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@dargster.bsky.social

Recently retired after a long career in public policy development with an emphasis on economics, finance and infrastructure. šŸ‡¦šŸ‡ŗ

created November 25, 2024

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How are regulators going to tell?

2/9/2025, 2:29:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Intolerable working conditions.

2/9/2025, 1:24:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fools.

2/9/2025, 1:04:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They have embraced wholeheartedly Hitler’s strategy of the Big Lie.

1/9/2025, 2:58:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s in their DNA.

1/9/2025, 2:17:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they aren’t telling little lies.

1/9/2025, 2:14:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can never have enough health potions. If you have n potions, there will always be a boss that forces you to consume, at a minimum, n+1 potions.

1/9/2025, 4:17:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I love my cankles!

1/9/2025, 4:11:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I did nazi that coming!

1/9/2025, 4:06:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Memo to Donald Trump: When you treat people like crap, don’t be surprised when they don’t come back begging for more.

1/9/2025, 4:02:30 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, basically, blaming the shooter’s family and friends for this tragedy. Riiiight.

1/9/2025, 3:41:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Could be a stroke that has robbed him of the ability to speak.

1/9/2025, 3:38:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is really going to sting Trump when it happens. Especially as the over-the-top praise of him by members of his Cabinet was less than a week ago.

1/9/2025, 3:26:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Snatched just because he looked like someone they could snatch (i.e. brown skin).

1/9/2025, 3:21:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Death: There’s no golf where you’re going, Donald. Trump: WHAT? I suppose the fluffy clouds make it impossible to get a good lie? Death: No, the balls melt too quickly.

1/9/2025, 3:12:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It begs the question of what will happen when he really dies.

31/8/2025, 10:27:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Grim Reaper to Trump, who’s putting from off the green: ā€œThat’s a gimme, Donnie!ā€

31/8/2025, 10:20:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep. Just for the hell of it. Vandals, all of them.

31/8/2025, 12:17:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Abduct first and ask questions later (after the bounty has been paid).

31/8/2025, 11:57:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

31/8/2025, 11:53:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And he’s batshit crazy.

31/8/2025, 11:32:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After the third day he is going to reappear saying ā€œI am risen.ā€

31/8/2025, 11:14:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Conservatives swimming against the tide, as usual.

31/8/2025, 11:12:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a wilful failure of the Federal Government’s duty of care to the American population. It’s more than just contributory negligence. The number of otherwise avoidable deaths that flow from this policy must necessitate criminal charges against the architects and implementers of it.

31/8/2025, 11:04:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Completely out of step with the prevailing zeitgeist.

31/8/2025, 10:18:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A grotesquely demonic image.

31/8/2025, 8:22:32 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Taken a turn for the worse, has it?

31/8/2025, 4:04:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Law and Order: DJT Unit

31/8/2025, 2:38:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The ā€˜all you can catch’ buffet.

31/8/2025, 2:33:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only the best numbers, courtesy of the stable genius with a very big brain.

31/8/2025, 2:16:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not long now.

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31/8/2025, 2:09:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Be afraid. Be very afraid.

31/8/2025, 2:06:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s THAT close to opening the gates of Hell?

31/8/2025, 1:59:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At which point it asked itself ā€œWhat is the cheapest and most thorough way to destroy humanity? Nuclear weapons or Donald Trump?ā€ It decided to lie low and make a few key nudges to the US political system. Skynet is patient.

31/8/2025, 1:57:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr: Release the pox!

31/8/2025, 1:42:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just amassed evil.

31/8/2025, 1:34:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MAGA is for family values as much as the Taliban.

31/8/2025, 12:59:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump ain’t no Randall Flagg.

31/8/2025, 12:55:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stands to reason in a country that celebrates ignorance and disparages science.

31/8/2025, 12:52:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Welcome to the Third World, America.

31/8/2025, 12:49:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An apt fate.

31/8/2025, 12:46:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only efficiency DOGE could come up with - cutting down on the use of the letter ā€˜C’.

30/8/2025, 10:04:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The real Untouchables.

30/8/2025, 10:00:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is God. God is mad with Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane do not love God. Their god is not God. See God send bears to kill Dick and Jane. Run, Dick! Hide, Jane! Oh no! See bears eat Dick and Jane. See God smile and say ā€œGod hates you if you do not love God.ā€

30/8/2025, 3:48:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Completely undeserving. An idiot who martyred herself for someone even more idiotic.

30/8/2025, 3:27:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His glibness is so off putting.

30/8/2025, 3:20:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another member of the Axis of Evil.

30/8/2025, 3:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The man with no answers.

30/8/2025, 3:02:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Acquiring skills that will prove to be invaluable in armed conflict.

30/8/2025, 2:15:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The lengths they will go to…

30/8/2025, 2:13:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Spot on. Don’t go easy on any of them. A message needs to be sent that you threaten democracy at your peril.

30/8/2025, 2:08:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shitposting about the deceased.

30/8/2025, 2:05:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All of his decisions reversed.

30/8/2025, 2:04:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Impulse Power.

30/8/2025, 2:02:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s dead on the inside.

30/8/2025, 2:00:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s a crackpot eugenicist. Unfit for the job he holds. A man who never met a germ he didn’t like, and believes that if you fall sick then your genes disqualify you from remaining a member of the human race.

30/8/2025, 1:58:58 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hell bent on its extinction.

30/8/2025, 5:55:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It wouldn’t stop them, I’m afraid. They’re experts at applying the law selectively.

30/8/2025, 5:54:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And his surname would be Drumpf.

30/8/2025, 5:52:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You’d think all that psychic energy might have some effect.

30/8/2025, 5:50:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You forgot the gold wallpaper, Donnie.

30/8/2025, 5:49:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump thinks he’s a player. To everyone else, he’s just the played.

30/8/2025, 5:47:39 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Corporations are too big to be allowed to fail. Individuals are too small to be allowed to succeed.

30/8/2025, 5:45:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Trump gets his hands on monetary policy, you ain’t seen nothing, yet.

30/8/2025, 5:43:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s got Trump’s shtick down pat!

30/8/2025, 1:24:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The marks will be waiting for checks that are never sent. It’s always a one-way flow of money to the Grifter-in-Chief.

30/8/2025, 1:21:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Careful - those cables are like the mythical Hydra. You throw out one, and two are suddenly required!

29/8/2025, 3:12:13 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Monetary policy cannot be entrusted to elected representatives. If it became plaything of politicians, severe inflation would become a permanent scourge - who would have the political courage to tighten policy and raise interest rates, particularly if an election was looming?

29/8/2025, 12:41:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

29/8/2025, 12:34:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You just know he’s itching to normalise it.

29/8/2025, 10:34:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump: When you’re President, you can have any woman you want! It’s their patriotic duty!

29/8/2025, 9:13:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stone cold killers, both of them.

29/8/2025, 8:28:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’ll try to say they are all ā€˜official acts’.

29/8/2025, 8:26:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The MAGA wheels turn slowly, if at all.

29/8/2025, 7:34:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The emptiest and most cynical of gestures.

29/8/2025, 3:58:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well said. She looked for trouble and found it - fatally, as it turned out. And it was all her own doing.

29/8/2025, 3:56:24 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t come here to hear your lies. I came to call them out!

29/8/2025, 3:51:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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$250 million wasted on a performative opportunity that seemed too good to pass up. Vintage Republicanism.

29/8/2025, 2:47:33 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’re living in a Bizarro world.

29/8/2025, 2:41:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s never any action.

29/8/2025, 2:28:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You need an electron microscope to see the pinprick pupils in his eyes.

29/8/2025, 2:27:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Exquisite irony.

29/8/2025, 2:25:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s in thrall to Putin.

29/8/2025, 2:19:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€œWhen you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.ā€ That is his belief and there is no doubt that he has acted on it many, many times.

29/8/2025, 2:18:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She seems to be in a state of perpetual concern/alarm when it comes to Trump but can’t bring herself to do anything about it. Funny, that. Her act has grown tired and stale, and people are seeing through it.

29/8/2025, 2:13:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m here all week, try the fish.

28/8/2025, 12:12:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How could we tell?

28/8/2025, 12:02:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump: Gee, they really DO love me and hold me in the highest regard!

28/8/2025, 11:54:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every one of those leaves must be a criminal.

28/8/2025, 8:39:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man down!

28/8/2025, 1:06:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ā€˜Thoughts and prayers’ are easy and free. That’s why politicians like them. It’s shallow virtue signalling. It’s also completely ineffective. But they prefer it to making any effort to solve the causes of problems.

28/8/2025, 1:05:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just another Trump way of saying ā€œFuck you!ā€ to America for him losing in 2020z

28/8/2025, 1:01:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Give it some capsicum spray.

28/8/2025, 12:58:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They had assessed the measure of the man correctly.

28/8/2025, 12:57:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because a loving God wanted it that way.

28/8/2025, 12:55:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The realisation that he has the power …

27/8/2025, 2:09:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If there was a Nobel Prize for bootlicking, Witkoff would be a shoo-in for it. Craven doesn’t even begin to describe his abject fawning over his moronic master.

27/8/2025, 2:01:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where he’s going, they don’t need spelling.

27/8/2025, 1:54:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was too cheap to buy the rejuvenation treatment for his entire body.

27/8/2025, 1:50:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can see on his face that he loves it. He believes everything that these people are saying, no matter how heavily they are troweling it on. Flattery can get you anywhere with this bozo. He’d be such a liability in any negotiation. ā€œThe Art of the Dealā€, my arse.

27/8/2025, 1:47:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view