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created November 18, 2024

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That out of his own pocket?

1/9/2025, 1:15:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Really? How's this: Things are bad, yes, but at least we don't have that brown/black woman running things.

31/8/2025, 12:26:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Acceptable advice from Poor Outcome Kennedy to all Americans as to how to avoid "experts" would have been to say that the best path to long-term health is to take charge of it with better personal choices--diet, exercise, etc. No one likes to rely on experts---until they have to.

31/8/2025, 11:56:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gut hunch medicine is the only medicine I trust.

31/8/2025, 11:28:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe this is a jest.

30/8/2025, 7:24:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

"AI history says..." lol

30/8/2025, 6:54:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

"Would-be informants go silent out of fear?"

30/8/2025, 6:42:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup. Pass the word.

29/8/2025, 10:04:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Evidently impending homelessness and hunger outruns hardened racism.

28/8/2025, 7:58:08 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

"Uneducated infants?" I'm thinking more like submissive serfs.

28/8/2025, 7:55:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

In ordinary times, I would agree with you. These are not ordinary times.

28/8/2025, 7:05:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, here's and idea: Instead of reducing emissions to combat global warming, let's accelerate them at warp speed, and you know--see what happens.

27/8/2025, 7:38:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The wind farm guys..."

27/8/2025, 5:36:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Burgum looks like he just fell out of a Thomas Nast cartoon, ca. 1882.

27/8/2025, 5:29:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Sherman. Grant wasn't even the best general in the Union Army.

27/8/2025, 4:45:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is what the Founders intended: every man their own virologist.

26/8/2025, 10:48:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a battle of attrition between us and AI.

26/8/2025, 4:24:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was a 10-year-old boy I found Aquanet to be one of the more trustworthy hairsprays for "throwing flame" with a lighted match. Nothing beat "Final Net," however: "Controls like a gel, styles like a mousse, and throws flame like a Saturn V rocket!"

26/8/2025, 9:40:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Terrible job market gets much worse. Buckle thy seatbelt.

25/8/2025, 3:00:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Milton Friedman meets crypto. Did Chicago catch up with America, or did America catch up with Chicago?

24/8/2025, 7:15:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're talking about the editors and the publishers, not the reporters.

24/8/2025, 7:22:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Crazy lady.

24/8/2025, 12:43:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance possesses all the charm and demeanor of a Home Depot district manager.

24/8/2025, 12:28:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently you've never seen "Casablanca."

23/8/2025, 7:43:38 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Utah is troubling. Little known fact that Salt Lake City has more Marxist, prison-affiliated gangs per capita than any other major American city. Nothing nastier or more unsettling than encountering a latter- day saint with a smiley in one hand and a well-worn copy of Das Kapital in the other.

23/8/2025, 11:49:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

A real debate by the congenitally credulous, you mean.

23/8/2025, 11:15:24 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Most of those were pre-wars.

23/8/2025, 3:24:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

I like this answer.

23/8/2025, 3:22:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pro-crime Trump cavils over "criminals."

22/8/2025, 3:42:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet another punchable face...

21/8/2025, 6:33:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Junior-varsity troll unexpectedly asked to suit up for the varsity and...thud.

20/8/2025, 4:35:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

More bot or more troll?

20/8/2025, 4:14:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

We're hoping you'll get a job and help pay for it. Otherwise your mother and I are going to have to ask you vacate the attic.

20/8/2025, 4:13:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Beat it, botsky...

20/8/2025, 4:10:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, yes, the bots and trolls...know no rest.

20/8/2025, 4:08:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Merch shop today? Home Shopping Network studio tomorrow. Always be thinking...escalate, escalate, escalate...

20/8/2025, 3:56:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, non-MAGA folk: When MAGA disinformationists spew this sort of shit, they are not speaking to you. You're not the audience. They know what you know. They know you know this is bullshit. MAGA bandleaders merely chumming the waters in service to the bloodthirsty brethren.

20/8/2025, 3:07:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

That is my view from Massachusetts as well.

20/8/2025, 2:10:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a big table.

18/8/2025, 8:11:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep in mind that this is also a jobs program for young unemployed or underemployed young men. An opportunity to crack skulls in the streets for a living is a very attractive occupation for Americans in troubled times, and Donald Trump approves.

17/8/2025, 7:26:28 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

yup

16/8/2025, 10:52:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

They are not fake ICE agents. They are domestic terrorists.

16/8/2025, 10:49:50 PM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

So, when they cash the $170 billion check this is something we all get to experience---eventually?

16/8/2025, 10:48:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Kirn now runs with Taibbi (podcast) and impressively has become as disingenuous and dishonest as Taibbi. Kirn also has had some embittering experiences in his professional life, and it shows.

16/8/2025, 4:33:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Most people really don't realize that explaining Trump is really this easy.

16/8/2025, 4:23:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Can anyone here recommend any published work that addresses the relationship between global warming, energy systems, reverse engineering, technological civilization, population, food supply, uneven carbon emissions from nations, etc. That concludes, from the numbers, that we simply can't halt it?

16/8/2025, 4:13:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

At what juncture do we rise up and straightaway dispatch these motherfuckers?

16/8/2025, 3:27:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh, no. Not the type--at all. The Sulzbergers frown on any kind of sex unless it's absolutely necessary.

16/8/2025, 3:24:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. But don't shoot the reporters. Or just nick'em behind the ears. NYT reporters all leave the building with strict marching orders. The New York Times is and always has been an editor's news organization. The editors call the shots. With a little help from the Sulzberger's, of course.

16/8/2025, 11:51:37 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Inglorious Bastards time for the Richie Riches?

15/8/2025, 5:04:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds fun. Is the event sold out?

15/8/2025, 5:00:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

What, exactly, does this entail? What is "product." Curious.

15/8/2025, 4:36:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Troll? Daft?

15/8/2025, 12:44:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Wrong.

15/8/2025, 12:17:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Early reports say the condiments fled the crime scene, whereabouts unknown.

15/8/2025, 10:53:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the stuff like this that doesn't register for the 99% that's real scary.

15/8/2025, 10:31:42 AM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

A King's "edict" "decreeing" America's gun owners disarm themselves for the good of the nation would unquestionably be something to bring a lawnchair, blankets, picnic basket and a full cooler to.

15/8/2025, 10:27:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

It'll be interesting to watch the court proceedings when the inevitable happens---when a couple of masked, faux ICE stalkers encounter the wrong home or business owner and find themselves face-to-face with the business end of a shotgun. Very surprised it hasn't already happened.

15/8/2025, 10:16:13 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

You can't and that's the point.

15/8/2025, 10:09:03 AM | 44 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Because cats don't chase and bite people. Rather straightforward.

15/8/2025, 9:55:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

You just listed the reason that they're out there.

14/8/2025, 3:51:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Thirty years ago Klein would have been writing news releases for the Nabisco marketing department.

13/8/2025, 1:30:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

So return fire you big fuckin' pussy.

13/8/2025, 11:07:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Forgot about you. Clark got his 4th star in March/45, little more a month before the war ended. Technically you're correct. Other five generals were 4-stars either before entering the war or shortly thereafter and served most of the war as 4-stars. You probably know this wanted to correct my error.

13/8/2025, 11:03:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Or he's just another mediocre mind in a sea of mediocre minds who has the good fortune of being born into a time and space where mediocre minds rule the roost. Let us speak plainly. These people are merely roaming careerists without careers.

13/8/2025, 10:46:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

The random chud "thinker" like Hazony is here to occasionally lend MAGA a patina of scholarly heft, not to rally troops. And, if practical, furnish rationales for shooting just about anyone. America's own road to perdition is now being paved with the nonsense of degraded minds like Hazony's.

13/8/2025, 10:40:00 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh--and it's all they want and all they need from him.

13/8/2025, 8:04:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty much...

13/8/2025, 8:02:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes indeed.

12/8/2025, 2:34:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All this shit is Miller.

12/8/2025, 2:13:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

I've bailed on two $4-bucks-a-month subscriptions in the last 6 months. One of those things that's easily affordable but then poses the question: Why do I need this again?

12/8/2025, 1:02:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Times is now officially Trump-grade senile.

12/8/2025, 12:52:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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After the ICE battalions hit the streets, DC will be all "red" and soon thereafter, the 51st state.

11/8/2025, 5:55:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He thought about it, but concluded that seizing the LA police department and sicing the national guard on DC but offer more amusement.

11/8/2025, 4:18:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"bedlam"

11/8/2025, 4:06:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"30 days" is MAGA-speak for "as long as we want."

11/8/2025, 4:03:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They only do drugs one night, and then pursue hookers the next night. They alternate. These are good boys.

11/8/2025, 4:00:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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bot

11/8/2025, 2:32:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We do recognize a bot when we encounter one, however.

9/8/2025, 2:33:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wow, that is an amazing chart! All new numbers!

8/8/2025, 2:10:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have all the coal plants up there been retired?

6/8/2025, 11:48:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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?

6/8/2025, 11:39:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The new fascists don't look anything like the old fascists.

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6/8/2025, 10:23:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beyond pathetic.

6/8/2025, 9:58:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA or MAGA-like.

4/8/2025, 3:47:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this meant for someone who isn't me?

3/8/2025, 1:17:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You will be not paid for this lachrymose comment.

3/8/2025, 12:45:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

That same argument can be made by a MAGA. I didn't vote for Harris because she enabled genocide (a truly disingenuous position). So instead you vote for the candidate who looks at genocide and sees improper zoning? Though, he will be making the world safer for cheesy hotels. That your candidate?

3/8/2025, 12:40:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

How many? The number is in the millions. Most of them are trolls or bots from Kremlin-engineered bot farms scattered across Russia and elsewhere and engineered and controlled by the Kremlin. One of the tells is a strident earnestness augmented with disdain for the party they support. Easy to spot.

3/8/2025, 12:25:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture asastryker.bsky.social (@asastryker.bsky.social) reply parent

So, Harris is letting the nation down by speaking metaphorically? By decompressing from a grueling campaign? Are you cavilling with the choice or quantity of programming? Fewer cooking shows and more documentaries? A very callow comment. I see no one is completely immune from the MAGA virus.

3/8/2025, 12:12:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm game.

3/8/2025, 11:43:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup

2/8/2025, 4:31:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup

2/8/2025, 4:30:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup

2/8/2025, 4:30:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No.

2/8/2025, 2:21:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next up: The Oval Office repurposed as an upscale Airport concierge lounge.

1/8/2025, 10:24:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"rich, Corinthian leather..."

31/7/2025, 11:45:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Donald Trump for the 2025 National League MVP.

31/7/2025, 7:27:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the start to Trump's plan to rotate all cabinet members through all cabinet departments on a permanent basis. Duffy has two departments to offset the buddy system that Bondi and Lutnick will use as they shuttle between DOJ and Commerce.

31/7/2025, 3:03:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your sentence structure suggests your Uncle was already a 4-star general when he waded ashore at Omaha. He later attained the rank, I see now. Your Uncle had an impressive career. My father hit Utah (4th Div) two weeks after your Uncle hit Omaha.

31/7/2025, 4:41:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view