John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Did every MAGA PR person die of covid? Why mention the woman at all?
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view profile on Bluesky John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Did every MAGA PR person die of covid? Why mention the woman at all?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"State of mind" when referring to Trump is a misnomer with multiple layers. "State" implies potential for stasis, even stability. It implies that his "thinking" is grounded and not just cascades of cataclysmic, contradictory ejaculations. And "mind"... well... shit.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I get it, these guys are evil. But "flying a freak flag" used to mean showing you were ungovernable. That you wouldn't stand for oppression. Now it means what? The most insider-iest of insiders? Freak spaces are my safe space, where radical acceptance of whatever was shunned by the normies happened.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Defending? Strange construction.I suppose trying to kill Mike Pence and any Democrats they found could be seen as defense of Trump. They say best defense is a good offense after all.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean... In my case anyhow.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The bit at the top is way too big.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for being "that academic" who demonstrates their research in all its obfuscating granularity rather than engaging with non-specialists. I didn't say "actually" b/c I don't accept such frameworks as "actuality". Would you like me to unpack postmodern processual philosophy for six pages?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The three terms refer primarily to ways of organizing economic activity, resource allocation, and ownership. There are sociopolitical elements to each, but you can't remove them from the sphere of economics and confine them to something called "political" that is magically removed from economics.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Imposing elements of a command economy at will and piecemeal doesn't meet the requirements to be called socialism. I suppose we can push the definition of Socialism seeing as 99% of Americans have no idea what it is. It's like calling my car a bicycle and not worrying too much about the details.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Moby Tom Clancy's Dick
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Get a cease and desist order immediately!
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck Schumer! And Fakeem Jeffries too! Corporate shills. We need to run Blue MAGA out of town along with the Orange Menace and Stephen Miller.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Semper Fritter: In Batter Veritas.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a first time for everything, I suppose. Let's take bets on what journalist writes critically about the latest criminal maneuver by Orange Mussolini.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
First as Tragedy then as farce. Let's not forget the assassination of Minnesota State Rep Melissa Hortman and her husband and the attempted assassination of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, who survived the shooting. We're on a razor's edge with another Kent State hanging overhead.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The form eventually shows the moral decay within.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
We need to end "Blue MAGA" as well as the original red. Jeffries is as much of a corporate shill as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Bernie Sanders should have run as a third party candidate. He could have raised the capital and mobilized the numbers to initiate a viable 3rd party and break up the blockage in the swirling toilet of our current one-party duopoly.
Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) reposted
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Pearls clutched. What kind of dog whistles is this chicken shit propaganda apparatus putting out these days?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Did the wheelie-riding scum then break into the capitol, beat a bunch of capitol cops, while trying to locate lawmakers to hang in Trump's name on the White House lawn? Oh, and poo on Nancy Pelosi's desk on the way out?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social)
Nobody thought the apocalypse would arrive in a clown car full of dumbshit nazi pedophiles, but here we are.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Didn't he just approve a polluter-friendly piece of climate legislation, much to the chagrin of conservationists world-wide? Where's the empathy in that decision? The humanity?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I see it as more bleak than "garbage in/garbage out". I think of all the young minds who pour their brilliance into this shit (like video games) and become anesthetized, lobotomized. Brilliance in / Garbage out is a more terrifying possibility, to me. It's just another method of thought control.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
An atheist's response: if you're looking for a reason to commit genocide, the Bible is a fantastic place to start your research! If you need justification for the horrors you know yourself capable of, the Bible is a great place to find the structure of that. + You don't even need belief for either.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
She deserves to actually have her face melt like a ball of wax... From the heat of her cell in Alligator Auschwitz.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social)
Fascist pedophile in the most powerful position on the planet. The future is so bleak I need those yellow glasses target shooters wear so I can see it.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social)
I'm boycotting CBS and Paramount at least until the fucking US fascist party falls.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The same way you can vote to continue arms shipments supporting Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza Senator, with their critical faculties, ethics, and humanity on hold - and/or bought and paid for.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
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John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Corporate cash as the GOP if not more. If you can't see their beholden to Wall Street, then you aren't looking. Keep the name calling coming. I'm immune to trolls with no arguments.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
She campaigned with Liz Cheney and her war criminal father for fuck sake. Are Dems all out Nazis? Nope. Are the GOP, mostly. Should Nazis be stopped? Yes. Prosecuted. Jailed. Doesn't make the Dems innocent of war crimes on par with their counterparts. Doesn't make them innocent of taking as much
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Made Bush the lesser's forays in the middle east look civil. Also don't mention the entire ethics of Biden/Harris regarding Gaza - "the genocide we support via Netanyahu will be preferable to Trump's genocide". Lost her the fucking election - that and courting GOP voters instead of moving left.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Chipping away unions, leaving workers in the dust with NAFTA, gutting education. Don't even mention foreign policy, Dem voters don't care that Carter enabled Indonesia's genocide in East Timor, Clinton killed as many Iraqis as Bush 1, and 2, and that Obama's so-called war on terror
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
What's your purpose here? To vent? Or just troll? I've watched the Dems moving steadily right since the early 1980s. They're so adept at pretending to be the opposition party while taking tons of corporate money that people overlook things like Clinton/Gore doubling the prison population and...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
βBoth of them.β
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless we're talking about international law - like the Nuremberg standards for what counts as war crimes. In which case ALL modern US presidents are beyond the law, literally.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't say they were the same. I said they served the same corporate overlords, the same special interests. Which is fact. If you can't understand the distinction, maybe it's time to do some growing up yourself. Also, name calling doesn't help your argument here, or underwrite your maturity.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Why the fuck aren't the worthless Dem elites not holding press conference after press conference calling him out for shit like this? He allowed 17 members of the fucking Sinaloa cartel into the US a month or so back and it barely made headlines! FFS!
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The Dems aren't trying to appease the GOP. That's just the pretext for serving the same corporate overlords. Oligarchs of a feather flock together.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
π€ The sloppiness of the cover-up here is astounding
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
How can we get them to admit "underage women" = girls. Do all the Epstein apologists also refer to babies as "infant women"? I'm sure some are promoting the use of "fetal women" for certain anti-choice rhetorical flourishes.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Let's not forget about the part where it all looks, feels, and has all the effects of a mafia-style shake down....
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Who knew Armageddon would be so predictable?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
We don't need any more of this Blue MAGA bullshit! Genocide with a smile and a side of condescension toward the actual left? Fuck that, this is the REASON we have Trump. The Dems have enabled fascism since the teaparty zombies crawled out of their fetid graves and into Congress. Fuck off Pete.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Help me out, this is the same dude fighting to post the ten commandments in all Oklahoma classrooms, yes? Will they be looped on a video feed demonstrating each? Maybe this was the clip for "do not covet thy neighbor's wife"? Or "thy neighbor's *ahem* ass"?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
They can both be right in this case.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for demonstrating the Dems hate the actual left and are still devoid of an argument about why.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he's spot on with that assessment.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The corporate Democrats have swung so far to the right that they can see Alex Keaton in their rear view receding into the distance.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
It's mind-boggling. Not only did it air on network TV, the 2-hour pilot was the most watched show of that season. 34.5 million viewers! It was a phenomenon.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
It's time to retire Senator. You play like you're resisting Trump - while voting in favor of his Crypto-boondoggle ("Stable Genius" FFS) thus enriching him personally, and paying back the crypto PAC that gave you a barrel of cash. Your posts read like ChatGPT wrote them. Or worse, Chuck Schumer.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing at all. Just ask Trump. It'll be perfect. When the guy says some racist horseshit on his first day, it'll demonstrate that he's a "regular guy" and not a trained diplomat of the deep state.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
If you break it, you can privatize it and people will thank you for killing their families and then rushing in to show them their families won't be killed the next time because of this amazing technological break through that the private sector brought to market at only 10 times previous costs.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
More like Croc-o-shit Dundee.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Marshall McLuhan said advertising would be the art form of the 21st century. I didn't take it to mean that films themselves would exist MOSTLY to sell other franchise films. Fans watch to see Easter eggs pop up. Fuck the story. "Make me feel like a good consumer!"
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The richest man in history (or whatever) can do a Nazi salute while wearing a swastika at a synagogue and the apologist machine will pull from every demographic to spin the maneuver. If that fails, the gaslighting machine kicks in, soon the secret police. Soon, like tomorrow afternoon.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Can the FBI function if they fire literally everyone?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"If we educate all these black and brown people, who's going to fight our wars?" "You said you were going to stop all wars, sir". "Well, who's going to join ICE"? "Disaffected, christian White people, sir". "Shit. Where's Stephen Miller?"
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
News flash!! MAGA idiots are still idiots! And they're shocked about it! "Why didn't you tell me he was such a douche!" He told you. Every second of every day.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
My guess is he never goes to Malaysia. This is a "grace and favor" appointment, not a strategic move that's meant to bolster US geopolitical relations.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
So gay! Just ask this dude. He's saying it straight into a camera.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally the exact image that MAGA has of Trump! Well, economically depressed MAGA anyhow. Wealthy MAGA is a different story.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I love when "biblical" folks say "God has a plan for those who love him hardest" (or whatever). It makes victims responsible for the heinous shit someone else did to them. Like victims of atrocities for example - atrocities like genocide, say... in, like, I don't know, say... Gaza. #GodHatesLosers
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
He's not mine per se, but I'm looking after him this week.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
What do you say to Joe Rogan? How about, "Remember Nuremberg? A change of heart didn't mean much then and you'd better hope the curtain comes down on this shit show before people start getting killed en masse. Cuz you're fucking culpable - if not legally, at least ethically.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"Let's all whip out our lists, slap them on the table, and see who's is longest!" Jesus Senator! If Trump was a progressive arguing for equitable distribution of tax dollars - instead of whatever the fuck you all stand for - corporate Dems like you would have figured out how to oust him by now!
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"Best thing the Romans ever did for us! Oh yeah! If we didn't have crucifixion this country would be in a right bloody mess!"
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently the leopards are now face-eating the self-eating cannibals.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
And masked soldiers are disappearing brown and black people from US streets (and arresting people who film the kidnappings). So, six months into a full-on police state to boot.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
He's sure to blame Mamdani first.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
All acts of violence, coercion, exercises of power should be justified and when people witnessing them call these acts into question they need to be justified immediately. This is how policing works in a non-police state. Now that we have the gestapo, the violent armed agents have no accountability.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Agents should be Doxxed! They are doing violence on behalf of the DOJ, DHS, Border Patrol, etc. It is an act of violence to apprehend someone and put them in jail. We accept this violence in the case of potential criminals in the interest of public safety. Here's where due process enters in. 1/
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Hah! More like nailing Jell-O to more Jell-O.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Un-fucking-believable. Genocidal maniacs buying stairways to heaven.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes to all of the comments here! The NYT Sucks (because it serves advertisers). The GOP has gone full Nazi! Yes! The Dems? They fucking suck on immigration too, and have done for decades. The also are enablers not only of the current GOP Nazism, but genocide in Gaza. Fuck the corporate/elite Dems.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been waiting my entire life for the do-nothing Dems to lead a recovery after the destruction leveled on the working and middle classes by the always-at-least-proto-fascist GOP. Since Reagan/Bush #1. But nothing. Oh,Wall St. does fine; but the rest of us lose something - wages, rights, a future.
I π Dogs (@dogs100.bsky.social) reposted
Another CaturDog Day Let it be
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
They won't. When it hits they're going to blame picks from their scapegoating bingo cards: "illegals", "groomers", "libs", drag queens, educators, environmentalists, globalists, intellectuals, and their latest - Shylocks! A word they never heard before yesterday when it was invented by dear leader.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
He DOESN'T know what day it is or whether his big ugly abomination even cuts Medicaid... Or Medicare! And he doesn't know the difference between the two. Just like he doesn't know the difference between Biden, Harris, Obama, and/or Bill/Hillary Clinton... Or socialism/Marxism/Marx Brothers. FDT.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Remind them he said, "Shylock" and they missed it. They're likely to find a way to sanewash that shit, but it's worth a shot.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you mean, "When you're NOT baking a cake for some gay people... " ?
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad to see EVERYONE else came here to say the Dems are center-right. And that a few fellow travelers pointed out that in Europe they'd be straight up right wing. This isn't new either. T'was always thus.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
We've seen the videos where he can't remember if his bill cuts Medicare. He's not running the shop, Nazi minions are. He's never sure what the timeline is on anything. "Two weeks!" Stupidity compounded by dementia complicated by hatred. He's the face of the Nazi terror putsch grinding us down. FDT.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Money = Power. Watch where it gets directed.
Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) reposted
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"Were"... ^
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
What. The. Actual. Fuck? FO Politico. Trump's boots don't need any more licking. You're a joke. Full stop.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
We're the Dems (other than AOC) shouting about this from the rooftops? Cuz that's what they should have been doing for the past two months! Every single day they should have been holding press conferences. In GOP-held districts. Where were they? WTF Dems. Fight!
Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) reposted
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John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
"Hands Off" and "No Kings" marches were great. They mobilized folks. Now we need a general strike. Shut the whole thing down. This is insane.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
This ππ½is a really good breakdown of what Zohran has actually said, and why the smears calling him antisemitic are so (intentionally) disingenuous β including from his fellow Democrats. Full @qasimrashid.com video: www.instagram.com/reel/DLfhcQW...
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Senator, you voted with Trump on his cryptocurrency boondoggle! You AND Schiff! This enriches him personally. Why would you do such a thing? Cuz you took a ton of crypto PAC $$$ maybe? You're going to have to find a better way to fight.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Not Fascist at all. Good look for the Trump administration!
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
The simplest explanation is that propaganda works. US/them is the easiest frame in which to capture a worldview. But don't leave out gerrymandering and the fact that elections are "won" by candidates that spend the most $$$$.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
You voted in favor of the Trump Crypto bill. What the actual fuck senator? @padilla.senate.gov voted for it too? I know you're both taking campaign donations from the crypto lobby, but this kills your credibility.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Did someone present her with a fact? I hope she's not suffering too much.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope. Not at all. Cuz that guy existed for as long as it took to type that tweet. MAGA=Lobotomy
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
They murder democratic lawmakers and their family members in their home. Their luminaries then blame the radical left for the shootings. Their fuhrer claims Biden is a clone. I suppose it COULD get worse. More frequent murders, actual death camps, for example.
John Zibell (@jzbrooklyn.bsky.social) reply parent
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