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Jeff Fijol

@jfeej.bsky.social

Good night, and good luck

created September 13, 2023

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He should choke on this

4/9/2025, 3:30:43 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kill Tony makes Tosh look like the Socrates of the recession

3/9/2025, 10:38:54 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's gunning hard for that Fox News Contributor chyron

3/9/2025, 7:23:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I process my feelings toward them in two words: F*** you

3/9/2025, 7:06:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Sun-Times, a newspaper written by humans in Chicago, vs. the Tribune, a newspaper still edited by Robert McCormick's 145-year-old brain in a tank beneath Cantigny

3/9/2025, 4:19:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Might as well face it you're addicted to food

3/9/2025, 4:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not even the most rootin-tootin 'Murica-lovin guy in the Dallas suburbs has this much stars and stripes swag in and around his house

3/9/2025, 3:19:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Armand: a smart and funny guy, extremely high on his own supply

3/9/2025, 2:36:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold and System of a Down all played Chicago over the Labor Day weekend. Red highlights and fishnets everywhere. Send in the troops!

3/9/2025, 2:32:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm fascinated to learn more, can you expand this into a LinkedIn post?

3/9/2025, 2:05:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some many years back I was so enamored of his monster bass tone that I emailed him and asked for his gear stack. And he ran through his bass, pedals, amp and tube choices. Great guy!

3/9/2025, 1:52:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 3:18:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eat a bag of dicks you decrepit fascists

2/9/2025, 10:55:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel like a dude wrote a book about this once and his name was … JD Vance

2/9/2025, 10:53:12 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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For starters, they’ve chosen to make camp in and possibly commute through the North Shore, the most MSNBC part of the entire Midwest

2/9/2025, 10:52:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time for some traffic problems in Glencoe

2/9/2025, 10:45:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wash that hand with bleach

2/9/2025, 10:44:04 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Set a fire

2/9/2025, 10:43:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well could you please finish your pint and hop a flight from Dublin or whatever so you can teach us the magic words??

2/9/2025, 10:41:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The culture war is real, people are way into it, and it's not just going to evaporate if you somehow manage to enact Medicare for All

2/9/2025, 6:24:00 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there a dog in the house? They'll get to it eventually

2/9/2025, 4:57:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dummies and washouts, yep

2/9/2025, 4:27:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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More likely he's a regular on Rogan and Kill Tony. Not that this outcome and the one you suggested are mutually exclusive.

2/9/2025, 4:06:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agree. No longer care to patronize the other site but I can still get my fix while watching a handful of martinets shout down people who are ostensibly on their side about [x] issue

2/9/2025, 3:58:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not with that tie you're not

2/9/2025, 2:36:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On that topic, I've been enjoying(?) this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...

2/9/2025, 2:13:25 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our middle fingers are ready

2/9/2025, 2:15:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s gonna be fun burning all of those in a couple of years. Or weeks

1/9/2025, 5:03:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’d believe Sean RCP before Esoteric Jeff, who I believe also claims to have never voted for Trump

1/9/2025, 4:14:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is a good place. A happy place

31/8/2025, 4:26:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The “ghost” peering out from the basement in Parasite
30/8/2025, 11:43:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He keeps lying about that and I can’t figure out why

30/8/2025, 11:01:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Uh, generic ballot?

30/8/2025, 11:01:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Really looking forward to running all of these descendants out of polite society. That monogrammed shirt is a deportable offense on its own

30/8/2025, 1:38:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That fits the spirit of the album so nicely, too

30/8/2025, 5:46:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I will not wear the “Good Vibes Only” shirt

29/8/2025, 5:40:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We already know this is a still from a scene none of us will ever recover from

29/8/2025, 3:19:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Sandwiches? LOL so Jared must be like your George Washington." "... no."

28/8/2025, 8:22:23 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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This punditry is limited by its conception of mail-in voting as a pandemic-era oddity rather than something that's been functional and popular for decades, like in the Pacific NW

28/8/2025, 4:33:52 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This sounds like a Simpsons cutaway where Edna Krabappel, dressed as Betsy Ross, immediately interjects a "HA!"

28/8/2025, 4:22:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And so faced with the prospect of endless diarrhea, some of the immigrants decided to take their chances in the limestone quarries and stockyards, and thus was the city of Chicago born

28/8/2025, 3:16:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I haven't personally cut anyone off but a lot of us believe, correctly, that a Trump vote (2? 3?) is morally beyond the pale and calls into question that person's character. It was true in 2016 and it's only gotten more true since then. They started this

28/8/2025, 2:56:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also there's a big button in Chuck Schumer's office labeled "General Strike" that he just stares at, sweating and muttering about how he lacks the feck

28/8/2025, 2:06:46 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, "Harris won" brainrot isn't compatible with the dominant "Feckless Democrats will lose every election for the next 10000 years" strain on here

27/8/2025, 7:06:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Greenwald 2

27/8/2025, 6:59:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Been wondering about this since the center-left party looks to gain against Orban's. Might be "paradise lost" for ol' Rod.

27/8/2025, 4:08:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TFW you enlisted with the National Guard but you ended up on the Spinal Tap road crew

27/8/2025, 12:09:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your plan to fix this by helping elect the guy who was worse on the issue isn’t working

26/8/2025, 11:39:42 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The caricature of Mitt Romney 2012 that Obama conjured has risen from the netherworld and fused with Andrew Cuomo

26/8/2025, 7:14:15 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Perhaps you've just said goodbye to a lover you will never see again, or you're flying home to fix a fraught situation with your parents." Dude would get laughed at for wearing an "I Live in France" T-shirt so he resorts to stuff like this

25/8/2025, 7:38:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Dad, where were you when the crowd in Millennium Park started pelting the Guard with Portillos sandwiches?" "Uh, probably driving from the grocery store to the second grocery store that has the yogurt you like."

25/8/2025, 4:25:38 PM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wise old neighbor who talks them through all their relationship issues to be played by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

25/8/2025, 3:44:07 PM | 17 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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She's crazy and she has been since she was at the Post

25/8/2025, 3:13:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having a super cool punk show in the 5th district to support my run in the the 9th district or whatever

24/8/2025, 4:08:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Including the greatest cold open of all time. Home Depot has never been the same since

23/8/2025, 12:06:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brandon Johnson approval rating about to surge past 30 percent

22/8/2025, 6:22:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Incredible in-kind contribution to Pritzker 2028

22/8/2025, 6:20:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The day is going to be so so funny. JD Vance addressing the nation like a juiceless, rizzless Marc Antony

22/8/2025, 6:16:38 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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TLJ has some problems but the aura of "We're so sorry we let someone try to do something interesting with this franchise, please enjoy this heaping buffet of fan service" around Rise of Skywalker made it even harder to watch

22/8/2025, 6:09:36 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Try it bitch. Signed, Chicago

22/8/2025, 5:35:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is like if they built The Backrooms out of central Florida

22/8/2025, 4:25:42 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Being inclusive and relatable by referring to all women, cis and transgender, as "broads" and "dizzy dames"

22/8/2025, 4:13:11 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t praise the machine!

22/8/2025, 1:55:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Speaking of Michael Jordan, have you seen the ridiculous 14D-3R map Ds put up in Illinois? We can ball

22/8/2025, 6:48:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Basically: it’s cheaper than comparable chain restaurants, kids like it, and they do ok versions of the classics (mostly, last time my chicken was overcooked)

21/8/2025, 11:42:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have they bothered explaining why the logo change is “woke” or did they just skip that step and declare fatwa?

21/8/2025, 11:32:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not often in the business of knowing where folks go where they die but I can say with certainty that JD Vance is going to hell

21/8/2025, 3:54:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look, I've frittered away hours upon hours on Borderlands games but honestly does any series have an unjustifiably higher opinion of itself?

21/8/2025, 2:40:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've yet to see this totemic belief that the "they/them" ads were just absolutely brilliant and devastating backed up with evidence

21/8/2025, 2:26:10 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's sweaty

20/8/2025, 5:09:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd say the targets of Miller's ire probably represent DC better than, say, no-neck Fourth Reichers from Santa Monica

20/8/2025, 5:07:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not to be a stickler but I didn't see the word "brisket" in that tweet

20/8/2025, 3:32:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gonna be some dyed-in-the-wool psychopaths coming out of this school. Like, even by the usual standards of New York private schools.

20/8/2025, 3:29:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the
20/8/2025, 3:20:45 PM | 54 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wreckers recognize Trump as a fellow wrecker

19/8/2025, 5:10:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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LLMs' actual capabilities are no match for peoples' propensity to see what they want to see

19/8/2025, 3:45:25 PM | 15 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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HELL YEAH WU

19/8/2025, 3:35:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fly Eagles Fly to the moon and back and then back to the moon again

19/8/2025, 3:34:44 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gotta go several stops down the Blue Line but Logan Square and Avondale have many fine dining establishments. If you're feeling brave with the time you can go to Bucktown and Wicker Park, all are great neighborhoods

19/8/2025, 3:30:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In an inversion of 1992: It's the culture war, stupid. It's also no longer enough to "feel" people's pain. They want you to inflict some.

19/8/2025, 3:24:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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To be fair, Christophuh gets this reaction from most of the characters on this show

19/8/2025, 2:03:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"No, we're doomed. If you clicked the link to subscribe to my newsletter, 'We're Doomed', you would know that."

18/8/2025, 10:54:40 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I guess these folks have never seen what happens when the bill arrives for a table of more than three

18/8/2025, 5:10:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You and others have reported on it plenty but "Yahoos getting face time with the president" is still a sorely underappreciated dynamic throughout the past 8 years

18/8/2025, 4:12:45 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh OK, that explains why there's two troops in my living room eating my Nutella and asking for the wifi password

18/8/2025, 2:45:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’ve found you can’t exorcise anger. But you can break it apart by appreciating something for a while, no matter how minor. Like a cup of coffee or a thunderstorm.

16/8/2025, 11:39:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Most people in “deeply red areas” already have not one but *TWO* senators making sure blue interests get wrecked. What are we even talking about here?

16/8/2025, 6:22:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Losing a swim meet apparently does a number on one’s prefrontal cortex

16/8/2025, 6:02:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We knew the purity tests were coming the moment mainstream Dems started warming up to Mamdani

16/8/2025, 5:59:46 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sorry but the candidate has declared that this is actually about payday loans, which everyone agrees are bad, so she is a hero, thank you, bye

16/8/2025, 3:32:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I live a mile from here and there's a McDonalds, a Burger King, a Subway and a Dunkin Donuts on the SAME FRIGGIN CORNER! It fits with the community!

15/8/2025, 5:51:20 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seriously 9th district, fun's over. Time for this carpetbagging vanity project to end.

15/8/2025, 5:44:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Arresting the DC sandwich guy

A still of the ISB tactical team from Season 2, Episode 11 of
15/8/2025, 5:38:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All true but I prefer to believe w/r/t the "East Side" that these Brits are somehow very familiar with Avenues A through O

14/8/2025, 3:02:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Our military has been walking the streets in other countries to reduce crime? ... Beside the point but I'm continually struck by just how dumb Comer is and how badly the Rs screwed up making him the face of the Biden impeachment push

14/8/2025, 2:55:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do they let you make jeans ads from prison?

14/8/2025, 12:32:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The constants across the decades: 1. Elections have consequences 2. Thermostatic public opinion is a thing

13/8/2025, 6:29:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Backbench Montana no-necks gotta stand out somehow, I guess

13/8/2025, 3:33:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Even the throwaways are indelible. “Jose Feliciano, you got no complaints.” “We’re not a bank, Jerry.” “Ah, what the Christ!”

13/8/2025, 2:43:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jail or worse for all of these people. Let’s make it happen

13/8/2025, 12:12:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view