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"Stranger danger! Stranger danger!" This time the danger is real.

31/8/2025, 4:09:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Once a heroin addict, always a heroine addict

31/8/2025, 4:07:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two very sick parents at the onset of the pandemic. Both in extreme risk groups. Both unable to see physicians during recovery due to risk of COVID exposure. Both died. Both still had more to give.

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

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I'll start my own thread. My dad had major surgery in Jan 2020. He got home in Feb with a long recovery to look forward to. Mom had a heart attack two weeks later dealing with the stress. Both home in March. First day of mom's dialysis was also first day of community COVID spread. /1

31/8/2025, 1:49:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just to be clear, trusting experts is a feature of science and democracy. Sorry for the confusion.

31/8/2025, 1:25:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This a tally says a lot about how the Chinese do target tracking. Key point, one of the most important tracking problems is holding track on a target when the target goes under a bridge or other cover and then cones out the other side...

31/8/2025, 1:21:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe the operative message needs to be "Trump, STFU!"

30/8/2025, 8:43:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By any means necessary.

29/8/2025, 6:37:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Many people are saying..."

29/8/2025, 6:32:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just to be clear, it is NOT illegal to be under the influence on a boat. Sorry for any misunderstandings.

27/8/2025, 1:22:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can I please get some fatwa with that taco?

26/8/2025, 6:00:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Junta

26/8/2025, 5:56:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dick-tater-tot

25/8/2025, 4:26:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, or Richard Nixon said anything even close to that, they would have been ridden out of Washington on a rail, by other Republicans. Have they no shame?

25/8/2025, 4:25:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The media is owned by oligarchs who view the purpose of media as advancing their portfolios rather than serving as a watch on the holders and users of power. As the holders and users of power themselves, they lack the objectivity to own media.

24/8/2025, 4:45:56 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just to be clear, Clemens' strength coach testified to personally injecting Clemens with PEDs multiple times, and produced syringes and cotton balls with traces of PEDs and Clemens' DNA at trial. And his own teammates testified to injecting with him. Only a buffoon would deny that Clemens juiced.

24/8/2025, 4:41:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Musk would wither and parish.

23/8/2025, 10:37:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1920s

23/8/2025, 10:36:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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youtu.be/5ap5buTT78A?...

22/8/2025, 7:47:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His fatwa moment

22/8/2025, 7:43:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But the taste is fair, and balanced

22/8/2025, 7:41:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would have said that the convicted felon is having another felony moment

22/8/2025, 7:41:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's what happens when you are rich but have no accountability.

22/8/2025, 7:34:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So much for an independent DoJ

22/8/2025, 7:31:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I, Krasnov

22/8/2025, 7:10:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the thugs deployed to DC will probably have a body count of hundreds before they are done.

22/8/2025, 5:30:31 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They don't want California, Oregon, or Washington, three states that would make a fine democratic republic and global economic powerhouse on their own.

22/8/2025, 5:25:21 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is the fatwa served with beets?

22/8/2025, 4:49:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How to say you've never been to Seattle or Portland without actually saying you've never been to Seattle or Portland.

22/8/2025, 4:43:05 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the Russian oligarchs that fronts for him is known as The Fertilizer King.

22/8/2025, 4:39:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Benito. Autocorrect turns a dictator into a fish. It should be so easy.

21/8/2025, 1:58:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would have said gold-plated Russian bordello.

21/8/2025, 3:46:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I lost my father in 2021. He gave me a window onto greatness. We were close for more than 60 years. I treasure every moment we had and no one else can ever fill that void.

21/8/2025, 2:53:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or on the business end of a gallows

21/8/2025, 2:45:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Similar results for pancreatic cancers.

21/8/2025, 1:59:39 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mother's don't let your children grow up to be fascists.

21/8/2025, 1:55:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He is the ugliest of the ugly Americans.

21/8/2025, 1:55:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Third Reich didn't sign either. But that didn't help Goering

21/8/2025, 1:50:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bonito Mussolini rocks the Piazzale Loreto one last time.

21/8/2025, 1:44:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poison won't kill him.

21/8/2025, 1:41:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's what J. Paul Getty would have done...if he had no style, no culture, no education, and no grace.

20/8/2025, 8:11:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Nobel committee de-nominated Trump because he failed to meet minimal requirements.

18/8/2025, 3:39:30 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An American president cannot give away parts of Ukraine. Only the Ukrainian president can do that.

18/8/2025, 2:50:25 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the new White House Ballroom...decorated in Early Upchuck

15/8/2025, 5:59:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think I saw some Texas Democrats wander into Joint Special Forces Headquarters at Fort Bragg. You guys should sneak in there and see if you can find them.

12/8/2025, 4:36:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The US doesn't recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court.

9/8/2025, 4:09:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's be clear. We need viruses. Without them, we'd die. There are, however, a few viruses we'd be better off immune to. So can we be a little more focused?

8/8/2025, 10:17:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you are proud of your history then you've been taught nationalist propaganda, not history. History is supposed to provide critical lessons so that mistakes are not repeated.

8/8/2025, 4:38:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's what we've been saying since we learned that his first administration's team to staff the White House was run by a guy who was literally sleeping with a known Russian spy.

7/8/2025, 5:41:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of my goals for the day is to make the skilled laborers I encounter feel a little more appreciated.

6/8/2025, 8:23:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you translate that to Magaese, it says "F u. You don't butter my bread.

5/8/2025, 3:13:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aim for the bushes...

5/8/2025, 3:07:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Physicists work just as hard. And the quantity in finance work very hard as well. The question is what incentives the society offers that draw extremely motivated and intelligent people to the different occupations. And the incentives for quantity in finance are substantial.

5/8/2025, 5:11:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't really think it was MDs. The physics students get the skills needed to be quants. And we need physicists as much as we need doctors.

4/8/2025, 2:09:07 AM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When someone who just finished a PhD in physics learns they can work as an underling in a national lab at a salary where they'll still be paying off their student loans in retirement, or they can use those same skills to make billionaires more money and pay off the student debt in 18 months...

4/8/2025, 2:07:35 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So are you saying that women don't have a right to cover their hair?

3/8/2025, 4:39:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I see the link. Android.

3/8/2025, 4:10:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

3/8/2025, 4:06:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He does know that. He's paid to say something different. And his moral character is that he says what he's paid to say rather than what he knows to be true.

3/8/2025, 3:55:25 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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...which is bad enough but made far worse by decorating that palace in such gaudy taste that not even his hookers and street enforcers will want to go there.

3/8/2025, 7:54:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's deflecting. No one is asking him not to hold stock. Just have it in a blind trust where he can't use his insider information to illegally profit from stock trades. Of course if what he's saying is that he has a right to use insider information because he's rich, then I have a problem.

3/8/2025, 7:50:36 AM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump reminds me of the filthy rich boy who paid the tough kids to beat up the smart kids.

1/8/2025, 7:36:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So if we were to do a root cause analysis, our first question would be "what is the same now as it was in 2020, but was different between 2021 and 2024?" ...

1/8/2025, 7:33:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Contrary to popular opinion, the rich and powerful don't go unpunished for their crimes. Historically, they stave off punishment for a while, but when it finally comes, the streets are turned red with their blood. Consider Paris in 1789, or the Piazzale Loreto in 1945.

1/8/2025, 3:42:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Assume that every redacted name is DJT

1/8/2025, 3:33:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's definitely placing Jews in the crosshairs, rather than placing the Islamophobes in the crosshairs.

1/8/2025, 2:29:22 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's time to state the obvious just so that everyone is clear. The American ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity.

31/7/2025, 7:43:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Journalists are taught to be fearful and to follow that fear in the words they write. If it was any different we would have 100x the current press corps in Gaza, where a pound and a half of courage is mandatory, and they would be telling the truth instead of parroting the corporate line.

31/7/2025, 6:29:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In terms of public support, tariffs are under water with a -20 approval rating. Doesn't seem like a great issue to exploit for political spin.

31/7/2025, 6:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Celebrated

31/7/2025, 5:12:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simple. Lie and cheat.

31/7/2025, 2:34:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think that question answers itself.

29/7/2025, 6:13:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Benefited". That's past tense. He's already got his. But screw you trying to get yours.

29/7/2025, 6:11:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But there are complexities. Like Epstein's close connections with Russian FSB agents leads to questions like, was his operation a honey pot designed to lure important people into situations where kompromat could be collected on them?

29/7/2025, 5:46:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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John Stewart?

28/7/2025, 3:13:20 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know the source of the video. Could have been his tee partner for all we know.

27/7/2025, 8:18:55 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It goes to quality of character. If he cheats when it totally doesn't matter, what does he do when there is something real at stake?

27/7/2025, 6:07:35 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I am in favor of putting Trump's face on the $3 bill.

27/7/2025, 11:46:33 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Daughter should be the donor heart.

27/7/2025, 9:50:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kissing Putin's ring.

27/7/2025, 5:13:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not the job of a guilty defendant. But if you destroy all of the evidence against you, you can't be charged for the crime you did, but you can be charged with obstruction of justice. Vol 2 of the Mueller Report built a case for a dozen Obstruction charges. Barr chose not to pursue those charges

24/7/2025, 5:31:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's called obstruction of justice. If someone burns all of the evidence to their crime, you can't charge them for the crime, but you can charge them with obstruction of justice. Vol. 2 of the Mueller Report made an Obstruction of Justice case. Barr declined to charge it.

24/7/2025, 5:29:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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May I suggest a Nikolai Ceaucescu style prosecution: Ten minutes of perfunctory signatures and pronouncements, followed immediately by two minutes of continuous machine gun fire on the back porch of the makeshift courthouse.

23/7/2025, 3:53:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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May the building fall under the weight of injustice when there are no black columnists left there.

23/7/2025, 3:03:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or just "The Pedos"

23/7/2025, 2:50:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And they'll still support Mango Mussolini.

23/7/2025, 2:45:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The wolves in Kharkiv prefer their meat medium rare.

22/7/2025, 2:57:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And the word salad is free!

21/7/2025, 11:22:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As Mel Brooks said in The Producers, "Why be a schtupid when you can be a schmarty. Come and join the Nazi party."

21/7/2025, 9:00:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tommy Tuberville is so fuckin' stupid that he gives fuckin' a bad name.

21/7/2025, 8:56:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Space lasers have no effect on Trump's ass.

21/7/2025, 8:54:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meanwhile, in China, their sixth graders regularly master calculus and differential equations, and apply those skills to understand the quantum mechanics, and information theory, while ours grow up to be flat-earthers.

21/7/2025, 6:03:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We can hope that Ceausescu's trial wasn't just a one time thing.

21/7/2025, 4:50:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Undergrad...no...dropout.

21/7/2025, 4:48:55 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It should be a capital crime to be a rich fucker in boarding school.

21/7/2025, 4:48:16 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But SCOTUS can rule that other presidents weren't acting in the duties of their office and so do not have immunity.

21/7/2025, 4:45:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If they can do that, when the nakedness emperor kicks the bucket we can nullify Kavenaugh and his buddy Squee.

21/7/2025, 4:42:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Mueller Report says that if people in trumpworld hadn't lied to them, destroyed evidence, or secreted themselves in foreign holes where they wouldn't have to give testimony, Mueller might have been able to charge DJT with conspiracy. That's in the first 10 pages of Vol. 1.

21/7/2025, 4:32:43 PM | 36 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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And, of course, Trump was not a payrolled Russian agent. He was a 1099 worker for them.

21/7/2025, 4:28:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What you fail to mention is that the average American has the IQ of a potato chip.

21/7/2025, 4:26:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view