Ben Hawkins
@lexhawk54.bsky.social
Grandpa, musician, teacher, lover of the America we could be. “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”-Marie Curie
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This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.
They didn't understand that "this isn't your parent's GOP" is exactly why Biden won. Because comparing Trump to Reagan is to almost all conservatives, an in kind donation to Trump.
But pointing out the voters principles weren't what changed, it was the party that broke their pledge to them, works.
But pointing out the voters principles weren't what changed, it was the party that broke their pledge to them, works.
People can't seem to grasp that difference, which is in part how the left started to lose the public (who to this day don't see Reagan the same way they do). "Reagan is the same as Trump" is like a free ad for Trump.
November 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This! When you say "Listen, Reagan and the Bushes and Trump are the same," you're actually reassuring low-info voters that Trump isn't a crazy choice, because unlike Bluesky folks, millions of Americans would vote for those guys again.
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finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans
just guess
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans
Serious question: how do I donate to Anti-ICE protestors?
Nope.
Tom Homan: People Donating To Anti-ICE Protesters 'Will Be Prosecuted Too'
September 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Serious question: how do I donate to Anti-ICE protestors?
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“I actually want the tariffs to be in effect…I want people to feel the effects of what they voted for. I want them to touch the hot stove.”
@monacharen.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social discuss Trump's tariffs on Just Between Us (for Bulwark+ members only):
@monacharen.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social discuss Trump's tariffs on Just Between Us (for Bulwark+ members only):
September 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
“I actually want the tariffs to be in effect…I want people to feel the effects of what they voted for. I want them to touch the hot stove.”
@monacharen.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social discuss Trump's tariffs on Just Between Us (for Bulwark+ members only):
@monacharen.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social discuss Trump's tariffs on Just Between Us (for Bulwark+ members only):
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This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
August 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
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kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
August 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
kitchen table issue: stop kidnapping my neighbors!
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when I was on Medicaid I was a full-time graduate student with two part-time jobs, neither of which offered me health insurance. Without Medicaid, I would have been completely screwed. None of these Rs talking about this know a single thing about it besides that they don't want you to have it.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Medicaid: "The person we're taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work."
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
when I was on Medicaid I was a full-time graduate student with two part-time jobs, neither of which offered me health insurance. Without Medicaid, I would have been completely screwed. None of these Rs talking about this know a single thing about it besides that they don't want you to have it.
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Genuinely insane lmao it’s cooking your brain and it’s cooking the planet, anyone even remotely functional thinking and writing on their own without AI in the future will rule the world
May 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Genuinely insane lmao it’s cooking your brain and it’s cooking the planet, anyone even remotely functional thinking and writing on their own without AI in the future will rule the world
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social . It will happen.
May 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social . It will happen.
EVERY CHEF ON TV:
"TODAY I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE SOMETHING WITH SIMPLE INGREDIENTS EVERYONE HAS IN THEIR PANTRY. I'M STARTING WITH ICELANDIC SEA SALT, YAK BUTTER, A SPRIG OF MOON BASIL AND EXACTLY 3 TEARS FROM A LAUGHING ALPACA
"TODAY I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE SOMETHING WITH SIMPLE INGREDIENTS EVERYONE HAS IN THEIR PANTRY. I'M STARTING WITH ICELANDIC SEA SALT, YAK BUTTER, A SPRIG OF MOON BASIL AND EXACTLY 3 TEARS FROM A LAUGHING ALPACA
May 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Rand is quoting you now. So proud.
Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
April 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Rand is quoting you now. So proud.
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Doesn't matter who you are, this type of follower gap is unacceptable. We don't support clout-chasing influencers, whatever their resume looks like. Do better.
March 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Doesn't matter who you are, this type of follower gap is unacceptable. We don't support clout-chasing influencers, whatever their resume looks like. Do better.
Can’t help but notice that nearly all of the follow requests I get are from young women with attractive profile pix. This is statistically suspect, especially for a 70-y.o. married dude. Is Bluesky ridden with bots, too?
March 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Can’t help but notice that nearly all of the follow requests I get are from young women with attractive profile pix. This is statistically suspect, especially for a 70-y.o. married dude. Is Bluesky ridden with bots, too?
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Support for your recent views, pt. 2.
One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.
March 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Support for your recent views, pt. 2.
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Support for your recent views, pt. 1
Of course, having to stay in DC past today would have interfered with Schumer’s book tour which begins Monday.
March 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@turnerhawkins.bsky.social Support for your recent views, pt. 1
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I spent 14 years in opioid hell. Many friends and acquaintances have lost their lives.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
Pam Bondi waves around a package of (what she says are fake) drugs
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I spent 14 years in opioid hell. Many friends and acquaintances have lost their lives.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
It’s a result of American drug company Purdue Pharma/OxyContin.
Anyone trying to blame fentanyl, Mexico, China, or Canada for America’s overdose deaths and opioid drug addiction are full of shit. Full stop.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🙋🏻♂️ Raise your hand if you’re boycotting Trump’s LIE TO THE UNION address tomorrow?
March 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
🙋🏻♂️ Raise your hand if you’re boycotting Trump’s LIE TO THE UNION address tomorrow?
My 20-month old granddaughter selected these books for me this evening.
March 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My 20-month old granddaughter selected these books for me this evening.
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certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.
Following executive orders, ‘The President’s Own’ Marine Band scraps concert
The U.S. Marine Band’s canceled collaboration with Equity Arc was to feature high school musicians of color who competed to perform with the ensemble.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
certain respectable, centrist pundits have said or implied that i'm basically hysterical about the idea that the trump administration is segregationist but then we get stories like this one. huh, wonder what ideological perspective might explain this decision.
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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.
February 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.