Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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Our government calls the heroes fighting to save our planet 🌎 eco-terrorists and protects the corporations that are destroying our planet more every day.
@GreenFire …and let me think, which political party is busily throwing up voting obstacles? “Free and fair elections, HEAVEN FORBID!”, thinks wriggling GOP brains, “that won’t get me elected.” 💩
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Exactly right, voter turnout went even lower after Obama and that is our biggest obstacle to progress in the USA.
@GreenFire A reminder, 8 years under Obama and the GOP spent that time nashing their teeth, and convulsing with rage. Not being critical of your post.
What we see today is an acceleration of the #GOPBreakingBad trend. If we as a Nation can’t get our act together soon, and toss the Right Wing Yahoos out, then maybe it’s a good thing to be closer to the end than the prospects of what young adults will face under fascism. My logic used to tell me they could not last this long, but here we are. 😪
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That would be a good bumper sticker, "Bring Back Boring Politics"
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Ok, I’m 77 years old. Has our political scene always been as dirty as it is now? Revenge impeachments, MTG and Boebert spouting absolute garbage every day. No interest in helping Americans , just vengeance for their leader. SCOTUS corruption, ridiculous investigations. I think I’ve been naive. 8 years of no drama Obama spoiled me!
@GreenFire I’m out of touch. How long can you run your home, at least the fridge, and AC on batteries? I’ll investigate. Thanks!
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Now, you can install batteries for the price of a whole-home generator that won't require for the methane distribution system to be running and get a rebate back from the government.
#Houston #ClimateChange Oppressive 100F heat for weeks, with the prospect of months to come, The garden relies on us and watering to stay alive. The #Texas electrical grid is reported under stress, I hate thinking about electrical failure and loss of AC, pondering why I failed to install a natural gas Generac System. Is it too late? At the time I was just thinking of Hurricanes. 🤔
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@Npars01 @Huntn00 of course, vote against the worst in the general election, vote for the BEST, in primaries ALWAYS vote in primaries. Vote for using ranked choice voting and instant run off for local & state elections, concentrate on campaign finance reform & in finance & economic transparency & reform because if politicians are for sale the odds of winning on any other issue will be low
On one of my favorite #NPR shows, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (Saturday and Sunday morning), a news quiz program.
https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/
I heard a disturbing thing, of all things, about the origin of pink lemonade, at least an origin somewhere (Texas), involving a bucket of water that had been used to wash a circus performer’s red tights. The pink lemon aid was a hit! 😬
Found this after: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/06/21/pink-lemonade-lore/
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The Wagner Group’s mutiny (or was it an insurrection? or a coup attempt?) will be hard for Putin to dismiss as a Western plot, as Yevgeny Prigozhin was entirely his creation.
Putin has, until now, been giving something of a free hand to ultra-nationalist opponents of the war in #Ukraine, for reasons that are a mystery to outsiders.
The events of the last 24 hours expose weakness in his regime.
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Kamala Harris found her voice on abortion rights in the year after Dobbs. Now she's making it central to her 2024 message
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/politics/kamala-harris-abortion-rights
#CNN #KamalaAbortionRights #2024Election #ReproductiveJustice #Women'sRights #SupremeCourtDecisions #Politics #News
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No.
“Man who the defrauds children’s charities, sexually assaults women, attacks America and tries to overturn democracy dominates annual gathering of religious conservatives”
That’s the headline
Tax the churches.
Tax the churches.
Tax the churches.
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@voron @Npars01 I think that the Dems can’t be who they want to be, at least they feel that way, because they are worried about the country split down the middle, and want to continue to hold office. They are too cozy with the Corporatocracy. I was very disappointed when a majority of them voted pro-Iraq war/invasion based on a pack of lies. However in a binary system and a broken-bad GOP, no way I’m voting for anti-democracy, fascist leaning lunatics on the Right.
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@Npars01 I can’t say the Dems are blameless on this one.
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A rational immigration policy package has been known for decades, hell Regan even supported much of it
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1. increase & streamline legal immigration
2. Increase penalties & enforcement on EMPLOYERS
3. Create a guest worker program with a path to citizenship
Neither party will champion it because the rich WANT a vulnerable underclass of workers
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Dappled green lattice
Sunlight streams through leafy boughs.
Early morning peace.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
