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created December 4, 2024

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An oldies but a goodie. "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abe Lincoln

1/9/2025, 3:50:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eugenics

31/8/2025, 12:14:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The US is a mixed economy. Socialism is nothing new here. Isn't economics taught in high school anymore?

31/8/2025, 12:11:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next week @ the Kennedy Center

27/8/2025, 7:59:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another example of the Absent Landlord.

27/8/2025, 7:55:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Note to press. Please follow up with a request for, at least, the name of one of "these people"? Do your fking job.

26/8/2025, 5:10:59 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Command economy = Communist China #brilliant

22/8/2025, 7:50:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What the founders called the tool of despots.

20/8/2025, 8:29:35 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Conservatives snowflakes.

20/8/2025, 8:27:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they like it. #sheep

19/8/2025, 10:35:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy birthday, Molly. Another time around the sun. Stay strong!

19/8/2025, 8:41:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bread and circuses #ball

19/8/2025, 3:16:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Start-up "leaders" have to become value producers?

19/8/2025, 2:46:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Via pew research - Before the coronavirus outbreak, about a quarter of countries had used postal ballots in their national elections.

17/8/2025, 3:40:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump has made peace less likely. Britain should move nukes into Ukraine.

17/8/2025, 1:51:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Something, something freedom for safety... neither. - Ben Franklin

16/8/2025, 1:24:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Waste of taxpayer dollars.

13/8/2025, 12:19:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tons of Greater Fools then, now...

12/8/2025, 11:48:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For the billionaire class, government cheese is the best cheese. Who says socialism doesn't work.

12/8/2025, 7:02:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe one of our illustrious members of the press could ask Bobbie what happened to smallpox?

12/8/2025, 4:47:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We called it The Dot Con era

12/8/2025, 2:06:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Transfers are not wealth creation. Enough of the nonsense

12/8/2025, 2:05:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#CHUMPS

10/8/2025, 6:35:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Needs a job.

7/8/2025, 8:09:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Were they rigged in July? Simple question

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

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First thing to learn.

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5/8/2025, 8:09:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Their hero. #pathetic

5/8/2025, 5:14:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds hugely efficient #chumps

5/8/2025, 5:10:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why are underage girls being hired at mar-a-logo to service adult men? Is this practice happening today?

5/8/2025, 5:09:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If a masked stranger with a gun attempts to kidnap you, can you respond with deadly force? Asking for a friend

5/8/2025, 2:58:47 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Were the June numbers initially reported in July fake too? Or just now?

5/8/2025, 2:56:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember when repubs claimed taxes slowed growth.

4/8/2025, 8:25:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Were June's numbers fake last July?

4/8/2025, 8:23:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stop referring to Import Taxes as traiffs. Thanks for helping.

4/8/2025, 7:50:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beats working for it.

4/8/2025, 6:48:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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California can redistrict Republicans out of existence, picking up 9 eats.

4/8/2025, 5:16:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let the games begin. California can pick up 9 blue seats. What are you prepared to do?

4/8/2025, 4:57:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FOMO vs Greater Fool.

4/8/2025, 3:54:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The White House crowing about the "fake" June numbers www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

4/8/2025, 3:51:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So June's numbers were fake back in July? Or are they fake now? Which is it? More importantly, why doesn't anyone point this out? F__k!

4/8/2025, 3:49:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Struggling? Never watched WKRP. RIP, Loni

4/8/2025, 1:51:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump lies about everything, Catherine.

3/8/2025, 4:04:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Been saying the exact thing for 6 months.

2/8/2025, 12:35:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Us vs Them morality See: Religion

22/7/2025, 4:06:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weren't they doing this already?

21/7/2025, 3:07:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lutnick is a complete tool

20/7/2025, 7:30:57 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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If it's all a hoax, Ghislaine Maxwell has grounds for appeal

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Race is not a scientific classification.

13/7/2025, 8:32:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two words Diminished Capacity

12/7/2025, 9:31:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You guys are marketing tools.

12/7/2025, 6:45:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is no evidence of trump being shot, so...

12/7/2025, 11:55:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sex offender and Christian Nationalist hero. #pathetic

10/7/2025, 9:20:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Live by the sword.

9/7/2025, 4:55:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You forgot one, Bob. They create profit for businesses large and small via their spending.

9/7/2025, 1:40:02 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pointing fingers? Conservatives never take responsibility for anything.

9/7/2025, 12:34:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Doesn't Peter work at the White House?

9/7/2025, 12:31:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agreed with? Stated? You're flailing

9/7/2025, 12:13:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Economicus (@fogelberg.bsky.social) reply parent

Try reading first.

9/7/2025, 12:11:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You didn't actually read the article, did you?

9/7/2025, 12:11:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More confusion #hilarious

9/7/2025, 12:09:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Reporting that Grok praised Hitler for his ability to “deal with” anti-white hate is opinion? #idiotic

9/7/2025, 12:09:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't need to. Your original comment made no sense

9/7/2025, 12:06:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where was that agreement? We'll wait

8/7/2025, 11:58:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry, youre confused about the purpose of Standards & Practices Try again

8/7/2025, 11:57:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're "confusing" facts with cognitive dissonance

8/7/2025, 11:50:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Facts are facts. Your opinion doesn't change that fact

8/7/2025, 11:49:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Easy solution. Stick with publications that have a standards and practices office. Like the Atlantic.

8/7/2025, 11:44:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That prints facts.

8/7/2025, 11:42:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Printing facts?

8/7/2025, 11:37:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't dork trained used twitter, so...

8/7/2025, 11:35:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Buck Stops Over There --->

8/7/2025, 6:59:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who are the 25%? More importantly, who let in their ancestorial dregs?

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The tool of despots or enemy combatants...

8/7/2025, 2:13:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not a chance in hell

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So there is a client list Raise your hand if you're surprised

7/7/2025, 6:09:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stupidity?

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Where are you going to get those billion screws? And the other 1000s of parts? Made in the US? #Laughable Navarro is a fraud.

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#DEEP #STATE

7/7/2025, 3:18:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Full of lead and perchlorates #brilliant

7/7/2025, 2:03:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pam is gonna need a pardon

7/7/2025, 1:59:19 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Government expenditures per the Contitution ...provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States Read the fking document

6/7/2025, 8:24:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Instead, the local government uses Twitter. #brilliant

6/7/2025, 4:38:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So do nothing #weak

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Up next... Smallpox #evil

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The latter.

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Is it time yet for that 2nd amendment solution? Asking for a friend

2/7/2025, 3:30:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's surprising?

2/7/2025, 3:20:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of these was a stop-gap spending BILL SEE: School House Rock

2/7/2025, 3:12:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Five actual laws signed by Trump #magat #fail

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Which bills have been passed?

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Threats of violence

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The very reason for the 2nd amendment. #deep #state

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Abe knew. "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." -- Abraham Lincoln.

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Money laundering. #corruption

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Investigating the military?

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The coach will vote, yes. He doesn't have a choice.

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Reselling AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon. #CHUMPS

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