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created November 13, 2024

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

He prefers to make up his own stats and how dare you question him. Typical wing-nut.

31/8/2025, 2:58:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What do you get if you burn a Confederate flag?

30/8/2025, 6:05:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

H.L. Mencken said of the Harding Administration that at the rate we were going, there would eventually be a moron in the White House. It took longer than he expected, but here we are.

29/8/2025, 5:47:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My pet peeve: people who can't say "Democratic party" and instead use "Democrat party."

26/8/2025, 3:42:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I guess that statement is "no longer operative."

25/8/2025, 4:49:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So firing bullets at Nazis is negotiating? I get it.

25/8/2025, 4:30:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

And yet you claim to be the president of all the people of the United States. I guess that's why you're sending armed troops to the cities to harass American citizens, huh?

25/8/2025, 4:28:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And did he get approval from his bosses, the American People, to take all this vacation time?

25/8/2025, 2:50:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why isn't he in prison?

25/8/2025, 2:48:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

It's correct, if you poll uneducated morons. Only.

25/8/2025, 2:43:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We don't want to pay for this turd to goof off.

25/8/2025, 2:36:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good for the people of this neighborhood. They are heroes!

25/8/2025, 12:53:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I grew up in the denomination he was in. I turned my back on them 50 years ago, and haven't regretted it at all.

24/8/2025, 2:51:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We haven't been a serious country since Nixon was elected. It's just obvious to everyone since a clown is in the Oval Office.

22/8/2025, 7:40:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was an entire war about slavery. 600,000 Americans died. It was in all the papers. Jeez, get a clue, Barbie. She can't have slept through ALL of her high school History classes.

22/8/2025, 7:38:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That photo makes trump look like he's starring in a horror film. I know he scares the **** out of me.

22/8/2025, 4:37:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm 71 and only found out last week. My wife told me.

21/8/2025, 4:29:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The most ignorant President in our history.

21/8/2025, 4:25:59 AM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Fundamental genius?" So now we've decided that the words of the English language don't mean anything anymore?

21/8/2025, 4:18:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time for pitchforks and torches.

20/8/2025, 10:35:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

What war?

20/8/2025, 6:55:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

He has a way of thinking? Likely this is news to at least half the country.

20/8/2025, 4:01:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Idiot. Better solar panels than row on row of ugly houses that are sucking up energy like it's going out of style.

19/8/2025, 11:59:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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YES SHE IS

19/8/2025, 11:50:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Because the first moon landing was on a Sunday, and our religious household would not have the TV on AT ALL, I had to sneak a radio into the back yard and LISTEN to it. Not the same. At all.

19/8/2025, 8:37:48 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Usually not.

19/8/2025, 8:36:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's giving toddlers a bad name.

19/8/2025, 8:35:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Yes, he does.

19/8/2025, 8:34:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

So says Agent Krasnov.

19/8/2025, 6:11:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

She's asking if...(checks notes)...DONALD TRUMP... is thinking about spiritual concerns? What's next?

19/8/2025, 6:04:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Not to mention propping up the oil industry. I remember when we all looked askance at any politician who took oil money. The good old days.

19/8/2025, 6:02:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time to dig out and re-read my copy of Manufacturing Consent.

19/8/2025, 5:58:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Trump probably thinks that is the greatest thing ever.

19/8/2025, 5:24:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Gutfeld has always been a liar.

17/8/2025, 3:25:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

You've heard of psychobabble. This is the fundamentalist christian equivalent. "Empathy is toxic?" Easy for someone without empathy to say.

17/8/2025, 3:22:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And it wasn't a hoax.

16/8/2025, 12:01:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putin knows he can roll Krasnov any time he wants to.

15/8/2025, 11:59:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Why not focus on where the crime actually is - the Red States and the White House?

14/8/2025, 6:25:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If he would leave D.C., crime would go down another 20%. More if he takes those morons standing there with him.

11/8/2025, 7:04:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Making the White House look like a cheap second-rate whorehouse. Hmm...

8/8/2025, 4:57:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hmm. I don't post on twitter for the same reason I don't post on "truth social"- because they suck.

5/8/2025, 6:12:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Despite my posting name, I've not lived in Baltimore.

31/7/2025, 4:27:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20. Lived in one, and my kids live in one each on the list.

31/7/2025, 4:26:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Merrick Garland made a huge mistake. He should have slapped the handcuffs on Traitor Trump himself.

21/7/2025, 6:23:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump should be in jail right now.

21/7/2025, 6:15:34 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shame on you Taibbi.

20/7/2025, 10:58:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How has a "news organization" not heard that Obama has not been president for eight years? Maybe because they have no relationship with "news."

20/7/2025, 5:01:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wonder what that "big clamoring" sounds like in his head. On second thought, I don't want to know.

20/7/2025, 5:00:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's mostly to pay the military-industrial complex to waste money. The rest is to fund Trump's grifts. A waste either way.

19/7/2025, 7:18:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ben Shapiro is an idiot.

17/7/2025, 9:54:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The media should be LEADING with that.

16/7/2025, 10:34:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Are we still talking about the rigged election? That's old news, nobody cares..."

16/7/2025, 7:44:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't think much of your "god" if you think he saved Donald Trump and anointed him leader of the Free World.

15/7/2025, 4:39:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like I want to know anything this guy is thinking about. Unless he's thinking about another drink.

14/7/2025, 8:03:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He really is a turd in human form.

12/7/2025, 7:32:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At what point do we pick up our pitchforks and torches?

12/7/2025, 7:30:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll say it again - this president is the most uneducated who has served in our history. And I use "served" in the sense of "occupied the office."

10/7/2025, 6:39:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Pentagon budget has been bloated for decades. Congress in recent years has given them even more money than they ask for, and don't know what to do with. If republicans were serious about the debt, they would start there.

9/7/2025, 7:19:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Donald Trump is our least educated president ever. Never mind the "degrees" he claims to have.

9/7/2025, 7:11:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So Trump is suddenly the "deep state" now? More likely the "derp state" (tip of the hat to Driftglass and Bluegal).

9/7/2025, 6:12:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fool's Gold we used to call it.

9/7/2025, 5:50:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He doesn't know how to STFU already, does he?

8/7/2025, 10:07:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Suck-up.

8/7/2025, 6:06:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where do I sign up?

8/7/2025, 6:05:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The only thing such people learn from History is how to do things like ethnic cleansing.

8/7/2025, 6:03:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Religious babble is so annoying. Surely she can't mean any of it.

8/7/2025, 6:00:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did he mention trickle-down?

8/7/2025, 2:57:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Prayer accomplishes nothing except making the pray-er feel better.

6/7/2025, 9:45:29 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's what I thought. Either way, it is accurate.

6/7/2025, 6:50:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's like the oligarchy has morphed into a kakistocracy.

4/7/2025, 4:32:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Education has incredibly failed in this country. It doesn't help that some people have a natural resistance to being educated.

4/7/2025, 4:30:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He obviously wasn't paying attention at all in his college courses. If he even attended classes. Which I doubt.

4/7/2025, 4:25:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alligator Auschwitz.

4/7/2025, 6:22:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Tell that to all the people who suffered and died for these rights. Where was your "god" then?

4/7/2025, 6:18:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What a pile of horseshit this guy Johnson is.

3/7/2025, 6:16:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Golden Dome" is just Reagan's old "Star Wars" scam. It won't work and Agent Krasnov knows it. Fox is taken in by it, though.

3/7/2025, 6:09:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Agent Krasnov strikes again.

3/7/2025, 6:05:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They don't have the votes.

3/7/2025, 7:01:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We need to spend less on the Pentagon and NOT give extra tax breaks to the top 1%. This bill is going to destroy our country.

2/7/2025, 7:44:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're both awful. As is the person they represent.

2/7/2025, 6:07:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is Elon going to shoehorn his "American Party" between the corporatist Democrats and the non-Trump Republicans? There's not much daylight between them.

2/7/2025, 6:06:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Figures. She needs to be retired by her voters.

1/7/2025, 5:49:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, this stinks.

1/7/2025, 5:21:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gas prices aren't down. Where in this country is the $1.98 a gallon gas he brags (lies) about?

30/6/2025, 6:23:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've been saying for years that we'll end up with a "soft fascism" like #2. I would, of course, prefer #3.

29/6/2025, 4:09:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cut him, not just his damn golf trips. And didn't he complain about how much a recent president golfed? Does he ever "work?" And wouldn't we be safer if he golfed 100% of the time and he paid for it himself?

29/6/2025, 12:48:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where's your warrants, twerps?

28/6/2025, 7:02:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Dumbest Person in Congress.

27/6/2025, 1:16:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He would know about press manipulation - didn't he "work" for Fox Gnus?

26/6/2025, 8:42:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In my experience, more atheists have a much better understanding of the bible than most christians do. Also, I would contend that there's not that much to "understand" about the bible. It's not like there's a secret handshake or a code or something. It's all argle-bargle.

26/6/2025, 8:39:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nutjobs.

23/6/2025, 4:11:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That man in the White House has NO self-awareness. If he did, I think he'd kill himself.

18/6/2025, 9:21:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Making the Pentagon do with less would be a great start. And making the rich pay their fair share. But people like Ron Johnson wouldn't dream of doing THAT.

17/6/2025, 3:46:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's either Rip Van Winkle and just woke from a 40 year nap, or the most ignorant person in the U.S. I suspect it's the latter.

13/6/2025, 5:30:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm betting these guys were at the Capitol on January 6th.

12/6/2025, 9:15:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is shameful. I don't know this country anymore. And why is a convicted felon in the White House masquerading as a president?

12/6/2025, 9:14:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why not? Welcome back.

12/6/2025, 9:12:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Charge each and every one of them with false arrest. They were probably insurrectionists at the US Capitol anyway.

12/6/2025, 9:10:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn't this the practice that Republicans complained about for years? Of course, the problem is that most of them can't read. Look at their "leader."

5/6/2025, 4:32:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I thought most of their rage in the last 30+ years was about having to vote on bills they had not read. Turns out they actually enjoy that. Or they can't read. Or both.

3/6/2025, 6:16:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view