@piracci

Trying to maintain some free will against my genes though entropy always wins Most posts at @piraccim.bsky.social. Here to hold Tillis/Budd to account

Orange county, NC, USA
Joined December 2008
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Replying to @dccommonsense
If somehow every non-Christian were thrown out of the USA the next battle would be between the โ€œrealโ€ Christians and the heretics and deluded followers of โ€œthe anti-Christ popeโ€. THIS is the poison the Founders wished to avoid importing from the โ€œoldโ€ world to the โ€œnewโ€.
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I canโ€™t be the only one who was wondering about the damage to our bases. This should be investigated up the ying yang by Congress. (I understand no investigations will occur until Dems are in control)
LEAKED PHOTOS Hegseth isnโ€™t coming clean on the extent of the damage to American assets overseas. Now weโ€™re seeing the leaked photos. Hundreds of structures damaged or destroyed. Nearly 60 aircraft damaged or lost. Up to $3.7 BILLION in equipment losses. And a U.S. service member says Americans are โ€œunawareโ€ of how bad it really is. We deserve the truth about this war.
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Reminds me of those mass suicide events by religious cults
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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So true. And nothing says crazy then when you refer to yourself in the third person.
Insanity. Thanks again, Trump voters. Every day you curse us with a brand new dose of corruption, incompetence and stupidity.
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one of the great front pages of all time.
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Wow. What a rookie mistake by @WhatleyNC This is one reason that I don't vote for someone whose never been elected to a public office. @RoyCooperNC's campaigns never make these mistakes.
bang up work from the @WhatleyNC campaign!
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IMO, voters can more clearly see what the governor of their state is doing, vs. sending a US Senator to Washington, D.C. to be just one of many, to enact laws that affect them for sure, but in a much less direct manner.
You see this in North Carolina, which elected Josh Stein, who is slightly to the left of Roy Cooper, who beat Mark Robinson despite Trump winning North Carolina. Larry Hogan won reelection even during the 2018 Blue Wave. People like a steady hand as governor.
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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontariโ€™io, which, appropriately, means โ€œthe lake is beautiful, the lake is bigโ€. The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario โ€“ then, now and always.
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Alternative headlines: GOP Rewrites the Facts on Cooperโ€™s Crime Record NC Republicansโ€™ Revisionist History on Roy Cooper and Crime The NC GOPโ€™s Desperate Rewrite of Roy Cooperโ€™s Crime Record NC Republicans Retreat From Their Own Crime Narrative
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Michael Piracci๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿซœ๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
-It is still Lake Ontario -It is still the Gulf of Mexico -It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. -He is still a pedophile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Michael Piracci๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿซœ๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿด๓ ต๓ ณ๓ ฎ๓ ฃ retweeted
Iโ€™m happy to share this because I donโ€™t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact. Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you. Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity! Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government. Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income. 99% of people won't forward this to their timelinesโ€ฆ..will you? Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
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Ah. So THIS is Trump Derangement Syndrome
Jason Selvig: โ€œWhatโ€™s Donald Trumpโ€™s greatest accomplishment in his first year and a half?โ€โ€จโ€จTrump supporter: โ€œTrumpโ€™s done a lot of things. Number one, a lot of people donโ€™t realize, he got our country back because weโ€™ve been under the reign of Great Britain the last 125 years, they destroyed the evidenceโ€ JS: โ€œWait, weโ€™ve been under the reign of Great Britain?โ€ TS: โ€œThatโ€™s why King Charles come here, he thought he was going to manipulate Donald Trump. And Trump went along with him cause thatโ€™s who he is. But thatโ€™s what the 250 years was really about was we got our country back. You just gon have to research just like I did. Itโ€™s trueโ€
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Sad, but true
Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.โ€ "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.โ€ "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton
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