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@abesmith5b.bsky.social
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A practical-bent Idealist. Every problem has at least one opportunity attached to it.

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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 13s
Flying out of our pockets.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 1m
That has been his life’s story business wise. Cutting corners, relying on others to actually run his businesses, declaring bankruptcy and sticking creditors and workers while walking away with his pockets stuffed.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 5m
Except for the typo on “trade”, you got it 100% correct. We simply have never made some key things like essential oils (for cosmetic, food, agriculture use) here. Reagan moved heavy manufacturing offshore during the early 80s, so we no longer make mixing and packaging equipment, for example.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 10m
Not really, and outside of China and its protectionist tendencies, they never were. Trump has made things worse, because the USA companies that he seeks to protect won’t invest in their people, plants and equipment. Instead they lay people off and move manufacturing to third world countries.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 15m
greedy and fundamentally don’t give a shit about creating jobs by taking risks investing in plants, USA material suppliers and USA equipment makers.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 17m
The main issue is that almost all key material and ingredient inputs into products, plus that equipment to make and package those products are made outside the USA, Reagan made sure of that. Modern USA companies are not going to accept less profits to buildup industries here, because they are
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22m
Exactly. His two goals are to stay out of jail and stuff his pockets and the pockets of family and friends. Everything else fall where they fall, he really doesn’t give a shit about them.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 27m
Some things that get imported simply are not made here. Essential oils for skin and hair care products and plant residues for sustainable fertilizers are examples. You can’t find them from USA suppliers. But you can find plenty of USA made POT extracts.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 34m
When we grew into a super power economically. The notion that taxing the rich retards wealth grow has been shown over and over to be BS.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 36m
I believe in taxing rich people and taxing inheritances. But if someone wants to pass the post tax money and assets on to their kids, I have zero issue with that. The key is to fairly tax the rich and stop them from taking advantage of horrible tax loopholes.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 39m
Not all rich kids are idiots. I met some who were pretty cool and got by on merit. But yes, most of the rich kids who I met were not very bright or ambitious.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 41m
Being born to a rich parent matters. I see that often here in the South, kids who have nothing but being born rich rising to the top due to their family connections instead of merit.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 45m
The Idiot has grossly driven up the dollar cost of needed imports while other countries are buying less of our exports, outside of LNG and oil distillates. Given that dynamic, of course the trade deficit is going to much grow larger in dollar terms.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 1h
You use strong terms like “apartheid” for issues that it doesn’t remotely apply to, do better. My point is that the USA should get back to the 50s, 60s and 70s, when college and technical school education received a lot of federal government support. That support would come from USA tax dollars.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 1h
Why did it pick that particular spot? The location looks exposed to predators. Also, it sniffed and tested the ground before laying down, is there a reason for those acts?
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah, you have a solid point. The song does say what you pointed out and is 100% appropriate when applied to that scumbag. I apologize.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 1h
That is possible, especially if they hide their affiliation to the fraternity that the rape occurred at.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 20h
No he was on tv maybe a couple years ago selling offbeat food and supplement items. The music set to the picture was a bad choice, dying at 86 is not dying young.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 20h
I sleep in the 5-6 hour range. If I went to bed at 7pm, I would awake at around 2-3 AM.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
😂👏
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
If he was a Democrat, Jake Tapper would have to change his pants and shorts every two minutes, due to pissing himself complaining about the unwell President.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
The Heli is Marine 1. It is the presidential helicopter.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Maybe he will Lyndsey Graham himself, die because he chose to get on tv instead of going into a hospital and getting checked out, an act that would have likely saved his life.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Robots can have artificial intelligence as a part of them, but artificial intelligence does not need robotics to function. The short answer to your question is that more money is made by companies doing the software stuff, rather than things like robots cleaning up the environment.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Saving by ending tax cuts for the super rich could fund universal healthcare and college and trade school tuitions.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Or use the money that we spend on stupid wars. Or end the idiotic tax cuts for the super rich and use the money saved from that to improve lives of USA citizens.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Biden did not send that type of missile to Ukraine. Kegseth is lying and should sit down, stfu and take another drink of alcohol.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
He looks like a used car salesman who is really bad at his job, and who wears too much hair cream and bad suits.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
Trump did use them up in a poorly planned charade. Biden did not send that type of missile to Ukraine.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 21h
That is all that they do and all that they have left.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
We need to make absolutely certain that we leave nothing on the table. The stake are way too high for the USA and the world.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
One other of the seven got fired by a company. The 50 that got a message about the rape as it was happening and didn’t do anything are also most likely going to face substantial doubts about their ethics.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
Some may still be in school. But regardless of where, they are going to pay. Even the ones that got the social media message and did nothing are going to pay a price once their names are known.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
Is there a reason why the buck inspected the ground, dug at the ground briefly and then laid down at that spot?
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
Does he have experience with that? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 22h
The man is a Writer who has been known to turn a phrase or two.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They have vivid images of grossly deviant sexual practices. Looks like they just recount their own hidden behavior.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People who insist that government be run like private companies are fools. The purpose and scope of the two are vastly different. Private companies have a very narrow charter. Government must deal with ANY problem that crops up, and supply wages to people that help society function properly.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
social safety net, so that the kids and people who worked the kitchens in fast food places and other blue collar jobs and paid the taxes that helped the college and trade school kids don’t get left behind and live hand to mouth, set things up so that their kids can dream, instead of seeing no hope.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How does the problem get solved? In a way Trump may be doing a part of that with his stupid (and racist) immigration actions. We need to prioritize hiring USA born talent. Then students going to college and trade school need to get funding. Then we implement universal healthcare and broaden the
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heavy reliance on immigrant engineers and scientists has been the case for the last 30 years. If you look at history, Reagan began the destruction of funding for USA born talent. It took around a decade for that to set in, roughly the mid-90s. Since the mid 90s, things have only gotten worse.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s a con. He needs to show the signed agreements, which he won’t be able to show.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People need to check their voter registration status right now or in the morning. I live in Florida, I checked mine earlier today.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem is with one particular ethnic group of men. Why do you think that they are sweating about diversity and equality so much. Men that used to have it largely made now have to fight for jobs against people that used to be summarily denied any chance at those jobs.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hulk Hogan is dead. Ted Nugent seems to have been silent of late.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most White football coaches are at a minimum extremely rightwing. Look at Tommy Tuberville, his roster of players was dominated by Black kids.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The surprise is that Jack Nicholas is not there. Most White football coaches and most PRO USA golfers are pretty rightwing.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Plus, although China uses a lot of fossil fuel, their ratio of fossil fuel to clean energy infrastructure is much lower than ours and it is falling rapidly, they are taking the lead on climate change damage abatement and potential reversal.
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Don’t Follow Me @abesmith5b.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can’t disagree with that observation. China is leading us on both basic scientific research and is largely better at applying what is learned. We are still ahead on advanced semiconductors and the equipment to build them, but China has made massive stride in very little time, within 2 years.
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