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Patrick Andelic

@pkandelic.bsky.social

Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.

created August 16, 2023

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Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Funniest possible thing for two MSPs to get into a violent altercation over.

19/9/2025, 5:10:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Your chilled food will resume after these messages."

18/9/2025, 4:24:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having to stand there while my fridge plays a 30-second ad (no option to skip) before I can open the door.

18/9/2025, 4:23:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You think they'd have a workaround if that was the case. Reagan was very short-sighted and he wasn't this listless.

18/9/2025, 4:12:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Genuinely feels like a plot detail in one of those Left Behind books where the Antichrist becomes U.S. president.

18/9/2025, 9:51:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

It's striking how bad he still is at delivering a prepared speech.

18/9/2025, 8:49:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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17/9/2025, 6:25:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Rowe (@danrowe.bsky.social) reposted

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

12/9/2025, 4:12:45 PM | 9 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Is it time to give Labour to Sam Allardyce until the end of the parliament?

17/9/2025, 9:33:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

The best Robert Redford story is Mike Nichols' recollection of trying to explain to Redford why he wouldn't be a good fit for the lead role in The Graduate. Literally unable to grasp the concept of a woman not being interested in him.

“I interviewed hundreds, maybe thousands, of men,” Nichols admitted of the casting process per Vanity Fair, before his conversation with Redford turned out to be a short one. “I said, ‘You can’t play it. You can never play a loser’. And Redford said, ‘What do you mean? Of course I can play a loser’. And I said, ‘OK, have you ever struck out with a girl’. And he said, ‘What do you mean?’. And he wasn’t joking.”
16/9/2025, 6:40:46 PM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

"Don't you think he looks wired?"

16/9/2025, 6:15:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Me, a landsman:

16/9/2025, 8:56:47 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Morrish (@edmorrish.bsky.social) reposted

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

16/9/2025, 7:25:11 AM | 2755 713 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - the other Frank Wilhoit.

15/9/2025, 2:14:48 PM | 16 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Didn't realise Vin Diesel had been making them for that long.

14/9/2025, 5:44:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture HappyToast (@happytoast.co.uk) reposted

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

This is fine, but Keir Starmer surrounded by violent, foreign money funded bigots waving flags
13/9/2025, 9:23:48 PM | 2265 858 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/9/2025, 10:29:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is an especially good stick.

13/9/2025, 3:46:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

The electrical engineering programme at Dixie Technical College is well known as a hotbed of Marxist indoctrination.

13/9/2025, 3:06:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Moving tribute, sir.

12/9/2025, 5:47:37 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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FAO all "unfunded hobbyist researchers" 👇 www.ucu.org.uk/join

12/9/2025, 9:42:20 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hetan Shah (@hetanshah.bsky.social) reposted

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

10/9/2025, 8:52:22 AM | 54 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

The easy way to avoid a crisis in US-UK relations is to let Trump take credit for this firing. Another of Epstein's cronies driven out of public life by heroic undercover FBI informant Donald J. Trump!

11/9/2025, 10:12:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent

"Just remember Sun Tzu, big man."

Email from Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein, February 5, 2008.
11/9/2025, 10:05:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

A lot of people thinking VERY CAREFULLY about the emails of consolation they plan to send to Mandelson today.

11/9/2025, 10:03:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Netflix and Amazon phoning Mark Gatiss's agent to find out his availability for their rival films about the Mandelson scandal.

10/9/2025, 6:38:49 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think someone should ask Keir Starmer - who took over as DPP a few months after these emails were written - if he agrees that billionaire nonce Jeffrey Epstein wouldn't have been prosecuted in the UK.

10/9/2025, 6:20:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/9/2025, 7:48:46 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) reposted

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

8/9/2025, 9:21:53 PM | 54389 9488 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Ending up in the Epstein files because you reflexively signed, "Have a great one, Jeffers!" on a birthday card circulating round the office.

9/9/2025, 9:00:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

8/9/2025, 10:56:50 PM | 31451 7920 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Embarrassing how much this is my jam.

8/9/2025, 1:58:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Straightforward from here: 1. Impeach Starmer 2. Constitutional crisis 3. Call by-election 4. Burnham v. Farage 5. Prime Minister Burnham

8/9/2025, 1:41:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Oh no, it really is going to replace academics.

8/9/2025, 10:37:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm excited to find out!

8/9/2025, 9:10:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

If I was Keir Starmer, I would simply make fewer mistakes and be better at governing.

7/9/2025, 8:05:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think this new emergency alert system is working really well.

7/9/2025, 2:10:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nadine's not going to like this.

7/9/2025, 11:49:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simpsons screencap. Chief Wiggum testifying in court. Caption:
7/9/2025, 11:02:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Wouldn't have been able to waterboard this out of me.

7/9/2025, 11:01:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My first lecture after the Reform government mandate the new Patriotic Pedagogy Panopticon database, 2029:

6/9/2025, 2:53:15 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/9/2025, 11:07:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Rees (@rachel-rees.bsky.social) reposted

A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote

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6/9/2025, 8:53:41 AM | 181 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

You have to admire a candidate who says to the media, "Um, I have an IMPORTANT campaign announcement TODAY. You should be there later TODAY," and then the announcement is "My opponent is AWFUL and I do NOT like him."

5/9/2025, 10:44:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

"Seamless, huh?"

5/9/2025, 7:34:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

When you definitely understood Minority Report.

5/9/2025, 12:53:43 PM | 19 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn't expect the fascist takeover to be this embarrassing.

5/9/2025, 9:56:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going to be very funny when she starts agitating for Boris to take over.

4/9/2025, 6:38:44 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

"Evening, prime minister."

4/9/2025, 5:37:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Defence barrister sobbing because they have to convince a court this man is not an obsessive harasser.

4/9/2025, 5:08:43 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Critical support to Comrade the Earl of Grantham.

4/9/2025, 9:28:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also me at an academic conference:

3/9/2025, 9:19:14 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course, the funniest inducement would be to offer Adams the post of U.S. ambassador to Turkey.

3/9/2025, 9:10:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

More evidence that Trump continues to think of HUD as "the Department for Black Guys" because it has "Urban" in the name.

3/9/2025, 9:09:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Going to flood the Internet with this until the AI-generated Lincoln is saying it to viewers.

3/9/2025, 2:10:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Screaming, crying, throwing up.

3/9/2025, 10:18:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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EXC: President Trump has committed to staffing the Space Command HQ in Hunstville, Alabama, with even more Nazis than worked there in the 1950s.

2/9/2025, 6:58:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 2:10:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 7:18:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'd also like to express my fondness for that particular flag." [Electorate booing, murmuring]

1/9/2025, 3:05:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this point, Donald Trump is a more robust critic of Elon Musk.

1/9/2025, 10:01:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's quite impressive that the drift of Starmer's government is such that a minister in that government doesn't know what line to take on the question, "Is Keir Starmer a traitor and his government illegitimate?"

1/9/2025, 10:01:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

September 1st mood:

Tom Scott:
1/9/2025, 9:37:08 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He only moved to Mississippi in 2021.

31/8/2025, 5:25:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simpsons screencap. Barney, crudely disguised as Krusty the Clown, being presented to the campers at Kamp Krusty by Mr Black. Caption:
31/8/2025, 3:56:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

These grainy, unfocused, Bigfoot-style photos are sure to assuage those rumours.

31/8/2025, 3:53:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent

This is like when Piers Morgan had a tantrum over the Greggs vegetarian sausage roll. An entire political movement driven insane by the mere existence of consumer choice.

31/8/2025, 11:59:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You don't *have* to buy the sourdough, though. Other breads are available.

31/8/2025, 11:57:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there some epidemic of asylum seekers buying snowmobiles that I missed? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

31/8/2025, 10:34:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Donald Trump is so obsessed with the Kennedys that he wants to do his own Bay of Pigs.

31/8/2025, 8:08:30 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We'll always have Paris* *the few hours of hope.

30/8/2025, 7:39:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ah, well. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the shitpost.

30/8/2025, 7:21:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, he's alive

30/8/2025, 7:20:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is just a fraction of the deranged, racist nonsense he's been posting over the last 24 hrs FYI.

30/8/2025, 5:44:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social) reply parent

"The owner of a social media platform has accused Keir Starmer of importing foreign rapists to 'replace' the white population, endorsed every far-right agitator in his mentions, and called for the violent overthrow of Starmer's government. Should Keir Starmer continue to use the platform: Y/N?"

30/8/2025, 5:43:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Absolutely no reason or justification for the UK government, the Labour Party, or any Labour MP, to continue to have accounts on X.

Tweet from Elon Musk (@elonmusk): QT from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the comment Elon Musk RT of Ant Middleton: QT from Elon Musk (@elonmusk) with the message
30/8/2025, 5:38:11 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe the fake Melania and the Trump double will fall in love? What a heartwarming tale that would be.

30/8/2025, 4:03:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course, the real reason you can't make Life of Brian now is that the (woke) Hollywood studio executives would probably say something like, "This is just Life of Brian! We can't make this, we'd be sued."

30/8/2025, 12:42:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Andelic (@pkandelic.bsky.social)

Yeah, imagine if you tried to make Life of Brian now. It'd probably be picketed by religious groups, banned in several markets, the BBC and ITV might refuse to screen it, the cast would probably have to defend it in a televised debate with a bishop.

30/8/2025, 12:41:52 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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When people ask where the evidence is:

Lionel Hutz:
30/8/2025, 10:55:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labor Day Weekend at Donnie's.

30/8/2025, 10:30:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The White House:

Screencap from The Death of Stalin. Khruschev (Steve Buscemi), Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Kaganovich (Dermot Crowley), and Beria (Simon Russell Beale), standing dazed around Stalin's dead body in his private office.
30/8/2025, 6:28:56 AM | 29 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is Trump vs. the 2016 GOP, but for Romantic poetry.

Tweet from @qikipedia:
29/8/2025, 4:56:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's going to order the Army Corps of Engineers to flood DC so he can sail a destroyer down the National Mall.

28/8/2025, 6:59:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm going to start replying, "Oh, you know, overburdened by mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, and suchlike" when people ask how I am.

28/8/2025, 2:29:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same energy.

28/8/2025, 10:30:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 9:39:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a historian (though admittedly with no expertise here), I much prefer the Ridley Scott "shut up, nerds" approach to that of film/TV makers who take the exact same creative liberties while boasting about how faithful they are to the historical record.

27/8/2025, 7:17:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ann Selzer, you will be avenged.

27/8/2025, 1:55:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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MrBeast:

Simpsons screencap. Mr Burns and Smithers sitting at a cabaret table at Burns' birthday party. Burns: Simpsons screencap. Smithers interjecting to correct Burns. Caption: Simpsons screencap. Mr Burns, now angry, waving his fists in the air. Caption:
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Very funny that he thinks that Rolling Stone is the official magazine of the Rolling Stones.

27/8/2025, 10:08:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay (@duniagamemaster.bsky.social) reposted

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

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"He's spinning the ball on his finger! Just take it! Take the ball!"

Telegraph headline
26/8/2025, 6:55:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shakespeare is, of course, the original "guy who took a girl to the park, pointed out a tree or a bird, and then ran off in the opposite direction."

26/8/2025, 4:50:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Setting aside the moral case here (let's not set aside the moral case here), if you can't go in studs up on "Farage's Taliban subsidy," why are you even in politics?

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25/8/2025, 1:31:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think this is a key part of his appeal. He's a politician who doesn't seem to hate or fear the electorate.

24/8/2025, 7:22:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Simpsons screencap. Homer's three nerd pals (Benjamin, Doug, and Gary) at a talk for the voices of Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie. The head nerd, Doug, is wearing a t-shirt that reads
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