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johnpfree

@johnpfree.bsky.social

retired software guy . Moved to the old folks home in Rohnert Park. - love Basketball (Warriors) - don't love football, but sure do love the Niners! Liberal all the way. If they have an R next to their name, I'm done with them.

created October 7, 2023

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Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

“Good trouble”

3/9/2025, 12:18:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I got a brush up on my Eric Schmitts ….

3/9/2025, 12:17:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

3/9/2025, 12:14:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Meh I think they’re both doing great work and may they both prosper and they would both be great choices if we ever have elections again .

2/9/2025, 11:58:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

💯💯💯

2/9/2025, 11:57:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Totally, LOLing at what you said, but also they look really happy and cute and all that stuff and good luck to them!!

2/9/2025, 9:01:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣🤣

2/9/2025, 8:51:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn and that’s a long ass movie also. So go through that whole thing and then have you ruin it at the end ! Those righties sure are a fragile bunch ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2/9/2025, 8:50:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t know man… my gut tells me he was born like this. Torture small animals as a child that sort of thing. So having that kind of wrong, mean nature, then growing up seeing how his parents treated the help….

2/9/2025, 8:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually, the Wall Street Journal could run a public service by running a little banner on everyday’s front page about how much money the Trump made in the last 24 hours from what…

2/9/2025, 8:32:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

She would do herself a huge favor if she would just shut the fuck up and just enjoy being a famous author

2/9/2025, 8:28:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Students get in free! Been a long time since I’ve been to Cambridge. What the heck is Middle East Corner?

2/9/2025, 8:26:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, somebody isn’t having fun! 😲

2/9/2025, 8:25:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) reposted

100 percent

2/9/2025, 4:06:05 PM | 1451 271 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I think part of it is he makes it socially acceptable to be an asshole.

2/9/2025, 5:07:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I have no idea what that even means, but a picture of nate silver just makes me lol on principal

2/9/2025, 12:22:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Boy, you sure have to put up with a lot of dumb sh-t.

2/9/2025, 12:19:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Very sorry about the last part, but thanks for the knowledge! So they’re kind of into their purity in their little corner up there. I have always thought well of them, because they sure do give the Russians a hard time! It probably has not been easy to be Dennis Schroder all his life.

1/9/2025, 11:24:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Before this presidency, I had no idea there were so many people that could be classified as “only evil”! 😲 I guess massive evil at the top brings out the evil in people who were inclined that way…

1/9/2025, 11:15:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Way past time if you ask me, but anyway, yes!!

1/9/2025, 10:16:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I want that job!

1/9/2025, 10:14:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn, that guy has been a guard for Germany since before my grandkids were born! There’s something going on here and it is not a good thing! 😲😕😕☹️

1/9/2025, 10:13:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Sometimes there’s a fine line between parodying a thing and being the thing. But somebody has to do it. Thanks, Gavin.!

1/9/2025, 10:11:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social)

Yesterday was a hot day!

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1/9/2025, 7:11:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I hadn’t thought of it quite that way, but that’s exactly on the mark really!!

1/9/2025, 6:59:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

My absolute #1 favorite band as a child!!

1/9/2025, 6:20:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s why they are cheating so desperately!

1/9/2025, 1:45:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Let me know if they’re doing this again next weekend!!! That looks like somewhere in the central Valley that I could drive to ! 😄😄😎

1/9/2025, 1:41:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Loves Data (@laurelann.bsky.social) reposted

This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...

31/8/2025, 5:48:54 PM | 13040 2662 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s quite a day you had there!

1/9/2025, 1:39:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

❤️❤️ but no X for me.

1/9/2025, 1:37:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally, I think the moron that appointed him is in line for an even hotter hell.

31/8/2025, 8:17:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

💯💯 The Euros are taking this whole Putin owning Donald situation far more seriously than we are . Because they have family members that live through just terrible things can get !

31/8/2025, 8:15:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

To put it alternatively: it’s been a while since I’ve heard of something he’s wrong about! 😄

31/8/2025, 5:37:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s extremely inefficient

31/8/2025, 5:35:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I know you have a lot on your plate … But Ken Paxton is such a sorry excuse for a human being.

31/8/2025, 4:33:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

🤣🤣

31/8/2025, 4:31:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

and that of course is why we love you! (It beats the “Death of Stalin” replay we are all trapped in)

31/8/2025, 4:17:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess it’s a way to make a living. A particularly degraded living…

31/8/2025, 4:06:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Looking forward to a remake of that movie “Death of Stalin”

30/8/2025, 8:11:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, when you put it that way, who could resist!! 😁

30/8/2025, 8:09:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 1:03:47 PM | 37200 11676 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe you should check your elitism! (sorry just feeling like a smart ass killing time at Friday happy hour :)

30/8/2025, 1:14:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Go Bears! 😄

30/8/2025, 1:12:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

My constant refrain: Do you know who loves this? Putin loves this!

30/8/2025, 1:11:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll believe it when I see it.

30/8/2025, 1:10:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like I’d be used to it by now, but God this is so depressing. … and humiliating for the nation.

30/8/2025, 12:18:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

You know better than that. Just come out and say they suck. You know they do. This is why people get annoyed with Democrats.

29/8/2025, 11:44:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

💯 No piece of that makes even a little bit of sense! 🤣🤔🤔

29/8/2025, 10:47:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

If I was going to run an authoritarian dictatorship, I would want a whole battalion of Mike Johnsons.

29/8/2025, 10:45:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Ya think?

29/8/2025, 9:08:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

In my opinion, this right here is the key that unlocks it all. All the extremely weird unexplainable and ugly things, Trump does every day have only one thing in common. They make America weaker (and Putin happier)

29/8/2025, 9:07:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude‘s been in his own little bubble too long.

29/8/2025, 9:02:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

When this happens with an infectious disease people are really get pissed … aren’t they??? “people” have been disappointing me every day since Trump came into our politics…

29/8/2025, 8:49:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tori Foote (@toriatheisttori.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 11:36:41 PM | 632 221 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you! You just posted the soundtrack I was having in my head 😁💪🏾

29/8/2025, 12:07:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Ignorant, stupid, AND unserious. I guess that’s some kind of trifecta. 🤮🤮😡😡

29/8/2025, 12:04:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

You just described my relationship to the Giants … 😕

28/8/2025, 9:24:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m hoping this is rock bottom. But you don’t have to look very far in history to see that rock bottom can get way worse than this!

28/8/2025, 9:23:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Who’s happy about this? Putin is happy about this.

28/8/2025, 8:52:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Life in wartime. 😡😡🤮🤮😕😕

28/8/2025, 8:50:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael McFaul (@mcfaulmike.bsky.social) reposted

Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?

27/8/2025, 4:53:01 PM | 1338 502 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for this!

28/8/2025, 8:47:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social)

This is what “walkin the walk” looks like: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

27/8/2025, 11:57:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

❤️❤️ It is great to discover you over here, even though it was the awful thing in Minneapolis that made your name pop up. I could always tell you were a smart one ! 😎 Very happy you’re here!

27/8/2025, 10:16:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep!

27/8/2025, 10:07:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s just say it was.

27/8/2025, 8:33:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social)

Just got this from Heather Cox Richardson in honor of the 19th Amendment. "... right-wing Christian nationalists supported by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling for an end to women’s right to vote ..." that seems normal... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

27/8/2025, 5:10:31 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

not enough vomit emoji's in the world for this one....

27/8/2025, 5:04:54 AM | 33 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social)

@msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social Y’all are gonna need more mental health experts for play-by-play on the presidents deteriorating mental health every day. There’s no one to stop him from saying whatever weird-ass thing that comes into his brain every second. Where is his so-called wife?

27/8/2025, 1:58:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah!

27/8/2025, 1:46:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for doing this! I won’t be there, but I kind of started crying when I read this, Because it has the potential to be just what we need . It could also be a horrible shitstorm, but it might be the shitstorm we need. We gotta do something!!

27/8/2025, 1:46:19 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

This seems pretty fucking Major to me!!!!

27/8/2025, 1:33:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

For some reason, the notion of a three hour Trump cabinet meeting makes me start picturing those 1930s movies about Circus freaks….

27/8/2025, 1:32:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Speaking from complete ignorance of the situation other than what you just described, my answer is fuck yes!!!

27/8/2025, 1:30:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social)

BSky did the thing where I signed on and tried to comment on something but it sent me off into some kind of starter space when I touch the screen. I’m sure there are legit technical reasons why that’s all it knew how to do, but it’s effing annoying!

27/8/2025, 1:28:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Love that!

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

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

She warned us.

27/8/2025, 12:22:14 AM | 2530 462 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted

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26/8/2025, 8:18:39 AM | 1554 368 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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26/8/2025, 2:30:45 AM | 18339 6246 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, even if they are merely “reasonably happy” and don’t necessarily “genuinely love it”, stuff like this is a cause for celebration and getting to love it more! 😎💪🏾

25/8/2025, 12:57:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t think he used to be this ignorant. But if you told me he has gotten actually measurably stupider since he’s been around Trump all the time I would believe it!

24/8/2025, 11:44:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Now I’ll have to go read up on why! 😄 I have a good imagination. I’ll be making up scenarios until I find out. 😂

23/8/2025, 12:20:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I was thinking about that just today! Eventually there will be an actual health event, and we probably won’t know about it for two or three weeks (or more!) except by rumor! Unless he just keels over on the tarmac in front of everybody, then we’ll know! 😕

23/8/2025, 12:18:08 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

This little story explains a lot about why so many European leaders came over to kiss Trump’s butt a couple of weeks ago. I’m sure they truly truly hated kissing Trump’s butt, but they have long memories and know how bad things can get in the plains of central Europe

22/8/2025, 10:59:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Vladimir says “Donald you have made the people very unhappy, which is why I asked.” “But I need you make them even more unhappy!!!”.

22/8/2025, 9:49:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

I would’ve thought this guy was a normal person with a conscience when he took this job. But it appears he had that removed as part of the vetting processes . 😡😡

22/8/2025, 8:12:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s been there less than a year.

22/8/2025, 7:41:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

“In the eye of the beholder” 🤣🤣

22/8/2025, 12:53:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, like any good Republican he doesn’t give a shit about anything that happens to other people. It’s in their DNA as near as I can tell. Crime only matters when it happens to you or people you know. Everybody else, fuck ‘em.

22/8/2025, 12:52:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

It is really sad that it has come to this. But it . has . come . to . this …, so correct as usual!

22/8/2025, 12:47:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

She is a female person, not a manly male person. That’s a pretty big strike right there in those circle.

22/8/2025, 12:45:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kumar Rao (@kumar.bsky.social) reposted

Tremendous crossover move right here:

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22/8/2025, 12:43:14 AM | 18435 4275 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

As i say every time this comes up, the only mechanism that makes it all make sense is that he’s taking orders from Putin. He’s not smart enough to figure this stuff out. Some personal obsessions of his are there like tariffs But why would he want pandemics?

21/8/2025, 11:28:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zeteo (@zeteo.com) reposted

"Trump Is Inflicting More Damage Than Even the Pessimists Anticipated" In every realm that allows him to harm our country’s interests, values, and norms, the president continues to outdo himself in all the worst ways, writes @johnjharwood.bsky.social. Read the article: zeteo.com/p/trump-is-i...

21/8/2025, 7:16:12 PM | 716 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

Fortunately, that screens out most of the Trump administration.

21/8/2025, 10:12:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s a great graphic, I wish I could see the rest of it without waiting through a bunch of marketing crap.

21/8/2025, 10:11:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

@rhodesben.bsky.social is a smart guy. I always turn off mute when I see he’s on ! 😄 Technology and the degree to which Heritage has embedded right wing judges everywhere. Those the biggies

21/8/2025, 6:48:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

The Bushes don’t get enough credit for how thoroughly they contributed to the ruination of everything which is coming to pass now. Especially in Supreme Court justices, and the great legacy of fair play they left in Texas 😕

21/8/2025, 6:43:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnpfree (@johnpfree.bsky.social) reply parent

From the nearly always correct Rachel Maddow, “watch what they do not what they say!”

21/8/2025, 12:43:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view