than other Modern Presidents. But, that doesn't change that most of his Presidency was either forgettable at best, and disasterous at worst. He didn't...

... bother reversing Trump's foreign policy on Iran or Cuba, even though those were literally Obama's greatest foreign policy achievements that Trump ruined, he did nothing to stop Israel from killing civilians in the Gaza Strip until it was too late, and didn't do enough to prosecute Trump for...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... lot was reversed by Trump, but some like his healthcare plan, support for same sex marriage, and also part of his Dodd-Frank Bill (Weird I didn't mention that above) are still around today. And if there's a litmus test for most Progressive President of the 6th Party System, I think he barely...

... passes. I think he's the one modern President I think we can look back on and say, "You know, maybe he wasn't the worst." Because there's a lot to like about his Presidency, but also a lot to dislike.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... stimulus to combat the recession, raised the minimum wage (The last to do so), passed the ACA which expanded healthcare to many Americans, and was the first to support same sex marriage and repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell in the process. He was also comparatively better on immigration, with his...

... issuing of DACA, which, if it weren't for Trump, might've been able to protect children from deportation. Also, he joined the Paris Climate Accords to combat against climate change, struck a deal with Iran to slow its nuclear program, and was tried to re-open relations with Cuba. Now, yes, a...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Barack Obama (D) (2009-2017): This take may get a lot of praise or flack depending on who I ask. But, I'll try to be objective and say how I think Obama will be remembered. And that is, I think he'll be seen as better than who came before and after him in the 6th Party System, but still deeply...

... flawed. So, in terms of the bad, he increased drone warfare, which killed several civilians, caused chaos in Libya, due to the overthrow of Gaddafi, he was unable to stop ISIS and Russia from expanding, and didn't do enough to pinch the income gap. But, he also did a lot of good, he passed a...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... and everywhere in between in uniform, and civilians in both countries alike, wanted to go all Nazi on same sex marriage by amending the Constitution to ban it nationally and overrule state law upholding it, and though he didn't cause the Great Recession, he handled it terribly, and made the...

... Reagan Coalition completely fall apart. Overall, bad President even back then, and Trump's Second Presidency has made it even worse, as he was the man who enabled Trump in the first place due to his own stupidity.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... centralized department to deal with our homeland security, especially after one of the deadliest attacks on US soil since Pearl Harbor, the creation of ICE as part of that package was not only uneeded, but it enabled Trump to carry out unconstitutional raids on minorities, some being US...

... citizens. He also gave us No Child Left Behind, which was a mess that harmed our educational system. Also, he literally created the ecosystem for Flock to exist by passing the PATRIOT Act. And worst of all, he got us into Afghanistan and later Iraq, which caused the deaths of our men, women...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... his many affairs, and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein showing that Democrats had a Trump before Trump. Overall, I'd say he was a middle of the road President, but is also a terrible person, just like Woodrow Wilson.

George W. Bush (R) (2001 - 2009): Before anyone asks, NOPE! Even me being related to him doesn't save his Presidency. He may have been a decent human being, but his Presidency was a huge disaster. His actions literally were a precursor to Trump's Administrations. While I get the need for a...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

Bill Clinton (D) (1993 - 2001): I'm going to say he's comparable to Woodrow Wilson. He had solid achievements, such as Paid Family & Medical Leave, rehiring the fired PATCO workers, raising the minimum wage, taxing the wealthy higher than any modern President even attempted to, and almost gave...

... us Canadian style healthcare where Medicare covers everyone. But, he also passed crime bills that hurt marginalized communities, made it easier for media monopolies to form, and repealed Glass-Steagall, and NAFTA has had mixed results to say the least. Also, he's a bad person in general, with...

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

George H. W. Bush (R) (1989 - 1993): This may sound a bit weird, but I think he might have a good case for vindication in the long run. He handled the Gulf War pretty well by avoiding an outright invasion, he also passed Americans With Disabilities, and his tax hikes, which did cost him, did...

... benefit the economy in the long run. It's weird for me to praise Reagan's Number 2 after bashing him, but, I think he was the better of the two, and was less damaging to the country in the long run.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... and he actually was quite bad with race relations, his defense of Apartheid in South Africa being the most noteworthy. Plus, in spite of him once being a union leader and a loyal New Deal Democrat, he betrayed them both as President. Now, his opinions on trade are starting to give him some...

... vindication, especially his negative ones on tariffs on allies, which is what Trump's been doing, but IDK if that's enough to save his legacy in the long run. I see him as a late-20th Century Andrew Jackson. Influential for his time, but his policies didn't age well in the long run.

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

... President in this system, and see if each one will see their Presidency re-evaluated, in either good or bad ways. Or if their place in history has already been set in stone and will not change in any meaningful or positive way. Some may surprise you.

Ronald Reagan (R) (1981 - 1989): There actually has been serious talk on re-evaluating his Presidency, especially from us on the Left. And it's mostly not in the positive. His tax cuts have led to a widening income gap, his spending cuts led to healthcare and higher education costs soaring...

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I didn't have Dan Povenmire (Co-Creator of Phineas and Ferb) coming to my maternal grandfather's home county (Mecosta CO) on my bingo card. But, here we are now. www.tiktok.com/@danpovenmir...