Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Appeals court rules most of Trump's tariffs are illegal and he overstepped his authority in imposing them. There will be ketchup on the White House walls tonight...
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Appeals court rules most of Trump's tariffs are illegal and he overstepped his authority in imposing them. There will be ketchup on the White House walls tonight...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Whodathunk the Second Amendment crowd would not only fail to rise up against fascist tyranny, but become fascist boot lickers.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Troops should be the bright red line where blue states start their soft secession by refusing to forward the Federal tax they collect.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
It is my profound hope that by then, Trump is conscious, on life support, unable to communicate, and being tended to 24/7 by former Epstein girls.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
You really think President Mike Johnson would be better?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
E, although a crippling stroke which leaves him conscious but unable to show it, years on life support tended by Epstein girls doesn't sound bad ...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in a blue part of Colorado and hope you take us with you.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, my (sorry, George), some spicy language may be used.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I sense a strongly worded letter in her future.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like the brain worm had another snack...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Once again my former service sickens me...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, half of us are above average, too...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
American here: picture in your mind how stupid the average American is, then realized half of us are stupider.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Article is paywalled.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Why have Democrats not formed a shadow cabinet to counter the daily dumbfuckery, or at least to point it out?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm hoping for a coup but our generals are far too gutless.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Fly that flag proudly and high, yet another expression of a young white man's second amendment rights. The flag at half staff rings hollow when nothing is done to prevent shootings.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Thoughts and prayers: When you care enough to do the very least.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Prayer. When you care enough to do the very least.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
While the National Guard is picking up trash in DC, could they please pick up the steaming pile at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Just, no. Leave it and go on. Even if you're right, it changes nothing.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I read somewhere that over 40% of ships at sea are carrying fossil fuel. Again, the shills are misdirecting their marks.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Just when I thought I couldn't be more indifferent to an event than Taylor Swift's engagement, Cracker Barrel changes back their logo...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I have never cared how.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for caring.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, they need to be doing something useful, given they aren't trained to fight crime.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
The police have never been on the right side of social change.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure that in some distant alternate universe, some version of me cares more about the Cracker Barrel logo than the Epstein files...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Trump is threatening China with 200% tariffs if they don't give him rare earth magnets. It's time for China and the rest of the world to say aloud, go ahead, Trump, screw your country with taxes, you get nothing from us.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it is some kind of incurable rot.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Must be crowded in there, sharing the confined space with the entire Republican party.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Still waiting for the NRA to rise up against tyranny...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't have the words to express my indifference to this.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Lisa Cook has shown more cojones than all of the generals who meekly complied with Trump's illegal orders. Or every Republican in Congress.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Taylor Swift is engaged. Armed troops are patrolling the streets of Washington. I am completely indifferent to one of these things.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I would rephrase to "This is no longer the country I wish to be a part of." Don't surrender.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Can some journalist do their job and ask why Bolton is being raided and what evidence led to it? Could one of them ask Trump to list the ten wars he has ended? Challenge the administration on its economic statistics? Can one of them step up and do their job? Oh, I remember Walter Cronkite..
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't unsee that...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
What amazes me is that none of the generals have had the balls to say Mr. President, that order is illegal and I cannot ask my soldiers to follow it.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Just when you think the Trump administration can't get any stupider, they exceed your expectations: Now, based on a discredited 2022 study, Trump and Kennedy want to take the COVID vaccine off the market.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
And while you're at it: Tell us why Bolton's home was raided, on what evidence, and under what suspicion? Name the six (now ten) wars Trump has ended and what was his involvement?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't a judge just rule in plain language: Leave him the fuck alone?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, amazing how that no longer seems to matter...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Pritzker should deploy his own National Guard to stop the Federalized storm troopers being sent to Chicago. Might be the start of a hot civil war but it's really starting to look like we need one.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
What baffles me is how Congressional Republicans can watch all this crap unfold and somehow justify it enough to let it happen.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Put Elon on it... There's no way you could get me to ride one of those. The Kia approach to quality doesn't work for rockets.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
This is beyond retribution. Everyone involved in this should be prosecuted.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
No pardons. Everyone involved prosecuted down to the ICE agent wearing a mask while on duty.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Hurry up.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Dictators rarely surrender power peacefully.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Sheinbaum-Carney 2026 Make North America sane again
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Things I wish Kristen Welker would have asked Couchfucker Vance: Exactly why is Bolton being investigated and what evidence do you have? List the six wars Trump has ended and describe his role in ending them.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
May he burn next to Pat Robertson and save a spot for Joel Osteen.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Why is it that Chris Pratt's position on matters of health care are of even less interest to me than RFK Jr's? Can it be that, while neither of them are qualified to remove a splinter, only one affects my life on any meaningful way?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Starting now, let's all agree that there is no need to fact check anything Trump says. Just assume it's a lie and go on.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
People voted for every damned bit of it.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Time for a hearty "We will not comply" from blue states.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Met with a war criminal. Didn't arrest him. Still a pedophile.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Screw the files. Believe the victims.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Is anyone aware of any time when the police were on the right side of social change?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Second biggest. Biggest was the election of the man who made Trump possible, Ronald Reagan.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
That case of dementia started with Ronald Reagan.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel the same way about Lindsey Graham.
Karpov's Machine (@karpovsmachine.bsky.social) reposted
Never forget that when Congress asked the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy if they WANTED a new strike/fighter aircraft, all three branches said no, but then Lockheed Martin said yes, so we bought 900 of them at $90 million each. But we definitely can't afford universal healthcare.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
The epicenter of crime in DC seems to be 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I hear there's a man there with 34 felony convictions.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Today I'm saddened that I served in the US Air Force.
Bob Geiger (@bobgeiger.bsky.social) reposted
This is your periodic reminder of the difference between Blue and Red states.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Read today that Trump thought the global economy was 14 years old and so decided to fuck it. Can't stop laughing...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
It's interesting that nothing in the US Constitution guarantees fair elections...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
(Checks controversy over Sydney Sweeney blue jeans ad) Nope, no fucks to give...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
We could be building guillotines...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
It's so normalized the press no longer cares, unless you're a dentist poisoning your wife with Visine.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Respectfully disagree: These Democrats are corporate shills. Elect socialists.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
I think we should secede but no one is listening...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Question from an engineering perspective: Where is the water going? Unless it's being boiled away, it would simply carry heat from the data center back to the river, warming it. The water would still be there, warmer, but no less usable for showers...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Where is the draft of Democrats' Project 2029?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
No, look at the source and imagine their agenda.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
One more panel: Same image, captioned "Donald Trump cheating."
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Colorado should ignore Trump's malice toward the homeless and withhold our Federal taxes to make up the lost revenue.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Insurance companies are asking for a 28% increase in premiums for next year if you buy your own coverage through the exchanges. So much winning...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Where is the Democrats' Project 2027? Project 2029? Come on, Dems, up your game.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Can I come live with you?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Trump's tariffs are looking more and more like a backdoor national value-added tax.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Trump's European deal: You pay a 15% tax on imports. So much winning...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
"Meet the Press" this morning should have been titled "Republican Shit Show."
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
If you give Trump a colonoscopy, you'll find Lindsey Graham. Examine Trump's stool and you'll find Mike Johnson.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
He absolutely can. No more pardons, no matter the President.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
An "underage woman" is a child. There is no consesual sex with a child, it is rape. Pedophilia is the practice of raping children. Trafficking is selling children into sexual slavery. Let's call it what it is.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Perhaps the reason we haven't had a revolution in the United States is we have come to accept that the status quo is the only possible society and we have no other vision for how things could be...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no such thing as an inalienable right.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Logical "or" used here...
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Maxwell will be pardoned next week, or dead.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Maybe they should change the name of the Washington Commanders to the Epstein Distractions?
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social) reply parent
Tennessee logic: Son, you ain't a man unless you're getting some. Pregnant woman: Slut should have kept her knees together. See the disconnect there? Full disclosure: I grew up in Kentucky. Same logic, worse spelling.
Nosybear the Curmudgeon (@nosybear.bsky.social)
Tomorrow we will buy school supplies to donate to underprivileged children, and lament that we live in a society that thinks this is somehow a solution to their need.