cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14hThis horrible woman, as Lt Governor of MN, silenced dozens of whistleblowers of the massive Somali social-services fraud with implied threats against their children. She should be prison, not in Congress. 010 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14hIn Ilhan Omar’s case, this process started under President Biden. I don’t remember your generalizing and catastrophizing at the time. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I’m posting my own thoughts in my own words, based on PAYING ATTENTION as history has been unfolding around me and on my own life experience, including meeting some of Canada’s medical refugees in my doctors’ waiting rooms. The human brain was meant to be used. Try thinking for yourself. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Any why do all of you idiots assume anyone who disagrees with scrapping the Constitution is a Trumper? You can’t all be as dumb as that. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“Right wing”? Relative to *you* maybe. Everyone to the Right of hammer-and-sickle-waving Communism is to the Right to Lefties’ right. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I site the media outlets the DSA co-chairs *themselves* chose to sell their hair-raising new platform to the general public. They have no power? Someone’s should inform Democratic Party leadership. Chuck Schumer is already their bitch; Hakeem soon will be when they are seated as Blue Tea Party. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I am a proud, lifelong Know-It-All, thanks, and my mission in life is to instruct Know-Nothings who aspire to “uncurbed” power and naive voters who still believe in the Tooth Fairy. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The NHS’s color-coded response times. The ambulance dispatcher is doing your triage. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...commonslibrary.parliament.ukAmbulance service response timesThere will be a Westminster Hall debate on ambulance service response times on 6 March 2025. The debate will be opened by Sarah Dyke MP. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...rte.iePatients can face two hour wait for ambulance, cttee toldThe HSE's National Ambulance Service has said that failures to meet response targets means that some patients can wait for more than two hours for an emergency service response. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“Spending money on health care” is what we are already doing. Health care spending is over half the general budget of the US. Abolishing private insurers is not health care; it’s a death sentence. No one should have to wait 2 HOURS for an ambulance.abc.net.auDeath investigated after ambulance not available for medical emergencyAn investigation has been launched after a man died shortly after his family drove him to the Royal Hobart Hospital because no ambulances were available. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026And the authors of the new one will be morons who couldn’t hold down a real job and historical ignoramuses who think Communism was “fair” and awesome and Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were just benevolent despots who are misunderstood. They can’t be trust to house sit and water your plants. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Do you have a reading disability? “Scrapping and rewriting” is not “amending.” It’s chucking the entire Constitution and starting from scratch. 200 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And ideologies have killed more people than theocracies. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Our spineless Democratic Party leadership is the DSA’s bitch. Even with just a handful of members, they were ordering Hakeem and Chuck around. Now they’re poised to become the Tea Party of the Left. People who believe in the Tooth Fairy and are already drunk with power must never be given more. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I live near the border and have met some of Canada’s medical refugees in my doctor’s waiting rooms, ordinary people willing to spend their life savings because they can’t wait any longer for their “free” health care. It should never be illegal to save your own life. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Only children believe in the Tooth Fairy. In 2005, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled Canada’s long waiting lists a human rights violation under the Quebec Charter: Chaoulli vs Quebec. And the waiting lists have only gotten longer in the past 11 years. 200 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act; (2) an employer to provide benefits for an employee, former employee, or the dependents of an employee or former employee that duplicate the ben- efits provided under this Act.” www.sanders.senate.gov/download/med... 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Maybe you don’t know what you’re advocating for? FromBernie’s Medicare for All bill: “SEC. 107. PROHIBITION AGAINST DUPLICATING COVERAGE. (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the effective date described in section 106(a), it shall be unlawful for— (1) a private health insurer to sell health insurance… 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That is very dangerous, and there’s absolutely no rational reason to doing it except to establish precedent for seizing private industry. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026MY “far-right policies?” Child, who do you take me for? Single payer is not the only way to go; Hillarycare was universal health care. Medicare for All would abolish private insurers. 200 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I fail to see how trapping 343 million people in a single-payer health system then sealing off the exits and handing the keys to Trump and Doge (or their successors) is going to improve my life or anyone else’s. I also fail to see how an “uncurbed” government can be expected to be benevolent. 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The dignified response to being corrected is “I stand corrected. Thank you.” You’re welcome. 040 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Why? Because you’re learning-challenged and/or dedicated to your ignorance? 210 0
Reposted by cidonnelly1Blythe Smith @widowpower.bsky.social · 05/12/2024taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran... this is the first thing I am posting here, because it is important and I doubt the FB algorithm will think so. This impacts me directly. Please read. Please let your representatives know that you do not support cutting benefits for our veterans or their widows.taskandpurpose.comA push to cut veterans disability benefits is gaining traction, experts warnMany Americans don’t understand how difficult it is for veterans to prove that their health conditions stem from their military service. 043 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Have you been in a medically induced coma? The DSA literally *say* they want to scrap the Constitution and “write a new People’s constitution.” They have beem doing interviews everywhere from The Hill to Fox News touting their new aims. Catch up! Here’s the hellacious new DSA platform:program.dsausa.orgDSA ProgramWorkers Deserve More! 300 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026He’s America chief diplomat. His JOB is to shake hands and do diplomacy. Do you not understand what a Secretary of State does? 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That side thinks the “more people voting” should include non-citizens. That side wants to IMPOSE a single-payer health system against the will of the majority who want options. That side hates America and is allied with terrorists in a Red-Green alliance, both working for “the fall of the West.” 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Read it for yourself: program.dsausa.org#we-fight-forprogram.dsausa.orgDSA ProgramWorkers Deserve More! 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That side is now saying they want to scrap the Constitution, the Senate, the presidency and SCOTUS, all checks on balances. They want a unicameral legislature with “uncurbed” power. Here’s the DSA’s horrifying new platform, released July 14th. We’re supposed to unite behind this travesty? 100 0
Reposted by cidonnelly1The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/10/2026The Iran-backed Houthi militia launched a deadly attack on an international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital on Saturday that Saudi officials said killed at least 12 people and injured over 300 more. nyti.ms/4hG62UD 85523 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026How is it you’ve never heard of Cea Weaver after the terrific backlash she got from Black NYC homeowners for calling home ownership “a tool of white supremacy”? She was giving interviews mainstream media where she did not recant her words but only said, “I certainly wouldn’t put it that way today.” 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It could easily happen given the millions of ignoramuses who’ve bought the lie that Communism is just your comfortable capitalist lifestyle with freebies. The entrepreneurial impulse never truly disappears. It just goes underground and operates as the illegal but tolerated black market. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s not meant to last the whole month, which is why the program’s name is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The operative words being “supplemental” and “nutrition.” 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Don’t take my word for it. Look up SNAP benefits yourself. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I just came across an interesting comment from an Evangelical who converted to Catholicism. He said he was left “spiritually hungry” by church services that were nothing more than “a rock concert and a TED talk.” 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe so. It’s hard to say at this point. A couple of years ago Pew Research reported that the Christian share of the US population had “stabilized.” Time will tell. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So, it follows logically that there can’t be any more fair, free elections. And that would be the end of American democracy. 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026abolishing the Senate and our entire system of checks and balances, and centralizing “uncurbed” power in the hands of a unicameral legislature? Which will be run by themselves, of course, because who wants to give MAGA unchecked power, right? 100 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There’s always a “lesser of two evils.” The tough part is deciding which that is. The bozos who stormed the nation’s capitol because they fell for the Big Lie and thought they were fighting to save our democracy? Or the bozos whose new platform calls for scrapping US Constitution, 200 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There was also a video clip of her on YouTubs saying those exact words along with “Elect more Communists.” 000 0
cidonnelly1 @cidonnelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026She deleted all those comments from her X account before Mamdani appointed her, as even mainstream reporters noted at the time. “… in now-deleted tweets.” 100 0