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Elise

@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social

"Love words, agonize over sentences and pay attention to the world." --Susan Sontag. Now sit your ass down.

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

At least they are fun.

1/9/2025, 10:32:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

In lieu of Trump paying Rudy his legal fees...

1/9/2025, 10:30:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds more like Presidential privilege.

1/9/2025, 2:37:51 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

The NYT is complicit. Pass it on.

31/8/2025, 6:47:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

No, you!

29/8/2025, 7:45:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

: The Musical

29/8/2025, 7:44:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

That's it. You killed me. I am dead.

29/8/2025, 7:42:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Water sought its own level, boy howdy.

29/8/2025, 7:42:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

As good as Epstein's victims, I'll bet.

28/8/2025, 6:44:09 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He has proven toxic.

28/8/2025, 1:48:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

If you want to like him more, watch his SNL skit that takes place at the American Girl Doll Cafe which is as funny as her SNL PSA Driving skit. I mean it. Watch.

28/8/2025, 1:47:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He really believes he owns them.

28/8/2025, 1:41:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

How do they not give a shit, seriously? Bet there's no reflection when they look in a mirror.

26/8/2025, 6:08:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

A responsible media would come in as Number Two, I reckon.

26/8/2025, 6:06:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Will somebody please save him a head?

26/8/2025, 6:04:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

To each other. Penpals!

26/8/2025, 12:11:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Better than okay.

26/8/2025, 12:06:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Well thank God Kristen held his feet to the fire about it.

24/8/2025, 9:15:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody but nobody touches Trump's money.

24/8/2025, 9:01:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope to god we never understand them. They are evil and insane, full stop.

24/8/2025, 8:57:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

By number?

24/8/2025, 8:56:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude has to get out more.

24/8/2025, 4:14:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I do believe your sentence is perfect with a period after "nothing".

24/8/2025, 4:13:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He has quarrels with anyone who isn't Andrew Cuomo. He travels to the Hamptons to collect money from oligarchs, pronouncing that he is the only man who can save NYC. Then he comes into the City and badmouths it. Fuck him and his brother.

24/8/2025, 4:11:31 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He behaved like a thug.

24/8/2025, 4:01:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Mamdani loves NYC, Cuomo despises it.

24/8/2025, 1:47:35 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

What law student/lawyer wants to work for a law firm that couldn't defend itself in court?

21/8/2025, 1:02:55 AM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Strong work

21/8/2025, 12:53:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

When she is turned into a pillar of salt, give me a call.

20/8/2025, 4:56:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

The Trickle-Down Theory is only evident when it comes to a president who is a sexual predator, bully and felon.

20/8/2025, 4:46:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't help wishing he, too, had gone to a Coldplay concert with a friend. There goes my karma.

20/8/2025, 4:40:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Now there's a traceable Trickle-Down Theory that actually works, by God.

20/8/2025, 1:48:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He has the attention span of a mayfly.

20/8/2025, 3:10:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

You can end your second sentence after the word "media" to sum up the horrible waste of time and money thrown at them.

20/8/2025, 3:05:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Forget the aphasia (in this discussion), five bucks says he's only voted when he was a candidate

19/8/2025, 6:22:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Check your humanity at the door

19/8/2025, 12:30:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Stay strong.

19/8/2025, 4:07:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for this.

18/8/2025, 1:06:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

So many numbers to play with!

18/8/2025, 1:05:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

She is a parody of herself begging to be taken serious-like.

18/8/2025, 1:04:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

The absolute best thing you can do is try and flush that toxic shit out of your mind.

18/8/2025, 1:02:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I honestly can't, he needs a trip to the Mothership for a human being refresher course.

18/8/2025, 4:41:05 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

For Christ's sake, the world watched Trump gently wash the feet of his excellency Vladimir Putin

18/8/2025, 2:49:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Camera ready.

17/8/2025, 10:47:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

He will never ever realize it, it would make him spontaneously combust.

16/8/2025, 3:53:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Tapper is such a tool.

15/8/2025, 11:38:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes.

14/8/2025, 10:34:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

That was easy.

14/8/2025, 9:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Tick Tock

14/8/2025, 8:50:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Dark

14/8/2025, 3:24:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Might someone please stick a fork in the Gray Lady? She's done.

14/8/2025, 3:01:45 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Brilliance, thank you.

14/8/2025, 3:00:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't you hear the internal foot-stomping hissy fits being thrown by Cuomo, Ackman; hell, by all the predators.

14/8/2025, 2:59:11 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Dumb as a sack of hair.

13/8/2025, 4:53:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

The good news is that the more he speaks, the more people see his red glowing eyes, sadistic streak and loathing of humanity.

13/8/2025, 3:32:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Please write them down. We are capable of entertaining antithetical takes on this horror show, sometimes with delight.

13/8/2025, 3:28:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Because a kid who called himself "Big Balls" got beat up in DC? With that name he's going to get beat up everywhere he goes.

11/8/2025, 5:46:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

It is shocking to see people and institutions fold like origami.

11/8/2025, 5:42:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Tapper Can't Understand the Nuances Necessaray to Translate Trump into English. This makes him a cunt with blinders who still believes everything his mother told him at his Bar Mitzvah.

11/8/2025, 3:27:45 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear I shall not stray from the written word. And thanks.

11/8/2025, 2:23:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish everyone well in their future endeavors.

10/8/2025, 6:37:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Then it's time to splurge on a fine champagne, even nondrinkers want to be surrounded by wild celebrants.

10/8/2025, 6:35:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, but look at the company you keep.

10/8/2025, 6:30:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

And where might a latecomer find said recipe (I am assuming it doesn't involve wool)?

10/8/2025, 6:29:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish there was even more self-loathing going on in the club.

10/8/2025, 6:23:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Then it is time for me to splurge on a fine bottle of champagne. I don't drink, but I have plenty of friends who do.

10/8/2025, 6:22:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I can't wait until he is voted off the Island of Manhattan.

9/8/2025, 2:22:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Why, yes. Yes it is.

9/8/2025, 1:05:34 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Amen.

8/8/2025, 11:14:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Them South Park boys sure know how to handle playground bullies, boy howdy.

8/8/2025, 9:44:35 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

We get it, leadership is hard. It's also what they signed up for.

8/8/2025, 9:43:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Yay you.

8/8/2025, 6:40:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

It is so much easier to give up CBS than I thought. Like, who cares about non-local network shows and their news department will go the way of 60 Minutes anyway.

8/8/2025, 6:39:46 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

And here I thought he had licked one too many frogs.

8/8/2025, 2:35:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

This might be burned into my brain forever. I'll let you know.

7/8/2025, 3:51:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

You are, too!

7/8/2025, 1:01:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Women aren't the ones with penis envy.

6/8/2025, 10:39:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I think he meant plantations.

6/8/2025, 1:03:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

They need a trip back to the Mothership for a human refresher course, pronto.

5/8/2025, 3:56:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Millionaires might leave NYC, but the billionaires aren't budging. If they'd pay their taxes, ffs, not their army of lawyers and accountants who charge them more...

4/8/2025, 6:25:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, that feels about right. Not fair, but right.

4/8/2025, 6:21:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I will find it incredibly helpful, thanks for the suggestion.

4/8/2025, 6:19:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

The white- and clergy-collared

4/8/2025, 5:48:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Good

4/8/2025, 11:26:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely! Thank you for being an enabler.

4/8/2025, 11:25:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

And you'll always be her first love.

4/8/2025, 2:26:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Strong work, though payback is going to be some kind of bitch.

4/8/2025, 2:23:58 AM | 44 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Both.

3/8/2025, 2:29:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish him the best of luck in the next chapter of his life which I wish he'd start yesterday.

3/8/2025, 2:05:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

So the enemy of your enemy can still be a piece of shit.

3/8/2025, 2:02:22 AM | 202 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

They are busy chasing the Benjamins.

2/8/2025, 9:12:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

His mother knows.

2/8/2025, 4:01:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

With all the accouterments. Strong work.

1/8/2025, 11:29:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they should take up pickleball.

1/8/2025, 11:25:44 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't we all start carrying bagpipes around?

1/8/2025, 7:25:26 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't even say they actually do it, they just know how. Very weird, indeed.

1/8/2025, 7:24:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

When a man tells you who he is, believe him.

1/8/2025, 2:55:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Kind of like a snake swallowing its own tail.

1/8/2025, 1:52:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Definitely Rouge Dior for Jake.

1/8/2025, 1:51:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elise (@pearlsb4elise.bsky.social) reply parent

Totally. It is one of our superpowers that scare Republicans so much they are trying to cancel it.

1/8/2025, 3:12:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view