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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8h

What's especially notable is that after having his nose rubbed deep in the unwashed crack of his own stupidity, the Honorable Senator doubles down and insists Jack Smith is a perjuring dirtball. Even Emily Latella, on being lurched back to reality, offers up a quiet "nevermind."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8h

Addendum: To be both fair and clear, the oldest Simon sibling did not resort to calling me a "dirtbag." But enveloped as he was in his deepening conviction and growing agita over this matter, I fear that he thought as much:

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 9h

At a family dinner, my older brother, declaring himself a true Brooklyn Dodger fan, insisted Jackie Robinson's regular position was 3B. He began shouting with certitude. Statistics were consulted; the correct answer, 2B, emerged. Like the honorable Sen. Schmitt (R-Magaland), he has yet to apologize.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 9h

This is as hilariously incompetent as it is relentlessly vile.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10h

If you have to run past rightful condemnation of war crimes or even ethnic cleansing to instead claim the willful attempt to murder a whole people, and you do so in a conflict in which the number of deaths -- including combatants -- is exceeded by births, then yeah, you've gone there.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14h

Send him in crate. We are the shithole nation. Us.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15h

I don't even want this malignant sociopath talking about nuclear strikes on cities, much less having the authority and capacity to personally order them. Which, um, he has.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h

Everything is bigger in Texas, including assholes and the sheer number of rubes willing to shitkick their way into a voting booth and pull a lever for them. Can't fence them in.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Democrats had the wit to make fun of Republican election hype, they'd hire a bunch of well-dressed white people, then film them driving in a column of late-model sedans to the Canadian border, gripping Amex platinum cards and offering all of their vacation money as a means of abject apology.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brown people are coming. They are coming for your jobs. They will be sleeping in your guest room. They will piss on your lawn. They will steal all your shit and sell scary drugs. The brown people are going to run amok and ruin everything. Oh wait. There's an election coming up. Never mind.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not making it up: Just boarded a Southwest flight and as I passed the cockpit, pilot and copilot were telling a flight attendant about being furries. Regrettably for the intellectual powerhouse that is the U.S. senator from Alabama, in the next breath they started laughing and called him an idiot.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are there still straight men out there who don't comprehend how many more women we'd pull by pulling off gay standards of dress, grooming and general taste? I mean, we'd still need to overcome being relentless assholes, but that's just a given. We've worked around that one for centuries.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Election balloting can be ornate and complex, but I've checked with the League of Women Voters and in every state, it is permissible to take a guide into the voting booth with you. I hope this can be of some assistance:

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LINCOLN wishes he had these numbers. WASHINGTON couldn't have them. To have numbers like these, you have to be a VERY STABLE GENIUS who KNOWS MORE ABOUT BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY THAN ANYONE. ALSO, MY PENIS is VERY LARGE, not MUSHROOM-SHAPED and MY FATHER LOVED ME AND KNEW I WAS GREAT.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When they showed up for the job interviews, they were probably carrying iced coffees, otherwise they'd almost certainly be earning a living wage with medical coverage.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seconded and posted. Everyone else get aboard and let it fly.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I am me and I am competent then so what if I'm evil? Billy Shakes wrote this rationalizing horseshit and wrote it way better, Pete: "What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. Then fly! What, from myself?"

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It's no trick to make a lot of money. If all you want...is to make a lot of money." -Mr. Bernstein, Citizen Kane. "Allow my vast wealth and prideful sociopathy to make clear my overarching genius." -the voice in Peter Thiel's head. Never equate riches with intelligence or human worth. Never.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your ass is literally banging out straight dialogue for South Park's Mr. Mackey. On the walk back, see if you can write some stuff for Chef.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dept. of Feeling Seen: Speaking for those of us who labored on the Baltimore drama mentioned, this -- more than any arbitrary listing -- is gratifying. That said, looking around at our republic and society today, I would prefer to be entirely ungratified.

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Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall

Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In reply: 1. What The Dead Know 2. Every Secret Thing 3. Lady In The Lake 4. I'd Know You Anywhere 5. The Most Dangerous Thing 6. Baltimore Blues * 7. Life Sentences 8. Sunburn 9. No Good Deeds 10. By A Spider's Thread * Rated #6 because the Tess Monaghan novels need to be enjoyed from origin.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She was and remains, we can say with certainty, the better half.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After dinner, if they're just hanging out, Xi can show him his stealth fighter parts collection.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Genuinely, when you send someone to the United States Senate as submoronic, gibbering and ridiculous as Tommy Tuberville, your statehood should be suspended. At this point there should be 49 United States and the Alabama Territory. Followed by a second, more committed attempt at Reconstruction.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's one thing to wheel out Matt Gaetz to scream "trans" loudly as a distraction from these disastrous years of war and misrule. That's an established trope. But to have Tuberville, in all his bespittled glory, inveighing against Furries as the new frontier in GOP electoral distraction. Well, damn.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fuck what you pay for gas. Fuck the cost of whatever uninspected, adulterated meat you put on your table. Fuck your displeasure in our war. Fuck your medical and nutritional benefits that we needed to spend on that war. We're Republicans and we are governing, goddammit. And we are right on point:

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And where went the money for these lives in the balance? Money that our country once delivered to a world in great need? Riding a missile into a girl's school somewhere else. Or nowadays, paying a corporation to build more missiles, faster. We are the shithole nation. We are the global stain.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need to listen to this fellow. His research into the sexuality of minors has been precise and comprehensive. His naked concern on such matters has been long evident.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fuck "defies." That sounds almost heroic and ennobled, like some sort of none-shall-pass defense of the realm. In a presumed nation of laws, when you ignore the order of a court, you VIOLATE that order and place yourself outside ot the law and in opposition to the premise of the republic itself.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Texas is a red state. If you try to vote blue, that is an error.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In 1945, we termed it De-Nazification. And unless you were a rocket scientist, you went behind some barbed wire until you were sorted. Not sure there are many rocket scientists employed at ICE.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brownshirts. It's 1934 in these United States. And we have too many quiet Germans.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This woman clearly know things about cocktails and mixology that I confess I am frightened to learn. But yes, the O's took two and the Chisox lost, so, um, I'll have what she's having, I guess.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Between 29 and 35 percent of the American citizenry is too fucking ignorant to operate a republic. As Churchill noted, democracy is the worst form of government there is -- until you consider every alternative. It's hard, quotidian labor to self-govern, so the worst of us are exploring alternatives.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At that price, he's going to be able to gold-plate not just the ballroom but so much more. His entire Cabinet, right down to their oversized loafers, are going to shine wonderfully and, of course, never complain.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is bait. I am not falling for it. When the internet throws this sort of thing out as a straight line, a true sportsman lowers his weapon and waits for a better class of wild game to saunter into his gunsight.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

National security is why HBO needs to greenlight my projects. Also, national security is why MLB must subsidize the Oriole rotation by two starters. NatSec is the very reason I should have a table reserved permanently at Le Bernadin. Also, my apartment should be topped with drones and snipers.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I swear to fucking god I would rather see the place renamed for John Wilkes Booth.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As governor, this absolute shitpiece removed a mural from Maine's Department of Labor building honoring Maine native Frances Perkins -- one of the finest Americans of the last century and the person most responsible for ending child labor, creating worker safety codes and birthing Social Security.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a writer, I can only reply thus: It's work cranking out a book. Beads of blood on your forehead and all that. Working 8 days a month as legislators -- their average so far this year? I wouldn't wipe my ass with whatever half-assed manuscript that kind of labor produced.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be entirely fair, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in fact representative of an American minority. He's an ignorant crank pretending to know things he doesn't and acting upon such to harm others. Which is to say, he is one of those Making America Great Again folk. As they use the term, this is DEI.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seconded, and especially for the precision of the Confederacy of Dunces reference. This could be an Armageddon that only an Ignatius Reilly -- albeit with considerably less humanity as ballast -- could foist upon us.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Have held a life insurance policy since I was 25. Forty years later and I haven't made a claim on it once. Very distressed to find out that I have been committing insurance fraud.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Who is this soulless asshole and how the hell did he get elected President of the United States twice?" -- the ghost of George C. Marshall rotating at 800 rpms below Arlington, Va.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

American journalism has reached that point wherein if you cover the White House or opine on national events as a columnist for a major news organization, you must be called "piggy," "sleazebag," or "human scum" by this president. If you are not, you must -- as a gutless and craven cipher -- resign.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those with any affection for American history might acknowledge the debt that this moment owes to Jersey City machine boss Frank Hague's famous "I Am The Law" declaration in 1937. Here's hoping Donald Trump's corruptions aren't as entrenched and enduring as they once proved in Hudson County, NJ.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If Kissinger didn't have to give back his Nobel after Chile and East Timor then let no one ask this goodly man of peace to return the FIFA Peace Prize.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Agree in full. I know the limits of social media and I am here, such as I am, to help rally the sane. Common cause requires connection and affirmation. I am not here to convince trolls, bots and raging ideologues at any extreme to reconsider their tantrums or deceptions. Fool's errand, that.

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