admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
How do those who will vote against this justify their privilege of serving the people? Throw them all out.
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How do those who will vote against this justify their privilege of serving the people? Throw them all out.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
This suppression of unaligned (non-mainstream) media is how they control the narrative - a little surprised this came from the UN, but the powerful’S reach is long. Hope you are able to fight back.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
More people to impeach
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Hi there, Nurse Coffy
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Silly and distracting video effects, but right on message.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Sweet!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
The Florida Department of Avoiding Preventable Deaths - are all Floridians idiots? Is it the hot sun?
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Be a big fat prick and get rich by scamming everyone
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is so pathetically transparent; what an absurd ploy - I will drown out the voices with my big scary jets - fucking infant!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
No conspiracy needed, Donny. You're taking care of decimating America all by yourself.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
I did not read your original callout of original post - terribly sorry if I offended thee
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
No - but if you look a couple of replies you said that fnc only started in the 90s - I took that to mean that you were saying this descent began with fnc. If that’s not what you meant, I don’t know what you did mean.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, that’s pretty offensive and unjustified - u are the one suggesting this descent began w fnc
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes I do, but I am of the opinion that it started back with Reagan, at least.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
There are a lot of stupid Republicans, but there are also a lot of stupid Democrats.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
You are there, my optimistic fellow.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Who needs government at all? Build your own roads. Be your own fire department. Fight your own pandemics.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Ronald Reagan.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance is an opportunist. If the military is already in the streets, he will amplify it and use Trump's death as an excuse to impose martial law. Yes, someday he will be gone, but it could be years and years.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Learned much from the Nazis.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't know what you're buzzing on, but it must be good.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Poor little Donny; he's tried so hard to join the big boys in the Authoritarian Fascist Asshole Club, but they just keep laughing at him.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
I am resigning for health reasons, JD Vance has been assassinated, and I am a pedophile.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
God, he's just terrified that he just might finally, at long last, be held accountable for one of his many atrocious crimes... Surprised he hasn't yet imposed martial law.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention the removal of Trump from office and the dissolution of his government, thus requiring a new election.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social)
Welcome to Gilead!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
With any luck, he’ll die first.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Fascist love-in!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Why waste your time watching a derelict charlatan utter bullshit and answer softball questions from the unfailingly servile 'press'?
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
So Xi sides with Russian domination of all of Eastern Europe, not just Ukraine. Go fuck yourself, not happening again.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad, a week without Donald will come to an end...It was a little ray of sunshine not having to see him blather and further underline his idiocy.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to be someone who would never wish pain on anyone, until this fuckwad came along.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Believe them. Their lived experiences at the hands of monsters need to be made public so that everyone can see these predators for who they are.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
It's kind of obvious by now, no?
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Donald Trump knows what side his bread is buttered on.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
And I was elected pope.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
He, Netanyahu, and Trump are three of a kind.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Evil idiot.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Doh.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Small wonder most are fixated on screens that let them escape reality.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Why don't you just pay your bill?
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
No, Bernie had more sense.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Lose the guns and let the children play. What a fucked up country.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Stupid's offspring are dumb and dumber.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Will purchase hot dog stock immediately.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
How does he afford health insurance?
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
He is not a smart man.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
He was soliciting a prospective client.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Fingers and toes crossed - and that's not easy.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what happens when your environmental policies are full of shit.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
nor did we issue thoughts and prayers.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
It certainly wasn't a sewing lesson.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
grocery store has had boxes and boxes of halloween candy since mid-August!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not normal, so enjoy it while it lasts.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
#ResistTrump #Corruption #Democracy #Illegals #ChristianNationalism 21/21
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
...but one where all of your neighbours look and think just as you do, where might is right, and where the other can be exploited but never accepted. They say there’s a sucker born every minute. I think that underestimates their birth rate. 20/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
For a brief but hopeful 249 years, America was bigger than that. Donald Trump and his supporters want a much smaller America, not one built on the lofty ideals of liberty and justice for all... 19/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Whatever this is, it feels existentially threatened by everything that is different, and reacts with the frantic brutality of something that believes it is fighting for its life. There is no reasoning, just one reason – survival and eliminating the enemy (which is everyone else). 18/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
You cannot reason with people who have unshakable faith in something completely irrational. It’s like love, but upside down. Love is an additive factor in life, creating bonds that produce care, compassion and self-sacrifice. 17/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet a lot of perfectly intelligent people believe(d) – or at least did not speak out against – these things because they have unfathomable faith in Trump. Small wonder, those who oppose the Trump regime are continually frustrated when debating his supporters. 16/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Facts don’t matter. Belief does. Immigrants are not eating anyone’s pets. No one is aborted after birth. Drug prices are not coming down by 1500%. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a member of MS 13. 15/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Rampant urban crime is among these and thus the view that bringing the National Guard and Marines in to do police work is justified even though crime rates have been falling for decades. 14/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
For Trump supporters, their experience of the world outside their bubble is what they know from television and film, which plays upon their fears and passions, building broadly held perceptions and expectations that can be manipulated for political (and commercial) gain. 13/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
...– all of it, they believe, is what made America successful – fully ignoring significant historical truths, not the least of which is the enduring legacy of slavery that so many wish would disappear. 12/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not stupidity. It’s shared identity. The vast majority of this stubborn knot of supporters have in common race, religion, education, culture, and a strong identification with the mythical American Dream of the 1950’s... 11/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
While a good many people see Donald Trump for what he is – a vindictive, completely amoral narcissist grifting the world for his own benefit – this 38% or so are certain that he is a force for good, some even believe he was sent by god to right all wrongs. 10/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
When Donald Trump said during his 2016 presidential campaign “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”, he was acknowledging that he knows exactly the power of the hold he has over his followers. 9/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not open, bald-faced, clearly illegal self-enrichment that would put to shame the most corrupt regimes on the planet. Not even the obvious cover up of acts so abhorrent, so unforgivable, your soul must be a void if you allow them to pass. 8/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not bringing the military to police cities that have no need of them, with the soldiery ending up being assigned to pick up littler in public spaces. Certainly not the destruction of their beloved democratic republic through a variety of abuses that effectively disenfranchise millions of people. 7/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Not suspending the rights of, terrorizing, incarcerating and expelling a large underclass of people who have no political power but sustain large sectors of the economy through their underpaid labour. 6/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
This describes about 38% of the American adult population, for whom Donald Trump seems to be able to do no wrong. None. 5/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
It comes naturally to them, with an ability to say and do what would seem crazy, even repugnant, coming from someone else, and yet, you somehow accept and even admire them for it because that particular person said it or did it. You trust them, implicitly. You are effectively a cult member. 4/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
A good con understands their mark intuitively, knows instinctively just how to build the rapport so necessary to be successful at their game. For the greats, it seems unscripted, unrehearsed, even unconscious. 3/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
In truth though, I have been swayed by the smooth ways of charlatans a few times in my life. Others would try to warn me, or at least telegraphed strong aversions to these people, and yet, somehow, I fell for it. 2/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social)
Week 32 (of 208) 🧵 Standing on the Roof of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Shooting America in the Head A lot of people who know Donald Trump seem to like him. I would not, I like to think. 1/
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty sure he gives Trump shit.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Bone spurs
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
From one of the world's foremost experts on being a racist nazi fuck.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
a few baby steps maybe
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trust the former heroin addict who has no medical background, some missing brain tissue, and a trunkful of conspiracy theories and animal carcasses.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
What did that cost? What an utter waste of time and money – no one's scared anymore.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
You are fucken’ idiots, not fucking idiots.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Buy that moron a new brain.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
We’ll never know.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't imagine a worse education on how to president.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yours is a distant cousin of democracy.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, but I just keep hoping he dies – like right now. Can't happen soon enough.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
If you don't get rid of cancer, it gets rid of you.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
oh, bosh!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump has killed my libido.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he dies in the way that he has earned.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
It keeps you from wanting to indulge in self-pleasure in the evenings.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, the mental health of Republicans.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Clash my ass! Congress has made itself redundant.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Soft secession now!
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Preview of why he will invade Canada – all that fentanyl flowing across into the beautiful and free land of America.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Cognitive impairment is a prerequisite for a position in Donny's regime because he has to be the smartest guy in the room.
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
well, be more careful who you make queen for a day.
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In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is just sticking it in your faces and saying eat shit!