Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Or a 12yo anime girl they lust after
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Or a 12yo anime girl they lust after
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Pritzker. Moore.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel a wave of disgust every time I'm reminded that Turtleboy exists...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't not go there any harder than I already am, unfortunately.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Me, personally? Celebrate. I'm not going to work - and if I'm at work, I'm leaving - and I'm going to go have a one-person party.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah. It's sub-par soul food. High calorie, bland, low nutritional value. You'll at least find better-tasting food and better company at a Denny's.
Coach Gowron (@coachgowron.com) reposted
Despair, not fear, is the greater enemy. Fear can be overcome, but when you have lost all hope, you have already lost. A true warrior knows that the smallest thread can unravel the greatest tapestry. Find that thread, don't let it go, and persevere.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
So this is a real-life Shadowrun origin story? Well, fork.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
I think it's about time the Epstein files were released.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
While I absolutely think he shouldn't be honored, wiping him completely from history allows this bullshirt to happen again. We need our mistakes visible and remembered so we don't repeat them.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Or that he's the first and other politicians are following him, as if he's some great leader of a movement. Pritzker and Moore were active at the same time, if not before. And neither have a disgusting history of being shirty to vulnerable groups as far as I'm aware... unlike Newsom.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
This feels accurate. I find his social media team's antagonizing of Trump and the Republicanazis absolutely hilarious, but funny isn't enough to get my vote. With his flaws and no sign of remorse or change in stance on those topics, he's not going to win my vote.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Heck yes. In tabletops, I try to have hobbyist or professional musician as part of my character's background. I one had a Mandalorian who would sing Dropkick Murphys while gleefully brawling with people.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Whoa, whoa, hold on. At least wet wipes serve a purpose.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
That's retaliation. And it's illegal. Who will uphold that law? Who knows at this point...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Burn a Trump flag while you're at it. Dear Leader will LOVE that.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Mississippi is dissenting? Damn, that's unexpected
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
If Obama or Biden signed this many Executive Orders in this short amount of time, the Republicans would be squalling about authoritarianism. But they're all cheering it on because it's their cult leader. Remember that.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Clearly, they (much like Dear Leader) have never heard "all publicity is good publicity." All their efforts make it so obvious who Trump considers a threat to his intended dictatorship.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I like that he eliminated the flames in the first one because, unlike Trump, he's not bent on razing the nation to the ground. He has some serious flaws, but his team's trolling and his popularity have Trump seething for sure.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Right? I just think it's funny that he's pissing off the Republican cult. I've never been a "rabid stan" for any politician. Centrists always try to draw parallels where they don't exist to justify not choosing a side, though
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Doctor Faustus is a good guide for this question.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Great book. Unfortunately, they signed up specifically to intimidate, kidnap, threaten, and [they hope] kill minorities. They are the evil with a gun.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They want him there. He serves them, not the other way around.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They were told the American people who resist Dear Leader are "the enemy within." The propaganda was released early to prepare them for this.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I had to look him up to see for myself. The last big things he did were in the 80s ๐ Nothing he's been in since was something I recognized.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
"Free Democracy!" apparently only likes education when it agrees with them and gives them room to talk down to people. I've been blocked ๐
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Even the weakest person can stand up to tyranny. The bad guys only win when they fool others into believing that the privileged few somehow hold more power than the wrathful many.
Bunny ๐๏ธ ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ (@pittsburghlady.bsky.social) reposted
Message to the National Guard
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
"No offense" does not negate your blatant condescension. A stranger on the internet does not owe you a dissertation and peer-reviewed sources just to please your ego. Oh, and I'm saying that with a master's degree that I earned summa cum laude, so I know how to do "real, solid research."
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I finally got a salary that was comfortable two years ago and was able to stop working 70-hour weeks. I even had money to do something fun every month. Seven months into this lunacy, I'm on the verge of needing another job just to afford to exist, and my savings is rapidly depleting.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
To a[nother] country that isn't his home. Shirtbags.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll cross my fingers, but I won't hold my breath.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
It doesn't take a lawyer to know EOs are not laws. The people that push us to act like they're laws are complicit in the authoritarian power grab we're experiencing. But there's barely anyone left in a position to stop them now.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not how a hydra works, but I agree that he's the cult's personality, and their movement will weaken... unless they've been grooming a successor.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
What's your explanation for the cost of produce being up 40% since your Godking took office? "Buh-buh-but Biden" again? Critical thinking is dead in the Trump cult.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
I know things are dire โ but you are not alone. Here are five steps we can all take to resist Trump's fascism. youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
We're strangers, but I'm so glad for you. What a pleasure to see your great news on my Discover feed today.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They are complicit. He is their way of seizing power in the background and never giving it up.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They play nice because they're using him as a distraction and a scapegoat while they grab permanent power. Even when Trump is gone, the GOP will retain their power because of Project 2025. He is, beyond a doubt, evil. But he is only one head on the hydra.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
For all citizens and residents of - and visitors to - the US: Trump's gestapo is using concerts and other large events as round-up opportunities. This is not hearsay; it is fact. I have witnessed it first-hand. Stay safe. #ICE #ICEspotting #ICEwatch
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
We dodged an ICE raid at a concert venue this weekend because we happened to leave early. It's a real forking concern, even as citizens.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like a gang to me. Perhaps we should treat them like the threat they are.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Major General Sir Isaac Brock would like a word, Jesse.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They're showing up at music shows, too.
Mike Rickles (@rem5280fan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Donald Trump raped little kids, and he doesn't want you to think about that. So he's telling his mindless lackeys to take away marriage equality to distract you from the fact that they're refusing to release the #EpsteinFiles
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
And the pedophilia. You forgot the pedophilia
CREW (@citizensforethics.org) reposted
Reminder that 10+ Jan 6th insurrectionists pardoned by President Trump have already been rearrested, charged or sentenced for other crimes. The crimes include plotting murder of FBI agents, child sexual assault and reckless homicide while driving drunk.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a real infestation of pedo-enablers and authoritarian enthusiasts, for sure
How You Like Me Now?... (@1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Musk can't sell his dumpsters on wheels as vehicles, so the Air Force is buying them for target practice. He helped rig the elections so he could profit. He is profiting.
Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. (@arianehsajadi.bsky.social) reposted
Trump has manufactured a โcrimeโ crisis so he can assert federal authoritarian control over DC, which happens to be self governed, allowing him to bypass state/fed checked powers. This is Project 2025 expanding the executive branch, and toppling democracy as we know it. ๐ ๐บ๐ธ
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Would trade places without a second thought.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
What's really sad is that he has grabbed some of the very educated, too. My parents are educated people who used to encourage learning and critical thinking. They now justify everything Trump et al. do. If you're predisposed to cult thinking, you will wind up in a cult, no matter your education...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I absolutely stopped trying to tell my parents anything when my mother confidently told me, "The economy is actually doing really well, and stocks fluctuate all the time. It's normal for it to look bad during a change. But he's fixing things." The MAGA cult is an exhausting bunch.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
"Per EO [whatever forking number we're on], it is no longer against the law." - a rep from the DoVA This administration has determined that the laws don't apply to them, and everyone is just going along with it.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he does. I hope it's excricuatingly painful. And I hope it's terminal.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Ghislaine Maxwell - convicted pedophile and sex trafficker, known perjurer - says she never saw Donald Trump do anything wrong. Trump, King of Subtlety, indicated openly that he was willing to buy her silence. Anyone who believes this bullshirt is willingly wearing the blindfold. #EpsteinFiles
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
#MakeEmployersAfraidAgain
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Fight their inhumane behavior from every angle. And also, where are the #Epstein files? Judge to consider halting operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' over environmental concerns - ABC News share.google/VukzLtKqytWD...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
He didn't kill it. He emboldened it to show what it already was.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
With a nick nack paddy whack #EatABagOfDicks...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not common to meet another person who has studied anti-intellectualism. I'm glad we crossed paths.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
The sane among us have already acknowledged it. It's the ones who actually elected him that are in severe denial. My own mother, when I expressed that the economy was tanking, said, "Well, no, the economy is fine. Lows are normal. He's fixing things." There is no hope for his cult.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
His ship is sunk. It's the donors I'm interested in. The ones who support him.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure we can pull those records when it comes time to identify and try Nazis in the United States.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Appeals Court Allows Trump Order That Ends Union Protections for Federal Workers - The New York Times share.google/rqg5m8WOdSTK...
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
And anti-intellectualism has roots here in the US since at least the 1960s. Richard Hofstadter published a book on it in 1962. This has been a long time coming.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been fired for refusing to lie. Seeing "permanently closed" on that business a few years later gave me such pleasure.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Has he even given thought to his response to the sanitation workers' strikes of 1968?!
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Captain Cankles and his cabal of criminals are indeed above the law, if you ask them and their weird cult
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I know several federal employees and have already reached out to TST to find out how they can best exercise their religious rights in the workplace.
Sober Today (@3rdstep.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I read that as "vinyl boss."
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not stupid. He's serving their purpose.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
People with spines and genuine interest in bettering the world for everyone would be a good start. I am tired of everyone treating politics like a sport where they cheer for their favorite team.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I made this exact comment about Junior demanding that his daddy release the Epstein list, and I agree with its use here, too!
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I've met them. They're well and truly upset about it, and most of the Trekkies only really choose to remember "Kirk kiss pretty girl and punch bad guy" about the original and reject all the other series.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I really hope someone gets the files out before the Republicans have time to purge Dear Leader and themselves from them. You can't win by cutting the head from the hydra; proof of only his atrocities won't be enough to stop what's happening.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep saying the same. Why are we obeying what amount to the petulant demands of an inept tyrant?
BK. Titanji (@boghuma.bsky.social) reposted
1/ This is a long ๐งต, so buckle up & I hope you read till the end. The HHS Secretary, is planning to remove all 16 members of the USPSTF the expert panel that decides which preventive services (cancer screenings, HIV prevention meds) must be covered by insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
It's true to real life, though. Not one person has figured me out yet!
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social)
Remember when Republicans were adamant that LGBTQ+ would welcome pedophiles as their own? And isn't it interesting how they're now actively persecuting the community that rejected pedophiles, in no uncertain terms, while openly defending pedophiles themselves? I think it's interesting.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Hopefully, for good!
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
That's repulsive. The number of incidents with these influential types covertly supporting/being an offender while putting up a face of being a defender of victims is exactly why the list is short (and now shorter).
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, with new information, we change our outlook. Striking the thought now. What disappointing people they are.
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
In the same strain of seeming wholesome goodness, Brendan Fraser. I also have to go with Ashton Kutcher because he's actively worked against trafficking. It's not a written list, though, so the other 6 I'm going to have to ponder on again... if there were actually that many more
Sid (@siderealcryptid.bsky.social) reply parent
Mostly that, if you have enough money, you can buy your way out of anything here. Laws are only for people who can't afford to buy the judge/enforcers