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Patrick Pipino

@pp8010.bsky.social

Supposed Ice Cream Magnate & Chef. Failed Comedian. Youngin' Baseball Coach. Umpire. Lover of all things Springsteen. Once got an A- in Nuclear Weapons at Harvard.

created October 21, 2024

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Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Fat Wolverine should maybe take a look in the mirror every now and again, no?

3/9/2025, 8:58:24 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Ahh. Humble apologies.

3/9/2025, 8:27:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

It's "Fall on Me." But thank you for making a solid point. Two of them, actually. It most certainly is NOT "Shiny Happy People."

3/9/2025, 8:24:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Tussle? I'm one of his biggest fans. Now on the other hand, I *WILL* tussle over how your profession is failing us in the age of Trump. The fourth estate, like so many other institutions, has not only not only failed to meet this moment, but has cowered alongside the others.

3/9/2025, 8:23:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

When you are glib, you are at your most hilarious. Makes me chuckle every time.

3/9/2025, 3:44:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but Ross Douthat is the biggest asshat God ever allowed to be a "journalist."

3/9/2025, 12:53:28 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Your hatred of TNG is therapy worthy.

3/9/2025, 12:35:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I don't believe a word of it. That was 100% intentional.

3/9/2025, 12:33:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

A+ Clancy ref, Herr Professor.

2/9/2025, 9:25:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

2/9/2025, 9:24:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Q: "Membership dues are $25 per annum, and sarcasm is a sine qua non, for what obscure (but August) organization?" Ken: "What is Patrick Pipino's "This is no bueno" club?"

2/9/2025, 9:21:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Dan is still a world class douchebag.

2/9/2025, 3:19:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. Melania's quarterly visit is NOT going well I see.

2/9/2025, 3:17:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/9/2025, 3:16:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Boy he looks 300 pounds lighter here, doesn't he?

2/9/2025, 2:55:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Pupdate:

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2/9/2025, 2:02:47 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

What do you mean here Mark?

2/9/2025, 1:46:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Surprising literally no one.

2/9/2025, 1:41:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

This is like trying to choose my favorite child; but I'll give you five. Deal? 1. Fall on Me 2. Nightswimming 3. Don't Go Back to Rockville 4. Bad Day 5. Texarkana/Ignoreland (Push)

2/9/2025, 12:37:48 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, "it can happen."

1/9/2025, 2:08:48 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe Laura Ingraham will get hit by a meteor. Hypothetically speaking, of course.

1/9/2025, 3:49:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

There isn't a "What the *FUCK* great enough to be exclaimed for this.

1/9/2025, 3:29:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I see that Nancy Mace and her hairstylist are having another spat.

1/9/2025, 2:34:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

These fuckin’ ghouls should be sent to the Hague.

31/8/2025, 7:14:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Good share Greg.

31/8/2025, 12:55:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, I love your cat...

31/8/2025, 12:45:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

They know no embarrassment, no shame, and no empathy. "A triple threat."

31/8/2025, 4:59:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually knew all these. Thank you for making me feel better Marty!

31/8/2025, 4:58:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Fantastic piece.

30/8/2025, 6:35:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

A+ Robert

30/8/2025, 12:49:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

That's dark Mister. Funny as hell. But dark.

30/8/2025, 12:49:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

Some advice: Live your life in such a way that the *ENTIRE* fuckin' internet isn't gleefully celebrating your death before it's even confirmed that you've passed.

30/8/2025, 12:33:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

A+

30/8/2025, 12:18:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually, to paraphrase a fine book by @radiofreetom.bsky.social... We need to be DEFENDING experts.

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30/8/2025, 12:16:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Good share Shoe.

30/8/2025, 4:03:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

This one rattled me when I saw it as a kid. As we go down the road of AI, I wonder if it will be somewhat prescient. Also... "THERE IS... ANOTHER!!!"

30/8/2025, 1:58:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Too much truth here. Say Zeus and Bean...

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30/8/2025, 1:29:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I think I speak for everyone when I say... No. Shit.

30/8/2025, 1:22:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, there’s a huge loss Said literally, nobody ever .

29/8/2025, 4:46:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Because of course they are.

29/8/2025, 4:43:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Unclear? Are you shitting me right now? Authoritarianism all around. Job prospects sucking and potentially being lost to AI. Homeownership near impossible. Healthcare being pared. Meaningful relationships being supplanted by phone screens. I'm surprised they all aren't suicidal.

29/8/2025, 1:54:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Please fuck ALL the way off.

29/8/2025, 4:34:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.

28/8/2025, 7:05:42 PM | 10660 3630 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

Question. The next time ICE shows up in my hometown, would it be some kind of offense if I bought like 60 subs, and just handed them out to random protestors?

29/8/2025, 3:23:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

This must be why BOTH eyebrows are arched in this photo.

29/8/2025, 3:13:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) reposted

Who knew that the kids who ate paint chips would grow up to get rid of vaccines?

28/8/2025, 9:23:12 PM | 61 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

A+

29/8/2025, 2:58:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

The Riley Gaines "Leadership" institute. Now THERE'S a contradiction in terms.

29/8/2025, 2:55:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

A+ response.

29/8/2025, 2:53:05 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Word.

29/8/2025, 2:50:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I can tell you that as the Father of two incredible daughters, and the husband of an incredible wife, I *really* do.

29/8/2025, 1:00:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t like licorice.

28/8/2025, 3:41:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Same TBH

28/8/2025, 1:09:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Bean and Zeus will say "Woof!*" *Just as soon as they wake up.

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28/8/2025, 5:01:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

As a Ben & Jerry's franchisee, I fully endorse your decision on its merits.

28/8/2025, 5:00:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

Interesting thread for sure.

28/8/2025, 4:39:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Mean looks? Ida’ thrown a dildo at him.

28/8/2025, 12:07:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Goin' Great!!!!!

27/8/2025, 9:51:19 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, I'm sure that crime was positively rampant there...

27/8/2025, 1:19:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll always wonder how close they actually got to doing so during their meeting in Iceland. While getting rid of a whole class of missiles was no small feat; it would have *really* been something if they went after the whole kit and kaboodle.

27/8/2025, 4:45:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

FNG…

27/8/2025, 3:36:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

There is less dick sucking in a porno movie. Just sayin’

26/8/2025, 11:30:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

Every bit of this.

26/8/2025, 10:11:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

The most famous woman in the world not needing to dim her light for a man too insecure to handle her success feels like a really good thing in this moment 👍👍👍👍

26/8/2025, 7:37:57 PM | 418 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Really? Because you seem to be the party of both: a) Doing crime and b) Overlooking crime.

26/8/2025, 9:21:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you monitoring my FB posts Madame Historian?

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26/8/2025, 8:56:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyone who didn't know that this would be the inevitable endpoint of a quack like Kennedy was delusional and ignorant.

26/8/2025, 12:32:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted

Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.

26/8/2025, 11:44:55 AM | 4194 1262 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

That's kinda' how we got into this mess in the first place.

26/8/2025, 12:22:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Word. Robert. Word.

26/8/2025, 3:51:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

It's just wanton fuckin' cruelty at this point. I won't rest until some of these cretins end up in the Hague.

26/8/2025, 3:44:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump's policies are going to kill off the Manatees? Oh, it's fuckin' *ON* now.

26/8/2025, 3:42:14 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

He's so thirsty for a Nobel Peace Prize, but wants to rename the Defense Department the "Department of War." Someone, please, anyone... Explain this to me like I'm fuckin' five....

26/8/2025, 3:38:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you Diedrich, for being one of the last few shining parts of the internet. When my feed is full of doom, and I lay here reading post after post of the current 'enshittification" of America, your sense of the good and your "realness" is like a lime wedge to the bitter political Tequila.

26/8/2025, 3:34:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

To that end, why is it we denied visas to the Venezuelan Senior Little League team, but think it's hunky-dory to have Olympians from the very same countries come here?

26/8/2025, 3:22:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

THIS. It's gotten to a point where I'm afraid *NOT* to be connected, lest I miss another Constitutional/norm break by the current Temu Godfather and his regime.

26/8/2025, 3:15:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil Klinkner (@pklinkne.bsky.social) reposted

If any previous President tried to fire a member of the Fed he would have been impeached and removed from office in 72 hours.

26/8/2025, 1:21:20 AM | 3210 746 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Take. A. Number.

26/8/2025, 2:21:09 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are his flock always the goofiest looking mofo's on the planet?

26/8/2025, 1:30:34 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man

25/8/2025, 11:44:24 PM | 15073 1987 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. Trash-80 CoCo, I hardly knew ye...

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26/8/2025, 1:22:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

As I say to my hardcore Democrat wife all the time... "You guys can't even agree on what shade of white for your surrender flag."

25/8/2025, 8:09:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I could argue with you here Professor, but alas, I cannot.

25/8/2025, 8:08:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Are these "inverted, non-oxygen absorbing persons?" or can we just call them dead people?

25/8/2025, 3:52:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

To quote Yoda... "Always in motion is the future." Great article Madame Historian.

25/8/2025, 3:49:28 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Oof. This person is higher than the entire front row of a Phish concert.

25/8/2025, 3:21:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

As is Godwin's. And God willing... Stein's.

24/8/2025, 6:06:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

You're shameless. ;-)

24/8/2025, 5:56:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm just spitballing-and stay with me here... But maybe because as a "historian" you actually have to have some desire to report the facts about history-however unpleasant they might be.

24/8/2025, 5:46:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

"Educated Social Media Users" To quote Bart Mancuso in "The Hunt for Red October"... "Now THERE'S a contradiction in terms."

24/8/2025, 3:35:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

I've read that sentence three times and I'm still not certain what it means. That's the power of term jargon.

24/8/2025, 3:32:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

We’re barely months into this and we’ve just completely normalized the domestic deployment of the military in America’s largest cities for no reason at all. Something that would have been a national scandal, if not immediately ended, any presidency from Truman to Obama. All for One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

24/8/2025, 12:51:24 AM | 489 179 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Oof. This is like choosing between airline food and hospital food.

24/8/2025, 2:48:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Great share. Thank you Shauna!

24/8/2025, 2:45:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Nancy Mace is every bit as dumb, and even thirstier.

24/8/2025, 2:21:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

She also says Trump weighs 175

23/8/2025, 10:22:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Yakubian? Thats new.

23/8/2025, 10:20:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social)

Is Mr. Trump going through Chemo? Because he looks like he's going through Chemo.

23/8/2025, 6:25:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Is he going through Chemo? Because he looks like he's going through Chemo.

23/8/2025, 6:24:08 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Pipino (@pp8010.bsky.social) reply parent

Hers is EASILY my most favorite "go to" baking site on the internet.

23/8/2025, 6:13:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view