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@couple2tree.bsky.social

While not an actual imbecile in real life, I play one on social media.

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

By the way, I would point out that your identity has been stolen, but in reality Trump sold it.

31/8/2025, 11:28:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Thoughtful and spot on.

31/8/2025, 11:24:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

And they would be right.

31/8/2025, 11:21:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bad Choices Make Good Stories (@badchoices.us) reposted

#DonaldTrump is a Nazi.

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31/8/2025, 11:16:29 PM | 21 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 11:14:27 AM | 8307 1549 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Souffle.

31/8/2025, 10:56:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

They must have really wanted to get away from Scotland.

31/8/2025, 10:54:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”

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31/8/2025, 10:45:19 PM | 2654 717 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

First thing I hit was this:

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31/8/2025, 6:30:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

That really is a shit heel move. No healthcare either, no family benefits (commissary, Rx, etc) If any of them are small business owners, or contractors they are going into their own pockets for this.

31/8/2025, 5:56:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

The analytical starting point for any federal power is that it needs to be explicit. In the US model, power flows from citizens to the states and then up to the federal government. That which is not vested federally, is retained in the states. The unspoken remains with the people.

31/8/2025, 5:15:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Dream on.

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

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a Senator. Draft a letter to Trump demanding RFK's removal. If he refuses, then impeach RFK.

30/8/2025, 7:21:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

You could run a monthly contest for submissions.

30/8/2025, 7:16:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

On the bright side, the Navy tends not to fuck around with what they can subcontract. If marching is important, they can hire North Korea for a fraction of the authorization. Any surplus will go to dropping a jet or two into the ocean.

30/8/2025, 8:51:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Wow: French President Emmanuel Macron just called out Trump at a major press conference with the German Chancellor 😳

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30/8/2025, 12:14:41 AM | 10269 2878 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Absurd. I have the capacity to be concerned about both.

30/8/2025, 8:37:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Pissed off with the Army's unenthusiatic marching, Trump has decided he wants the Navy to do a parade this fall.

30/8/2025, 8:33:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald Trump is the most vengeful, petty teenage girl I've ever seen.

30/8/2025, 8:09:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Tax dollars to support radical Christianity is a government entanglement short of establishment which violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971).

30/8/2025, 8:06:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Marino Faliero www.walksofitaly.com/blog/art-cul....

30/8/2025, 7:50:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 10:16:38 PM | 2538 695 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast.bsky.social) reposted

“Folks are desperate to take action and desperate for instruction on how to do it.” From my brilliant friend @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/newslett...

29/8/2025, 11:29:29 AM | 171 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Mullis (@stevemullis.net) reposted

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

29/8/2025, 9:14:30 PM | 13219 3532 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Fukin' A.

30/8/2025, 7:19:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@skippjon1.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 12:32:12 AM | 256 111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

The man is an eel.

29/8/2025, 3:59:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Valorie Bridges Fant * Author of * Go Back to Your Country * (@vrfant1.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 3:54:53 PM | 20 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RIDGE (@1av8ter.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 8:27:48 PM | 29 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

The sum and substance of MAGA.

29/8/2025, 3:50:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Is this for real?

29/8/2025, 3:49:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture darren32359.bsky.social (@darren32359.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 10:26:55 AM | 10115 3692 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted

Don’t forget: Nationwide protest hosted by 50501 this Labor Day!

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29/8/2025, 3:22:48 PM | 1227 523 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ACLU (@aclu.org) reposted

The First Amendment protects our right to dissent, whether President Trump likes it or not.

29/8/2025, 3:23:14 PM | 675 181 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Good explanation.

29/8/2025, 3:34:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Where is this documented?

29/8/2025, 1:19:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Plop, plop. Fizz, fizz.

29/8/2025, 1:11:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Send the National Guard to pick him up. He was Trump's justification for the DC occupation.

29/8/2025, 1:10:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.

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28/8/2025, 1:11:09 PM | 5072 2401 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Heroes.

29/8/2025, 1:03:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

"I moved on her like a bitch." What does that even mean?

29/8/2025, 12:57:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

It occurs to me that some bridges might be built and wedges driven through the simple act of helping these men and women out. If the time comes, they'll identify more with a fellow worker across the line than a faceless overlord pushing them to do something they despise.

29/8/2025, 12:44:50 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is not our lone failure, just the worst case we've seen to date.

29/8/2025, 12:38:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Friday is "Rob a bank in NJ Day."

29/8/2025, 12:37:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

We are legion.

29/8/2025, 12:35:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

I would back it down off crazy to encompass some combination of poorly socialized and overly dramatic short of "crazy." It is not just at the unmoored extremes where we fail. We are reverting to functional men who treat others, particularly women and children, as appliances for their convenience.

29/8/2025, 12:25:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

This is horrifying. Or is it just me?

29/8/2025, 12:19:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ (@pamrichmond1.bsky.social) reposted

This man’s a Republican.

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29/8/2025, 12:14:29 AM | 125 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't suppose the Trump administration would recognize this as an actual emergency since it's so busy with the contrived ones.

29/8/2025, 12:15:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Expend your thoughts and prayers over here. We can pretty much kiss our asses goodbye at the same time.

29/8/2025, 12:07:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture call634-5789 (@call634-5789.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Well, I can help a little.....

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28/8/2025, 5:20:59 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

We probably paid $5800 for it.

28/8/2025, 3:05:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov) reposted

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

28/8/2025, 1:29:25 AM | 19663 4896 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

On the plus side, I don't see any mention of Greenland, Canada, Trump Gaza or the Panama Canal.

28/8/2025, 2:50:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Bravo.

28/8/2025, 2:45:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Well worth the bus ride from downtown Victoria. The butterfly attraction nearby is also very good.

28/8/2025, 2:42:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

This is bullshit duty and every one of these troopers knows it. They should pack sick call or simply refuse this shit detail. They are not battling any tidal wave of crime. There is no tidal wave of crime. Just as with all Trump's other "emergencies" it is a fabrication.

27/8/2025, 6:51:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Craig Pittman (@craigtimes.bsky.social) reposted

#Florida woman Pam Bondi's Justice Department has fired or demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors, even as the violent insurrectionists they sent to prison walk free. She's helping whitewash a traumatic event in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n... via @nytimes.com

26/8/2025, 9:09:25 PM | 154 81 | View on Bluesky | view

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

EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein Government buying stake in private companies: socialism Epstein Epstein Epstein President having stakes in those companies: corruption Epstein Epstein Epstein Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN

27/8/2025, 9:48:29 AM | 11816 4544 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Nazis "negotiating" at Nuremberg.

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27/8/2025, 6:38:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance is an idiot.

27/8/2025, 6:23:58 PM | 52 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

No one supports Trump as a dictator except the sycophants that comprise his immediate circle.

27/8/2025, 6:23:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Larry Krasner is a Grade A asshole. He made buckets of cash suing the cops WHEN THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. Fortunately, He can now turn his evil prowess to good when the cops are doing bad, bad shit. So, for today, he's my Grade A asshole.

27/8/2025, 6:13:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

The operative word here is: "California." Why spend money in a state that's likely to secede?

27/8/2025, 6:05:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Your bat says the same about you, only it just sounds like clicking noises.

27/8/2025, 6:02:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 4:41:31 AM | 1357 452 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Hail Great Leader! I don't speak Korean, but I'm pretty sure that even Kim would be embarrassed by such unadulterated sucking up. Kudos to Jen Psaki for resurrecting the word "bloviating" to capture the essence of yesterday's cabinet meeting.

27/8/2025, 6:01:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

NRPC or Amtrak is a distinct (unique) federal corporation created by Congress with its own (non-DC) Police Force. How does the Dept of Transportation have authority to take over an asset like Union Station?

27/8/2025, 2:31:35 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ms. Magazine (@msmagazine.com) reposted

From reproductive rights and workplace protections, to access to education and voting, the freedoms women have fought for are under attack like never before.

26/8/2025, 5:57:37 PM | 324 107 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

"Out damn spot." That'll happen when you grab Lady Macbeth's pussy.

27/8/2025, 2:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

She got off easy. At this time of year, most people in ME under 70 are at 1 of their 3 jobs and don't have time for ribbon cuttings. If she had done this in February or March, she wouldn't have gotten a word in edgewise.

27/8/2025, 2:02:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

26/8/2025, 6:31:06 PM | 18087 5527 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

History, like science and other educational disciplines, is not about how you "feel," Snowflake. It is about proven, demonstrable realities to educate the ignorant. If you cultivate fact-resistance, you will remain a thoughtless, malleable husk of a human subverted by nefarious programming.

26/8/2025, 6:24:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Tell them you want a 1977 Chrysler Cordoba in Kylie Commemorative trim.

26/8/2025, 6:10:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Few details shatter morale more than "policing the area." It is often an activity doled out as punishment. Even the dumbest trooper can detect the injustice of this task performed outside a mansion where his "betters" are.

26/8/2025, 5:57:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

The "Appearance of Impropriety" is a subjective standard evident in the eyes of the beholder. If it is to be applied, then it calls into question the arbiter of the standard - a test no one in the Trump administration can pass.

26/8/2025, 5:53:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Hang tough.

26/8/2025, 5:46:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 1kr5ur43m.bsky.social (@1kr5ur43m.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

Assuming there's a constant flow. I am as anti-red as anyone, but even I tire of Nancy Pelosi hitting me up for money three to six times per day NOW - well outside the election cycle, not to mention Move on and the other unaffiliateds.

25/8/2025, 7:34:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

The funding carries through.

25/8/2025, 7:11:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

We humans are hideous creatures. Fearful of "the other," we annihilate with little hesitation. Violence is such an easy and instantaneous habit that it overwhelms considered assessment and, if needed, resolution by other means.

25/8/2025, 7:09:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Pretty simple, huh?

25/8/2025, 6:57:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

That sure looks like an IV infiltrate.

25/8/2025, 6:55:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

No. I normally agree with Reich, but this would be foolish. In a world where the electorate is so easily swayed by a glittering screen flashing in their faces, there is no argument for the Democrats to nail themselves to a cross on principle. Campaign finance reform "yes;" but "not yet."

25/8/2025, 6:53:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

The "Year of the Mulett" was 2020.

25/8/2025, 5:15:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Fact check: True.

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24/8/2025, 10:24:10 PM | 11180 2503 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Don't seem right, does it.

25/8/2025, 4:43:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paulley Ticks (@tomadelsbach.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: GAVIN NEWSOM SAVES THE ENTIRE F'N WORLD!!! #GavinNewsom #DonaldTrump

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Profile picture ♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ (@pamrichmond1.bsky.social) reposted

Lt. General and former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster on tRxmp: "[The] fragility of his ego and his deep sense of aggrievement [made it easy for Putin to] play him like a fiddle.” RETWEET if you stand with Lt. General McMaster against Pedo tRxmp!

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Profile picture ♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ (@pamrichmond1.bsky.social) reposted

We need to help protect the children! We have a list of pedophiles here in America that GOP is protecting. Keep demanding the release of this list and/or files UNREDACTED

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25/8/2025, 1:45:11 AM | 109 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

There was actually Halloween candy in the market yesterday. And Donald Trump was still alive when I awoke this morning. Shaping up to be a bad week already.

25/8/2025, 4:06:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure. Trigger my envy.

25/8/2025, 4:03:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the beach after work

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25/8/2025, 4:02:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social)

Apologies if you're contemplating lunch. However, we all need to keep this handy on some chunk of silicon.

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Profile picture ♥️♠️Pam♦️♣️ (@pamrichmond1.bsky.social) reposted

I Agree ✋✋✋

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Profile picture hidden gem (@couple2tree.bsky.social) reply parent

No, they actually shouldn't you gelatenous bag of shit. If anything, drawing your ire is an endorsement of legitimacy.

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