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45 | southerner | unapologetically black | er doctor | sometimes silly | occasionally profound | new orleans | biloxi | lowbudgetbonvivant | forever skeptical of the racists who filled the public pools🎈

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The leader of the most powerful nation in the world did not realize that its corporations, chief contributors to that status, have easily targetable, undefendable, soft targets throughout the Middle East? Hope we learned something.

One of the most important things we can do as liberals is not turn into them when we regain power. We won’t terrorize red districts and conservative communities for sport or attempt to “own” the maggots. Because we always have been and always will be better than them.

We cannot be successful in our representative democracy when we have powerful men like James Comer, R-Kentucky, going on far-right propaganda networks and yelling about “white liberals” in reference to a white man being murdered by masked federal agents on one of our streets.

Imagine if Barack Hussein Obama went on the world stage and behaved like Donald Trump did in Davos this week. Is our lack of shame limitless? Will we ever conquer the racism that underpins the ability of people like him to achieve power? Will we ever stop confusing power with leadership?

Yikes. To what fucking end are all these entities in the pocket of fucking “industry” for?! What the actual fuck are we doing here in this country? Why are so many of us so fucking stupid as to reduce ourselves to a point where these fucking people are in power… in a representative democracy?!

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Oh my god, he’s going to start a fucking war. His psyche is so fucked up. He actually wants to start a war. He thinks he needs it. Like a fucking tyrant. Oh my god. 😳🤦🏾‍♂️☹️😔

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Thinking about the IED that blew up me and my buddies Thinking about the ones who didn't make it home Watching a draft dodger and a talk-show host lecture generals about duty

“Where has all the leadership gone?” - Michael Eisner Seriously. The people in power who are allowing our moronic president to run roughshod over norms and even laws and doing nothing about it are an embarrassment. Be a leader, or get the hell out of there and let someone who can.

Creating liquidity by taking out loans backed by the value of the shares you own in a company to then buy shares of that company with that cash, which in turn causes the market to inflate the value of all of your shares of that company, is some late-stage capitalism shenanigans.

Where are the representatives with a modicum of financial literacy, and why are they not legislating an end to such madness? They need to get their heads in the fucking game. JFC. 🤯 #taxthefuckoutofstockbuybacks

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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

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Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

This normalization of abhorrent behavior shows up repeatedly throughout American history.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.

Why do demographers and journalists divide working-class Black people and working class white people when they ostensibly perform similar working-class labor for similar wages? Seems inherently racist that these two groups of people should exist on vastly different planes, political or otherwise.

I need someone to explain to me why the political right, the party of reagan, wants to “own the libs”, hates ethnic minorities and queer people, or both so badly that they co-sign their leader prostrating himself and our military before the russian dictator like this. Disgusting.

Energy companies are raising electricity prices for regular consumers to fund expansion projects to meet the demands of data centers controlled by billionaire oligarchs so they can create technologies that put those consumers out of work… but somehow black, brown, and trans people are the problem? 🤡

Why does this man look like a racist caricature from many years past?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

SCOTT TURNER: In 2018, Powell brought down interest rates during the Biden administration BARTIROMO: Right 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴