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Political Behavior Commentary

@pbcommentary.bsky.social
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Focused on the behaviours that move and shape politics and in turn shape behaviours, instead of regurgitating political hx, theories, and long explanations of political events that would never have occurred without human behaviours.

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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 22h
This is excellent, that Rolling Stones, pretty major media, puts out hours after Schmitt’s face plant, exposure of r-wing media trying to save a MAGA senator public blunder. This same-day response that usually comes days/weeks after the incident blunts the r-wing mssg, I think, for legacy media.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 22h
This is where mechanics of psychology comes in, even if the comment is more rhetorical than actual befuddlement. A good place to start is the mechanics of Stockholm Syndrome, because it’s the same mechanics if not the same as exposed to very limited, restrictive info diet combined w/group think.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What exactly is ur value? U post news but don’t include link to an article or even a screenshot of it from a news site. And why post ev/th in caps? Why ru shouting the news? So what exactly is ur value on social media except as a clickbait?
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We should also have them send the fire alerts to the phones of reps and senators whose donations come from the oil industry.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I was never a reader for the pleasure of reading. I would think reading Cooper novels is very much for reading pleasure. It sounds like this guy was reading it because he viewed it as another accomplishment. That type of reader would of course take short cuts.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
FINALLY! First time I've ever heard @sanders.senate.gov connect failed state like Russia to authoritarian government. It was so frustrating over the years that he and @aoc.bsky.social never point out Russia Venezuela North Korea failed bec dictatorships not socialism suck up resources to the rich.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Why the hell do u think we're looking to oust @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com as leaders regardless whether Dems take one or both chambers? We Dem voters have been watching Jeffries and Schumer be major enablers of Trump amassing more and more political power since 2020.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is it too much to ask journos to get w/the program, such as comprehend the reason why abusive men like Trump and Miller get elected is because of political dynamics where we have one political party’s refusal to invest in pol mssg machine such as what GOP has in r-wing media creates power vacuum.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No, no, no. The effect of exposure only to r-wing media COVID lies is the same psychological mechanics that’s at play in Stockholm syndrome, in attachment process, same mechanics of finding sense of belonging/community. From that POV, u realize how dangerous r-wing media like Fox News is to society.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What else does he have but finally be able to live out his most cherished dream of being the sole attn not only all of media but the entire country as he had watched so many megawatt celebrities be adored/cherished his entire life?
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.youtube.com/shorts/ffPnV...
Why conservative culture rewards mediocre people.Subtitle excerpt
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@kamalaharris.com we know all that. If u want 2b relevant for 2028, then ID ur convictions and what the fuck u stand for, then do long running campaign repeating ur stance over and over. How the fuck do u think r-wing gained all the political power over 3 decs? These occ’l spots not gonna cut it.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yes, multiple levels of amplification by r-wing to all other spheres, including use of 1/of the most prodigious amplifier for the right, the stenographer @atrupar.com. If u have no idea how much Rupar has done to normalize r-wing conspiracies, then maybe take classes in childhood development.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I like how everyone goes about and does all these abstract, mental treatises on Mamdani stores but don't ask the very question that led to the stores as well as what Kat's post appears to have answered: Is there a need for these stores? U can get philosophical all u want but people gotta eat
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Okay. Will Tesla’s true earnings stand up.
Tesla’s earnings
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Lashing myself to my theater seat during the third hour of The Odyssey to resist the siren song of the urinal.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
THIS.IS.A.FUCKING.GRIFT. Not depressing. U know how I know it's a grift? She's making a fucking video and posting it on social media. Her entire demeanor is s/o who is fully aware, VERRRRRY deliberate in every word, every tone, every gesture.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why is it inconceivable that any rulings that are filed w/o any reasoning should be considered unenforceable? Why is it inconceivable that the public can openly challenge SCOTUS’s rulings that lack legal merit, contradictory, and/or have strong appearance of willful capriciousness (inconsistent)?
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Joanna Coles of DailyBeast with her editor in chief pointed out deaths of (at least celebrities) seem to come in threes.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
According to Naomi Klein who’s apologizing for endorsing him said the info was out there for access. So why didn’t the Dem party make the effort? Why didn’t David Sirota who I think rather recruited him make the effort? It’s the same fail by Dems on George Santos.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
So that was what it was all about. I’m not following World Cup so had idea who the guy was, like did he commit a crime or s/th and was kicked out? But so typical of Trump to interfere o/s of his wheel, wh/only holds real estate. Who called non-soccer fan Trump, tho? Is Barron soccer fan?
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What worries me is that 150k attended. Sure, it's 4th, and small compared to millions of MAGA. Still worrying, bec to me it's a sign that there is possibly enuf GOP voters to make midterm not so good for Dems, that too many swing voters still don't realize how much Trump is stealing from the country
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
So many of @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social episodes like this one exposes the superficiality of her understanding of political movements. I think she's the one who said Kristie Noem or someone like her wasn't a deep thinker. Longwell clearly has her own limits.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Ideologically aligned-what a choice of verbiage, clearly minimizing the importance of pols like Zohran being able to get in more pols who look to not only improve middle/low income lives but to increase buffer against increasing dictatorship that est Dems INCLUDING Obama has enabled for decades.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Why? I would think Mamdani is more deserving of the ring. Unless it was under the radar, I never saw Lee go out in public to boost the finals the way Mamdani did, including making possible at least 1 watch party when the team owner canceled them.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Is that picture real? That dress is fantastic. But that suit, the color, the silk material (it appears), the way it fits him. I’m getting all hot and bothered.
static.klipy.com
Trevor Noah: Cool Down Srihan Moment
Alt: Trevor Noah: Cool Down Srihan Moment
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Bad juju. Believe me, any person who hates himself (believe me, there is no one who despises Trump more than anyone else), oozes bad juju.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Yeah. I switch between Twitter and Bluesky. There is literally nothing on Twitter about the Knicks win. Of course it could be the algorithm. Or Musk d/n let on any person who threatens his $T status.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
That applies to @mkraju.bsky.social and @cnn.com much more than Speaker twit. There's fucking zero reason to talk to a coward and even less to ask a question that has no reason to be asked but now has been fucking ginned up and fucking Raju the patsy that he is is fucking normalizing it.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Emptywheel.com wrote multiple articles about Trump ratfuckers manipulating Hunter's laptop a few years ago, pretty much saying what Hunter's saying.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What else are the Ellisons going to do? They specifically bought CBS and CNN and Weiss's Free (of intellectual heft) Press and put her in charge to control media on Israel. They should have from the beginning realized they have to poach from Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, etc., to replicate their success.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'm so jealous. Mamdani's political/methods are what I've screamed for years. The thing is, tho, now that I've seen in action what I suspected would be a potent political force, I now realize he might be more of happenstance of all the right forces coming together once in a generation.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
What’s amazing is how it occurs to no one the life those billionaires will have post apocalypse-sure u survived but to what? N/o to tt-ev/os gone, environ unlivable, trapped underground w/what air-o/s is poisoned, if few survivors-they will come after u, how long can a bunker operate…
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My take: It's much more simple. Schumer is dumb as shit. He d/n bother to pay attn to the news, including political news. He has his staff/expensive Dem consultants do all the edu/gathering/thinking of political events/news, digest it, and advise him. Why? No interest in voters-he's not a Mamdani.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Think about what r-wing media esp Trump did when he and/or GOPs were out of power. When u do, it's enraging. Not with GOPs but with Democrats.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I luuuuv that it's a gay romance. The r-wing will be do their tired outrage dance. I would luuuuv to see Mamdani use his gift for soaring speech (as equal talent as Obama) to shoot right back at them and flatten their moral/sexual hypocrisy right back into their own puckering faces.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Remind them how Dems won the shut down mssg by coordinating non-stop relay mssgs on major/social media, as r-wing media do, b4 fucking Chuck caved for his rich donors, and how r-wing media esp Trump wielded political power in media when they’re out of power since 1980s including in Biden’s term.
donors.how
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Yeah, of course. They're evoking that photo of Obama admin watching/monitoring capture of bin Laden. Who are their audience? Low-info moderate/independent/swing voters and major media.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I bet if u go back to Walt and challenge him on his prediction, he'll claim nothing has changed and cherry pick w/"We still have our individual rights."
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
This is a good sign. That Mamdani so far has no plans to back down on what are key issues that propelled him by using the book of his religion for his swearing in when I'm sure so many tried to get him to swear on the bible because of optics esp delusional appearance of non-partisanship.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Maybe it’s because we expected a system that’s on its own inanimate will behave better than humans do and we made no equal expectations of humans when using the system.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Why do those like u continue to expect corporate media @axios.com @cnn.com @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @politico.com to behave differently than any other corporations, like banks, oil, auto, food, pharmacy, clothing, housing, etc.? If u rid ur POV, maybe we can begin to redesign news media industry.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Major studios already face attached strings when releasing/producing films in China. Humans, esp business and the rich, are so nonchalant about the darker, more dangerous aspects of doing business with brutal leaders like MbS, like it w/n affect them.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ummph. Looks like another prime candidate for Trump’s pardon if he has Trump’s price which appears to be $1M.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Just look at ur profile name. That’s out of creativity. U learned it s/wh. One of most creative subjects is dystopia. So is Barbie. Both encompass hundreds of concepts/ideas including amalgamating past/future. Sure (some) persons can do that on their own but eds can expand creativity/understanding
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
What the fuck ru talking about? Hard right beg’g w/those like Koch Bros spent decades putting in place levers and blocks from local gvmts to ed to SCOTUS to chip away at US democratic infrastructure, highly aided by Dems putting in leadership appeasers including Obama. Trump pulled those strings.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Dem leadership is entirely made up of followers. Any politician today with real leadership instinct knows that swing voter is just another term for up for grabs. The party that has the strongest and most persistent mssg campaign will likely win that swing.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I don't know. A hard-core reporter needs to look into that student to see if there was any coordination including with TPUSA. It all feels so scripted, because this is by far not the first incidence of its kind.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I think not enuf scrutiny is placed on those in the sexual predators environment that protect them.
Post from apologist of sexual misconduct.
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Political Behavior Commentary @pbcommentary.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
One of the things I wish u media/academia would talk about is how far right awa how opposing political power (dems) have allowed far right make US ed/media/politics/etc waste resources to re-litigate fights that have been won diverting them from addressing vital issues like climate/poverty/etc.
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