Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
America out being great in Chicago!!!
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
“The least compassionate”? That all you have for this criminal mob?
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
A six!?! You’d think the front end dragging on the ground would have tipped people off.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Wasn’t the Bobcat the Mercury version of a Pinto? “Overperformed” is open to interpretation. I say that as somebody who took a Saturn SL2 to a dragstrip test n tune night.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
This halfwit actually thinks she’s putting one over on the entire viewership.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey now! My dad had a ‘71 Vega. At least they gave it some styling bits in common with the Camaro. And no one will ever do this with a Tesla:
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Teslas aren’t even remotely cool anymore. They have as much pizzazz as a ‘99 Taurus.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Bullshit targeting call on Michigan’s Barham. Add this one to the clear horse-collar on UNM that the clown-ass refs waved off. Then these assholes just missed an incompletion.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Great figures! I’m a model railroader, but we could learn a lot of cool stuff from the military modeling crowd.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
I’m amplifying this because we need to keep forging ahead to a green energy future - and ignoring the forked tongues of the fossil fuel mob.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
The man with the best job in Chicago in the ‘60s and ‘70s was not named Daley.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
“For the public good… Look to Michigan!” I LOVE IT!!! Go Blue!
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
The Deplorables freaked out in 2016 because somebody finally told everyone out loud what they were. The worst of us.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
A decade? That orange bag of shit has soiled life in this country for over 40 years. And countless accomplices have kept shoving his stupidity and assholery in our faces all this time…for ad revenue.
Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) reposted
The voiceover is like a bedtime story 🛏️ 🤣 Zingerman's Bakehouse Ann Arbor, Michigan
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
I despise sports betting. I find any talk about sports betting loathsome. And I resent the invasion of idiotic sports betting crap on every TV sports event.
Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted
The past 12 hours gave all of us a sense of just how huge the nationwide celebration will be when he finally does kick the bucket. 🎉🥳🎊
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Stuff like this has made it really easy to stop paying attention to college football.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Mike Johnson is peeing his pants. He has no idea what is coming next.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
What a disgusting fraud her entire time in the national consciousness has been. It’d be great if Iowa could burst awake from its trance of maga assholery and start acting like the Granger state it is.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Building something you may never see succeed…a restatement of old people planting trees whose shade they will never enjoy. That’s statesmanship. See also, “leaving it all on the field.”
Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others." --Abraham Lincoln, 1838 www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Pfft - now post the original version.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
White people in the USA have no problem scolding entire groups of “others” to get their shit together. It’s long since time for us white people to turn the spotlight on ourselves and call out the bad actors. For our sake as well as everyone else’s.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
ME: "AI Chatbot, create an image of shameless, servile sycophants kissing the ass of the stupidest person in the United States to ever get famous." AI CHATBOT: "That image already exists."
darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
“I hate school!” When you’re 8 years old, it’s a sign of your lack of maturity. When you’re an adult, it’s a sign you utterly failed to mature.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
The homeschoolers and church schoolers who whine about their school taxes and the plain old public school bashers are not the sharpest knives in the USA’s nationsl drawer.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
(1/X) Sometimes people ask "why does this supposedly reasonable Republican back Trump or why does this centrist spend all of this time attacking the left at a time when the right is destroying the country?" The answer is simple: it's because they're assholes.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
It’d be great if the news-o-tainment industry would use photos of Trump’s current rotting, addled carcass to accompany their stories, instead of fake-tough-guy shots of him from over 10 years ago.
Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted
In a country full of way too many bootlickers who are only too happy to take a knee to an authoritarian… be a JB Pritzker. Stand up to tyranny. Protect the marginalized, the disabled, the immigrants and the LGBTQ+ communities. Hold the line and refuse to give in.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
This is 100% correct.
BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social) reposted
I knew a lot of hardcore pacifist and anti-nuclear clergy when I was a kid, and the British police should learn that nobody is more determined than a 70-something who wears socks with sandals and believes with all their heart in a higher law.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Hm…yeah. He ain’t in Chicago yet.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
I get it. I’m partially from Germans up by Lake County. We’ve had several friends retire to their places on the lake by Mich City, mostly because IN is the “taxpayers’ paradise”. They’re now finding that you get what you pay for. Thanks for responding!
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Behold…the typical National Guard nitwit who will volunteer to invade Illinois to fight “urban crime”. clip.cafe/img400/my-ho...
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
They’re looking for butter churns and goat milkers
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
This is a holy moment. Amazing.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
IU may have been an island of sanity, but Indiana in the last 4 decades has been a leaderless insular mess. When Mitch Daniels is your elder statesman, you need to reconsider your choices in life. I was born in South Bend, went to Notre Dame and live in Illinois.
iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social (@iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social) reposted
Just focus on the fact that the day we get the fat orange prick out of the WH, will be an additional Independence Day for us, in a bizarre kind of way.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Okay - I feel smarter now.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
If you want to check in on a sad example of ‘Murricans continuing to behave as if everything is like it was 25 years ago and not all effed up nine ways to Sunday, watch a NASCAR race.
Harmit Malik (@harmitmalik.bsky.social) reposted
It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
I have no idea how NASCAR makes money anymore. Attendance is paltry, and unless you go looking for it you will not see newspaper, interwebs, or teevee coverage.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
“Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines” We are back to 1980 “Stripes” era cynicism about the value of military service. Can’t wait to see where this goes after clueless enlistees get bopped by a couple sandwiches.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Whatever ‘Murricans do, somebody else on Earth does it better
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
That would make an interesting book. (It may already exist)
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Absolutely no one is minding the store. The SEC. Democrats. DOJ. Congress as a whole. The Obsolete Media. It’s a ghost town of the obstruction that should be happening.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
What goes in that neighborhood? IVs. IVs of what, with this turdsack? Who knows.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Based on what I’ve seen of ICE agents, he probably couldn’t devour the dozen Krispy Kremes fast enough. (Side note: Krispy Kreme donuts are shit.)
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Flinging Murdochs off tall buildings might be of value to humanity
michaeledward (@michaeledward.bsky.social) reposted
I prefer an America where the President can be criticized openly in public and the FBI doesn't show up because the President is a wimpy baby.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
…that rode the Electro-Who-Cardio-Floox. www.fakebands.com/wiki/images/...
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
And who are they negotiating with for these water supplies? The village board of East Pig’s Knuckle, who are drooling over the dangling carrot of “jobs, jobs, jobs”, but didn’t notice data centers have no parking lots.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Cooling system chemical water treatment - biocides and corrosion prevention, mostly - ain’t cheap, and the idiot chimps building data centers will reduce chemical treatment in favor of a once-through system (water main - data center - sewer with no recirculation) if they can get away with it.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
The question to ask about data center water consumption is what portion of the metered intake is going out as wastewater, which can be recovered locally. The rest is winding up as vapor over the countryside, going God knows where.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s also shite animation, to the point of not even being worthy of the name.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Hello @bsky.app - please provide a “please clap” post blocking function.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Watching the Netflix documentary on Devo and this image of their 1978 debut album cover pops up and ask, "Just how old *is* Tom Brady?"
Lisa Aulerich (@heyaulerich.bsky.social) reposted
The last three articles I read today: 1) Mormon women finally get sleeveless sacred underwear 2) Europe postal services refuse to ship packages to the US because of a lack of clarity about how to handle new tarrifs 3) Trump claims to know more about Grass than any other person on the planet
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
If you’ve met mostly-white people in the USA, it makes perfect sense. Plus our system for electing people to office is a Rube Goldberg machine made of twigs and cow manure.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
The idiot incompetents of the Nincompoop Hitler Empire all got their jobs by doing bombastic, stupid, infantile shit on teevee. In their “grownup” jobs in government, they are doing the exact same shit. Bondi. Hegseth. Pirro. Noem (ffs, Noem)…and their rotten-brained shaved orangutan god himself.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re far less likely to have the woman from next door show up on your porch with a bloody nose begging you to call the police.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Heckling and flinging rotten produce at the road crew jerks who are doing DeSantis’s dirty work is justified. These garbage sacks choose to do this, they know it’s wrong, and they think what they’re doing is hilarious. Same mindset as the cops who are itching to crack skulls at protests.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
In this weekend’s Super Oldies Dance Party rotation: “Beat On The Brat” by James “The Beat Doctor” Dobson
JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social (@jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social) reposted
What he actually said was he was going to be a dictator “only one Day One.” He lied. As he has lied about everything else. He is a dictator, who has no respect for laws, or for anything or anyone else. RISE UP!!! STOP HIM!!!
Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) reposted
This is where we are in this country. Normally an FBI search on a figure such as John Bolton would elicit shock and speculation about what he did. Now the first speculation is, there’s something bogus and political afoot.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
I will amplify any effective restatement of the idea C Hanna expresses here. All of this ignorant assholery is temporary. Keep the faith!
Star:Line Chicago (@starlinechicago.bsky.social) reposted
Well said, Chairman Dillard. We rise together or we fall together. www.dailyherald.com/20250821/tra...
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
MAGA is big mad at Cracker Barrel because the restaurant removed from its logo MAGA's ideal for physical beauty: An old white man with an orange face.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Trump is weak, struggling, failing garbage surrounded by incompetent clowns. Expel him now.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
We in the United States are governed by foul, disgusting, ignorant, unqualified, and wholly unworthy people. This must end. They must be expelled, and a government worthy of our people must be installed.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks like a glass aneurysm. That should be really pretty a few feet away from the Chicago Theatre.
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social) reposted
Hey, Literally Every Media Outlet, It's not a Ukraine-Russian war; it's Ukraine defending itself against Russian occupation and annihilation. Thanks.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Hey, look! It’s the District of Columbia being invaded by the racist losers of the defeated Confederacy. In 2025.
Courtney Milan (@courtneymilan.com) reposted
That Big Balls is not punched in the face everywhere he goes shows the incredible restraint and lawfulness of DC residents.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
"THE ART OF THE KNEEL" TRUMP: "You have to agree to a ceasefire or there will be sanctions." PUTIN: "No ceasefire." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "And no sanctions." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "We're done. Thanks for the red carpet and photo ops."
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s pretty tough to out-evil UP when it comes to evil corporations.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
#SleepyDon could barely stay awake while he was getting pantsed by Putin.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Don’t hold your breath waiting for honest attendance numbers from Chicago’s “Air and Water Show”. Based on teevee news footage, gawker numbers were paltry.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Ordering striking workers back to work is a sign from God that you are on the wrong path in life.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Disposing of all that electro-crap in “data centers” is going to be a massive burden on the people of…oh…five years from now.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Quit pretending that the brainless clown sitting in our White House “negotiates” anything. Putin literally owns his stupid ass.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social) reply parent
That fat turd needs a sandwich.
Rebel Bishop (@starrmoone.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Ah, yes. The lies, the foundation of this Regime. I remember the good ol days....
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Yep. I don’t even know what to say to the idiots I know who voted for this brainless criminal clown.
Jim Marciniak (@jimmarciniak.bsky.social)
Indiana politics and government is bored puppies chewing shoes on an epic scale.
Kevin Elliott (@kjephd.bsky.social) reposted
Americans are currently living under a government that rules outside the law and in defiance of the Constitution. That's it, that's the whole thing
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Whether it’s Donald Trump allowing Gazans to starve or a nameless protester throwing a sandwich at an ICE agent, both sides have helped perpetrate food-related atrocities.