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John Able Curtis

@j-able.bsky.social
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I read and collect books. Anti-fascist.

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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Biden is considering pre-emptive pardons for people who criticized Trump, in case Trump goes after them. First off, I don't know if a criminal government will recognize pardons. Second, why is this a thing? It's almost like we are expecting a fascist regime to take over that will crush dissent.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The 2024 election shows us that people are more likely to believe someone on TV or their phone vs someone at their front door they can interact with.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The only influence on our elected officials should be us citizens as individuals. No money involved. Political power must be the same for each of us regardless of wealth.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Woke= awake to current reality. Anti-woke= sleeping, dreaming of a past that never really existed.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Has anyone actually read the complete list of people Trump already pardoned & their crimes? I have. Every damn one of them. GTFOH w/your both sideisms & false moral equivalencies. People are sick of that old BS. I’m so tired of our hand-wringing weakness & refuse to participate.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I just want to ask Trump voters: what possible good do you think will come out of a Trump Presidency? Their answers would tell you a lot about them.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It feels like Trump has declared war on the world. Including us. I think the only exceptions are billionaires who he likes, like Musk and Putin. This is what happens when you give a sociopathic adolescent with a grudge ultimate power.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Money is not a great equalizer. Political power must be equal for each person regardless of wealth or position or any other factor.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Elon Musk, himself an oligarch, is drunk on power and out of control.
Post from Brian Allen:

BREAKING: Elon Musk accuses Alexander Vindman of working for Ukrainian oligarchs, labeling him a traitor and suggesting he could face the death penalty.  

This is where we are now—billionaires playing judge, jury, and executioner.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Democracy itself has no advocate in national government or media. Bernie, AOC, Meidas Touch...they talk but there is no unified organization. The Democrats failed us because they don't want to give up that donor money.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Today is Thanksgiving. Let the people in your life know you appreciate them. And your dogs and cats. "I am thankful for the people and dogs and cats in my life that I should be thankful for." Let's move on to the next holiday. Thanks.
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 27/11/2024
EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I like Bjork in Icelandic. I can't understand it, but I like the way it sounds. It makes me happy. open.spotify.com/track/5DoRIz...
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Jólakötturinn
Björk Guðmundsdóttir · Hvít er borg og bær · Song · 1986
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Trump: Friend of Russia, starting trade wars with Canada and Mexico.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Here on social media and some non-Legacy media outlets like Meidas Touch people have been saying what would happen if Trump became President again. Just every day people like me and most of you. But big media, corporate media, never did. 
The two main things so far that Trump voters already are getting wind of is how tariffs and mass deportation will destroy our economy if they come to pass. Musk even said a couple days before the election that there will be "hardship" before things get better. 
Did Trump voters not know how tariffs on imports and deportation of part of our workforce would have disastrous effects? Did anyone tell them about the hardship part? 
No. They didn't. No one told told them except us lying libtards. 
Maybe, just maybe, Trump won't go through with tariffs and deportation. 
But if he does...we will be in a world of hurt. 
Guess what: who you vote for matters. It might not in the future, but up until now it has.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Truth from the President of Mexico:
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
youtu.be/oYq5a37-ZFE?...
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American journalist blasts pro-life Christian activists
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
youtu.be/ReIn1aqaIrg?...
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Mexico President STRIKES BACK HARD on Trump...BIG WARNING!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Bigfoot attacking the Puritans.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I guess there's a tipping point where the population is mostly idiots and your democracy becomes an idiocracy. Then, when that happens, it's easy for the villains to take over.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I can't live without coffee. I may have to move to Columbia. From a Vox article about how tariffs will impact us.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Republicans say they believe in smaller de-centralized government. But their plan is to put as much control under one person as they can: judicial, executive, and legislative. And get rid of the posse comitatus act. This is the opposite of a balanced limited government: It's an authoritarian state.
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O'Toole For Congress @handle.invalid · 25/11/2024
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Whatever the government can do against anyone, it can do against you: Have the military used against you. Regulate your body. Round you up and move you. Tell you who you are and who to love. The list goes on. The biggest mistake Trump voters made was thinking they were safe from him.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/11/2024
Us waiting for QAnon to protest the fact that Trump picked alleged child sex traffickers, sexual abusers, billionaire elites, and a Soros’ protégé to fill his administration
Waiting skeleton meme
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There is a lot more sperm than eggs. Plus males have a much longer period of fertility. Given those facts wouldn't it be more effective to regulate men's reproductive organs than women? Of course it's not about babies. It's about little men being scared of strong women and wanting to suppress them.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In Trump II there’s so far only one Black cabinet member: once again to head up Housing and Urban Development. He understands “urban” doesn’t mean “Black,” right?
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you look closely at the last few years of the Today Show and Meet the Press, you will notice that they have tacitly endorsed Trump by ignoring his criminality and regarding him as a normal candidate. Their owners want to be part of the fascist corporatocracy.
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Works for me.
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Ben Meiselas @meiselasb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What would happen if a pro-democracy billionaire like Mark Cuban acquired MSNBC and had MeidasTouch Network operate it and run it as MTN? I am humbled you tagged me in this thought experiment throughout the day, so I have laid out my thoughts on it here open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Should Mark Cuban Buy MSNBC and Let Meidas Run It?
Written by Ben Meiselas
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/11/2024
Comforting
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ask a person who voted for Trump why they did so. Whatever the answer is, Trump was either lying to them or it won't work the way they think. Unless that person wanted to destroy the USA they will probably regret their vote at some point before 2028. Big time.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Conservatives used to be afraid of a New World Order. But I think they just voted for it.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Do you think Trump will test his Seal Team Six powers of immunity to assassinate his political rivals?
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Trans women are not a threat to other women. You know who is? Males who have a history of sexual assault, rape, and discrimination against women. Yet that seems to be a common denominator with Trump and his male picks, along with women who look the other way. These people have weird priorities.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
youtu.be/cyLdtG7KZvw?...
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This aggresssion will not stand, Man.
YouTube video by qu0tes
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Read the image alt text, friends! Mike Mignola art.
I know some of us are depressed, discouraged, and dismayed by the election results. It's hard to believe that so many people are fooled and can't think their way around confusing disinformation and emotional rhetoric. It's also hard to believe so many people lack empathy for other human beings. 
But don't be down. If you lose spirit you lose energy. If you hate you only hurt yourself. Negative emotions only hurt the person feeling them. 
Turn those feelings to outrage. Turn the outrage into rage. Rage is our strongest emotion. Convert it, like a chemical reaction. Turn the rage into positive energy. Smile. Be a happy warrior. 
Then whenever you see injustice or bigotry stand up. Speak. Don't let it pass.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Well this seems bad.
Post from Jojo:

Holy fuck. Seb Gorka is his pick to be senior director for counterterrorism.

Seb fucking Gorka, who was denied security clearance in the last Trump administration… Seb fucking Gorka who has ties to a Nazi-allied organization in Hungary…

The. Director. Of. Counterterrorism.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
People without political or economic power have no agency in the US, they are no threat. It's the wealthy and politically connected who could easily destroy you. But they tell you it's the immigrant or the poor or any other scapegoat you need fear. Funny how that works.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Grant me a good sword and no need for it.
Old Polish Proverb
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Trump's Defense pick not only has some issues with his behavior, but he believes in using US armed forces against US citizens ("the enemy within") and thinks we need a crusade and a religious war to bring in the End Times.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Economic recovery goes from top down. Slowly. Then it busts and starts all over again. So it seldom seeps down enough to help people who need it.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
James Bond's Aston Martin.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If someone offends you simply by who they are (gay, trans, skin tone, speak another language, etc...) it is your perception of them that is creating the offense, not the person themself. They are not harming you. Only an inexperienced child would be offended by such things.
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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
5 great novels. Shibumi by Trevanian Jerusalem by Cecilia Holland Dune by Frank Herbert Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
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