Andrew Scalise

Andrew Scalise

@ringmaster04.bsky.social

CPA, campaign and NFP treasurer, Philly fan (born and raised), soccer (GK)

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A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

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stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

I know campaigns hate being criticized for not engaging with local party leaders, but at a bare minimum, ask precinct leaders what entrance voters use so your signs aren’t 500 feet away from your voters on Election Day.

I assume I’m not alone in hoping that the conclave picks him. Then he’s automatically whisked out of the White House and into the Vatican by the Holy Spirit and we get to live free again. Honestly, if there is a God, it enabled this mess and now it has a chance to fix it.

I am going to give credit where it is due with an admittedly super low bar…WH Press Secretary was asked a very leading question that advocated for the pardon of Derek Chauvin. The WH response was about as emphatic a ‘no’ as I’ve ever heard from them. Even broken clocks….

This could be said about a lot of things he’s done, but this one is pretty straightforward…you don’t revoke another president’s pardons if you have any concern whatsoever that you might not be president some day, like in four years or so.

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"If DOGE's goal is layoffs, wldn't shutdown help them achieve their goal" is bad analysis. Government shrinkage isn't fascism's goal; usurpation of democracy is. Layoffs are a means, not an end. Same w/ shutdown: It's not the goal of democracy, obv. But it can be a means of fighting for democracy.

Trump: “They have so much water they don’t know what to do with it all.” Me: “Yes, that’s called a flood. And if you did it deliberately it’s a crime and also a waste of a reservoir (key word “reserve”) that will now not be there when it is needed during the summer drought.”

I got bullied a good bit as a kid and I rarely fought back…but if anyone tried to bully me anywhere near as much as these republicans bully these democrats, they’d have gotten their ass kicked. I appreciate the realities democrats face, but people vote for fighters and this is getting embarrassing.

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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

So Trump unlawfully disappears a legal resident, there’s no real public record of any actual offenses and not even a suitable explanation from the executive branch and all Dems do is a polite letter and some tweets?! I was at a Dem fundraiser this weekend, at it is now my last. Not a penny more.

Rubio thought he was getting some great promotion. In reality, Trump made a deal with senate leaders to get him out of the senate and screwed with him further by promising him some dream job while actually just embarrassing him incessantly…all because he joked about his tiny hands a decade ago.

Democrats are going to have to break their own rules to have any success forestalling the inevitable collapse of our democracy. Stop “respecting the office” and following decorum. Nazi republicans haven’t for decades and yet voters gave them full control of the country.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Start the 2028 Democratic primary right now. It will get attention. It will allow the candidates to outwardly oppose this regime and concentrate the opposition in the voices of a few nationally recognized leaders. Most importantly, it will make it harder for nazi republicans to cancel elections

If you want to know how far the nazi republican party has fallen, they’ve proposed a new paper money bill with Trump’s face on it and NOT the face of their former god Ronald Reagan. Keep in mind, Trump also wants to eliminate the coin that bears the face of their party’s greatest founder.

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Democrats need to demand Trump's impeachment before they vote for any budget. Either Trump is an existential threat or he is not. Either the Republicans can pass a budget on their own, or they cannot. If Republicans want to govern without consensus, let them try.

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

“When are Republicans in Congress going to stand up to him?!?!?!” Me: “I’ve literally been trying to tell you for over a decade that they’re all Nazis and this is literally what they’ve all wanted for a century.”

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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

Go to your local store and take pictures of the prices of a handful of items you think are essential. Make sure you get something in the picture to show the date. Go back each week or month and take the same picture. Once you have the pattern, distribute to every Trump voter you think is “rational”.

What’s the modern equivalent of appointing a horse to the senate and sending the army to the beach to collect seashells?…and now chuckle as you realize both of those are preferable to what’s going on right now.

Any blue state governor should just order that all employers registered in their state are prohibited from remitting federal income taxes. And if they fail to comply, seize their physical assets. The feds want to ignore the constitution, so will the states.

A lot of parents struggle with uncomfortable topics and so they react by trying to shield their kids from things that clearly exist, because they don’t know how to address them…the so called president is just trying to do the same thing to the whole country. It doesn’t work, what’s real is real.

You know how our phones just go off for emergency alerts, amber alerts, etc. I think we need Orange Alerts. Any time Trump breaks the law or lies, all phones in America go off with an Orange Alert. I know that will basically brick every cell phone in the country, but at least it’ll be effective.

Is this imperialism just Trump’s idea of “negotiation”? And will Dems cave? Like, yeah so we agreed on a bipartisan bill to reduce the corporate tax rate to zero and the billionaire tax rate to negative 5, but hey, they agreed not to invade Greenland and Panama! (Not in the bill, but they promised!)

Should Saquon Barkley play to break the record. The pundits are all saying “no, be smart, stay healthy for the playoffs” but they’re all admitting that deep down they want it. I have to imagine the same dynamic is going through the locker room. Don’t risk the regret, just go get it.

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Watched all of Squid Game 2 because I wanted to watch desperate people play a dumb game they can’t possibly win, and now I realize I should’ve watched the Bears instead.

Vice President Trump: “If you don’t vote how I want you to, I will tweet in favor of your primary opponent.” President Musk: “Ignore him. I’ll delist his tweets. Vote how I say or I will give your primary opponent a billion dollars.”

Biden: “Kamala, I’m dropping out and want you to run for president in my place. You’ll probably lose, but you might have a chance.” Harris: “Ok fine I’ll do it. But if I lose, can I play with the secret drones and scare all the republicans?” Biden: “OMG yes! That would be hilarious.”

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a graphic that encapsulates the MAGA movement more precisely. When will MAGA voters realize that MAGA politicians and their billionaire backers don’t give a shit about them, all they do is fleece you fools and build walls to keep you out of their country clubs.