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DerMann51

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Engineer, outdoorsman, supporter of the U.S. constitution. Harley Rider. U.S. Navy Vet ​🇺🇸⚓️🇺🇦💙🌊🌈🚻👋🧵📐☕🌐 #BlueCrew 🚫MAGA 🚫Dating 🚫Porn 🚫Bots 🚫Crypto 🚫Lottery 🚫Religion 🚫DMs DerMann from Tweeter.

created October 18, 2024

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The unibrow is making a comeback.

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

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Perhaps a sudden fall down stairs. As opposed to out of a window. Or an airplane.

2/9/2025, 2:19:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uncle Tim over here.

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seems safe

2/9/2025, 1:52:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 1:51:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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after years of this, how can there still be questions? duh

2/9/2025, 1:43:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are most welcome. Thank you for all you do to improve quality of life for others.

2/9/2025, 1:42:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 5:33:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fall

1/9/2025, 5:32:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you know why? Because their "Greatest Generation" parents spoiled and ignored them after World War II - thinking they would make up for everything they didn't have during the Great Depression. This is the result of the other extreme culture (excess). Extremism isn't good.

1/9/2025, 5:32:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks for all you do!

1/9/2025, 5:29:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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💥

1/9/2025, 5:27:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd like to see some evidence of stopping him.

1/9/2025, 5:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So hoping it turns out to be Weekend at Trump's! Yes, yes, I understand the consequences. But, still.

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1/9/2025, 5:24:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I won't. This is much bigger than an Elvis moment.

1/9/2025, 5:18:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His 'mistake', according to him, is exposing who he is to the masses.

1/9/2025, 5:17:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, joy! What an "accomplishment".

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1/9/2025, 5:16:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Elegy flashback...

1/9/2025, 5:13:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not news.

1/9/2025, 5:11:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And laws are meaningless without enforcement.

1/9/2025, 5:10:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think most of what he does is by being a mentally ill, drug-addled crank.

1/9/2025, 5:01:44 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's still alive? Kind of like -

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1/9/2025, 4:59:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another "either/or" false choice article during return to school week. The post WWII "good old days" are gone - days where people had lifetime jobs and friends. Vicious corporate executives are back and have broken us. We need each other again. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

1/9/2025, 4:57:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Academics should know better than to present a false bipolar choice to people needing advice. Best wishes to all our young people endeavoring to improve themselves! UW-Madison, BSME '83 2/2

1/9/2025, 4:48:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Young people are heading to school again. The key isn't to focus on one extreme or the other - it is a proper balance. It's not about slavishly devoting to a career today OR life skills forever. 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

1/9/2025, 4:48:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And this is their mantra from the "me" decade of the 80's:

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1/9/2025, 2:40:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe he will push Trump down stairs like Trump did to wife #1?

1/9/2025, 2:36:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump is their leader.

1/9/2025, 2:35:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It looked like this -

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1/9/2025, 2:30:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who knew colleges were corporations too?

1/9/2025, 2:27:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, the good old COVID pandemic days! It magically disappears when not looking for it!!!

1/9/2025, 2:25:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lack of self awareness is a MAGA trademark.

1/9/2025, 2:22:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bad News? This is exactly what they wanted!!! Project 2025 - give more taxpayer money to the oligarchs. They don't give two shits if their dumb voters hate it.

1/9/2025, 2:20:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Working for a Living - Huey Lewis & the News

1/9/2025, 2:19:28 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're gonna need a bigger cesspool.

1/9/2025, 2:14:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Forced-birth concubines of the Dark Ages. Yes, I do.

1/9/2025, 2:12:27 PM | 31 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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#IsHeDeadYet? Cankles McBruiseHand Happy Labor Day

1/9/2025, 2:08:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't even have thoughts.

1/9/2025, 3:10:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And we keep getting richer, But we can't get our picture On the cover of The Rolling Stone 😎

1/9/2025, 3:07:14 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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If this isn't the ultimate sign how long Trump has run out the clock on justice, I don't know what else it could be. JFC

1/9/2025, 3:05:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Limbaugh + FOX =

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Fact.

1/9/2025, 12:57:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember he did the exact same thing in 2018?

1/9/2025, 12:57:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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👍

1/9/2025, 12:56:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Combine this with no empathy and we have a major catastrophe.

1/9/2025, 12:55:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The trouble with the world is there are people in it. Nature is the great equalizer.

1/9/2025, 12:54:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They filter down the paint gloss, or wut?

1/9/2025, 12:52:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another Russian Diplomatic Event?

1/9/2025, 12:51:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yakov Smirnoff

1/9/2025, 12:48:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He can't even walk a putting green. Drives his damn cart right onto it.

1/9/2025, 12:47:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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facts on the ground

1/9/2025, 12:47:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, thoughts.

1/9/2025, 12:45:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Too many Americans, that is. The majority that led us into this mess. More didn't bother to vote than voted for Trump.

1/9/2025, 12:44:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Release the Epstein Files!

31/8/2025, 1:14:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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🎯

31/8/2025, 12:55:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump IS EVIL

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31/8/2025, 12:53:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@hcrichardson.bsky.social is my history teacher. She brings history to life!

31/8/2025, 12:51:28 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe it's time to start showing iron lung photos again? These terrified me as a kid.

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Never did find Moose or Squirrel

31/8/2025, 12:48:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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War Pigs!!! Vietnam

31/8/2025, 12:47:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for posting. I chipped in, forgot to do this. It was easier when I was working when it was coordinated every year.

31/8/2025, 12:41:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's well underway. The lag time between tariff announcements and inventory burn off is done. Inflation is rising, product shortages have started, and unemployment is taking off. RIGHT NOW.

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✅️⤵️

30/8/2025, 4:59:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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PARTY

30/8/2025, 4:57:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tick Tock MF

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😄

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😄

30/8/2025, 4:44:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who knew CVS sold sofa rubbers?

30/8/2025, 2:21:55 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you haven't been a staffer for some time, and Trump has purged the government, how can you still be inside what's happening now?

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Keep fighting!!!

30/8/2025, 2:09:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And by connection, we the citizens of the United States who voted him in twice.

30/8/2025, 2:08:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More violence is on the way...

30/8/2025, 2:06:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All the more to transfer more tax cuts to the wealthy with.

30/8/2025, 2:05:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was a fave - until he went MAGA. Sorry to break it to you. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

30/8/2025, 2:00:20 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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= Sadists

29/8/2025, 11:02:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's....it's out in the sunlight!

29/8/2025, 9:56:46 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our money. All of it. Psychopaths.

29/8/2025, 9:54:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump said it FFS during the 2024 campaign!!!

29/8/2025, 9:53:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is no explaining to a desperate sycophant.

29/8/2025, 9:47:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lots of dogs. I'm convinced they're smarter than humans.

29/8/2025, 9:40:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everybody should take their grandkids swimming in sewer water! 💀

29/8/2025, 9:37:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Garry Kasparov knows why freedom is never free. Much respect from this Cold War Vet: "When democracy and civil society are all you’ve known, they are easy to take for granted." And therefore, easy to lose. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

29/8/2025, 6:40:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought Lisa Senecal's article speaks clearly and succinctly what we all must do and are doing - Will America Leave her Abuser? open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

29/8/2025, 3:45:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not entirely, but not sufficient, either.

29/8/2025, 2:37:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So what's left? Nothing? Cheer on the blod clots knowing Hedge Fund Vance is waiting in the wings? Is there no out at all?

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It would need an intelligent electorate and Congress. Look at what we have now.

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Hitler picked up eugenics from United States crackpots.

29/8/2025, 2:23:06 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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ouch

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Maybe Bobby Brainworm gonna give us all a pack of leeches.

29/8/2025, 2:21:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not what I read.

29/8/2025, 2:17:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No it was not, in the overall scheme of importance within the safe 4 year window. Andrew Weissmann critiqued this specifically. He was lead prosecutor under Mueller Investigation, FWIW

28/8/2025, 7:31:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Garland was always highly suspect, being involved with The Heritage Foundation. Biden was naive in making Garland a revenge appointment, then letting him sit there, allowing the United States to be destroyed.

28/8/2025, 6:05:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everything comes back, even the discredited ideas of 90 years ago. The fact they changed form, manner and technology doesn’t mean they’ve changed their substance. We thought it was gone. It’s back. Studying both the past and the present is part of the intellectual armament to stand up against it.

28/8/2025, 6:03:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, the time has come, and we are seeing the rise of fascist movements all over the developed world. They often call themselves nationalists, but they’re not nationalists. They’re more international than any liberal movement. They have formed a network, and the internet is their binding form. 2/2

28/8/2025, 4:20:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Coder bros have NOT been good for human society - Ernest Hemingway wrote, in one of his novels about the Spanish Civil War, “There are many fascists in my country; they just don’t know it yet. But they will when the time comes.” 1/2 www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

28/8/2025, 4:20:16 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Here is an interlude from my garden just now, amidst the destruction and chaos. Ukraine has suffered worse and longer than the U.S., and remind us good people remain doing good things.

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Yes.

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