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@jameswilson1781.bsky.social

created December 5, 2023

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Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not auguring that it was safe to protest or that anyone should have done it. I’m arguing when people say there was some type of “consensus” among physicists that it was OK to do so. There wasn’t.

1/9/2025, 9:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I read your book but I didn’t memorize it. You’re trying to make the point here that the medical establishment said one thing when by far the most notable medical establishment is saying the opposite.

1/9/2025, 8:45:43 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

www.businessinsider.com/dr-fauci-pro...

1/9/2025, 8:35:48 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Right, or that most replies they get on Twitter now are just mouth breathing weirdos

1/9/2025, 7:29:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Fauci did not choose that www.businessinsider.com/dr-fauci-pro...

1/9/2025, 6:33:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

When you get to a stopping point on other games try “Blue Prince”. You’ll love it

31/8/2025, 3:36:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Well tomorrow is college football so

29/8/2025, 11:28:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

All Political careers are going to die sometime

29/8/2025, 7:44:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure, but the problem is the same for them as it is for us

29/8/2025, 4:20:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Counter-UAS is a huge challenge and Congress has debated it since 2021 or so without resolution where the security agencies on the one hand want more authority and the FAA on the other are concerned with its impacts. Both sides have good points. It’s not as easy as saying “we track airplanes”

29/8/2025, 4:08:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Because you might interfere with legitimate aviation inadvertently

29/8/2025, 3:51:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance thinks he can just slide in and replace trump. He is badly mistaken

28/8/2025, 10:48:43 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

They’ll be laid off by fy27

28/8/2025, 10:42:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

David Cullen wrote the seminal book on this after researching it for nine years and he states clearly they weren’t. It’s as much as myth as the trench coat mafia or bullying which were not true either.

28/8/2025, 5:55:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

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28/8/2025, 12:28:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

They weren’t neo-Nazis. One was a full blown psychopath in the literal sense of the word, the other had social issues. The easy access to guns ultimately by itself is what caused it. It’s in the book “Columbine”

28/8/2025, 12:26:14 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

There is a scene in “The Americans” where one of the Russian spies’ US sources tells them the Reagan plan won’t work and that “it is 50 years out”. Since that series was around 1985 I guess we should be 80% of the way there then.

27/8/2025, 12:34:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Tracy is much braver than Trump. When did become republican gospel to act like a giant pussy all the time

26/8/2025, 9:39:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 9:37:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 5:20:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

The solution is to vote for Cait Conley

26/8/2025, 5:08:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

caitconley.com

26/8/2025, 5:06:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m still not sure about congressional term limits but the best argument for it is combating gutless opportunism.

26/8/2025, 12:32:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

They do not seem To be thinking of the budget vulnerabilities they are likely to face later. A Dem House in FY27 could (and might) start with funding all of DHS except ICE at 2019 budget levels (or $0) and dare Trump to cause a shutdown over it.

26/8/2025, 12:15:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless you believe Jesus was not a real person OF COURSE there was a historical Jesus. There are hundreds of scholars who spend their whole lives on this.

25/8/2025, 11:40:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

The historical Jesus was a revolutionary but not a social justice one. He believed the end times were coming in his generations lifetimes and he was trying to prepare the world for that and telling them to repent. The gospel writers though emphasize different things, especially John!

25/8/2025, 11:33:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Which is almost certainly not the historical Jesus but you’re right that’s what they would say

25/8/2025, 11:28:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

But also in 2022, republican senate candidates in Arizona and Pennsylvania lost only because republicans didn’t show up at the rate they do for trump. The notion that republicans are reliable year in year out voters is a myth.

24/8/2025, 3:52:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course he is right, but then he pivots to “and that’s why the dems should unilaterally disarm”. It will end when republicans feel political pain and not one minute sooner.

24/8/2025, 3:27:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Do they? In off year and ad hoc elections whenever trump has been in office, dems have cleaned up. And have this year

24/8/2025, 3:23:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

“But I will still shriek about a mayor candidate wanting 2 public grocery stores regardless”

24/8/2025, 3:21:58 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Great discussion but I thought it understated a bit the budget vulnerabilities of ICE. Anything based on new hiring needs funding from future congresses, which they would be unlikely to get. A Dem House in 27 would not suffer political pain for refusing to fund these new hires— they’d benefit

23/8/2025, 2:40:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Halfway through episode 2. Will listen as soon as I catch up

22/8/2025, 5:02:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to get on Alien: Earth

22/8/2025, 12:57:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how you know it’s working

18/8/2025, 11:24:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t blame them

18/8/2025, 8:27:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this just about trying to win a peace prize for him? (As opposed to substantively about russia and/or Ukraine?). He seems to want the war to end solely to claim Credit for ending it

18/8/2025, 7:21:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Super Bowl winning starting QBs in week 1: Hurts Mahomes Stafford Rodgers Wilson Flacco So basically a 50 percent survival rate by week 7?

18/8/2025, 6:44:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Also Rodgers!!! I forgot. Looks like a 50 percent survival rate by season midpoint

18/8/2025, 6:38:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Ok so it will be SB winning QBs in week 1: Hurts Mahomes Stafford Wilson Flacco How many last until Week 6?

18/8/2025, 6:36:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I still use a smart card and no one minds

16/8/2025, 9:18:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m embarrassed I need to ask this but: what is likelihood that his whole position is not actually about Putin or Russia at all specifically but that he personally wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize at any cost?

16/8/2025, 9:17:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

That “Magic” song is going to be in my head all day now. goddammit Tom

16/8/2025, 6:57:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone will make Mandami the story of the 2025 elections but the real story will be 2 moderate dem women winning governor in Virginia and New Jersey by a wide margin

15/8/2025, 1:26:22 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

More like a few hours

15/8/2025, 1:05:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Our 2 new kittens are getting along good so far

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15/8/2025, 1:01:10 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Hoping the answer is no but do we need an NFC East podcast update to reflect ongoing contract shenanigans

14/8/2025, 2:57:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I think there was a German guy who smuggled bomb making info out of Los alamos to the USSR circa 1947 or so

14/8/2025, 2:53:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Degenerate gambler? He doesn’t even like sports!

14/8/2025, 2:43:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

A reporter got the videos he (Bork) rented just by asking the store, and Congress passed a law Banning that like 5 days later. Fastest law ever passed in the US probably. Also turned out Bork Just liked musicals

14/8/2025, 1:59:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah for the 50s that makes sense

14/8/2025, 1:56:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Not that this is the most important thing but what was he addicted to?

14/8/2025, 1:54:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

When is Command and Conquer Legions coming out

14/8/2025, 12:18:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I am not explaining financial literacy. I am trying to explain that the VA plan in particular makes it easy to Manage payments whether or not your kids are in state. Not all Of them do it so well.

14/8/2025, 12:12:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

It is. Air traffic controllers is 56

14/8/2025, 12:08:28 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Take it easy. I am just telling you it’s works great once your kids are college age. I worried about that when I was younger putting money in.

14/8/2025, 12:06:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Since I am older than you I will Offer: the Virginia 529 is really good! It is very easy to manage getting $ to in or out of state schools once it is payment time— I have one of each

14/8/2025, 12:04:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

You know what “hardened” me as a young non conservative? Seeing McConnell piously claim that they should not vote on a SC nominee in an election year because the people should choose,then doing the reverse in 4 yrs. It didn’t of these make me a communist or advocate for anti-constitutional freaks.

13/8/2025, 11:15:03 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

And I bought and read these books! And they were great!

13/8/2025, 10:47:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, losing sucks and it was a hypocritical speech. Justifying that it “hardened” people into supporting anti- constitutional nut jobs is what you wrote two books condemning.

13/8/2025, 10:43:46 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the original point was actually you agreeing with Jay who said that democrats treatment of Bork inevitably led to insane trump nominees, as though republicans were forced into the choices they made.

13/8/2025, 10:35:05 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Um…so? They didn’t like his judicial philosophy, with good reason. They didn’t vote against him because of what was in his trash or what videos he rented, which wasn’t senate democrats anyway.

13/8/2025, 10:31:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

the whole argument of “you liberals forced the right to nominate bove” strikes me as evading personal responsibility. You wrote a whole book on this and it was great!

13/8/2025, 10:04:34 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Eagleton in 1972 was pretty shocking.

13/8/2025, 10:02:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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12/8/2025, 12:00:48 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/8/2025, 12:41:33 PM | 36 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Sears is an exceptionally bad candidate. Not sure why he cleared the field for her.

11/8/2025, 12:09:21 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

In typical internet fashion, you are just mouthing off on topics you are only dimly aware of. Now if you excuse me the adults are talking.

9/8/2025, 7:07:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes and that they alone are worthy of God or history’s favor to the exclusion of others

9/8/2025, 7:02:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

You don’t know what you are talking about

9/8/2025, 6:59:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What they both have in common really is worship of the self.

9/8/2025, 6:48:19 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

This is immensely silly and misinformed. Read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

9/8/2025, 6:41:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

They felt churches would become worship of the swastika and Germany within two generations. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich talks about it

9/8/2025, 6:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Ronald Beagan was president for 227 years? That’s outrageous! We need term limits

8/8/2025, 9:10:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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FDR was president for 300 years? That’s crazy. We need term Limit

8/8/2025, 9:08:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

How was Bill Clinton president for 100 years? We need term limits

8/8/2025, 7:23:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

Serious question not a gotcha: if you had known the backgrounds/philosophies of the participants in advance would you still have done it?

8/8/2025, 5:00:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are the Mariners good enough to actually haunt someone?

8/8/2025, 4:44:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

These colonists were not proud enough of their history

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8/8/2025, 12:03:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These colonists failed to recognize their history

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7/8/2025, 8:18:04 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Colonists failed to “recognize their history”

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7/8/2025, 8:17:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we pay for it with snow later I’m ok with that

6/8/2025, 12:34:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

You want to make a moral argument about the bomb without bothering to argue “as opposed to what other course of action”. So lazy

6/8/2025, 12:29:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

She is right that the headline is bad and you should own that

4/8/2025, 12:36:23 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

You were correct

4/8/2025, 12:35:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I get the concern but we will start the FY27 budget negotiations with $0 for ICE and clawing back all Of the money they can’t spend in the next 15 months. These people will do a bunch of training at Glynnco and then be laid off.

4/8/2025, 10:33:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well done my child

4/8/2025, 7:03:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Think there was an SNL episode where it was family feud between the carters and Kennedys the carters just kept yelling chappaquidic over and over

3/8/2025, 6:58:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess but the 1980 landslide was more due to stagflation etc on a macro basis rather than individual programs. The most egregious mistake as you note was excusing Clinton which later made them helpless with trump. Without Clinton, trump would have been unelectable on character traits alone.

3/8/2025, 5:23:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

agree with most of these but republicans were president until 1977 and many of the economic failures associated with the 1970s were before that

3/8/2025, 5:04:24 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Wilson (@jameswilson1781.bsky.social) reply parent

That was the governor candidate but point taken

3/8/2025, 4:57:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Lt Governor candidate from Virginia claims to be a “Reagan conservative” and just posted that it’s completely obvious that law enforcement officers should be able to hide their faces and identities from the public. It’s pretty grim out there man

3/8/2025, 4:55:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did he ever do it?

3/8/2025, 2:57:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On it

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1/8/2025, 7:56:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She is a disaster of a candidate. Probably no R could have won Virginia this year but she will take the whole party down with her

1/8/2025, 6:20:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do they leave their iPhones plugged in all the time?

31/7/2025, 5:10:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s like 88 years old. Honestly he needs to give it a rest

31/7/2025, 12:17:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view