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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙

@buddpete.bsky.social
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Retired, progressive Aussie diplomat. I share my home with a Rottweiler and too many record players. I yearn for a return to respectful and empathetic political discourse. I appreciate the value of science and talking shit with smart, passionate people.

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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So Trump is now funding Putin’s war against Ukraine. And Ukraine’s allies in Europe, Australia and Canada. Who the fuck is the USA?
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, having faked insanity to escape a prison sentence, did you not encourage a rebellion by patients at your psychiatric hospital against authorities? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack Nicholson.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jack jokes So after Wichita, far from the opera forevermore, did you not work the straw and make sweat drip from every pore? No sir. I believe you are referring to Jack White.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thanks Belgium for saving FIFA and USA from themselves.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
@southoftheborder.bsky.social Iran 300 billion. Trump a big fat zero. Winning.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Trump Furious Australia Won't Just Join America's War Like We Did When He Had Bone Spurs.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Very productive talks.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
As if anyone wants to clean up Trump’s mess.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The OMG moment for the man formerly known as prince. Epstein fallout is happening everywhere, except in the USA where paedophiles roam free.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Rottweiler math. When you have four tennis balls, but one rolls under the furniture, you then have exactly zero tennis balls.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Oh wow. First listen. Where have you been hiding since 1973?
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi. Give her a cigar.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nothing to see in Epstein files.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Release the rest of the Epstein files.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Seriously. The republican party is broken.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seriously!
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Blessed are the peacemakers.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Tuck off Frump.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Trump still winning. And I’m not drinking Kentucky bourbon anymore either!
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Looks like I won’t be visiting the USA anytime soon with my social media profile. But I hear Canada’s nice.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Not all Australian animals will kill you. Some are really useful around the home.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Just saying.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
They don’t call it cringe Thursday for nothing.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
But the less said about the JD Vance couch, the better.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
And don’t get me started on drop bears.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Time to invite the Fat Orange to visit Australia? Thoughts and prayers to Norway.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I am cringing for the USA as I watch the performance of its Commander-in-Chief.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Live long enough to be a problem for your children.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Brits don’t mince words.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Stupid is, stupid does.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Problem fixed through dodgy accounting. #trumpenomics
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The not-so-stealth bomber. #DumpTrump
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Remind you of anyone? #noKings
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What a gawd-awful military parade.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Don’t blame me, I’m just a man.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Donald’s offer to Canada is the modern-day equivalent of a chest of beads.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
MAGA policy is utter madness.
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Closet weeper: empathy costs nothing 🦘🙈😳💙 @buddpete.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump is as thick as two short planks.
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