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Bobby Big Wheel

@kleinman.bsky.social

I like to post and see posts. Director of Research at The States Project, the views expressed here are my own.

created May 8, 2023

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Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

My goal is that by the time this country is no longer at risk of being Francoist Spain I can wear a track suit every day and drive a big gold Cadillac

2/9/2025, 3:02:36 AM | 39 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

2/9/2025, 3:01:17 AM | 45 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

If UNC legend Brendan Haywood can do them so can he

2/9/2025, 2:58:13 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Bill Belichick has to do an Eastern Motors ad so he can pay for his trip with Jordon to Tulum

2/9/2025, 2:56:52 AM | 77 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 2:54:01 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture muscular baby jeb lund (@mobute.bsky.social) reposted

i know the broadcast isn't saying it, but i keep thinking the espn crew is talking about marshall applewhite. "and steve belichick told us how much he and his dad appreciated what they learned from ti and do."

2/9/2025, 2:49:57 AM | 29 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Though hey I have a pretty bad record of predicting Trump stuff beyond "he's going to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election." I think I'm pretty good at sussing out macro and downballot trends but I didn't watch enough of The Apprentice to get him very well.

2/9/2025, 2:50:44 AM | 43 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

I don't think Trump is dying if only because he's surrounded by people who'd leak it to the press if he were

2/9/2025, 2:49:13 AM | 138 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social) reposted

I am all for annoying him so much with death rumors that he finds it necessary to keep saying he's not dead every few days. Because that's real strength baby. bsky.app/profile/cono...

2/9/2025, 2:29:22 AM | 245 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Jordon Hudson has dumped Bill Belichick for Kirk Ferentz

2/9/2025, 2:28:38 AM | 172 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a nice way to build community and useful to plan your kids' weekends and afterschool activities. Plus, parents' bar night!

2/9/2025, 2:21:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably the only Meta product I use!

2/9/2025, 2:18:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm actually going to miss my son's Kindergarten class one, but you could probably do an entire season of Normal Gossip about them

2/9/2025, 2:17:06 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

No we need to focus on our common enemy on there

2/9/2025, 2:15:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Everyone who invests in crypto looks like this

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2/9/2025, 2:06:20 AM | 203 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Now that the podcast is over I can admit that I was one of the worst guests ever, my audio was fucked up and everything was delayed, no flow, Stefan and John still somehow let me play in their Learned League private rundle.

2/9/2025, 2:04:51 AM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

My enemy! podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...

2/9/2025, 2:03:52 AM | 35 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 1:31:59 AM | 239 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer) reposted

This is why Isaac Chotiner gets treated like Socrates for asking basic follow-up questions

2/9/2025, 1:28:30 AM | 473 67 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

AI artists are all just Gamemaster Anthony. Living in the world that he created at his birthday party.

2/9/2025, 12:35:12 AM | 75 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Relax, if I had the lathe of heaven then Trump never would've become president

2/9/2025, 12:32:41 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Rather buy art from John Wayne Gacy

2/9/2025, 12:32:09 AM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

2026 Alabama coach Bill Belichick

2/9/2025, 12:30:49 AM | 72 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Wishing all the parents out there good luck on their new class WhatsApp chats

2/9/2025, 12:30:14 AM | 142 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

It'd be hilarious if Carolyn Maloney ran here. But it'd be even more hilarious if Mondaire Jones did too.

2/9/2025, 12:14:34 AM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing hater move

2/9/2025, 12:08:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Micah Lasher szn www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

2/9/2025, 12:07:02 AM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Micah Lasher szn www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...

1/9/2025, 11:59:42 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Right, but not New Deal expensive

1/9/2025, 11:58:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Doesn't even have to be that big of an investment. High impact tutoring is remarkably cost effective for fighting learning loss.

1/9/2025, 9:31:27 PM | 56 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

And it's all turned to ashes. They ended up taking power 4 years later anyway. They took it from us.

1/9/2025, 12:31:46 PM | 121 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

This phenomenon puts a ceiling on it but ultimately AI and Video Slop need writing to make them run. How many TikTok videos are just a person talking with a headline in their background? Bluesky will never be the cultural phenomenon that Twitter was but it still can inform what's taking its place.

1/9/2025, 11:44:19 AM | 82 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Damn dude, Labour makes Democrats look like Wobblies

1/9/2025, 10:13:12 AM | 115 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Only because it's hard to pick just one street by Grand Army Plaza

1/9/2025, 3:10:31 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

That Ga Tech game is what got me to stop gambling on sports bsky.app/profile/evan...

1/9/2025, 3:00:35 AM | 35 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Networks love Mario Cristobal because fans are afraid to turn off the TV even when his team has a 90% chance of winning.

1/9/2025, 2:51:25 AM | 135 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 (@murderxbryan.bsky.social) reposted

I would give all of it to radical feminist causes.

1/9/2025, 2:26:04 AM | 241 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) reposted

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

31/8/2025, 5:33:07 PM | 2625 1854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan O’Sullivan (@osullyville.bsky.social) reposted

1/9/2025, 2:15:21 AM | 171 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub.bsky.social) reposted

DID YOU KNOW: Notre Dame-Miami is a matchup of teams that have each made the ACC Championship once

31/8/2025, 11:44:50 PM | 548 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Conor Sen (@conorsen.bsky.social) reposted

This is a very strangely-worded contract but is basically a pure play on the thing:

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1/9/2025, 12:12:44 AM | 122 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken.bsky.social) reposted

It feels like Mamdani is running for mayor against three competing Tim & Eric sketches

31/8/2025, 11:30:23 PM | 600 76 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 10:53:54 PM | 48 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Guessing it's THAT Mark McCloskey too

31/8/2025, 9:03:46 PM | 57 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd like to think that after experiencing 2024 people could finally agree that maybe it's healthy for the frontrunner with bad approvals to face a primary

31/8/2025, 8:37:07 PM | 68 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

8 years later, still posting this centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

31/8/2025, 8:07:51 PM | 55 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeff Liszt (@liszt.bsky.social) reposted

MASSIVE ovation for Colbert on the crowd at Arthur Ashe between games.

31/8/2025, 7:52:17 PM | 56 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) reposted

I made a spreadsheet of all the federal cases filed as part of Trump's DC crackdown. It's not going great

31/8/2025, 12:57:04 PM | 557 199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Even in 2020, Buttigieg's attacks on Biden's age were oblique www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/u...

31/8/2025, 12:57:11 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) reposted

You’re never gonna guess what this is in response to

31/8/2025, 5:01:15 AM | 495 45 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

The 2028 primary would be better if candidates attack each other hard and early so they can see how they hold up to pressure. What if Bernie had gone hard after Hillary's FBI investigation in 2016? Or Biden got a serious challenge in 2024?

31/8/2025, 12:49:06 PM | 51 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Osita Nwanevu (@ositanwanevu.com) reposted

1) America is not a democracy, and because it isn't, your vote in the 2028 general election will not really matter unless you live in one of a handful of states. 2) 2028 will be one of the most wide open primaries in history and there's no reason to preempt critiques of candidates on these grounds.

31/8/2025, 12:39:10 PM | 1359 129 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is saying that being a dictator makes things work better. But actually, it means government resources go to projecting his own authority instead of getting shit done bsky.app/profile/john...

31/8/2025, 11:54:50 AM | 91 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sickos Committee (@sickoscommittee.org) reposted

New York, London, Paris, Munich Everyone talkin bout Cade Klubnik

Pop Muzik music video
31/8/2025, 3:10:17 AM | 92 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

All the going for it on 4th down had me worried coaches were getting too good, thanks for keeping it real Dabo

31/8/2025, 3:08:03 AM | 52 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Artologica aka Michele Banks (@artologica.net) reposted

New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate

31/8/2025, 2:43:55 AM | 5413 873 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Brian Kelly will be miserable no matter what

31/8/2025, 3:02:18 AM | 37 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

We don't have Robert Kekaula but we have the next best thing

31/8/2025, 2:42:43 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

When John Roberts said he was going to be a humble referee this is what he was talking about

31/8/2025, 2:18:56 AM | 81 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Brian Kelly should try journaling

31/8/2025, 2:14:25 AM | 49 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fascism Heckler (@fascismheckler.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

OH SHE IS DROPPING THOSE THEORIES

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30/8/2025, 10:41:15 PM | 448 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I was in my single era and it came up on pretty much every OKCupid date

31/8/2025, 2:01:41 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) reposted

I think Linsanity was as close as New York can get to that sequence in MAJOR LEAGUE where every single person is psyched about the local sports team. Truly something else

31/8/2025, 2:00:26 AM | 208 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I want a lawyer to tell me it's OK to put birdseed on them

31/8/2025, 1:53:13 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddNM...

31/8/2025, 1:52:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emily Hahn, MD (@ehahnmd.bsky.social) reposted

These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

31/8/2025, 12:48:52 AM | 839 349 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Brazil's racial politics are probably the closest analogue to our own but I still think Jim Crow Everywhere is the proper frame

31/8/2025, 1:17:53 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Holly Anderson 🍇 (@hollyanderson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

In a historic first, Cajuns struggle with Rice

31/8/2025, 12:56:34 AM | 579 96 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

What if Belichick wins the ACC this year

31/8/2025, 1:01:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't think you get why I'm disowning UVA

31/8/2025, 12:58:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

After a week in the suburbs I've decided that if I lived here I'd hang out in my driveway with a radar gun and a garden hose for anyone going over 35.

31/8/2025, 12:57:30 AM | 95 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Late to this but even in spite of the issues with Lorenz's piece this is very incisive

31/8/2025, 12:55:02 AM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Could become a Michigan (ugh) or Syracuse (please no) fan based on my sisters but my in-laws provide another option

31/8/2025, 12:43:05 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Goddammit UVA finally gets good at football after I disown the school

31/8/2025, 12:39:49 AM | 35 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Check out Alien: Earth!

31/8/2025, 12:38:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

31/8/2025, 12:36:18 AM | 437 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

So is Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo.

30/8/2025, 11:32:35 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

SSNs have to be useless as a security tool by now

30/8/2025, 11:26:00 PM | 177 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) reposted

I know a Guy who is also an “I know a guy” Guy and I love my Guys with all my heart. They do great work, they save me time and headache, they’re cool and nice and play with my kids when they come by. I pay them extra or early when I can, and give their numbers to anyone who needs a Guy. Priceless.

30/8/2025, 10:42:50 PM | 197 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) reposted

It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.

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Profile picture treb (@treblaw.bsky.social) reposted

really nothing quite like Doak when you have that raucous racist chant going full bore and it's driven by 19 year old Business majors from Kissimmee

30/8/2025, 11:04:01 PM | 175 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

If Bama loses that might be the first time in a year that I miss being on Twitter

30/8/2025, 10:53:07 PM | 81 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) reposted

Riding for Sumrall like

30/8/2025, 10:48:43 PM | 349 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

Damn, how's a whole state gonna lose to some guy?

30/8/2025, 7:21:11 PM | 64 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Running a FIFA beginner offense against a side with twice your payroll is understanding the mission

30/8/2025, 7:14:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That man is never retiring

30/8/2025, 6:44:37 PM | 57 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Googling "Billy Bob Thornton divorces" after that T-Mobile ad

30/8/2025, 6:44:16 PM | 80 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

He's pragmatic, I'll give him that

30/8/2025, 6:39:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My default assumption for any ag-dependent community is something like 2-1 for Trump. Don't think there's much differentiation based on the commodity, though dairy is a little more Dem and ranching more GOP based on where they're located.

30/8/2025, 6:34:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social)

I've been dragging my feet on apple picking for decades, why didn't any of you tell me about apple cannons?

30/8/2025, 6:31:45 PM | 63 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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I never want to see two good teams play each other on Labor Day weekend again

30/8/2025, 6:16:00 PM | 51 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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The key to a great celebrity cameo is if they just need to play it straight

30/8/2025, 6:14:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Texas legislature passing a law saying the 1-yard line is the end zone

30/8/2025, 6:13:39 PM | 126 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted

I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein

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Profile picture Anchorage Man (@sethpartnow.bsky.social) reposted

All the think pieces about “how did we get here” are superfluous when this video exists. A third of the country is this f’in guy. That’s how we got here.

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Profile picture Razzball (@razzball.bsky.social) reposted

Welcome back college football!

Ohio State’s Ryan Day has a nipple clamp
30/8/2025, 5:47:33 PM | 319 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey! My grandfather went there too and it's where he met my grandmother

30/8/2025, 5:40:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bobby Big Wheel (@kleinman.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean he does remind me of Spencer Rattler a bit

30/8/2025, 5:39:11 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Vera said that?"

30/8/2025, 5:33:20 PM | 84 1 | View on Bluesky | view