Leslie Biffle

@keskue.bsky.social

Just some guy who loves his family, his dogs, his cat, fantasy RPGs, language, music, art, literature, food, and good sleep, in roughly that order.

Imagine how many more people would believe politicians want to help workers if they would actually vote for the better group. USA workers gave Donald Trump the nod twice. This certainly highlights our desparation, but it reflects very poorly on our discernment.

Politico@politico.com · 6d ago

55% of Americans think politicians are just trying to win votes when they say they will help the working class, according to our new poll. And only one in four Americans who self-identify as working-class say politicians genuinely want to help them. 🔗 politi.co/3UNUjdv

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune

Doris Miller was a mess attendant 2d class aboard the USS West Virginia, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during Pearl Harbor. He then operated an anti-aircraft gun despite no gunnery training, officially shot down one plane, but others claimed four to six. Trump was a draft dodger.

I wonder what's to stop him bulldozing The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and rebuilding it bigger and gaudier as The Trump Center of Gilded Awesome Sauciness. Main thing he needs to do would be to start demolition. Thanks, John Roberts and MAGAts for cheapening absolutely everything.

Politico@politico.com · 2w ago

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is allowing Trump to press on with his White House ballroom project, granting temporary relief from lower-court rulings that were set to halt above-ground construction on Saturday.

A subsequent Democratic administration cleaning up Krasnov's Iran clusterF will be blamed for costs, death, destruction, property loss, reputational damage, and all the rest by people who don't remember the truth and people who never seem to care about it. It'll be a larger echo of Afghanistan.