Steve Atlas
@steveatlas.bsky.social
You can always count on me.
created November 21, 2023
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Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
It will be popular in the U.S. It will give a random diagnosis in 15 seconds, thus saving the insurance companies a lot of money. If you would like something more, the insurance company will have to approve your prior authorization.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You are one stupid fuck. You can elect any non-Republicans you like in the minority, and yet you still won't get an impeachment. You can get elect 65 kickass leftie senators, and you still won't get a conviction and removal. So, do you have any workable ideas, or only grandstanding bullshit?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social)
It seems impossible, but Vance appears to be further up Putin's ass than Trump is. Vance had to push Tucker Carlson out of the way. Photo: Trump "asleep" at his sexual abuse trial.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
So they finally found the cure for cankles?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
No on in Pennsylvania has the right to work, except in the coal mines, according to an executive order signed by el presidente Trump.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently, the car he was in was hit shortly after it pulled back onto the highway. It sounds like whoever was driving didn't look behind before pulling onto the road. The weird thing is that no on will say where it happened -- not even the road name or number.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The one I knew was a heavy, heavy drinker when off duty. Lots of bourbon. He was a crazy-ass, doing things like flying a private plane under a bridge, but he definitely did have skills. He did have a brother who was a math genius/electrical engineer, though.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
How many points do you get for turning a nation's military on its own people? Does the president get extra Nobel game piece points for that?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the result of one week on the RFK Jr Detox-and-Restoration diet, which consists mostly of putrefying bear meat.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Then I don't need to tell you about the ironic effects of the tariffs. Sayonara, Nebraska soybean farmers.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
I seriously doubt that Nunez has the slightest idea how to milk a cow, much less, crank up the machinery. He's a purebred scammer.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
It's hard to blame the rural farm family kids for wanting no part of that.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
But the farmers are such crack business geniuses that they're putting themselves out of business, even with all the subsidies. Then large ag corporations (or with ag as a side gig) take over, and then THEY get the subsidies. If you want bananas and coffee, you'd better make a trip to Latin America.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Now some are ready to bail out of farming because they have to get up to milk the cows and feed the chickens and shovel the shit, work they see as beneath them and their white asses, because now they can't hire "illegals" to do the hard jobs, with long hours, for lousy pay. Who's picking the fruit?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet, with all the subsidies and all the bailouts, they're still going under and their land goes to conglomerates or overseas financiers. Sometimes their fertile fields become housing tracts. You get scammers like former Rep. Devin Nunes, a "farmer" scamming the system, and many more of his ilk.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The Flying Nun approves.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You're saying utilitarianism obligates us to keep bailing them out. But can we at least be pissed off by those socialism-for-me-but-shit-sandwich-for-thee folks?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The status quo solution is for farmers to keep voting for MAGAs or similar, and then, to expect to bail them out every couple of years or so, even as the world burns because of their rural old white guy choices, and EVEN THOUGH A LOT OF FARMS ARE NOW OWNED BY CONGLOMERATES and foreign interests.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
So then, the status quo is splendid.
Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Your analysis is useless horse shit, but hey, it makes you feel good. so it's all good.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll bet they also want a huge meteor to hit the Earth, and for all kittens to starve. They secretly enjoyed seeing Crispy Gnome shoot her puppy. Why, that Dem Party (what are they? Space aliens?) is the Great Satan, and wants all things bad!
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
"O'Neill previously served various roles at HHS under President George W. Bush. Since then he's mostly run investment funds for billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. He had a senate hearing for his current role in HHS." -- NPR
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
"The White House has named a replacement for the director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after its previous leader was forced out of the job. "Jim O'Neill currently serves as the deputy to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr..." -- Guardian
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
That moron revels in being wrong about everything.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You're here, so there's at least one. There are also a lot of right-wing trolls of unknown origin.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
George F. Will has a tremendous vocabulary, which he uses to deflect attention from his mediocre writing, but he is as shallow and superficial as a puddle. When his column on Vince Foster's suicide came out, Will revealed what an empty box he is. It was deplorable in its display of ignorance.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You don't seem to grasp the simplest thing, trolling bag of shit. Hamas doesn't care about Palestinians. Why do you make believe you don't understand that, Nazi scum? The love it when Israel bombs civilians and starves them -- it turns Israel into a pariah, and Hamas wins the PR battle. Dumbfuck.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck off, dreadful person with the ethics of a brick.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he going to argue that cocaine+MDMA+milkshake is the best thing to prevent disease when ivermectin isn't available? Heroin was RFK Jr's choice, though.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel could stop bombing civilians today. What's Hamas going to do? Drop a nuke? Apparently, killing in large numbers people you hate because you're too fucking willfully stupid to know the difference between Palestinian civilians and Hamas. You are disgusting filth. Go the fuck away.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You can repeat the same stupid, vacuous bullshit, like a little kid, a thousand more times, and it won't justify Israel's hideous war crimes. The irony is that Hamas doesn't care about Palestinians any more than Israel does. The leadership of both are bloodthirsty jackals, like you.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Bullshit. Pure fake-ass victim bullshit. It's the same thing over and over. It's as if you're a bot, and you're unable to take in new information or respond to anything. Nothing but banal talking points. You just want to normalize blowing up and starving civilians whom you consider subhuman.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You are a liar. You'd just as soon kill them all, because Hamas attacked Israel. You don't see the parallels in how the Nazis blame the Jews for all kinds of things? Same shit, anonymous coward. Same shit.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't just throw that word around, but as Mike Godwin says, the label is apt when it's appropriate. Here it is appropriate. Would you prefer I call you a psychopath who feels nothing about humans dying? An adult infant? Are you a settler, coward?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Anonymous coward, you consider an ethnic group that happens to be Arabic to be subhuman, and you don't think their lives have any value. You haven't denied it. Wasn't racial dehumanizing a central tenet of the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s? Cupcake, what would you like to be called?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You are reading from the Mein Kampf playbook, saying anything to justify atrocities against a civilian population. You are exactly the kind of person who committed pogroms against my ancestors (who at least had the option to emigrate). You think Palestinians are subhuman, anonymous coward.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
So because of what Hamas does, kill and starve all the Palestinians in Gaza. Hamas doesn't care about them any more than you do, and Netanyahu has played right into their hands. Admit that you think Palestinians are subhuman, and their lives are worth nothing, coward. Right out of Mein Kampf.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Because you are a psychopath, anonymous coward. You won't respond to anything I say, so I can only conclude that you're trolling. Now please, just go fuck yourself. You are an embarrassment to your parents and to anyone with the slightest sense of ethics.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
More idiotic straw manning. They use Palestinians as shields, so therefore, you can kill all the Palestinians in your effort to get at Hamas, because you, neo-Nazi fuck, see them as subhuman, like rats, whose lives have no value. For those who wonder how Naziism rose in Germany, you are exhibit A.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
It figures you'd drag your shitass politics into it. Very neo-Nazi, but you have no mirror. No empathy. Nothing. You see Palestinians as subhuman, just the way Nazis saw Jews. You are a mirror image but you have no faculty for self-reflection. It's truly psychopathic. Go fuck yourself.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Are you stupid, or are you blind? Hamas at the moment is not attacking Israel, but Israel won't stop mass-murdering Palestinians, and starving them.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Bingo. That is exactly what Israel is doing to Palestinians. They idea, apparently, is to completely wipe out the culture. Plow whoever's left into the sea. Force them into boats and say sayonara. How can you be so lacking in empathy? What the hell raised you?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
War is hell, so therefore, there are no rules, and just kill tens of thousands of civilians, and starve whoever is left. Do you have any ethical center? Are you a jackal? Israel is at war with with Hamas, and so therefore they're mass-murdering Palestinians in Gaza. (West Bank next?)
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
As I Jew, I hate this. And I hate seeing what fucking horrible shitasses some of my MAGA-class fellow Jews are. All of my relatives who remained in Europe disappeared in the 1940s. I learned something from that. Sadly, a lot of people did not, and now THEY have become the tormentors.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
All the goodwill Israel had after the Hamas attack -- gone just like that, because of Netanyahu's desperate grasp for power and effort to stay out of prison, in cahoots with his coalition that depends on real-deal fascists.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
When Israel drops a large bomb in their non-precision precision bombing campaign and 20 civilians die, that's not mass killing? It in fact is. It's also an atrocity and a war crime, and is causing the world to revile Israel, and unfortunately Jews everywhere suffer the fallout.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Armed resistance my ass. And is Hamas itself threatening Israel right now? Is the plan to kill or drive out everyone in order to root out Hamas? Do you think Hamas is like a skin color -- something you're born into?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, dumbfuck, guess what? Hamas, and the Palestinian population of Gaza, over 2 million people, are not the same thing. The Palestinian women, children who are being starved, slaughtered, and possibly being cleansed from the area?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
To starve them? To destroy their homes and everything they own? To then talk about ethnic cleansing? Are you down with that?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
In fact I do, and your strawman is infantile. Are you eight years old? Tell me if this is a straw man leading question: Are you saying that because of the horrid, criminal Hamas attack (which Netanyahu was blithely unaware was planned) make it ok to murder tens of thousands of Palestinian people?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
All that to take out a video camera? Seriously? Bullshit.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Soon the story of the mass killing at the pre-K-to-8 school will fade, and we'll get back to the important issue of Cracker Barrel's logo.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
"Trump's innovative approach..." Virtual Jesse Waters on virtual Fox News on my virtual TV
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
You have your own personal definition of the word "genocide" that suits your own rhetorical purposes. You seem pretty impressed by it. No one else is.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Whether people are lined up and shot, or whether they're bombed in a DOUBLE-TAP (indicating intent) drone attack, they're just as dead in the end. Are you saying that it's not such a big deal if the mass killing is impersonal rather than leveling a rifle at someone and shooting?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The ironic (not really) are the states with cities that have higher-by-a-large-margin crime/violent crime rates then D.C. sending their National Guard soldiers to D.C. to wear camo, don high-visibility orange vests, and pick up trash when they're not standing around.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
...and all his further-up-the-arm veins are blown out.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The Hill? This came from the Mons Veneris.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
People are saying he's been a heroin addict all his life, and blew out all the easy veins. I'm not saying that, but people are. I'm just asking questions.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess you'll never know, Logan. I guess you'll never know.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The point is, you cared enough to post about her writing a book that you clearly never cracked. You had nothing better to do? Or are you just pissed off at her, and that's how you express your frustration? It came across as gratuitous shitting-on. What is the point?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell us how you're frustrated that no one will pay you for your music, photographs, or writing, but say it in an obscurant way.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a covered-with-poorly-matching-makeup lesion from chronic venous insufficiency. His idiot flack blamed it on so much handshaking and taking aspirin. Both excuses are lies.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
It's lovely if you have lots of time on your hands, and if you're not Gen Z.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social)
When you have a government where Marco Rubio is the smart guy, you, sir, have a kakistocracy.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Well yes, dissing each other is both nations' top priority.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social)
TACO chicken? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Trump, run run run away!
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Pakistan withdrew their Nobel nomination (which was strictly transactional, the way Tim Cook's handing a gold trophy to Trump was transactional, and got Cook what he wanted) after the U.S. bombed Iran. Pakistan would like continued U.S. foreign policy favor, India's fighter jets notwithstanding.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
They said something similar about IRS records....
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Humans are utterly disgusting creatures.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The subject here is historical revisionism by an authoritarian with totalitarian dreams.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social)
Has the word "fascism" replaced the phrase "right-wing totalitarianism"? Or any kind of authoritarianism or totalitarianism? "Fascism" used to have a particular meaning.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Has the word "fascism" replaced "right-wing totalitarianism"? "Fascism" used to have a particular meaning.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Another new thing that Google will walk away from in a few years?
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
After that, all Confederate shit was repulsive. I'd grown up in the South, and the redneck historical revisionism clownish.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was in college, my friend's fiancé gave me her history book after she finished the course. When I read the part about slavery, which when into some horrific detail, I was shocked. It wasn't comprehensive, focusing on the earliest years of the slave trade. It woke me up.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social)
All six of the states sending National Guard troops to D.C. have cities with higher crime rates than D.C. has. To wit: • Jackson, MS • Cleveland, OH • Memphis, TN • Marksville, LA (higher than New Orleans and Baton Rouge) • Beckley, WV • Myrtle Beach, SC (yes, really!)
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
(ALL six states have higher crime rates than D.C.)
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Most or all six of the states sending National Guard troops to D.C. have cities with higher crime rates than D.C. has. E.g., Jackson, MS; Cleveland, OH; Memphis, TN; Marksville, LA (even higher than New Orleans and Baton Rouge); Beckley, WV; Myrtle Beach, SC also has more crime than D.C.!
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Ok, but what does Sarah Palin think about it?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
If you were in their seat, what would you do different? What, exactly? And what are you doing to help get the "right" (as you see it) candidates elected? Why aren't you running for office? What about all the local political offices? Hmmmm?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
...and then getting reelected! They seem to be smashing successes at getting reelected. Do you think you have the slightest idea who the NY electorate is? I lived in upstate NY for a while, and from what I've seen, they're not what you imagine them to be.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you have a breakdown of the votes in question, including who by your standard is a liberal who votes for the two NY senators? Does everything have to fit into your conspiratorial framework? Maybe they're just not very good or effective, and spend a lot of time figuring out how to get reelected..
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
There is something pathetically simplistic about your analysis that makes it thoroughly useless, but undoubtedly, fun to type.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
So they lie, serve a term, get reelected, lie, serve another term, get reelected, lie, serve another term, get reelected, etc. So then, who are the dumbfucks here? You think only liberals in the state of New York vote for candidates like Schumer and Gillibrand? But no libs will vote for Mamdani?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know who hands out the True Liberal certifications, but the questions: Why do the voters of NY State keep electing Schumer and Gillibrand? If you can't answer that, then aren't you just venting (a first for social media)? What's the deal with the electorate?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
"Her people" wrote a letter. She's not very fluent in the English language. Or maybe she wrote it in Esperanto -- who knows?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The most BlueSky post ever in response to the most BlueSky post ever. What are the odds?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
She's saying that if pigs fly, she'll invest in pigs. It's not going to happen and she knows it. Learn to recognize sarcasm, Mr. UFO.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
If he's not a standard cop but rather an unknown federal entity, then there is no way to file a complaint. There is no accountability to anyone.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
If only the Western take on karma was a real thing. If only. But it's not.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
If only he actually cared. If only there were some useful process to make him accountable. If only. The First Amendment is simply words on parchment. Without goodwill on the part of people who supposedly are governed by it, it means nothing.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Police unions defend corrupt, violent cops to the end, and prevent their firing. Police unions are a cancer.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point? No one with any influence. We can only hope that changes 3 1/2 years from now, if there's anything left.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
The DoJ didn't let the Jan 6 insurrectionists go. Trump pardoned them.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do you think not only is nothing changing, but the likes of Trump can actually win more than half the votes of people who bother to vote, or at least something close to that even if there was cheating? It sounds like we're doomed.
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
What tools are you talking about? Are you saying that votes aren't being tallied? Are you saying that people are as easy to manipulate as clay? Are you saying the voters have no responsibility, and don't need to be informed? What are you saying? That democracy is dead?
Steve Atlas (@steveatlas.bsky.social) reply parent
Or maybe the REAL left folks think that everyone will beat a path to their door for salvation after the world burns. It's a sick, stupid fantasy that is not going to happen. Read a fucking history book, lefties.