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Norm Cook

@normcook.bsky.social

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstance.... Victor Frankl

created November 12, 2024

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Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

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3/9/2025, 3:26:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Same question America, same.

3/9/2025, 5:35:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Achingly ignorant fits well.

1/9/2025, 12:40:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.

31/8/2025, 3:30:44 PM | 7834 2481 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

31/8/2025, 2:39:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

31/8/2025, 1:42:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

❤️🙏

31/8/2025, 1:41:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Medieval peasant superstitions rolls off the tongue very easily.

30/8/2025, 11:02:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Annastasia (@annastasia77.bsky.social) reposted

I just leave this here.....

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27/11/2024, 12:18:32 PM | 55176 8726 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Give his writers a "Noble" peace prize. They're doing the Lord's work.

30/8/2025, 4:05:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

28/8/2025, 1:19:55 PM | 4773 1887 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Accurate.

27/8/2025, 3:36:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

1000x this.

26/8/2025, 3:19:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

You can't run from the truth Don.

25/8/2025, 8:04:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans are afraid of this orange imbecile? Huh

25/8/2025, 5:11:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Republican admin as soon as Dems are back in:

25/8/2025, 3:11:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Worth considering.

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25/8/2025, 4:06:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

I don't get the impression they mind being fleeced—MAGA campaign donation.

24/8/2025, 10:15:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no, PIP? I thought that corporate BS died off 20yrs ago. This also has to be satire. Who could be this tone deaf?

24/8/2025, 5:16:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Godspeed in the fight against the American government's tour of retribution.

23/8/2025, 8:47:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm skeptical most want their rebirth and restoration.

23/8/2025, 7:25:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

America's underbelly in the oval office: Dive bar tacky; cheap and tawdry ... Glitz and bullshit without intelligence or substance.

22/8/2025, 5:26:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

22/8/2025, 5:24:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Noem et al will have to explain their support of this fool - for foistering an obviously ignorant Narcissist onto the country. Let's hope Dems can take back ground in 2026.

22/8/2025, 5:22:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I see 8 too

21/8/2025, 7:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

He's a war(lord) hero for MAGA. History will be brutal on this hollow man.

19/8/2025, 11:00:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess that's a real quote? He fears God because he thinks he's also aggressive and unloving like his father. If there's a heaven, he'll run away like the White witch in Narnia.

19/8/2025, 9:26:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

It never stops being odd that nobody calls him out for fawning over a brutal dictator.

19/8/2025, 5:44:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn fool, stunningly tone deaf or mentally unraveled.

19/8/2025, 3:02:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone should stop and give this man a beating for asking a stupid fucking question. We're far too tolerant and not enough consequences for bad behaviour.

18/8/2025, 11:48:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

$67M is beer money - aka cost of doing business. It needed to be closer to Fox's $700 million to make an impact.

18/8/2025, 11:43:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans need a prize for enduring this rambling fool. He's a chronic embarrassment.

18/8/2025, 7:41:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Is ignominy too strong of a word, because it seems like ignominy for America. He's an embarrassing simpleton and ignorant fool.

16/8/2025, 4:56:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Distraction theater again.

16/8/2025, 3:02:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Ornstein (@normornstein.bsky.social) reposted

All true, but let’s add that he has a long history of being bailed out by Russian mobsters, engaging in money laundering with Russian oligarchs and had every minute of time in Moscow for the Miss Universe quest followed or taped. It’s not wacky to wonder about all of that.

16/8/2025, 1:12:56 PM | 191 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) reposted

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

16/8/2025, 4:32:15 AM | 9901 2994 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

The optics are both awful and embarrassing.

16/8/2025, 2:39:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Do the purity tests matter? Let them be a voice against Trump

16/8/2025, 4:06:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Imagine electing one of the dullest and ignorant public figures, putting him in a suit to represent 340 million Americans. Got damn. :|

16/8/2025, 1:39:07 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

What are the chances of Vance's backers will oust trump before 2028.

16/8/2025, 1:34:34 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm Canadian and embarrassed for your country ... useful idiot and resident fool using right-wing propaganda machine for Russian talking points.

16/8/2025, 1:33:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Good reminder.

16/8/2025, 1:31:44 AM | 112 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Run the Russian propaganda, Fox. Sow doubt and division of free and fair elections—just like Vlad wants. Where's Congress?

16/8/2025, 1:31:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

The Russians must be laughing hysterically at how easy it was to fool the Americans. I think it was 2015, but Trump accurately predicted that Republicans would roll over to his whims.

16/8/2025, 1:07:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Freedom-lovin' Americans seem asleep to their government's intentions

16/8/2025, 12:33:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I've heard Ukrainian drones are very effective.

15/8/2025, 9:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Should be seeing clips on Russian state TV with hosts trying to stifle their sheer giddiness - their found their (orange) useful idiot.

15/8/2025, 9:39:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfairly or not, I still think of her as Judge Box O' Wine.

14/8/2025, 2:03:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

The UK needs to up their scandal game.

13/8/2025, 11:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

If they display the level of ineptitude in public then certainly this assessment is correct. What level of professionalism does Noem, Hegseth and Gabbard bring?

13/8/2025, 3:46:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

A hollow pathological Narcissist, ignorant and self-serving; using the presidency to enrich him and his family. And Congress rubber stamps the worst impulses of America.

13/8/2025, 3:44:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

How are Americans going to defend this part of history? The embarrassment will be El Grande

13/8/2025, 2:33:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Lacking self-awareness is a feature for these fine folks.

12/8/2025, 11:50:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Surprisingly quickly too.

12/8/2025, 8:48:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

"Trump's interpretation of American history" Impressive ring-kissing, and should be a Onion headline. The dullest and most ignorant president in American politics wants to stamp his interpretation of history. 😅🙄🤡

12/8/2025, 6:03:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

She's riding a high horse with her accusations - maybe a Christian wouldn't support a convicted felon or sexual abuser ... Or a man that has an extensive history with Epstein.

12/8/2025, 4:48:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

No surprise it was a red herring by the gov't.

11/8/2025, 1:46:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Aye - MAGA 😬

10/8/2025, 6:48:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't even think they need that information from Trump's team ... he's a simpleton and easily manipulated with faux praise. They know the game.

8/8/2025, 9:30:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Brash criminals are confident no one will leak any information, and they'll manage to cover and carry on? More from the Upside Down World.

7/8/2025, 2:32:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Amen

6/8/2025, 1:33:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Where are his fluffers?

6/8/2025, 1:31:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all embarrassing boot licking for an audience of one

5/8/2025, 6:44:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

The Lord has bestowed us with a mute button, so we can avoid idiocy from this man

5/8/2025, 6:43:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

He's getting closer..

5/8/2025, 3:57:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Republican's (remember they're claiming to be followers of Jesus):

5/8/2025, 3:46:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Helpful reminder over the years.. :)

5/8/2025, 1:25:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted

heads up -- this is very well done. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

4/8/2025, 5:03:56 PM | 2469 1199 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Would like to see media calling out lies, and how liars are eroding society. Call them out as corrosive and damaging.

4/8/2025, 1:39:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

Sage words

4/8/2025, 12:24:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Not at all - but I think we'd be closer to having a fair election in 2028 with Vance as president. And he's not cognitively impaired and mentally unraveling.

4/8/2025, 12:22:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Vance backers will need to coordinate an effort to get rid of him.

3/8/2025, 2:31:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social)

1000x @ "ineffective in fighting evil."

3/8/2025, 2:19:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

3/8/2025, 4:54:51 AM | 6421 2447 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Performative nonsense. She'll come crawling back because there's nowhere to go.

3/8/2025, 2:25:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

3/8/2025, 2:24:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Greetings from 🇨🇦

2/8/2025, 5:51:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

They seem to be ignoring MAGA for now. Unsure if Joe Rogan could even move the needle at this point.. it would need to be Fox

2/8/2025, 5:11:40 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

How to imagine any MAGA woman finding this complimentary.

2/8/2025, 5:10:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Increments of outrage are easier for the public to tolerate. We know the end result.

1/8/2025, 6:54:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember the Republican weasels who let this man run roughshod over government norms and laws.

1/8/2025, 6:49:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Close to zero chance he wrote this.

1/8/2025, 6:31:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not a fan of food dyes, but amen to that.

31/7/2025, 3:43:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Performative nonsense for an audience of one (orange).

31/7/2025, 3:42:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

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31/7/2025, 1:57:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what I think will happen: "Or maybe, by the midway point of the 21st century, China will be the world’s dominant scientific power, as it was, arguably, a millennium ag"

31/7/2025, 1:51:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

"Three-fourths of American scientists who responded to a recent poll by the journal Nature said they are considering leaving the country." !

31/7/2025, 1:46:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Scott Bessent tells us it's idiosyncratic and Jesse Watters would say high inflation is masculine.

31/7/2025, 1:29:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

He can't have what universities have—knowledge, intelligence, hard work and respect—so he attempts to wreck it. A petty and small man.

30/7/2025, 10:56:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Many people are saying Jesse pays to have a woman companion.

30/7/2025, 10:46:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I read some of the details on Threads, and suggest a content warning. He's another vile man and folks don't need to ponder more awfulness.

30/7/2025, 6:52:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunate that Musk promotes this vile idiocy.

30/7/2025, 4:09:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Preaching to the choir ... but this is what Republicans think is the best option to lead.

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30/7/2025, 3:09:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

We're all left with a great mystery to solve.

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30/7/2025, 3:01:22 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

The expression is "stuck in your craw." Still worth repeating: Imagine listening to this guy and being proud of your vote. !

30/7/2025, 2:34:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

He's always given Putin what he wants (can't think of any counter examples). No reason to expect different outcome

30/7/2025, 12:32:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

His addled mind thought this would help ... yeah, it will help usha in Vance for POTUS.

29/7/2025, 11:13:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't jump out of airplanes, but I'm a little closer in age than Tom.

29/7/2025, 8:42:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

Tall is the same as hot? 🤔 Good news if true.

29/7/2025, 8:34:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Cook (@normcook.bsky.social) reply parent

My dad bought There goes rhymin Simon shortly after released, so we grew up with this music. ❤️

29/7/2025, 8:31:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view