Twiddlebird

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

I’m taking a break from this platform. I don’t trust it, and it’s not safe here.

We’re now living in a time when free speech is only for certain kinds of speech, and I just can’t pretend to be what the owner and his minions want me to be.
So it’s best to not speak here at all✌️

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@TomRafflesJr @_WilliamGlad @ryangrim If he was plowed into, that poor baby might have had to stop filming and drop his phone to protect himself from that awful terrorist fully intent on killing him. Thankfully he didn’t have to do that, and was able to keep filming the entire time while firing his gun into her head.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@neeratanden @gtconway3d Having grown up in the evangelical and Pentecostal community, Presbyterian’s aren’t considered to be really Christian. No one but those in their own community are “saved”. All others are mislead by Satan and are going to Hell. It’s an exclusive club.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

Also, I’m now on Bluesky. I use the same name on both of these platforms: twiddlebirdlet.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

I’m taking a break from this platform. I don’t trust it, and it’s not safe here.

We’re now living in a time when free speech is only for certain kinds of speech, and I just can’t pretend to be what the owner and his minions want me to be.
So it’s best to not speak here at all✌️

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

BTW: you can find me on Threads.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@reedzeta @SoloFlow786 @brianstelter @LlamasNBC Oh I agree on all that, but if he lives out these next four years, I don’t think he’s leaving. There’s already talk about how he can’t do more than two *consecutive* terms, so that man’s not leaving until he’s carried out.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@jonhawks317 @Eli_403 @NickyFrank30 It’s definitely deeper but certainly includes that. I have family in N Texas, and no amount of outreach would work. Fox News and right wing media is ubiquitous for a long time. Religion and Republican are synonymous. Telling them to not vote Trump would be like forsaking Jesus.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@ZaidJilani @brianstelter Republicans fight any wage increases and tariffs aren’t going to do a thing to help prices. Both had plans for tax relief for lower wage earners, so I’m not seeing what the other guy brought to the table other than a big middle finger to everyone they wanted to collectively hate.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@prchovanec @MalcolmNance One of the first things that their media did was do away with the notion of a real verifiable truth. Truth became unknowable. Like religion. Faith. Once that happened, facts no longer mattered, and they ran with “alternative facts”.

A lie has became just another man’s truth.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@Redpainter1 Trump ain’t leaving that office except in a box. He already said he shouldn’t have left the first time, and YES, I think that if he lives through his next term he’ll try to stay. They’re already talking about two terms having to be consecutive, so…no. It’ll be in a box.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@daveweigel That’s not quite fair. They did focus on her a lot.

Traditional mainstream media were absolute wimps. They’d just focus on the horse race and totally failed to straight up say what was actually going on, and what was at stake.

Meet the Press was total garbage.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@Redpainter1 Really ANY international intelligence agencies, not just European. None of them will share intelligence with us now.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@Redpainter1 What’s ours is Russia’s now. Our European alliances are dead, and more importantly, that includes any of the European intelligence agencies. We are no longer going to be trusted, and that’s just a fact.

We are going to be so much more vulnerable to international terrorism now.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@EvilMopacATX

[a. rye @angela_rye]

Regardless of the outcome of the 2024 election…

Fascism
Racism
Sexism
Xenophobia
Misinformation

Have a CHOKEHOLD on more than half of this nation’s citizens. THAT is a sick reality.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@AmandiOnAir I’m convinced that man is not going to leave office unless it’s in a box. We’re stuck with him, and he’ll never see any justice for anything he’s done or is going to do.

Honestly, I fear what he’s GOING to do the most. I’m pretty sure we haven’t seen the worst of him yet.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@revid99 @RachelBitecofer Stephen Miller literally tweeted about unnaturalization, and not just of criminals, but anyone they don’t want. I guess she thinks it won’t be her because she voted for them, but we all know Stephen prefers those from the other side of the Atlantic.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@philipaklein @KyleKulinski No Gen X person is 64.

I wish they’d stop grouping the Gen Jones’s (1955-1965ish) with Gen X. Historically the Gen Jones cohort are the most conservative, btw.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@DavidAFrench @JohnJHarwood Biden not stepping aside earlier would have been better. Having a real reckoning for Democrats in a primary could have helped.

However, Harris left if all on the field. I don’t think she could have done better to change the outcome. She swung HARD, and I can’t fault her.

[Twiddlebird @twiddlebirdlet]

@Mikel_Jollett Harris will inevitably win the popular vote. It’s always just the spiteful mean hicks in very rural counties combined with clueless urban voters.

A bunch of chickens voting for KFC. Some of them are doing it without much thought, and others are angrily jumping into the fryer.