@wmenton.bsky.social
Some of this and some of that
There was an interview with William Buckley sometime around 2005-ish, before he died. Even he had turned against the Republican Party, saying they had become the opposite of conservative.
30.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump’s gestapo are getting bolder
21.06.2025 14:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He wants a war so he can invoke the insurrection act
18.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It wouldn’t surprise me to discover the specific families being granted refugee status were actually the descendants of actual Nazis living under assumed names after the war
13.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To be more clear: It’s where your right to a trial comes from. Without habeus corpus you have no right to a trial.
13.05.2025 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Renaming things, like the Gulfs of Mexico and Persia, is a tactic to get us used to the idea that his word is law.
08.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
He's talking about disappearing US citizens to El Salvadorian prisons.
"Mr. Trump also mused about the possibility of sending American citizens convicted of violent crimes to prison in El Salvador,"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
Without Egality, there is no Liberty; There is only Privilege masquerading as Liberty.
30.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The world is burning. Let Tiki Cocktail Season Commence!
14.03.2025 23:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yup. Large language models can only make decisions based on the carefully curated information they’re given to use.
14.03.2025 11:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the exploitable weaknesses in our government is that the branches depend on each other to follow the rules. If the Executive Branch refuses to uphold the laws passed by Congress or the rulings passed by the Courts, there's no one else to stop them.
13.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I kind of wish there was a scented candle for “a/v room 1880”. Or maybe I’m the only one that liked the smell of fresh mimeograph?
13.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He’ll still rake in government contracts that chump gifts him
12.03.2025 22:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s Replicant talk
07.03.2025 01:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For my D&D nerds
04.03.2025 04:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Republicans are so deep in Russia’s pocket it’s disgusting
01.03.2025 18:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love that you still use the library
20.02.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No matter what side you’re on, the Billionaire Propaganda Network (Facebook and Twitter) makes its money by instilling fear and division
20.02.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I did
20.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That's a weird photo of Elon Musk
20.02.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Elon's boy-toy is selling Ukraine to Putin for rare earth mineral rights that Elon needs to control for the electric car company he bought all those years ago. I guess all the "Rolling Coal" guys are pro electric car now.
19.02.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0The image shows two fraudsters committing fraud
19.02.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"This is an NPC congress, submitting to Trump's ambition over their duty to the American people"
16.02.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who voted for President Musk? Trump is almost demure when his new man-crush is around
14.02.2025 03:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Apparently he missed the irony while complaining about unelected people in government
14.02.2025 03:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trying out the alternatives to the Billionaire Propaganda Networks
I'm also @wmenton@mastadon.social
Stop calling him a fascist. Call him a Republican. Make the Republicans own what they've become. Let future generations consider "Republican" to be a slur.
29.01.2025 00:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The first golden calves have started emerging from the snow
25.01.2025 07:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
