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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@indivisible.org #NoKings Joplin Missouri, as red as can be normally, turned out in force today.

Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Petey mentioned "anarco-tyranny," a phrase that right-wing white supremacist nut Samuel Francis invented, that these days applies to the Samuel Francis crowd.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's impossible for me to believe the 2026 elections won't feature voting machine seizures, mucking with mail-in ballots via tampering with USPS, and, of course, this:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Here's just one example of what I said, essentially in agreement with you. I don't know how I could be any clearer. It's not an either/or messaging strategy. It's a both/and. And impeachment would actually come to dominate the coverage, rendering the economic message moot to crucial voters.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This gem gives away the authors' game. Did you even read it? Scapegoating Pelosi, but with this gargantuan qualifier: not primarily responsible. Jfc, man

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

You want to focus on that tendentious last sentence, which is arguable at best. But the facts are in the rest of the paragraph. All of which support my point.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Can't vouch for total accuracy, but here you go. Not exactly paupers:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

...my journey to realizing that these people are haters above all else, haters of people like you and me. And even Obama's charm and compassion and government competency couldn’t change this hate for "liberals." I've had enough of coddling them and trying to "reach" them.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Didn't you think that maybe, just maybe, I might have seen what you posted before I called you out? You're an asshole pretending to be smart and cool. Take it to Twitter, where it belongs.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It seems mildly relevant to me in all this Epstein stuff that the president of Columbia, in apparent reference to Tr-mp and friends, just said "a clan of pedophiles" wants to destroy Columbia's democracy. Maybe it's just me.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My three favorite signs of the day in Scottsdale, Az.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Tom here, an anti-Tr-mp conservative, has posted before about the direction the Dems should be headed (to him, the center). He cites the shift to Tr-mp among typically Dem base voters. He's not wrong about the shift, but it is unclear *why* the shift--and I'm not sure anyone knows. Some Pew data:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

No matter what we find out about the motive(s) of Charlie Kirk's killer, the right will use this murder for years to come. That's why it's so important to understand who he was as a public figure and the press shouldn't shy away from telling the whole story. www.wired.com/story/a-vigi...

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for essentially daring to speak the truth about the environment we're in--much of it created by MAGA influencers like Charlie Kirk. Maybe cable "news" should just air reruns of Andy Griffith, if they're not interested in sober, honest analysis of these dangerous times.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Not a single evangelical leader has wondered out loud why their cultural savior Tr-mp hung around people comfortable with pedophilia. But then pulpit pedophilia is not that uncommon.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

One of the founders of the lunacy and corruption we're seeing now was talk radio propaganda master, Rush Limbaugh. Here is a great truth about him:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Theodore Bilbo, governor of Mississippi twice & US Senator three times, was a corrupt white supremacist and a proud KKK member. His book, "Take Your Choice, Separation or Mongrelization," was published in 1947 & addressed the "Negro problem"—and shows how important race "purity" is to these folks.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Everyone should read Ta-Nehisi Coates, at least this excerpt taken from his book, "Between the World and Me," a letter to his young son: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates, as powerful a writer as America has produced, wrote the following in his book, "Between The World and Me," written as a letter to his adolescent son: (You can find this passage in The Atlantic, gift-linked below.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Obviously this isn't a civil war because the southern troops don't have their battle flag with them.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Yes, educators, of all professional people, ought to reject MAGA policies and support Democrats. But here's the real world:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Here's a famous evangelical who has seen the light about God's priorities regarding pedophilia and presidents:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"Socialists are capitalists" is, of course, nonsense. You can be one or the other, but not both. What you can be, too, is an advocate of a heavily regulated capitalist state, such as some of those found in Europe. But the DSA seems to go farther, as an essay on its site demonstrates.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Why isn't it on every cable news chyron that the governor of our country's most populous state just called Tr-mp "a stone cold liar"?

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I appreciate your condescension, but I've been studying the Bible for, oh, about 45 years now, admittedly as an aspiring evangelical Christian minister who finally figured out the folly of my efforts. But here is the opinion of a real scholar, & former fundy, making my point about Revelation Jesus

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

So many people have been trying to find Jesus, and he's been hiding in the Merchant Marine Academy basement all this time! Hallelujah!

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Here in "democratic' Missouri, we have to:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The great @pkrugman.bsky.social pretty much sums it up, except for one thing: he left out "corrupt"

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I thought the lead distribution graph below, presented as a reason why Generation X is stubbornly friendly to Tr-mpism, was bullshit at first. But there is something to it. And it may explain a lot of what we have seen. news.virginia.edu/content/gene...

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Jeff Bezos, of course, never really cared about anyone's "personal liberties" but his own, as his company does all it can to make sure "free markets" bend to his will.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Wes Moore will regret this statement, which is designed to show him too "radical":

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The US is switching sides and it's paying dividends in Russia. Here is the main market index there, and you can see how things have been going since the sell-out of Ukraine talk, as well as the likelihood that US-Russia relations will be fine and dandy soon.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'd prefer the 1st Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine treatment.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We're obviously not close to this here, yet, but these are the charred bodies of prisoners at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April of 1945. And ol Ike standing there didn't use kindness to liberate Europe from the monsters who put them there. And they didn't start out as obvious monsters, my friend.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Every plane crash, every clipped wing, every close call, and every lost piece of luggage, should be nailed to this asshole.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some credible reports are now out there that Treasury is under control of a 25-year old Musk operative who is altering the computer code.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here's just a quick example from LGTBQ Nation, a community utterly terrified of the Christofascists:

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Lawrence kicking the ass of the "Washington press corps" tonight. And it's well-deserved. Hypocrisy and lack of courage to confront the fascistic regime upon us. "Washington is now operating under the Tr-mp standard," said Lawrence. Yep. Sadly.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The natives are getting a little restless in some places. If you're thinking of physically fighting the bastards, better do it before Republicans confirm Pete Hegseth. Be too late after that.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

And an older Obama spending time with a fascist felon.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

MSNBC's Christine Romans just did a segment on Tr-mps "economic agenda." She said, "He wants more tax cuts. He wants to make middle class tax cuts permanent." At one point she called it "tax reform" with nary a mention of the real billionaire beneficiaries. Jfc. We're so fcked.

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Skotty Skeets @erstwhilecon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Are you kidding? My congressman is celebrating it!

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