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Donkey Jote

@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

He didn't want it more than getting paid.

2/9/2025, 8:24:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

That public knowledge led to enough pressure for him to be removed from the ticket.

2/9/2025, 5:17:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Those "institutions" belong the democratic people's that they were empowered by. They are the embodiment of democracy itself.

2/9/2025, 2:59:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

GOP is carving out people they don't think will survive the general, so they get fresh blood in that their voters will think represents change, but it will be just the next Ernst up

29/8/2025, 3:34:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet they offer no solutions for mental health either.

29/8/2025, 2:31:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Happy for her but that is one low effort logo

27/8/2025, 12:02:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I've been advocating for publicizing SSNs but this wasn't what I had in mind.

26/8/2025, 3:05:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a valiant idea, but horribly misguided. Without the democratic institutions to empower the spending, it's all vanity projects at best.

24/8/2025, 7:00:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

How did you determine the “lowest-paying corporations”? Seems cherry picked and not a realistic comparison to inflation.

24/8/2025, 12:29:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted

As Donald Trump attempts to create chaos that distracts from his problems, we’ll call it out for what it is. Trump and Republicans are trying to distract from the pain they’re causing — from tariffs raising the prices of goods to stripping away healthcare and food from millions.

22/8/2025, 10:11:39 PM | 2882 718 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social)

I wouldn't even limit it to "police training".

22/8/2025, 7:38:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I just can't buy in to any analysis that uses the presidential voting margins to assume congressional seat races.

22/8/2025, 6:57:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh...

18/8/2025, 10:01:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I have never liked hearing "that's not my job" before but I do today.

15/8/2025, 9:05:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Turned it off after 5 minutes. The onslaught of screen activity was nauseating.

13/8/2025, 6:16:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

The darker side is that he thinks the cure to cancer seems intertwined with Dems 'love of crime' or whatever.

12/8/2025, 8:40:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

How on earth have we had this country for so long without a ballroom!?!?

12/8/2025, 1:27:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyone who claims that they can end crime has a fundamental misunderstanding of the root causes and probably show anything else in the world works.

12/8/2025, 1:25:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

So Trump admits to asking a stupid question.

11/8/2025, 4:46:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

If you want others to advocate for your ideology you absolutely do have to have a “sales pitch”.

10/8/2025, 9:58:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

DAY ONE PROMISE

8/8/2025, 9:24:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe we have some white hats building public distrust in AI.

8/8/2025, 9:23:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm certain he made those claims without any editorialization at all. Just simple, face-value opinions...

8/8/2025, 8:20:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem you have is thinking that the tax money is YOURS. It belongs to everyone.

8/8/2025, 4:16:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

We can't just let them avoid profit-seeking corporate overlords!

8/8/2025, 4:15:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

You're really cementing his claim that you are incapable of a nuanced position.

7/8/2025, 4:55:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope he survives his primary so he can be embarrassed in November.

7/8/2025, 2:26:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Adding chemtrails is how I KNOW she’s grifting…

7/8/2025, 1:33:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

He really wants that Nobel

6/8/2025, 9:16:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope security is checking for dildos. Don't need that trend to spread.

6/8/2025, 7:50:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

We need headline reform badly

6/8/2025, 7:06:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, it's certainly a step much farther than what's currently available. The discussion is really about finding the line we as a society are comfortable with. Personally, my bigger ethical concern is around availability, if one class is the only one to access it. That seems foregone at this moment

6/8/2025, 6:34:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

IVF already has the ability to review genetic profiles to pick the highest-quality embryo of the group. Maximizes pregnancies going to full term and avoiding abnormalities that would impair development.

6/8/2025, 6:22:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Well do we want science or not? Hard to advocate for all this medicine if we can cut the problems off at the source.

6/8/2025, 6:21:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

According to the color legend, that's just a Nazi atrocity, not a genocide.

6/8/2025, 6:19:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Negotiate a deal and then vote no anyway.

6/8/2025, 1:19:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the Rangers can help them get a little lower still.

5/8/2025, 6:06:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Sometimes you have to let the fever run its course to rid yourself of a virus.

5/8/2025, 6:04:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Showing Merrick how it's supposed to be done.

5/8/2025, 6:02:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

No, now they're just unemployed in our country.

5/8/2025, 3:14:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

You may be on to something here... The last Cowboy's Super Bowl was during Bush's first year...

5/8/2025, 1:31:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

People always say 'freedom isn't free' but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the alternatives.

5/8/2025, 1:20:25 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Ffs even the gop themselves described it as gerrymandering.

5/8/2025, 12:53:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They'll just oust them in the primaries and stay on their side of the aisle. But if it drags the overton window back towards the center, it's still a marginal improvement.

5/8/2025, 12:19:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They're gonna have a hell of a time gerrymandering his seat...

5/8/2025, 12:18:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Flood is right about one thing... a lot of misinformation about the bill, but it's coming from his side of the aisle.

5/8/2025, 5:48:27 AM | 31 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This is probably part of why everyone on bluesky is 38 years old: 38 year olds are basically the only people who consider it totally normal to flee a sinking ship and then just casually resume the conversation on the tropical island they end up on. They've outlived dozens of ships.

20/6/2024, 4:00:25 AM | 6735 1266 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s exactly a filibuster and the reason why quorums even exist at all!

5/8/2025, 2:18:41 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

As a Texan have to agree with this. We are sadly a pox on our nation.

5/8/2025, 1:26:00 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It dominated the right wing media way more than anyone in the center or left cared.

5/8/2025, 1:24:20 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They are no more a monolith than Democrats are.

5/8/2025, 1:05:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

When did Democrats start writing those headlines?

5/8/2025, 12:46:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

A concept of a plan

4/8/2025, 6:58:21 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Then they try to give you pricing that's only good until they walk out the door!

4/8/2025, 5:51:34 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

And they are doing exactly what their constituents are asking of them.

4/8/2025, 5:17:22 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

4/8/2025, 1:08:05 AM | 32693 8065 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Shout out to Illinois for harboring the Texas Dems breaking quorum on the GOP redistricting fiasco.

4/8/2025, 12:46:10 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I hate to seemingly capitulate on this, but this is part of shy 'state's rights' is still a relevant conversation in the US. We will need blue states to stave off shit like this.

2/8/2025, 11:32:16 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Monthly loan payments... lol. They don't have monthly loan payments at that level. Usually just periodic interest payments while the principal stays untouched until it's refinanced or sold.

2/8/2025, 10:06:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Estimates of future earnings. You seem intent on trying to make a simple financial transaction sound as complicated as possible.

2/8/2025, 10:05:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

You can easily take a loan against the equity to buy whatever you want.

2/8/2025, 9:38:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It's actually quite easy to borrow against and make payroll. Taking on debt against equity to fund operations is MBA 101.

2/8/2025, 9:37:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Alcohol and tobacco use are much less likely to be abused politically. The extent at which someone's perfectly legal online usage could be weaponized is not hard to understand.

2/8/2025, 9:11:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

And they get all that information from your credit card, and it isn't at the mercy of the state.

2/8/2025, 9:00:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

You didn't say 'scan', you merely implied you are showing your age verification.

2/8/2025, 8:58:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

The person at the counter at the liquor store isn’t logging all the information and saving it in perpetuity. The differences aren’t that difficult to understand.

2/8/2025, 7:46:56 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

The "woke mob" that FN keeps talking about? Gonna be looking for that a long time before you ever find it.

31/7/2025, 11:12:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

For all the dumb shit he does, this one is fine.

31/7/2025, 10:00:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Good opportunity to learn some lessons and improve the process for next time.

31/7/2025, 6:10:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Just short of qualifying innings? Another couple of starts and he should be on the list.

31/7/2025, 4:12:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a ridiculous strawman

31/7/2025, 2:51:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Tommy has never coached under Jerry Jones before.

31/7/2025, 2:47:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It would presumably be a question of whether the legislature can impose that rule on the executive branch, and we know how the judiciary would react...

31/7/2025, 12:50:21 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They aren't in Congress.

31/7/2025, 12:49:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

And I wonder how much of problem was just not voting for a woman.

31/7/2025, 12:48:00 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Six years may be too far out for him anyway...

30/7/2025, 8:53:31 PM | 30 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Gonna be real fun when the AI alternative starts messing up orders and care goes to shit.

30/7/2025, 8:50:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Talerico: They are trying to insulate themselves from the will of the people. Normally, when you pass unpopular policies, you lose seats in the next election. That's how this is supposed to work.

30/7/2025, 8:34:08 PM | 5081 1590 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

This is false justification for the bs going on in Texas.

30/7/2025, 4:33:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he meant get to at least the fourth floor of a ten-story building. Was worded weirdly.

30/7/2025, 2:54:08 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

What are the other victim’s occupations?

28/7/2025, 11:59:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been loving some Hans Zimmer after I watched F1.

28/7/2025, 8:50:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

How many were unplanned?

28/7/2025, 5:20:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s presuming Micah would have taken a smaller deal earlier, which is a pretty silly assumption given his leverage.

27/7/2025, 8:41:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Who thinks he isn’t going to pay Micah? He’s usually quite reliable about paying his guys.

26/7/2025, 9:14:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would they think Jerry isn’t gonna pay Micah?

26/7/2025, 7:43:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Grammar check...?

25/7/2025, 8:01:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social)

The 'no tax on tips' bit feels more like an incentive to keep people in the service industry and abandon hopes of climbing the economic ladder, just wrapped in a faux-populist policy.

8/7/2025, 8:57:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I get the Cancun trip issue, but this complaint is silly.

7/7/2025, 6:26:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not entirely unconvinced that the right hasn't already committed to the other side of climate change with targeting Canada and Denmark for northern migration of what's left of the US population.

7/7/2025, 4:35:32 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Bibi might start bombing New York at that rate.

2/7/2025, 12:32:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They'll have their 'tea party' moment eventually, right??

25/6/2025, 2:27:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

They couldn't 'get over' a black man in the Oval Office bunch of hypocrites.

25/6/2025, 2:14:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

You could tell the college game was looking much crisper during the tournament this year. It still has the college ball playbook, but it feels like what the NBA used to be before they over-hyped shooters.

24/6/2025, 11:07:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all theater for consolidating political power...

24/6/2025, 8:59:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Israel will still use the fake ceasefire news to justify more violence. Have to know what Trump is saying to know what his MAGAts will be told what to think.

24/6/2025, 2:55:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

It's more likely he just claims a ceasefire agreement so that when Iran inevitably doesn't honor a deal that was never in place, he gets to justify additional attacks.

24/6/2025, 1:48:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Homes are for people not parasites. Go SPAIN!

20/6/2025, 12:53:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

Love's is probably pretty happy with that jersey sponsorship about now...

17/6/2025, 3:35:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Donkey Jote (@tiltsatwindmills.bsky.social) reply parent

I doubt it would change anything about the competitiveness of the game.

13/6/2025, 8:00:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view