Preverbal Banana

I'm done with this platform and am migrating to @bluesky. Find me there: bsky.app/profile/fakegr…

@ArtsyFish007 @SethAbramson I'm so glad. I moved there about 6 weeks ago and have missed little other than your posts. 💙

Meanwhile in Russia: Putin's presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev said, "To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them."

Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law. Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. This is what illegal corruption looks like. cnn.com/2024/11/09/pol…

Trump is Musk’s client. Musk is Putin’s client. Putin is Xi’s client.

@FlemmingRose6 @frihedsbrevet Your wiki page gave it away: "senior fellow at the Cato institute". The ultra RW Cato institute is co-founded by its chairman of the board/CEO Charles Koch whose superspac has spent USD 257 M on GOP candidates. Gotta love Citizens United 🙄 You're a partisan hack, Flemming.

Trump har lovet at stoppe krigen i Ukraine, men hvad er hans plan? Er den realistisk og hvad tænker indflydelsesrige folk tæt på den nye præsident? En ting synes klart: uanset hvad lander regningen på Europas bord. ⁦@frihedsbrevet⁩ link.frihedsbrevet.dk/yKZmL7wMWGijz4…

Despair is not an option. It helps no one.

@shannonrwatts Shannon please come to Bluesky

Interesting how the finger-pointing is at women…

Mitch McConnell is why.

Hey, credulous media, I hope this clears things up for you:

Russia again attacked a US election. To help Trump. This should be a big deal.

@GratefulR3b @ReginaSully1967 @nofakeblake1 @Variety What's wrong with you?

Trump Pulls Out of ABC Debate With Harris, Makes Pitch for Fox News variety.com/2024/tv/news/t…

@SethAbramson Some of us mere laypeople have faced (and are still facing) similar derision or merely incredulity from friends, family and acquaintances when voicing what we along with you guys see coming. This in some measure because so many have been seduced by legacy media's normalizing.

See my pinned tweet. Some of us have understood since 2015. Some of us have spent a decade getting our asses handed to us by the American journalistic enterprise when we were right about the man over and over again. We're still being punished—daily—for seeing what others did not.

@SecGenNATO @McFaul @realDonaldTrump You guys really need to join reality. Trump is NOT your friend. He's 100% in the bag for autocrats. Also the he'll be 25thed within a very short period of time. Do yourselves a favour and read up on Peter Thiel and JD Vance.

I just congratulated @realDonaldTrump on his election as President of the United States. His leadership will again be key to keeping our Alliance strong. I look forward to working with him again to advance peace through strength through #NATO.

Well, democracy was fun while it lasted.

@bizmarktini @shannonrwatts Wtf are you talking about. That is entirely the GOP. Instead of being spooned your opinions, how about you actually view some long form democratic appearances and then base your understanding of who they are on that.

@shannonrwatts no it’s more about how the Dem party is miserable, all about death, censorship, and war now. Nobody wants that shit, keep that miserable ideology. Oh, and u gotta keep the Cheneys, no take-backs!

This is less about their actual positions and more about Republicans’ ability to shape the media narrative — in traditional and on social media.

BREAKING: Unsubstantiated bomb threats were made to four Navajo Nation voting sites in Navajo County today, believed to be from a foreign entity ("namely, Russia"), according to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. Navajo Nation is a longtime Democratic stronghold.

@XArmeyDean @NickKnudsenUS Soooo....democracy be dammed?

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein. When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention. I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life. Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different. When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation. But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense. Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process. Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession. He was a terrible president. In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way. This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege. My point is: Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000. Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos. There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two. Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

when protecting pussies and firing pussies can happen all in one vote #votecauseicant #TanSuitSeason