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A Republic, if we can retake it H-minus!

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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Those legs are slow to respond. Looking more and more like...
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Marge has an observation
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't be the only one that sees it, right?
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He is due for a very close shave
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had a custom design in mind
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Office of Remigration, after all, has mostly managed to remain a very low-profile, poorly understood affair. It’s housed inside the State Department, where its roughly 15 employees toil in anonymity inside a vast bureaucracy, unnoticed by just about all Americans.

But a blockbuster Washington Post investigation just flushed the Office of Remigration’s activities out into the light. Relying on a series of leaked documents, the Post reports that at Stephen Miller’s direction, the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their countries of origin.

It’s really sleazy, ghoulish stuff. The administration has authorized or pledged over $400 million for such agreements with more than 30 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America. As the Post reports, the deals place many migrants in countries to which they have no previous connections, and are structured to skirt “human rights safeguards” that typically are built into U.S. foreign assistance payments abroad.
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From Scott Homan I believe-
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I apologize for this glib and inappropriate comment. This is what I saw but again, vastly, vastly different perspective.
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Truth
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“I said, ‘So if I’m in an electric boat and I see them going down and the water’s pouring in, so I know I’m going to be electrocuted, but five yards away there are sharks, do I take the electrocution or do I go swimming with the sharks?’ And you know what my answer was? I’ll take the electrocution, OK? I’ll take the electrocution—but he didn’t know how to answer the question. He said, ‘No idea.’”

He left people dumbfounded with the same question many times before, in 2023 and 2024.
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Carlson said:

    My position from the beginning with Trump, I said it to Trump, was, ‘I don’t understand why you would ever keep any of this stuff secret.’ And I got like a bunch of different answers.” Carlson was unconvinced by the president’s explanations for why the files had been withheld: “I don’t feel any need to cover for Epstein. So I said, ‘You shouldn’t either.’ In the end, it came from Trump directly.

When Whipple asked Carlson what exactly came “directly” from Trump, the former Fox News host said, “The order to cover it up came from Trump. I asked him why. And he gave me this long, very emotional explanation that this was all a plot against him, like Russiagate.”
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What about the jackal Fred Trump bedded?
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wonder why they passed those laws in the first place
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
For any other Presidential envoy, the result of the Iran talks would have been a catastrophe. For Kushner, it was not even the most important thing in his portfolio. As he negotiated with Iran, he was also managing billions of dollars in investments that other governments in the region had made in his private-equity fund.
Throughout the Trump era, Kushner has made a career of combining business and politics. He argues that being a businessman aids his diplomatic efforts, by allowing him to find inventive solutions to problems ordinarily handled by unimaginative bureaucrats. But, as he has traversed the globe for Trump, he has grown more entangled in the commercial affairs of countries where he works. He represents a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. In the past two years, an array of people linked to the White House—including Witkoff’s sons, the cryptocurrency adviser David Sacks, and other members of the Trump family—have used their official positions to bring in billions of dollars for themselves. “I know all these guys,” a former American official who served in the Middle East told me. “They go into these meetings, and they are doing business right alongside their diplomacy. ‘O.K., enough about the ceasefire. We have this hotel we want to build.’ That’s the kind of foreign policy America has now.”
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alito and Thomas need a sharp rebuke
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Because I'm bigger, and that makes me the best!
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Temporarily
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reposting to add ALT text. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Well, I have been studying the Republican Party for over 12 years at close hand in the Capital of the United States. And by this time, I have discovered where the Republicans stand on most of the major issues. Since they won't tell you themselves, I am going to tell you.

They approve of the American farmer — but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home — but not for housing. They are strong for labor — but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor a minimum wage — the smaller the minimum the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all — but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine — for people who can afford them. They approve of Social Security benefits — so much so that they took them away from almost a million people.

They believe in international trade — so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program. They favor the admission of displaced persons — but only within shameful racial and religious limitations. They consider electric power a great blessing — but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They condemn "cruelly high prices" — but fight to the death every effort to bring them down. They think the American standard of living is a fine thing — so long as it doesn't spread to all the people.

And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.

– President Harry Truman, October 3, 1948
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Poorer Richard @worldlywise.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do?
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