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Mike Crowder

@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social

created January 9, 2025

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Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

This guy is in the dictionary under “twit.”

31/8/2025, 1:11:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Narrator: “It was definitely *not* the best thing they did.”

30/8/2025, 1:57:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Having completely lost faith in Congress and the Courts, we must rely on the markets to right this ship. Such an American situation isn’t it?

29/8/2025, 1:14:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed, except we can scratch “world.” There’s only one country where this is a real and continuing threat.

28/8/2025, 3:25:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s apply the same logic to Trump

27/8/2025, 8:40:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

The further you pull away from it the less sense it makes.

27/8/2025, 8:30:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

From your lips to God’s ears

27/8/2025, 8:28:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re talking about him as if he has one foot in the grave.

27/8/2025, 7:37:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re the Senator, lady. We’re just a bunch of chronically online nerds. Do something.

27/8/2025, 1:02:04 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

They didn’t buy it. It was extorted.

26/8/2025, 2:03:22 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere

23/8/2025, 11:27:35 PM | 10665 3095 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

The first week is rough. Week two is much easier!

17/8/2025, 7:25:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

15/8/2025, 5:37:32 PM | 40593 12331 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

They rose up on the backs of a willingly-uninformed electorate and understand that facts don’t matter as much as narrative.

15/8/2025, 11:54:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

You gotta be so mad to throw a sandwich. That is commitment!

14/8/2025, 2:07:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Same guy who bankrupted Sox companies and is forcing advice on successful CEO’s.

12/8/2025, 9:01:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Rand Paul tries to speak sense to Larry Kudlow on tariffs: "We're getting $2 trillion in taxes on top of all the other taxes that we have. So ultimately conservatives have to decide -- do they like taxes because they're Donald Trump's taxes?"

6/8/2025, 8:41:38 PM | 1687 411 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Often they’re the things that bother us most about ourselves.

6/8/2025, 8:11:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Doug Aoki (@nantanreikan.bsky.social) reposted

5/8/2025, 2:10:12 PM | 1063 141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I digested “Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping” during a gall bladder attack last week. Highly recommended if you like silly ones.

4/8/2025, 1:34:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s much more efficient as an amenity compared to building a golf course or a playground and it’s demographically targeted at the people who are actually buying the homes.

4/8/2025, 11:50:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

And The Clash

4/8/2025, 1:16:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the reason they’re bullying the Fed specifically now is they know inflation is turning back up. As the tariffs kick in there won’t be any case for lowering rates.

31/7/2025, 11:56:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes I’m sure the results for Ford’s ONE domestic peer will prove this to be an anomaly. :/

31/7/2025, 2:34:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

This was maybe the biggest sort of grift during his last stint. Now it’s almost quaint.

29/7/2025, 5:00:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social)

I have no idea why I see so many cryptic insider posts about Phish on this platform but I’d do anything to make it stop.

29/7/2025, 12:00:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

A lower rate of tax. Not less in tax. But yeah it sucks.

28/7/2025, 11:58:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️

27/7/2025, 6:00:26 PM | 7866 2654 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Didn’t know you were one of us!

26/7/2025, 11:37:32 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clay Bennett (@claybennett.bsky.social) reposted

7/27/2025- Obamagate www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

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26/7/2025, 10:37:39 PM | 287 81 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

What about the other living ex-Presidents? They could speak up.

25/7/2025, 4:07:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

25/7/2025, 1:35:32 PM | 13011 3411 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com

25/7/2025, 11:48:08 AM | 10132 3268 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll never forget how their opinion people covered the mortgage crisis. Malpractice. If you have to watch financial news, choose Bloomberg.

22/7/2025, 1:40:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social)

We live in two different Americas. This is why there isn’t more pushback against the autocratic moves being made. Half the country doesn’t even know or care about them.

20/7/2025, 3:57:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) reposted

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

18/7/2025, 3:39:39 PM | 60461 14713 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. Bullying is not a feud.

18/7/2025, 1:23:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Why would we care what a sportswriter thinks about Gaza?

17/7/2025, 5:20:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted

Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.

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16/7/2025, 12:37:12 AM | 6822 1959 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like the writers ate too much of their own cooking.

15/7/2025, 11:00:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

There’s no way those events will be played in the U.S. now. How many concentration camps will we build with the ICE budget that was just approved? Americans may be blind but the ROTW isn’t.

14/7/2025, 10:48:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Prady (@billprady.com) reposted

Hey, kids! Let's play "The Trump Administration Sounds like Nazis!"

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13/7/2025, 4:31:37 PM | 94 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clay Bennett (@claybennett.bsky.social) reposted

7/12/2025- The Calculation www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

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11/7/2025, 10:56:31 PM | 115 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

The same God who let the tragedy happen? That guy?

11/7/2025, 6:48:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

“The economy is overheated so we need to throw more fuel on the fire!” Moron.

10/7/2025, 2:57:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Joining the multiple hats club with Rubio. No one else will come into this Administration.

10/7/2025, 1:48:14 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Trump couldn’t remember the Prime Minister of Japan’s name so he called him Mr. Japan. 🇯🇵 If Biden had done this it would have set off a thousand hours of nonstop coverage.

7/7/2025, 11:11:35 PM | 4846 1079 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul N. Edwards (@avastmachine.bsky.social) reposted

That last line hits hard

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.
6/7/2025, 5:19:47 PM | 13172 4696 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

“Human Smoke” is great. It covers the period between the World Wars and uses only primary sources: newspaper articles, speeches, etc.

7/7/2025, 2:35:09 AM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) reposted

Not to be a lib, but you guys, I don’t think Kamala Harris would be selling merch for the tents surrounded by alligators being used as a concentration camp.

1/7/2025, 11:57:27 PM | 2177 426 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social)

History repeats itself.

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2/7/2025, 12:21:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.

30/6/2025, 11:16:56 PM | 16831 5492 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Enten: "You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know that these are horrible, horrible, horrible numbers. Washington Post, -19 points, Fox News -21 points...to quote Sir Charles Barkley, 'terrible terrible terrible'...it's one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation that I have ever seen"

30/6/2025, 6:18:49 PM | 8405 2730 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does anyone buy their act after all this?

29/6/2025, 10:23:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/6/2025, 12:07:38 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/6/2025, 11:57:00 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/6/2025, 10:11:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/6/2025, 10:06:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/6/2025, 10:05:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

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23/6/2025, 10:47:17 AM | 8304 3088 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Leykis (@tomleykis.bsky.social) reposted

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22/6/2025, 2:10:25 AM | 327 92 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he has to finish his health care plan first?

19/6/2025, 9:30:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Wondering the same about Joe Rogan.

18/6/2025, 6:25:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

If they can Make it there…

18/6/2025, 6:19:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m left-leaning and enjoy the show for entertainment value. If he ever covers a subject you know intimately you’ll likely pick up on his use of logical fallacies right off the bat. Using one example to make a sweeping point, for example. Very similar to Penn and Teller’s “Bullsh!t” show.

18/6/2025, 4:57:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture AuntRen 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🌈🌊☮️ (@auntren.bsky.social) reposted

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

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17/6/2025, 8:00:50 PM | 7864 3030 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Santiago Mayer (@santiagomayer.com) reposted

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

14/6/2025, 3:57:19 PM | 25259 9011 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Not pictured: people.

14/6/2025, 3:06:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clay Bennett (@claybennett.bsky.social) reposted

6/14/2025- Trump's Parade www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

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13/6/2025, 10:42:45 PM | 321 101 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

12/6/2025, 8:05:56 PM | 56399 17977 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Obviously she must be a rapist or a murderer.

12/6/2025, 3:59:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social)

Thanks Pete

12/6/2025, 2:50:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

That guy used to sorta be somebody around here but he always gave me the creeps.

12/6/2025, 3:35:55 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ken Lowery (@kenlowery.bsky.social) reposted

Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

11/6/2025, 1:22:26 PM | 8028 1688 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Covie (@covie93.bsky.social) reposted

There are active duty Marines deployed to an American city while the president is planning a military parade for his birthday... What country is this???

10/6/2025, 2:27:41 AM | 4406 1094 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s an interesting statement considering the BBB is supposed to be a budget bill.

7/6/2025, 11:34:33 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

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7/6/2025, 10:57:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m shocked people still pay attention to Wood. She got lucky with Zoom during the pandemic, and that’s about the entire list of her prescient calls.

7/6/2025, 10:56:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

It was over when Bill Barr tanked the Muller Report.

7/6/2025, 9:33:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

6/6/2025, 11:49:07 PM | 9716 5323 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/6/2025, 10:30:39 AM | 28056 5270 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) reposted

What Elon Musk didn’t realize is that reducing the deficit is not—and has never been—the GOP’s priority. The big priorities (since Reagan) are cutting taxes and increasing military spending. Hence deficits regularly go up when Republicans are in power.

6/6/2025, 1:48:42 AM | 887 180 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

More likely this slap fight was meant to provide cover for Putin’s huge attack on Kiev (which is sadly underway).

6/6/2025, 1:12:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Elon, please tell us how *exactly* you can be so sure. Please be specific.

5/6/2025, 8:31:59 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Goldman on Trump's travel plan: "It's pretty consistent with what his 'immigration policy' is, which is just essentially to keep anybody who's not white out of the country."

5/6/2025, 1:42:03 AM | 2116 477 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I assume under normal conditions that each rep would assign a staffer to read any bill and highlight any potential issues. But why make that effort if the rep has already committed to vote for the bill? Seems like that’s where we are.

4/6/2025, 11:33:25 AM | 43 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

An FBI agent in combat gear is a chilling thing to see.

4/6/2025, 12:53:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Cusack (@johncusack.bsky.social) reposted

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3/6/2025, 9:04:54 PM | 1718 346 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

I read that first sentence to mean you were dying in 20 minutes. Most people from the South might read it the same way!

3/6/2025, 5:43:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean why your parents let.

3/6/2025, 2:11:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clay Bennett (@claybennett.bsky.social) reposted

6/3/2025- The PDB www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/ju...

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2/6/2025, 11:27:36 PM | 152 50 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re steadily trying to build a case for rescinding everything Joe signed via autopen. Typical Tru o strategy is to muddy the waters and create a whole lot of vague doubt.

2/6/2025, 11:14:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

Oddly, her comments reflect the opposite of the truth. There’s no evidence of a coordinated worldwide effort to push leftist thinking. Leftists can barely agree on what time it is. OTOH there’s a definite Russian-backed effort to create the kind of culture war she’s referring to here.

1/6/2025, 9:59:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

If you’re gonna lose friends you might as well lose them all!

31/5/2025, 12:42:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

99 luftballoons

31/5/2025, 12:41:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

The head banana is truly an inspiration to me. I love his vibes.

31/5/2025, 12:19:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

You’ll know it when you see it

30/5/2025, 8:50:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

30/5/2025, 8:19:51 PM | 28699 8008 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Crowder (@mikecrowder-cha.bsky.social) reply parent

The easiest way to build cred these days is providing laypeople with reasons they should feel smarter than any expert. The Rogan effect if you will.

30/5/2025, 6:50:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view