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@grumpyuncle.bsky.social

curmudgeon but a firm believer in humanity Eudaimonia ethics. We are all in this boat together, everybody row.

created November 6, 2024

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Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

the horror

1/9/2025, 8:56:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 10:41:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What The Poors don't realize is that rich women will always get abortions if needed. The doc calls it a D&C and insurance pays for it.

30/8/2025, 3:53:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

What The Poors don't realize is that rich women will always get abortions if needed. The doc calls it a D&C and insurance pays for it.

30/8/2025, 3:52:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Rip Van Schumer, getting in that 20 tear nap.

30/8/2025, 3:13:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, RFK is purging all the doctors, so, history rhyming------

30/8/2025, 11:23:23 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

and RFK is purging the doctors, so, history repeating---

30/8/2025, 10:27:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

damn lucky I live in Illinois.

30/8/2025, 10:10:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Speaker Johnson is the reason this is happening. He can stop it all today, but won't. The Johnson-Trump Tariffs, for example.

30/8/2025, 10:07:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

A nice italian beef in the juice is a soft sandwich. Very hard to throw. The bread will just fall apart. Those Subways, though, tough as nails. Bread like a chunk of pine. Chicago food is for eating, not hurling.

28/8/2025, 3:34:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

im gonna say children in airports might be suffering from "travel weary" and not "idiopathic mitochondrial challenges" but hey, a cursory glance is sufficient for a diagnosis from a faddist.

28/8/2025, 2:53:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

A cursory glance, a diagnosis, a fools mistake. At an airport. So the kids are on planes. Perhaps the simple weariness from travel is mistaken for Idiopathic mitochondrial challenges by a faddist.

28/8/2025, 2:22:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not going to subscribe before I can read one article. This is why we need a paypal type system to pay a quarter or whatever and have access to an article. And if your work is worth it, I might subscribe then.

27/8/2025, 1:43:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

the Pleasance of the Past

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26/8/2025, 7:22:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

meanwhile, in the real world

26/8/2025, 7:19:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

His friends park on the street? That means he knows poor people?

26/8/2025, 1:55:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 1:54:48 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted

The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.

24/8/2025, 11:37:56 PM | 22653 7166 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

in addition to attending their daughters wedding

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24/8/2025, 7:06:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Not a physicist, but I wonder, since it is already dark rusty-brown, how much more heat will it absorb as black? Like one degree??? IDK.

24/8/2025, 7:02:50 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

and in af ew years, "Used Cars"

24/8/2025, 6:58:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social‬ Stand aside. You have been challenged and been found lacking. We need a leadership of fire, not whatever you are.

24/8/2025, 6:56:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.

24/8/2025, 5:13:50 PM | 27776 5106 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Always keep a flashlight in your car. Oh yeah, and a flotation device. Maybe some scuba gear. An anchor.

24/8/2025, 4:44:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Always keep a flashlight in your car. Oh yeah, and a flotation device. Maybe some scuba gear. An anchor.

24/8/2025, 4:43:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

you forgot radiator. Those things would warm up a room.

24/8/2025, 4:29:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Trung Le Nguyen (@trungles.com) reposted

We have two jowly, jovial midwestern uncles who have what appear to be sincerely held values about their pretty decent politics, but no you ding dongs want us to offer up our votes to Kim Guilfoyle’s sweaty Temu Daddy Warbucks-ass ex.

24/8/2025, 3:05:46 AM | 831 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone should call them tchotchkes just to see him try and pronounce the word

24/8/2025, 4:23:24 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

and the buffoons next to him went tieless as well

23/8/2025, 6:16:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

He's like a Thurber character, if Thurber was publishing in Satan Monthly.

23/8/2025, 6:11:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Bingo!!!

22/8/2025, 11:22:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

10% ??? I want a seat on the Board. Wow.

22/8/2025, 11:21:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

I had infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters and all I got was Michelin Guides

22/8/2025, 10:53:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

The decent people leave the pews.

21/8/2025, 7:14:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

I heard the National Guard has a Columbo Squad to solve those pesky difficult crimes. Assisted naturally by the Fingerprint Platoon from Company C, Crimelab.

21/8/2025, 7:08:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

good thing I buy booze by the liter.......😐

21/8/2025, 6:22:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

or maybe coca cola is buying all the sugar cane to appease Trump, and not using the corn anymore? IDK

21/8/2025, 6:21:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

Was slavery bad? Well slavery made white people poor. It's called the economic dead weight cost of slavery. If the Boss can get a black guy to do the work for free, how much will he pay a white guy to do it. The legacy of slavery is generational deep poverty in the white South. Yeah it was bad.

20/8/2025, 12:56:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump just needs to clear out space so he can display all 6 of his Peace Prizes

20/8/2025, 12:34:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

also palms face away from you for a real pull up. That is how you will use arm strength if you need it. Palms toward you is just showing off your biceps. Try climbing out a window that way.

19/8/2025, 8:57:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

People saying that the troops on US soil are to distract us from the Epstein files will realize too late that the Epstein files are noise to distract us from the troops deployed on US soil.

19/8/2025, 5:19:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Why did the Ratt family name their son Crisp anyways?

19/8/2025, 4:46:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/8/2025, 2:14:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Schumer? .......Schumer? .......Schumer? .......

19/8/2025, 9:49:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

I still prefer your name for them

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18/8/2025, 1:32:53 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

that's why some folk call them bologna torpedoes😐

16/8/2025, 3:11:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

A meme for the elders out there. Also, the need for the toothpick was all the tacos Vlad wolfed down.

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16/8/2025, 3:08:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Good move. Someday people will need to realize that not all data needs to be online for immediate recall. Some things can actually go into a file drawer, or notebook, since it is not needed every second of the day.

16/8/2025, 3:05:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

we need to start carrying flotation life jackets in our cars

15/8/2025, 10:51:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

I wonder how many National Guard troops on presence patrols are needed to stop wage theft?

13/8/2025, 10:24:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

The Trophy to Replace Missing Trophy Wife Trophy

13/8/2025, 10:20:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Best Lawn and Grass Cup

13/8/2025, 10:18:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

as a Situationist, I would see it like this

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13/8/2025, 9:43:43 PM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

When will he award himself the Noble Piece Prize

13/8/2025, 5:36:10 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently the war to seize Greenland has the whole White House fully occupied---

13/8/2025, 5:16:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

there is a reason Catholic Schools require the girls to wear skirts. The reason is "access".

13/8/2025, 5:03:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

borrowing that

13/8/2025, 4:50:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

He uses the Potemkin VIllage Painters, a fine crew, they get it done fast.

13/8/2025, 4:49:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

As someone who has actually done that, why did the ceiling crack? Was it the first time? Is this a re-occuring problem? Are there leaking pipes in the ceiling above? etc etc. There is a difference between simple and simpleton.

13/8/2025, 4:47:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

religion is the root and cause of this. They teach out-group morality, and call them heretics. Religion and democracy are in opposition.

13/8/2025, 3:26:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

all of the US nation destroying foreign policy , Iraq, Libya, Grenada, Nicaragua, etc, has been rehearsal for control of the US. Our chickens have come home to roost.

13/8/2025, 3:09:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely the best Georgia's 14th could send.

12/8/2025, 8:06:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely the best Georgia's 14th could send.

12/8/2025, 8:04:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes!!

12/8/2025, 8:03:45 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted

Can someone explain how banning gay marriage will fund schools and lower rent and make groceries affordable?

12/8/2025, 6:08:59 PM | 13088 2972 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

12/8/2025, 5:46:28 PM | 35230 8999 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ProPublica (@propublica.org) reposted

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

12/8/2025, 11:51:32 AM | 8930 5251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

New Shimmer! It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping

9/8/2025, 1:15:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bravo!!

9/8/2025, 1:12:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Shoddy. Everything is cheap, gold spray paint on cardboard. Trump is King in the Age of Shoddy.

8/8/2025, 12:19:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

and none of this is ADA compliant. How does the Musk model transport folks in wheelchairs? Or are we just going full eugenics and ------oh yeah it's Musk.

2/8/2025, 12:54:50 PM | 38 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social)

on -- off --- today -- no next week --1 5 --- 40 --umm--no it's um--- the tariffs are having a senior moment

2/8/2025, 12:24:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Always refer to them as the Johnson-Trump tariffs

1/8/2025, 7:34:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Give me the man and I will show you the crime.

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1/8/2025, 6:43:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever.

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27/7/2025, 6:30:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Calendars are just a conspiracy by the liberal elite.

27/7/2025, 3:16:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, donkey shit more accurately. if the Dems had taken action, they could have won the women's vote. hsph.harvard.edu/news/homicid...

27/7/2025, 3:14:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Where is the lie? I said "decades" and your counter example is thirty years old.

26/7/2025, 5:32:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately the Democrats have decided every day for decades to ignore violence against women, especially domestic violence. They have no history of action to stand on so whatever they do now will be dismissed as political. No tribalism will be diminished. Biden chose to protect Bill Clinton.

26/7/2025, 1:57:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

that's Randy the Ram

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25/7/2025, 1:34:04 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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but for todays market they would probably have a Maher Colbert face-off argument program called Getting Your Irish Up or something

18/7/2025, 8:02:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

Complicit, not compromised.

18/7/2025, 3:14:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They have stolen your future.

18/7/2025, 3:12:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shows why LSD is such an abomination. The whole city is separated from the lake by a noisy traffic zone. Eliminate LSD and give Lincoln Park the best lakefront in the world.

17/7/2025, 12:55:58 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

'Forgive me my foul murder'? That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition and my queen. May one be pardon'd and retain the offence? Gonna have to burn the RedHat to earn clemency

17/7/2025, 10:59:02 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was bust watching the fireworks. God is, after all, an American. #cynicism

15/7/2025, 6:17:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There is a special place in gods kingdom for collateral damage.

15/7/2025, 6:16:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The farm raids are intentional. They know it will cause food shortages and inflation. Making Americans suffer is the plan. They are ruling like they will never have to face the electors ever again.

15/7/2025, 6:14:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Russell → @MVTFWD (@joshfwd.bsky.social) reposted

Heh, just realised that the full DEI acronym, DEIA (not sure why it gets shortened), could be rearranged as IDEA, and I quite like that, because it’s a good one, a good idea. Inclusion Diversity Equity Accessibility

14/7/2025, 11:30:16 PM | 720 156 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

One day we will wake up in North Korea and the Courtier Media will tell the RedHats to blame Biden.

15/7/2025, 7:02:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

supposed to be a whole universe, not just a white stripe.

12/7/2025, 5:08:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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pun of the day

12/7/2025, 5:01:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never heard a single talking head financial guru ever mention that people have no money, flat wallets do not purchase things, and to save retail we need to raise the minimum wage. They refuse to admit that there is poverty in America.

12/7/2025, 5:00:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Cay Johnston (@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social) reposted

Neighbors' new yard sign:

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10/7/2025, 10:59:16 PM | 728 147 | View on Bluesky | view

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Courtier Media desperate for access to the palace.

11/7/2025, 4:04:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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trump wants to starve us. Holodomor is in the future.

11/7/2025, 3:03:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm so done with the Courtier Media. Not once have they asked who the envoys are that Trump met with. Name one ( Houthi, Congolese, Serbian) that Trump actually negotiated with. I do not believe Trump can name one.

11/7/2025, 2:26:13 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

you should show more respect for the Secretary of Defense and Tonic

11/7/2025, 2:20:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture grumpy uncle (@grumpyuncle.bsky.social) reply parent

at every opportunity we need to call them the Johnson-Trump Tariffs, as Johnson is allowing this all to happen. It's not just trump, it is all Republicans

10/7/2025, 11:19:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every problem Chicago had before he became mayor, the city still had after he was mayor.

10/7/2025, 11:11:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view