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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 1h

Part of it is to deflect blame away from Trump's disastrous war. The deeper part is that both just really love Putin and want the United States to be more like Russia.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 3h

The Russian diesel deal is a political maneuver meant to deflect blame for diesel prices from his war to Ukraine. You all know that, right?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 3h

His first sentence is bullshit. Trump hates America and the American people. He came to office to work for himself.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 3h

Marshall was too busy dodging his unpaid bills.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If she's there in support of Trump, she's not beautiful. I don't know or care what she looks like, but she's not beautiful.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Philathro...phila...er...Good Deed Doer."

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the thinking that led to two world wars. Built a better system from the rubble of those wars, and he's torn that down in just two years.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is definitely a class thing. I've seen schools in very wealthy Chicago suburbs where kids are under so much pressure to excel that they literally have nervous breakdowns. A "B" is not acceptable to their parents.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Are any networks covering them in full?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's almost certain that there won't be a conviction in the Senate. But with impeachment comes investigations, hearings, and a trial-- all very public. Those can be worthwhile even without conviction.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That has been my plan since his inauguration.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think that by now you can skip "in my humble opinion." Carlson's Nazi sympathies are established fact.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

May I just point out how disorienting it is for an old guy to see Bill Kristol posting this. Not bad, mind you, but something that would be unimaginable 15 or 20 years ago. New tricks and all that.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They damn well better turn out to vote. We need them.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Btw, while defeating Hitler was good for the world, so was Britain losing its empire. Tucker disagrees because he's a white supremacist.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Besides obviously defending Nazis, he has no understanding of history (or logic). Does he think that Britain would have kept its empire under Nazi rule? Does he think that Nazi atrocities wouldn't have occurred if countries simply surrendered? He doesn't think, of course. He trolls.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm not, in principle, opposed to the President encouraging harassment of Tom Cotton, but...this is how Trump treats his allies!! One of the prices of Trumpism is surrendering all self respect and dignity. Nobody should do this to another, but Cotton chose this for himself.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fox says "Texans need to wake up." The truth is, they have awakened. That's why Republicans are in trouble.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do doubt. It's happy endings for all the world's dictators.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And then it dropped off the media radar because it's just one damned thing after another and we're all so tired.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If he has to "make sure it stays that way," then obviously he didn't eliminate the threat. I hate how he manipulates language to gaslight like that.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It turned out that the quality of Schmitt's work easily matched that of Gaetz's.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More than one student of western civilization has been banned from lecturing at West Point due to their awareness of the danger this administration poses.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think they'll be fine with it. All my young adult kids and their friends are optimistic about being able to buy a starter home. It's practically all they talk about. -- That last sentence is true, btw. Just not in the sense implied above.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That would require the people involved to have the slightest sense of morality or ethics, and they clearly don't.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It sure looks like Schmitt thought he had the goods. The brazen lies started after he was debunked.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So his voters will turn out to support the candidates who were never at risk of losing their seats to begin with? Sure, go ahead. Sounds like a productive use of time and money. Thune is probably relieved that Trump isn't holding rallies where it could backfire. He just can't say so.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ice Cream is any damn meal I choose it to be. Same goes for cookies.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It needs a third arrow pointing to Schmitt.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you again. I'm glad to hear it.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks. I was hoping to hear that the threads were flooded with comments like "You're a fucking liar!" But it is X after all, and that's why I avoid it.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Isn't that what was behind bombing the girl's school?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I won't go on X to see this, but is there any real pushback in the thread? Community notes? Anything?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schmitt appears to be still playing it to the right wing streaming media as a win. I assume that there are people in that world who will never see what actually happened.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm looking forward to avoiding this.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's imbeciles all the down. But it starts at the top.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel bad for the staffers because their boss *is* an idiot.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He "fled"? WTF is that supposed to mean?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If it's not 60 years, it's too short.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So he's taking the taxpayer's money and calling that "profit." Then claiming (falsely) that he's going to give it back to us. First, he won't. Second, even if he did, we wouldn't come out ahead. At best it's weirdly arbitrary income redistribution.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"To remind State Department employees who they work for." What are the actual odds that an employee of The United States Department of State doesn't know who they work for?

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

None of this would even be an issue if we had universal healthcare. He spent his life dragging poor people into court to pay bills that could be payed by putting everyone into a single, giant insurance pool. No doubt there would be a lot of red tape, but there is already.

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Not Really A Cat @youpersuade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My wife listens to country on her Spotify account. I asked if she'd heard of it. She said "no." I played it for her and she confirmed that she wasn't familiar. Furthermore, she said that if it had turned up on her account, she would have turned it off. Not her kind of country.

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