Bertrand Tussle

Things I like but know little to nothing about:
Woodworking, Outdoor Cooking, Fishkeeping, DnD, Philosophy, Politics, F1, Comedy.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@PiscoLitty After tonight's debate, would you clarify for me: are you advocating for fixing the sc imbalance, or recreate it but for Democrats?

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

How is @CAgovernor not calling it "reciprocal" gerrymandering?

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I wonder how many Americans who consider themselves politically aware could pass a civics test about how our government is supposed to function. I wonder how many Americans who ostensibly talk about politics as part of how they make a living could. Our anti-education/anti-knowledge culture has come for our constitutional society. And people who consider themselves "patriotic" celebrate dismantling the very aspects of our Framer's work that those exquisite-minded guys were most proud of. Co-equal branches of govt and checks and balances. Not bugs...but this system's greatest features. We are a politically hypocritical society and this will cost us. Can you imagine if the Biden/Harris/Hillary Clinton crowd were doing and saying the sort of things Trump is saying now? How many of you Trump fans would be ready to take to the streets? "That's what the 2d Amendment is for Dan"...how many times have I been told that by the "defenders of our Constitution"? For 40 years you've been saying it to me! So...it's only a problem if THEY'RE doing it? One side gets a pass at assaulting the constitutional wall that protects us all, and the other doesn't? How many of you would say "they're only joking" or "don't worry, it's a negotiation position" if Kamala Harris said these things? Serious question. You'd be just fine with it? No big deal? And I'm sure the right-wing talker's ecosystem would be too? All of this is going to come back to bite us. All of it. We are shortsighted, propagandized, political hypocrites. And we simply refuse to apply the same standards to both sides.
And while I'm ranting: half of this problem is the fault of the Democratic Party. I've never seen such a toothless, feckless, directionless, passion-free group of poor political candidates in my life (and I was of voting age in the Mondale/Dukakis years). Only their most radical wing shows any passion or life at all...and that's the group that absolutely, positively can't win a general election.
When the great historian in the sky writes about this era the "other party" in a two-party system deserves a ton of the blame too. Everyone over 70 years old in that party should resign right now. What Trump is trying to do in our system now is exactly what the Founders designed safeguards to prevent. And that's why Trump is targeting the safeguards.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

I don't know how to react to this. Except to say what I always say: American Presidents have too much power and our Constitutional Framers would be aghast at this. So would Ben. If there is a Ben.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@SenMullin So how did they announce that plan in 2024 if it came from this tariff position? Logan act, or fraud? https://t.co/a6SHzVQQ0h

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@tiredofthisall6 @blucat57 @RepJasonCrow No, I won't have to make you unsafe. All it'll take is your neighbor tipping off the police that you're harboring illegals in your home for armed service members to come knocking down your door. If you resist, you'll be killed. Or do you think they'll just get it right 100%? rofl

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@Nancy0734214434 @blucat57 @RepJasonCrow All 10 million don't work? Are we on to the part of the argument where we just start making things up? Can you show me any study that shows illegals with lower employment rates than the legal population? Or should I just take your word for it?

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@Nancy0734214434 @blucat57 @RepJasonCrow We agree, they're illegal. We disagree about what to do about it. You want to spend tons of money to violently remove them, I want to spend less to fix the immigration system without inviting an occupying army to our city streets. Basic prudent decent solutions.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@Nancy0734214434 @blucat57 @RepJasonCrow Everything is a cost benefit analysis, it's true they're a net expense to the US tax payers for them being here, but you want to spend much more than that cost to deport them. To the detriment of our labor force, and consumer pricing at that. The economic argument isn't sound.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@blucat57 @RepJasonCrow All to the detriment of his own supporters, who will go on to live in a less safe country, with a further degraded media landscape, paying more for the same goods they elected him to address the prices of in the first place.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

Finished listening to @WesleyLHuff on @joerogan. Really interesting! Joe suggested having Wesley back with an oppositional guest and it obviously has to be @CosmicSkeptic.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The teachers agreed among themselves and left the school like this after the final bell rang. 😂😂

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

@darwintojesus If you're determined to do a bad thing, on his view that's explained by a lack of character on your part. Adding some randomness to your theory of choices doesn't help your case.

[Bertrand Tussle @RobGoSlow]

Hey @netflix, give us back Triviaverse.

[Avi Bitterman, MD @AviBittMD]

None of the data presented here are from drug company sponsored trials. We've been singing the song of better food for decades, as food companies perpetually make food more like addictive drugs. It's a battle worth having, but it will take time we simply don't have. Time to get real.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Mother duck adopts orphaned ducklings without any hesitation 🥺❤️

[Okie (and USA) Political Memes @OKPoliticalMeme]

Ryan Walters’s version of Christianity

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

If you claim to be a leader in any way—political leader, thought-leader, business leader, religious leader—and you don’t stand up and say clearly that America must keep this man away from power, then you’re no kind of leader at all.

[Dark Hillary @HillaryIsComing]

“Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya!”