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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 5h

Golf applause for "you rip off in nine seconds like a raccoon getting into a bag of bread". Nice turn of phrase, NGL.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 19h

Are you for or against single payer healthcare. It's the only fix .

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lazy? Sluggo works like six jobs

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gosh, don't we have high prices and housing insecurity and no jobs? You think maybe reading a history book right now would be a good idea? Because hey, a few times it didn't end in a bad candidate, but the system collapsing. Heads cut off. Czars shot and dumped in holes. Revolution. Terror.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

BUT HE TALKS SO WELL. HE SAYS ALL THE RIGHT WORDS. YES WE DO NEED TO DO SOMETHING YOU'RE RIGHT There's a scene in the Romero zombie movie where they learn they can distract the brainless living dead with fireworks.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes indeed. But it was Her Turn. And since Pete dropped to coronate Biden in a coordinated push, it's now His Turn. Never mind healthcare or jobs, we need to do what the DONORS want. But who gets the goodies is a function of who's been a loyal good boy or good girl.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Talk is cheap. We need action.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't get me wrong. Vote. But don't presume it'll fix anything. We'll get years of "here's why we can't, but the alternative is MUH FASCHISM. Hey, we need taxes, a lot of them, and half of you can't find a job. How about paying us double?"

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's also a lesson in that the Weimar Republic assumed Germany would never go fascist or communist, so they could continue to ignore high prices and housing insecurity and about 24-30% of the population unemployed and just bumble about business as usual. But you won't hear THAT mentioned.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whose work do you think I'm trying to do here? I'm identifying a systemic problem, not shilling for one fake ass sports team of a political party or the other. They're both arguing over who gets to hold the conductor's baton to conduct the quartet on the decks of the Titanic. Vote! IDGAF.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But now that we have your name and address from having tried to get healthcare GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY TO BIDEN TRUMP IS SATAN GIVE MONEY

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Remember, the "backroom deals" are why Hillary was the candidate, and Buttigeig will be. Just sacrifice the future of the party, because never mind stupid kids, they don't vote. And leftists are all ignorable commies nobody would work with. Everyone loves health insurance and unfettered capitalism.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, they game the "primary process". Just a sales funnel to get progressives and leftists hopeful, then the "backroom deals" get some nice corporate friendly centrist as the nominee, and everyone is expected to back that. Except they don't. Witness Hillary and oh wait, no primary for Harris.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah yeah yeah, it's always The Most Important Election In History Because The Other Guy Is Literally Satan. Which is why we can never have affordable housing, good jobs, reasonable pay, or healthcare. "We are experiencing greater call volumes than normal." As I said, it will just collapse.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maybe they can pull themselves up by bootstraps. Instead of fancy expensive diesel, run trucks on E85. That's cheaper. DEF is cheaper still. Also, instead of showering at truck stops for $17, shower at home for free. Instead of fancy highways that weigh and charge by weight or toll, BACK ROADS.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pittsburgh here - but if I ever get a gig in NYC, you're on the guest list if you want it.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's "Ohio Valley Pizza" so... yeah. There is godawful pizza. "We'll bake the dough, and nothing else. Enjoy your cold toppings."

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The square dance teaching is rooted in racism. Look it up. :(

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FACT CHECK: TRUE

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

Good on you Sister's 👏

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know it's a fantasy. The bigger fantasy is assuming that the Democrats would actually listen to you and work for your interests rather than the corporate donors giving them nice big fat checks. So we're going to rinse, lather, repeat this endless downward spiral until it all breaks.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Where's the lie? The sad thing is, you know I'm right. *shrugs*

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lottery numbers are random. This is what the Democrats have done before, do, and will always do. Bill Clinton pointed out the middle class and poors have no money, so why not become The Other Republicans, only cool and Elvis-y, with blow jobs. Been doing it ever since. Gimmicks and right wing.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's what's going to happen. The DNC are going to back room select a wine cave person who won't fix anything but give a lot of empty speeches, like Mayo Pete. They will then say "I know, but MUH FASCZHISM THO" four years of doing fuck all Lose in 4 years to Republicans. Rinse, lather, repeat.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First off, not a Republican. Been saying we need a third party that isn't a corporation who will actually work along the lines of what you wish. "BuT thAt SpLiTs ThE LeFt - WoW thAnKs PuTiN jILL sTeiN." So just limp into total collapse. Buttigeig - HIS TURN - and if he loses, blame homophobia.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's all done in a back room. "You drop now, we'll give you transportation, and it's your turn next." "You support Obama, how about Secretary of State, and then we will push you to be Madam President." Who cares what voters think? They're to be bullied online into submission.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You have to understand. The voters are just there to rubber stamp the DNC's decision. They went to court to say it: "we pick who we want, we'll game it how we wish." Didn't even have a primary in 2024. You're there to "stop fascism" by voting in a nice man who will suck up to corporate donors.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"So we will carry on being nice little centrists, middle of ze road, and holy shit no stop please don't overrun us" Likewise the Comte de Frou Frou: "Zeeze peasants will not ween, we av ze Bastille an ze jails an ze soldiers an NON! NOT ZE GUILLOTINE! I WILL LISTEN TO YOU NOW I PROMISE!" *thunk*

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The way the Bloo No Matta Hoos frame it is "this is a binary: you either vote Biden with your whole chest, or you're a Nazi Fascist." Actually, there's a third option: that things just collapse. If you pish posh that - the Weimar Republic were like "Germans are too sensible for Commies or Hitler."

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And the Democrats are out of ideas. First it was "no healthcare, rich get richer, but we care about social issues." Then it was "no healthcare, rich get richer, but Orange Man Bad." Then it will be "can't have healthcare, rich get richer, we're healing the rifts."

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The idea being that the Republicans will continue to hurt people and they'll go "now do as you're told and vote for a wine cave person like you were ordered to." And it eventually breaks, because as you've said - when people are putting FOOD on "Affirm" you can't play these stupid fucking games.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes but "immediate relief" would cost rich people money. So they will take the "5-10 years of rebuilding trust, confidence, love for our great country, healing the rifts, getting rid of divisions.." Then losing midterms. "We can't, and it's your fault." Then Republican government. "It's your fault"

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like who? The last one who proposed a platform (single payer healthcare) that wasn't "okay, so we'll give YOUR CORPORATION a bunch of subsidies, put you in charge of the whole system, and you give us kickbacks" was isolated and ignored by the "like my mansion?" guys.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Knew a guy who, when he saw a teen in a GD shirt, would go "ah yes, I remember my first joint, too."

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We could, but we had to pay people to do that.

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that is why Hillary lost in part

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Jack Phantom @jackphantom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The base can fuck itself as far as the Pelosi and wine cave set are concerned. Ya gonna vote for Trump again? Thought not. Now gimme that campaign contribution and less of your lip.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fuck Mike Smith. The man has been accused multiple times of sexual assault. This is not the first time he's been brought up on charges. Dropped charges or even acquittals do not mean innocence. Society wants us to believe that women are born liars, but I refuse to swallow that propaganda.

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Sexual assault charge against ‘Trailer Park Boys’ actor Mike Smith dismissed

A sexual assault charge against actor Mike Smith was dismissed on Thursday as his trial was set to begin in Dartmouth provincial court.

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