Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026After he is gone, what is it going to take to rebuild our relationships with former allies he alienated? I would guess we will need lots of public trials and convictions, and maybe even some changes to the constitution. Otherwise they won't trust that we won't rip up treaties every four years. 021
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Fun thought: we need a real, honest to goodness Stalinist Communist party in America to move the Overton window far enough to make democratic socialism a mainstream idea. 130
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Okay, at bottom, are creationism and the idea we are living in a computer simulation the same thing? 000
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026They’ll prolly try to deport Madonna, too, come to think of it. All that voguing. 071
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Are they setting up Shakira and BTS for the most public ICE arrest/deportations ever? 040
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026How long before Trump says, "Melania? I hardly knew her."? 1123
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Classic blunders: “Never start a land war in Asia, and never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.” 1239
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Is this the Reichstag moment they’ve been waiting for? 0275
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025As if 2025 didn't have enough weird stuff already. 76523
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Trump called bankers Shylocks, today. The antisemitism doesn't surprise me at all, coming from him. The Shakespeare reference though? Didn't see that coming. 73610
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/07/2025The Big Beautiful Bill passed, so I think I'll go down to my local, rural hospital, and raise a glass. I'm going to miss it. Especially when I have a heart attack. 2237
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I'm beginning to think the Democratic leadership is trying to be the Washington Generals to the Republican Harlem Globetrotters . . . wait a minute. They're ALL the Washington Generals. 1281
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Today I learned that robots can get aggressive prostate cancer after leaving office. 1221
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I am definitely NOT saying Trump was replaced by a Russian robot in 2016. . . . but damn, think about that. 3273
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025It might be amusing to get a negative answer to the rhetorical question, "Is the Pope Catholic?" Looking at you, Lindsey Graham. 1764
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I guess I wasn't prepared for the anti-Christ to be such a delusional idiot. 810114
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Hey, I posted another blog on Clio's Nightmare about the pre-conditions for a revolution. Check it out! Please subscribe and share if you like it. It's free. paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...paulschue.substack.com 6367
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025If you heard of a cologne called "Evil Musk," what do you imagine it would smell like? No particular reason. Just wondering. 21458
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Hey, I wrote a new history blog post. Are we heading for a revolution? A historical take, part I. Check it out. Subscribe and share if you like it! It's free! open.substack.com/pub/paulschu...open.substack.comIs a Revolution on the Horizon? Part I.A historical take on the preconditions for revolutions. 0279
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Hey, I wrote a historian's perspective on how Trump might try to turn himself into a dictator. Check it out, and share it if you like it. paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...paulschue.substack.com 1141
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I wrote another thing for my history blog on substack. Check it out! paulschue.substack.com/publish/post...paulschue.substack.com 050
Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianDeeJ @passthesalty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Putting together a Starter Pack for #Resisters under 10k. We are stronger together! UNDER 10K FOLLOWERS? LET'S FIX THAT! 👉Comment with a 💙 and REPOST so others can get onboard. Make sure you follow me After vetting, I'll pick 150 at random #NoDemUnder10k #DemsConnect #BlueCrew #FBR LFG!!! 168241141
Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianTristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 16/12/2024229,766 voters in just 3 states actually decided the 2024 election. The other 155,200,000 of us did not actually count. Time to END the Electoral College. 16638351107
Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Hey @aoc.bsky.social- we love you. You are remarkable and braver and tougher than all of us put together. The shit you deal with from the right AND the left would cause all of us to quit. But we know you won’t because you’re built different. Keep fighting. You’re the future of this party. 936864883
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Remember, it's only champagne terrorism if you kill a CEO from the Champagne region of France. Killing CEOs from anywhere else is just sparkling terrorism. 3201
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Human beings are relatively weak and defenseless compared to other large mammals. We have only survived through cooperation, coordination, and community. If we forget how to help each other and work together, we will not survive as a species. 1224
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Breaking: Mike Johnson proposes replacing Obamacare with GoFundMe as America’s official healthcare plan. 2232
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Reading the news and trying to decide whether I should be more afraid of global warming of nuclear winter. 1120
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Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianGod @thegodshow.com · 24/11/2024I’m still amazed people think Project 2025 isn’t going to happen. Nobody writes a 920 page manifesto and then at the very end says, “just kidding!” 427165123022
Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianLinda Childers @chilwriter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I feel for all of us who didn’t FA but will still FO. FAFOmedia.tenor.coma woman says i did n't sign up for this in a netflix adALT: a woman says i did n't sign up for this in a netflix ad 714429
Reposted by Grimly Optimistic HistorianDev Clifford @devclifford.bsky.social · 25/11/2024The corruption is marbled throughout what remains if the Republican/MAGA party. There is no way to remove it, the entire organism needs to be eliminated. 122
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024So, we're getting a Bird flu epidemic right as TFG gets back in the Oval Office, and he appoints the anti-vaccine loon to HHS? Perfect. What could go wrong? 0235
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024It's getting awfully hard to resist believing we just live in a simulation, and the operator is high as a kite and trying some stuff out to see what happens. 020
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Boebert as Sec. of Ed. and Gaetz as A.G. I didn’t think Trump had a sense of humor, but I might need to reassess. 010
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Pete Hegseth as Sec of Defense makes me think we are not going to get government, we are going to get a fire sale. Everything must go, down to the studs. 092
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024My only real hope at this point is that in the incoming Trump administration, the greed and incompetence will actually prevent the effective implementation of their agenda. 1105
Grimly Optimistic Historian @clioden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Hello! I just moved here from Twitter (I know, I know, X). Please follow me here if you followed me there! 2191