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Butlerian Jihad

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Our country's political and media institutions are suffering from a failure of the imagination: There simply aren’t laws that prohibit much of what Trump does because it never occurred to anyone would ever even try such stuff.

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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 7h
That’s admitting that the US is a shitty country that can’t or doesn’t deserve a better system.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 8h
Old habits die hard, a bit like those dead frogs whose legs twitch when given an electric shock.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 10h
They don’t need to.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 10h
Typical televangelist move…
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 19h
He made army training films, a very important part of the war effort (seriously). Later in life he claimed he was present at the liberation of Auschwitz, but that was probably the dementia talking…
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Haunted" LOL. It's a feature, not a bug.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Could be worse. She could be friends with the sitting prime minister of Israel.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He's not running the country. Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are running the country.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What happens when an AI agent sexually harasses a human worker? Will there be a special AI HR to deal with that?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What happens when an AI agent sexually harasses a human worker? Will there be a special AI HR to deal with that?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
But it's also a big part of his appeal to his followers. They've been conditioned by decades of watching clownish, vulgar and corrupt evangelical pastors, snake-oil salesmen and reality-show hosts, to see someone like Trump as a perfectly acceptable authority figure. It's a feature, not a bug.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No thought to give. The Democratic establishment is a slave of AIPAC.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
...and it didn't end last time the Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency, why?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The English language, takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BELOW: Republicans when they find out Donald Trump is coming to their state to campaign for them.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting observation here: "Trump’s extreme unpopularity is bringing contested elections to Red States that haven’t seen one in a long time. And one of the things it’s showing is that a significant number of Red State incumbents just don’t have the skills for a contested partisan election."
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/roger...
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Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition
I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a start...
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The irony is that from the perspective of the US political scene, Le Pen would be considered a flaming socialist in most regards.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What is "radio" ?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
....because those rich kids will always complain they don't have any money, and try to sponge off your kids.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fantastic sunset last night
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The late-night comics will be deprived of material
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Given the choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, voters will choose the Republican every time." - Harry S. Truman
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
France 1789: The king is getting bad advice.
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What Republicans say: "I think the president is getting bad advice." What Republicans mean: "I think the president is a fucking moron and I'm too big of a pussy to say so."
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if my ancestors on my mother’s side are old English stock from before the Revolution, but my father’s ancestors came here from Croatia in 1911? Do I get graded on a curve? Can we slice and dice our citizenship into little boxes and assign different values to each one?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No, they're principled racists, they don't care if they lose Red seats as long as they can disenfranchise "Those People".
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Free Sudan" is a nice slogan, but we can't really do much about what is going on in Sudan. But as regards Israel and Palestine, we do have some influence, since Israel is a client state of the US. Both Israel and the US are democracies, which means that citizens can influence them.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How can it be "slander" if the entire purpose of the operation was to Destry Gaza? They were just following orders...
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You only just realized this now? Trump’s appeal is aspirational. His racism, vulgarity and corruption are a feature, not a bug.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Women’s deaths are a feature, not a bug.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The short but eventful 20th Century, 1914~2001
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here:
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He’s “relatable” in the sense that a lot of Americans would love to never have to work for anything.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s Texas
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Was the American Revolution a “violent fantasy”?
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The Jews are the source of all the world’s problems”. Cue World War 2
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrial…
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also the British destruction of the Indian weaving industry to benefit domestic production, fed by Southern cotton.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Same with MAGA in the US. They drive some pretty big trucks. It’s racism.
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Butlerian Jihad @cprotopapas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I remember when climate deniers were pointing to 1998 as an outlier, why we should not take global warming seriously. Fun times,
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