Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
“The building was a hazard at design conception and destined to collapse,” says the architect who designed said building.
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“The building was a hazard at design conception and destined to collapse,” says the architect who designed said building.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
What the actual fuck?! One of the most racist political tropes is the insistence that people of color, especially boys, are born with a criminal predisposition. The only difference is that they coated their racist comments in slick verbiage. Now, their racism is an identity, worn proudly.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Yes, please. Oh, and keep reporting about his impending demise as well.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Personally, I think that saying “I would kill for that skin, but not in a Buffalo Bill kind of way” is an exemplary compliment. I should use it more often.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh baby, we’re not slipping. Someone dug the grave and shoved us the fuck in it.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
The media should report on his demise as if it is fact over and over again. Let the dumbass Repugnants twist as they continue to bat down the conspiracy theory.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Calling anti-vaxx arguments what it is: manipulation. www.facebook.com/share/r/175Z...
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Too many insurance carriers will follow the bad advice from the anti-vax regime, making the ability to pay for vaccines out-of-pocket out of reach for many families. The next step will be to criminalize parents choosing to vaccinate their children. This was never about parent-choice.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
At what price freedom… blood spilled for a country that has been hoodwinked into believing that guns are more important than the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I’m exhausted by the right’s fabricated fears.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
What a waste of police time. Policing color.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
“A lot of people are saying…” is a combination of the voices inside Donnie-Doesn’t-Give-Two-Shits-About-Anyone-but-Himself’s head and the agreement of every damn thing he says by the sycophants he surrounds himself with. All equaling out to no one said a damn thing about wanting a dictatorship.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
The Repugnant perception that anything the comes out of Donnie’s mouth or typed with his short fat thumbs is “authentic and clarity of purpose” definitely needs to be mocked.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
I love this news! Fuck you anti-science freaks.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, all true. BECAUSE HE IS A FUCKING DICTATOR! Democracy relies on checks and balances which is why they have placed toadies in positions to dilute the other branches, leaving a sick-minded individual to be the sole decision maker.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a cult. They probably would consider it a blessing and a privilege, sadly.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
They are Donnie One Notes - their only note is to follow Donnie’s tune.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
The whitewashing of history at the Smithsonian (and everything he touches) is Donnie “Wishes He was a Slave Owner” Trump’s version of Hitler’s attack on “deviant” art.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This would be great news…if the reason for the judgement was based on the treatment of human beings but apparently the environmental impact was more important?
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
“The University of Missouri’s Black student government organization announced Wednesday that the university canceled its welcome event, named the ‘Welcome Black 2 Class Block Party,’ over the word ‘Black’ in the name.” Well damn, I guess they better go ahead and cancel the Black and Gold game. 🤬🖕🏻🐅
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m torn. Either stop putting a mic in front of this advertisement for sterilization so I don’t have to see him or let him keep talking since it riles the resisters. As I am not afraid to allow things to exist that make me uncomfortable, shove that mic into his face every chance you get.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
It has become abundantly clear that the definition of “woke” has expanded from recognition of systemic racism to include anything that makes white people, Christo-fascists, Nazis, KKK, Confederates, etc recognize uncomfortable truths. Put the truth on blast. Protect the evidence.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This is what comes of not wanting to teach anything that would make white people feel uncomfortable. An entire swath of this country has had “the war of northern aggression” bullshit passed down through the decades.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t relitigate something that was never fully litigated, though. Instead, the pro-slavery movement festered, raising its putrid head every couple of decades until we arrived to today. Now they feel the winds changing and they think their time has come. We can’t let it.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
The very ick of Citizens United? That corporations are only viewed as “people” when it comes to giving money to politicians and never when it comes to paying their fair share in taxes…you know, like the actual human people.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not sure that they will ever understand that they lost the moral culture war (that they started) in 2015.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Just like everything else from this Regime of Idiocy I’m not 100% sure they understand how time works.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Facts are being dammed up behind the lies, misrepresentations, and misinformation that Donnie needs to hear to feel like a strong man. Muddy the waters enough so telling fact from fiction will be impossible a few months down the road. We have to protect truth now before we forget what truth is.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Some asshat tried to make a point about roving juvenile gangs in DC. Yup, that is the intention behind Donnie Needs a Diaper Change declaring an “emergency” NG takeover of the local popo. Duh Führer Cult of Stupidity and Fear Mongering trying and failing to make a point.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
What “work” is planning to do during her work release? She was born rich and her only long-term job seems to be pimp for sick white pedophiles.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
So much micro penis energy, so much ingrown fear, so little Christianity in “Christianity”
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
I realize that the very fabric of our nation has been irrevocably changed in a short 7 months. The nation we’ve built for 250 years torn asunder by people who chose power over patriotism. Where do we go from here when we know that the guardrails could not hold? When so few can brainwash so many?
Cameron (@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social) reposted
i don't know how i'm supposed to live the rest of my life in a country alongside the millions of people who happily cheer for this when this decrepit freak is eventually dead and buried am i really expected to just move on and pretend like half of America didn't do fascism?
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This is worse than moving backwards. They don’t want to just undue any progress that has been made, they want to obliterate anything that does not fit into a narrow view of who is deserving of rights under the law, any law. They want to strip people of their humanity.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Someone needs to explain to me how the man baby with soft hands, soft belly, and even softer ego has somehow become the banner holder for Repugnant masculinity. Make it make sense, damnit.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
“Religious” men have a pedophile proclivity. It’s about the only part of the Bible they fully follow.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This is coming from the religious faction who apparently is only tethered by an insane book and not by true morality. I think if you need a book of questionable morality and myths to keep you from making bad decisions the problem is a little closer to home.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
The media has framed legislation as wins and losses for Repugnants and Democrats for decades. Politics is not a sporting event. The true losers in this game is the American people. Journalists should be framing every question to ask how are these decisions going to impact the American people.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
No lies spoken although far-left isn’t really a thing. Anything left of center is considered far-left anymore.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Donnie Disaster cult is a far-right idiot faction of this once-striving-towards-greatness country, all screaming “fake news”, “left-leaning” and “left biased” They mean the same thing: “I don’t want to hear facts. I only want to hear my own totally made up grievances yelled back at me.”
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
What does one expect when putting a corrupt, poorly educated buffoon and sexual predator in the highest office in the land? Crass, self-aggrandizing, gold ballrooms so he and his fellow financial and sexual predators can meet in the glitz and glamour of the bygone eras they strive to bring back.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s right baby Donnie, kill the messenger. That’s the ticket. This will fix everything.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Can’t wait to see them twist into knots either arguing that they expected a contraction before stabilization (they do love to lie to themselves) or blaming this on Biden and by extension Obama (because they just can’t stand how decent humans make their lack of morality show in stark relief).
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Donnie Boy is making all his antebellum wet dreams come true with a gold-plated ballroom.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I want to see her shadow presidency start NOW.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, look! Another lying pathetic white sexist bigot doing cosplay as a “Christian” and a “protector” of children against the Woke agenda thinking he is above the law. Aka, an ant to be crushed under my foot.
Jax (the original) (@jacqueline321.bsky.social) reposted
It’s true
Bren (@kindofnerdy.bsky.social) reposted
🎧 The separation of church & state is fundamental to 🇺🇸 democracy and meant to protect everyone - the believers, as well as those who reject religion. "Because, when faith is given power over others, it always seeks control..But freedom? FREEDOM needs room to breathe!" Freedom is under assault!
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Implement this alongside a new OSHA type sign: “It has been 0 days since a commandment was broken”. Don’t forget, this will unilaterally ONLY be Christian denominations. Eventually, the Evangelical Radical “Anti” Christian Right will be the one religion to rule them all.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This makes me want to vomit.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
He was not a lone predator. She aided and abetted every crime.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Ultimate human hubris to believe we have reached the end of discovery and the algorithm can take over shaping young minds. The next step in the Christo-fascist indoctrination scheme is the algorithm. Fuck Texas. Fuck pseudo Christians. Fuck tech billionaires. Stop letting them game the system.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
We went from non-cooperation with dems on any policy 80s-90s, to the blame-Obama-for-everything Freedom Caucus early aughts, to the conspiracy theory Q-Anon brain rot of the Christian Far Right 10s, and have now landed on full-on Nazis 20s. The Repugnant party needs an enema of drastic proportions.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
He is without a doubt the most incurious, uncultured asshat. Of course he wouldn’t want to be in UNESCO. He is anti-education, anti-science, crass and crude. He is the opposite of anything UNESCO protects.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Is there a new cabinet post of which we are unaware? Secretary of Meme Propaganda? This regime is one big shitty comment stream of immature engagement bait.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
If people want to live in an alternate reality with evil around every corner, to each their own. The one thing I want this country to agree on is to never again give the highest government job to a petulant man-baby with a schoolgirl predilection.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
What kind of mindset does it take to make dictatorship look so appealing?
Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) reposted
“What we have now is the federal government has essentially unleashed an anonymized, militarized police force on its own people, and people are doing the most basic things they can think of to try to take back some sense of agency and security.” - Emily Tucker, Center on Privacy & Technology
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Sadly the people who most need to watch this whole thing won’t. But we sure will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W... (Mehdi is not the one you want to bring the weak sauce to)
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
It has never been and will never be about the babies or the health of the mother. It.is.all.about.control. They hide behind a bible and invisible sky daddy.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
When your entire life is a lie it is more difficult to keep your lies straight.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no middle ground when your only options are total repression of free and educated thinking or acceptance and welcoming of inherent differences. I’ll lean left until I fall over.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure they understand the meaning of “independent”.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but I think they got it backwards. MAGA is the iceberg and the delusional voters steered us right into it.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
He doesn’t “think” it. He is counting on it. His whole brand is based on others self-delusional perception of his “genius”.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, a man triggered by a fictional woman’s sexual agency. How droll.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I totally read that in Columbo’s voice
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Makeup covering a large melanoma removal scar is my guess.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I always think “To whom?” if I hear that poppycock.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t for one moment think they are scared. They are doing what they have done for years: protecting the powerful and convincing themselves they are on the side of the angels. The only thing that scares them are the imaginary boogeymen they have rattling around their evil shrunken brains.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Remind yourselves when reading things like this that a lot of his base just is mad that he hasn’t gone far enough with his promises, not so much that he hasn’t fulfilled them at all.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Unless it is the Bible until they decide giving us that freedom leaves too much room for individual thinking as well.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
We have experienced an erosion in basic intelligence and knowledge for years. The obvious intent to replace actual education with biblical teaching will send this country backwards even faster, while the rest of the world moves forward. Such an embarrassment.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
At this rate? I give it a week.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
“Hot” as in Hot Potato and no one wants to get burned by that shit. Baby Donald being deplorable and needing a diaper change. Nothing new to see here except his deflector shields are up.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I miss feeling free. We now live in a fear fueled world brought to us by the people who have lived an imaginary world of fear they made up in their own heads.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
And everyone will look just like you, a white homogeneous putrefaction of humanity.
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
They will not be satisfied until we are back to a slave state.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been unherdable since the day I was born. 51 years later and I’m not stopping now.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
This is an unserious group of out-of-touch asswipes. “Nothing to see here, folks. Everything is going so swimmingly that the only thing we need to discuss are my crass and tacky design decisions.”
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Take this shit seriously. We are just one step away from this regime criminalizing vaccine administration on kids, citing it as abuse and negligence on the part of parents and clinicians.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
www.rawstory.com/trump-and-ev... The sickness of modern day “Christianity”.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
That is some awesome victim blaming. They can’t “buy” it if you don’t “sell” it. Who doesn’t want to spend money to keep their lives and property safe?
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Every time I hear a response about how Diaper Donnie is “repairing” “replacing” blah blah blah, I picture him with a plastic toy screwdriver and a piece of scrap wood his baby handlers gave him to make him feel “helpful”. This is not a serious group of people.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
Any time someone in the Repugnant Party says “now is not the time to talk about…” any tragedy, NOW is the time to talk about it.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
www.facebook.com/share/r/16y1... We need to talk about the Constitution…
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
That first episode almost turned me off (that and the sign-of-the-times anti-gay rhetoric from his young partner).
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
There are red states that have been test waters for Project 2025 for years, having eroded the socio-political structure, replacing it with austere governance. This flood will be used for political capital on both sides of the spectrum. The deaths of these poor people becoming just more flotsam.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Say it ain’t so?! You mean that removing the people from system critical stations would complicate coordinated responses?! This is what happens when you remove critical thinking from your governance. No one is left to turn on the lights so the room stays dark.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
The ancient technology that has kept people safe for…what? Prayer? Burning bushes? Angels sent from heaven?
Bruce Coffman (@brucecoffman.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
but was abolished due to concerns about its impact on free speech. Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica It absolutely could have and should been updated for the times and prevented bullshit like Fox Not News. Eat me.
Bruce Coffman (@brucecoffman.bsky.social) reposted
Learn to read, motherfuckers: The Fairness Doctrine was a policy implemented by the FCC from 1949 to 1987 that required broadcasters to present controversial issues of public importance and to air contrasting viewpoints. It aimed to ensure a diversity of opinions in broadcasting ⬇️
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
Sick of the misinformation. Sick of the bigotry. Sick of the gutting of public education. Sick of the willful ignorance. Sick of the public and media veneration of the filthy rich as aspirational. Sick of the people that love money and power and have crushed 99% of us into the ground.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
🚨 MEASLES OUTBREAK IN U.S.: WORST YEAR SINCE DISEASE WAS ERADICATED A disease once eliminated in the U.S. is now roaring back. And we just hit a chilling milestone. 1/
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social)
And the short attention span of the electorate will believe that it is the fault of the NWS without linking the DOGE cuts and the disastrous decisions of Donnie and his cronies, leading the way to privatization.
Laura Pratte (@laurapratte.bsky.social) reply parent
An entirely different USA than is reality lives in their heads. Which came first: the lie or the people who believe the lie and repeat it ad nauseam? Just once I want to see a report come back with “that is a blatant falsehood relying on willful ignorance of your constituents to believe it”.