Greg
@slobak.bsky.social
This is a great list, and I think addresses a lot of the structural problems with our Democracy that have really messed with our ability to make it representative and fair.
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is a great list, and I think addresses a lot of the structural problems with our Democracy that have really messed with our ability to make it representative and fair.
Everything they do is wrong but takes advantage of the justice system being a process, not a fiat. This would go to the courts and lose and buy them some more time until the next gambit, repeat until they find a new hold on power (or we win).
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Everything they do is wrong but takes advantage of the justice system being a process, not a fiat. This would go to the courts and lose and buy them some more time until the next gambit, repeat until they find a new hold on power (or we win).
Without morals, they stretch every system to its breaking point for their gain. They sit around and think “ok now how can we stop the release?” “Well, what if there’s an investigation open?” So they open one, no regard for any process or what’s right. This is why we try not to elect psychopaths.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Without morals, they stretch every system to its breaking point for their gain. They sit around and think “ok now how can we stop the release?” “Well, what if there’s an investigation open?” So they open one, no regard for any process or what’s right. This is why we try not to elect psychopaths.
Reporter: Got it, definitely your brain.
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Reporter: Got it, definitely your brain.
Maybe a step for the next Congress would be to actually sign and ratify the Rome Statute and submit to the ICC, allowing arrest and trial for American perpetrators of international war crimes.
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Maybe a step for the next Congress would be to actually sign and ratify the Rome Statute and submit to the ICC, allowing arrest and trial for American perpetrators of international war crimes.
The bar for the next administration is going to be reeeeeeeally low, unless we maintain it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The bar for the next administration is going to be reeeeeeeally low, unless we maintain it.
Funny, he says this all the time about everything illegal. "I didn't do it, I won't do it, but I could, but I'm not going to because I don't want to, but if I did I am allowed to, I'm allowed to do it, people do it all the time, and they don't want me to, but I could, I could do it if I wanted."
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Funny, he says this all the time about everything illegal. "I didn't do it, I won't do it, but I could, but I'm not going to because I don't want to, but if I did I am allowed to, I'm allowed to do it, people do it all the time, and they don't want me to, but I could, I could do it if I wanted."
Can we get volunteer workforces to help remove the regalia of fascism? Can we donate or do something productive with the refuse? If we beat this it will be a grand milestone we should mark with solidarity.
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Can we get volunteer workforces to help remove the regalia of fascism? Can we donate or do something productive with the refuse? If we beat this it will be a grand milestone we should mark with solidarity.
You would be SHOCKED to learn that a reporter recently actually asked Leavitt "which part exactly is a hoax?" to which she responded with a word salad about the Democrats because obviously.
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
You would be SHOCKED to learn that a reporter recently actually asked Leavitt "which part exactly is a hoax?" to which she responded with a word salad about the Democrats because obviously.
lol then the system works! but seriously this actually could happen.
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
lol then the system works! but seriously this actually could happen.
Isn't it amazing .. I can kinda handle when we elect people I just disagree with. But the people we put in charge sometimes have the most stupid AND immoral takes, it's unreal how we've elevated them.
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Isn't it amazing .. I can kinda handle when we elect people I just disagree with. But the people we put in charge sometimes have the most stupid AND immoral takes, it's unreal how we've elevated them.
I bet if someone created a kind of space to crowdsource it, we could assemble something pretty big. Even just a spreadsheet with a few columns:
1) accusation
2) details+citations for accusations
3) citations for Dems being innocent of charges
4) instances+citations for GOP being guilty
1) accusation
2) details+citations for accusations
3) citations for Dems being innocent of charges
4) instances+citations for GOP being guilty
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I bet if someone created a kind of space to crowdsource it, we could assemble something pretty big. Even just a spreadsheet with a few columns:
1) accusation
2) details+citations for accusations
3) citations for Dems being innocent of charges
4) instances+citations for GOP being guilty
1) accusation
2) details+citations for accusations
3) citations for Dems being innocent of charges
4) instances+citations for GOP being guilty
Data shows most SNAP recipients are actually working (Amazon and Walmart employ 10s of thousands of ppl .. on SNAP .. because wage is not enough to live on), or elderly, or children. There's not -zero- fraud, but there's so little it's dwarfed by any of Trump's 72 golf days THIS YEAR.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Data shows most SNAP recipients are actually working (Amazon and Walmart employ 10s of thousands of ppl .. on SNAP .. because wage is not enough to live on), or elderly, or children. There's not -zero- fraud, but there's so little it's dwarfed by any of Trump's 72 golf days THIS YEAR.
Maybe he’s getting ready to squeeze out a really big Truth?
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Maybe he’s getting ready to squeeze out a really big Truth?
cha-ching. maybe our fund should charge 3 and 30 because we're that much smarter than everyone else.
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
cha-ching. maybe our fund should charge 3 and 30 because we're that much smarter than everyone else.
but we need to come up with an obviously shitty and immoral externality that we very publicly give zero fucks about
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 AM
but we need to come up with an obviously shitty and immoral externality that we very publicly give zero fucks about
It's a total own-goal, I mean he RAN on this platform. Otherwise he might have given it the standard Trump treatment like "I dunno, we'll look into that, very strongly. We'll tell you more in two weeks." and then ignored it. But this was like .. the ultimate projection? In so many ways.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
It's a total own-goal, I mean he RAN on this platform. Otherwise he might have given it the standard Trump treatment like "I dunno, we'll look into that, very strongly. We'll tell you more in two weeks." and then ignored it. But this was like .. the ultimate projection? In so many ways.
I admit I don’t have deep knowledge about that specific topic, your assertions for which seem fairly arguable vs. objective, and also mostly irrelevant to a conversation about *scrolling up slightly* the ubiquitous GOP complicity to misogyny and fascism. Best wishes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I admit I don’t have deep knowledge about that specific topic, your assertions for which seem fairly arguable vs. objective, and also mostly irrelevant to a conversation about *scrolling up slightly* the ubiquitous GOP complicity to misogyny and fascism. Best wishes.
No need. I’ve invested enough in this conversation to reveal it just yields a lot of smugness and pugilism. Hopefully that saves enough other people from bothering to engage with you to make that worthwhile. Be well.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
No need. I’ve invested enough in this conversation to reveal it just yields a lot of smugness and pugilism. Hopefully that saves enough other people from bothering to engage with you to make that worthwhile. Be well.
100 years in wouldn’t be enough years. Capital punishment would not be “enough”. But dying in prison, ending his life there, knowing justice caught him so he can ponder it on his death bed and be a symbol to would-be tyrants, that is still worth pursuing. Don’t give up.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
100 years in wouldn’t be enough years. Capital punishment would not be “enough”. But dying in prison, ending his life there, knowing justice caught him so he can ponder it on his death bed and be a symbol to would-be tyrants, that is still worth pursuing. Don’t give up.
These examples speak to Trump’s unraveling power (btw Johnson is the biggest Trump stooge, right?) but don’t refute the mountain of evidence to the contrary. The way you’re cherry-picking small examples of things to snarkily claim victory on a broad point isn’t really honest discussion, sorry.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
These examples speak to Trump’s unraveling power (btw Johnson is the biggest Trump stooge, right?) but don’t refute the mountain of evidence to the contrary. The way you’re cherry-picking small examples of things to snarkily claim victory on a broad point isn’t really honest discussion, sorry.
I meant resistance within the GOP to the current abomination that is MAGA. And not sure what you’re talking about with the media, you’re just making wrong assumptions about my media diet based on very little.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I meant resistance within the GOP to the current abomination that is MAGA. And not sure what you’re talking about with the media, you’re just making wrong assumptions about my media diet based on very little.
Yep, I'm aware, except in the case of MAGA they have had total control of the GOP since 2016, with any visible resistance being a tiny minority. The whole GOP votes in lockstep with the MAGA agenda. So for now, at least .. they're politically equivalent, right?
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Yep, I'm aware, except in the case of MAGA they have had total control of the GOP since 2016, with any visible resistance being a tiny minority. The whole GOP votes in lockstep with the MAGA agenda. So for now, at least .. they're politically equivalent, right?
I think you missed where Dems did negotiate. A LOT: they added 190 Republican-proposed amendments. I was watching, it was a 1+ year long political process. Only 1 House GOP voted for it in the end, okay. It wasn't jammed in, and it also gave 30M people insurance: many are only alive today bc of it.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I think you missed where Dems did negotiate. A LOT: they added 190 Republican-proposed amendments. I was watching, it was a 1+ year long political process. Only 1 House GOP voted for it in the end, okay. It wasn't jammed in, and it also gave 30M people insurance: many are only alive today bc of it.