Jim O'Neill

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Retired access technology specialist, living in central pennsylvania.
I am an avid reader, also interested in politics.
trying to find out how to figure out mastodon.
Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery, they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows. Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.
"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said, after catching his breath, "You scared us half to death! We thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?"
"Those fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name!"
Get ready to rock out like a boss. I'm a little teapot gets a much needed overhaul.

As you watch MAGAs jockey to cut critical safety nets, remember, America isn't $36T in debt because the poor rely too much on welfare and pay too little tax—but because billionaires pay too little tax and rely too much on corporate welfare.

Tax billionaires. Protect working people. Save democracy.

“All of our children deserve a president who will inspire them to learn from history, not a tyrant who will try to erase it.”

- Lessie Benningfield Randle, known as Mother Randle. She is one of the last known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and at 110 years old, she cast her ballot for Kamala Harris.

“I don’t know how much longer I have left, but if this is my last ballot, then I’m grateful that it’s for Kamala Harris.”

#VoteBlue

Hello people of the US, Germany here.

We have a bit of experience with a convicted felon and radical right-wing extremist becoming leader of our country.

Our advice: Don't do it.

People argue against excluding #Trump from the election because he needs to be defeated at the ballot box.
Trump‘s response:
While discussing the U.S. economy and its auto industry, Mr. Trump promised to place tariffs on cars manufactured abroad if he won in November.
„Now, if I don’t get elected, (…) it’s going to be a blood bath for the country” and “I don’t think you’re going to have another election, or certainly not an election that’s meaningful.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-speech-ohio.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU0.uZ3U.qDlXMjHWM9mI&smid=url-share
Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses

In a caustic and discursive speech in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump once again doubled down on a doomsday vision of the United States.

The New York Times