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Mike McIntosh

@mikemcintosh.bsky.social

Reader. Maine. Defiant Never Trumper. Small Business.

created November 15, 2024

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Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

You cannot be a 'little bit' invaded. Like pregnancy, you either are or are not.

2/9/2025, 2:54:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Everyone overlooks that the poor guy might just be sad because his girlfriend goes back to school today.

2/9/2025, 12:15:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Good. Contrarians emerging.

2/9/2025, 12:14:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

About what an average troop of Boy Scouts could do on a good day.

2/9/2025, 2:22:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. You can foresee MSM types working away at an essay about how things are serious but not dire; just as masked Ice Agents burst in to haul them off to a gulag.

2/9/2025, 2:20:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Could not finish. Ran out of barf bags.

2/9/2025, 2:16:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

If he goes all blurry and then emerges looking just like Ted Cruz, then I am out.

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

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone is overlooking the possibility that he is just sad because his current girlfriend goes back to school after Labor Day.

1/9/2025, 10:09:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Still. Hasn’t it been blissful for a few days to not hear his voice or to see his face?

1/9/2025, 4:56:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope he is the most ignorant person I will never have to meet.

31/8/2025, 11:46:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

If he dies in office, there will never be an end to the, ‘Vance did it’, conspiracy theories.

31/8/2025, 9:46:51 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually, due to woke, ketchup is way down. People should not be allowed to choose condiments based solely on taste and personal preferences. Next thing you know corporations will be selecting their own logos and everyone will want to vote.

31/8/2025, 4:23:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shreveport. They took Shreveport off the table.

31/8/2025, 4:18:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Mein Kampf. The Little Red Book. The Art of the Deal.

31/8/2025, 4:04:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

What is there to wonder about at this point?

31/8/2025, 12:09:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope. Least surprising would be: Trump Crypto Casino in Branson to Close Six Weeks After Donald Junior Appointed CFO.

31/8/2025, 11:58:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Before.

31/8/2025, 11:35:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

It was a little creepy.

31/8/2025, 11:35:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

He is evil.

31/8/2025, 11:29:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Governor Mills may get in the race. She will decide in November. If she enters, in my opinion, she will win the Democratic primary. No matter who runs, Collins will be hard to defeat.

31/8/2025, 11:28:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

The ancients invented a thing called a ‘ladder’ that can be used to surmount any wall.

31/8/2025, 11:09:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Thank you.

31/8/2025, 10:54:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

You may be a clown. But for anti-Trumpers everywhere, you are OUR clown.

31/8/2025, 10:30:48 AM | 38 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure the side killing the children so their followers can have small arsenals to display on their Christmas cards; is not the side dedicated to God.

31/8/2025, 10:18:29 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

They. ‘They’, are saying if there are more of him.

31/8/2025, 2:00:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Coward.

31/8/2025, 1:27:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Inspiration. We are living in a time of heroes. Not least among them those, like Mr. Beschloss, who raise their voices in open opposition to the would-be tyrants, Trump and Vance.

30/8/2025, 4:23:22 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Best to weed out the weak members of the serf class before they age out of school and go to work........at ten.

30/8/2025, 4:09:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Joe Biden. For defending the post WWII world order for four years.

30/8/2025, 3:47:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

He is on the same side as everyone who opposes Trump. I don't need to know anything else right now to call him, 'Brother'. Sarcasm can backfire and mine did for him. That is on me. And, if it matters, he did apologize.

30/8/2025, 2:24:29 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

No. But I try to be optimistic.

30/8/2025, 2:21:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

No need. Same side as far as I can see. Sarcasm can backfire. That is on me.

30/8/2025, 2:20:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

We are all a little tired.

30/8/2025, 12:39:30 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

If Trump or Vance are in office ten years from now, you can be sure somewhere along the the line they will find an excuse to take guns away from non-MAGAs.

30/8/2025, 12:38:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

It would be like West Point putting up a statue to Benedict Arnold for his services before he turned traitor.

30/8/2025, 12:35:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

It was sarcasm related to banning her Diary from Florida school libraries.

30/8/2025, 12:31:30 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

If they bury her in DC it will provide a handy outdoor urinal until they finish converting the Lincoln Memorial into the Trump Memorial Shrine.

30/8/2025, 11:48:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Their grandfathers defeated Hitler. They landscape for Trump.

30/8/2025, 11:18:28 AM | 20 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is probably AWOL for 48 hours because he is engrossed in a really good book.

30/8/2025, 10:36:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Trump is out of sight for 48 hours because he is engrossed in a really good book?

30/8/2025, 10:22:51 AM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he is just engrossed in a really good book?

30/8/2025, 10:21:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

I checked every school library in Florida. This is never mentioned. Are you sure it happened?

30/8/2025, 10:16:11 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Wise people should be feeling fear. They should still speak out. But no one should think this won’t get much worse.

29/8/2025, 9:47:46 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Kennedy is secure until he cuts Kankle research.

29/8/2025, 8:28:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

The research. All the MAGA leadership benefit from new breakthroughs. A billion dollars is worthless if there is no cure.

29/8/2025, 7:32:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe RFK Jr. is actually plotting to get rid of Trump by destroying the health care system that keeps elderly, obese, dementia sufferers alive?

29/8/2025, 5:08:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

It is amazing that the only person for whom Trump has kept his promises, from the day of this first wedding to now, is a man intent on destroying the very health care system that obese, demented, elderly Trump needs to stay alive.

29/8/2025, 5:07:29 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't help but wonder what happened to Germans who made fun of early NAZI leaders after about 1934? And, can't believe I have to wonder about this in 2025 America.

29/8/2025, 5:04:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Trumpism = MCGA = Make China Great Again

29/8/2025, 5:01:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good time to have functioning EPA and NRC.

29/8/2025, 4:57:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Perfect.

29/8/2025, 12:42:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

A pillar of the cast. Always made sketches better.

28/8/2025, 10:34:56 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

My father and my grandfathers had contempt for hunters who carried assault rifles. My cousins who hunt almost all own and use assault rifles.

28/8/2025, 2:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Taking over railroads was a big part of fascist movements in the 1920s and the 1939s. Someone in Trump’s inner circle read a book.

28/8/2025, 2:41:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

With Trump and RFK jr. in power, could be a drop in the bucket.

28/8/2025, 2:35:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Can the officers be prosecuted by state authorities for following unlawful orders? Or is that only the prerogative of Hegseth?

28/8/2025, 2:32:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

He fried too many brain cells to be able to comprehend high school level textbooks.

28/8/2025, 12:51:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you. I mixed up my Bush presidents.

28/8/2025, 12:25:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Such a waste to criticize a dead president who was a moderate and a good man; when we have a living president who is trying to establish unconstrained personal power to criticize.

27/8/2025, 8:34:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump doesn’t want his voters listening to public radio stations.

27/8/2025, 5:05:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine explaining the sycophants, yes-men, and toadies at today's cabinet meeting to any American who passed away before 2025.

27/8/2025, 1:48:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine explaining this meeting to any American who passed away before 2015.

27/8/2025, 1:46:31 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump still has a few things to learn about how to treat Praetorians.

27/8/2025, 12:41:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

At least you have Wes Moore.

26/8/2025, 4:36:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Is 'fascinating' Georgian for Terrifying?

26/8/2025, 12:17:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

I bet the Governor knows there were no negotiations to end the war with Hitler; our Civil War, and many other wars. We could have elevated this good man to the 2nd job in the country. Instead, we have a smirking tech puppet waiting patiently to nail down authoritarianism for the billionaire tribe.

26/8/2025, 12:09:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

No one ever remembers a two-week old crisis because under Trump the average wait time for a new crisis is about six hours.

26/8/2025, 12:01:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

No problem. They will now have the IRS and every other agency put her under a microscope until they find something or until she has spent every penny she has on lawyers.

26/8/2025, 10:13:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The January Sixth Regiment.

26/8/2025, 10:09:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So the crime wave was a MAGA trying to Trump-Epstein a fifteen year old? I see a future CIA director.

25/8/2025, 2:33:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet.

24/8/2025, 3:38:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Except for the Civil War and WWII and a whole bunch of others. This guy went to Yale?

24/8/2025, 3:35:45 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

A lot of spotty cellphone service around all Trump family business deals.

24/8/2025, 3:32:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At the first Trump Center Honors, he will announce the first recipient of the Trump Peace Prize: Donald J. Trump.

24/8/2025, 12:12:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

The expert has spoken.

24/8/2025, 10:43:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Five years from now Maxwell will probably be Trump's czar for sex trafficking. Not stopping it. Finding victims for our President for Life.

24/8/2025, 10:43:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Sometimes I think we deserve to lose.

24/8/2025, 3:54:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Kamala came very close in the popular vote against a tide of money, media malpractice, and whatever magic Trump exercises over his cult. Very close.

24/8/2025, 2:53:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aren’t you?

24/8/2025, 2:51:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone who cares should be.

24/8/2025, 2:41:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

If you think doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is going to stop Trump; I have a shopworn aphorism to sell you.

24/8/2025, 2:39:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

That might be going too far.

24/8/2025, 2:27:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Same old, same old, after losing two out of three to a man like Trump; is a good use of time? I said what I think. Never said my opinion should be forced on anyone. Because we are the good guys.

24/8/2025, 2:26:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

I do not plan to control the words for every Democratic operative. We are the good guys and do not use the tactics of Trump/Fox/MAGA. But I will express my opinion whenever I think it might help. The side that loses two out of three to a man like Trump; needs to look in a mirror.

24/8/2025, 2:24:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Win or lose for governor she will be out of Congress. Good riddance.

24/8/2025, 2:08:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Beating Trump and Trumpism is more important than anything else. Plain language is just common sense when trying to appeal to ordinary voters.

24/8/2025, 2:03:57 AM | 136 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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The dumb MAGAs don’t believe it. The smart ones care more about ‘retribution’ than about their own healthcare.

24/8/2025, 12:05:17 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Very odd behavior for a man of Trump’s generation.

23/8/2025, 9:01:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Are there any major newspapers left who are not owned by Trump allies?

23/8/2025, 3:21:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So ironic coming from the first president with felony convictions and civil liability for rape and for fraud.

23/8/2025, 12:29:23 PM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Left out: card can be played at any time to kill one puppy or one goat or one of each. No saving rolls allowed.

23/8/2025, 2:31:47 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want a hat that just says: Nuremberg.

23/8/2025, 12:04:48 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

FDR and Churchill allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler.

22/8/2025, 11:13:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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40% to 50% of Americans do not seem to believe in anything. Still shocking to contemplate.

22/8/2025, 9:16:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Socialist and a nationalist. Wonder what we should call him?

22/8/2025, 9:07:00 PM | 27 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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His self-awareness is overshadowed by the happy partying taking place in every Cracker Barrel at the thought of never having to serve James Woods again.

22/8/2025, 7:42:12 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So Trump's Get Out of Jail Free card is a few hours of testimony from a convicted child rapist/procurer whose only hope of ever getting out of prison is a pardon from.................Trump?

22/8/2025, 7:38:12 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any ally against Trump should be embraced. But, Bolton is a little hard to accept.

22/8/2025, 5:00:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike McIntosh (@mikemcintosh.bsky.social) reply parent

Or until the egg price voters buy a steak.

22/8/2025, 3:24:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Written by bold reporters practicing a new style of journalism?

22/8/2025, 3:22:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view