JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
A good picture deserves an encore.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Pritzker to the White House, Mayor Johnson to the Governor's Mansion.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What the fuck is wrong in his head? Have fuckin worms eaten his brain or something?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe they need anti-depressant drugs. Maybe that is the link.
Debbie Hemenway (@debbiehemenway.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
That's why they're going to just keep juicing him and do their Weekend at Bernie's thing
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
It's an interesting thought. What does the MAGA-verse look like after Trump?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
And what if we design all our schools to have as much security as a maximum-security prison, what if the shooter is standing outside the school as school is letting out? So what do we do then? Militarize the shit out of our cities? Seems like sensible gun legislation would be simpler.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
After this Trump era is over we can't just go on and put it behind us. Those who committed atrocities have to be held accountable.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
For the record, a traitor and domestic terrorist and will carry these labels for all time.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
"...we're heavily into the world of magnets now." This is the kind of thing you hear in a lunatic asylum. WTF?
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JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought he said just yesterday that he was NOT a dictator. Now he says he is?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
😢
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm in my 50s. I have actually watched it.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
It sounds like a protection racket.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
WTF!
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
They for sure will be once she is in prison.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know what you would call it. I would call it premature aging.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I have noticed that her face has significantly aged over the past 7 months. I don't think any job is worth that.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Sanctuary for immigrants is probably the most American thing there is.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I love a smart state. Meanwhile, the residents in red states are eating lead paint chips.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
Man said he got "fed up with the lies that Trump is like Hitler" while tearing down signs and acting like one of Trump's brownshirts.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
You should watch THE SIREN podcast, if you are angry, if you are furious and don't know where to punch, you should watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DdW...
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans, especially MAGA Republicans, don't have a clue how to do humor. I imagine it is because the point of everything they say and do is to be cruel. That is why the playground bully never won when the playground decided to stand up and stand together.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I loved watching Giorgia Meloni during the meeting. She seemed barely able to contain her mirth at the insanity of the whole thing. I imagined they had a hard time convincing her to come. They probably finally convinced her by telling her it would be good fun to sit in the court of the Mad King.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
The look on Putin's face is like: "Holy shit, this is going better than I ever could have imagined!"
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
It cannot write the stories. That is my point.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump invites Putin to the White House and lets him sit behind the Resolute Desk.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What does that even mean? I understand Trump saying it; of course he does. What does it mean when Putin says it? It's like a bank robber saying, "If Trump had been president, I wouldn't have robbed that bank."
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I once stayed at a shelter in LA. Worst experience of my life.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
AI cannot help you with fiction. It cannot write better stories than a human. At least not from what I have seen.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
AI doesn't know how to write. I talk to it plenty about what I am working on. I ask it for advice. I use it for research. Sometimes it tells me how to write a passage, and I tell it, "No, thank you. I can figure out the words on my own." Its words are hackneyed.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
If you look over the past decade, it's a lot. I mean, it could fill an entire prison.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
They can't go to those issues, such as a proposal to fix the climate crisis or funding childhood lunch programs, because they've gotten their constituents to hate those issues.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
This is what I would like to see in 2029: @aoc.bsky.social as President @petebuttigieg.bsky.social as Vice President @kamalaharris.com as Attorney General That would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What the heck? Are they just waiting around waiting for crime to happen?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What are they doing? Just hanging around waiting for crime to happen?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
A river means "lots of water." lol What a fuckin' genius!
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What am I missing?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Can he actually do it if the underlying reason is bogus?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
What I am not getting is since falsifying government records is a crime, then why hasn't charges been brought against the former BLS Commissioner? I am not saying that is what she had done, but the administration ought to put their money where their mouth is.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
They arrested the suspects. Isn't that how law and order is supposed to work? If you want to stop crime at the local level, then you need good policy at the federal level.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
We are the most ridiculous nation on earth right now.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans don't want a democracy. They want an authoritarian state because they bizarrely believe that in an authoritarian state they will somehow win. But here's the reality: the only one who wins in an authoritarian state is the authoritarian.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
How the fuck can his supporters not see that he never ever EVER takes blame for anything? That is unrealistic: to say it's always someone else's fault. I understand that people don't naturally want to accept responsibility, but at some point you have to say, "I messed up."
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
So let me see if I understand. Trump's complaint against the BLS commissioner is that Biden had good numbers when he was president and Trump is not getting good numbers? What kind of fucked up stupid ass idiot do we have at the helm of our country!?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump is a fucking idiot. He looks and sounds like an idiot.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Anything can be any fuckin thing you want it to be if you ignore all the incriminating context.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Does that mean they are all now pro-pedophilia, or they just don't want to see that Trump is a pedophile?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been a center-left voter for all my political life - ever since I looked at my voting habits and thought about my values. I thought the center is where things can get done. But now after reevaluating I believe we need a progressive movement in America. I am so looking forward to voting for AOC.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
😢
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
It was okay when they believed it was all the Democrats doing all of that. Then they were salivating and rubbing their hands together furiously.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't understand how they could not have even suspected there was possibly some guilty association between Trump and Epstein. I mean, the fingerprints are all over the gun, right? Instead they're going and on and on about Hillary and a pizza joint and other bullshit?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
How could they not have known that Trump would be in there?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
We did hear about it for days, but Biden was always cogent. It was easy to watch a 10 second clip and believe it proved he was cognitively deficient. It was harder to watch a full interview as he answered questions with an astounding clarity of the issues.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I am not proficient in math, I'll readily admit, but I am pretty sure you cannot reduce a number by 1000%.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
The U.S. Olympic team ought to be barred from participating in the games.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
Bribery in the open. "When you're the President they let you do it."
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I think it is important to consider the entirety of the context. I provided you with the article.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay, this is a block.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
There are no credible accusations, unlike those against Trump.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
No, Democrats will be the first to say. Understand we are not the party of disinformation or misinformation.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
No, they would find no home in the Democratic Party.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Basic morality.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Big difference is that Democrats won't let them get away with it. We won't turn a blind fuckin eye, but instead turn them out of politics so that the only political home they could have thereafter would be in the Republican Party.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
It is important to note that Bill Clinton doesn't have the long history of predatory behavior of women and children. He abused his position as president, yes, but predatory? The right would like you to think so, but imo it just made him a bad husband at the time.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I hate the fact that we have this fuckin rapist and child predator as our fuckin president.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't get how he thinks that is a good campaign message for himself. It's like the captain of a ship telling the boarding passengers that he will be the first to get the hell off if the ship goes down.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I have this terrible feeling that a lot of the new ICE recruits are J6ers.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
All governors should be like him. We would have a much kinder nation.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
That extra yacht for Mr. Billionaire. That $200 million mansion he had been looking at for some time and now with your money he will be able to buy.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
A statement like that should give Mamdani a boost in the polls.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Cuomo is now running campaign for Mamdani? Man, he really does attract a broad coalition!
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JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought 2020 would have definitively answered the question "does listening to propaganda get you killed?"
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
IKR?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
That is so stupid. It is not like the LGBTQ+ community was coming to his door to recruit him at gunpoint, which is what is happening to him now.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I will sign up for whatever streaming service carries Stephen Colbert.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Just read this story. It's probably the most idiotic story I'll read today. www.rawstory.com/lgbtq-267337...
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, the fact that dozens of wealthy individuals are getting away without accountability for their association with Jeffrey Epstein is boring. Okay then.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Man, looked like Trump was expecting Chelsea to hoist him on their shoulders and take a victory lap.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
Trump said that the only thing the Department of Education should do is make sure all the students speak English. Not surprising.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope Bill Clinton isn't on that list. I hope he didn't also prey on children. But if he is on that list, then that far outweighs any good he ever did and should live the rest of his life in ignominy for that AND a prison jumpsuit.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
And it went away just before the 2016 election. THAT is the swamp: what power can buy.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't get how they can want the "release of the names of those in power in both DC and Hollywood who raped children" and yet deny the accusation of a woman who said Donald Trump raped her in the early 90s when she was 13 and threatened to kill her family if she ever said anything.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG, reading your posts I don't know whether to laugh or fuckin cry.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:” - sign up now to join me!
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Trump wanted to cash in on some of the good results Israel was having in its war with Iran. He has done similarly all his life. Years ago he showed up at charity event that he had nothing to do with, got his picture taken, then left right away.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would she have facilitated genocide?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I wish people took voting as the serious thing it is. After all, it really is the difference between whether you can eat or not, or have a home or not, or live or not.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
This is definitely why we need a woman in the White House. What are your plans in '28?
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
Basically a dick comparison contest. "Look, my bomb is bigger than your bomb."
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
I have this terrible sinking feeling that a lot of people didn't go to the polls because they thought she had it while also thinking they were the ONLY one using their one vote (or non-vote) as a political statement.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
No, she would not. She would be trying to make buying a new house more affordable. Unfortunately, some people thought that was a bridge too far.
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social)
MAGA insight from the net: "Better a nuclear war than the whole world in flames like Joe Biden would have brought us."
JulianneLouise (@qacyperling.bsky.social) reply parent
Deporting 100s of thousands or millions of undocumented immigrants isn't going to help them win elections, if that's what they're going for, because undocumented immigrants aren't voting, but it sure is pissing off a lot of people who are voting.