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Rand Barthel

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Father, grandfather, retired software engineer, BA in Physics, lover of life, the stars, birds, sailing, history, and philosophy. Climate activist and believer in liberal democracy and humane values. Scantily clad women need not follow. Not here for that.

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Trump is a one-trick pony. He's not capable of changing.

05.11.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Schumer didn't endorse anybody. He's been very useful in the past, when we needed a technocrat who could pass legislation. Right now we need someone to lead a mass movement to defend democracy. That ain't Chuck.

05.11.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're racing to get all the profits before renewable energy gets so cheap it puts them all out of biz.

05.11.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But we knew that already.

05.11.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is not too early for Stephen Miller to start exploring the real estate market in Argentina.

05.11.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fancy that!

05.11.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two centuries ago the French had this kind of crap going on in their country and they brought out the guillotines. There's no law of political nature that prevents that from happening here.

05.11.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we give Texas back to Mexico?

05.11.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With this regime, realistic. If you work in the Federal Government, sooner or later you will be asked to become complicit in one or another of their infamies.

05.11.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately that is a huge slice of what it's about.

05.11.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've known for a long time he was that kind of guy.

05.11.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think he made a decision not to endorse anybody, and another decision to not say that he decided that. Alas, that is the coward's way out. Dems need a new majority leader for sure. Someone who gets how to lead an opposition movement.

05.11.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's also inhaling lead vapors from bullets in indoor gun ranges.

Unfortunately there is now explosive growth in gun ownership and training among people with left-wing politics. If you must own guns, wear proper ear protection and practice outside if at all possible.

04.11.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which also implicates them in America's overall decline and China's ascendancy.

04.11.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stephen Miller obviously has no idea how toxic his public image is, especially in a deep blue place like NYC.

04.11.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mamdani commented that Ackman was spending more money to defeat him than he would cost Ackman in taxes if he won.

04.11.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we do the energy transition right we can actually save money, because collecting energy from the wind and the sun is cheaper in the long run than staying on the fossil fuel treadmill.

04.11.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not just the Epstein files themselves, it's what the need to cover them up is forcing the Regime to do. They've had to keep the House on recess for three months when it should have been working on ways to end the shutdown. Trumpublicans have lost the politics of the shutdown because of that.

04.11.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In general we have to stop assuming that members of the Regime believe the nonsense that comes out of the mouths. Truth has no meaning to them. Only power matters, and they want power for corrupt, selfish, sick reasons. Fox personalities are as much members of the Regime as if they held office.

04.11.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's an exodus of dodos.

04.11.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Christian nation would feed the poor and heal the sick.

03.11.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen less H2 propaganda lately. Maybe I have policed my feeds more, or maybe the idea isn't as useful as propaganda any more now that it is more obvious it has no future.

03.11.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It becomes clear when you use mmbtus as units.

03.11.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"illegal citizens" is an even worse oxymoron than "alternative facts".

03.11.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We can be sure the FU is intended.

03.11.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's been obvious for years. The question is what do we do about it. Forcing the release of the Epstein files would be a good place to start.

02.11.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the media should just say that the US military blew up a boat and killed some people. They shouldn't say the people were "alleged drug smugglers" because that is almost certainly a lie. Let the Regime produce some evidence before repeating its framing of the incident.

02.11.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just in case you thought MTG was showing a glimmer of rationality lately. No, she's the same blithering idiot she was before.

02.11.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the batteries keep improving too, and not just Li-ion. Sodium-ion is coming on strong, and iron-air is too in the grid storage market.

01.11.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

An utter Scheisskopf.

01.11.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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