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Eric Butterfield

@ebfld.bsky.social

I write about culture, politics and human behavior in the age of algorithms and digital nonsense seeking problems that don't exist.

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Time for MAGA to once again open up their playbook: Ignore, insult, deflect blame, blame others, and say the critics are overreacting. And when the critics point out that the warning signs and assessment of danger were accurate, simply repeat. And, of course, don't forget to blame antifa.

04.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We can instill confidence that elections are run well, except for the fact that the president has lied about election fraud since mid-2020 β€” six months before his armed supporters attempted to stop the certification of the 2020 election, which Trump lost. If he'd just shut up...

04.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

United States of Shithead Republicans (U.S.S.R.)

04.02.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone please explain the value of alienating our democracy-loving friends, while getting cozy with Sharia Law-loving autocrats in the Mid East? I thought the MAGA culture war was about saving Western Civilization...so we're bolstering Russia and screwing over Europe, Ukraine and NATO?

04.02.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For my kid, I'd trust drag queen story time over a play date at a billionaire's house any day. I don't necessarily see the value in a man in drag reading to children, but at least there's reading going on...and no danger of sexual assault.

04.02.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just like his supporters, and the teachings of Jesus.

04.02.2026 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like they "graduated" from Trump University.

04.02.2026 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many parallels to things I saw, heard about, or knew about historically when traveling in foreign countries. I would say to myself that I was glad to be an American. Today, the venality of Trump threatens that from every direction. He literally rules like he wants the USA to be a shit hole country.

04.02.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And, pray tell, why exactly do those people believe the moon is made of blue cheese? Could it have something to do with the man that lied for six months straight, leading up to an election and subsequent riot at the Capitol? No facts need apply.

03.02.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Versus corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes....? How about fixing our broken health care system and skyrocketing medical costs? TV personalities are so out of touch with reality.

03.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing to see here. Time to build another warehouse detention center and drop some bombs somewhere...oh, and maybe the pablum of a hagiographic First Lady "biopic".

03.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On Jan. 6, 2021, Trump wanted his armed supporters to be allowed to skirt the "mags"(metal detectors). It was all about the Second Amendment, right? Not anymore. Your Second Amendment right is now totally conditional, based on whether the MAGA GOP thinks you applaud it or criticize it.

03.02.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, if he's the leader of antifa, show us the video footage of him storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

03.02.2026 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And therefore, their god can not possibly, by definition, actually be Christian.

03.02.2026 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure. Memes quote deportations under Obama and Bidenβ€”but they're beside the point. What's critical is that our eyes are not lying to usβ€”Trump is. ICE uses indiscriminate violence, terrorizes citizens, and abducts preschool children. Cruelty, civil rights violations, and no due process. That's MAGA.

02.02.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Large crowds are protesting the extra-judicial violence of Orange Jesus Sex Predator Superstar. So, who's got an actual figure? What's the estimated % of paid agitators? Seriously. Show me the facts. Trump's bad-plastic-surgery-puppy-shooting Barbie doll can smear U.S. citizens, but it's all B.S.

01.02.2026 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those AI chips are going to be used to enforce Sharia Law in the UAE. Sounds like evangelicals might want to reconsider their delusion that Trump was appointed and anointed by the Christian god.

01.02.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good for them Fox News viewers don't independently look up actual federal Bureau of Justice statistics...otherwise, they could no long stomach Fox's blatant scapegoating of illegal immigrants for violent crime.

01.02.2026 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And we are not to call pedophiles pedophiles, or sexual assailants sexual assailants, or violent goons insurrectionists, or liars liars, or lies lies, or propaganda propaganda. Big Brother will tweet something bigly and nonsensical, and MAGA will salute. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

01.02.2026 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. It's as if they don't even understand that the Pizzagate gunman, Proud Boys, white nationalists, protected sexual predators, tech billionaires addicting teens with digital dope, and farcically hypocritical evangelical Christians are all in their corner...with hopes and prayers for everybody.

30.01.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please hold these contemptuous, immoral jackasses of middling intellect to account for their sins against our country.

30.01.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eric Butterfield (@ericbutterfield) Dear World, we are sorry. We thought this jackass megalomaniac would only inflict pain on other people, on foreigners. We don’t like foreigners, even though we’re all descended from foreigners, so I g...

Dear World, we are sorry. We thought this jackass megalomaniac would only inflict pain on other people, on foreigners. We don’t like foreigners, even though we’re all descended from foreigners, so I guess we just hate that part of ourselves ...

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30.01.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How low we've sunk when this public statement even needs to be made...tired of the MAGA con job yet?

30.01.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He wanted his deluded "stop the steal" rubes to be able to skirt the metal detectors ("mags") on Jan. 6, 2021. Then he claimed it was antifa waving Trump flags and attacking our Capitol. Then, it was his supportersβ€”but they were loving patriots. All pardoned. What a sick and twisted cult of goons.

28.01.2026 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The man has all the philosophical fortitude of a windsock.

27.01.2026 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Right celebrates Kyle Rittenhouse, a trigger-happy vigilante shithead, but smears a dead woman as a professional agitator who said, "I'm not mad at you," to an ICE agent just before being shot. There is no longer any moral or ethical through lineβ€”only the tribal-like lobotomy of us vs. them.

23.01.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, apparently the Epstein files aren't being released because the victims failed to protect themselves adequately, and therefore the perpetrators are guiltless. Since when has a victim's lack of preparedness or defenselessness exonerated an attacker in a criminal case?

22.01.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How do you know that? Source, please.

22.01.2026 05:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The comedy in the karma: Expanding executive power under Trump sets up this potentiality when a Democrat next enters the Oval Office: ICE agents sent to detention centers for extra-judicial goon squad rights abuses. That's where we are. A legal system as a political cudgel. My, how far we've fallen.

22.01.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is how a trust fund baby in orange makeup, who dodged the draft and never served, gets tough-guy goons to turn a decent democracy into a shit hole country. And now, since you're distracted from the Epstein files, it's time for a round of golf.

22.01.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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