Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I should have written that as "of their ideological hangups" to better identify whom my comment was directed towards.
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view profile on Bluesky Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I should have written that as "of their ideological hangups" to better identify whom my comment was directed towards.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Disturbing use of a study as proof of your ideological hangups without even reading the contents. The philosophy of sophistry.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Gee, you don't seem to have many cases in blue states. Sort of the message right there. Not much call for challenges in blue states.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait! He's taking money from billionaires now? I mean, none of us folks got that kind of scratch.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Any chance you could post up the average WAR numbers of each team? One person's number doesn't prove effectiveness.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I find it sadly ironic that 80 years later we are experiencing a role reversal in political dynamics.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Even Executives demand these basic conditions.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
If Capitalism is the most distinctive characteristic, why do Republicans keep on tanking the economy?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
These people have zero self-esteem.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Not while its publisher, a billionaire wannabe is so itchy to be a major oligarchy player. We've seen the competition among news org owners & corporations, competing with each other to be Donald's favorite.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Normalizing the worst crimes imaginable.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
"The King James Version (1611): This translation for the Church of England was a massive undertaking by 54 scholars. It became the dominant English Bible for over 300 years and is known for its elegant language." This is when the bible was "written". Who knows what was left on the editing floor.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm thinking NATO troops could learn quite a bit from Ukraine. Like how to best use NATO military equipment & effective use of drones.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, this is true...Trump isn't in town.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
That's one trip that the Supreme Court can't delay by holding onto it for a year.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Rudy wakes up and asks RFK Jr, "Why are you putting bbq sauce on my ankle?"
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
He's at the stage where he can't lie very much anymore.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Check Trump's Oval Office.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
And to whose responsibility? Evangelicals?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
The cold-blooded malignancy of this despicable ideology won't be forgotten. When these people beg for mercy, none should be shown. No more of this "water under the bridge" shit.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
So it was a sweep up until 99% of the series?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
And the Republicans call Liberals woke? How is going apeshit trying to erase other people's heritage not cancel culture?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Creating a hero complex for him? Will we find out if he was intoxicated?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
The folks over at Four Seasons Total Landscaping send their well wishes.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
If not put in prison, the thousands of people illegally deported should class action sue him into financial extinction.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
How can deporting hundreds of innocent children without parents or guardians not be considered human trafficking?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Majority of boomers are on Social Security now....so there's trhat. Maybe Prof Galloway needs to talk about Gen X like himself? And even then, as you say, it's baloney. Galloway is grooming an audience.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
ICE goons wanted their time and a half overtime pay
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Yet, I read editorials from your "news" org that chastise the Liberal government's dealings with Trump. Do any of you people coordinate content?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
What makes the opinion writer, since this isn't news, believe it will "fade into irrelevance"? Any facts to share? I mean, that's what news organizations used to do—provide facts. Now it seems that editorializing everything is the only choice consumers have.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like a building contractor needed the rain gutter drops to complete new home builds and didn't want to pay for the parts or the delivery of the parts is too far past the home closings.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention the fact that the government is advertising at all. They cut aid around the world, medical science protection for the country, healthcare for millions and food assistance to many millions as well. Just to advertise how they are wasting millions of dollars to please frightened racists?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
If the country ever gets squared away again with the Nazis expunged from government, the country will have a big job making these families whole again.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
There will always be the money they are paid. They can't avoid forensic evidence & we know none of these slobs would work for free.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
He's a picture of corruption. He's another crook, who like Trump, has friends who keep him from being prosecuted. Imagine an Attorney General who thinks less of the law than some crook who has been in jail for 50 years.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope alternatives becomes more viable b/c AI garbage is flooding some platforms. Facebook is awash in disinformation.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Ever notice how chintzy he is when his own money is on the line? Taxpayer cash? Blows through it like it's an endless supply...which to him, it is.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet he can't wait for the Putin-style oligarchy to set up, so he can tell the "subjects" what to think & who to vote for.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like someone angling for a felony assault charge on a child.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you asking if exporting energy is a good way to use the excess energy produced? Seriously? Would you want the situation reversed?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Stating the obvious as opinion is an actual reversal for a media organization.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
The total irony in all this "protect the children" rhetoric is that none of these extremists say one word about the obvious elephant in the room & that is evangelical pastors sexually assaulting children. How many reports have we seen over the last ten years? The President is top of the list, too.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this reporting or an editorial based on what hasn't happened yet?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Not sure I understand how people living longer in their homes is somehow them purposely blocking the next generation. Isn't it more economically complex than this inference?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn't this contradict your initial post?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Your job is to see whose photo you are using. This image taken by www.instagram.com/vanessaclfra... www.instagram.com/p/C_QxRhZsR7...
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe shouldn't be drinking and watching his "glory days" Superman TV show and then believing he could fly.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social)
But AP, was any big money behind Abbott's gerrymander? No, you only cover what the Dems do as if news is in a vacuum. apnews.com/article/cali...
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
And Trump cut DC's funding for this and adding more law enforcement. I wonder which costs more?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social)
Texas & Republican anti-science influence. "Harris County health officials are working to identify close contacts. TB is treatable and curable with medication." www.khou.com/mobile/artic...
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm thinking that by focusing on Hispanics for six months without regard to legality, this might change perceptions. However, once in MAGA, breaking out resembles escaping a dangerous cult—facts are rejected irrationally regardless of evidence. They think like sports fans, not accepting criticism.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I disagree with delaying enforcement as his disastrous tariffs are causing real harm to tens of millions of people, not just in the US, but in all nations affected by a racist, feckless foreign policy.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Another conservative-oriented reading of a poll where the smaller number is pushed more than the larger number. Naturally they support the smaller poll number in favor of Trump's chaos.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Heaven forbid any of those yahoos walked thru the woods on a windy day. Or ever listened for hours as a snowstorm pushed thru your town with howling winds all night.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no! Who could have predicted a social deviant creep would want to steal data to sell online?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
The US govt is not the best but it is inherently hard to knock it off stride...even when the damage is from the inside. The extremist rightwing think tanks have been planning this political coup for years.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Plagiarism on a monumental scale. In a few years, AI will be winning court cases on who actually owns any copyrights for anything.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Everytime this happens, another piece of everyone's heart is removed. Well, mostly everybody.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
These people are beyond cynical and callous. Yet if you brought him into a court for any crime, he'd be begging for the judge's leniency. And worse, his white priviledge would allow him to escape punishment.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
That 1% is sure carrying a lot of weight as well.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Grift...nothing but grift.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
How Trumpers just want the endtimes to get here as soon as possible. An entire political cult based on nihilism.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
No answer of course. This worm wades in hipdeep hypocrisy.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Won't stick to slime.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, the kind of "jewel" best flushed down the toilet. Followed closely by this nazi.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, ALL political careers die at some point, right?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
So democracy being lost is a side issue. That helps you how?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Reported as SPAM
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
So this is how these dishonest people work. A gun fetishist, brainwashed by another gun fetishist shoots up yet another group of innocent children is now forgotten and blame is now on Dems who aren't buying the hearts and prayers schtick? So turn it backwards as an attack on Christians? Really?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Unjust governement interference? So traveler's just have to suck it up? I'm pro-union but this nonsense about fighting against aribitration which benefits workers seems numb.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy is as addled with dementia as Trump is.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
So he reverse engineered an obsolete storage medium? So when is he going to open up a new factory?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell you one thing, most of the multi-million dollar CEOs find business so boring and want to get into "managing" the country.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile, Dems fight among themselves over policies instead of maybe figuring out how to get IN OFFICE FIRST. The voters are desensitized to anything beyond a daily political outrage that is forgotten the next day. You can't even campaign on the atrocities of Trump anymore. The media doesn't care.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Also failing to indict felony assault with a Subway sandwich. That is icing on the cake for the sheer ineptitiude in assuming the public would kneel to their takeover.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Their problem is it isn't Democrats shooting up schools and churches.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing like blowing the dust off some old favorite anti-Obama propaganda, huh?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Based on my limited experience, AI generally improves internet searches. The best results are the ones that show links to sources. However, a culture that doesn't care about accurate sourcing isn't going to check which sources the AI model used. (This post edited using Grammarly AI)
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Good enough...that's the idea of review of upcoming legislation...by all sides. The problem in modern politics is the opposition want to kill any or all legislation to create the perception that the governing party can't pass anything. Partisan sabotage of any legislation is common now.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
The perception of fear sells guns and other weapons. The use of crime statistics to allude that crime is out of control when its not and the idea that defense with deadly force should extend to whereever you are. Castle Doctrine outside of your Castle. This is why the US is sinking in gun violence.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wildly popular with most of his billionaire constituents. The only ones upset are those who wanted even larger tax cuts and wanted to inflict more pain on the middle class.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Only while Conservatives aren't in office. You can guarentee that Poilievre is under orders to weaken the Canadian economy and the dollar.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
With the current leadership of the Secret Service, does anyone want their "protection?" This action is, of course, just another petty move by a petty man.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wouldn't this be tough on comedy & parodies? Couldn't skits be confused with movie scenes they were using? As we've seen corporate greed has created a barrier to new stories & subject remakes.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Firstly, Chamberlain wasn't widely considered as being an employee of Hitler.... Secondly, based on Trump's behavior & actions, Chamberlain would have had to get a dozen or more empty assurances from Hitler to compare. Trump is considerably worse than Chamberlain.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Millions of people are tired of the contradictory gas-lighting from Trump surrogacy social media sewage collection platforms.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
This person, as are all Trump press secretaries, is a paid-to-be-hypocrite. She doesn't work for the public, she only speaks to please the psychotic dementia patient in the Oval Office.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does a platform have to placate assholes to "survive?"
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
But no story on the abysmal Phillies pitching? Or was he up against the "best" of the bullpen?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy needs to start a manufacturing company that can build portable metal detectors. That way people can protect themselves with a metal detector to scare away a deranged psycho with an assault-type weapon. Hoping people tune into my sarcasm.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
It also helps that its about the only remaining platform which actually uses moderation to keep the dregs you see on Facebook & TwitterX off the platform.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Worse is the subservience of local, county & state law enforcement. They don't swear an oath to any President. He isn't their commander.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention, who needs a third party corroboration of what we have seen with our own eyes?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile these days, crazed anti-vaxxers are, for some reason, taking victory laps, claiming that everything that has happened proved they were right. How can anyone deal with people that far gone? We now see the inherent danger in refusing or not caring to vote.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social)
@kriswolfhe.art Typical goof makes a comment like this and then blocks off any one replying. Is this a part of the $100 million to kill the Nov Redistrict Map vote?
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Wouldn't be surprised if ICE doesn't grab him, decide he's a food-oriented dangerous offender and try to deport him to El Salvador. Bondi is probably upset they ever went to a grand jury...very unusual for these DOJ thugs.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
This is because the majority of the media is corporate owned and apparently heavily censored.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if Subway is going to do an advertising blitz on this? They've been in the marketing doghouse for years. Although I'm not sure how you sell a sub you'd rather throw away than eat....
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
Ham yes, but Salami no.
Michael Martin (@pinemikey.bsky.social) reply parent
On thing they definitely are is vindictive. Look to the maligniant attitude towards Kilmer Abrego Garcia.