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@admansky.bsky.social

Pragmatist. Idealist. Contradiction. Paradox. Human. Lifelong lefty.

created January 20, 2025

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Profile picture 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.

4/9/2025, 4:09:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

4/9/2025, 4:05:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

More people to impeach

3/9/2025, 11:54:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Hi there, Nurse Coffy

3/9/2025, 11:53:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Silly and distracting video effects, but right on message.

3/9/2025, 5:18:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Sweet!

3/9/2025, 5:15:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

The Florida Department of Avoiding Preventable Deaths - are all Floridians idiots? Is it the hot sun?

3/9/2025, 5:10:59 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Be a big fat prick and get rich by scamming everyone

3/9/2025, 4:08:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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!

3/9/2025, 4:05:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

No conspiracy needed, Donny. You're taking care of decimating America all by yourself.

3/9/2025, 1:57:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

I did not read your original callout of original post - terribly sorry if I offended thee

2/9/2025, 9:04:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 8:43:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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

2/9/2025, 8:16:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 7:54:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

There are a lot of stupid Republicans, but there are also a lot of stupid Democrats.

2/9/2025, 7:25:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

You are there, my optimistic fellow.

2/9/2025, 7:23:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 6:44:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Ronald Reagan.

2/9/2025, 6:42:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 6:40:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Learned much from the Nazis.

2/9/2025, 6:38:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't know what you're buzzing on, but it must be good.

2/9/2025, 6:37:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 6:32:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

I am resigning for health reasons, JD Vance has been assassinated, and I am a pedophile.

2/9/2025, 6:30:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 6:28:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 6:24:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social)

Welcome to Gilead!

2/9/2025, 6:19:10 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

With any luck, he’ll die first.

2/9/2025, 5:25:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascist love-in!

2/9/2025, 4:38:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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'?

2/9/2025, 4:38:09 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 4:32:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 4:29:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 4:23:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

2/9/2025, 4:21:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

It's kind of obvious by now, no?

2/9/2025, 4:19:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald Trump knows what side his bread is buttered on.

2/9/2025, 4:16:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

And I was elected pope.

2/9/2025, 4:02:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

He, Netanyahu, and Trump are three of a kind.

2/9/2025, 4:01:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil idiot.

2/9/2025, 3:59:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Doh.

2/9/2025, 1:27:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Small wonder most are fixated on screens that let them escape reality.

2/9/2025, 1:26:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Why don't you just pay your bill?

2/9/2025, 1:25:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

No, Bernie had more sense.

2/9/2025, 1:25:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Lose the guns and let the children play. What a fucked up country.

2/9/2025, 1:21:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Stupid's offspring are dumb and dumber.

1/9/2025, 6:49:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Will purchase hot dog stock immediately.

1/9/2025, 5:34:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

How does he afford health insurance?

1/9/2025, 5:25:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

He is not a smart man.

1/9/2025, 5:24:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

He was soliciting a prospective client.

1/9/2025, 5:16:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Fingers and toes crossed - and that's not easy.

1/9/2025, 4:40:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what happens when your environmental policies are full of shit.

1/9/2025, 4:26:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

nor did we issue thoughts and prayers.

1/9/2025, 4:23:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

It certainly wasn't a sewing lesson.

1/9/2025, 4:20:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

grocery store has had boxes and boxes of halloween candy since mid-August!

1/9/2025, 4:17:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Not normal, so enjoy it while it lasts.

1/9/2025, 4:14:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

#ResistTrump #Corruption #Democracy #Illegals #ChristianNationalism 21/21

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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/

31/8/2025, 11:46:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure he gives Trump shit.

30/8/2025, 2:55:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Bone spurs

29/8/2025, 10:55:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

From one of the world's foremost experts on being a racist nazi fuck.

29/8/2025, 9:09:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

a few baby steps maybe

29/8/2025, 9:06:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 9:04:50 PM | 16 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 9:02:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

You are fucken’ idiots, not fucking idiots.

29/8/2025, 6:29:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Buy that moron a new brain.

29/8/2025, 6:18:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ll never know.

29/8/2025, 6:16:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't imagine a worse education on how to president.

29/8/2025, 3:03:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Yours is a distant cousin of democracy.

29/8/2025, 3:00:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok, but I just keep hoping he dies – like right now. Can't happen soon enough.

29/8/2025, 2:58:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

If you don't get rid of cancer, it gets rid of you.

29/8/2025, 2:56:59 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

oh, bosh!

29/8/2025, 2:55:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump has killed my libido.

29/8/2025, 2:54:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope he dies in the way that he has earned.

29/8/2025, 2:50:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

It keeps you from wanting to indulge in self-pleasure in the evenings.

29/8/2025, 2:49:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, the mental health of Republicans.

29/8/2025, 2:48:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Clash my ass! Congress has made itself redundant.

29/8/2025, 2:46:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

Soft secession now!

29/8/2025, 2:43:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 2:35:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 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.

29/8/2025, 1:41:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture admansky.bsky.social (@admansky.bsky.social) reply parent

well, be more careful who you make queen for a day.

29/8/2025, 1:24:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏

28/8/2025, 2:05:49 PM | 2137 1669 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump is just sticking it in your faces and saying eat shit!

29/8/2025, 1:12:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view