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I don’t know which party this refers to and that saddens me
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I don’t know which party this refers to and that saddens me
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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
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You seem cool
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If we could only subtract progressives from the left,
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I loathe the American media
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
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Splendid
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
What kind of water
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree, but… I’m also a political cartoonist!
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
A great way to broach the subject of same-sex relationships with your kids is to have queer friends.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to buy books I would never read because your covers were on them
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
New purity test just dropped: candidate can’t throw scapegoats to the wolves
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
This baitpost has caught some magnificent fish
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I read that as Mormons and was baffled
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
This is what gave Democrats unassailable majorities for decades.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Guinea pigs are not raw vegetables
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!
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Take it from me: about halfway there you change your mind
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
It would be cool if Democrats got behind labor for a while! It was awesome back in the day
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Every time I see one of your posts I double check to make sure I’m following you
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a lot to unpack here and I am enjoying it
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Counterpoint: David Brooks has a phd in being a wind turbine
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair I wouldn’t have answered the door
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn’t have anything to say so I chose an emoji
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Jesus Christ it’s a picture of an elephant
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Disc horse! I figured it out
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m making that third one my profile picture soon and nobody can stop me
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry, Chuck. My autocorrect hates him
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Chuch Schumer
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🐘
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Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep forgetting to do that
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Not only am I a bot, I am a Russian AI bot. I also make pictures of sexy Gavin Newsom with a sword
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
The idiots who think this is brilliant are the same idiots who will blame Sanders when Newsom inevitably flames out
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I’ll bet he’s so upset about this
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
This is deeply pathetic
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Moneypenny was into scat
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
In my made-up world you are a talking squirrel
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly I need to figure this out. I’m dying from the news. I’m also in need of it
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
My father died of Parkinson’s and I love this for Mueller. That’s how little I think of this gutless bastard
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
$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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Inshallah
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Turn your colon into a cyclotron with this one trick
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Gallop
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
This whole thread was really engaging. Thank you. Also sorry about the cancer.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd rather he did something tangible
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
that is not a village it is a horse
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
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool. Hope it works out for you
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
‘Some issues’ are vulnerable human beings.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Then you're hallucinating.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
yes
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
They're better without the polish TBH
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Why would you try to justify this heinous abandonment of vulnerable people
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
Listen to the reporter here. Listen to her questions. They are straight-up fascist apologia
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s the kid’s name, Bologhneigh
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
“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?
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair that purse was always getting mislaid
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
A disarming performance by Cheney
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I saw this steamer in the theater
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
Superb
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
They truly sucked, it's inescapable
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Speak for yourself. I thrive on weed, honey, and cardigans
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
stop sending me nudes
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd delete this, as it could be misunderstood as a specific plan
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I allow it in character-limited fora. You need every letter you can get
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I assume this is about something and I support whatever it is
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
I am informed that no prominent person is in fact deceased.
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I found this anecdote both heartwarming and insane
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Oscar Wilde in his post punk era
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair enough
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I just burst into tears. Was not expecting that
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s haad likah sir or madam
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
How dare you
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Lot of libertarians here. But everybody who can count to threlve without taking their shoes off goes to Massachusetts anyway
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t know but rub one out for Jesus just in case
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
I still do. Vintage ones. And people stare at them and I explain they are writing instruments
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social)
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
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK Jr is an erection disguised as a man
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
Hodor (weeps)
Ben Tripp 老年火腿 (@bentripp.bsky.social) reply parent
And you envision these democrats doing this?