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Rfran

@arreff.bsky.social
151 followers 62 following 752 posts

Used to work, basically retired now. Used to travel a lot, now less so. Used to think politics mattered. Mostly reading, writing, cleaning the house, & doing crosswords these days. Not a fascist.

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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Burgess Meredith stole just about every scene in that movie as a cigar chewing agent. Meredith: “What the first rule about being an agent?” Secretary: “Never forget an actor killed Lincoln.” Meredith: “Head of the class!”
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Interesting how he feels more kindred spirit to a group of Iranian theocrats capable of many forms of ignorant cruelty over a nation he swore to defend. But we know how he becomes a lapdog to those who best him, don’t we?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hillbilly Nuremberg
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel pretty certain he’s the only one who thinks he has something relevant to say about the current situation.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It won’t be a lame duck presidency. It’s already a dead duck.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really looking forward to the “every accusation is a confession” moment on this one.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s hard to believe that a Congress that includes perhaps the stupidest member of the House (my representative, Mike McClintock), Tuberville to seize the crown for stupidest member on the Hill.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Their incompetence may save us yet.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To paraphrase an Onion headline: I think the real question is: why is our nation’s livestock so smoking hot?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did he lose the Iran War, his incompetence made trying to leave it just as bad: the vacuum left by the lack of US power there lets other, more competent & problematic, actors in.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If Hegseth had any situational awareness, he'd see this for the dis it is: not even the Republicans want to help that barely sentient bit of driftwood even a little bit.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We wondered what it would look like when even the idiots didn’t believe him. I think we’re near that stage.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congress can convene where it pleases. If the fascists deny access to the Capitol building, the new Congress can start somewhere else.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
People peaceably practicing their religions turns out to not be a threat to the commonweal. Loudmouthed zealots like Beckwith, it turns out, are fundamentally unserious people who present serious threats.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not having enough money is a terrible reason to deny 7 billion people from having their views listened to.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since they both can’t lose, maybe hope for a sufficient number of red cards for both sides to hobble them in matches after this one?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jeffries thinks he can restore normality to politics. After the collapse of this regime, the opposition needs to reform everything & root out the last vestiges of corruption & favoritism. Working with the other side’s crooks makes things worse.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good thing wars are easy to win. Everything seems to be going as planned.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The media, for over 10 years, has failed to honestly report that a political party continues to be led by an obviously unwell person. Do what express surprise over this? It just requires harder work to overcome the lies.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tie’s too short, but great stuff!
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m definitely not voting for Piker. What is he running for?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I ain’t begging.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He’s hardly the first rat to try leaving that sinking ship…& it likely won’t do him any good anyway. MAGA didn’t come from 1 person: it required the cowardice, avarice, & power hungriness of people like DeWine. Never let them off the hook & never let them forget it.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Or you’re making bank off him…
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The founders looked at the English Revolution as a recent memory & a cautionary tale. The modern day Cromwell wannabes in our public discourse are exactly what the founders worried about.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You doing okay? ‘Cause you’re clearly slipping.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Even if we accepted the premise of the headline (& I don’t), there’s A LOT of territory between this straw man cohort of “authoritarian left wing” / “radical gender ideology” & supporting the gestapo forces assembled by the regime to encompass about 80% of the citizenry.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Even among MAGA dim bulbs, trying to whip up belief that Canada is an enemy strains whatever tenuous grasp on reality they may have. Such a view can be held only by bad actors & fools.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Normally, nations endeavor have competent people in positions of authority. The US regime never bothered with that & it shows. The entire regime combines as an enormous bag of squirming appetites (to use Dodds’ phrase) to appease the insensate id of a ghoul.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Literally slinking into the shrubbery—like the Homer Simpson meme—& pretending nothing happened would be a better strategy than what’s going on now.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hit dog’s gonna holler.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The establishment Democrats today have to worry about what establishment republicans worried about in 2016: after decades of accommodating the comfortable & stringing the base along with no results, the base takes matters in its own hands messily & chaotically. The elites see no way to deal.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Gonna need a Clydesdale!
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
His constant insulting, belittling, & mocking people of accomplishment reveals his own self-awareness of his unsuitability for responsibility & his own self-loathing. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The belittling & mocking of others reveals a personal sense of powerlessness & despair in the person doing that behavior. Sad in most cases. Pathetic in the president’s case, demeaning to his followers, and dangerous for all of us.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I hear you. But everything dies.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There are a bunch of majors & colonels who see their boot-licking generals & smell opportunity in an inevitable post MAGA world. Ambition can present danger & change.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Smart move would be to just pull all the ships out of the area & pretend everything is done. No deal & no mention of there not being any warships there. That won’t happen.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/08/2026
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island theonion.com/trump-downplays-signif…
Trump Downplays Significance Of Trump Tower Found On Epstein Island
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If an administration despises veterans & Gold Star families (as this regime regularly shows), why care about members of the current armed forces?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hit dog's gonna holler.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Whoa. Don't even need to read the first line.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Is it possible that billionaires are the hookworm of capitalism?
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
& MacArthur seems to be simultaneously a sergeant & a Major General while his cap seems to belong to another nation’s army.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I cannot be the only one feeling strong Colin Robinson vibes off this dolt.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I recall hearing the chunderhead saying winning wars was easy.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Cockroach Party protests in India deal with the same issue: Midi’s BJP successfully cowed the major media into mouthpieces. As a result, the Cockroach Party effectively uses social media & non-major media to send its believable messages. Something to learn from.
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Rfran @arreff.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
& Hegseth is going to completely lose the rag over the facial hair & hair length.
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