RGRobins
@rgrobins.bsky.social
Retired historian (American Christianity), working EFL teacher living in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. Prone to random thoughts and scattershot expressions. Old-school liberal, moderately left-of-center in the current scheme of things. Married, father of 7.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Interesting that 95 Democrats voted to honor "the life and legacy" of the man who said this:
“The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates. . . . Again, everything Democrats love, God hates. If you’re a Christian that votes for the Democrat Party, you are voting for things that God hates.”
“The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates. . . . Again, everything Democrats love, God hates. If you’re a Christian that votes for the Democrat Party, you are voting for things that God hates.”
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Interesting that 95 Democrats voted to honor "the life and legacy" of the man who said this:
“The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates. . . . Again, everything Democrats love, God hates. If you’re a Christian that votes for the Democrat Party, you are voting for things that God hates.”
“The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates. . . . Again, everything Democrats love, God hates. If you’re a Christian that votes for the Democrat Party, you are voting for things that God hates.”
We should not celebrate the assassination of Kirk or anyone, but we shouldn't hide the facts, either. Kirk welcomed dissenting voices at his public debates, but he worked sedulously to identify silence those same voices through his organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
We should not celebrate the assassination of Kirk or anyone, but we shouldn't hide the facts, either. Kirk welcomed dissenting voices at his public debates, but he worked sedulously to identify silence those same voices through his organization. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Rich for the guy who just threatened Chipocalypse Now on a Democratic city to blame Democrats for raising the temperature in the room. Dangerous times, but Americans are fed up with a fascist minority--the MAGA cult--running roughshod over liberty, democracy, and the rule of law.
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Rich for the guy who just threatened Chipocalypse Now on a Democratic city to blame Democrats for raising the temperature in the room. Dangerous times, but Americans are fed up with a fascist minority--the MAGA cult--running roughshod over liberty, democracy, and the rule of law.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @Rattoons1776)
(From @Rattoons1776)
September 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @Rattoons1776)
(From @Rattoons1776)
Easy to laugh at the sheer buffoonery of Kim Jong Trump and his shameless sycophants, but if he succeeds in placing brownnosers, Witkoffs, and Lutnickers atop every level of America's judicial and enforcement agencies, you'll all be bowing and scraping, or else.
September 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Easy to laugh at the sheer buffoonery of Kim Jong Trump and his shameless sycophants, but if he succeeds in placing brownnosers, Witkoffs, and Lutnickers atop every level of America's judicial and enforcement agencies, you'll all be bowing and scraping, or else.
Trump's and the GOP's hypocrisy is old hat by now, but we should keep pointing it out: Per ProPublica, three Trump cabinet members--Sean Duffy, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Lee Zeldin--have mortgages like Fed Gov Cook's. Add TX AG Ken Paxton. Pulte, where are their criminal referrals?
September 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Trump's and the GOP's hypocrisy is old hat by now, but we should keep pointing it out: Per ProPublica, three Trump cabinet members--Sean Duffy, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Lee Zeldin--have mortgages like Fed Gov Cook's. Add TX AG Ken Paxton. Pulte, where are their criminal referrals?
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Notice that DJT, who fumes incessantly about any who have crossed him, never mentions Thomas Crooks! And since at least September 2024, no evidence of injury! Try asking ChatGPT the likelihood of an “ear struck, even superficially, by an AR-15 rifle healing with no trace of injury.” Fun answer!
August 31, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Notice that DJT, who fumes incessantly about any who have crossed him, never mentions Thomas Crooks! And since at least September 2024, no evidence of injury! Try asking ChatGPT the likelihood of an “ear struck, even superficially, by an AR-15 rifle healing with no trace of injury.” Fun answer!
American National Anthem, circa August 2025:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHo...
Trump's A Punk Ass Bitch (TPAB)
YouTube video by Steven Wilhelm
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
American National Anthem, circa August 2025:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHo...
Based on the best data I or ChatGPT could locate, these charts represent the top 10 ten cities (2024) and top 10 states (2023) in homicide per 100K population in the US of A. See a lot of red states and cities in red states, but don't hear anything about Trump sending troops to them!
August 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Based on the best data I or ChatGPT could locate, these charts represent the top 10 ten cities (2024) and top 10 states (2023) in homicide per 100K population in the US of A. See a lot of red states and cities in red states, but don't hear anything about Trump sending troops to them!
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Let me get this straight. Maga is energized--"So Back!!!"--because a major paper published evidence of Trump's close relationship with party bro Epstein, thus proving he wasn't Epstein's party bro after all? MAGA-faith is pure Huck Finn: “faith is believing something you know ain't true.”
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Let me get this straight. Maga is energized--"So Back!!!"--because a major paper published evidence of Trump's close relationship with party bro Epstein, thus proving he wasn't Epstein's party bro after all? MAGA-faith is pure Huck Finn: “faith is believing something you know ain't true.”
Despicable to point fingers, place blame, and politicize the Texas floods. California wildfires? Not so much.
July 8, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Despicable to point fingers, place blame, and politicize the Texas floods. California wildfires? Not so much.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico: Keep America Free!
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico: Keep America Free!
Picture says a thousand words . . . .
June 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Picture says a thousand words . . . .
Trump learns that voters for the Face-Eating Leopard Party don't want the leopard to eat THEIR faces: "farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them . . . .”
June 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump learns that voters for the Face-Eating Leopard Party don't want the leopard to eat THEIR faces: "farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them . . . .”
Bait and switch much? Trump terrified his gullible base with horror stories of violent killers he would arrest and deport. What we actually see are tactics the feds might adopt if those WERE the targets being used to round up menial laborers, mothers with children, and, yes, children!
June 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Bait and switch much? Trump terrified his gullible base with horror stories of violent killers he would arrest and deport. What we actually see are tactics the feds might adopt if those WERE the targets being used to round up menial laborers, mothers with children, and, yes, children!
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"[A]s of May, Republican-appointed district judges ruled against Trump 72 percent of the time." Trump v. Democratic-appointed judges? About the same: 80%.
That tends to happen when you do illegal shit, and do it in a heedless, slapdash way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
That tends to happen when you do illegal shit, and do it in a heedless, slapdash way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
Opinion | Why Trump Is Mad at the ‘Sleazebag’ Leonard Leo
www.nytimes.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"[A]s of May, Republican-appointed district judges ruled against Trump 72 percent of the time." Trump v. Democratic-appointed judges? About the same: 80%.
That tends to happen when you do illegal shit, and do it in a heedless, slapdash way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
That tends to happen when you do illegal shit, and do it in a heedless, slapdash way.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/o...
So, Senator Joni Ernst mocks people who objected to her comment for believing in "the tooth fairy," then wraps up by saying you don't have to die after all--you can enjoy "eternal . . . life" if you believe in "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
June 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So, Senator Joni Ernst mocks people who objected to her comment for believing in "the tooth fairy," then wraps up by saying you don't have to die after all--you can enjoy "eternal . . . life" if you believe in "my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Elon Musk in his far-out farewell sez the NYT lost a case it’s not a party too and that isn’t over anyway. Totally NOT on drugs!
June 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Elon Musk in his far-out farewell sez the NYT lost a case it’s not a party too and that isn’t over anyway. Totally NOT on drugs!
Trump erupting at the Federalist Society tells us everything we already knew—Trump doesn’t want any judge, no matter how conservative, holding loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to him. When he says “America First,” he means “Trump First.”
June 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Trump erupting at the Federalist Society tells us everything we already knew—Trump doesn’t want any judge, no matter how conservative, holding loyalty to the Constitution over loyalty to him. When he says “America First,” he means “Trump First.”
Don't you hate it when you tweak the formatting on an article and it throws a junk citation into your footnotes! You know, just trying to widen the margins a skosh and BOOM--peer reviewers pile on and it gets REJECTED! I feel ya, RFK, J.
May 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Don't you hate it when you tweak the formatting on an article and it throws a junk citation into your footnotes! You know, just trying to widen the margins a skosh and BOOM--peer reviewers pile on and it gets REJECTED! I feel ya, RFK, J.