Stretchdad vs the Dicktocracy
@stretchdad.bsky.social
Dyed-in-the-wool liberal in a red corner of Colorado. Friendly geek with a modicum of social skills. Software development, aviation, biking, dogs, Grateful Dead and their offshoots. Not afraid of big words or big ideas.
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." -- FDR
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
I'm sorry, this is just fucking HILARIOUS!
A petard-hoist of the first order.
A petard-hoist of the first order.
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I'm sorry, this is just fucking HILARIOUS!
A petard-hoist of the first order.
A petard-hoist of the first order.
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
Oh, HELL no!!
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and the Fourteenth guarantees equal treatment under the law. So you CANNOT, MAY NOT, and MUST NOT put Christians ahead of anybody else.
Fuck you, JD.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and the Fourteenth guarantees equal treatment under the law. So you CANNOT, MAY NOT, and MUST NOT put Christians ahead of anybody else.
Fuck you, JD.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Oh, HELL no!!
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and the Fourteenth guarantees equal treatment under the law. So you CANNOT, MAY NOT, and MUST NOT put Christians ahead of anybody else.
Fuck you, JD.
The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion and the Fourteenth guarantees equal treatment under the law. So you CANNOT, MAY NOT, and MUST NOT put Christians ahead of anybody else.
Fuck you, JD.
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Streisand effect strikes again. I didn't even know they were going to air this. Now I know.
December 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Streisand effect strikes again. I didn't even know they were going to air this. Now I know.
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
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My take away here is that to maximize the productivity of our amazing billionaire class, we should be stripping them of all assets every time they exceed a critical mass of money.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My take away here is that to maximize the productivity of our amazing billionaire class, we should be stripping them of all assets every time they exceed a critical mass of money.
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The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐
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YUP: “Whether intentionally or ignorantly, ADL is providing cover to people who intend great harm to our nation."
Top ADL civil rights litigator quits, accusing group of being 'useful idiot' for Trump - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Joe Berman resigned in March and is making his resignation letter public for the first time now.
www.jta.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
YUP: “Whether intentionally or ignorantly, ADL is providing cover to people who intend great harm to our nation."
Who could listen to this drivel and think it was good in any way?
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Who could listen to this drivel and think it was good in any way?
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Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.
December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Birthright citizenship is a policy choice so central to our values and identity as a nation that we chose to amend the Constitution to protect it against the passions and prejudices of temporary majorities.
I see that SCOTUS is once planning to eliminate some campaign finance restrictions.
If we replaced our current one-person-one-vote system with one-dollar-one-vote, would anything be different? Feels like we're already there.
If we replaced our current one-person-one-vote system with one-dollar-one-vote, would anything be different? Feels like we're already there.
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I see that SCOTUS is once planning to eliminate some campaign finance restrictions.
If we replaced our current one-person-one-vote system with one-dollar-one-vote, would anything be different? Feels like we're already there.
If we replaced our current one-person-one-vote system with one-dollar-one-vote, would anything be different? Feels like we're already there.
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Trump 1 -> catch and kill tabloid stories
Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations
Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Trump 1 -> catch and kill tabloid stories
Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations
Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations
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“I just reached into your pocket and took $10.
Here’s $3.50.
Giving you this $3.50, remember, would not be possible if I had not taken the $10 from you.
Be grateful that I—an economic genius—was here to help you.”
Here’s $3.50.
Giving you this $3.50, remember, would not be possible if I had not taken the $10 from you.
Be grateful that I—an economic genius—was here to help you.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“I just reached into your pocket and took $10.
Here’s $3.50.
Giving you this $3.50, remember, would not be possible if I had not taken the $10 from you.
Be grateful that I—an economic genius—was here to help you.”
Here’s $3.50.
Giving you this $3.50, remember, would not be possible if I had not taken the $10 from you.
Be grateful that I—an economic genius—was here to help you.”
14th Amendment, Section 1:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
December 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
14th Amendment, Section 1:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The sadism is the point. (With apologies to Adam Serwer.)
41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The sadism is the point. (With apologies to Adam Serwer.)
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
Double jeopardy applies once a trial verdict has been rendered.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Double jeopardy applies once a trial verdict has been rendered.
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He fell asleep during his own cabinet meeting. 😂😂😂😂
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Night Night For Narcoleptic Napoleon
Don Snoreleone needs a nap.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
He fell asleep during his own cabinet meeting. 😂😂😂😂
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Hoo boy.
Trump: "Under Boot Edge Edge - another grossly incompetent. Get on his bicycle, ride to work. What they do is they take the fiber optics & they take fiber, try to hook it into copper. And fiber and copper don't mix. You can't do it...you saw that by the helicopter crash. You saw that into the plane"
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hoo boy.
A huge "moon dog" was visible in western CO last night. Or maybe the eye of Sauron? One or the other.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A huge "moon dog" was visible in western CO last night. Or maybe the eye of Sauron? One or the other.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate