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Gary Legum

@glegum.bsky.social

Writer. Mope. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, Lucy, and I want you to shut up.

created June 21, 2023

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He was getting the exact education conservatives say they want more of! Studying a technical trade instead of any of the humanities. God are they morons.

13/9/2025, 2:44:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LOL, he absolutely did not.

13/9/2025, 2:40:53 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Noah's complaining about basic intra-coalitional squabbling that is a basic aspect of political parties, but he thinks he's reinvented the wheel.

13/9/2025, 2:28:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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NATO's commitment isn't to Trump's concept of winning, it's to regional stability. Which takes way more nuance to sustain than he's capable of.

13/9/2025, 2:15:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kirk wasn't trying to "bridge disagreements," he was a troll trying to find new adherents. I'm going to scream.

13/9/2025, 2:10:28 PM | 26 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Assassins, plural??? What is Stephen not telling us? Is there a grassy knoll on the UVU campus?

13/9/2025, 1:52:39 AM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's been there for like 100 years, it could close at any minute!

13/9/2025, 1:48:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I grew up in a Navy town, my brain throws up nautical military analogies sometimes.

13/9/2025, 1:46:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was no need for him to be in Utah, but you'd think someone so deep in Trump World would understand the moment.

13/9/2025, 1:06:32 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'll get right on my dear friend's murder as soon as I finish this veal piccata."

13/9/2025, 1:04:43 AM | 29 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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You pathetic dorks, you absolute turnips.

12/9/2025, 10:44:33 PM | 54 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Okay he wasn't a leftist, but it FEELS like something one of the leftists we've made up in our heads and read about in Chris Rufo pieces WOULD do, so you can't hold us responsible. In fact, it's the left's fault that we feel this way."

12/9/2025, 9:16:33 PM | 60 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ooooo, someone get Alan Berg on the phone and ask him if he has an answer.

12/9/2025, 8:47:14 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Danke

12/9/2025, 8:01:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where is this from?

12/9/2025, 7:56:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The browncoats? Jr's a Firefly fan?

12/9/2025, 7:43:47 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wrote about this today. www.wonkette.com/p/spencer-co...

12/9/2025, 7:35:29 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was a vile bigot whose work will in the end have harmed thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. The media does a disservice when it ignores that, not that I expect better.

12/9/2025, 7:33:37 PM | 28 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, I wouldn't say they were forced to do it.

12/9/2025, 6:57:52 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kirk's position on MLK was that he was "not a good person" and that he turned Black America into a bunch of lazy, freeloading welfare cases in crime-infested hellhole cities. But sure, let's put them next to each other.

12/9/2025, 3:15:56 PM | 135 36 | View on Bluesky | view

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We're going to have to introduce "not guilty by reason of online irony-poisoning insanity" an option for juries everywhere.

12/9/2025, 2:55:13 PM | 41 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey Spencer Cox, did Charlie say anything else that might be relevant here?

12/9/2025, 2:24:09 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'll see you in Valhalla." Jesus Christ, Kash is doing Immortan Joe now.

12/9/2025, 2:19:13 PM | 21 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Young white guy with politics that seem to be a mishmash with no discernible ideology" would make him pretty much like a lot of other shooters.

12/9/2025, 2:18:21 PM | 19 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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This sort of whining drives me nuts. Yeah, you have the right to say your beliefs, and people have the right to say they find your beliefs bigoted and grotesque. Congrats, you live in a society.

12/9/2025, 1:02:22 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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True. I guess I hoped the school had learned some lessons and evolved since then. But one thing the last few years has made clear is that hardly anyone has evolved on anything.

12/9/2025, 12:56:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Berkeley? Birthplace of the Free Speech movement in the 60s? That Berkeley?

12/9/2025, 12:52:20 PM | 21 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lot of great quotes coming out of this interview that the world can spend the rest of the day screaming over.

12/9/2025, 12:46:54 PM | 16 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Memphis has great barbecue, maybe they can grab some when they need a break from standing around doing nothing.

12/9/2025, 12:39:04 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Okay, okay -- we beat the hell out of the radical left lunatics, THEN we turn down the temperature."

12/9/2025, 1:28:56 AM | 10 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no bottom.

12/9/2025, 12:18:11 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I take no joy in reporting this.

12/9/2025, 12:15:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stephen Miller is not well. Also he's a terrible writer. Soap operas would be embarrassed by this level of melodrama.

11/9/2025, 11:18:52 PM | 24 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can see them thinking they can ride "stopping the cuts this year" to victory, then stop them from going into effect after the midterms. Which, to be clear, I also think is galactically stupid, but Dems' strategic skills these days really seem to be that bad.

11/9/2025, 8:31:20 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Those two couldn't catch the clap in a whorehouse.

11/9/2025, 8:20:22 PM | 42 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going to be wild when we find out the shooter was some John Hinkley type who did it to impress Loomer.

11/9/2025, 3:41:31 PM | 87 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/9/2025, 3:15:34 PM | 21 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, I'm only half-snarking.

11/9/2025, 3:06:45 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The government has already shown how good it is at symbology when it accurately identified all those gang tattoos on people it deported to El Salvador, so we can definitely take this to the bank.

11/9/2025, 3:05:13 PM | 70 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm waiting for the announcement that he'll lie in state in the Capitol.

11/9/2025, 2:59:32 PM | 32 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kash was put there to tear the FBI down, and now the Trump admin is shocked when they actually need it to be a functional investigative agency. Dipshits.

11/9/2025, 2:41:57 PM | 35 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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You mean there are downsides to giving the head of the FBI job to a self-promoting social-media influencer with zero experience running any law enforcement agency, let alone one as big as the FBI?

11/9/2025, 2:38:06 PM | 48 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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*logs on for 30 seconds* We'll, that's enough Internet for today.

11/9/2025, 12:25:57 PM | 44 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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He pushed Great Replacement Theory, which is something neo-nazis believe in, so yes, people called him a Nazi.

11/9/2025, 3:36:40 AM | 29 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well that figures.

11/9/2025, 12:41:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So much dark humor in our dystopia.

11/9/2025, 12:39:40 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It makes so much sense that Kash, giant attention whore that he is, would practically live-tweet the investigation before MAGA gets mad at him for not having already executed the guy.

11/9/2025, 12:27:31 AM | 28 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Sorry, all my competent investigators were busy dragging Hispanic grandmothers out of their cars."

11/9/2025, 12:24:47 AM | 984 176 | View on Bluesky | view

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About covers it.

10/9/2025, 9:59:08 PM | 35 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm aware that they don't care, folks.

10/9/2025, 9:56:26 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Grotesquely irresponsible, I don't care how upset they are.

10/9/2025, 9:54:34 PM | 40 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's always good to be reminded that these people are at bottom bullies with skin so thin you can squint and see what they ate for breakfast.

10/9/2025, 6:16:38 PM | 58 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely dying. This would be a clusterfuck that would dwarf any past network news clusterfuck.

10/9/2025, 5:59:14 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The political instincts of a dead squirrel.

10/9/2025, 4:47:43 PM | 26 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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And what's the deal with airline food??

10/9/2025, 4:23:40 PM | 29 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rufo will, of course, learn absolutely nothing from this.

10/9/2025, 2:12:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Petard, meet hoist.

10/9/2025, 2:09:29 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One block is probably the best he can do on those cankles.

10/9/2025, 1:54:30 AM | 28 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good god, if this holds, Schumer should send Thune a fruit basket as thanks.

9/9/2025, 11:59:45 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Right? He wasn't even married to Melania yet. He could say "I sent a risque birthday card to my rich middle-aged bachelor friend who I used to party with. I had no idea this other stuff was going on." I don't think anyone would believe him about the second part, but it's not absurd.

9/9/2025, 8:26:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And spare me any responses about how it doesn't matter or explaining to me that it's part of the fascist urge to create their own reality or whatever, I'm aware.

9/9/2025, 8:16:57 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump could say "Yes, I sent a birthday card to a friend, this was 2003, before I realized what he was doing and cut him out of my life." But as is typical with him, he has to deny everything to the point of logical absurdities and make himself and his lickspittles look more and more unhinged.

9/9/2025, 8:15:29 PM | 43 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wut

9/9/2025, 6:15:36 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet he'd be in a better mood if Chunk would just share a Baby Ruth with him.

9/9/2025, 5:08:18 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Polls show a significant public majority opposes the troops in cities, so in addition to be morally and constitutionally bankrupt, he's not even right about whether opposition is a winning political move.

9/9/2025, 3:07:10 PM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably the dumbest Speaker of my lifetime. Volcanic levels of stupid.

9/9/2025, 3:03:38 PM | 36 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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That student is currently juggling at least half a dozen calls from Fox News bookers.

9/9/2025, 1:44:40 PM | 21 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's an incredibly dull commercial running at the moment of Glenn Youngkin endorsing Sears, and every time I see it I wonder if the Republicans are secretly trying to depress their own base's turnout.

9/9/2025, 1:42:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"For '60 Minutes,' I'm Olivia Reingold."

9/9/2025, 1:24:50 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lot of stupid here, and a big one is that the card was allegedly written in 2003, which is not the same year as 1993, last I checked.

9/9/2025, 12:10:10 AM | 15 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Less than half an hour ago, my dad asked me what I thought of Mamdani and among other things, I said he has some hella clever creatives doing his ads. I stand by it.

9/9/2025, 12:04:55 AM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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That second graf seems worded in a way that will allow them to blame some long-gone assistant for making and sending the card in Trump's name, so he can continue claiming he knew nothing about it.

8/9/2025, 9:19:04 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh God yes, love it.

8/9/2025, 9:08:35 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey, remember how Trump sued Rupert Murdoch and the Journal for defamation for writing a story that that card exists, and now it turns out the card exists, that was a fun time.

8/9/2025, 8:21:37 PM | 47 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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"ACT NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE." Amazing how he manages to sound like he's pitching a mattress sale.

8/9/2025, 7:07:28 PM | 19 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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SCOTUS to everyone.

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8/9/2025, 5:44:46 PM | 105 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Kavanaugh? Sounds Irish. You know how we feel about you shanty Irish around here. Got some identification? No? How about we beat you and put you on the next boat back?" - immigration authorities to Brett Kavanaugh's ancestors 125 years ago.

8/9/2025, 5:10:48 PM | 108 13 | View on Bluesky | view

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Man, I can't even snark about this. Kavanaugh is just a moron.

8/9/2025, 5:08:53 PM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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How can you tell it's driving?

8/9/2025, 12:48:15 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The vigil "was a hazard to anyone visiting the White House and surrounding areas." It had been there since 1981.

8/9/2025, 3:58:41 AM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Christ, they're such losers.

8/9/2025, 3:56:59 AM | 29 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know it's completely alien to their DNA, but man Democrats who go on "Face the Nation" could have some fun with this whole "say what you want, we won't edit it out" thing.

8/9/2025, 12:03:10 AM | 29 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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"If you had come to me in friendship, the scum that did this to your daughter would be suffering this very day."

7/9/2025, 11:57:41 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Took my dad to see the musical about Neil Diamond's life, and I have to say, the lyrics to "Coming to America" in this era really sound like a taunt.

7/9/2025, 8:31:08 PM | 42 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, but those were clean energy jobs, they don't count.

7/9/2025, 4:53:46 PM | 18 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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HELLO ICE, YOU GUYS WICKED SUCK.

7/9/2025, 3:05:27 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More like LOLmamoto, imo.

7/9/2025, 2:58:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two space shuttles have blown up in his lifetime.

7/9/2025, 12:20:03 AM | 63 15 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Iceberg lettuce with Thousand Island dressing" is the sort of thing they serve at a regional real estate awards banquet.

6/9/2025, 9:28:37 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"The alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy ... canceled an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom Hanks, citing a desire for the Army service academy to focus on preparing future officers for war." Ah, yeah, wouldn't want them distracted from WARFIGHTING for half an hour.

6/9/2025, 9:17:33 PM | 20 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tom Hanks? America's Dad Tom Hanks? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

6/9/2025, 9:14:29 PM | 110 24 | View on Bluesky | view

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We need to bring back banishment to deserted islands as an acceptable punishment.

6/9/2025, 5:38:14 PM | 29 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Billions of dollars so these man-children can cosplay as G.I. Joe.

6/9/2025, 3:24:51 PM | 51 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm going to assume he was trying to say Trump gave the FBI a statement the first time Epstein was arrested in 2009 or whenever, because the alternative is simply too stupid for my brain to handle.

5/9/2025, 10:42:51 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It could not possibly be more embarrassing to this nation to have this utter dipshit as Defense Secretary. A bonobo with a severe head injury would be an improvement.

5/9/2025, 9:05:31 PM | 19 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure this makes me a snob to all the red state Real Americans, but this is low-rent garbage that is way below the dignity of the White House.

5/9/2025, 8:53:49 PM | 60 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bombing Venezuela in an effort to collapse the Maduro government.

5/9/2025, 8:17:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It can't be said enough that Stephen Miller always sounds like the sort of loudmouthed unhinged asshole that everyone in a bar would avoid sitting next to.

5/9/2025, 7:39:08 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Miller constantly does this shtick about drug cartels occupying America, and why anyone listens is beyond me. He sounds insane.

5/9/2025, 7:37:43 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, what is even the point of calling yourself a news organization if you let yourselves get walked all over like this?

5/9/2025, 7:18:05 PM | 26 5 | View on Bluesky | view