cjsmith78.bsky.social
@cjsmith78.bsky.social
Retired finance exec in New Hampshire USA. Active hiker, trail biker and volunteer. Dartmouth College grad.
He's a man of the people! And I can't wait to see Malenia's WH Christmas decorations this year.
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My take on yesterday's Democratic election sweeps.

REPUBLICANS: "Looks like we're gonna need a bigger ballroom."
November 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Here's the answer.
September 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Agreed. The USA, awash in 400Mn guns, s/b the safest country in the world. Instead, our total homicide rate is 3-5x that of ALL other high-income nations. (Altho everyone's rate peaked in early 1990s.)
September 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
MAGAts value guns more than they value people.

It's the guns. Pathetically easy access to guns and ammo here in gun-worshipping 'murica.
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Agreed. And only in 'murica. Awash in 400 million guns, we should have zero violent crime, right? And yet the U.S. total homicide rate is 3-5x that of all other advanced nations. (Data below is primarily from the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.)
August 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Total homicide rates have declined 30-40% since peaking in the early 1990s -- in the U.S. and *all* advanced nations. Still, the USA, awash in guns, has a total homicide rate 3-5x that of our peers.
August 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Awash in 400Mn guns, the USA should have ZERO violent crime. And yet ... (Source: UN Office of Drugs and Crime)
August 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Did #TACOTrump just watch the John Carpenter film "Escape from L.A." on cable TV at Mar-a-Lago?

#NoKings
June 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
At HandsOff2025 in Gulfport, Florida on April 5. Probably 500 enthusiastic people in deep-Republican territory. No counterprotesters.
April 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Joined an enthusiastic crowd today at a pro-Ukraine, pro-democracy rally in Exeter, New Hampshire. At least half of the cars passing by honked their support; only a few sad-looking incel MAGAts gave us the middle finger as they drove by.

#SlavaUkraini
March 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I was delighted to join about 100 other defenders of democracy and rule of law at an anti-Trump / anti-Musk rally today in front of the Exeter, New Hampshire town hall.

This protest thing could become habit-forming ...
February 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
February 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In fact, the U.S. has a total homicide rate 3-5x that of all other advanced nations.

If more guns make us safer, why isn't our homicide rate ZERO?
December 10, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Clippy --> Autocorrect --> Artificial Intelligence --> Skynet --> The Matrix

Don't say we weren't warned!
December 9, 2024 at 7:09 PM