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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 9h
Ha! Also, too kind.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 9h
Not unlikely, but definitely much more than that.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yeah, and this illustrates the corollary that it doesn’t matter whether it’s true or not. Many have called West a genius (at least quite a few years ago). Nobody who knows anything has ever called Trump a genius. Yet when they say it about themselves, it lands the same way.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You’ve persuaded me!
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OK, that seems weird.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fair. Also, most of these words, when applied to oneself, serve as an indicator that one is definitely not that word.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is correct, although their awareness of that and the degrees to which it is true may vary. But they are absolutely not clueless about Yarvin and the double standards.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Right!!! The Bezos thing … 🙄
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m always a little surprised when people think he’s super smart or an extremely talented engineer. He’s an extremely successful con man, full stop. It’s just the money that makes him seem more. The similarities between him and Trump are striking.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My expectations of the NYT are lower. I remember noting that the interviewer gave him real pushback on the race and monarchy issues, but probably not early in. … For me the greatest Yarvin issue is what their respect for him says about the intellects of our multibillionaire techbro overlords.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
THIS ⬆️⬆️⬆️ i listened to that podcast because I’d read about Yarvin’s influence as a thinker and writer. And, I mean, how pathetic.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, this is good.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is insightful.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes!
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, I think McConnell has done as much damage to the country as Trump. Indeed without his enabling, Trump wouldn’t have been able to take a wrecking ball to the country.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, to a greater and more consistent degree than Trump personally, the party has been on this march to know-nothing fascism for decades, at least since Reagan.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OMG, yes!
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, I’ve been saying this for a while, but it’s going to get way worse before it gets better. That’s if he doesn’t nuke us all at the bottom.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I listened to the podcast of this interview and found his apparent intellect deeply unimpressive. And I mean—he refers *to himself* as an intellectual. 🙄
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They’re not wrong. Making their viewers dumb is their entire business model.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly this!! The failing extreme malignant narcissist with his finger on the button is genuinely capable of this sort of malevolence and destruction.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d love to know what his uncle thought of him.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m old enough to remember when this was a sure fire way to lose your tax status. Those were absolutely better times, and we need as a society to get back to that.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had exactly the same reaction to that “may”. JFC
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The crimes of the international criminal mob that controls Russia and now the United States.
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
God, I love @pressley.house.gov . Absolutely LOVE her. (and fuck yeah, it's a pejorative, Russ. and there's more where that came from.)
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for posting this!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Putin would praise him for that, so yeah.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pretty much like any cult would?
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OMG! WOW. It never even occurred to me that there could be any truth to that promise.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So she claims that she only learned the source of her family’s wealth when she was in college? Of course it’s possible, but I wouldn’t take that claim at face value.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me too. And I’m pretty sure that being old does, at least on a personal level.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, this! As in “Boys! Beware the wrestling coach who for some reason decides to escape his wrestling coach life by running for office and decamping for DC!” But of course that warning would be too late for so many.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That’s *at least* 100 other stories.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Too kind!
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolutely 💯
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some of us have known this since November 2016. It is indeed extraordinary that so many across the political spectrum still don’t see it. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They have the true TDS.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brilliant! 😂
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As we knew would happen.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, I know, but don’t they also need the Supreme Court to overrule a precedent in order to get there?
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fact check: True.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The chip on Alito’s FoxNews-fed MAGA shoulder has swallowed him whole.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I remember being a bit surprised by how intellectually dishonest Scalia’s opinions often were in service to his political and policy goals.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Call me gay, but these things still matter!
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah, and I find this one really dismaying for a couple of reasons. First, it is so often repeated as though it were an actual mystery. Second, it reveals total lack of awareness of Kavanaugh’s background. Maybe naive, I want us to be better than rightwingers where conspiracy theories are concerned.
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Steve Baird @stevenkbaird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Could they be trying to rehabilitate Watergate Nixon in order to advance the case, such as it is, for their illegal impoundments?
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