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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every moment that Russel Vought spends not regretting that his mother bore him is a policy failure.

Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Vought, sowing (trauma in fed gov't): haha fuck yeah!! Yes! Vought, reaping (trauma inflicted by fed gov't): well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. I want him to fear sleep for nightmares and waking for the reality of his situation as Raskin dismantles him and his works on a national stage.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Beria and Yezhov offer fine examples for how to carry out legal accountability.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is the third option, which involves having an education system that provides the basic understanding to be a functional citizen. This is a thing you can have! We just persistently choose not having it. The bad news: getting the electorate to choose it requires one of the other solutions.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sulla paid good money for heads. Just saying.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is no "mercy rule" in politics, no "don't kick him when he's down." Stomp the shit out of him. Stomp him until his campaign is dead and then stomp some more. When you are exhausted and can stomp no more, yes you can. Keep stomping.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reciting my post-mass-shooting/assassination attempt prayer, but in British: "Please, God, let them be white right-wingers. Please, God, let one of them have a tattoo of Nigel Farage or something. Oh Lord, have mercy, and let them be guys who also protest migrant boats."

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brutus is an honorable fucker. So they all are, all honorable fuckers.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2016 and 2024 have left me adverse to "these bad polls are fine actually" reasoning, but I do take a little comfort in the fact that these probably don't reflect public response to the bribery stuff.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately in the past couple of months, this has been replaced by YET ANOTHER BEAVER WITH RABIES, at least in Maryland

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

senile dear leader is. Which *we* know but the cabinet and Congress get put into a real tough spot if someone close to Trump lays out a clear 25th amendment case. No doubt he also has a wealth of info about Miller and Rubio.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, this is pretty out there. They won't be able to replace him, which will leave Jeffries as second in line - and nobody wants that except Jeffries. Plus the Trump inner circle is held together by the threat of mutual destruction. Try to push him out, he tells everything he knows about how

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in the more recent stages of the trade war without the Iran fiasco. Maybe also encouraged Ukraine to go whole hog attacking deep into Russia.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Minneapolis on the domestic side. The closing of Hormuz internationally. Prior to that, Trump chalked up some "wins" without much pain - Venezuela, countries kowtowing to reduce tariffs - but visibly losing in Iran stripped him of any vestiges on intimidation. I don't think Carney goes quite so hard

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What does that shattered psyche look like in practice, though? General demoralization? GOP Senators who are up in 2028 backing an impeachment? Quixotic third party formation? Beyond further damning any future hopes of Vance and Rubio, I dunno.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Not Ours to Decide:" Jedi Tolerance of the Late Republic Slave Trade and the Cancelling of Yoda

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Disdain is a weak motivator. It's all a meme to them, a flame war. Elon Musk can afford to spend a fortune on disdain, but most people won't put anything on the line for it. Hatred is a strong motivator. That is why we will win. Now is the Time of the Hater.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A significant dynamic in this country is: MAGA has disdain for Libs. They sneer at them and claim superiority to varying degrees based on the race/class of the Lib in question. Libs don't have disdain for MAGA. They hate them and want them to die or at least be excluded forever from public life.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will say through gritted teeth that Texas BBQ is as good as NC BBQ

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"His best issue" suggests that he's polling well in immigration. He's not. "Proper meat storage is Jeffrey Dahmer's strong suit! Don't raise its salience, it's counterproductive to putting him in jail so he stops eating people!"

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was pretty dumb to believe him at the time. They question is whether progressives can get elected with more realistic promises on inflation and cost of living. If they can't, or don't try, then THAT is the evidence of your point. Not people getting mad at a guy who lied to them

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You may be right that we've created a monster, but this isn't evidence to that effect. Trump promised inflation go down, price get lower. That did not happen. So now they are mad at him. "This fucker didn't deliver on the #1 things he said he was gonna do!" is a reason to be angry, even if

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

and so I suspect the alignment will be more modest, but at the moment anti-US sentiment is strong enough that I won't bet the farm

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I understand why Canada would do it and can't blame them. I'm just saying the shift hasn't happened *yet* but that its consequences would be massive for the U.S. economy. I do think that any serious effort at aligning with EU regs would face enormous, maybe insurmountable pushback from industries

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's nigh certain that I've *heard* Sheeran songs but did not know they were him. Gun to my head I couldn't name one. Idk, I'm a middle aged white guy in the United States. I'm not as plugged in to the music scene as I once was.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What you say is true, but I don't know ANY Ed Sheeran songs, so Macklemore wins by default

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The window remains open to waiting out Trump and getting to business as usual, right up until the point the EU reg approach takes any kind of hold in Canada. Tariffs and bluster haven't changed the underlying similarities in approach; EU shit would

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This isn't an issue of military blocs, as some have suggested; the EU isn't one and won't become one any time soon, and this won't impact NATO (which may be fucked for other reasons). But U.S. supply chains are based on the idea that Canada regulates like we do and so free trade is possible.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As you say, devil is in the details, but this has the potential to be cataclysmic for U.S. exports. Canada has long been like-minded with us in dealing with the EU's regulatory excesses. If they switch to EU regime, even in part, it could hobble U.S. agriculture and deal a body blow to mfg.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At that point, panic sets in and the price of everything gets all wonky. I don't know where that psychological tipping point is, but I know that social media (probably traditional too) is going to lower it.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I also suspect a psychological impact of, say, $7/gal gas that far outweighs the real difference between 2008 and 2026 prices. Not that much higher, adjusted, but if it LOOKS and FEELS higher to enough people already primed to see inflation and recession around every corner, then you get gas lines.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*IS* a price point at which food production/distribution starts to have serious challenges. The questions are: if nothing changes in ME and Russia, will we eventually hit that point? And if so, what are the possible changes that can avert that?

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At the same time, there wasn't a supply crunch in 2008; there is now, and the path to ending it is unclear. We've also added about 1.5 billion people since then. I have to think that offsets the increased EV prevalence. No, we aren't going to starve at these prices or even at higher ones. But there

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You would be justifiably angrier if your museum had been illegally closed by the mayor because he thought dinosaurs were tricks planted by Satan to make us believe in evolution

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm not a pol, or a journalist, but I loved the Kennedy Center. If it had failed due to low demand or whatever, I'd agree: sometimes things we love can't survive in the market. But the KC didn't die of natural causes, it was mutilated and then killed for ego and politics.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you have been forced to put your dick in a horse, or to let the horse put its dick in you, I would be happy to see you in a Federal job with benefits including health insurance and counseling. Just not, you know, firearms and qualified immunity.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would like to go on record saying that if you have been forced to fuck an animal then I cannot be convinced that you are mentally well enough for me to give you a gun, law enforcement powers, and access to surveillance equipment. You may not think me fair, but I am willing to die on this hill.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

God dammit. God DAMN it. You did NOT just make me think, "This guy is making good points" about John Kennedy.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I refer you to the work of dedicated anti fascists and enjoyers of whiskey drinks, vodka drinks, lager drinks, and cider drinks, Chumbawamba.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On top of that, there's potential for FDR level changes to government. Medicare changes are a huge lift compared with some bureaucratic reshuffling. Nobody will notice! How many Americans were aware of USAID before it got murdered? High % of BlueSky, but I'd guess 15% of general pop?

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think there are headwinds against a renewed USAID but am not ready to declare it dead. We're still going to be locked into an influence war with China (and to a lesser extent Russia) and soft power would be a smart, relatively cheap asset for national security purposes.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am well into the staggers but not quite the jags.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You forgot, "Revoke fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship, deport to South Africa"

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand: Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand."

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"They have killed him, the Forgiver— The Avenger takes his place, The Avenger wisely stern, Who in righteousness shall do What the heavens call him to And the parricides remand; For they killed him in his kindness, In their madness and their blindness, And his blood is on their hand...

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's also irrelevant. The context is too different. A court blocking what were, at the time, novel and even radical changes to the Federal govt is completely different from a court overturning decades-old settled law. One of those is gonna be more palatable than the other.

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Low Productivity Fed @lowprodfed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All this requires is vast wealth and an iron grip on Congress, the Presidency, Supreme Court, and key Federal regulatory bodies. If we had all that then the force of nature would have already been neutralized.

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