Bob G.
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Bob G.
@bobg.whizbang.me
· Aug 1
Don't tell people why they're wrong. Show them a new way to be right.
Reposted by Bob G.
also the venn diagram of people mad they can't understand the lyrics and the people who think born in the usa is about how good america is is a circle
my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system
February 9, 2026 at 8:06 PM
also the venn diagram of people mad they can't understand the lyrics and the people who think born in the usa is about how good america is is a circle
Neat!
Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat."
Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat."
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Neat!
Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat."
Apparently I'm a "Progressive American Democrat," not to be confused with an "American Progressive Democrat."
That halftime show was *aggressively* anti-white-nationalist. 👏
February 9, 2026 at 2:02 AM
That halftime show was *aggressively* anti-white-nationalist. 👏
When Democrats are back in power, and conservatives voice outrage about something a Democratic politician has done, we are going to have so much "Where were you when..." material we won't even know where to start.
February 6, 2026 at 9:58 PM
When Democrats are back in power, and conservatives voice outrage about something a Democratic politician has done, we are going to have so much "Where were you when..." material we won't even know where to start.
In the 1978 film, when Clark Kent needs to become Superman for the first time, he pauses briefly at a modern unenclosed phone booth - then new - before finding another place to change unobserved. It got a big laugh from audiences at the time! Do today's audiences even understand that moment?
February 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
In the 1978 film, when Clark Kent needs to become Superman for the first time, he pauses briefly at a modern unenclosed phone booth - then new - before finding another place to change unobserved. It got a big laugh from audiences at the time! Do today's audiences even understand that moment?
Hey Hollywood folks / @lincolnproject.us:
The Epstein files are terrible enough as it is - but we can make them terribler.
Dramatize a few dozen snippets. Drop them as 30-second videos on social media.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and the public conscience isn't wounded nearly enough.
The Epstein files are terrible enough as it is - but we can make them terribler.
Dramatize a few dozen snippets. Drop them as 30-second videos on social media.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and the public conscience isn't wounded nearly enough.
February 5, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey Hollywood folks / @lincolnproject.us:
The Epstein files are terrible enough as it is - but we can make them terribler.
Dramatize a few dozen snippets. Drop them as 30-second videos on social media.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and the public conscience isn't wounded nearly enough.
The Epstein files are terrible enough as it is - but we can make them terribler.
Dramatize a few dozen snippets. Drop them as 30-second videos on social media.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, and the public conscience isn't wounded nearly enough.
In our representative democracy, our political leaders are - guess what? - not leaders. They are our representatives.
While we're looking to them for leadership, they are looking to us - for leadership.
Let's show them what we need them to do, and make sure they do it.
While we're looking to them for leadership, they are looking to us - for leadership.
Let's show them what we need them to do, and make sure they do it.
Did Franklin Roosevelt ever say, "I agree with you; I want to do it; now make me do it"?
Answer: Yes.
Like much of FDR’s career, it’s more deft than it looks.
The gist of the story — the context — is that some folks that we might now call Social Justice Warriors went to see Eleanor, hop...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
In our representative democracy, our political leaders are - guess what? - not leaders. They are our representatives.
While we're looking to them for leadership, they are looking to us - for leadership.
Let's show them what we need them to do, and make sure they do it.
While we're looking to them for leadership, they are looking to us - for leadership.
Let's show them what we need them to do, and make sure they do it.
Billionaires employ lots of assistants.
Many of them have access to info that could embarrass the billionaire, or worse, if made public.
No such person should leak any such info, and especially shouldn't include a Bitcoin payment address to which grateful citizens might send money.
Many of them have access to info that could embarrass the billionaire, or worse, if made public.
No such person should leak any such info, and especially shouldn't include a Bitcoin payment address to which grateful citizens might send money.
Think about how Epstein was just a single billionaire, what absolute heinous horrors are in the communications of every other billionaire.
*Any* random billionaire's emails will have skin-crawlingly heinous, horrifying shit. That is why they all must be eradicated.
*Any* random billionaire's emails will have skin-crawlingly heinous, horrifying shit. That is why they all must be eradicated.
February 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Billionaires employ lots of assistants.
Many of them have access to info that could embarrass the billionaire, or worse, if made public.
No such person should leak any such info, and especially shouldn't include a Bitcoin payment address to which grateful citizens might send money.
Many of them have access to info that could embarrass the billionaire, or worse, if made public.
No such person should leak any such info, and especially shouldn't include a Bitcoin payment address to which grateful citizens might send money.
Reposted by Bob G.
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
We need to stay angry.
But staying angry is unhealthy.
So once in a while, take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Do what you need to reset: exercise, gardening, painting, knitting, videogames, music, whatever.
Whatever you need to be able to come back to your anger.
But staying angry is unhealthy.
So once in a while, take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Do what you need to reset: exercise, gardening, painting, knitting, videogames, music, whatever.
Whatever you need to be able to come back to your anger.
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
We need to stay angry.
But staying angry is unhealthy.
So once in a while, take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Do what you need to reset: exercise, gardening, painting, knitting, videogames, music, whatever.
Whatever you need to be able to come back to your anger.
But staying angry is unhealthy.
So once in a while, take a day off. Take two days off. Take a week off. Do what you need to reset: exercise, gardening, painting, knitting, videogames, music, whatever.
Whatever you need to be able to come back to your anger.
Tried the dishwashing powder created in collaboration with @techconnectify.bsky.social. Dishwashing-perfectionist wife reports it's the cleanest she's ever seen our dishes. Happy wife, happy life.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Tried the dishwashing powder created in collaboration with @techconnectify.bsky.social. Dishwashing-perfectionist wife reports it's the cleanest she's ever seen our dishes. Happy wife, happy life.
After 365+ days of the screws tightening, it's easy for one day of them loosening to feel like victory.
Beware. It isn't.
Beware. It isn't.
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 AM
After 365+ days of the screws tightening, it's easy for one day of them loosening to feel like victory.
Beware. It isn't.
Beware. It isn't.
Join the mass call tonight: "Eyes on ICE"
In response to the regime’s political violence, over 100,000 people have signed up for tonight’s mass call on exercising our constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents. We hope you can join us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Join the mass call tonight: "Eyes on ICE"
Bravo, @schiff.senate.gov!
Not One More Dime for ICE or CBP
I joined NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday to react to the horrific shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and say clearly that I will not vote to give ICE or CBP one more dime.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Bravo, @schiff.senate.gov!
It is surprising how much I'm hearing "Fuck ICE" even from acquaintances with whom my interactions before now have been aggressively apolitical.
January 25, 2026 at 9:55 PM
It is surprising how much I'm hearing "Fuck ICE" even from acquaintances with whom my interactions before now have been aggressively apolitical.
I need everyone to take their rage and channel it into... more peaceful, lawful protest.
Nothing would fill them with more glee than if we stooped to violence.
On the other hand, staying cool will make them feel the rage you're feeling.
Yes, their rage means we suffer... right up until we win.
Nothing would fill them with more glee than if we stooped to violence.
On the other hand, staying cool will make them feel the rage you're feeling.
Yes, their rage means we suffer... right up until we win.
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 25, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I need everyone to take their rage and channel it into... more peaceful, lawful protest.
Nothing would fill them with more glee than if we stooped to violence.
On the other hand, staying cool will make them feel the rage you're feeling.
Yes, their rage means we suffer... right up until we win.
Nothing would fill them with more glee than if we stooped to violence.
On the other hand, staying cool will make them feel the rage you're feeling.
Yes, their rage means we suffer... right up until we win.
Maybe Renee Good and Alex Pretti were just the regrettable collateral damage of an otherwise essential and worthwhile operation.
If so, there must be some metrics, some success criteria to tell us whether the benefits are worth the horrifying costs.
And those are...? Anyone? Anyone?
If so, there must be some metrics, some success criteria to tell us whether the benefits are worth the horrifying costs.
And those are...? Anyone? Anyone?
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Maybe Renee Good and Alex Pretti were just the regrettable collateral damage of an otherwise essential and worthwhile operation.
If so, there must be some metrics, some success criteria to tell us whether the benefits are worth the horrifying costs.
And those are...? Anyone? Anyone?
If so, there must be some metrics, some success criteria to tell us whether the benefits are worth the horrifying costs.
And those are...? Anyone? Anyone?
Reposted by Bob G.
Reposted by Bob G.
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Reposted by Bob G.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
Last we heard from Kamala on this platform was a bromide about MLK Jr. on his day. Before that: a Christmas greeting.
And she wants to be president??
Shit is happening, lady. Daily. Some people are stepping up and speaking out. Where are you?
And she wants to be president??
Shit is happening, lady. Daily. Some people are stepping up and speaking out. Where are you?
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
January 25, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Last we heard from Kamala on this platform was a bromide about MLK Jr. on his day. Before that: a Christmas greeting.
And she wants to be president??
Shit is happening, lady. Daily. Some people are stepping up and speaking out. Where are you?
And she wants to be president??
Shit is happening, lady. Daily. Some people are stepping up and speaking out. Where are you?