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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 7h

The world does not need billionaires. Tax them out of existence.

gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree... but a country that can elect and reelect Trump is not a country that can be relied upon, regardless of whether or not Trump's policies are supported by a majority of US citizens.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Another example of imperial hangover, I fear. You see the same thing in foreign policy since WWII... with Brexit just being the biggest recent example of a long string of delusional decisions and non-decisions.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Perhaps... for CA or the US West. But I live in Europe, and we have such periods.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I understand how batteries save gas... under normal circumstances. But after several consecutive days of low renewable energy production, any economically reasonable amount of battery storage is going to be exhausted and we'll need peak consumption to be covered by power plants.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Don't you still need the peak generation capacity in reserve for that string of foggy, cloudy, windless days in winter?

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Source? And according to wikipedia both clubs have more members than the figures reported here...

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

How any European country can buy weapons from the US going forward is beyond me. You would have to be truly stupid to do so.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Wake up and smell the coffee! NATO is dead, has been dead for a while, and will remain so as long as Trump is in power or MAGA Republicans have the power to block funding or policy.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Three correct answers. Yes, Mu, and irrelevant because they don’t care about truth.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Basically they are orcs. Tolkien was prescient.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

As you reap, so shall you sow. When mainstream media stopped telling people what was true and false, and instead became platforms where both sides would make their case, even if one side was dishonest, they set themselves on the path to perdition.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

As if Trump and Homan are going to keep any promises they make. 🙄

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Cossacks work for the Tsar... always.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Not quite well enough: in Munich it's a Brezn or Brezen. Close though!

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

And it can convince the public that the shutdown was the fault of the minority Senators when those worthies give their permission for the shutdown to end and it does in fact then end. Good grief.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Too bad the EU can't swap out Hungary for Ukraine. Or maybe it can? EU 2.0 anyone?

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Looks to me that the Senate Democratic caucus has just agreed to share blame for everything that Trump does in exchange for… nothing. Primary them. Primary every single one that does not call for a vote to remove Schumer as Minority Leader within the next 7 days.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There are plenty of moderate Dems who would not have voted for a Republican candidate if that was the only alternative to Mamdani. Cuomo was not seen as a Republican, regardless of Trump's endorsement.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

No, it is wrong. Mamdani won in a 3 way race against a moderate Democrat and a Republican. Not comparable with the races in NJ or VA. Ask yourself: how would Mamdani have done against the Republican candidate (who got 27% in the previous election) in a head to head?

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The school was St Joseph's in Hannover, PA. And the irony is that Saint Joseph is the patron saint of, among other things, social justice and immigrants.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..." -- Janis Joplin. Seems to me that, with the exception of those marching in No Kings protests, America is no longer the land of the Free. It's the land of the too rich or comfortable to be brave.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..." -- Janis Joplin. These people are not free. Trump has revealed what was already true: with the exception of those marching in No Kings protests, America is no longer the land of the Free. It's the land of the too rich to be brave.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Downgrade NATO to a talking shop... as an organisation predicated upon US military support it's dead anyway. Use the money and people saved to create ETO... and make sure that Hungary and Slovakia are kept out!

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Actually the date, at least for the purposes of long term planning, was January 20, 2017. Any country that could elect Donald Trump once was no longer reliable.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The fundamental ideal of the EU, the principle from which all others stem, is that borders should not be changed by force. If the EU acquiesces to this in Ukraine, it undercuts its own raison d'être.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Trump's interpretation of history" is the American version of Mao Zedong Thought. Good grief.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Two years of missed opportunities. You could have been referring to it as Xitter... pronounced like the Chinese leader.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Who are you going to believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Stupid, clueless, brainwashed, cowardly, and corrupted… that should about cover it.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The One Big Beautiful Bill is the US version of the Ermächtigungsgesetz -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enablin... -- sic transit gloria mundi.

en.wikipedia.org

Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Talk to everyone you know in the US military. How they react when they are told to either shoot at protesters, or stay in barracks while ICE shoots them, is the key to a quick and relatively unbloody return to democracy... or not.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'm afraid that this Supreme Court will simply declare any such "Republican" national stay as sufficiently important to merit different treatment.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Frankly, nobody needs more than a billion dollars. However, as a compromise, the following plan for all billionaires: 90% tax rate on all income and gains, 2% annual wealth tax, annual audit, and draconian punishments for tax evasion and expatriation. Call it The Fair Deal.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Preliminary goal. The actual goal is martial law.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"Many Republicans agree that the legacy trade system disadvantages the United States—particularly with foreign VATs and higher tariffs on U.S. goods." So, economically illiterate (VAT is paid by every producer, domestic and foreign) but nevertheless an insightful Republican. Oh dear.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

"If it continues unchecked, it will turn the last two years of Trump’s presidency into a grinding parade of congressional investigations and legal scrutiny"... sounds like s/he is conceding at least the House, because there is no chance that it will not continue unchecked.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Surely the points of this action are to a) scare away foreign students, and b) give a green light to ICE and border personnel to arrest international students. The legality... and whether or not it has been blocked by the courts... is irrelevant.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Here are the seven Democratic senators who voted for Noem: Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

May not have to be as large as it currently seems. The previous government has already passed a budget reduction and there are various one-offs that are not expected to reoccur. Also Romania's total debt is still low. See here for details: www.romania-insider.com/romania-publ...

romania-insider.com

Romania's public deficit hits 8.65% of GDP in 2024

Romania's general government budget deficit reached RON 153 billion (over EUR 30 billion) in 2024, nearly 70% more compared to 2023, according to data published by the Finance Ministry. The deficit-to...

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

That's a corollary of the axiom that Trump kills everything he touches.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

These two facts (no rebels on debt brake change, rebels now) suggest that this is not about policy, it's about Merz: some people just don't like him. The implications for policy are therefore probably not as grave as initial reactions fear.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

If these companies are smart, they will manufacture outside of the US. The risks of RFK Jr's HHS shutting down vaccine manufacture in the US are non-negligible.

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gbradley.bsky.social @gbradley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In other words, Republican voters are LLMs... Chatbots for the non-technical.

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