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olivethewarrior.bsky.social

@olivethewarrior.bsky.social
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Retired management consultant, longtime student of martial arts, lifetime Democrat. Realistic optimist. Bring it, you bastards.

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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Gotta credit her for popularizing the idea that you can toss things that you don't need or "love", but the rest of her philosophy was a bit rubbishy, you ask me. 30 books? I have that many piled on my desk.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The whole internet is enshittified.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Not just the DOJ needs to be separated. The IRS and Treasury should also be in the Vault. Eliminate the Electoral College, pass legislation that regulates the USSC, eliminate the filibuster. pass a national law that ends gerrymandering.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Not the only one.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Isn't "richsplaining" too banal to describe this? Anyone who's come from their second 8hr shift in a day to hear some child who works at their daddy's firm whine about how little fun you are knows that "richsplaining" does a terrible job of describing the need to rip off a head and shit down a neck.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Things is heatin' up in England, where the Epstein files are being talked about night and day (check YT for some of the chatter.) This is the biggest scandal in their history, too, and has a high chance of bringing down the reign of Charles, if not the monarchy itself.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
nailed it I love high school productions. The kids are so earnest and nervous. And sweaty. They're adorable, and sometimes, very, very good. Never miss a chance to go to a high school show.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is true. Other countries, particularly the UK and other close Western allies, share intelligence with the US and vice versa. When they no longer feel like the risks outweigh the benefits, they'll heave Trump's ass over the side to save their own. The UK's government is failing as we speak.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is not new, as anyone who's ever tried to get justice in our two-tiered justice system already knows. The only remedy now is to tear the whole thing out and start over, starting with the corrupt US Supreme Court.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Indeed. The splat the bugs make on your windshield are loud, large and liquid, and driving for very long without cleaning the glass reduces visibility to nearly zero.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This one is really beautiful.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Three huge, white blobs who can each, single-handedly, make the world a better place by dying.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Do they care about ratings or how many people are watching, in which demographic cohort, though? They are only interested in an audience of one: Trump. His opinion is all that matters. If they cared about the news, would they have brought in Bari Weiss?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The point is moot. He was outed by Kristi Noem and the VP. Not our fault his name is out there. But now that it is, and since I'm pretty sure he'll never do any jail time, I'm completely fine if his infamy follows him to every job, mortgage, auto loan or credit card he tries to get until he's dead.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
And BBC is courageously naming the ICE officer, yes?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I think you're a great spokesperson, and I admire you more than I can say. But I think these appearances in front of Congress are useless. Not your fault. But it's time--it's past time--for Congress to stop talking and to start doing. Every word out of your mouths now should be about impeaching her.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Me, too. Mine has lived curled around a Dracaena trunk for 25 years.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I love that book so much. For myself. I pick it up, turn to any random page, and get lost in the illustration. This book, and "Where the Wild Things Are" are books that make me happy just having them in my hands.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I was in a book club for 15 years. There were 8 of us, so every 8 months it was my turn to host and pick the book. At least half the time, the book I picked was so bad, I couldn't finish it. More than once, other members proposed throwing my ass out of the club.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I suppose it's too much to hope that the reason Santos isn't in NY now is because some other state dragooned his fat ass back to prison?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Please note that the video of Jack Smith's deposition is also available. I'm watching on YT at Meidas Touch link.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This seems so obvious, I'm just gobsmacked that no one has said the predators names. Why is everyone acting so smug, like they've got a secret we all wish we knew, too? Just say the goddamn names!
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
5 1/2. I listened to it in pieces while working out and cleaning. Very good background listening for both activities.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Watching it convinced me that we are being manipulated into hating each other.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
*Shawn* Ryan, which I post because it WAS a very good interview, and I want people to find it when they're searching for it on YT. The huge and extremely important takeaway from it for me was to ask "who is benefiting from turning us against each other?" Over 5 hours, completely worth it.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
You guys look so happy. You worked very hard in the last few years, but, my opinion, nothing you did matters as much as the way you model what a happy marriage/partnership looks like. You're both beautiful, but I envy your happiness together.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
There are no circumstances, incidences or situations that will make a MAGA stop supporting Trump. They don't care about stuff like this. They don't support Trump because he's a leader of character, morals, virtue. They support him because he makes it okay for them to crawl from under their rocks.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Walter Cronkite's nightly reports on the Vietnam War became darker and more grim as time passed. In his last few reports, he couldn't hide his disgust for the administration. After all the promises Nixon made about ending the War, it was Cronkite who made Nixon keep them (among other things.)
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Faced criminal charges? Let's start by identifying them! We know that there are up to 20 other people identified by victims who participated in the trafficking, and Massie has threatened to list them on the House floor. Here is the DOJ's confirmation of at least 10 on the list. WHO ARE THEY?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Yes, but then we get the next guy, who is not going to be better in any imaginable way, with bonus! not demented. We'd be getting rid of a malignant narcissist, only to replace him with a psychopath.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
He's been a better Democrat than more than a few other Democrats--you know the ones I mean--appeasers like Chuck Schumer. We may not agree on everything, but George Conway is a fightin' Democrat, and I hope he wins, and wins big in NY.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Hubris. Bari Weiss is the hire that David Ellison made so that he could make CBS appear to tilt more rightward to advantage the merger he wanted and was worried the FCC would block. Bari Weiss believes her own PR, and Ellison is a stupid fucker without the ability to learn from ABC's mistake.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I got a subscription for free when I got a deal on Walmart+ and Paramount+ was offered as a benefit. I just tried to cancel it and I can't for 50 days. But I would. Oh, would I. Also, fuck that quisling, Bari Weiss.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I'm reading on a different platform that you filed papers to run for the House of Representatives in the district Nadler's leaving. I'm excited for you, and hope that you're successful in the election. You'll make an excellent Congressman. (I'll miss watching you on the Bulwark, though.)
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
The DOJ is free to do whatever the hell it pleases, free of any pesky consequences if one or all of them break the laws they're supposed to be enforcing. I mean, what? The DOJ brings charges against it itself? It's not like their client, Trump, can pardon them, eh?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I only need to watch that a few hundred more times. Is all.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's possible that Brooks (and many other people) attended Epstein shindigs without knowing that Epstein was a raping sex trafficker. Epstein was influential, and people are clout chasers. It's also possible Brooks doesn't remember any of it. But boy, does Brooks look compromised right now.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Ordinary people disclose things in interviews that are against their best interests all the time, especially in front of a skilled interviewer like a journalist, or a LEO. The surprise is that someone of Wiles' skill and sophistication--who you'd think wouldn't fall into the same trap--did.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Well, damn. That really is a great display. I'd be standing in front of it for 20 minutes, taking in the details.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
It's because we don't want our expressions of grief or sympathy to be interpreted as an endorsement of what that person has said, or what they represent. We'd like it if we could say, "I'm sorry Jon Doe died" without it also meaning we sign on to every idiot thing they once said. But we can't.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
That doggo would be covered in lipstick if it was mine.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I'm IN bed at 7:30. (I do get up at 2:30a.m., true. None of these ridiculous sleep/wake up times are in my control.) Time changes mess with my life for weeks after. You're not the only one.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Not doubting this--actually seems to be something of an underestimate, you ask me, but how do we know anything at all about how much stuff exists?
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Excellent question, but I think the House, Senate, President bill to release the files was not going to be the conduit that got them released anyway. What the bill does do, however, is provide some kevlar when the information is released other ways, showing the problems with the "official" versions.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I think he yelled that at her on AF One, but I know what you mean. The regard I had for media was already low, but their refusal to stand for one of their own because they were afraid or worried about access or worried their employers would be retaliated against is about as low as it can go now.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
He has no conscience, no concern for others, is delusional, narcissistic, thin-skinned--and, without the shield that money gives him, deeply, deeply odd. If he didn't have all the money in the world, he'd be written off like a weird uncle who picks his nose at the dinner table. A sociopath.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I love Adam Kinzinger. Liz Cheney and Joe Walsh, too. Can't help it. I'm a simp for politicians who acknowledge they were wrong, apologize, and try to make things right. But, yeah. Even so. Only an idiot would forget who they were in the past.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There can't be many who think that MTG's 180 is anything like permanent. We know she's a political opportunist--like every Republican currently serving. Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio. JD Vance. Lindsey Graham. They've all said something vicious about Trump and are slobbering sycophants now. We expect it.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I thought it was just me. That remark was like a punch in the face. But the response to him saying it has been profoundly disappointing--another punch in the face.
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olivethewarrior.bsky.social @olivethewarrior.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Why didn't her colleagues defend her? Why isn't Bloomberg defending her? Trump is trash, but why do we let him take us down with him? He's indecent, but why does the media not even stand up for their own?
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