@steveknapp.bsky.social
Technology writer and part-time bonsai artist and gardener
"First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots." ~ Warren Buffett
Kash is no innovator and probably not smart enough to be an imitator, so...
"But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'" ~ John Avlon
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"A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings." ~ Sam Harris
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"Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom." ~ William J. H. Boetcker
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"What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky." ~ Empedocles
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"Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme." ~ Daniel Defoe
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"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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"Self-conceit may lead to self destruction." ~ Aesop
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"Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time." ~ David M. Raup
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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority." ~ Will Durant
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"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." ~ Saint Augustine
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"Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine." ~ George Carlin
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"Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind." ~ William Shakespeare
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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!" ~ Tennessee Williams
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Roy Cohn speaks from the grave.
09.09.2025 20:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
09.09.2025 20:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0AI talent that doesn't earn a salary is every studio mogul's dream.
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Trump's authoritarian behavior may lead him down the same road as McKinley. This outcome would be incredibly dangerous for the country.
07.09.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?" ~ Jay Leno
Republicans have shut down the government repeatedly. Democrats have always claimed the Rs would suffer politically. Where's the evidence?
Democrats should, but our leadership is living in an alternative reality. Jeffries and Schumer don't have a complete backbone between them.
The cynic in me thinks that Krasnov may not be the only compromised politician in Washington.
"All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House." ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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"I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself." ~ Malcolm X
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"Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility." ~ Bill Vaughan
And some people just get stuck and never mature psychologically.
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." ~ John Burroughs
Which is why Trump has always been a failure.
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"Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world." ~ Roger Cohen
Now it's the ultimate refuge of the powerfully daft.
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"Because a jackass brays doesn't mean you have to take it to heart." ~ Jeanne Phillips
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"I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community..." ~ H. L. Mencken
Ah, Brooks.
"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass." ~ Mark Twain
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"The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook." ~ George Seldes
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"One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption." ~ Upton Sinclair
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