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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Problem is that there a lot of them, and they vote. We all need to work hard for November - make some calls, write some postcards, knock some doors and write some checks. Even if you're in a "safe" D district, don't relax. The margin will be important.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pardoned them and tried to pay them $Billions so they will riot for him again next time.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Martin and Sinatra both had immigrant parents. Everyone here, except the Native Americans, is descended from immigrants. Miller's an ignorant racist. He's also Jewish, and his antisemitic followers will be chasing him out shortly.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We all need to do it all, and it's easy-attend protests, post truth wherever you can, work for campaigns in this year's election in VA and NJ. If you only talk to people on Bluesky you have little sense of the other side. Just calling them Nazis is no more helpful than them calling us Communists.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Not interacting is what they want. It's surrender. We need to stand up and do everything we can, everywhere we can. Don't let them chase us out of the public square.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I think the "bots" excuse is just an excuse. We al get caled that sometimes, just an attempt to minimize someone with whom you disagree, and undercut their argument without addressing it. We can't give in to that. We need to do it all, including getting involved in the big eections in VA and NJ.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Without Twitter I don't think there would be a way to engage with the other side. As crazy as many of them are, things will get much worse if we just talk to ourselves and they just talk to themselves. Much of the problem is that people only hear what they already believe, so positions harden.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I think that some stupid can be fixed, and some ignorance can as well. Every impression made has some effect, and even tiny effects add up. The more people see the truth, even truth they disagree with, the more likely they are to recognize it as true. Repetition works.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The great thing is when they criticize the ALL CAPS or the language as wrong, stupid or childish. It's hilarious.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I think it's important to be on X. We should answer those who disagree with us, post actual facts in response to their TDS deranged acceptance of whatever Dear Leader says, and support those there who are voicing the truth and standing up for us. It's as important as being here, maybe more.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Do I to some extent relish the fact that Trumpists are the ones mostly suffering while they inflict pain on others? I do. It's their fault, and it's up to them to fix it. Eventually their suffering will get enough of them to stand up for better. Meanwhile, I'll happily spend their $ and wait. /4
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If they'd rather just keep lapping up Dear Leader's KoolAid of lies, and keep suffering, that's up to them, but they're hurting others as well. People everywhere are paying the price. /3
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My hope is that the suffering will finally wake them up, and get their Reps to stand up for us. I fight every day to try and get them back their schools, hospitals, healthcare and kids' food, to lower their costs and to end tax give aways to folks like me. They need to wake up and help. /2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I disagree with your idea that Trumpists are beneath me. They're just folks who have been lied to for years, and bought it. They believed whatever craziness Dear Leader spit in their faces. They need to wake up and demand better, but nothing moved them. Now they are suffering the ill effects. /1
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
There it is, Trumpian erudition and analysis-thoughtful, deep, reasonable. I would prefer Trumpists not suffer as they are, and I would happily give back their money. However, they voted for this pain, and worse they voted to inflict it on others. I hope every day that they will wake up. Sow/reap.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
All of those things are true nationally-rising inflation and taxes, falling GDP and job growth. Fortunately, all of that, along with loss of hospitals, schools, the VA and healthcare hit Trumpists most, and as they suffer Trump sends their $ to me, a rich Dem. I smile at their pain as I send their $
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Inflation is 2.7%, as we are starting to pay tariffs. That's likely to worsen. GDP growth was purely due to imports. In the prior qtr GDP fell due to pulling imports forward, and this quarter it swung back. Growth estimates are 1% for the year, down from 2.5%, due to tariffs and deportations.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This just popped up again, 5 months later, inflation is up, taxes are up, economic and job growth are stalling, strong majorities of people object to Trump's policies on pretty much everything. Mostly that hurts Trumpists, and they're realizing it. Wake up and tell your reps to stand up for us.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
For Trump it's straight up personal grift, free planes, real estate approvals, direct payments to him for dinner access, pretty amazing.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Trump is working for them while in office, no waiting until he leaves. Crypto investors pay him, folks buy his stock and his crazy watches and sneakers and spend money in his hotels, foreign govts pay him, his son collects $500,000/"member" for WH access. That's not the same "regardless of party"
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Trump's a teenage girl boys lie to to get into her pants. Real leaders know that's Trump, and they get what they want. Putin plays him perfectly. Trump actually said he thought Putin was being nice to him, and gave Putin everything he wanted. Then he woke up naked in Putin's back seat. Pathetic. /2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Trump is sad and weak. He will do anything for someone who's nice to him. Real leders around the world know he's the nerdy kid whose house has a pool. The other kids make believe they like him, but laugh at him behind his back. /1
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
He's an idiot, dragging us back decades to sew sneakers and dig coal while the rest of the world advances, and at the same time alienating everyone except Russia, N. Korea and China. 42,000 people work in coal while 18 MILLION work in tourism. Did I mention he's an idiot?
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
His choices are heavily influenced by ego, appearances and admiration for autocrats. When his Iran negotiation failed, and he failed to deter Netanyahu, he had to act like it was what he wanted. Netanyahu is kicking his ass, same as Putin and Xi, and Trump has no choice but to do what they want.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Being smart is overrated and elitist, and knowledge is sooooo 20th century. Dumb and ignorant wins every time now. Beyond her being stupid, the real problem is the idea that we should only have Christians in the House. That's dangerous.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Don Jr. is selling White House access for $500,000/"member". Kushner collected $Billions from Middle East nations. Those nations, plus Serbia, have approved Trump projects. There are hundreds of ways to bribe Trump, and he seems open to all of them. He and his friends get richer, and we get poorer.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
He literally auctioned off White House access to make money for himself, not to mention that the people paying him get not only the WH dinner, but input into policy. It's graft, conflict and greed every day. Don Jr. Is also charging $500,000 for WH access. They're stealing $Billions.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Of course. Anyone would be nuts to make a deal with the US when our policies are so erratic and dependent on Trump's ignorance driven whims and personal greed.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
On the plus side, dock workers and truckers are losing their jobs due to tariffs. Lots of them voted for this, so it's fair that they bear costs. Also, hopefully they will start to realize they made a mistake, and press Congress to stand up. 2/
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
He's weak and stupid. Businesses can't operate with no idea what the rules are. They're cutting back, as are consumers. Prices are rising, jobs are disappearing. Trump is completely out of touch. He's declaring war on kids saying they should have fewer toys and strollers don't matter. He's nuts. 1/
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The goal in a Vapinet meeting is just to come up with the most outrageous Trumpliment, no matter how stupid. Competency and knowing facts are frowned upon. She knew Trump claimed 200 trade deals with the world's 190 countries, so she had to top that. Well played indeed.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Might be indirectly related to the fact that our military is demoralized by being lead by a juvenile idiot more focused on his make up than on their safety, just a possibility.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Worse, he has the govt buying crypto for a "reserve", using tax $ to raise the price of his own crypto. Don Jr. started a "club" where $500,000 gets access to Trump, plus the $Tensofmillions foreign governments pay his hotels, plus the govt contracts he sells Musk... It's all a grift.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
They're such hypocrites. All that noise about Biden not doing enough ($Billions and thousands of people), and now Trump has turned down GA, TN and AR, all red states. In fact, his crazy policies disproportionately hurt his own voters. PERFECT! Hate to see people suffer, but they did it to themselves
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trump knows no one believes it, and he intentionally poking SCOTUS in the eye and ignoring their order. One phone call and the President of El Salvador would carry Garcia here piggy back, feeding him snacks along the way.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
He explicitly said today that he would ignore the Supreme Court's Garcia order. Technically he said "I'm just the little president of the United States. I can't get those mean Salvadorans to do me a favor and release him." He knows no one believes it, and he is intentionally poking SCOTUS in the eye
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
JD is just as bad, but he won't have the cultish support Trump does. We'll be far better off. More Republicans will find a bit of spine and stand up for us. Problem, of course, is that they won't vote to impeach him, so it's just fantasy. (Any guess on how many cheeseburgers he is from a coronary?)
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Coincidentally, that's how Republicans think we should go to the polls - paper ballots, no computers or other modern contraptions, and BTW no women or people of color. Life was just better a century ago before all this democracy and equality, when we all dug coal and made everything for ourselves.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Total lie that they can't get him back! They grabbed an innocent guy for no reason and disappeared him to a foreign prison, just to show they can do whatever they want. Nothing stops them from doing that to anyone they dislike-grab you, ship you out, admit mistake and leave you there
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'm loving seeing Trump voters and families suffer, lose their Medicaid, SNAP, VA benefits, school lunches, teachers and school programs, which mostly hurts red states. It will get worse for them, as they lose farms and homes and kids go hungry. They caused it, and they should speak up and stop it.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The better analogy is a healthy, producing fruit tree that is randomly hacked by guys with chain saws and no idea what they're doing. For now, Trump voters are losing, and people like me are getting their money. Not my preference, but I'll take your money and watch you suffer until you wake up.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The "room" is waking up and starting to realize that his own voters are bearing most of the cost while he's sending the tax cut benefits to the rich in blue states. I'd prefer a functioning govt, but having Trumpist lose out to send me $$ is a good plan B. 2/2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Trump got less than half the vote, lowest margin since his in 2016. You have to go back to Bush and Nixon for margins as low. Other than you, voters didn't want him to tax us on most of what we buy, cut Medicaid, Soc Sec, Medicare, VA and farm benefits to give $ to the rich, which he's doing. 1/2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Grocery prices rose under Biden as well, though Trump's tariff tax on us will raise prices for everything. Everything else on the list is purely Trump.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The concern is far more than the legal "industry". It's the legal system that's at risk, the rule of law. We all need to stand up to protect that.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
So you're glad Trump raised grocery prices, cut VA, Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid benefits, reduced housing availability, reduced govt services and caused people to lose their farms all so the rich get tax breaks? Other than the rich getting the tax $, I doubt many agree with you.
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A generation of uneducated Trump voters will raise the next uneducated generation. Meanwhile, they'll also be losing their Medicaid and SNAP and refusing vaccines and other life savers, so maybe Darwin steps in and culls the Trumpist herd! 2/2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What's great, again, is that this mostly cuts services from red states to fund tax cuts to rich folks in blue states. Id rather have good government, but as Plan B Ill take their money. As uninformed as they are, won't they notice that their kid's teacher is gone and school programs cut? 1/2
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jim1245.bsky.social @jim1245.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I didn't hear him complain when 1 judge outlawed mifepristone (which sadly wasn't available to his mother), or restricted DACA, or stopped student debt relief. They're clearly all hypocrites, but amazing that they are so obvious about it, and assume the Trumpists are too stupid to notice.
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