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Ben Tripp 老年火腿

@bentripp.bsky.social

Writer, designer, artist. Dog enthusiast

created November 15, 2024

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I don’t know which party this refers to and that saddens me

2/9/2025, 1:34:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But there is ground to be seized here. Make this a big deal. Put Republicans on the defensive. Or, you know, do nothing per usual

2/9/2025, 12:29:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's fairly clear something is happening with Trump. Democrats, please press for answers immediately. Don't fart around talking about egg prices. The advantage is yours. For fuck's sake, take it

2/9/2025, 12:21:03 AM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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You seem cool

1/9/2025, 9:31:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we could only subtract progressives from the left,

1/9/2025, 9:24:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I loathe the American media

1/9/2025, 8:31:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kids in the press, are you seriously going to ignore Trump’s inexplicable absence and the tsunami of rumors going around about his health? After all that crap about Biden? Come on

1/9/2025, 8:00:50 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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In France I was eating a chunk of local blue and it broke in half like a geode and inside was a blue universe. Which I ate

1/9/2025, 7:56:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The party-Line Democrats of today are Reagan Republicans of the 80s. They have their team and their heroes and they love to yell at those dumb jerks on the other side. But they have no ideological core. It’s all sports to them. Hate the other team that plays the exact same game

1/9/2025, 7:30:31 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Splendid

1/9/2025, 7:23:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)

I’m reading that a gorilla wearing boxing gloves used Rudy Giuliani’s nuts as a speed bag. @gronk is this true

1/9/2025, 7:18:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What kind of water

1/9/2025, 7:16:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I agree, but… I’m also a political cartoonist!

1/9/2025, 7:13:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A great way to broach the subject of same-sex relationships with your kids is to have queer friends.

1/9/2025, 7:12:05 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to buy books I would never read because your covers were on them

1/9/2025, 3:55:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New purity test just dropped: candidate can’t throw scapegoats to the wolves

1/9/2025, 3:54:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

This baitpost has caught some magnificent fish

1/9/2025, 3:53:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

I read that as Mormons and was baffled

1/9/2025, 3:52:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is what gave Democrats unassailable majorities for decades.

1/9/2025, 3:50:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guinea pigs are not raw vegetables

1/9/2025, 3:48:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

I think having decades of ironclad majorities would wear these folks out. I mean look at all the post-New Deal Democrats. They died!

1/9/2025, 3:41:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The best thing about this movie (other than inspiring CHUD) is the trailer. Seek it out. It has all the energy of a Mormon hygiene PSA

1/9/2025, 3:40:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Take it from me: about halfway there you change your mind

1/9/2025, 3:37:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would be cool if Democrats got behind labor for a while! It was awesome back in the day

1/9/2025, 3:36:00 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every time I see one of your posts I double check to make sure I’m following you

1/9/2025, 3:34:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is a lot to unpack here and I am enjoying it

1/9/2025, 3:33:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Counterpoint: David Brooks has a phd in being a wind turbine

1/9/2025, 3:30:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair I wouldn’t have answered the door

1/9/2025, 3:28:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve been having a back-and-forth with somebody on here for over an hour and have descended to random replies just to see how he’ll take it. If he turns out to be autistic I’ll feel terrible

1/9/2025, 2:17:04 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t have anything to say so I chose an emoji

1/9/2025, 2:14:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jesus Christ it’s a picture of an elephant

1/9/2025, 2:11:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disc horse! I figured it out

1/9/2025, 2:10:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m making that third one my profile picture soon and nobody can stop me

1/9/2025, 2:09:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry, Chuck. My autocorrect hates him

1/9/2025, 2:08:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

Chuch Schumer

1/9/2025, 2:07:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🐘

1/9/2025, 2:07:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.jellisonfuneralhome.com/obituaries/w...

1/9/2025, 1:23:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In France, where I mostly live, I don’t think this has ever happened even once. We Americans need to keep present to how totally insane this is

1/9/2025, 1:22:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I keep forgetting to do that

1/9/2025, 1:08:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not only am I a bot, I am a Russian AI bot. I also make pictures of sexy Gavin Newsom with a sword

1/9/2025, 1:07:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s a wry response that conveys the absurdity of the comment above it. It also reflects the futility of further discourse in this thread. And yet here we are

1/9/2025, 12:44:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a statement intended to express that, in the author’s fantasy world, you are a talking squirrel. It’s not that complicated

1/9/2025, 12:31:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The idiots who think this is brilliant are the same idiots who will blame Sanders when Newsom inevitably flames out

1/9/2025, 12:30:10 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah I’ll bet he’s so upset about this

1/9/2025, 12:28:01 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is deeply pathetic

1/9/2025, 12:27:35 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Moneypenny was into scat

1/9/2025, 12:23:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my made-up world you are a talking squirrel

1/9/2025, 11:53:17 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly I need to figure this out. I’m dying from the news. I’m also in need of it

1/9/2025, 11:51:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My father died of Parkinson’s and I love this for Mueller. That’s how little I think of this gutless bastard

1/9/2025, 10:24:53 AM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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$50k ain’t middle class money. That is no-braces-for-the-kids working class retire at 80 money. I hate this journalistic fantasy world in which it’s still 1978

1/9/2025, 10:16:13 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Inshallah

1/9/2025, 10:09:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Turn your colon into a cyclotron with this one trick

1/9/2025, 10:06:14 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

Gallop

1/9/2025, 9:59:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This whole thread was really engaging. Thank you. Also sorry about the cancer.

1/9/2025, 9:59:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd rather he did something tangible

1/9/2025, 1:27:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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that is not a village it is a horse

1/9/2025, 1:22:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

That's right. But sea lioning questions are a great way to 'gotcha' people, which I suspect was the intent here

1/9/2025, 12:15:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't know. I'm not him. But I am disappointed that he chose to assert these things that are not supported by meaningful action.

1/9/2025, 12:14:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cool. Hope it works out for you

31/8/2025, 11:34:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. And the ground we cede we will not get back, historically speaking. So I draw a line at leaving already-embattled minorities to the wolves. Realpolitik kills.

31/8/2025, 10:31:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The flaw in this argument is ‘if Dems want to win back working people’. What they want is for working people to shut up and behave.

31/8/2025, 10:21:35 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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‘Some issues’ are vulnerable human beings.

31/8/2025, 10:17:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

Then you're hallucinating.

31/8/2025, 9:39:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent

yes

31/8/2025, 9:38:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're better without the polish TBH

31/8/2025, 9:36:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why would you try to justify this heinous abandonment of vulnerable people

31/8/2025, 9:34:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Listen to the reporter here. Listen to her questions. They are straight-up fascist apologia

31/8/2025, 9:20:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s the kid’s name, Bologhneigh

31/8/2025, 7:58:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“House Democrats are fighting for livable wages, quality education, good health care, and a secure retirement.” This is categorically untrue and I am disappointed that you said it. You have been an effective voice. Why lie for the paymasters and give that up?

31/8/2025, 7:49:07 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair that purse was always getting mislaid

31/8/2025, 5:50:11 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)

Money now makes money on its own. It doesn’t need labor. So it deports the lowest-level workers. Working class drops down a rung, fills the gap. AI decimates the professional class, it drops down a rung. Then load up the country with debt, trash it, and sell the land. This is all happening now.

31/8/2025, 5:46:49 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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A disarming performance by Cheney

31/8/2025, 1:28:13 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I saw this steamer in the theater

31/8/2025, 12:02:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s interesting that we still ask ‘is America an authoritarian state’. It has been for a long time. But norms kept that tendency overseas, not at home (for the most part). Now that it’s unveiled domestically, norms be damned, we’re finding out. And we still can’t believe it.

31/8/2025, 11:15:50 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Superb

31/8/2025, 10:42:53 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They truly sucked, it's inescapable

31/8/2025, 10:39:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I got Covid before they knew what it was. The lung guy kind of had to say 'good luck'. I was so grateful for the vaccine

31/8/2025, 12:38:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Speak for yourself. I thrive on weed, honey, and cardigans

31/8/2025, 12:34:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's the thing, isn't it? Procedural politics got us here. Substantive politics are the only path out, and I don't see much appetite for that above the state level

31/8/2025, 12:33:30 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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stop sending me nudes

30/8/2025, 8:40:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd delete this, as it could be misunderstood as a specific plan

30/8/2025, 8:28:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I allow it in character-limited fora. You need every letter you can get

30/8/2025, 8:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nobody did anything about guns after Sandy Hook. Nobody went to jail for the Iraq war, the mortgage crisis, etc. No universal health care. Roe v. Wade wasn't codified. Trump walked. The list goes on forever. This is why people don't vote. They pay their taxes and get nothing from it but worse off.

30/8/2025, 8:24:40 PM | 10 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I assume this is about something and I support whatever it is

30/8/2025, 5:55:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am informed that no prominent person is in fact deceased.

30/8/2025, 5:53:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am a member of the guy economy and am saddened by its imminent demise. One chainsaw could make the rounds of an entire town in my younger days. Now everybody just has a really shitty chainsaw of their own

30/8/2025, 5:48:15 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I found this anecdote both heartwarming and insane

30/8/2025, 5:45:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oscar Wilde in his post punk era

30/8/2025, 5:44:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fair enough

30/8/2025, 5:41:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just burst into tears. Was not expecting that

30/8/2025, 1:03:00 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s haad likah sir or madam

30/8/2025, 12:54:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How dare you

30/8/2025, 12:53:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lot of libertarians here. But everybody who can count to threlve without taking their shoes off goes to Massachusetts anyway

30/8/2025, 12:52:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just got served one of those animal videos with that ‘a thousand years’ song. A Labrador shows up with a white duck in its mouth. Heartwarming mommy montage of various similar ducks to show all is well, etc. But this is a domestic duck. That dog ripped off somebody’s duck. It’s a crime video

30/8/2025, 12:48:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know but rub one out for Jesus just in case

30/8/2025, 12:37:16 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I still do. Vintage ones. And people stare at them and I explain they are writing instruments

30/8/2025, 12:35:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel terrible for all the recovering alcoholics who have to go through the inevitable death of Papa Punkin completely dry. I intend to get supremely gassed

30/8/2025, 12:33:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr is an erection disguised as a man

30/8/2025, 12:28:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hodor (weeps)

30/8/2025, 12:27:13 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And you envision these democrats doing this?

30/8/2025, 7:01:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view