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Real_I_am_Groot

@realimgroot.bsky.social
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Midwest USA born and raised. Progressive as they come. Happy to be away from “that other place.”

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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
The most important people in America are the elementary school teachers. And the one thing we could do to make their work easier is to cap grade school class size to 15 students nationwide. It’s a jobs program AND a civics program that will return $7 for every $1 invested.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
Every day he does ten things that will take a year to fix or erase. I really hope the democrats are up to the task. And that’s why Hakeem Jeffries can NEVER be speaker. He thought his secret face to face meeting with the Dev- …err… with Kushner was never going to come out.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
God’s sitting up there on a cloud saying: “Don’t thank me you sunnovabitch - you and all the other fake Christians are going straight down into the earth where hell is.”
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
I trust him to accept a huge bribe for the promise of “not looking backwards” - which means we let the trumps and the Kushners and the Lutnicks and the entire Epstein Class off the hook. People like Jeffries are the reason Epstein’s victims are still having to fight for justice.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
The article you sent says that the battery packs are outliving the vehicle. (Most people don’t drive the same vehicle for 15 years) and who knows what driving a 15 year old Ford Lightning is like? We’ll check back in 2037 to find out. (In 2037 typical range will be 1000 miles and cost half as much.)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
Thanks for the article. Good snapshot of the data we have right now.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
that’s the answer. Our country is warped by greed and racism. It’s perpetuated by a political system that rewards the worst people among us with power and influence. We have to get the money out and everyone who lives off that money is going to fight us.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 1h
Rural living is sustainable. But most of The Commons exists because cities provide the gdp required to build and maintain the nation’s infrastructure. Both rural and urban need each other. The countries of the world that have figured it out have happier more balanced societies. get the money out
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 10h
A reminder that Hakeem Jeffries met with trumps consigliere - in secret. Face to face. We were never supposed to know about that meeting. And that’s why Hakeem Jeffries can NOT be speaker. Period.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 10h
Impeachment is too good for Trump. Can we impeach Mike Johnson? How about Todd Blanche?
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 10h
Clearly the best way to learn what’s going on - is to send Li’l Secretary Marco to Russia to see for himself. (JD Vance’s idea.)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 10h
Democrats can’t even call a meeting. We all have to get everyone we know to the polls on November 3rd. (tell your Republican friends that they have to make sure to vote on November 10th.)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 10h
It’s all anyone is talking about. And Mike Johnson’s gonna pretend he has no idea what anyone is talking about. It’s almost as if Speaker Johnson had a secret face to face meeting with Jared Kushner after McCarthy was un-speakered. Doing nothing is probably what they’re paying Mike to do.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 11h
And I want to know what Hakeem Jeffries thought he was going to get, by meeting secretly with the guy who got 2 billion dollars from the dismemberment murderer guy. I like democrats who *dont* meet secretly with Donald Trump’s consigliere. (Remember - we were not supposed know about it.)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 19h
Everyone I follow and consistently on MSNow they’re all talking about it. I think you mean right wing Earth2 news.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 21h
Did Bloomberg News ask him how he feels in retrospect about his clerk Alex Acosta letting a pedophile sex trafficker with piles of evidence against him, get off with a slap on the wrist? Did Alito see any signs (when Acosta clerked for him) that Acosta might not be the legal mind he had thought?
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 21h
Is anyone going to and from Russia who isnt part of the trump administration? Let’s allow them to *go* but quarantine the whole bunch when they return.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 22h
events? Where are republicans in Congress fighting this administration? Sorry to say - but republicans at large, have shown they can’t be trusted and can’t be respected. Maybe in a generation or two, that can change. But for now, the only trustworthy republicans are the ones who have renounced.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 22h
All due respect to your work with the 1/6 committee - but after working to spread the truth - your party kicked you and Liz Cheney OUT of the government. Why would anyone ever work with republicans after they’ve shown no spine, morals, ethics - no patriotism. Where are the Republican “No Kings”
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 22h
And let’s set a class size limit for grade school classes to 15 students. That’s the same as giving teachers a raise and some time off too. And it’s the only sure-thing way to ensure better outcomes! And it hires MORE TEACHERS. Win win win win.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am 1500% in favor of republicans spending *all their money* trying to make voters forget all the crime and corruption and incompetence they’ve been witnessing since 2016. 😂
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We’re going to need 4 full Departments of Justice in 2029. We had 4 YEARS to lock Trump up for stealing documents and committing an insurrection - and *nothing happened*. And since then - Trump and everyone in his administration has been committing a hundred crimes a day. Just 1 DOJ won’t cut it.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And I hate to break it to you - but that means democracy is population-centric. The electoral college takes influence from where it actually lives - and doles it out to places less influential. Thats undemocratic.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the idiots cheer.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That’s a tricky sentence isn’t it? Why would anyone jail little girls?
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Right? How can we spend a trillion dollars on defense and that doesn’t include huge cost of living subsidies for our veterans? Someday our Pentagon budget will be honestly audited and we’ll find out that 75 cents of every defense dollar goes directly into the pockets of billionaires.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fact check: true.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Please give us another chance to fool you rubes and yokels like we did before!”
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean / just think for a minute on what a person must be like to *still* support this maniac after everything we have witnessed over the last 11 years. They can’t be nice people. Because if they were nice they’d hate him as much as we do.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2000 moving parts versus 20 moving parts. Maintenance for a fleet of EVs is a fraction of the same for fossil fuel vehicles.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But that electricity is replacing fossil fuel that costs three times as much per mile. No matter how you slice it - EVs are great for business.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You have to adjust the way you think. Batteries cost X today. And when today’s batteries are 5 years old the new batteries will be more powerful and less expensive. They may be made with completely new technology in 5 years. Today’s EVs are similar to what gas vehicles were like in 1920.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine if you could buy a gas powered vehicle and in 5 years they’ve replaced it with a new one that’s better, faster, more reliable and less expensive? lol. Problem is that gas vehicles are using century old tech. EVs are similar to computers - they get better and less expensive as they evolve.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Your knowledge isn’t the best. When you talk about batteries - are you talking about batteries from 2016? Or 2026? They’re not the same. And the batteries in 2030 won’t be the same as today. As for vehicle makers - it doesn’t take more than a minute to find out how many have an EV in the lineup.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m across the street from a commercial seafood company that delivers to restaurants. The owner says they are paying $3500 more per month for fuel than they did a year ago. Thanks to trump’s buddy Netanyahu.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does that mean they’ll drop the ”fuel surcharge” I pay on every shipment? Or will they just drop fuel surcharge and call it an “energy surcharge?” The stock is up 250% in 7 years - something tells me they’re not going to drop that charge.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I appreciate the kind words. We’re just happy that he’s 100% “regular” again. ;-)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“See those two pairs of footprints - that was when I walked you out into the surf. And the one pair of footprints that returned? That was after I drowned you like like a clog in my shower drain.” - Jesus the Migrant.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😂
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s *possible* that his portrait was removed years ago.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The “O.P.”
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everyone in the FIRST trump administration destroyed the presidential records act. Everyone used personal devices and disappearing message apps. (And that was *with* the “guardrails” in the administration.) This Trump2.0 administration is likely many times worse.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Y’all were talking media failure? How about the fact that Senator Foghorn Leghorn was on “the longest running show in television history” only a couple days after Jack Smith’s ridiculous hearing - AND Kristen Welker didn’t even ask Kennedy about the hearing!! Not a single word. She needs to go!
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(Nothing showed up in *this* ultrasound.) Normally my wife and I would totally defer to the Dr and not second guess them. But yes, I agree - given that his sister’s surgery cost us thousands of dollars - my cynical side is suspicious of this Dr’s motivations this time.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The rest of the story: Two years ago -the sister cat to this one had actually swallowed a piece of foam from a toy. It showed up in ultrasound and she had a successful surgery at the same facility - different Dr. That experience gave me the confidence to “suggest” something to the Dr. this time.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He has exactly the amount of respect for women that we’d expect from a guy who chose Alex Acosta to clerk for him. Exactly the amount of respect we’d expect from someone one degree of separation away from Jeffrey Epstein.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And the money he makes would be impossible without The Commons. He uses our roads and airports. Our courts. Water, electricity and waste disposal. He relies on tens of thousands of people who were educated in public schools. Without The Commons he’d still be working in a book store. Tax the rich.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This has got to END. If you become president with a Dem Congress - please zero-out ICE’s budget - and use those billions to fix our legal immigration system. More courts. More staff. More HUMANE. It shouldn’t take a decade to get a green card. It shouldn’t create an entire class of scared families.
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He better not talk sh*t about Ted Cruz’s wife. (Unless he wants a new best friend who’s well versed in musical theatre.)
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Real_I_am_Groot @realimgroot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best way to explain it to a conservative - is to explain “The Commons.” And say that corporations need to pay for what they use of The Commons. The bigger the corporation - the more it uses The Commons to make its profits. That’s why we as taxpayers deserve to have them pay for what they use.
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