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Pacific Observation Post

@carldownunder.bsky.social

Ex-pat American serviceman 🇺🇸 living Down Under. Retired engineering professor; cat 🐈‍⬛ owned; be polite or F off. Follow me at your own risk ⚠️

created November 18, 2024

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Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you 🙏

1/9/2025, 11:38:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

What does Musk have to gain by lying about this? apple.news/Aztrp3xV3TLu...

1/9/2025, 9:53:54 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Elon Musk shares post on X with incorrect attendance figures for Australia’s anti-immigration protests - Guardian Australia

1/9/2025, 9:50:44 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀

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1/9/2025, 1:36:59 AM | 6200 1685 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Wales maybe but that Farage asswipe and his Nazi buddy Tommy Something make England a budding toilet of racists

1/9/2025, 7:58:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Even cartoonists can see how stupid this all is. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/9/2025, 7:51:39 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Step on a crack, break Rudy’s back. Again

1/9/2025, 7:44:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

Cricket would still be alive if you hadn’t shot ‘em, puppy killer.

31/8/2025, 5:15:20 PM | 343 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taylor Noakes (@taylornoakes.com) reposted

Now I understand why Atwood didn't issue a statement to the CBC This is so much better Plus, knowing the CBC, they'd have Kevin O'Leary on to "provide balance" #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

1/9/2025, 2:13:58 AM | 205 50 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin Louis (@erinlouis666.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 4:41:25 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

MSM wants to stand on the side of nothing

1/9/2025, 7:33:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

What is it with white people? Maybe we deport them to America or Russia

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1/9/2025, 7:31:03 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Dribbling old racist fool taking advantage of his dotage. He knows no one younger than him will snot him like he deserves just because he’s a withered old crank.

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1/9/2025, 7:21:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

"If you don’t want to tear it down and start from scratch, you’re part of the problem. If you *do* want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, you’re hired." Not much more to it than that.

31/8/2025, 8:00:59 AM | 1301 332 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

They will just gloss over it just like they’d prefer to gloss over democracy

1/9/2025, 5:54:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

I did. Autocorrect is a dog that you have to keep your eye on

1/9/2025, 5:19:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Where is this? V_nice

1/9/2025, 4:55:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s pray he doesn’t try to take us with him.

1/9/2025, 4:54:52 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

That’s nice how it works. If the journal allows that they no longer have a journal

1/9/2025, 4:47:37 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeesh

1/9/2025, 4:35:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

He called for his own private medical care. Who the hell does that?

1/9/2025, 4:34:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hart Cunningham (@hpsc24.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 1:22:57 PM | 1468 472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture "How" (@myoneandonlykat.bsky.social) reposted

My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.

31/8/2025, 7:56:42 PM | 8736 1213 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t get it either

1/9/2025, 4:22:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Drop the bomb then

1/9/2025, 3:11:32 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Better get rid of this kind of person before it’s too late and whatever civilization we currently have is lost

1/9/2025, 3:10:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 💙 MaryH 💙 (@maryh58.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 12:53:44 AM | 69 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Detroit Breakdown (@detroitbreakdown.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 10:27:13 PM | 8363 1452 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted

This is what Trumpism does. It drives our allies, enemies and adversaries closer together.

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1/9/2025, 12:34:42 AM | 1447 409 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.

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1/9/2025, 12:15:41 AM | 14386 2742 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Lying down in the caddy shack hoping that last Big Mac passes

1/9/2025, 12:18:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture That Preppy Black Girl (@tmwillia.bsky.social) reposted

Oh, no! Now ICE is sad 😔😔

31/8/2025, 3:52:50 AM | 546 210 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted

Not a single developer who invests in this nor tourist who visits will keep their souls. This is the most cursed venture since we colonized the US.

31/8/2025, 11:28:09 PM | 336 145 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Legend (@fubarrockchick.bsky.social) reposted

Looks like a couple of pics are old ones #wherestrump

31/8/2025, 1:21:37 PM | 485 108 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Perfection.

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31/8/2025, 10:23:22 PM | 3767 690 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

1.5 Hegseths

31/8/2025, 10:46:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Complete crazy

31/8/2025, 10:45:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing

31/8/2025, 10:28:12 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2

31/8/2025, 7:52:23 PM | 7757 3307 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a scurrilous accusation. Just the type of ‘blame everyone’ but excuse my own immoral behavior we’ve come to expect from an illegitimate Israeli government

31/8/2025, 10:15:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

31/8/2025, 2:55:45 PM | 14796 4076 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.

31/8/2025, 7:08:22 PM | 5445 1463 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

If Netanyahu would refrain from intervening in other countries politics and media you might have a point.

31/8/2025, 10:04:52 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Volatile Mermaid (@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social) reposted

Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?

31/8/2025, 9:42:00 PM | 4999 780 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Delaney (@robdelaney.bsky.social) reposted

Ah fuck my lawyer got drunk & kidnapped a woman & then her husband went to save her but he hit my lawyer’s car from behind when my lawyer slammed on the brakes to pull in to a gas station to buy boner pills 🇺🇸🗽

31/8/2025, 9:27:28 PM | 2670 293 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Church is over Time to imprison some brown children Pass it on

31/8/2025, 9:55:52 PM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

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31/8/2025, 8:01:08 PM | 16835 6029 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

States Rights vs Federal Tyranny

31/8/2025, 8:23:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted

This is the way

31/8/2025, 7:11:26 PM | 10979 2765 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted

I Like Robert Reich.......

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31/8/2025, 9:54:21 AM | 21 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christine Hallquist (@christinehallquist.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 2:39:58 PM | 254 100 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture A.J. (@andynear70.bsky.social) reposted

Two peas in a pod.

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30/8/2025, 1:08:12 PM | 526 193 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Frank Conniff (@frankconniff.bsky.social) reposted

So many people gleefully wishing and hoping for the death of our President. What does that say about humanity? There's hope for it.

30/8/2025, 5:48:33 PM | 3391 383 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Good question

31/8/2025, 10:28:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jessica 🍉 (@itsmrsrabbittou.bsky.social) reposted

Hoping for a certain headline 🤭

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30/8/2025, 1:11:10 PM | 162 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mister (@2snarky.bsky.social) reposted

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

31/8/2025, 5:45:33 AM | 8696 2306 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted

Spock and Kirk Time Traveled to 2025 Earth, and sensing the urgency of now,while not disregarding the Prime Directive, Want The Files Released......

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31/8/2025, 8:27:12 AM | 1755 590 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Same but university engineering academics who while bright in one dimension, were often dim in others. There are a lot of smart assholes in this world

31/8/2025, 9:07:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TARDIS Express Employee #26 🍉 (@whattheforklucas.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 2:16:19 AM | 123 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was there they were down to 11

31/8/2025, 8:19:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Union Thug™️ (@theunionthug.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 4:15:20 AM | 606 145 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture naugtynonnie.bsky.social (@naugtynonnie.bsky.social) reposted

31/8/2025, 3:33:25 AM | 457 259 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Not as many as you’d expect but more than you’d like. Just the right size for a cavalry charge

31/8/2025, 8:09:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

But you’ll meet the same kind of assholes wherever you go. Just saw Mad as a Hatter Katter yesterday spout all kinds of racist shite live on Telly.

31/8/2025, 8:06:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Same here

31/8/2025, 8:05:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Uncle Joe Stalin would be proud

31/8/2025, 7:35:56 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve been lucky. Now not so much. Worry is optional because it changes nothing but the worrier.

31/8/2025, 7:33:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess you need to get out more 😆

31/8/2025, 7:24:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

I only spent $4.50 for a Fahrenheit

31/8/2025, 7:20:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe his fake face fell off and he doesn’t want anyone to see that he’s Lucifer.

31/8/2025, 7:19:33 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Just hanging

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31/8/2025, 7:18:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Americans aren’t big on shame

31/8/2025, 7:15:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

He’s made it clear he does not care or support all Americans.

31/8/2025, 7:12:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 6:38:23 AM | 273 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

And I will grovel to your black soul to be a somebody.

31/8/2025, 6:28:35 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hillbilly Highlander (@hillhighlander.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 6:58:56 PM | 91 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”

30/8/2025, 4:31:15 PM | 21802 6558 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 (@debpixcom.bsky.social) reposted

🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles

Gavin Newsom passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment today by reciting
30/8/2025, 7:22:38 PM | 15502 3539 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

What a ridiculous person.

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31/8/2025, 1:28:47 AM | 20586 3658 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Same old nasty little white supremacists “Promotions for the protest say: “It’s time to take our country back. It’s time to defend our heritage. It’s time to defend our culture. STOP MASS IMMIGRATION NOW.””

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31/8/2025, 3:31:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 (@emgolden.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 6:44:14 AM | 374 68 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture liefhebberv.bsky.social (@liefhebberv.bsky.social) reposted

Fotograaf Debbie Parker legde deze "bliksem" vast in West Virginia.

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30/8/2025, 4:55:18 PM | 715 75 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

CHICAGO…

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30/8/2025, 5:50:19 PM | 40190 9845 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 1:03:47 PM | 37059 11616 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SpicyPisces89 (@spicypisces89.bsky.social) reposted

WTAF?!! Also, NEVER a ‘supreme leader’. Not even ‘President’. Top US Representative & the biggest loser.

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30/8/2025, 11:36:01 AM | 5 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted

Jasmine Crockett is one Woman I Believe,and I Believe In Her......

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30/8/2025, 9:29:55 AM | 3440 1282 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Larry Hochman (@larryhochman.bsky.social) reposted

Their freedom of religion allows them to believe what they want, including twisting customary understandings of Christianity into something unrecognizable. My freedom of (and from) religion allows me to call out behavior no benevolent deity would ever endorse...and oppose intellectual monkey shit.

29/8/2025, 10:56:19 PM | 597 114 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

They look great. Sad I have type two otherwise I’d definitely be your friend 🥸

30/8/2025, 11:36:12 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jess m. 🌷 (@jametc.bsky.social) reposted

here's the thing, don't feel bad about enjoying this moment because if he is still alive, he is now watching literally the entirety of the english speaking globe celebrating and laughing at the thought of him dying, and THAT is worth it alone

30/8/2025, 4:57:54 AM | 6867 1521 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social) reply parent

They don’t need any votes apparently, let alone Democrat votes

30/8/2025, 9:28:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture weeder (@weeder.bsky.social) reposted

Logging back on after dinner and bluesky's like

Two guys in big hats and robes over a weird symbol in a weird blue paneled circular room with weird yellow framed paintings like tarot cards but more surreal. They're doing some weird ritual yep it's a still from jodorowskys holy mountain
30/8/2025, 4:25:41 AM | 372 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

If we click our heels enough we might get to Kansas. There’s no place for Trump. There’s no place for Trump..

30/8/2025, 8:05:28 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew (@madaram.bsky.social) reposted

I just want to sit in this moment for a while. Until information comes out that he’s either alive or dead. Right now he’s Schroedinger’s fascist.

30/8/2025, 6:46:22 AM | 74 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @gperson.bsky.social (@gperson.bsky.social) reposted

I diagnosed Robert Kennedy Jr. by looking at the TV. He suffers from stupidity, self-aggrandizement, body odor, and bloating due to eating of uncooked carcasses.

29/8/2025, 3:24:26 PM | 2828 401 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) reposted

JD Vance right now

Seinfeld putting the pillow over George's face
30/8/2025, 7:18:28 AM | 337 60 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) reposted

Is it too much to hope that they are giving him huge doses of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine? Maybe they're bleeding him, and that's the deal with the bruise. Or leeches. Leeches would be good, too.

30/8/2025, 12:40:07 AM | 436 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) reposted

trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream

30/8/2025, 4:03:51 AM | 5996 916 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, (@autismsupsoc.bsky.social) reposted

Bluesky right now ...

30/8/2025, 5:11:07 AM | 12017 2029 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture frank zeppo (noah) (@noahpasternak.bsky.social) reposted

when president garfield was dying, they shoved a bunch of stuff up his butt in the hopes it would save him. it didn't work, in fact it definitely killed him quicker. but if any white house guys are reading this: you're the chosen one, you can make it work

30/8/2025, 5:34:02 AM | 8085 1296 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pacific Observation Post (@carldownunder.bsky.social)

Wishful thinking gone viral

30/8/2025, 6:26:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view