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Republican Senator Says He Doesn’t Wear Seatbelt in D.C. Because He Fears Being Carjacked: ‘I Don’t Buckle Up’

aug 14, 2025, 12:10 am • 86 7

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Rob Haile @rh871.bsky.social

Erm, lock your car door?

aug 14, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social

How does that work? He jumps out and runs?

aug 14, 2025, 1:19 am • 58 0 • view
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responsible homeowner @dafrgama.bsky.social

hahahaa right? if anything that just makes it easier for the carjackers lmao

aug 14, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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CatherineGz @catherinegz.bsky.social

Right?! What an idiot.

aug 14, 2025, 1:24 am • 10 0 • view
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dredecopp.bsky.social @dredecopp.bsky.social

So he's so unaware of his surroundings he won't notice someone creeping up on his car and then he could unbuckle his belt? Or he just generally doesn't wear one and he can't figure out how to push the button?

aug 14, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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djdaisylee.bsky.social @djdaisylee.bsky.social

Maybe he should look for another job.

aug 14, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Dave N. @daveneste.bsky.social

Right wingers have no ability to assess and mitigate risk. These morons will muzzle-sweep each other cosplaying as soldiers but wet themselves in terror at the 0.01% chance they might get carjacked.

aug 14, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Tip Keeping Bellhop @chaptal.bsky.social

Probably leaves his doors unlocked too.

aug 14, 2025, 1:18 am • 2 0 • view
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cometsncats.bsky.social @cometsncats.bsky.social

Christine teigen Tweet: Lol what a pussy ass bitch. (Cropped)
aug 14, 2025, 1:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Daniel J. Pool🦩 @gywair.bsky.social

As an Oklahoman, let me just say that's the weakest excuse for stupidity I've heard all day (and we're 50th in education).

aug 14, 2025, 1:23 am • 19 0 • view
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Ira Rothenberg 🐂🐓🦁 @mraryeh.bsky.social

Duh

aug 16, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
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Geeque24 @geegee24.bsky.social

Man, mediocre white man

aug 14, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social

Hopefully he drives into a wall at high speed.

aug 14, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
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Renezuo @renezuo.bsky.social

This pussy so stupid he just admitted to breaking the law on national television lol

aug 14, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
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punwithwordz @lexophile.bsky.social

The same guy who wanted to physically fight with a labor union leader in Congress is too much of a pu**y to wear a seatbelt?

aug 14, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
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The Cathartic @thecathartic.bsky.social

Mullin: Jeez...DC is so scary. Live studio audience: HOW SCARY IS IT MARKWAYNE? Mullin: It's so scary, I drive without wearing my seatbelt to make it easier for both me and the carjacker who steals my car every other week. House Band: 🥁📀

aug 14, 2025, 3:52 am • 6 1 • view
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Updog Sinclair @greaterhuff.bsky.social

“I’m a huge pussy”

aug 14, 2025, 1:25 am • 17 0 • view
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runningbyrd.bsky.social @runningbyrd.bsky.social

This... won't in any way help in the event of a carjacking?

aug 14, 2025, 1:23 am • 8 0 • view
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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

It'll help him try to smash through the windshield head-first.

aug 14, 2025, 1:46 am • 5 0 • view
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that-is-poppicoque.bsky.social @that-is-poppicoque.bsky.social

Didn't anyone tell Markwayne that In Washington D.C., there's a LAW (Title 50, Subtitle I, Chapter 7, relating to motor vehicles) that requires being BUCKLED IN to a booster seat until you're a big boy who's at least 4'9"??

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TheActualTodd @theactualtodd.bsky.social

Dude is basically Mac from It’s Always Sunny

aug 14, 2025, 1:19 am • 10 1 • view
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gerbo1964.bsky.social @gerbo1964.bsky.social

Doesn’t he carry a gun?

aug 14, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
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Kevin Harlow @kevinharlow.bsky.social

MarkWayneWayneMark is truly on the cutting edge of stupid.

aug 14, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
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Indira @c0smicgoober.bsky.social

Lmao, conservatives are the biggest cowards I have ever seen, Complete clowns

aug 14, 2025, 1:27 am • 5 0 • view
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marksmithresister.bsky.social @marksmithresister.bsky.social

The party of scaredy cats...

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aug 14, 2025, 1:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social

That's manly.🙄

aug 14, 2025, 1:12 am • 7 0 • view
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Brian Morans @whpshw.bsky.social

The hilarious thing is the very people conservatives claim are soy boy, effeminate latte drinking betas have zero problems existing without fear in any major city in great numbers and in sketchy, pre-gentrified neighborhoods. I guess they're just tougher than conservatives.

aug 14, 2025, 4:40 am • 4 0 • view
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Mavairo @mavairo.bsky.social

I mean, literally anyone who isn't a conservative is tougher than they are. They literally have enlarged amygdala. They spend all their time feeding it too, so it just gets bigger. They are literally scared, dangerous animals.

aug 14, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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AnnieGTMD @anniegt.bsky.social

MARKWAYNE MULLIN drinks raw milk out of the carton while letting his Tesla drive him hands-free past the vaccination center with no seatbelt on...to own the libbbzz. He's legit one of the dumbest Repubs I've heard offer to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.

aug 14, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 0 • view
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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social

Markwayne has spent his entire career yammering on about how being in 2 unsanctioned MMA fights, in 2008, made him some kind of “cage fighter.” Now he’s scared shitless of driving to work. Maybe he should hire Bernie to work personal security.

aug 14, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
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KR @blandphilosophy.bsky.social

Nah he just doesn't fit without a booster seat

aug 14, 2025, 1:20 am • 0 0 • view
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KevintyOne @kevintyone.bsky.social

“Big Balls” got beat up by two 15 year olds while inexplicably walking in the bar district at 3 am… Tell me this wouldn’t carry the same risk in Birmingham, Memphis, Fayetteville, Tallahassee, etc…

aug 14, 2025, 1:21 am • 9 2 • view
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Three👁️ Eyed👁️ Devil👁️ @anarcish.bsky.social

Hey look there’s nothing inexplicable about stumbling home drunk at 3am. It happens to the best of us.

aug 14, 2025, 1:37 am • 1 1 • view
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KevintyOne @kevintyone.bsky.social

I guess what I mean is that the inexplicable part is the President deploying the National Guard as a result of it.

aug 14, 2025, 10:40 am • 2 0 • view
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rowast @rowast.com

Usually you don't get people saying you deserve the presidential medal of freedom because of it

aug 14, 2025, 1:57 am • 4 0 • view
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Bink Everett @binkeverett.bsky.social

“And I don’t want the same thing happen to me what’s happened to a lot of people that work on The Hill.”- Have I missed the rash of Congress members being car-jacked or is that being covered up by the woke media?

aug 14, 2025, 1:52 am • 6 0 • view
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Ritzville Razzle Dazzle @inwpublicdefender.bsky.social

Of course the guy named MarkWayne is a coward.

aug 14, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 0 • view
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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social

I would enthusiastically like to encourage this man’s non-buckling habit. Especially whenever he’s on a highway doing 70 or higher.

aug 14, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social

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Lean Lefty @leanlefty.bsky.social

"My wife tells me I'm a strong brave boy"

aug 14, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Acula, M. D. @ryanjames7.bsky.social

Same guy was shittin his pants on Jan 6th.

aug 14, 2025, 1:16 am • 8 0 • view
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Concoloris @concoloris.bsky.social

that's a wonderful idea, he should keep doing that

aug 14, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Bungee @bungeecord.bsky.social

He should protect his head and wear it around his neck.

aug 14, 2025, 3:09 am • 1 0 • view
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jack @roddyceramics.bsky.social

he also sits on a phone book so he can see over the steering wheel

aug 14, 2025, 7:34 am • 0 0 • view
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social

He also has to stand on a box when he’s debating.

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aug 14, 2025, 1:27 am • 41 2 • view
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Mr Riddle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mrriddle0.bsky.social

Big heels on those boots as well. Some one is very insecure about their height

aug 14, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
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Brian Curtin @briancurtin.com

I wonder if he sits on a booster seat while driving.

aug 14, 2025, 2:39 am • 11 0 • view
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social

Probably.

aug 14, 2025, 2:44 am • 2 0 • view
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WowCoolRobot @wowcoolrobot.bsky.social

less Republicans should wear seatbelts, in my opinion

aug 14, 2025, 1:57 am • 8 0 • view
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Tubbles @tubbles.bsky.social

These people are such weak little cowards, dear fucking god. Just lock your damn door if you're so chickenshit.

aug 14, 2025, 1:57 am • 5 0 • view
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dawoood.bsky.social @dawoood.bsky.social

No seatbelt? I like those odds

aug 14, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Rigobert Singsong @americantype.bsky.social

Whoever this clown has his life insurance with should jack his premiums way up

aug 14, 2025, 1:21 am • 25 0 • view
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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

Also his auto insurance

aug 14, 2025, 1:46 am • 12 0 • view
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wbrind.bsky.social @wbrind.bsky.social

I’m ok with his decision. He clearly wants to win a Darwin Award. 😈

aug 14, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
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Tony Renner @antoosh.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/thep...

aug 14, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dan Joakim af Hannestad @norgesondeste.no

He needs a therapist.

aug 14, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bakademic 🔞 @bakademic.bsky.social

Praying for a high speed collision.

aug 14, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Littleweebit @littleweebit.bsky.social

Deep down, MAGA is a bunch of pussies and so, they relate.

aug 14, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Roxanne Darling 🌿 @roxannedarling.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/shyd...

aug 14, 2025, 1:47 am • 6 0 • view
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joewv.bsky.social @joewv.bsky.social

I haven’t seen such bravery since Barney Fife investigated the haunted Rimshaw house

aug 14, 2025, 9:35 am • 1 0 • view
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SusanBee @susanbeeha.bsky.social

Isn’t that illegal?

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

YES VERY

aug 14, 2025, 1:44 am • 0 0 • view
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thedeast.bsky.social @thedeast.bsky.social

Spoken like someone who doesn't drive in DC or NOVA and also is lying. No sane person would not buckle here.

aug 14, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
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The United States used to be lots of fun @lauramarie.bsky.social

Or Maryland. The drivers here are insane!

aug 14, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Alex Lind @jalexlind.bsky.social

That's fine by me. Let him meet his dashboard in what would otherwise be a low-impact fender-bender.

aug 14, 2025, 1:40 am • 0 0 • view
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The Grey Brewer @greybrewer.bsky.social

I have no doubt that this dipshit doesn't buckle up, but it has nothing to do with carjacking.

aug 14, 2025, 5:05 am • 2 0 • view
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responsible homeowner @dafrgama.bsky.social

drivers in dc, you know what you must do

aug 14, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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DekoNJ @dekonj.bsky.social

Guys...he's obviously lying. Why are we writing articles about this when its so clear hes just saying to to push a bullshit agenda? Your dunks are hurting him, becasue they're all part of the game.

aug 14, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jimmy Two Hands 🌞☀️😎 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social

Fine with me if he doesn’t wear a seatbelt but he should wear a diaper if he is gonna piss his pants every second of his pathetic life

aug 14, 2025, 1:29 am • 3 0 • view
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Luthen Rael Fan Club President @justinhousman.bsky.social

Is there anything they’re not afraid of

aug 14, 2025, 4:35 am • 4 0 • view
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Wet Hot American Bummer @blacktieknifefight.bsky.social

He should drive with his eyes closed so he doesn't have to risk seeing a brown person.

aug 14, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dan Grove @grove.cx

That will definitely save him

aug 14, 2025, 1:18 am • 5 0 • view
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social

Lol

aug 14, 2025, 7:30 am • 5 0 • view
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Josh Millwood @jmillwood.bsky.social

This is what we call small dick energy.

aug 14, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
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gmoorison.bsky.social @gmoorison.bsky.social

Low-T.

aug 14, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Lauren Order @laurenorder.bsky.social

These jackholes are so paranoid and ridiculous. They need help

aug 14, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
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rowast @rowast.com

He'd tell the therapist they're rigged like all the numbers

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Rivikah @rivikah.bsky.social

... How does not being buckled in prevent a carjacking?

aug 14, 2025, 2:35 am • 4 0 • view
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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social

Logic isn’t something the right wing brain typically masters.

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Autumn @autumnweather.bsky.social

Lmfai

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One Big UWUnion 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @quijotescx.bsky.social

If he gets on the freeway with that attitude, a carjacking is the least of his worries. Physics don't care about your feelings 😬

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The Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social

They say a coward dies a thousand deaths

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thin glizzy @kdiff77.bsky.social

Don’t make me tap the sign

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Currahee @currahee.bsky.social

Tap away.

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myshkin11.bsky.social @myshkin11.bsky.social

Well, since they're stepping up patrols looking for just any little crime in DC, I hope they charge him. He thinks he doesn't have to follow laws because he's afraid something may happen to him? And I'm sure the .3 seconds it would take to unbuckle would make a huge difference.

aug 14, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
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🌊 Casper the Friendly Ghost 🌊 @factsnotprops.bsky.social

Most of these Republicans are just plain idiots. 1+1=3

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Sparkle Pigeon @sparklepigeon.bsky.social

Dude should have no responsibilities that require assessment of comparative risk. What’s the ratio of car accidents to carjackings in DC?

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Matt Hiller @hillernyc.bsky.social

Car *crashes*, not car "accidents", and yes.

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Sparkle Pigeon @sparklepigeon.bsky.social

Being corrected by a man is sooo hot.

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Kai-Uwe Koslowski @fattymcfart.bsky.social

Who cares if he's a man. He's right and you learned something.

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realgoodtrouble.bsky.social @realgoodtrouble.bsky.social

Repubs are some punk ass bitches. I thought they were 2A pistol packing Rambo’s. I guess not.

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KC Eric @kceric.bsky.social

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Michael Z. (he/him) @fizzixrat.bsky.social

The FBI and National Guard patrolling DC had better ticket this criminal then.

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ChofuAlum @chofualum.bsky.social

Somebody should notify trumps Gestapo so they know where to snatch a criminal. White bois are the enemies of America.

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Hipster Sasquatch, trapped on the planet of the nepo babies @hipstersasquatch.bsky.social

Fatally fracturing his skull and spine on the windshield for FREEDOM.

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The Denali @the-dallas-denali.bsky.social

Alpha Male in the sheets, Coward in the streets.

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Michellecee7 @freshe.bsky.social

I thought he was a big strong man. 🐈

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Don B @boundangle.bsky.social

Mullin confesses to breaking the law, which as we know makes him an ILLEGAL.

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J. Powers @jpoww.bsky.social

Another one of Trump’s Senate b*tches. 🤡

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Dovergirl @dovergirl.bsky.social

This guy didn’t get the insurance company/ cops calls it the ‘happy face ’ talk in Drivers Ed obviously. I’m 56 & that class lecture is like I attended yesterday

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Old Glory Robot Insurance @supermills.bsky.social

It’s Ironic because the only time this man was in actual Danger in DC he was hiding behind seats while his constituents tried to break down the door to the chambers and his buddy then murdered a lady.

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Kris MC @3leggedcat70.bsky.social

I hope he's telling the truth (for once).

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Cloudy @stephencsmith.bsky.social

Giant 🐈

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Cloudy @stephencsmith.bsky.social

Never trust a man who has two first names in one.

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The Guillotine Shouter @guillotineshout.bsky.social

“I’m afraid of being carjacked so I make it easier for someone to drag me out of my car.”

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mi @mee-ny.bsky.social

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Mark O'Leary @theblackdemon1996.bsky.social

That... seems like two different things... How does not wearing a seatbelt stop him from being carjacked?

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