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Zane Highlander

@zlander.bsky.social

Blue pixel on a red screen. Outraged by how the powerful & wealthy are moving us; thankful for you who fight against our new authoritarian test drive. Fascinated by the "hard problem" of consciousness: we still don't know what it is. Dogs and cats.💙🌊🎸🐕🐈‍⬛🇺🇲🇨🇦

created March 16, 2025

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Great song!

1/9/2025, 6:26:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dirty diapers?

1/9/2025, 5:10:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By this time next year we will have completely retired the entire national debt! "There'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone. " youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg?...

1/9/2025, 5:08:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By this time next year we will have completely retired the entire national debt! "There'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone. " youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg?...

1/9/2025, 4:57:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By this time next year we will have completely retired the entire national debt! "There'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone. " youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg?...

1/9/2025, 4:54:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Your work is so appreciated, thanks.

1/9/2025, 4:47:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shelley's "Ozymandias" is my favorite poem. I have a print of Charlie Millar's painting of the same name, with the poem underneath. Haunting.

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1/9/2025, 4:45:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is JD Vance on vacation? If not, something's up.

1/9/2025, 4:38:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By this time next year we will have completely retired the entire national debt! "There'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone. " youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg?...

1/9/2025, 4:32:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By this time next year we will have completely retired the entire national debt! "There'll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone. " youtu.be/Ueivjr3f8xg?...

1/9/2025, 4:30:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is how it begins, the "soft eugenics" designed to prey upon the weak, poor, elderly, the uneducated and conspiracy-minded. It subtly reduces the headcount of takers, of "useless eaters" who are "stealing" resources from so-called able-bodied, productive consumers.

1/9/2025, 4:22:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And no doubt JD Vance is someone who would fully embrace the newly discovered SCOTUS immunity ruling and would actively attempt to see how far it would take him in order to keep the wheels on and consolidate his power should (when?) the opportunity arise.

1/9/2025, 3:47:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think JD Vance is someone who would fully embrace the newly discovered SCOTUS immunity ruling and would actively attempt to see how far it would take him in order to keep the wheels on and consolidate his power should (when?) the opportunity arise.

1/9/2025, 3:37:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

We are SO stupid. China is eating our lunch, making scientific advances we used to dream of, and exerting its influence around the world in the vacuum we have created.

31/8/2025, 8:38:11 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And yet SCOTUS interfered in Colorado to keep Trump on the 2024 ballot despite being ruled ineligible by state election officials and the state's Supreme Court due to fomenting an insurrection in 2021.

31/8/2025, 8:35:46 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And yet SCOTUS interfered in Colorado to keep Trump on the 2024 ballot despite being ruled ineligible by state election officials and the state's Supreme Court due to fomenting an insurrection in 2021.

31/8/2025, 8:35:18 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Pagan, maybe, but not demonic.

31/8/2025, 8:03:01 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Apres moi, le deluge.

31/8/2025, 8:01:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think JD Vance is someone who would fully embrace the newly discovered SCOTUS immunity ruling and would actively attempt to see how far it would take him in order to keep the wheels on and consolidate his power should (when?) the opportunity arise.

31/8/2025, 7:58:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Disney already paid out $15 million to President Cankles over a George Stephanopoulos remark, it won't let ABC do something so costly again.

31/8/2025, 7:55:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Or "alarmed?"

31/8/2025, 7:52:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's upping things to DEFCON 2, "our country will be destroyed, our military, etc..." Signaling to SCOTUS that import taxes (tariffs) are really important. You'd think if we were "taking in TRILLIONS" like he said, that our current $1.6 TRILLION budget deficit would now be a surplus.

31/8/2025, 7:44:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bodhisattva

31/8/2025, 7:38:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dream On

31/8/2025, 7:37:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Somebody's Baby

31/8/2025, 7:36:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Electricland

31/8/2025, 7:28:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Southern Cross

31/8/2025, 7:26:02 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump's upping things to DEFCON 2, "our country will be destroyed, our military, etc..." Signaling to SCOTUS that import taxes (tariffs) are really important. You'd think if we were "taking in TRILLIONS" like he said, that our current $1.6 TRILLION budget deficit would now be a surplus.

31/8/2025, 7:22:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump's upping things to DEFCON 2, "our country will be destroyed, our military, etc..." Signaling to SCOTUS that import taxes (tariffs) are really important. You'd think if we were "taking in TRILLIONS" like he said, that our current $1.6 TRILLION budget deficit would now be a surplus.

31/8/2025, 7:21:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump's upping things to DEFCON 2, "our country will be destroyed, our military, etc..." Signaling to SCOTUS that import taxes (tariffs) are really important. You'd think if we were "taking in TRILLIONS" like he said, that our current $1.6 TRILLION budget deficit would now be a surplus.

31/8/2025, 7:20:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is how it begins, the "Soft Eugenics" designed to prey upon the weak, poor, elderly, the uneducated and conspiracy-minded. It subtly reduces the headcount of takers, of "useless eaters" who are "stealing" resources from so-called able-bodied, productive consumers.

31/8/2025, 6:55:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What You're Doing - The Beatles youtu.be/7Sba2LbhkVY?...

31/8/2025, 6:33:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh Trump understands, he's just directing the Commissioner to fix the HoF election.

31/8/2025, 6:28:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump just wants Manfred to fix the election.

31/8/2025, 6:03:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think JD Vance is someone who would fully embrace the newly discovered SCOTUS immunity ruling and would actively attempt to see how far it would take him in order to keep the wheels on and consolidate his power should (when?) the opportunity arise.

31/8/2025, 6:01:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

WHY does @jaketapper.bsky.social STILL have 287.6k followers on BlueSky? Are we, like our dogs who always think the doorbell is for them, in expectation of a forthcoming new book announcement about Trump's excellent health and fitness for office?

31/8/2025, 5:51:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Good to know Trump remains steadfastly focused on the critical national and international issues most important to us.

31/8/2025, 5:43:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

For decades I have wondered how German citizens in the early 1930s could allow Hitler and his henchmen to take over and completely turn their country into an evil, terrifying empire. In the last 7 months, having lived through this daily, incremental slide to dictatorship, I now understand.

31/8/2025, 5:39:57 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saving Private Ryan

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31/8/2025, 5:36:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does anyone know if he's actually playing golf once he gets to the club? Does anyone know if he's actually being driven to the club?

31/8/2025, 5:30:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is how it begins, the "Soft Eugenics" designed to prey upon the weak, poor, elderly, the uneducated and conspiracy-minded. It subtly reduces the headcount of takers, of "useless eaters" who are stealing resources from able-bodied, productive consumers.

31/8/2025, 5:26:53 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City - look out, you're next! Wait, scratch that, Fall is coming and there will be plenty of leaves to rake for the National Guard in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, etc.

31/8/2025, 5:23:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Dallas, Houston and Oklahoma City - look out, you're next! Wait, scratch that, Fall is coming and there will be plenty of leaves to rake for the National Guard in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, etc.

31/8/2025, 5:22:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

No one in Trump 2.0 cares if people in west Texas die from measles, or if gradeschoolers are shot up, or if 12 million lose access to healthcare or if AI decides who gets a hip replacement. Between soft eugenics and voluntary/involuntary deportations the goal is the same - a war on the weak.

31/8/2025, 5:16:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

2/ No one in Trump 2.0 cares if people in west Texas die from measles, or if gradeschoolers are shot up, or if 12 million lose access to healthcare or if AI decides who gets a hip replacement. Between soft eugenics and voluntary/involuntary deportations the goal is the same - a war on the weak.

31/8/2025, 5:13:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Actually, no, they go hand in hand. This is how it begins, the "Soft Eugenics" designed to prey upon the weak, poor, elderly, the uneducated and conspiracy-minded. It subtly reduces the headcount of takers, of "useless eaters" who are stealing resources from able-bodied, productive consumers.

31/8/2025, 5:13:16 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Actually, no, they go hand in hand. This is how it begins, the "Soft Eugenics" designed to prey upon the weak, poor, elderly, the uneducated and conspiracy-minded. It subtly reduces the headcount of takers, of "useless eaters" who are stealing resources from able-bodied, productive consumers.

31/8/2025, 5:02:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whole lotta leaf-raking needed in Boston this Fall too.

31/8/2025, 4:51:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump and Pulte released this demon to use against Democrats. Did they not think by doing so that prominent Republicans would not also become ensnared in this meaningless trap? If you own more than one residential property, unless you specifically intend to offer one for rent, they are "primary."

30/8/2025, 11:02:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump and Pulte released this demon to use against Democrats. Did they not think by doing so that prominent Republicans would not also become ensnared in this meaningless trap? If you own more than one residential property, unless you specifically intend to offer one for rent, they are "primary."

30/8/2025, 11:01:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump or a body double, I can't tell, but I can tell you today would be a great day to release the Epstein files.

30/8/2025, 10:39:11 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno - Chicago's gonna need national guard help this Fall, whole lotta leaves to rake.

30/8/2025, 10:27:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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WHY is anyone still subscribing to the BezosPost or NYT? Even the recipes are lame.

30/8/2025, 8:06:16 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Granddaughter

30/8/2025, 7:58:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno - Chicago's gonna need national guard help this Fall, whole lotta leaves to rake.

30/8/2025, 7:19:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, it looks like a sad, overweight 79-year-old man whose kids and grandkids never visit.

30/8/2025, 6:49:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno - Chicago's gonna need national guard help this Fall, whole lotta leaves to rake.

30/8/2025, 6:43:07 PM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I dunno - Chicago's gonna need national guard help this Fall, whole lotta leaves to rake.

30/8/2025, 6:42:30 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Same in OK, and, mysteriously, ICE is nowhere to be found in this state. Completely non-existent. Pretty sure the big money OK business donors to Appropriations Committee Chmn Tom Cole made their hands-off wishes known, which he conveyed to Kristi "Puppy-Killer" Noem in no uncertain $$$ terms.

30/8/2025, 4:31:13 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are SO stupid. China is eating our lunch, making scientific advances we used to dream of, and exerting its influence around the world in the vacuum we have created.

30/8/2025, 4:14:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Add the US Military to the list of institutions now captured by Trump 2.0. Others in process, including the Federal Reserve.

30/8/2025, 4:07:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Add the US Military to the list of institutions now captured by Trump 2.0. Others in process, including the Federal Reserve.

30/8/2025, 4:06:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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WHY is anyone still subscribing to the BezosPost or NYT? Even the recipes are lame.

30/8/2025, 3:50:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 3:37:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Empty vessel - you mean like a Diet Coke can?

30/8/2025, 4:44:16 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Les Mis = WH version of Swan Lake.

30/8/2025, 4:41:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Les Mis = WH version of Swan Lake.

30/8/2025, 4:40:42 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Les Mis = WH version of Swan Lake.

30/8/2025, 4:16:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like Logan Roy in "Succession?"

30/8/2025, 4:13:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If JD's on vacation it's a false alarm.

30/8/2025, 4:11:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Heart bypass or transplant surgery?

30/8/2025, 4:06:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait...where is JDVance, is he on vacation?

30/8/2025, 4:01:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And JD proclaimed he was ready "god forbid" something should happen.

30/8/2025, 3:40:00 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn't Vance say the former Pope appeared to be in great health when he insisted on meeting him earlier this year?

30/8/2025, 3:37:14 AM | 62 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where's JD Vance?

30/8/2025, 3:34:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🤣🤣🤣

30/8/2025, 3:25:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait...is JD on vacation?

30/8/2025, 3:23:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait...is JD on vacation?

30/8/2025, 3:14:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fantastic album!

30/8/2025, 2:55:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is JD Vance on vacation this weekend? If not, maybe the end is near for Trump.

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Next stop, Chicago, by the end of next month - whole lotta leaves to rake this Fall. 🍁🍁🍁

30/8/2025, 12:20:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is JD Vance on vacation this weekend? If not, maybe the end is near for Trump.

30/8/2025, 12:19:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is JD Vance on vacation this weekend? If not, maybe the end is near for Trump.

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Next stop, Chicago, by the end of next month - whole lotta leaves to rake this Fall. 🍁🍁🍁

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Next stop, Chicago, by the end of next month - whole lotta leaves to rake this Fall. 🍁🍁🍁

30/8/2025, 12:16:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If JD Vance stops going on vacations, we'll know the end is near for Trump.

30/8/2025, 12:12:18 AM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If JD Vance stops going on vacations, we'll know the end is near for Trump.

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But he's "loyal" which makes him eminently qualified, just like Trump’s future Fed picks.

30/8/2025, 12:07:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Notice in his tweet Trump’s no longer claiming import taxes (tariffs) are paid by other countries, basically just saying it would be embarrassing to us if they were rescinded.

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Freeze your credit files ASAP!

30/8/2025, 12:00:20 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zane Highlander (@zlander.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly! But then MAGAs get to join us to live under an authoritarian dictatorship and Vance will be universally despised by everyone. But he still will be president, and if he's learned anything in 200 days, it's how to use the levers of power to stay in power. Like now, without the stupid tweets.

29/8/2025, 11:57:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Notice in his tweet Trump’s no longer claiming import taxes (tariffs) are paid by other countries, basically just saying it would be embarrassing to us if they were rescinded.

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Notice Trump’s no longer claiming import taxes (tariffs) are paid by other countries, basically just saying it would be embarrassing to us if they were rescinded.

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Notice Trump’s not claiming import taxes (tariffs) are paid by other countries anymore, basically just saying it would be embarrassing to us if they were rescinded.

29/8/2025, 11:49:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A very interesting thesis. It would appear the moral arc of the universe does not bend toward justice, but toward destruction and that "goodness might be redefined as that which resists the nature and structure of reality, however futilely."

29/8/2025, 11:35:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump will probably wait until the end of next month to deploy National Guard - will be a whole lotta leaves to rake by then.

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Pro Birth.

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For No One - The Beatles youtu.be/sep5E3ssXLQ?...

29/8/2025, 6:41:08 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Benjamin Franklin foresaw this in 1787 (well not the algorithms): "...when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. "

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But he's "loyal" which makes him eminently qualified, just like Trump’s future Fed picks.

29/8/2025, 6:26:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view