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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Or maybe the King will look Trump in the eye and say "You, sir, can fuck off." That's what a story book king would do. Of course the real King would come up with a better line than that.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Are we sure? How do we know one or both of them aren't doubles? Or even shape-shifting aliens? Or AI generated holograms? These are dangerous times for the credulous. Trust no one.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

But do we know this was anything political? Maybe it was about some op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, or a disagreement with the caterer.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Even more amazing how so few people anymore can take a joke.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Hell yeah! It's a PARTY, not a serious investigation into the facts. That will come soon enough. In the morning, I'll think about the poor kid that's going to go down for this.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Kudos to the professionalism of the security people that didn't shoot each other.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Pretty much exactly the same thing Robert E. Lee said after Gettysburg and what Ike would have said after Normandy if it had come to that.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Maybe he just wanted to kick off a really big party among all the people that think Trump is a lying idiot? Pretty extreme way to go about it, but it does appear to have worked. Anybody started a Go Fund Me for his defense yet?

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Ms. Wegman still expects anything that involves American politiics to make sense? I call that noble.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Ah well -- a book. I guess that's a wrap on THAT conversation.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

So _many_ plausible reasons why the Liar in Chief wanted a few rounds squeezed off in the lobby.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It's not paranoia or conspiracy theorizing. It's a PARTY and some people just don't know how to have a good time!

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

You don't need to know what's going on in some DC hotel to have a pretty clear picture of what's going on in the United States of America under the Mad King, and that sort of puts an important spin of everything.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"If he had shot a few people there in the lobby well, that's the breaks right? But the important people like me were very far away so it's OK."

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

He's all "She's hot. I wonder if I could grope her under the table?"

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Meanwhile, nobody is paying attention to the latest development in Trump's hobby war. So I guess it's "mission accomplished" for him and Hegseth.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The salient fact is that there's no one in the Trump executive branch anymore with enough credibility left to prove it _wasn't_ staged. Kind of goes with being the Liar/Conspiracy Theorist in Chief.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sure we can, at least where Trump and his fans are concerned. Done with "we go high."

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Proven by somebody with credibility. IE not anybody associated with Trump's Department of Justice.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

He's thinnking "damn it, the guy is LATE. You just can't get good help anymore."

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"Just let me put on some clean underwear and I'm back on that stage with my fans..."

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My guess is Trump is planning to be buried in this gaudy, tasteless thing. Call it the "Trump Memorial."

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I guess it's a good thing the Trump people got somebody to squeeze off a few rounds at the party tonight to divert our attention from this latest development in their war.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Nah -- let's just assume it's another Trump-staged event and move on.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Reports that Trump peed himself are unfounded and unworthy of decent MAGA everywhere.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

... and his staff of incompetent butt-kissers.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

How about _staged_ violence designed to elicit sympathy from the MAGA?

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yet another staged Trump event.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Or that might be a cosmetic patch.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Poor Marco. Waiting for Trump to publicly throw him under the bus or for Vance to knife him in the back somehow lest he pose a threat to his inheritance. Have a good time while you can dude!

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Somehow I'm thinking these two aren't the best choices to send to Pakistan to negotiate with the Islamic Republic anyway.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Woke up this morning to find three baby raccoons in the bathtub unable to get out. Finally got one out. He fetched the mama raccoon and brought her back to to collect the other two. Interesting morning🫠

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Reagan: Con: tickle down economics; massive precedent-setting borrowing to dodge a recession. Pro: Relied on an astrologer (yes, pro); did not believe he was Jesus Christ.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

But Reagan said it first, at a cocktail party hosted by Barry Goldwater in Santa Rosa, Ca. on July 16,1975. Everybody knows that.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Will the new Hungarian government hold Orban accountable in any way? Or will it seek to "just move on?" Lessons to be learned for the U.S. either way.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Or who paid blackmail (in one form or another) to avoid being arrested.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Unsatisfied with declaring himself Pope Donald I, Trump has appointed himself Jesus II.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I wonder what it's like to know that you're the most hated man on the planet? Or what it's like to know that you're one of the people that _voted_ for the most hated man on the planet? It must be very weird.

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