Gabe K
@gkthesecatskill.bsky.social
Apiculturist, unions, punk rawk, farming, game theory, feminism, liberationist, film, TV, and anything that makes sense of what it means to be human.
Better get rid of Gaylord Perry, Ty Cobb, and Big Papi then.
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Better get rid of Gaylord Perry, Ty Cobb, and Big Papi then.
Bonds, Clemens, Delgado, Kent, Sheffield.
December 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Bonds, Clemens, Delgado, Kent, Sheffield.
Careful bro, because the torches and pitchforks will be pointed towards you and your ilk.
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Careful bro, because the torches and pitchforks will be pointed towards you and your ilk.
Fantastic writer, captures New England Waspiness so well.
December 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fantastic writer, captures New England Waspiness so well.
HOF Post right here. Wait, are you Antifa?
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
HOF Post right here. Wait, are you Antifa?
Great politician. Wrong moment.
A technocrat seeking consensus when what the crisis demanded was confrontation, mobilization, and populist rage. The greatest irony of his presidency is that what should have been his populist rage was stolen by the Tea Party and refined by Trump.
13/13
A technocrat seeking consensus when what the crisis demanded was confrontation, mobilization, and populist rage. The greatest irony of his presidency is that what should have been his populist rage was stolen by the Tea Party and refined by Trump.
13/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Great politician. Wrong moment.
A technocrat seeking consensus when what the crisis demanded was confrontation, mobilization, and populist rage. The greatest irony of his presidency is that what should have been his populist rage was stolen by the Tea Party and refined by Trump.
13/13
A technocrat seeking consensus when what the crisis demanded was confrontation, mobilization, and populist rage. The greatest irony of his presidency is that what should have been his populist rage was stolen by the Tea Party and refined by Trump.
13/13
The irony that history shows:
Obama was perfectly suited to the presidency of the ‘90s — not the presidency of post-collapse America.
Scandal free, competent, upbeat. Not what we wanted after Iraq, Afghanistan, and financial collapse. 12/13
Obama was perfectly suited to the presidency of the ‘90s — not the presidency of post-collapse America.
Scandal free, competent, upbeat. Not what we wanted after Iraq, Afghanistan, and financial collapse. 12/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The irony that history shows:
Obama was perfectly suited to the presidency of the ‘90s — not the presidency of post-collapse America.
Scandal free, competent, upbeat. Not what we wanted after Iraq, Afghanistan, and financial collapse. 12/13
Obama was perfectly suited to the presidency of the ‘90s — not the presidency of post-collapse America.
Scandal free, competent, upbeat. Not what we wanted after Iraq, Afghanistan, and financial collapse. 12/13
Obama governed politely while the country needed a Roosevelt: someone willing to wage political conflict, organize public anger, and force change through power rather than procedural civility. And. He. Could. Have.
Popular vote win of 7%, 60% approval, both houses, w/ filibuster proof Senate… 11/13
Popular vote win of 7%, 60% approval, both houses, w/ filibuster proof Senate… 11/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Obama governed politely while the country needed a Roosevelt: someone willing to wage political conflict, organize public anger, and force change through power rather than procedural civility. And. He. Could. Have.
Popular vote win of 7%, 60% approval, both houses, w/ filibuster proof Senate… 11/13
Popular vote win of 7%, 60% approval, both houses, w/ filibuster proof Senate… 11/13
Meanwhile, stimulus completely undershot the crisis and once in a lifetime political moment — little large-scale job creation, no dramatic infrastructure push — so recovery felt sluggish and abstract to working people. He should have gone Keynesian as fuck. 10/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Meanwhile, stimulus completely undershot the crisis and once in a lifetime political moment — little large-scale job creation, no dramatic infrastructure push — so recovery felt sluggish and abstract to working people. He should have gone Keynesian as fuck. 10/13
Result? Politically toxic optics:
“The government is forcing me to buy shitty private insurance that I can’t use”
beat
“The government is finally going after these scumbag insurance companies .”
Narrative vacuum = right-wing flying monkey craziness. 9/13
“The government is forcing me to buy shitty private insurance that I can’t use”
beat
“The government is finally going after these scumbag insurance companies .”
Narrative vacuum = right-wing flying monkey craziness. 9/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Result? Politically toxic optics:
“The government is forcing me to buy shitty private insurance that I can’t use”
beat
“The government is finally going after these scumbag insurance companies .”
Narrative vacuum = right-wing flying monkey craziness. 9/13
“The government is forcing me to buy shitty private insurance that I can’t use”
beat
“The government is finally going after these scumbag insurance companies .”
Narrative vacuum = right-wing flying monkey craziness. 9/13
Worse, they framed the ACA as “healthcare reform” rather than what it actually was: regulation of abusive insurance markets on behalf of citizens. 9/15
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Worse, they framed the ACA as “healthcare reform” rather than what it actually was: regulation of abusive insurance markets on behalf of citizens. 9/15
So Democrats watered policy down chasing chimerical bipartisan votes that never came — while losing precious momentum to lock in popular economic programs.
8/13
8/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
So Democrats watered policy down chasing chimerical bipartisan votes that never came — while losing precious momentum to lock in popular economic programs.
8/13
8/13
But by 2009, the GOP wasn’t fighting over ideas — they were fighting over power & identity.
Any Democratic success was unacceptable, regardless of whose policy DNA it carried. Mitch McConnell was explicit about this. 7/13
Any Democratic success was unacceptable, regardless of whose policy DNA it carried. Mitch McConnell was explicit about this. 7/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
But by 2009, the GOP wasn’t fighting over ideas — they were fighting over power & identity.
Any Democratic success was unacceptable, regardless of whose policy DNA it carried. Mitch McConnell was explicit about this. 7/13
Any Democratic success was unacceptable, regardless of whose policy DNA it carried. Mitch McConnell was explicit about this. 7/13
The biggest technocratic error: healthcare.
Because the ACA was built on conservative, Romney-era “market” design, the White House assumed Republicans wouldn’t oppose it as hard.
They confused shared policy blueprints with shared political incentives. 6/13
Because the ACA was built on conservative, Romney-era “market” design, the White House assumed Republicans wouldn’t oppose it as hard.
They confused shared policy blueprints with shared political incentives. 6/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The biggest technocratic error: healthcare.
Because the ACA was built on conservative, Romney-era “market” design, the White House assumed Republicans wouldn’t oppose it as hard.
They confused shared policy blueprints with shared political incentives. 6/13
Because the ACA was built on conservative, Romney-era “market” design, the White House assumed Republicans wouldn’t oppose it as hard.
They confused shared policy blueprints with shared political incentives. 6/13
Obama believed negotiation itself was leadership. But you don’t bargain with a party whose strategy is total obstruction regardless of policy content. 5/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Obama believed negotiation itself was leadership. But you don’t bargain with a party whose strategy is total obstruction regardless of policy content. 5/13
That moment required confrontation & mass mobilization:
• Massive public job creation
• Visible infrastructure investment
• Populist moral clarity
• Naming villains
• Treating obstruction as illegitimate
We got technocratic moderation instead. 4/13
• Massive public job creation
• Visible infrastructure investment
• Populist moral clarity
• Naming villains
• Treating obstruction as illegitimate
We got technocratic moderation instead. 4/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
That moment required confrontation & mass mobilization:
• Massive public job creation
• Visible infrastructure investment
• Populist moral clarity
• Naming villains
• Treating obstruction as illegitimate
We got technocratic moderation instead. 4/13
• Massive public job creation
• Visible infrastructure investment
• Populist moral clarity
• Naming villains
• Treating obstruction as illegitimate
We got technocratic moderation instead. 4/13
2009 wasn’t a “let’s compromise” moment. It was a New Deal-scale emergency: financial collapse, mass unemployment, hollowed infrastructure, and a radicalized GOP abandoning good-faith governance. 3/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
2009 wasn’t a “let’s compromise” moment. It was a New Deal-scale emergency: financial collapse, mass unemployment, hollowed infrastructure, and a radicalized GOP abandoning good-faith governance. 3/13
Obama was a great politician — but a poor president for his moment. His instincts were built for consensus politics, not for governing a country in systemic crisis. 2/13
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Obama was a great politician — but a poor president for his moment. His instincts were built for consensus politics, not for governing a country in systemic crisis. 2/13
Can’t believe there isn’t more notation of the I am hot for cock username. Was that the one he used for Grindr?
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Can’t believe there isn’t more notation of the I am hot for cock username. Was that the one he used for Grindr?
Best summer movie.
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Best summer movie.
Tim Curry works
a clown with red hair and a red nose is holding his hand to his head
ALT: a clown with red hair and a red nose is holding his hand to his head
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Tim Curry works