VaDowager

VaDowager

@vadowager.bsky.social

Reader, free-thinker, anti-authoritarian. Retired, but not a boring old person.

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I know that I have friends and relatives who voted for the bribe-taking, pussy-grabbing, meme-coin-grifting person who lives in the White House All I can say is, “Are we great again yet?”

Of the many great signs in RIchmond, Virginia yesterday, this one was the best: This message is a perfect match for the man who designed our Capitol building--and also was a major writer of the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson. He would surely "endorse this message."

Did James Carville want us to engage his ideas or notice the very operatic hotel room or the very rumpled bed? A friend wise in the ways of DC said, “I think a bed in the background of any news or commentary is unprofessional unless the bed is the situs of your professional activities.”

RFKjr may accomplish something rare: he may resurrect a word. For most people, 'diphtheria' is just a word in a spelling bee, but the Sec of HHS--irony really is dead!--is working to bring it back into everyday conversation. 😡

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Absolutely stunning. This is MAGA: a celebration of violence.

Harry Dunn@libradunn1.bsky.social

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

After all the excitement yesterday, I am sitting here want to see the announcement of the new President's first pardon of a Black man who is in prison for assaulting a policeman. It will be hard to stp away for lunch....

It's too bad that the newly-inaugurated President doesn't have a Rose Castorini in his life, someone to say, "Cosmo—I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else."

I hope that some enterprising investigative reporter will cultivate the right person to find out how much Melania was paid to appear today. She is known for charging appearance fees, so why should she spend a whole day doing boring stuff for free?

The pious reluctance of House Republicans to release their committee report on Matt Gaetz, when he might be headed to a Cabinet position, certainly curdled quickly. Somebody should have told him the Russian proverb: 
“Don’t spit in the well—you might need to drink from it someday.”

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