Scratchbrands
@scratchbrands.bsky.social
Serial entrepreneur & Investor. Currently involved in Glamping Gourmet, a freeze dried ready-to-eat food manufacturer. Meals are nutritious & delicious with healthy farm-to-table ingredients and tasty menus. No additives or preservatives or extra salt.
created November 16, 2024
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Scratchbrands (@scratchbrands.bsky.social)
βΉοΈIt's taken me time to wrap my head around this. The goal of this administration is to deliberately & negligently kill off its population. I believed at first they were incompetent but I was wrong: they are malign and evil and we are suffering a calculated campaign by our leadership to eradicate us.
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Perfect! The IG link accomplished the task. Thank you.
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Cadelago needs to shut up and stop interrupting and listen! The worst moderator of all time.
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X is my ex
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Post a screenshot or copy and paste the text. Those of us who fled X can't read it.
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War of attrition, I say
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USA is alone. Tariffs stop deliveries so countries stop trading. Gutted safety agencies, a growing federal police, kleptocracy, increasingly dangerous to live. GOP is creating an exorbitant country that will make the middle class poor and the poor unable to live. When will be time 4 revolt? π
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Been saying this for years
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healthy is an adjective modifying bonus, not indicating the level of fitness
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Do you see how these are mutually exclusive?
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Wow!
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And an expedited path to a federal ICE position with a healthy signing bonus!
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Steven Wright: "I saw a subliminal ad exec today... but just for a second."
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Yuppie backpackers, preppers, anyone who wants a supply of food that lasts decades. Freeze dried food lasts forever because no moisture = no deterioration, and we developed a special thick bag that's shelf stable for 30+ years.
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Next month we're launching GlampingGourmet.com in North Carolina. Healthy, nutritious freeze-dried ready-to-eat delicious meals for backpackers & preppers. Tear open the pouch, add boiling water, wait 5 mins, and enjoy! Farm-to-table ingredients. No additives, preservatives, excess salt. π½ππ’ππ²π
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Wow! Hard to believe people can be brainwashed to see our country recommitting the worst atrocities in history and say 'Ho Hum!' I definitely ended up in the wrong simulation!! I'm impelled to apologize to the rest of humanity on behalf of my misguided nation. πβΉοΈπ₯π
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Same!
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I wanted to share a food tip: My dairy and sauce containers were growing mold quickly in the fridge. Mold is aerobic (requires air to turn,) so I started storing my containers upside down. This allows the product to settle to the bottom and removes oxygen from the top. No more premature mold!
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Nice homage to WarGames
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Congratulations! Such a great accomplishment. On a side note, what a great format for the closing with the graduated indentations on the left margin making the margin appear slanted! I love it. Innovative and chic.
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Ridiculous. The judge who denied the order should be impeached for dereliction of duty.
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If I were running the library, I'd use overdue book fines as a revenue source. Enlist a collection agency and go after those fools all while the fees mount daily.
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I feel sorry for those who haven't discovered the joy of reading for pleasure. It's one of the most amazing privileges.
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Like food? Rx? Gas?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
If only John Bolton had had the Epstein Files, his house never would have been raided.
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Good point.
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I don't stay in conversations where people refuse to relinquish the floor. When you post and block replies, you're lecturing me but don't care about my response. I block people who habitually use one-way messaging. It's rude and self-important haughtiness.
Jozef Imrich (@jozefimrich.bsky.social) reposted
Judge Orders That βAlligator Alcatrazβ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now βΌοΈπ₯βΌοΈ A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades π¦ archive.md/G2WI6 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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Rats! Sounds like Marcus Lemonis might have gone MAGA. What a shame. I formerly respected him, emphasis on former. What is it with all these brilliant financiers embracing the dark side?
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Wordle 1,524 3/6* β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ β¬π¨π¨β¬π¨ π©π©π©π©π©
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yeah, greed isn't new.
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You're being myopic. People informed by different life experience have different perspectives. I may have information to which you aren't privy. Life's too short to argue. If you want to fight, there's plenty of it outside this platform.
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Guess it could be RuPaul
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For now, I see the glass half full.
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Ha! My service was in the 80's and 90's when military urban deployment was a revolting concept to the Pentagon. We were extremely well trained, our military the envy of the world. I hope the soldiers these days are learning useful life skills, not just how to rendition.
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Cute moniker btw
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The framers were savvy: that's why they ensured states control elections and the midterms are written into the constitution. Preserve your mental health. Don't let your fear predominate. Prepare for the worst but stay optimistic. Federal judges are still saving us.
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Yeah. In the meantime, I'm digging in, went off-grid and independent of fed govt yr ago, fortified defensive perimeter. Activated well, CCTV, solar, farm, launched new biz, stopped travel, shorted market, stockpiled Rx. Never expected I'd use in my 60s what I learned in my 20s in the military.
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I was addressing your question "I also donβt know why more Americans didnβt do all they could to get Harris elected," not relitigating. Americans will take it while the frog boils and become incensed until all hell breaks loose. Then, ya know, France. Using metaphor to prevent being banned.
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Trump and Musk have both admitted the GOP hacked the election. Add in the bomb threats only in Democrat precincts, the multiple court actions, voting threats, the election fraud (again only against Dems), and you get an unrepresentative subset of the people. And so many dazed young'uns didn't vote.
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LBJ lied about the Vietnam War insisting it was going great when we knew we were losing.
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Maybe we can put the responsibility on Gore's shoulders for caving when Bush quibbled about "hanging chads" which we now know was a deliberate manipulation and a fallback measure to steal the election by the GOP.
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Life's too short, old man. You're #BLOCKED, #TROLL
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Imagine if Obama had done any of this. The Republicans have lost any standing to complain ever again about the 'other side.'
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They are actually.
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What is coming could be so much worse than stagflation. Literally the crumbling of an empire. And if we lose reserve currency status, we'll be completely f*cked. What did this country expect when it hired a conman whose only ability in business was liquidating successful casinos?
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Not to mention its aerodynamics
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I'd vote for a Newsome/Buttigieg ticket
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Was it a nice train ride?
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Ha!
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Wish everyone realized the ramifications of this. We're living the result of an extremely effective PSYOP attack by Russia.
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She'll be on first name terms with her Doordash driver.
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Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's Dana Perino melting down over his tweets:
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Reading your bio we have some commonality. I grew up in Ft Collins before spending time in green at Bragg.
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Fair point. My evidence is aggregated from mostly unpublished and empirical sources and collated from my experience as an analyst. To explain further would take more chars than I have.
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Are you MAGA? Because you're incredibly antagonistic and seem to be spoiling for a fight. It's out there, not here.
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My typo stands corrected. Remedial action: Please insert an H before the W. Thank you for your attention to this matter. π
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Not willingly π
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Perfect storm- fed/civil fire/terms, runaway inflation, safety net gone: soc sec/Medi, stud loans, Ed Dept. Fed govt will lose capability: risk to fly eat drink breathe. Pandemic 2. Gestapo rounding up critics like us, markets crashing. AI's ascension will feel like a blessing. Before it kills us.
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Right! The polls - even the skewed ones - show him losing ground everyday. A huge majority (even majority of Republicans) hates the Epstein debacle, and most hate him for the ICE raids.
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I'm frequently wrong. But I bet on people, and I haven't lost hope yet! There are enough good ones left to save. #PEACE
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Thanks. We non-MAGA Americans will have our hands full apologizing and disproving culpability when dust settles. If we don't go full Eastern Germany. I think the vets are fed up with this crap and he'll be removed physically. I could be wrong; reports from military are alternately dis/encouraging.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Reminding that a previous regime used the same tricks we're complaining about in modern times is relevant, I think. Point is fake pretext for war has been going on a long time.
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When I was growing up they always said our system of govt wasn't great but it was the best of a bad lot. Alternatives haven't worked any better. It's reward systems that are at fault. What we incent will become coveted so the reward has to be good for society. We still have a chance.
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The media shows us the extreme cases. Many are turning away from Trump. We have to hope enough do before he accumulates enough power to no longer care. It's a chess game and the winner makes the second to last mistake.
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It's tough when we're hurting to look underneath the surface and see that they were swayed by a highly successful propaganda campaign. They seem irrational but they were incrementally steered this way. Be glad Putin didn't target our segment instead. PSYOP is extremely effective against everyone.
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Some won't. Many are already reconsidering. Took a while to heat this frog; it'll take time to cool it down.
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It takes a long time to turn the Titanic. There are cracks in his support. There will always be permanently-radicalized diehards but the frog was boiled slowly and it'll reinvigorate slowly. We're seeing much of Russia's PSYOP social media lens; St Petersburg IRA is masterful at darkening it.
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We're discovering many holes in our constitution that we need to fill. At least the framers were smart enough to allow amendments! The non-GOP will be busy when we take back the WH.
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W was in the WH when I was activated for Kuwait during Desert Shield, and his declaration of war turned it into Desert Storm. If it wasn't a war, I wouldn't have gotten a Purple Heart.
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Greenland?
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the American people?
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He's hoping an immature private will make a mistake and accidentally discharge their weapon. Then he'll have the pretext to declare a need for martial law. It all rests on the training of the lowest common denominator reservist. Shudder!
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The next ones won't be
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"W" started the Iraq war and 'Stan was after that.
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He might not have Congress, and by then more than half his supporters will have turned on him. The poor and disenfranchised will wake up when they can't afford to live.
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I'll play: "...A$$-fucked in his own Alligator Alcatraz while serving a short sentence before imposing the death penalty by guillotine."
RAOK (@evolvingempathy.bsky.social) reposted
Thank You Angie!! πππππ»ππ»ππ»ππΌππΌππΌπΊπΈ
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Part of me hopes this is true but another part realizes that if it is, we're completely fucked!