Mike - Resist the Red Idiots πŸ’–πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βšΎοΈπŸ–• (@Mike_Olmstead) header
Mike - Resist the Red Idiots πŸ’–πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βšΎοΈπŸ–• (@Mike_Olmstead) profile picture

Father, Grandpa, friend, public servant, volunteer, Blue Wave, lifelong Twins fan, classic rock addict, cynical optimist. Surviving cancer, so far, so good!

Chanhassen, MN
Joined May 2014
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Amazing! I got this close to their car without guns being pulled! The guys weren't wearing masks so I could clearly hear them tell me to have a good day.
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Joined by over 1000 of my neighbors in front of Tom Emmer's District office in Chaska. MN this afternoon. I heard this comment many times: "I had no idea that everyone was as mad as I was."
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A 4 minute video to show the damage 4 more years of Trump will do.
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This is 70. Not as enticing as a middle-aged woman you has aged well in a beautiful dress or tight jeans, but a healthy and active male. Happy 70th to me.
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Excuse me for stating the obvious truth.Β  I do so out of love for this country and the pain of learning, once again, that children have been killed by gun violence. If we as a country want to find the collective will within ourselves to change our gun laws, let’s stop playing silly political games.Β  Show the carnage on the news.Β  Show the American people the dead children and others who have been struck down.Β  Show us what guns and bullets can do to the human body. The news media need to be brave enough to let Americans see what slaughtered children look like. Otherwise, I fear that too many perceive gun violence as an abstract; a story that’s repeated nearly every day to numbing effect. When I was a teenager, there was a war in Vietnam.Β  In the beginning, no one paid much attention to this problem in a foreign land until the media shouldered the responsibility and showed America how our sons were being slaughtered.Β  Once those images were shown on TV, there was overwhelming demand for thatΒ  war to be ended immediately. I say this as a father and a human being, with deep empathy for the parents whose children have had their lives ended so suddenly and so senselessly: Show America the carnage. I am not being callous, and I know it will be painful to see.Β  But, sad to say, I think it’s the only way to shock America out of its stupor. #GunControlNow #GunViolence #Empathy #gunlaws #change
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β€œDo all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” - John Wesley #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation
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68 years old and outdoors most of my life, but I had never seen a Hummingbird Moth until tonight. The moth entertained me for 15 minutes as it had its way with my petunias.
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What is a song that makes you crank it when you hear it? Mine are: You May Be Right - The Cars Key West Intermezzo - John Mellencamp Freeze Frame - J Geils
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True fighters!!!!
Join us 7/31 & 8/1 @ 11AM in the steps of the Capitol to fight for the passage of the #PACTAct! @jonstewart @TheProblem
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canada must feel like they live in the apartment above a crackhouse .
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Finally, a spring night to sit out on the deck. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend all!
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Fuck this illegitimate SCOTUS. Fuck the Republican party that enabled this. And if you don't care that this decision makes women second-class citizens, fuck you too. We don't have the luxury of time--we need to fight NOW. It's Democrats vs. Fascists in 2022. Vote accordingly.
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