Jamesiroquai
@mistermagic.bsky.social
Fuck the populists and defund the police.
Anti-Confederate extremist, movie novelization collector
Anti-Confederate extremist, movie novelization collector
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Jamesiroquai
@mistermagic.bsky.social
· Dec 26
Populism punches up in theory and punches down in practice.
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JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
My first political memory - exactly 62 years ago right now, a 4-year-old boy trying to understand his mom's tears - is still the biggest event in my lifetime. We still (IMO) don't *really* know who killed JFK, but we know the public's trust was shattered. It's a straight line to today's mess
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
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Remember kids, Never Trumpers are temporary allies. If they could get President Romney, they’d throw Black voters under the bus In. A. Heartbeat.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Remember kids, Never Trumpers are temporary allies. If they could get President Romney, they’d throw Black voters under the bus In. A. Heartbeat.
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the left already had this discourse way back in the late 19th c with rising antisemitic nationalism and that maybe working class antisemitism was a proto class consciousness and engels of all people shot it down as backward wrecker shit and someone else coined 'socialism of fools' for it
Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought “Hey, what if people’s resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?” and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, it’s very much the reverse
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
the left already had this discourse way back in the late 19th c with rising antisemitic nationalism and that maybe working class antisemitism was a proto class consciousness and engels of all people shot it down as backward wrecker shit and someone else coined 'socialism of fools' for it
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turns out when racists get mad about "elites" they mean "Jews" not "capital"
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
turns out when racists get mad about "elites" they mean "Jews" not "capital"
This tracks with Trump's own conversion story on the issue of abortion. What if that kid didn't turn out to be a superstar? What if the kid was disabled?
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This tracks with Trump's own conversion story on the issue of abortion. What if that kid didn't turn out to be a superstar? What if the kid was disabled?
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I don't enjoy the fact that two such prominent flavors of "the left" are "we have to be militantly centrist and fuck over as many trans people as it takes" and "we have to be militantly leftist and fuck over as many trans people as it takes"
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I don't enjoy the fact that two such prominent flavors of "the left" are "we have to be militantly centrist and fuck over as many trans people as it takes" and "we have to be militantly leftist and fuck over as many trans people as it takes"
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There is shockingly little mea culpa or retrospective analysis in the political press about the absolute unmitigated disaster of coverage of DOGE still less than a year ago.
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
There is shockingly little mea culpa or retrospective analysis in the political press about the absolute unmitigated disaster of coverage of DOGE still less than a year ago.
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Me normal well adjusted making progress: vote blue no matter who
You a freak scaring the normies about to lose a primary: Trump is a bottom-up politician he speaks to the working class and Republicans have some points I trust them more than corporate dems also Obama was Black Ronald Reagan
You a freak scaring the normies about to lose a primary: Trump is a bottom-up politician he speaks to the working class and Republicans have some points I trust them more than corporate dems also Obama was Black Ronald Reagan
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Me normal well adjusted making progress: vote blue no matter who
You a freak scaring the normies about to lose a primary: Trump is a bottom-up politician he speaks to the working class and Republicans have some points I trust them more than corporate dems also Obama was Black Ronald Reagan
You a freak scaring the normies about to lose a primary: Trump is a bottom-up politician he speaks to the working class and Republicans have some points I trust them more than corporate dems also Obama was Black Ronald Reagan
Less Lizza
More Lizzo
More Lizzo
a woman in a blue nike jacket is dancing in front of a marching band
ALT: a woman in a blue nike jacket is dancing in front of a marching band
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Less Lizza
More Lizzo
More Lizzo
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Reading Narnia to the kids again and this part captures roughly what I think has gone on in the heads of GOP elites from 2016 on pretty well.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reading Narnia to the kids again and this part captures roughly what I think has gone on in the heads of GOP elites from 2016 on pretty well.
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Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
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There’s a lot going on here, and it stinks of the kind of people who call civil rights IdPol.
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There’s a lot going on here, and it stinks of the kind of people who call civil rights IdPol.
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And, like, while that quote can maybe be defended as stumbling while trying to walk a balanced line, if parsed carefully
RTing Ryan Grim's red-brown dreams is a lot less defensible
RTing Ryan Grim's red-brown dreams is a lot less defensible
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
And, like, while that quote can maybe be defended as stumbling while trying to walk a balanced line, if parsed carefully
RTing Ryan Grim's red-brown dreams is a lot less defensible
RTing Ryan Grim's red-brown dreams is a lot less defensible
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See I don't like this statement, not one bit
Ok, pretty funny of Zohran’s people to put out the absolute model of the sort of statement that drives Bluesky absolutely *insane* to be studiously ignored On Here because of the source
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
See I don't like this statement, not one bit
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Kamala Harris was dragged for being endorsed by and campaigning with Liz Cheney by the same progressives swooning over Mandani kikiing with Trump in the White House.
And when y’all ask why I say they got it…shit like that is why.
And when y’all ask why I say they got it…shit like that is why.
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Kamala Harris was dragged for being endorsed by and campaigning with Liz Cheney by the same progressives swooning over Mandani kikiing with Trump in the White House.
And when y’all ask why I say they got it…shit like that is why.
And when y’all ask why I say they got it…shit like that is why.
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Richard Scarry (American Children's Book Author and Illustrator, 1919–1994)
"The First Snow is Magical", 1963.
Gouache (an opaque Watercolor Paint) on Illustration Board.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt #Winter
"The First Snow is Magical", 1963.
Gouache (an opaque Watercolor Paint) on Illustration Board.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt #Winter
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Richard Scarry (American Children's Book Author and Illustrator, 1919–1994)
"The First Snow is Magical", 1963.
Gouache (an opaque Watercolor Paint) on Illustration Board.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt #Winter
"The First Snow is Magical", 1963.
Gouache (an opaque Watercolor Paint) on Illustration Board.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt #Winter
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a disgrace and a terrible example to our children. She won't be missed. Shame on the voters of GA-14 for pushing her onto us.
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a disgrace and a terrible example to our children. She won't be missed. Shame on the voters of GA-14 for pushing her onto us.
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The ‘kids these days’ narrative is so tired. Every generation says it, and studies show most of it is memory bias. I am a millennial and remember folks in MIDDLE school smoking, cussing, fighting and so on.
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The ‘kids these days’ narrative is so tired. Every generation says it, and studies show most of it is memory bias. I am a millennial and remember folks in MIDDLE school smoking, cussing, fighting and so on.
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the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
the takeaway from the Zohran Trump meeting is that Trump is a gullible fool who will temporarily bend to the last charismatic person he talked to.
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
Zohran played him perfectly but that doesn’t mean Trump is good now. He’ll go back to fascism tomorrow morning after he talks to Stephen Miller
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Took the kids to get vaccinated and stopped for Dairy Queen on the way home. Like real American families do.
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Took the kids to get vaccinated and stopped for Dairy Queen on the way home. Like real American families do.
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Amazing new frontiers in Murc's Law
Dems will run AOC to lose on purpose
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Amazing new frontiers in Murc's Law
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
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it’s sad but true. no other country really gives a fuck at all. we are the only ones capable of wearing the crown and wielding the sword, so we must.
Much like USAid, if the rest of the world wanted to replace what the US has done for the last 80 years, they would have been doing it already
people predicting a "post-American world" really over their skis
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
it’s sad but true. no other country really gives a fuck at all. we are the only ones capable of wearing the crown and wielding the sword, so we must.
Cheney lead to Pence who lead to Vance. Never forget.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Cheney lead to Pence who lead to Vance. Never forget.
Why are pro-lifers?
So my adoptive mom threw the"well you know, your mom could've aborted you" at me today because she's tired of my "attitude". I told her "I am pro abortion to the point of being fine with having never existed." That pulled her up short. I don't play this game. With anyone. 🥚
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Why are pro-lifers?