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Preston MacDougall<p>What <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> will <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> issue this week without any oversight by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/BananaRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BananaRepublicans</span></a> controlling <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> ? 🤔 </p><p>This cartoon by Christian Bloom published in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> after the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> was certainly prophetic!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TrumpTaxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTaxes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Recession</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Free_Press</span></a></span> Americans should’ve sounded the alarm 🚨 during the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> when <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> said “I love the poorly educated!”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/fasism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fasism</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SaveAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveAmerica</span></a>.</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>Jen Bush in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NewHampshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewHampshire</span></a> during his ‘low energy’ <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> presidential primary ‘rally’ before the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> : “Please clap!” </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> that remained as ‘hostages to decorum’ for the entire litany of lies of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SOTU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SOTU</span></a> address: “Smile and applaud, or I’ll gut <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> and feed it to my <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a>.” <a href="https://rollcall.com/2025/03/05/trump-and-democrats-face-off-during-raucous-speech/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rollcall.com/2025/03/05/trump-</span><span class="invisible">and-democrats-face-off-during-raucous-speech/</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@bhahne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bhahne</span></a></span> Have you had success with cult members or drug addicts (physiologically the same trap?) using such entreaties? </p><p>I have not. </p><p>It seems that only physical interventions, or them hitting ‘rock bottom’, will lead them out of the darkness.</p><p>But please keep up your <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> to the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> - that started as a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SlowMovingCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlowMovingCoup</span></a> with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TrumpRussiaCollusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRussiaCollusion</span></a> during the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a>.</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>The surge in estranged husbands, fathers and grandfathers from <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> women and families that started after the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> will skyrocket in the wake of the ongoing <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> by the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/misogynistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogynistic</span></a> nexus of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> cult and tyranny of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/broligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchs</span></a>. <a href="https://time.com/7201531/family-estrangement-us-politics-epidemic-essay/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7201531/family-estran</span><span class="invisible">gement-us-politics-epidemic-essay/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DoNotCollaborateWithFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotCollaborateWithFascists</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> or their <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/usefulidiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usefulidiots</span></a>.</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@osma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>osma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ruhr.social/@t_mkdf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>t_mkdf</span></a></span> Good discussion ⬆️. 👏 </p><p>Two points: First, use of the word “we” implies that there was no foreign interference in our <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> and our <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2024election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2024election</span></a>. There was <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TrumpRussiaCollusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRussiaCollusion</span></a> as stated even in the un-redacted <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MuellerReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuellerReport</span></a>. </p><p>Second, there is no such thing as a “<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a>.” 🤷🏻‍♂️</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>After almost all the votes 🗳️ are in, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> has won the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2024election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2024election</span></a> without a majority, just a plurality! <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-harry-enten-popular-vote_n_673c61cce4b0d2fb999aa784" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/donald-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-harry-enten-popular-vote_n_673c61cce4b0d2fb999aa784</span></a></p><p>Yes, he got more votes than <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> , but the margin was LESS than the margin that <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> beat HIM by in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a>. 😂 <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RedWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedWave</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mandate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mandate</span></a> my ass! <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Finder of Impossible Things<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journal</span></a>, Day 1690<br>Sunday, 03 November 2024<br>Ukraine War: Day 995<br>Hamas-Israel War: Day 392<br>Mass shootings in the USA in 2024: 445<br>Days until the 2024 Election: 2 (yikes)</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memorial</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NYCmarathon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYCmarathon</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unreal</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteBlue</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p>Actor Ed Helms spoke at a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> rally in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> and noted how the fragile ego of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> reminded him of his famous ‘wall-punching’ 🤜 scenes in “The Office.”</p><p>He also noted the chaos that his character in “The Hangover” woke up to in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LasVegas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LasVegas</span></a>. He hopes that the results of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2024election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2024election</span></a> will not be even greater chaos (with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> ) than the 4 years of constant chaos after <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> WON the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2016election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2016election</span></a> , or the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/January6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>January6th</span></a> chaos after he LOST the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/2020election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2020election</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>