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I have so much more contempt for the Vichy Republicans than I do for the MAGA Cultists.

Someone said a few weeks ago that this contest in Texas is the most prominent theological debate in the country since the Scopes Monkey Trial, and I am inclined to think they are right.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We don't deserve nice things, like allies.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It could be... 1) a distraction from his own issues 2) a way to get Guilfoyle out of his life forever or 3) both. Because, I'm sorry, corruption is the last thing this WH cares about at all.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

TIL... there was a British politician named Seymour Cocks, who looked like a recently-deceased politician...

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An entire generation of people are having collective amnesia about WW2 and the Cold War. In America, Trump has convinced people that the US has somehow been exploited by the system that made us the most powerful nation ever. European far right movements have forgotten the destruction of nationalism

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don't forget the Albert Speer Arch... we all wanted that too

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is trying to incite a Kristallnacht-style attack on Somalians. Evil demagoguery.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vance knows better. He is genuinely smarter than this, but he must dumb himself down to match the talking points of his Fuhrer...

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cool. I'm "The Enemy" now. AI is Artificial Intelligence. It is not "super" or anything like it. I guess Trump thinks his new term is widely accepted when the only voices he hears are sycophants and the voices in his head.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The more, the better, especially with Fetterman waiting to play kingmaker...

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope this becomes a terrible scandal. I know better, but still.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But, still, the Republicans will just try to pretend that the Trump Era is over, everything is cool, and the threat of trans people means we need to focus on other things.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Once Trump is finally gone and the spell snaps, a la Hitler 1945 and Stalin 1953, many of the Vichy Republicans will try to pretend that they never supported Trump or point to worse MAGA cases... just like many Vichy Collaborators tried to launder their own reputations by shaving women in Paris.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And the entire Republican Party, at this point, are Vichy Collaborators or pure Trump Cultists. The fact that Trump still has an iron grip over the GOP after J6 makes me very pessimistic that the GOP will ever try to return to normalcy.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We destalinized and denazified, and both Stalin and Hitler had much more extensive cults of personality than Trump. Trump does have one advantage over Hitler, though... there won't be a formal reckoning with his legacy like the Germans had to do after WW2.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1) Get rid of millions of Democratic voters 2) Perhaps enjoy a momentary poll bump of unity as Americans rally around the flag and finally support taking out Iran. 3) Scratching that itch that this sociopath has to actually use the nukes and destroy Iran... and seize the radioactive oil.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump's "joke" about Iran nuking SD and LA should be so brazenly offensive to any American- it indicates a level of contempt for his own people that you really only see in the Fuhrerbunker in April 1945. I guess Trump's demented brain could come up with a few benefits for himself of such an event:

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He doesn't understand what trade is. Much less trade deficits. David Ricardo figured out comparative advantage 250 years ago. Trump doesn't understand that most basic of principles...

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I want to see him and his cynical approach to politics defeated forever. I want ethics, checks and balances, compassion, common sense, wisdom, and something better than... this... to win.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

who voted for him pretending that Kamala Harris was somehow worse than Trump and get all shocked when the guns are turned on them- ICE, tariffs, gas prices, etc. Trump cannot buy my conscience for $5,000 or any amount. Aside from the fact that I will never receive any bribe money if the GOP wins,

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”- Sophie Scholl This perfectly describes many people in the Trump Era, especially those

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyone who has ever watched anything Trump does with remotely sober eyes would never fall for this $5K bribe. Just look at his history of paying... or not paying... contractors.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Saved it from what?!? I swear, every fucking day with him as president is like hearing Hitler's Fuhrerbunker rants in April 1945. Completely out of touch with any resembling reality.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Months after buying it, I finally watched Sophie Scholl: Final Days. Few movies or TV shows ever have me in tears, but this had me bawling. Sophie Scholl and her brother, Hans, are some of the most courageous people to ever live on this planet.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh wait, someone has thought of this before!

18 U.S. Code § 597 Expenditures to influence voting U.S. Code

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote- Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I thought we couldn't afford to pay those tariff refunds the courts ordered? Anyone who falls for this shit is dumber than dirt and was already going to vote for Trump, anyway.

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SkunktemBear @mursephit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Coyote Vs ACME is like better call Saul meets Looney Tunes Guys it's so classic, go see it if you can

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

No, Ted. It's not the Chinese Communists that are responsible for knowing that things called "externalities" exist that make these data centers seriously not worth it. But let's put a data center next to Mar-a-Lago and see what the President thinks of them then.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Seriously, Grim Reaper? There's this whole other guy in the Home Alone 2 hotel you could have targeted...

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rogers is just going to run a pure fearmongering, demagogic campaign against El-Sayed on religious and ethnic grounds.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is the sort of thing that a very pathetic and insecure nation needs to do to feel powerful.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It took less than a day for Trump to make her death about him. It is pathological.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today is the ultimate "Grim Reaper picking the wrong prize" meme.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Best answers I can think of: Danny DeVito, Morgan Freeman, Weird Al Yankovic

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Alex Welch @awelch744.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was one of the only people left who truly unified all Americans. Who is left?

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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