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Brian Temple
@notreadyforfm.bsky.social
Fanatical Father | Decent Husband | Relapsed Broadcaster | Blue Dot | Muscular Dystrophy Advocate | Headphone Snob
“You look like a pink nightmare!”
November 21, 2024 at 8:09 PM
This user’s profile picture? He and his toddler daughter. At church.

Somehow, this is OK to say and do now. This is what passes for Christian values. This is how we must live.

I hope God turns his heart - the real One, or Any One, just not the one he worships.
November 19, 2024 at 2:42 AM
The last interaction was a user scrolling back to a post where I was saying goodbye as I had to re-home my little dog. They chose that post to question my sexuality, because I had a small dog. There was another comment that is too foul to repeat.
November 19, 2024 at 2:37 AM
I’m willing to use my MAGA-flage to help - to have access to resources that could be denied to others, and be a double-agent, for want of a better term. I certainly hope I’m not the only one.

How do we do this?
November 17, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Hobos used to make marks on houses, so those who came after them would know where was safe, and who to avoid. Is there a system like that now, or do we need to invent one?
November 17, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Undocumented immigrants they designed a system around to keep and exploit them. Crafted a work visa system to bring them in. Immigrants didn’t steal jobs - businesses stole them. “Nobody wants to work anymore” was an excuse for low wages and lousy working conditions.
November 17, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Anyway, this will get you started learning about what came before, to - I hope - help you see the signs of a new, unbridled spoils system on the rise. Even when history doesn’t repeat itself, it still rhymes.

5/5

www.britannica.com/topic/spoils...
Spoils system | Definition, Examples, Significance, & Facts | Britannica
Spoils system, practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favors. Learn more a...
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November 17, 2024 at 4:46 AM
and would not have been nominated if there were not some plan to *ahem* unburden them of the accusations against them.

4/x
November 17, 2024 at 4:45 AM
and the destruction of the rule of law put in place to regulate it, would involve a complete and willful abandonment of reason. Gaetz, Gabbard, Hegseth, Homan, Huckabee, and more - a rogues gallery of Trumpers, many looking for an environment where they can make their own problems go away,

3/x
November 17, 2024 at 4:44 AM
“To the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy” - that’s William Marcy defending Andrew Jackson’s appointment of his cronies. This was a system set up to reward supporters and friends, and to institute graft. To deny the return of the spoils system,

2/x
November 17, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Pffft… That’s one of the more tame things I have for MAGAs.
November 13, 2024 at 3:39 PM