Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump keeping ships with positive cases offshore was, apparently, good politics. The Day approaches...
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump keeping ships with positive cases offshore was, apparently, good politics. The Day approaches...
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You yield to mice. You are the opportunistic one. The pretense is rather insulting.
The Fig Economy (@figgityfigs.bsky.social) reposted
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Your principles appear to be no more solid than jello, cute tchotchkes to get out and throw at other people. Evil shit, my dude.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You're a bad person.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool. Good to know your principles have a price. Enjoy your evening ✌️
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
Can you outline where FDR is to the left of Newsom?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
This is when you pick the person you want to win. You are saying that you can't think of anyone other than Newsom to win, and should that happen you will not vote for him. The word for you in 2024 is Trump voter.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I genuinely wish you get run over by a trolley.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You just deeply understand the people that would. I don't. That's a red flag in my book
Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) reposted
I’m so tired. I’m so very very tired I put in so much work and yet you still say this shit
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Then you should be required to announce your presence near minorities so we can be prepared for you to throw us under the bus.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Waterproof is great, I don't get how people can deal with water drops being just as good a target to follow as my finger on a capacitive touch surface. Which list do I want to rocket through unintentionally?
Weedle (@weedle.bsky.social) reposted
So ya this guy is 100% a rightwinger lying to the reporter to get the sympathetic narrative he wants. It's a template at this point.
Weedle (@weedle.bsky.social) reposted
I've said this before but the idea John Fetterman got bonked on the head with a bowling ball like Fred Flintstone and instantly changed every political position he held is pure cope from people who refuse to accept any responsibility for being suckered in by big stronk man populist dipshittery
Dimension 20 (@dimension20.bsky.social) reposted
75 nut pugs, free to a good home 🥹 #CloudwardHo
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Well you aren't, so he's just as good. Did you think you could tweet the Trump admin away?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Field of Dreams
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you just mention means testing you shitlib?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Then vote for the person you want to win. People aren't just allowed to walk into Congress and play Rep or Senator, you gotta be elected.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe their grandkids have shitty vibes? That seems like the perfect attitude to govern someone like you, so why should they leave the government?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You are visibly confused, off to hospice for you.
Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) reposted
The near total disinterest in Trumps v obviously deteriorating physical health & mental acuity from the same press that went into a feed frenzy over speculations about Bidens health--to the point of inventing conspiracy theories--has been one of the most cynical things I think I've ever witnessed.
Aaron van Dorn (@aaronvandorn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"I can't compete against the 78 year old incumbent" skill issue my guy
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
This is great for after. Now, that isn't happening nationally and some states simply can't or won't do something themselves. The people in charge of the national purse do. not. care.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
And if you feel targeted by someone saying this, congratulations, that dog that has been hollering is you. You go on the list of people that need shame surgically implanted, if need be, but fully paid for.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
He makes great TV, right?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Then what is your problem with Trump?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as you recognize it's like carrying a security blanket, great.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody chooses to book even your favorite Dem. Now what?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in Mass and this was known everywhere online before the primary was even concluded. People didn't care and that's a red flag, also for you.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
He chased down an innocent Black person at gunpoint before he had a stroke. Is that hidden to you?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
(but that one chapo guy having a stroke is very serious.)
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd just like to skip the intervening time between now and his inevitable heel turn. Can't mute or block that.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Guess what the lying liar lied about?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I am a certified wallet inspector. May I inspect your wallet?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
I feel insane because every new profile just solidifies the awful vibes I get. This feels like Fetterman in a state we do not need. I wish to block his name until the general.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, only the one episode of MSN. The Dropout viewer base is uncomfortably Online, so it's probably a plus.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Which actor?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
The shitty politics. What might shitty national security and foreign policy push people to think they agree with.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I genuinely do not care. You offered up an agreement that some of their worst political shit is bad. You said so what because it was a jumping off point for people into politics except you seem to think they could all go in one direction.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
What if the starting point is the bad foreign policy and the national security stuff that is brain rot? Why not ask more questions about the stuff you do like?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Excuse me, are you implying the NYT might act (at least) partisan? It's nowhere near Paris, checkmate.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to go turbo-"flyover states" but Greenland should be beneath the dignity of the POTUS. This is so gross.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
The NYT is not partisan, I've been told.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
I missed this bit and I thought I was just joking... "Keith Edwards, a Democratic content creator who has skyrocketed to fame on YouTube since starting his channel last year, was not invited to be part of the program..."
Doc Revan (@docrevan.bsky.social) reposted
Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) reposted
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
Is this one of those shitty Democratic Party consultants I keep hearing about? Blah blah blah, unnamed people with money make me right.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
Yes, you fucking hack. I'm well aware of what a partisan looks like, but I'm guessing you think you are on the good side? There's literally no reason to defend the NYT's clear right turn.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Come the fuck on.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Which ballot item contains General Strike?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Because you refuse to make the framework that would allow a general strike to work. California doesn't need your help to redistrict.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't get how unnamed "Dem consultants" mean the Dem Party sucks ass, but then actual people calling themselves Dem strategists or some other bullshit get nothing but praise when they just openly shit on the party.
Sick Hunt, Dracones (@scalehelix.net) reposted reply parent
why is it that when someone asked why the NYT rewards bad faith liars with prestigious editorial columnist jobs, your thought immediately went to it being a request for the NYT to be partisan media
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
People should be ashamed to do this shit in public. Boo this hack.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
The head cheerleader, pretending to be a journalist, suggests you are correct.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
"Most political consultants are not media experts" is the first point and could have been a tweet read to oneself in the mirror.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Wanted a pickup but remembered trying to maneuver my boss's Tundra in a busy, but regular sized parking lot in my area and nearly having a fit.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Dems aren't doing enough about the white man sex drought. I'm a Dem strategist.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
My Tacoma feels like a boat until i get out and am surrounded by every other pickup on the market and realize how much I love my sub-compact clown car by comparison.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Opening my windows and turning the heat on in summer in solidarity.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
This combined with all the white dudes tripping over themselves to say white dudes need to have sex or else? The party is fucked if the message can't get through this wall of "friendly" money that everyone pretends is Democratic Party funds.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
She is every bit of the "strongly worded letter" that gets thrown at Schumer and Jeffries. She's one of my senators.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Your son wasn't worth mentioning as a reason along with atheism and your daughters to assume you vote Dem, but now a daughter (amongst at least two) and this son both voted Dem?
Aaron van Dorn (@aaronvandorn.bsky.social) reposted
Thinking about how the Times would have covered Joe Biden doing this and feeling calm, serene, like I'm floating in a vast warm ocean
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
What is the state of the popular notion of AI if something big and negative happens with OpenAI?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
The start with "This is simple advice. Read it carefully." is both very funny and has meaningfully altered my completely bad assessment of Gemini. Useless for me, but this tone is perfect for what I imagine "AI" should look like and Ellie isn't paid hundreds of millions of dollars. Why?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
"Use Your Imagination™" feels like a funny slogan to feature on a blue book.
Ariella Elm (@ariellaelm.bsky.social) reposted
Today is election day. We have four flip opportunities all across the country, the most consequential one being Iowa State Senate District 1, where we can break the Republican super majority. 1/
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You wouldn't happen to be part of that system, would you?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
*finishes filling a hole marked A. Coleman* Hmmm? Yes, we need good left candidates in the mid-west.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
There's just zero ability to chill and everyone going gaga over this supposed "good sign"? I'm tired.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social)
Both sides, Iraq, Afghanistan. Hope he wins, but this dude has the most rancid vibes. Good luck to Maine.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck motive and intent, we are living within their impact. Trump is President until he isn't. The actions of every single one of them was to make Trump President. I cannot change that, you cannot change that.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Dickhead, there were two outcomes to the election. The People chose Trump and The People didn't give any power to his opponents. What is your idea? They secretly didn't want Trump to be elected and wanted to be saved from their choice?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
They voted for this. It is irrelevant that they didn't want consequences.
ellie lockhart (she/they) (@eleanor.lockhart.contact) reposted
do people understand that regardless of whether we *should* bail out rural hospitals, we're not gonna? because Republicans, who created this problem, are still in power? by the time we're even theoretically in a position to change that those hospitals will already be gone
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Then Trump should stop that and Dems don't have the ability to stop him from doing that. Seems like they should have made better choices.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
People exercised their right to vote for Trump. How do you propose protecting their kids from that choice?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't seem like the type to support Republicans becoming illegal to identify as.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
They voted for this. How do you propose to protect their kids from them?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I watched them hand Trump a knife that they hoped was pointed elsewhere and are now whining that there's a knife-shaped object lodged in their back.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Their legal guardians as recognized by literally any legal entity from local up to federal.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you propose undoing their vote?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you propose extracting minors and otherwise disabled people from their lawful guardians? Oh, just keep shoveling money at them and they might come around.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Possible Democratic voters that found Trump acceptable? I don't understand why you don't understand this is happening regardless of your feelings. Trump is President. The choice was already made. I choose to enjoy these people getting precisely what they voted for.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
This was the extremely foreseeable result(and then some) of a (or no) vote for Trump. I do not care what people's excuses are any longer, what's done is done. Fuck them.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
And what's the threat? They pulled that trigger already.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
There's literally no point to what you've said. This is the result of those votes and non-votes and I'm not inclined to believe they thought Trump would be good, so fuck them and fuck you.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm a minority in this house and Jeffries has yet to visit me, so fuck him.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You're microdosing motte and baileys. This is fucked, my guy.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Due to Pelosi? Not an election?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
There's been a shitload of time traveling going on in this thread.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
You need a job if you are this in the weeds of a subject that you demonstrably do not have any kind of handle on. Get a hobby.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
What?
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
This simply has to be a bit.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
Schumer doomed the republic with a gun to his head, Jeffries needs to turn the minority leader position into being Speaker or he has literally killed me, and Bernie is just being silly lil ol grandpa.
Peter (@peterc3k.bsky.social) reply parent
This has to be a bit. This can't be real.