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Robbie

@rjpaterson.bsky.social

TAX THE RICH!

created November 17, 2024

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Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If I was going to hire someone to rig elections I’d give him the title of Chief Election Integrity Commissioner.

31/8/2025, 4:58:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

10 points for the title of the essay.

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

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If I lived in Florida I’d go out at night and paint rainbows fucking everywhere.

30/8/2025, 5:41:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Saying you need an AR-15 to hunt is like saying you need dynamite to fish. Stop the nonsense.

28/8/2025, 2:01:37 PM | 3624 768 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Who could’ve predicted…

25/8/2025, 3:16:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

*hear

22/8/2025, 4:12:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish he could what the European leaders are saying about him behind his back.

22/8/2025, 4:11:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

How big of an @$$hole do you have to be to do something like this!!!

22/8/2025, 4:06:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

RIP American Party, we hardly knew ya.

20/8/2025, 8:00:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Next to go will be in-person voting.

19/8/2025, 10:35:43 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 (@andrewchak.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Here is THE PEACE PLAN 👇

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18/8/2025, 7:52:36 AM | 455 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Fool me once…

17/8/2025, 3:49:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why real Presidents have their summits AFTER the deal has been finalized by a team of professional diplomats and negotiators. Trump has no self awareness of his limitations. His narcissism thinks he's the expert at everything.

16/8/2025, 8:09:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"The mission will be funded at the federal level.” WV thinks Trump is going to pay them back for cost of deployment. LOL

16/8/2025, 7:37:00 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 3:19:50 PM | 344 100 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Can’t wait to vote for this!

15/8/2025, 12:55:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We don’t miss her and would very much appreciate it if you didn’t mention her name again.

13/8/2025, 2:40:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, a new record low!!

9/8/2025, 6:51:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

What could go wrong ?

8/8/2025, 4:26:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Final nail in the coffin of American tourism and the American economy?

5/8/2025, 3:07:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

My guess is they got a lot of blowback from all the “Christians” who think a fertilized egg is an actual person.

4/8/2025, 1:15:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

No, he’ll just move on to new outrageous scandals. By the end of August people will wonder “Epstein who?” He’s the world’s most slippery man. Just when you’re sure you’ve got him cornered…

3/8/2025, 2:13:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

31/7/2025, 12:44:57 PM | 8176 2427 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If I were her I'd retire from politics (with my middle finger clearly displayed) and make a boatload of money with richest California law firm I can find.

31/7/2025, 5:13:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Best time to deny a false accusation is when everyone is looking.

25/7/2025, 1:42:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Great research and analysis! Thank you.

21/7/2025, 3:01:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

The administration with 10,000 scandals is accusing the administration with zero scandals of a scandal. Yea, sure.

19/7/2025, 7:10:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Smaug

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19/7/2025, 6:59:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Beth ✨️🇺🇸🇺🇦🎶🎸😸🍅🥓🌍💙 (@beth989898.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

"May"? Don't need to be a genius to know the people joining most likely will be of the ilk that stormed the Capitol building and have a 'vigilante' bent.

18/7/2025, 5:08:52 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anders Åslund (@andersaslund.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

"the challenge for the US today is China’s rise as a technological and scientific superpower. If it is to respond, the US must co-operate with its allies, devote far greater resources to scientific research and welcome talented immigrants — the exact opposite of what Trump is doing."

16/7/2025, 1:54:54 PM | 44 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

His narcissism makes him think he can wave his magic wand and pharmaceutical factories will appear all across America overnight.

16/7/2025, 3:52:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

…or move to San Francisco

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16/7/2025, 3:43:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Xenophobic Nazi fear monger.

16/7/2025, 3:36:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Racist moron!

16/7/2025, 3:16:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

All those transgender-bashing State and Federal legislators out there must be so proud. Fuck the lot of them.

16/7/2025, 3:10:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

What load of fanatical horseshit!

16/7/2025, 2:50:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/7/2025, 2:41:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA will get over this like they did with every other betrayal.

15/7/2025, 2:27:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

While high energy lasers have an upfront cost, the per-use cost is almost zero and the supply of "munitions" is limitless and immune to the vulnerability of wartime supply chains.

14/7/2025, 4:47:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

It will be a brief “future” since high energy lasers plus AI will quickly render drones and missiles obsolete.

14/7/2025, 2:03:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

6.1 hours? That stat smells like he just pulled it out of his ass.

14/7/2025, 1:53:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

A day late and a dollar short?

12/7/2025, 9:15:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

"While most people spent the budget fight fixated on health care policy, I suspect that in a year we will consider this legislation to be the moment that Trump created his own internal security apparatus."

12/7/2025, 3:59:04 AM | 792 286 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine thinking that one of the problems in this country is that some states treat their chickens too humanely.

10/7/2025, 2:18:33 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Every Russian knows what it means when someone “falls out of a window “. Dissent and disloyalty will not be tolerated.

5/7/2025, 5:21:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

How does it make sense to spend such huge sums of money trying to lock up and deport the very workers that our economy depends on? JC these people are stupid.

29/6/2025, 2:45:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

God forbid he should want to do something about our tragically high infant mortality rates.

26/6/2025, 2:27:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

Fool me once…

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26/6/2025, 2:08:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus Christinarowboat, what the fuck is wrong with these people? Picking random people up off the street and sending them to Sudan is just fine???

23/6/2025, 9:57:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That has certainly been true in the past but I’m not sure it still is. As a policy,“Getting the weapons of war off the streets of America” polls well and could potentially bring out a lot of voters. The NRA isn’t the all powerful force that it once was and Americans are truly sick of the carnage.

21/6/2025, 7:07:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a pretty impressive answer.

21/6/2025, 12:54:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

McRibs are back!

18/6/2025, 1:20:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Someone in the San Fernando Valley has already started filming “Massive Ordinance Penetrator”.

17/6/2025, 11:52:40 PM | 28 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Once again, time to kick the dust off this 2017 cartoon.

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17/6/2025, 4:44:56 PM | 1082 214 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Every day a new grift.

16/6/2025, 1:52:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s exactly what we’re worried about!

16/6/2025, 1:49:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

#nokings As far as the eye can see. Front of the march reached Civic Center before the last of the marchers had left Delores Park.

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15/6/2025, 2:13:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

San Francisco

14/6/2025, 9:08:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) reposted

In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/fOpI1NU

14/6/2025, 1:19:34 PM | 231 137 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

As if the last 80 years never happened.

13/6/2025, 2:37:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

George Washington was an activist.

11/6/2025, 7:16:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Half a century of Republican economic policy has been based on an economic theory that was discredited shortly after it was proposed.

11/6/2025, 7:10:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m old enough to remember the Republican tax cuts under Reagan, Bush, and Trump1 and every time they claimed that the tax cuts would pay for themselves and every time they added significant amounts to the deficit/debt. Every time they claimed the CBO was wrong and every time the CBO was right.

11/6/2025, 7:04:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably means some rookies will get some playing time and good for them.

11/6/2025, 6:50:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We need some real leadership here. Momentum needs to be steered away from violence that plays into Trump’s playbook and towards true nonviolent protests. We need the likes of Sanders, AOC, Pelosi, and Newsom to lead a huge silent or candlelight march, something that is conspicuously nonviolent.

10/6/2025, 3:47:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

Trump isn’t waiting for chaos—he’s engineering it. This National Guard move in LA isn’t about order. It’s bait. He wants a flashpoint big enough to justify invoking the Insurrection Act. Wake up. This is how power grabs start.

9/6/2025, 3:38:09 AM | 1874 602 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Walter (@walterkatz.bsky.social) reposted

“Ninety-two percent of the targeted Medicaid recipients already work, are in school, have family caregiving responsibilities or have disabilities.” The proposed work requirements have nothing to do with waste, they are designed to cut enrollment through paperwork. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

9/6/2025, 11:21:20 AM | 807 336 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gary R Simonds (@garys79.bsky.social) reposted

Amen

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8/6/2025, 1:22:09 PM | 1231 344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Zingher (@zingherpolisci.bsky.social) reposted

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

9/6/2025, 12:39:11 AM | 56576 17271 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

You say that like you are unaware that there were more than enough red state, anti-abortion Democrats to squash that vote.

6/6/2025, 1:28:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjqxGMv8/

5/6/2025, 10:31:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Since when is that illegal?

2/6/2025, 8:07:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

Fool me once…

30/5/2025, 2:59:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

“Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.”

24/5/2025, 9:00:45 AM | 1194 398 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social)

👇👇👇

23/5/2025, 7:06:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So immunity from judicial contempt proceedings is NOT a big issue?

21/5/2025, 8:18:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Alcatraz?

21/5/2025, 8:13:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Pepper (@davidpepperoh.bsky.social) reposted

🚨 🚨 Smoking Gun A 🧵 It’s a pretty simple rule of thumb. The forces attacking democracy have been at it for years. They know the gameplan. Which means they know exactly what conditions enable their long-range plan to succeed. 1/

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Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

This simply because the old guard of the GOP is long gone. They were either primaried from the right or retired knowing that was their fate.

21/5/2025, 1:58:03 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," where as the top 1% have more money than at any time in history, according to a new analysis. www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

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Profile picture Patricia Richardson (@patriciarichardson.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Transgender World (@transgenderreport.com) reposted

For those who have not looked into the complexity of biological sex, here is an illustration from Scientific American that presents the main points. #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #intersex 1/2

We apologize for not including a proper ALT text here. The figure from the Scientific American is a very complex map of how various genetic variations may lead to different outcomes in sex development.
1/5/2025, 8:19:45 AM | 63 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Transgender World (@transgenderreport.com) reposted reply parent

You might argue that the many variations of "biological sex" represent statistical outliers, but statistical outliers like intersex and transgender people are also real people who deserve respect and protection. trans-express.lgbt/p... 2/2

1/5/2025, 8:19:51 AM | 44 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Yea, I thought the same thing when I saw that clip. Told my wife that Pritzker would be a great candidate and she said: who?

29/4/2025, 4:29:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Real Christianity is so hard; group think is so much easier.

29/4/2025, 3:32:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.

29/4/2025, 3:23:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A Mere Solicitor (@ameresolicitor.bsky.social) reposted

“Biological Sex” turns out to be a fiction created by out of touch lawyers:

27/4/2025, 2:47:40 PM | 331 111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Shuham (@mattshuham.bsky.social) reposted

Re: U.S. CECOT detainees, the main q is NOT 'did they ever allegedly commit a crime?' Rather: Is the US allowed to deliver them into lifetime imprisonment in a notorious Salvadoran prison camp without charge, trial, sentencing, or consideration of international/asylum/anti-torture law? Clearly no!

18/4/2025, 8:16:21 PM | 2956 808 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Safe to say the markets would respond badly to that news, really badly!

16/4/2025, 7:16:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

My first question is: what time is the broadcast?

16/4/2025, 7:10:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Since you are in the process of BUYING equities, why would you want the prices to be high? Consider yourself lucky to be getting such good deals.

16/4/2025, 6:56:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted

This. Write your name in the history books on the right side of the ledger.

14/4/2025, 6:18:34 PM | 6198 1632 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We ignore the warnings coming from the bond market at our peril.

11/4/2025, 2:20:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Since Trump tweeted that “now would be a good time to buy” they can all claim that they were trading on publicly available information.

10/4/2025, 2:52:39 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

That was so all his friends who bought in before the announcement could claim they were trading on “public” information.

10/4/2025, 2:48:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s trying to win the Industrial Revolution.

7/4/2025, 1:49:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s definitely a strong contender for the Stupidest Person in Congress Award. Gezz Louise what a moron!

6/4/2025, 7:18:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robbie (@rjpaterson.bsky.social) reply parent

But we buy so many bananas from them and they don’t buy any from us, how is that fair?

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