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Mr. Bill (not that one)

@mrliam.bsky.social

Retired dilettante now existing more than living: “If we wasn’t doomed before, we’re doomed now.” I believe in dog. Married 54 years. Alzheimers caregiver. Oxford commas but never alot.

created June 24, 2024

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Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Too late for me

2/9/2025, 4:04:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Considering the people in the gene people in the gene pool who’d wanna fuck her, this is bad news.

2/9/2025, 3:53:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Def getting weird

2/9/2025, 2:02:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, come on.

2/9/2025, 1:59:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Good call. So simple. So elegant.

2/9/2025, 1:57:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

No

2/9/2025, 1:56:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess that settles it once and for all. This will be cited on OAN for sure.

1/9/2025, 2:02:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Zillions tell us daily how bad Trump is. One mocks him and causes a reaction. You are not the one. Go write letters to the editor or something.

1/9/2025, 1:12:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh. Then I”m sure he’ll see this and quit trying to be bad.

31/8/2025, 5:38:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Lib trigger

31/8/2025, 3:24:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Best to her.

31/8/2025, 1:37:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

And @indivisible.org is NOT mocking Trump, which is part of why they’re so ineffective.

30/8/2025, 7:24:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Three years ago I predicted to my spaniel that Netanyahu would blow up American bipartisan support for Israel.

30/8/2025, 3:45:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) reposted

All they do is ask questions that they know the answer to and don't make a single demand. www.offmessage.net/p/schumer-an...

29/8/2025, 4:48:53 PM | 380 105 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep

30/8/2025, 2:06:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Borowitz Report (@borowitzreport.bsky.social) reposted

Big props to whoever came up with the idea of calling Trump “Metamucilini”

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30/8/2025, 12:58:05 AM | 1168 227 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

Where is Congress in this? Embedding Muskism into our intel and defense is shocking.

29/8/2025, 2:18:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

28th Amendment

29/8/2025, 3:19:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Decent of them to close the barn door after the horse ran away.

29/8/2025, 1:18:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay stop it. Your turn.

28/8/2025, 11:29:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

Thinking back to Cliven Bundy, Ruby Ridge, Tim McVeigh, Minutemen and so on: The main argument for gun owners was to protect against federal overreach. I wonder how they feel now, with armed soldiers in city streets.

28/8/2025, 4:17:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems to me that it’s always the women who stand and face the fire while the men duck for cover.

28/8/2025, 1:44:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

You have to cross a giraffe with a paramecium.

28/8/2025, 3:51:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Busted. I have a magic cure.

28/8/2025, 3:48:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Well that’s rather definitive. :-)

28/8/2025, 2:36:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Except not all NIMBYs are Democrats. In fact, I’d guess most are not.

28/8/2025, 2:11:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Drop the H and the L and add a D and that’s what the smarmy sociopath is overseeing.

28/8/2025, 2:03:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

His 4th sentence should have been his first.

28/8/2025, 1:53:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Still bringing a pencil to a howitzer fight, I see.

28/8/2025, 1:51:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK Jr. is a revolting sociopath.

28/8/2025, 1:50:16 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

No. We need to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

28/8/2025, 1:15:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

And the shooters are nearly ALWAYS law-abiding citizens.

27/8/2025, 10:09:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Independent (@the-independent.com) reposted

Fox News host: There’s a ‘modicum of peace’ that dead children are with Jesus after Minnesota shooting

27/8/2025, 7:21:34 PM | 31 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Soldiers in the gaze of a felon (it’s his booking photo).

27/8/2025, 6:24:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Since I’m 77, I don’t recognize the “influencers.” Discomfiting for sure, but maybe not illegal? Good reporting, though.

27/8/2025, 5:02:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s also his booking photo

27/8/2025, 3:48:24 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

For all my 77 years, I’ve thought Cracker Barrel was a cheddar cheese brand in the Kroger deli section. I had no idea it was also a chain restaurant. Now it’s famous.

27/8/2025, 3:35:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

But yet someone shows the video over and over and over and over and over

26/8/2025, 11:12:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

So ineffective.

26/8/2025, 11:10:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Wanker?

26/8/2025, 11:08:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s why I quit the party.

26/8/2025, 5:40:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll contribute to the legal fees

26/8/2025, 3:59:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is also heavily invested in bonds.

26/8/2025, 2:44:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay I won’t let him.

26/8/2025, 1:35:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's not going to happen of course, but tonight is another Goldwater-Rhodes moment. Has a single journalist even bothered to try & track down Speaker Johnson or Senate Majority Leader Thune & ask them why they're not doing their damn jobs or upholding their damn oaths while the Constitution burns?

26/8/2025, 1:16:53 AM | 654 174 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

This can’t stand. Where is the Chamber of Commerce? Where is Jamie Dimon? Warren Buffet? J.F.C.

26/8/2025, 1:32:44 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

25/8/2025, 10:03:27 PM | 0 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Good.

25/8/2025, 9:54:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

So, Governor, call out the National Guard before Trump does so they can defend your state. Guess what? Doing so might cause a constitutional crisis. Get busy.

25/8/2025, 9:53:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

Actions to consider: 1. Senior military leaders need to stage a massive protest and threaten resignation if Hegseth et al don’t resign and POTUS back off his unconstitutional policies. 2. Blue state governors need to call out the National Guard to protect against military incursions

25/8/2025, 7:40:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Like oh, say, the House and Senate?

25/8/2025, 7:03:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

You need a horse besides this dead one you keep beating

25/8/2025, 7:02:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

This is your reminder that Pete Hegseth once took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

25/8/2025, 4:44:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m sure they’ll convene focus groups and write papers and columns and letters to the editor.

25/8/2025, 4:38:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Because they can.

25/8/2025, 2:31:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. And I deserve pecan pie tonight.

25/8/2025, 2:06:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

So, as long with universities, big business, legacy media, SCOTUS, and the R party, the military caves too.

25/8/2025, 2:27:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

When Democrats figure out how to win elections they can starts telling others how to act.

25/8/2025, 2:22:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m so sorry for these people.

25/8/2025, 2:20:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

More state and special elections than makes news. They’re about to take over Virginia.

25/8/2025, 1:57:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Because we’re losing our democracy.

25/8/2025, 1:55:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe because they want to win elections? Just a thought.

24/8/2025, 8:56:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

And not a word about Barry Bonds. I wonder why that is?

24/8/2025, 5:42:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

And canard l’orange too.

24/8/2025, 4:15:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes

24/8/2025, 4:13:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Depends on who writes the history.

24/8/2025, 4:05:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you ever noticed that when the center-left/center-right is in charge, everything seems to work all right and fewer people give a shit about politics?

24/8/2025, 4:04:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

As in, bond investors who try to can the Fed chair, stack the Fed board, and hire the CEO of the worlds biggest bond trading firm as Commerce Secretary? Oh.

24/8/2025, 4:06:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t think you read the article.

24/8/2025, 3:10:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

The piece should have been more explicit in saying that when interest rates go down, bond prices go up. The corruption is just so sick and beyond the pale.

24/8/2025, 2:42:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) reposted

I study corruption for a living so 📌

24/8/2025, 2:36:05 AM | 110 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

When will someone in the Pentagon past or present say, “Fuck no?”

24/8/2025, 1:02:49 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mick Ryan (@warinthefuture.bsky.social) reposted

Happy Independence Day 2025, Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!

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24/8/2025, 12:54:14 AM | 387 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s so GD annoying when they don’t ask. It’s one of dozens of reasons I don’t watch legacy news anymore.

23/8/2025, 8:41:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Good call. Or the J7 committee.

23/8/2025, 8:39:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

I recall many giving warning, not a few, though most thought it would take longer. Some hoped the majority R party wouldn’t entirely crumble. Few thought Corporate America and Universities would fold like broken concertinas.

23/8/2025, 8:37:44 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

With banks closing right and left and Hoovervilles encroaching on every city and unemployment reaching to 25% or whatever, Hoover still got 35% (or so) of the vote in ‘32. Still. Like you, I can’t believe it.

23/8/2025, 8:28:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

She could still fly down a flight of stairs without holding on and looking at her feet the whole time. :-)

23/8/2025, 8:25:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

The ratio of people online to people who comment is infinitesimal but the ratio or turds online to people who comment de-Venn the Venn.

23/8/2025, 8:24:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. Then what?

23/8/2025, 5:52:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does this have to be binary? Biden was OLD and showed it. And Trump? Biology bats last.

23/8/2025, 5:49:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Good call. If we weren’t done before, we’re done now.

23/8/2025, 5:48:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

C’mon, alarmist wankers. The GOP Congress has totally got this.

23/8/2025, 3:20:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Where would we be if, say, Gov. Pritzker called out the Illinois Guard to keep out the feds?

23/8/2025, 3:13:47 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh? Hmmmh.

23/8/2025, 3:11:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides that, if they contained anything newsworthy, they would not have been released.

22/8/2025, 8:55:38 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social)

This will cause multiple expressions of outrage and exhortations for citizens to resist. News flash: Citizens need the help of at least some institutions, but all fail. Congress, Big Business, Universities, and Big Law have caved. We citizens have nothing.

22/8/2025, 7:33:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

This will cause multiple expressions of outrage and exhortations for citizens to resist. News flash: Citizens need the help of at least some institutions, but all fail. Congress, Big Business, Universities, and Big Law have caved. We citizens have nothing.

22/8/2025, 7:33:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

The only criticisms of Trump that take with a wider audience are parody and satire, somehting I wish groups lik @indivisible.org would get. I doubt they will. That said, Newsom is risking authenticity by going on too long.

22/8/2025, 6:42:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

In my case, I thought he was already dead. I’m sorry for his family, but I admit his obit gave me a certain joy.

22/8/2025, 5:34:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Trump on FBI raiding Bolton's house: "I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I'm actually the chief law enforcement officer."

22/8/2025, 2:21:49 PM | 2748 837 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted

Congratulations, John Roberts. You did this.

22/8/2025, 3:20:54 PM | 2876 820 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. We did. Now what?

22/8/2025, 4:20:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

A dumb one too

22/8/2025, 3:10:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Ummm…

22/8/2025, 2:53:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

My grandson, a dual national, just enlisted in the U.S. Army. I’m proud of him, but because of people like you, I’m even prouder.

22/8/2025, 2:52:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

And top JAG Corps people got canned.

22/8/2025, 12:52:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

Would you remind them to never invite me on? I have nothing to offer, I freeze up easily, I’m introverted, and so on.

21/8/2025, 11:50:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

The Guardian article was so much—chilling, on point, relevant, detailed.

21/8/2025, 11:48:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mr. Bill (not that one) (@mrliam.bsky.social) reply parent

More distraction from the crap Econ numbers and Epstein. I hope the media won’t cover this charade, but lickspittles will do what they do, I’m afraid.

21/8/2025, 5:48:17 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view