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(Very married.) Writing fiction in a post-fact world. More at Chuck.Paone.com

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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15h
There's no comparison. My point is only that Republicans out-messaged Dems in 2024, mostly on bullshit "issues"--and that affordability wasn't quite as much of a bullshit issue as the culture crap they bombarded Midwestern and other swing state voters with non-stop.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16h
Well, at least there they had a leg to stand on, however wobbly b/c of Biden's failure to predict the extent to which a second (unnecessary) stimulus would exacerbate inflation & his determination to stamp the results as Bidenomics while telling people everything was great despite their perceptions.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 18h
But politics has never worked that way and never will. Democrats are supposed to be the party of the people, but they want to run as if the electorate is composed of Stanford or Berkley professors.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 18h
And they just grab something like the phony trans athlete issue and run and run and run with it while Democrats dismiss it as the nonsense it is, assuming they can play the game on some loftier plane.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 20h
None of that, BTW, has to be true to matter. However, we need to understand that many young people came to feel this way. We need to realize Republicans had successfully painted that picture, and that Democrats did too little to address it.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 21h
Johnson, an immigrant who came to Iowa at 15 and became a citizen, said he had “started seeing the rise in biological males in women’s sports.” Amother said, "The Democratic Party had become too woke." More than fifty percent (of our youngest voters!) said Democrats had swung too far left.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 22h
Excellent. And somewhere in there I heard you say: "Misty was right." 🙃
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
#Wordle 1,945 3/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Doesn't even begin to describe things these days.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Hear, hear!
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Oh boy. Do you not have a dedicated cardiologist?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Chillin'
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#Wordle 1,944 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Or very stable genius?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
You getting your Brewms out?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I assume the chicken is clucking against the Dodgers?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#Wordle 1,943 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I saw it coming.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A million young poets screaming out their words Maybe someday those words will be heard By future generations riding on the highways that we built Maybe they'll have a better understanding John Mellencamp, 1987, "Check it Out."
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#Wordle 1,942 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The wealth gap? The tolerance for outlandish behavior? The chasm that divides us?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We're all #Brewers fans now. @ericlars2.bsky.social
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I could be stubborn but I generally accepted doing what needed to be done. And yeah, as a married man, I'm going when something gets bad enough that I cannot conceal it.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sounds like time for medical intervention. Doctor: What are taking for the painn? Patient: A heavy dose of high-volume Ozzie. Doctor: Oh my!
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Wordle 1,940 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Toothpaste and human potential.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Brilliant.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sorry, that sounds worse than intended. Maybe I've had some days recently.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sometimes it helps to fantasize about letting the boulder roll back down the freaking hill ... and on really bad days, about it running over certain people.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Wordle 1,939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The U.S.A ride.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good morning.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#Wordle 1,938 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A Christmas Story: It's A Lamp!
ALT: A Christmas Story: It's A Lamp!
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#Wordle 1,937 4/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 When a word's past participle is used far more often, the word itself almost falls from memory.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The soft golden glow of early autumn on the Charles. #Boston
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Wordle 1,936 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I had a reasonable doubt on line 3.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mood lighting or the way U.S. government is being conducted.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brain the size of a coffee ground.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mine must have been in a weakened state.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Wordle 1,934 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mmmmmmmm
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just whipped my right hand and snatched the one flying around my SUV.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Vermont
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Wordle 1,933 5/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It's humble but the sea green paint looks nice.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Charlie, fall and the falls, #Vermont.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Woodstock, Vermont balcony view.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#Wordle 1,932 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greetings from #Vermont.
Dog on Vermont sidewalk.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#Wordle 1,931 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Beware of those payday loans.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did you use Super Intelligence to create that image? 😂
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amen.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Too bad she wasn't a little older. There are a whole lot of assess that need a good pair of boots implanted on or in them these days.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's on the spectrum--then there's off the spectrum.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is true--and when is that MFing ship coming back for them?
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Wordle 1,930 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I think that means served on the good crackers.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No em-dashes, so I guess it's not super intelligence.
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ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Elon and his peers are going to give us a stipend, aren't they? "No, I don't like stipend," Trump will say. "It sounds too much like stupid. We'll call the payments dividends. Big, beautiful dividends." Aside to the CEOs, "But not really very big; don't worry."
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