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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Except a significant share of the electorate voted for Trump so how are we going to show the world out dignity?

firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don’t understand the need to provide evidence of switching. We know Dems were the party of the KKK. The modern GOP loves to point this out. But they never answer what the party of Lincoln was doing when Reconstruction was being dismantled. What they were doing while Jim Crow was being installed.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got mine today and here is the story: Under federal regulations, an insurer selling a policy through a federally facilitated Marketplace pays HHS a fee calculated as a %of the premium . The fee is used to administer the ACA marketplace. There is a surplus and they returned some to enrollees.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That stereotype needs to die: I’m the tail end of the boomer generation, wrote software for 40 years and was using the “internet” in the late 1980s before the web. I laugh when young people tell me I don’t know how to use the “internet”.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank for saying this. For decades, I tried getting my while colleagues to understand police brutality. After laying out what I thought were reasonable concerns they responded with some variation of “I don’t see it”.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What makes you think she is an ally of people of color? Other than her skin color, what has she said or done that would make her an ally of people of color?

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I already answered this: her husband is VP to the White Supremacist in Chief. She clerked for John Roberts the architect of the destruction of the Voting Rights Act. African Americans died to get the right to vote. Clerking for the man destroying the VRA makes you an enemy to people of color.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Usha does not see herself as “a person of color”. She is married to and clerked for white men whose main goal is white supremacy. She is complicit in a system designed to oppress people of color.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We do vote, the problem is when we vote Democrats in all we get are excuses and weakness. I have thousands of issues with the GOP, but their voters know when they get in office they will steamroll democrats. What are we gonna get? I have no idea.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It will never happen. Deficits are larger than ever and Fed is considering raising rates.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fascism is here and they have no idea what to do. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s been tyranny since Police Departments have been allowed to kill people in black and brown communities with impunity. It has now spread to the rest of the country.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The exhausting part is that this divide and conquer approach continues to work.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

💯 the GOP as despicable as they are at least knows and deliver what their base wants.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m here for the decline of this empire. It was built on kidnapping, racism, genocide, lies and one set of rules for the wealthy and another set for everyone else. All empires fail and destruction usually comes from arrogance and hubris.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

😆 I needed this, living in the USA and enduring this is exhausting.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You continue to make excuses for Lincoln. He did not believe in equality. He was willing to do whatever it took to unite the country, including working with a white supremacist. All of this is fine for his goal, just don’t try to sell me the “equality” lie. No evidence he believed it.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

His beliefs in 1864 were such that he nominated a white supremacist to be his VP. When Lincoln was assassinated Johnson withdrew all support for former slaves. Again Lincoln never espoused any ideas about equality, despite evolving on the idea of abolition.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Bingo. People of color have begged this country to reign in the murderous tactics of the police. Of course it was largely ignored now the police state has been nationalized and now anyone can be a victim.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Agreed. I have zero confidence that if we elect a Democratic Congress that the funding will be reduced. Democrats railed against the Trump tax cuts in his first term, then left them intact after Biden was elected. Government funding tends to be sticky

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The police in the USA have been killing people of color for decades with impunity. The fact that it has scaled to a national model should surprise no one.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

America never was the “land of the free”, we were just good at lying to the rest of the world. How does a country hold human beings in bondage for most of its history and get that label?

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Congress LOL. Our government is corrupt and the people in charge are out for themselves with a few notable exceptions. America is an empire and all of them fall. Usually due to hubris, overreach and internal fighting.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is all true but the ACA was doomed from the beginning: the whole leave it to the states bit meant Republicans were always going to sabotage it. We had one chance pass Universal HealthCare but decided to go with a Heritage Foundation plan.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Stop looking for signs of life from a dead party, we have to organize and save ourselves.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It won’t. We have been so sliced and diced by class, gender, race, religion and of course political ideology that we are voting to destroy ourselves.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Please stop. He may not have always been a fascist, but he was a shameless opportunist. This is the same man that lectured the country about Clinton and said the sanctity of the office needed to be protected and cleansed. And he supported Trump to the end.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We need a new party, the Democratic Party is a compromised, weak and lazy institution. We should stop trying to fix it.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

They never were trustworthy, Go back to the dot com crash they were pumping dot com companies with zero profits and not forcing analysts to disclose conflicts of interest. In the run up to the 2008 financial crash they were pumping housing, and all the toxic assets that brought the market down.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Charles Stuart, who killed his pregnant wife and blamed it on a Black man in Boston would like a word. I lived there at the time and it was a hellscape as the BPD stopped and frisked every random black man.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

White men fought a Revolutionary War against Britain and got their equality. They are not begging Britain for equality 250 years later. Why are other people told to wait and “progress is being made”?

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It is mean to counter the narrative of Lincoln as a believer in equality. Believing in one’s inherent superiority is not a “vice” it is called racism. You seem triggered by Lincoln’s own words. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Also Lincoln in 1858: “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office …”

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

No worries. I kept at it because I knew we largely agreed just want to get the “equality” idea across. Thank you staying open and curious, I really appreciate it. I’m so used to being attacked in other platforms

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I was responding to your comments “equal rights are a more recent development”. I think we broadly agree, I disagree on the “equal rights” aspect.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our disagreement is I don’t believe “equality” is a goal, which is why it has not happened. My argument is that if “equality”’were truly a goal we would not have to resort to “but things are getting better aren’t they?”. If equality for non-white men were a goal it would have happened.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I appreciate what you are saying and there has been progress but this country has (IMHO) little interest in pursuing equal rights. There is a major difference between removing barriers to voting and believing “All men are created equal”.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A nation dedicated to “all men are created equal” does not wait almost 150 years after its founding to grant women the right to vote. It does not pass laws lynch, bomb and intimidate people to prevent them from voting.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

LOL. Spoken like someone who wants to keep the status quo. When white men fought for independence and freedom from the British, they fought a war and it was accomplished in a few short years. Why in the case of minorities, women, etc. are we “moving closer” hundreds of years after our founding?

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The core founding principles of this country are rooted in white supremacy. “These people” actually love and want to maintain those principles.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What is criminal is both Obama And Biden came into office essentially saying “we want to move forward, not look back”. The uncomfortable truth is elements of the Democratic Party have enabled this corruption and criminality.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Exactly. Trump is the ultimate end result of an out of control capitalist system.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Agree for the most part; the law does not apply to them and they use it as a cudgel for everyone else.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You were never “corresponding”, you had a condescending attitude. Sounds like you got your feelings hurt. Perhaps next time don’t step into the ring insulting people and then get surprised when you get pushback.

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’ll check back in with you in a few years when your enthusiasm meets with the reality of the spineless Demicratic Party. 😂 Pointing out reality is not complaining, it’s saving myself from the inevitable disappointment. Meanwhile I will enjoy my retirement. 😉

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firejourney.bsky.social @firejourney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t have to have a plan, that is the job of our elected officials in a representative Democracy. If your “plan” is expansion of the court, plan to be disappointed by the spinelessness of the Democratic Party.

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