Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 07/06/2026For most of 1901-1945, America had a president with a double-o in his name: two Roosevelts, a Hoover, a Coolidge, and a Woodrow. In fact no candidate with a double-o has ever lost a presidential election, except when facing an opponent who also had a double-o. Dems, do with this info what you will. 001
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 05/06/2026The very idea that a corporation can be sincere or insincere in its actions is - like the legal fiction of corporate personhood - a blurring of the line between human and non-human that, now more than ever, we need to be making more distinct. 040
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 05/06/2026The MAGAs I know think the phrase "toxic masculinity" means the left considers masculinity to be toxic. Of course that's wrong. I like the neologism "tonic masculinity" to combat this idea. 000
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 04/06/2026O beautiful For SpaceX skies Monsanto waves of grain For dynamiting mountaintops Into the fruited plains America, America God shed His grace on thee Then commerce came And stalked a claim From sea to LLC 110
Reposted by Bob G.Patrick Webb @patrickwbb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Epstein case is so bad the government gave you a war, a new virus, and aliens to keep you distracted from it. Sit with that as long as you need. 22485432622
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 01/05/2026I remember the Soviet refugee who abandoned the China market in a principled fight against censorship and on behalf of privacy for human rights activists. I miss that Sergey Brin. 140
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 25/04/2026Of all the Jesus Fucking Christy things right now, this is among the Jesus Fucking Christiest. 010
Reposted by Bob G.Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press. 5436251031
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 25/04/2026Inflation is just a small part of it. Our collective wealth was bound up in institutions and alliances that they've been dismantling, not to mention their failures to address climate and health crises. The ongoing costs to us are real and large. 000
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 24/04/2026Commended to your attention: "The Feeling of Power," a 1958 short story by Isaac Asimov. In the future, someone discovers that not only machines but humans can do arithmetic! So to conserve valuable machinery, military leaders plan to put humans in their guided missiles. 0101
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 09/04/2026Western snowpack too small in spring -> Dry conditions in summer, risk of wildfires Western snowpack too big in spring -> More vegetation in summer, risk of wildfires 020
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 07/04/2026I don't know if the Hague has a dungeon, but if it does, I will contribute to a fund for preserving a cell there for a certain someone. 230
Reposted by Bob G.Dez Fenton @butisitart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was. 268147182850
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 16/03/2026Same! I loved them - but their non-screen-accuracy really tarnished my play time. Now I have a screen-accurate _and functional_ communicator and tricorder... and no desire to play. Life is cruel. 011
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 16/03/2026Working on it. Meanwhile, learn from our example. I promise the same forces that got us here are at work in your country too. Protect the rule of law at all costs. 011
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 14/03/2026Two possibilities: They _are_ experts and did anticipate problems, but saw some private upside to saying nothing; or They are all idiots. I'm not sure which is worse. 020
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 14/03/2026They said Biden was too old - to deflect from Trump's age. They said Kamala would take us to war - to deflect from their war plans. They said Dems had a pedophile ring - to deflect from their pedophile ring. Now they're telling you elections are being stolen. 141
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Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 07/03/2026Putin's psy-ops campaign against the West is well-documented. But you're right to say the call is coming from inside the house. There has always been a strong anti-democracy strain in America, and I count them as enemies too - domestic ones. They've been organizing while we've been complacent. 030
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 07/03/2026"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Pretty good advice, right up until he's in the middle of starting World War III. Then, don't wait for the midterms. Interrupt. 041
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 06/03/2026Every time I wonder how all this could possibly be happening, I remember: oh yeah, it's the culmination of a decades-long enemy attack. 4430
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 27/02/2026Yes yes yes. The first impulse of incumbents - in business and in politics - is to insulate themselves from competition. Hence gerrymandering, consolidation, etc. But competition benefits the public, always. A top function of government must be to _preserve_ competition in all realms. 000
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 23/02/2026State of the Union drinking game: Every time Trump says a word, drink. 120
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 23/02/2026"Never have so many with so little to say said so much to so few." 010
Reposted by Bob G.Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/02/2026We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing. 122276575
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 14/02/2026Defeating the Nazis was in the same category as changing a flat tire: an untidy business that men were expected to know how to do. - @nealstephenson.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Bob G.microblap @microblap.bsky.social · 13/01/2026@cybelecanterel.bsky.social is making some of the best, most thoughtful, insightful, and CORRECT analysis videos of our moment. you get smarter by watching them.youtu.beWe’re Not Living in the Same Reality AnymoreYouTube video by Cy Canterel 2188
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 13/02/2026I bristled at the Orwellian overtones of the "Department of Homeland Security" before it was cool. 010
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 13/02/2026GOP: Government is the enemy! Voters: Yeah!! [GOP takes over federal gov't, declares war on basically everything.] GOP: See?? 001
Reposted by Bob G.lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/02/2026also the venn diagram of people mad they can't understand the lyrics and the people who think born in the usa is about how good america is is a circle 291935227
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 09/02/2026Neat! Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat." 210
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 09/02/2026That halftime show was *aggressively* anti-white-nationalist. 👏 010
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 06/02/2026When Democrats are back in power, and conservatives voice outrage about something a Democratic politician has done, we are going to have so much "Where were you when..." material we won't even know where to start. 010
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 06/02/2026In the 1978 film, when Clark Kent needs to become Superman for the first time, he pauses briefly at a modern unenclosed phone booth - then new - before finding another place to change unobserved. It got a big laugh from audiences at the time! Do today's audiences even understand that moment? 310
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 06/02/2026I think that happens by getting more people more worked-up about this atrocity. Which was my original point: the Epstein files, awful as they are, are still only plain text, which has a limited ability to reach and revulse people. It's not about spectacle, it's about making it visceral. 100
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 05/02/2026Precisely the post I've been hoping to see. Thank you. How about you, @meidastouch.com? 010
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 05/02/2026That is largely true, but not entirely. It just takes a lot more of us to make them do things than it would if districts were competitive, and if representation weren't so dilute, and if a single billionaire didn't outweigh millions of us. Related: bobglickstein.medium.com/homeopathic-...bobglickstein.medium.comHomeopathic democracyBefore George Washington became the first chief executive under the U.S. Constitution, he presided over the Philadelphia Convention at… 010
Bob G. @bobg.whizbang.me · 05/02/2026This story flew under the radar two years ago. For anyone still doubting the evidence of our eyes and ears, now's a good time to trot this back out and show the clear intent behind it all. 002
