David Otto Scaer

Authentic footage of me lighting up an epic fatty on my porch just now, not gonna lie

I don’t have a lot of time so quick thread on exactly WHY what I posted about today is so bad. TLDR: it’s like the most convoluted fucked up incestuous polycule I’ve ever heard of. 🥴🥴🥴

First who is everybody? Scott Bessent is the Secretary of the Treasury so cabinet member from hedge fund land.

Ooooooo I could do a LOT of damage before they figured out I was bowling for the other team…

Congratulations on the upward move! Third star from the left etc!!!

I’m all in!

Amen!

This is a remarkable (even if ongoing) success. This is what good leadership can bring about! BRAVA, Madame Mayor!

SUPERB!

“Who’s showing more spine now, eh? Some retired teacher with a vocabulary, shouting down people in power? Or CONGRESSMAN JACK BERGMAN (MI-1), who can’t bring himself to issue a statement about the President’s coverup of a notorious pedophilia ring in which he himself is implicated?”

Fun times.

Called my damned congressthing (this is probs about the 50th call since Inauguration Day). Confrontational all around. Called for his resignation for “protecting pedophiles”. Called him a coward for never having in-person townhalls. Made the staffer READ BACK TO ME all my grievances.

Tall ships plying the waters of my home town

Let’s amplify this, please!

Can we please amplify this?

Detail of an oil painting I’ve been working on. Lavish transparent blues (real lapis lazuli!) to the left, interacting with opaque earth tones on the right. Works from a distance but strangely not so much up close? Brainstorming that as we speak

A detail from a land-/skyscape I’m working on, as a gift to some lovely vineyard folk we’ve met lately. Just really decent, kind folk, who have extended their kindness and friendship to me, yes, but to my elderly father as well. Oil and lapis lazuli on tinted gesso ground

Also: fuck threads. I’m getting old. ::WAVES CANE AT INTERNET::

S: “I’ll give Mr. Bergman your message.”

Me: “Let me hear you read the whole message back to me.”

S: “[muttering] …moral DEFICIT…”

Me: “May I spell DERELICT for you?” [yes, I know earlier in the thread I said “decrepit”, but I really did say “derelict”]

Fuck these people very very much

S: “I’ll give him your message.”

Me: “Read the message back to me please?”

S: “You want him to resign.”

Me: “Are you intentionally editing my ‘message’ to avoid mentioning that I think Bergman’s a coward and a moral decrepit for shielding a pedophile President from accountability?”

Staffer: “Okay, I’ll let Mr. Bergman know your message.”

Me: “…which is?”

S: “That you want him to resign.”

Me: “Were you going to tell him the rest of the message? How Bergman is a moral derelict if he can’t muster a statement holding a pedophile President to account?”

/pitches: can he bring himself to cease support of a pedophile President? Can he bring himself to call for accountability for someone who preyed upon children sexually? Or will he let Trump slide because he’s wealthy and powerful and hands out political favors to his sycophants?”

Yesterday’s call to do-nothing CongressThing Jack Bergman (Michigan 1st congressional). Ugly.

Me: “Just a quick question: does Mr. Bergman still support this President?”

Staffer: “Yes he does.”

Me: “Then I must insist on Mr. Bergman’s resignation. He just whiffed the easiest of slow/

With love and respect from N Michigan

I may be a failed French scholar and teacher (and am currently failing my way through a nascent art career), but I am not afraid to speak the truth, defend the truth, defend my kids, wife and Dad, and stand (sometimes stupidly, sometimes strategically) in the way of evil men. ::respect::, Jess!

Can we amplify this, please?

Lovely, Greg! Here is what we were seeing on our side (NW Lower MI)

A stroll in the sublime light of sunset in Northern Michigan

Just incredible

Superb!

I also made a point to ask both offices when we can expect an in-person townhall, where Bergman can defend his vote in person? Both offices explained that they “don’t control/have access to his calendar”.

Translation: we will _never_ be allowed an actual in-person appearance of Mr. Jack Bergman

/squaring his statement with the content of the bill was that _is lying to his constituents about the content of the bill_.

This met w quite a bit of bad-faith pushback from the tc office. I replied that I’m a reasonably intelligent person who can spot prevarication?/

/not limited to grotesque pushback regarding the ACCURACY of his own website’s words—“now whose reporting is this you’re quoting?”—and lots of glib Explaining).

I asked if the congressman had actually read the bill. The staffers both reassured me he had.

I posited that another way of/