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Martijon

@martijon.bsky.social

Retiree who does not want to live under fascism. It does not have to be this way. Father and husband. Also, nature lover, traveler, reader who enjoys life despite it all.(photo accurately depicts me - but not now). Ok. I’ve been here awhile so NO DMs.

created January 24, 2025

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Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing scary about that, is there? Can we have a kill switch please? Never dealt well with berzerk robots.

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1/9/2025, 8:12:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were both horrible and destructive to our society and our country. It is really weird how bad Trump is that he's undoubtedly the worst even following these very bad actors.

1/9/2025, 8:06:53 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dude, we all understand but don’t say it was because you were smoking pot. Not how pot works.

1/9/2025, 7:40:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The worse this sounds for Trump, the more I am convinced that ICE goons, whether actually sent by Trump or not, will try and disrupt it. Hope I am wrong.

1/9/2025, 7:31:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing man

1/9/2025, 7:28:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Like a small, stubby mushroom.

1/9/2025, 7:25:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

We would do anything.

1/9/2025, 7:24:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Identify every one of these people for proper justice after the restoration. Our police originated as slave catchers. Unfortunately, some never moved beyond that role. We need major reform. These guys are our employees, not our masters.

1/9/2025, 7:23:32 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird effect on that right photo. Trump looks like he’s got a bald old hippie pony tail working for him. Can’t be, although he is old and bald.

1/9/2025, 7:16:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just like after the Civil War and the Trump insurrection.

1/9/2025, 7:12:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

He dies when he wore this outfit.

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1/9/2025, 6:21:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtube.com/shorts/8KIrs...

1/9/2025, 6:15:30 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t that nice. Put the “Cracker” back in the Cracker Barrel.

1/9/2025, 6:13:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How the fuck would you know, you damn weirdo? You are murdering children. Where is the empathy in that?

1/9/2025, 6:05:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice. Good luck this year.

1/9/2025, 6:03:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

True, but shiny white gogo boots are also very macho.

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1/9/2025, 5:52:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump may be past tense.🤞🤞🏾🤞🏿🤞🏽😇

1/9/2025, 5:47:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is really good. Even better if Trump is dead.

1/9/2025, 5:45:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 5:15:16 PM | 23 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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My dad was a bus driver in the 50s, in a union, and somewhat provided for a family of seven on his salary. Worked OT but bought a house.In the 80s, my wife and I worked to support our family of three and buy a house. What is the struggle like now? We see the trend in money distribution charts.

1/9/2025, 5:39:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😀

1/9/2025, 5:27:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder if ICE will show up for this event like they did for Newsom’s presser last week. That would be interesting.

1/9/2025, 5:26:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Good eye!

1/9/2025, 5:23:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Idiocracy. “Werewolf syndrome” in babies? Christ on a pogo stick!

1/9/2025, 5:19:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything is 10,000% better!

1/9/2025, 5:17:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/F2HH7J-Sx80?...

1/9/2025, 5:14:59 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Great call.

1/9/2025, 5:12:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/tzDoqbPVKrQ?...

1/9/2025, 5:08:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

I seem to recall Trump mentioning tariffs during his election campaign when, by definition, they all voted for something they didn’t want. MAGA!

1/9/2025, 5:05:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck you Kristi!

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1/9/2025, 3:37:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Starting to think that Melania never recovered from Trump murdering her Jeffrey.

1/9/2025, 3:35:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Calculated to appeal to the vulnerable. Worked so far.

1/9/2025, 3:32:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/DiboJ-YbmDI?...

1/9/2025, 3:30:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It does not seem like an official holiday until we get a Truth from Donnie calling half the country “scum”. I guess one of the Stephens, Cheung or Miller, can fill the void

1/9/2025, 3:12:07 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Great series of posts.

1/9/2025, 3:08:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

That was a big signal to the reactionary movement that is peaking now. Reagan was horrible and started our downward spiral. Living on his “Mr. Gorbachev” movement. Awful tool of the oligarchs.

1/9/2025, 3:08:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thud! The sound of Lutnick’s head falling into the basket. Symbolically, of course!

1/9/2025, 3:00:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s pining for the fjords.

1/9/2025, 2:58:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smoky eyed sociopath.

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

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I am convinced we will not hear him speak live again. So hope I am right.

1/9/2025, 2:56:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Charlie Kirk and his pet.

1/9/2025, 2:55:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy is an insane asshole. Fuck him and the stupid Republicans that elevated him.

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1/9/2025, 2:51:46 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s pining for the fjords. youtu.be/RQhVLHu8HRk?...

1/9/2025, 2:43:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/RQhVLHu8HRk?...

1/9/2025, 2:42:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy was probably okay with erasing thousands of years of pre-Columbian history.

1/9/2025, 2:33:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Funny this. Why did they need to raise the debt ceiling by $5 trillion? This is not working on anyone Donnie. Spell is broken.

1/9/2025, 2:31:21 PM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful shots. Great to see a glacier while we still have them.

1/9/2025, 1:29:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

What a mystery! Scott really makes me cringe. Could these guys really believe what they are saying? How?

1/9/2025, 1:09:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance has the charisma and charm of rancid milk. I do not think he can hold it together. Beard ain't enough.

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1/9/2025, 1:04:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone wins. Still a shame too see young people die for a septuagenerian’s wet dream.

1/9/2025, 1:00:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Those books are great literature. What gives anyone on Earth the right to deprive someone else of the ability to read them? That is the trouble with these damn people. If you don’t like a book, don’t read it yourself. But don’t tell me I can’t read it.

1/9/2025, 12:51:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

Excellent display of truthful knowledge.

1/9/2025, 2:34:38 AM | 1291 662 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

1/9/2025, 12:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social)

Wife woke up so happy this morning. She received an email about a package about 11:30 pm last night. When she opened our front door, there was a beautiful red fox on our porch looking up at her. We see the signs of fox every day but they are nocturnal so sightings are a joy.

1/9/2025, 12:43:29 PM | 48 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Palm trees in Virginia not too convincing either. These stunts are making me hopeful and happy. If they could wheel him out in front of cameras, they would. Thinking they can’t.

1/9/2025, 12:34:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Not so sure.

1/9/2025, 12:30:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

By all rights, that should mean none at all.

1/9/2025, 12:30:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. But it is so sad. Not a religion thing, a human nature thing.

1/9/2025, 12:29:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

He is still in Schrodinger’s box. We’ll know soon enough unless they have trained a vigorous double by now.

1/9/2025, 12:27:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

I think you are right here. This guy will not hold it together.

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1/9/2025, 12:24:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sphere headed dope. youtu.be/tzDoqbPVKrQ?...

1/9/2025, 12:17:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

You are a busy guy!

1/9/2025, 12:15:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Is is a damning indictment of humanity that Israel, of all countries, is behaving this way now. Are we irredeemable as a species?

1/9/2025, 12:13:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve read Moby Dick twice. First time as a kid and I read it as a great adventure story. Second time in late middle age and it was a dark philosophical treatise. Wisdom on every page.

1/9/2025, 12:09:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

I did not know he was dealing with Parkinson’s. Sorry to hear it.

1/9/2025, 12:05:08 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful post. Thank you.

1/9/2025, 12:02:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a great quote!

1/9/2025, 11:59:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy Labor Day! I am optimistic that pendulum is swinging back to the working people. These disgusting predators and parasites have overreached this time and will face a reckoning.

1/9/2025, 11:58:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Another beautiful day to be here and to be grateful to all the workers who help us. “Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.” Buddha “No labor is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity.” Martin Luther King

People picking crops in a field. Workers in a meat packing plant. Construction workers.
1/9/2025, 11:53:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish we had a President who didn’t think Putin is a great leader to be imitated. Does that asshole Putin ever miss an opportUnity to cause misery somewhere? Or Trump?

1/9/2025, 11:42:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. Good morning, Jaye!

1/9/2025, 11:39:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oedipus, that you?

1/9/2025, 10:54:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s a face that says “helping the working class”?

1/9/2025, 3:51:38 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Becoming more and more convinced with each of these stupid posts that I may have heard Trump's actual, whiny voice for the last time last week. Just like this nasty asshole to disappear in stages like this so we're deprived of a celebration.

1/9/2025, 3:11:00 AM | 69 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shh! Don’t tell Trump!

1/9/2025, 1:27:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.” Epicurus.

1/9/2025, 1:00:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

That is not a very clear explanation, “struck from behind at high speed.” Who was at high speed? Isn’t Rudy always at pretty “high” speed?

31/8/2025, 8:50:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe.

31/8/2025, 8:47:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am posting this because it is important. This is an excellent recap of the atrocities happening daily throughout our country. Face it, the Proud Boys are running America. What can we do to stop it? youtu.be/r1qIa-dDZTM?...

31/8/2025, 8:25:49 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Up until January 19, things were pretty good, great in fact. Sun was shining.

31/8/2025, 8:04:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He’s learning to mount a white stallion so he can lead the war on Chicago. Or, hear me out, he is just fucking dying.

31/8/2025, 8:02:58 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is such bullshit. Republican “majority” is based on archaic composition of Senate in our Constitution. They may represent more land, really doubt they represent more people. Minority rule horror if they bend the rules to grab more unearned power.

31/8/2025, 7:58:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This current silence is such a treasure. I could easily get used to this. Hope it’s permanent.

31/8/2025, 7:54:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I always know when a hawk is about. All the other guests leave abruptly.

31/8/2025, 7:50:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As Fred should have done all those years ago, pull out Susan.

31/8/2025, 7:35:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dox every one of them. Like all federal employees. They work for us, not Golum.

31/8/2025, 7:34:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. Done.

31/8/2025, 7:32:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27 years later you remember kindness. That is how it works.

31/8/2025, 7:31:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s what I thought, he’s at the bargaining stage. Too bad he doesn’t have the cards.

31/8/2025, 7:29:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know if Kristi Noem would still be standing today if Corey didn’t need a break.

31/8/2025, 7:00:27 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Michael, Charles and Kevin do not sound like girls’ names. Monster rapes all children I guess. Wonder why this isn’t more of an issue with MAGA.

31/8/2025, 6:58:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or that he dresses directly from the hamper. Trump looks like shit. I am trying to recall if Obama ever did not look really cool and not getting anything. Guy dresses very well and appropriate.

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For a guy so vain about his stupid hair, Trump sure has an extensive collection of ill made and unbecoming hats.

31/8/2025, 6:51:14 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hell is other people.

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31/8/2025, 6:47:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If we had a normal election, we would get pretty close to veto proof majorities, especially in the house. But we are going to really have to fight to get a normal election.

31/8/2025, 6:40:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Look at these posers. What fucking heroes they are. I feel bad for the poor National Guard guys, but these ICE pricks can all go to hell.

31/8/2025, 6:33:50 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Will Jon Gruden help by giving fake authentication to your lie today?You have days to live and you think the bast thing you could do is pretend you’re fine and playing golf with a disgraced NFL coach? Chucky is suing the NFL because they leaked his homophobic and misogynistic emails. Real soulmate.

31/8/2025, 6:31:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎 (@earhart.bsky.social) reposted

From Jane of the North:

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29/8/2025, 10:43:34 PM | 124 35 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every time they do something so stupid, I am more convinced I will never hear Golum’s whiny, irritating voice again. Great!

31/8/2025, 5:55:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martijon (@martijon.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks Shawn. Displaying the insight and intelligence that made you a true Trump supporter. Everything is great again. So relieved he’s not dead. Maybe.

31/8/2025, 5:49:59 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view