ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15hThere'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. 010 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16hWell, 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. 100 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 18hBut 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 18hAnd 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 20hNone 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 21hJohnson, 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 22hExcellent. And somewhere in there I heard you say: "Misty was right." 🙃 120 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 16/10/2026#Wordle 1,945 3/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Doesn't even begin to describe things these days. 020 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026#Wordle 1,944 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Or very stable genius? 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I assume the chicken is clucking against the Dodgers? 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 14/10/2026#Wordle 1,943 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I saw it coming. 140 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A 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." 010 0
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? 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Sounds like time for medical intervention. Doctor: What are taking for the painn? Patient: A heavy dose of high-volume Ozzie. Doctor: Oh my! 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 11/10/2026#Wordle 1,940 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Toothpaste and human potential. 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Sorry, that sounds worse than intended. Maybe I've had some days recently. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Sometimes 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. 220 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026#Wordle 1,939 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The U.S.A ride. 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026#Wordle 1,938 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩static.klipy.comA Christmas Story: It's A Lamp!ALT: A Christmas Story: It's A Lamp! 240 0
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. 020 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The soft golden glow of early autumn on the Charles. #Boston 0444 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#Wordle 1,936 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I had a reasonable doubt on line 3. 050 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 06/10/2026#Wordle 1,935 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mood lighting or the way U.S. government is being conducted. 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I just whipped my right hand and snatched the one flying around my SUV. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026#Wordle 1,933 5/6 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It's humble but the sea green paint looks nice. 150 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#Wordle 1,931 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Beware of those payday loans. 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Did you use Super Intelligence to create that image? 😂 111 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Too 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. 110 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There's on the spectrum--then there's off the spectrum. 010 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is true--and when is that MFing ship coming back for them? 120 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#Wordle 1,930 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I think that means served on the good crackers. 030 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No em-dashes, so I guess it's not super intelligence. 230 0
ChuckPaone @cpaone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Elon 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." 010 0