Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
COVID was bad enough with rural hospitals; H5N1 rolling through after they're gone would be apocalyptic.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
COVID was bad enough with rural hospitals; H5N1 rolling through after they're gone would be apocalyptic.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Houston is too blue for that. I think they chose Austin because that's where UT's flagship campus is.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
"having a plausible locally beneficent option friendly to USA put in place" "boots on the ground aren't necessary"
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why she was charged with perjury
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See also:
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Remember when we were told that Mike Gallagher was one of the good ones?
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
These are good points. Unfortunately the median voter doesn't know what any of those words mean
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They prefer recessions because unemployment only happens to other people
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Between this and taking their porn games off Steam they are alienating the key normie incel demographic
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Especially when it comes to sex
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
Can't wait to start my factory job making Made In America boxes
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This is a distraction from kitchen table issues like Popeyes restaurants
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
When the cartels retaliate the DHS social media accounts are going to go full Der Stürmer
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The Roaring Twenties
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The military will turn on him any day now.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Not saying they shouldn't shut ICE down, but ICE is quickly becoming a part of local economies everywhere
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
People keep saying that Democrats should just abolish ICE but that won't be easy when doing so means backwater towns lose "jobs and economic development"
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Prosecuting Bill Clinton will be good old fashioned non-political justice, prosecuting Trump or another Republican will be "political"
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tbh I don't think this is as uniting as it seems. Dems and (most) independents want them for justice reasons; Republicans want them released because they think it will make it open season on Dems.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why Americans hated the inflation more than the recession. It's hard for people to imagine themselves as the people that get fired; that's something that happens to *other* people.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
Americans correctly believed crime was declining until 9/11. More proof that it broke the brains of Boomers and Gen X.
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Mises Institute membership should be an immediate hard drive check
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Lobster roll Polled pork Pulled pork Shrimp & grits Chrimp o' grits Shrimp pork Pulled pork Florida
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't realize the LCMS was that powerful
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
He didn't even get into Columbia!
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The third author went to the best K-12 school in Washington before going to Columbia.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did you give a eugenicist anonymity?
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Why does your latest article use a eugenicist as a source?
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
"The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country."
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
He's so bad at this that Trump will fire him, like he fired Hegseth after the parade disaster
utopia deferred (@utopia-defer.red) reposted
Don’t call it power consolidation. They are massively unpopular and stupid. Sure, they’re building concentration camps and are waging a war of terror against migrants while at the cusp of passing a bill that destroys the American social safety net in exchange for more secret police but
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They can't do power consolidation because the military couped them during the parade remember
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They were using figures like 20-30 million during the campaign, they're definitely aiming for more
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention his track record from his first term. youtu.be/QQYFVEka3fA
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The latter group essentially preaches, "You are doing everything right and don't have to do anything more," and that's appealing to a lot of people.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
A lot of evangelicals substituted Youtube sermons for actually going to church during COVID and never looked back. I think they lost their connection to reality in the process
utopia deferred (@utopia-defer.red) reposted
Don’t call it power consolidation, they’re just murdering members of the opposition party
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Given their obsession with birth rates, it will be. The drop in birth rates is primarily because teenage girls are now going to school instead of getting married.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Americans don't want to think about bad things like inflation, war, and immigration, so they voted for the guy that they thought would take it off their screens. This would be the opposite of that.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, he is. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 played a huge role in stacking the media environment in favor of the Right.
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Standing athwart the truth annihilator yelling Stop
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The number one most-trusted app of groomers everywhere
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Years of leaded gasoline looking increasingly likely
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Racism has always been present in conservatism. Dixification is the process by which the Northern conservatives stopped trying to conserve the Northern system of government (an imperfect but liberal system) and started fighting to reinstitute the Southern system (Jim Crow slaveocracy) everywhere.
Reed McMaster (@mcmasterreed.bsky.social) reposted
This is my cat, if you see her please let me know!
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I could see the US government wanting to treat Alberta and Saskatchewan the way that Russia treated Donetsk and Luhansk.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They did this for the cop that killed Michael Brown in 2014, and someone at FOX News promoted it. Might've been O'Reilly but I don't remember
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
This is going to hit anime fans so hard.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Right Wing Media is probably the root of it, but it's getting filtered to kids through their parents. They're not watching Andrew Tate and saying, "Wow, this guy makes a lot of sense," out of the blue.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
Validates my theory that the biggest reason young men (Zoomers and younger) appear to be shifting right is not Right Wing Media, or bad influencers like Rogan and Mr. Beast, or a feckless liberal media, or "wokeism," but their parents.
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Taylor Swift was *huge* in the late 00s and they drove her out! All so guys could sing about tanlines, back roads, and Applebees.
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All of their moderators were doxxed too, so I imagine they'll have to replace a lot of them.
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Read theory
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The Evangelicals never had an intelligentsia in the way that the illiberal Catholic right did (partially because they discouraged their own children from going to college). Vance is supposed to be the bridge between Yarvin and Vermeule.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
William F. Buckley spent most of his life trying to keep the Birchers out of the mainstream GOP, and he was mostly successful. The Tea Party let them back in, and it's no coincidence that this happened in the first election cycle after his death.
daniel sieradski (@self.agency) reposted
neocons were always radicals, whose mvmt emerged out of anti-soviet communism, and pivoted to the right for what they saw as the excesses of a left that embraced autocracy when it was their autocrats. so it’s not that weird to see them pivot back to the left once the right openly embraced autocracy.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Laffer is more proof that Trump turned his brain off in the 80s and never looked back
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
It's great to see this happening. I just wish they had started doing during the basketball tournament last month. A united message from 68 schools, large and small, public and private, would've been powerful.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Fighting the consolidation of a fascist regime means not helping the fascists shield the people from the consequences of their policies
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not in charge right now.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
At least Trump is ignorant because he's an old man whose brain is slowly decaying. Americans are ignorant because they think it's a virtue.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Put them in PSA campaign like the ones with smokers that lost their tongues and teeth
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
Pedocon theory is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
One man decides he knows better than everyone else, makes a big list of grievances, and refuses to take it back. He takes advantage of a revolution in media technology to spread his ideas, which upend the old order and replace it with decades upon decades of turmoil.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
There's at least four different groups of people trying to use him as a vehicle and every once in a while he does his own thing that screws it up for everybody
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The anti-anti-Trumpists are already heading that way.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
How about Tommy Tuberville doing what he does best? (Losing to Nick Saban)
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
It was the main thing that took down Scott Walker and all of the other statewide Republicans!
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They believe both. They believe that there are so many migrants that they are piling 20 of them into each and every housing unit available, which is why mass deportation is necessary.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
A common belief on the right is that mass deportations will drive down house prices.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Reed and Warner's seats are up next year. Are they running for reelection?
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The thing is that he doesn't even need to fire Powell; he's out next May, but Trump will do it because he's impatient, and he needs to show strength.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think this was *that* hard to predict, but Stancil was probably the first to be loud about it.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder how much influence the Evangelical right still has over Trump. There will be non-stop clamoring from the dispensationalists and their offshoots about Turkey and Iran being the armies of the north and east, respectively.
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This is going to wipe out small, independent breweries in Wisconsin, which sucks. But this just might kill the Tavern League.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The best you'll get is Polymarket, I think.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
His disregard for his children can also be seen when he carries his toddler on his shoulders while wearing body armor because he's afraid of being shot. He is cruel to the children he can't control and craven to the ones he can.
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Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They're all nihilists, even if they don't think they are. (Rubio probably doesn't think he's one.)
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
AOC-Milley-Powell triumvirate
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
"Make the U.S. less vulnerable to global instability," is Yarvin talk, is it not? As in AI keeping the population under control.
Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky (@purrtah.bsky.social) reposted
List posted by Anderson Clayton to find out if you are one of the voters, they will be appealing this to NC Supreme Court thegriffinlist.com
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They have no bench either. They're going to be stuck running rich guys like Johnson and Michels for the foreseeable future.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't doom a lot, but my biggest concern going forward is that some of the advantages we enjoyed prior to 11/5/24 cannot be brought back in four years, if ever, and Americans will once again vote for a fascist that promises to bring those advantages back.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Bessent really was out of the loop.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone is going to flip Ozaukee County one of these days, and the Scott Walker types will completely melt down.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
The liberals on the court have been remarkably consistent. 2018: 55.7% to 44.3% 2020: 55.2% to 44.7% 2023: 55.4% to 44.4% 2025: 55.1% to 44.9%
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Home of these fellows:
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That's Real America baby 😎 🇺🇸
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12% of the senior class was expelled for drug possession on the same day.
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God willing.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
Can they even enforce this if they keep canning IRS agents?
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not going to be able to collect it anyway if they keep cutting IRS workers lol
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social)
This is the moment at which the American Century ended
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The debate with Walz rescued him. He's still net unfavorable, but it's been in the single digits since then. He's the bridge between the Tech Right and the Heritage people, so he will keep their coalition together if the obese 78-year-old does what obese 78-year-olds do best.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
This is very minor, but I'm getting real sick of the whole, "You can tell I mean business because I'm not wearing a suit," schtick.
Sparky (@sparkylombardi.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if he thinks that joining the Commonwealth would give him power over its members.