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ReadingWarrior

@readingwarrior.bsky.social

Retired Program Evaluation Specialist, cynic, skeptic, and curmudgeon. Ph.D. Leadership, Policy, and Research. M.B.A. Management Science. B S. Electrical Engineering.

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course he did.

1/9/2025, 1:47:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Then say that. One wrinkle, states like Florida just said no. Close but again no cigar.

1/9/2025, 1:43:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, bullshit is standard Democratic policy. Getting money out of politics requires an amendment or court packing. Peddling nonsense is no better than thoughts and prayers.

1/9/2025, 1:42:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Medicare for All has meant traditional Medicare (eliminating insurance companies). They suck, but going to war with them is suicidal. Obama knew that. Universal health coverage is a fine platform.

1/9/2025, 1:40:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I wouldn't bet that Trump does. He's delusional enough to believe otherwise. Bessent, Lutnick, etc. are another matter.

1/9/2025, 1:36:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a left-wing wish list with many items that are impossible to implement.

1/9/2025, 1:32:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Boycotting tariffs won't do squat. To them, 150 billion is a drop in the bucket. They're screwing their own, whose response needs to be kicking them out.

1/9/2025, 12:09:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Imbecile.

1/9/2025, 2:03:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. But he thinks we're too stupid to figure that out.

1/9/2025, 2:00:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The left has a pension for redefining reality. Genocide is the systematic attempt to eradicate a group. Casualties of war are not victims of genocide.

1/9/2025, 1:47:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

What's good for Wall Street is unrelated to what's good for Main Street.

1/9/2025, 12:08:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

edicts.

31/8/2025, 9:11:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the first edits of King Ronald I was to fire PATCO. The worshipful serfs cheered their new-found liege.

31/8/2025, 8:26:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

As for money and politics. There is Citizens United. Constitutional amendments are as common as passenger pigeons. Your motives are pure but feckless nevertheless.

31/8/2025, 8:00:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

How do you deliver on I and III? Promise and fail, and we're done. Medicare for All will never happen. The Swiss model might work. Tranformation requires some transactions. Get shit done!!!!

31/8/2025, 7:54:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

"Casey Jones, you've better watch your speed." - TGD

31/8/2025, 7:08:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

"Don't drink the water, and don't breathe the air." - Tom Lehrer.

31/8/2025, 6:20:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Quality reporting is an endangered species.

31/8/2025, 5:53:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The comment must have been an epiphany for Wolf.

31/8/2025, 5:51:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA extremists are also taking healthcare away from other MAGA extremists. Karma!!

31/8/2025, 5:48:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Do all reporters play dumb or are they actually dumb?

31/8/2025, 5:31:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Should have been air quotes around prosperity.

31/8/2025, 5:30:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank.

31/8/2025, 11:14:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The Reagan Democrats abandoned the party to embrace the prosperity of neoliberalism. Right after he was elected, he fired PATCO. It's been downhill for the middle class ever since. In response, they've moved further right.

31/8/2025, 2:22:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure it was. They just weren't honest about what would be trickling down.

30/8/2025, 10:03:24 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

GUNS ASSHOLE!!!!

30/8/2025, 9:05:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Or another novel pathogen.

30/8/2025, 7:04:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Eat your soft serve and ignore the smell.

30/8/2025, 7:03:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't Look Up and Idiocracy are actually documentaries.

30/8/2025, 7:02:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

No. But we have to wake them up. The great mass of MAGA is one natural disaster or pandemic away from destitution.

30/8/2025, 6:57:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Is that manure?

30/8/2025, 6:00:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

We are the Eloy.

30/8/2025, 5:59:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You are implying that everyone thinks that your HRT is frivolous. You can't support that. What is likely is that half the country is tuned out and can't be bothered to pay attention. Most of them are doing far worse, yet they elected the jackass. Most are getting shit on to deferring degrees.

30/8/2025, 5:59:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You can insist all day long that a steaming pile is chocolate ice cream, but the stench still won't go away.

30/8/2025, 4:58:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

In other words, the Democrats are feckless whiners.

30/8/2025, 4:54:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

My favorite: norm breaking.

30/8/2025, 4:34:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, and Big Macs are health food.

30/8/2025, 3:48:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Prayer and Ivermectin are equally effective.

30/8/2025, 2:57:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

It is obvious to anyone paying attention.

30/8/2025, 2:54:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless it's Ivermectin and bleach.

30/8/2025, 12:49:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Then we're screwed.

30/8/2025, 11:11:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone take away the car keys. During Trump 1, farmers were nearly wiped out. The poor and middle-class are now subsidizing billionaires. The patriotic thing to do.

29/8/2025, 11:25:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You're over 65.

29/8/2025, 11:21:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is about to launch a nuclear attack. The courts have ruled that he had no authority to do so. They will suspend the stay while he appeals, and the world is destroyed. Idioprudence.

29/8/2025, 11:05:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think so. IMHO, they will have to rule that Congress has to declare an emergency. If not, he can ship SCOTUS and Congress to CECOT. Roberts isn't dumb.

29/8/2025, 10:41:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect SCOTUS will eventually rule that Congress must declare the state of emergency. If they don't, Trump will rule by decree and start arresting them and the legislature. Roberts isn't that foolish.

29/8/2025, 10:39:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You don't have to be a math whiz to know that 30/38 (78.9%) >> 56.1%. Nine Pinocchios!!!!!! Where is Tommy Udo when you need him?

29/8/2025, 10:04:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Who anointed you king?

29/8/2025, 9:59:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You and Peter Dinklage.

29/8/2025, 9:55:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Sudafed doesn't have the NRA to lobby for it.

29/8/2025, 9:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, an you would give him an F.

29/8/2025, 9:51:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Amen. Please add. SCOTUS decides money is speech, corporations are people, and McCain-Feinhold is unconstitutional.

29/8/2025, 9:49:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Chris is being diplomatic.

29/8/2025, 9:09:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Pestilence cares more about public health than RFK does.

29/8/2025, 9:08:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

www.google.com/search?clien...

29/8/2025, 9:04:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Ergo, Ron, and Greg are Christofascists.

29/8/2025, 9:02:02 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

If Florida is Desantistan, Texas is Abottabad.

29/8/2025, 9:00:22 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

TEXAS: “Would I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?” REP. ORR: “No. It protects biological females.” @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : “That’s what I am.” More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...

29/8/2025, 8:52:17 PM | 3645 1360 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I think it's more like 25/75.

29/8/2025, 8:56:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Every patriotic American should send him a $100 McDonalds gift certificate.

29/8/2025, 8:54:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The career of "we're all going to die" just did.

29/8/2025, 8:53:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Just ask your magic 8 ball.

29/8/2025, 8:49:51 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't know that Nazis dropped windowpane.

29/8/2025, 8:48:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

If i wanted to see shit, I would walk my dog. He won't change, so there's no point.

29/8/2025, 7:30:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Moderates for sure. Some conservatives. The thinking kind.

29/8/2025, 7:28:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Trolling, I guess.

29/8/2025, 7:27:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

I blocked him. Sources of news and robust debate are in short supply. Those who resort to name calling can't construct an argument. Twitter is the place for them.

29/8/2025, 7:23:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

"Never argue with a fool. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." -Mark Twain.

29/8/2025, 7:14:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom has the patience of a saint.

29/8/2025, 7:11:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Prohibitions of any kind don't work. Alcohol can cause fatalities, so can narcotics.

29/8/2025, 7:07:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

People should be allowed to have guns if they obey the law. If you're going to impinge on someone else's personal liberty, don't whine when they impinge on yours.

29/8/2025, 7:05:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a hyperbolic non-starter. Assault weapons should be banned, period. Handguns should be limited to clips of seven licensed and insured. Hunting rifles as well. Google Prohibition.

29/8/2025, 7:00:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Vladimir Harkonen. Where are Trump's suspensors?

29/8/2025, 5:26:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously, so can your idiot supporters.

29/8/2025, 4:33:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

If Congress doesn't take back its power, there will be a resurgence of childhood diseases that were nearly eradicated, not to mention Covid: Paxlovid isn't available to everyone. I fail to see the point in allowing this to happen.

29/8/2025, 4:32:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Big Beautiful Blue Wall (@buildbluewall.bsky.social) reposted

Nor is it popular to cripple soy bean and corn exports. Good news in Iowa!

29/8/2025, 4:16:54 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Deregulate and let industry run amok.

29/8/2025, 4:23:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Johnson is a Johnson.

29/8/2025, 2:55:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. To deal with mental health, we could lock up anyone who looks odd (80 percent of us), or we could put restrictions on gun ownership, which, despite what SCOTUS says, should not be an individual right. We shouldn't be required to live in bunkers so some moron can be armed.

29/8/2025, 2:28:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they bragging or complaining?

29/8/2025, 2:22:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Projection.

29/8/2025, 12:42:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Russian asset and American liability.

29/8/2025, 12:41:17 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The need for HRT is not limited to trans people. Don't put words in 97% of people's mouths.

29/8/2025, 12:38:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social)

@msnbc.com is having a wonderful academic discussion between Meachem and Ignatius based on the premise that the voters wanted populist. TRUMP IS NOT A POPULIST. HE JUST PRETENDS TO BE ONE. WE WERE FOOLED.

29/8/2025, 11:24:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Covfefe has congestive heart failure because Big Macs, Diet Coke, and Blow aren't healthy.

29/8/2025, 12:35:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Option.

29/8/2025, 12:27:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

For example, Medicare for All makes perfect sense, but it will never fly. Why? You will put trilion dollar insurance companies out of business. Obama brought them on board to get ACA. A system like Switzerland might work.

28/8/2025, 11:51:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

You have to compromise. The only way you will achieve all of what you want is by force. If you work within the system, you'll have to satisfice.

28/8/2025, 11:47:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Economic, yes. Neoliberalism is killing us. But the cure is not Stalinism. As for some of social policies, yours are hated.

28/8/2025, 11:23:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Lay off the bong.

28/8/2025, 11:19:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Nuts are nuts. Nuts should not have access to guns. Period.

28/8/2025, 9:29:59 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Like Butch before him, Bill Cassidy has blood on his hands.

28/8/2025, 8:38:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the wrecking crew writ large. Eviscerate government so they can steal us blind. Bon apetit.

28/8/2025, 7:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Many would have started praying, and that is the problem.

28/8/2025, 6:45:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. The clueless public embraced it so they could buy cheap luxury goods. Forty years later, they still haven't learned. Beware of Republicans bearing gifts!!!

28/8/2025, 6:43:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

This brings the synecdoche of migrant crime to an even more ludicrous level. If you wanted to protect us from mass shooters, you would start with right-wing Christian males.

28/8/2025, 6:21:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

That said, the subset of pregnant people that is not pregnant women (genetically) is the null set.

28/8/2025, 6:18:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The mean looks had nothing to do with NY and everything to do with him being an asshole.

28/8/2025, 6:14:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

The twit doesn't realize that women are people.

28/8/2025, 6:14:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ReadingWarrior (@readingwarrior.bsky.social) reply parent

IOW, religion really is the opiate of the people. All that prayer and no change. Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity.

28/8/2025, 6:12:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view