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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 1h

Look into the post-WWII serial killer epidemic. You may find some applicable overlaps there.

Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’d be curious to know why. I wonder if the reason is because of your resumé. On paper, you tick a lot of boxes that people like her assume means you are with them. Veteran, ex-cop, knows stuff about military history, vaguely Eastern-European ethnicity with personal ties to the USA, etc.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

True, but in most cases what they really hate is an entirely-fake political party that was created, whole-cloth, from the imaginations of various Fox News folks. They rarely hate the real party’s actual policies, statements, or actions. It’s all weird fantasy stuff.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One should always remember to include Tyson’s title when mentioning him in articles. Not the boxing thing. The “convicted rapist” thing.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Real trailblazer in GOP politics here. He was the #1 republican in the country for years. Also, child molester. Like I said - real trailblazer. Totally set the GOP vibe for the years to come. (After getting out of prison, he was still welcome at GOP events and feted in GOP circles. Not subtle).

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FWIW - he’s fine with white special ops guys having beards. He’s not *really* anti-beard. Just … one particular category of beard-havers.

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Kaebel Hashitani @khashitani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spooky season starts this week. If you’re wanna know which corn maze is right for you, let @joestreckert.bsky.social be your guide!

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reminds me of that suicidal Germanwings airline pilot a few years ago.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buried in this story - the PDX cops used a Flock-style camera. They indeed have them, just not under the Flock name so they are not getting all the anti-Flock activism right now. Same thing though. We are all being surveilled by our cops every time we leave our house, and there’s no oversight.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Single-focus education has bad outcomes. The reason so many doctors’ practices go bankrupt is because they don’t feel the need to study things outside their scope, like business and accounting. The reason so many pilots fall for right-wing conspiracy theories is basically the same. It’s just bad.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gotta disagree there - no way in Hell could I have come up with something as cool as a musical (I hate musicals) romance story (I hate romance stories) involving a prince (ugh), that actually was GOOD. Credit where credit’s due: you created something fantastic.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m apparently at the age where I can blow out my knee by sleeping wrong. It hurts so much I’m considering bailing on class today so I can hide under my cat and gobble Vicodin like it was slightly-chalkier Pez.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The bar is so fucking low for the dems, and most of them still fail to clear it. Beshear might end up earning my vote by virtue of just not being an asshole.

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Dr. Jess Hebert @jesshebert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once upon a time, @davethegreat.bsky.social somehow received permission to come be my intern, and I came in one day to find that every. single. marker. in the lab and an assortment of office supplies had been used to build...a contraption. It was labeled: "Mouseapult."

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would there be an “easy mode” version that only involves creating world peace, cold fusion, and teaching cats to be humble?

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TL;DR - we fucked up. The whole system was a house of cards held together by scotch tape and vibes, and sooner or later some asshole was gonna prove it. We now have just such an asshole. /end rant

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

trump has mostly just ignored the courts, or acted swiftly-enough to render them moot. And as far as Congress’ cash superpower - they fold almost every time, but if they do try to assert this power for real - where’s all that Venezuelan oil money again? How about the tariff revenues?

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, the courts have no direct power and Congress is useless. Both have nothing but soft power, like giving orders to lower courts, or “the power of the purse.” Both of which are hugely-inconvenient for a rogue president, but aren’t actually crippling.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The best Congress has ever done, the best they are ever likely to do, is threaten Nixon enough to get him to voluntarily leave on his own terms. It would be an empty threat now. It perhaps was an empty threat even then. Regardless - nobody will ever take it seriously from now on. It’s dead.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The courts have no cops, aside from token personal security. No prisons. No (and let’s be blunt about this needed resource for compelling a rogue president) soldiers. Congress won’t impeach & remove. Probably ever. For any president - not just trump or republicans. Impeachment is just too hard.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We find ourselves in rather odd times, with an Executive Branch that cares little for what they “should” do. So anyway, the courts ordered the White House to let the press back in. The WH shrugged and ignored them. And … well … what can the court actually do about it? Strongly-worded letters?

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In many cases, this means the same thing. Can’t convict a person of a crime if the Supreme Court says no courts are allowed to. Ditto for civil lawsuits. In lots of other cases though … compliance is more “traditional” than concrete reality. This almost never matters. Historically.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ultimately, the only power the Supreme Court has is the ability to give orders to lower courts. Everything from judicial review to injunctions to contempt proceedings hinges on it. They don’t really strike down laws - they just make it known that courts will not honor those laws.

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whatever. As long as he goes to see a play there.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s gotta be a term for this. “Pretend restraint” seems to be the basic concept though. Sort of a Catch-22. The power exists as long as you don’t try to use it, but the instant you try to use it the system will remove that power. It exists as long as it doesn’t exist. Self-extinguishing.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think it’s simply self-defense. As long as they pretend to have the power and not use it, the president is likely to keep pretending to have the power as well. Ultimately, if they DID enjoin him, well, trump might just ignore them. That would be the end of it, since Congress won’t impeach.

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Stephen Peters @stephen-peters.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arnold Ziffel, pig and former TV star is a pig with a problem. Lately he's been hiding from the law, pretending to be a "service hog" at a memory care facility. What could go wrong? mars.tikimojo.com/2026/09/24/s...

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What, in your opinion, would be “far left” as opposed to mainstream left, center-left, centrist, etc? It seems like the right is more clearly-defined. Pretty much everyone on both sides can agree on who is center-right vs. far-right and so on, but there seems to be no such consensus for the left.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Among the bits of advice in the owners’ manual for my 1986 boat is to “fire a gun at 1-minute intervals” if I am in distress. It includes a picture of an automatic military pistol. It’s the most ‘murican thing ever.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

To be fair - they are a lousy organization. I have three decades of bad stories about them from my time as a disaster relief worker, and their homeless shelters in the USA are notorious for conditioning life-sustaining support on religious compliance.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bartholomew Q. Boatface, Esq.? Good name for a boat? It has a shower, so it’s all classy and shit.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A real journalist would ask to see documentation for this claim, and follow up with a ridiculous amount of FOIA requests and interviews to anyone and everyone that knew him at the time. Stop letting these statements go un-challenged, damnit. Don’t be stenographers.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fascists are often so buffoonish in so many ways that it’s easy to look at them and single out “the one thing” they did wrong, decide “well, of course we won’t do THAT,” and then proceed to do fascism again.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The difference between my false memory and someone like trump is that he’s extremely-chronic in this, often one-upping himself as he repeatedly re-writes his own brain for manipulation of the masses. TL;DR - trump made this up, but it’s now an honest 100% clear memory for him. Brains are weird.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Is your MEMORY right? Do you clearly remember something happening that, objectively, did not? Almost everyone has a few of these. I remember seeing the first Star Wars in the theater as a kid, but the calendar proves this did not happen. A few minor memories were stitched together by my brain.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Many of us do this to a much, much, much-lower extent. Pick a fad or event from your teen years. Parachute pants, a movie premier, an album release, whatever. Ask yourself what part you had in it. Now go ask your relatives, look up your yearbook, or otherwise fact-check yourself. Were you right?

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So “watching 9/11 on TV like almost everyone else” becomes “getting hauled out of the rubble and personally escorted to safety by two elite firefighters.” But this isn’t a pure LIE. Not always. Not often, even. People like trump WANT this to be true so much that their brain MAKES it true.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Most of us are mostly-boring most of the time. Insecure people (like the famously-insecure trump) worry that their role in the shared experience just isn’t memorable. Often, eight billion humans participated in “existing on that date,” so it’s assumed that having too minor of a role won’t cut it.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Those universally-shared events - 9/11, the death of Lady Di, fashion trends, favorite popular bands - are a pre-loaded shared experience. We bond with people over them. Since the experience already happened, we only have to mention our role in it to speed-run the bonding ritual. But …

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s a weird quirk of our brains that memories we construct for social reasons (aka: things we tell others, or things we use to bond with others) feel exactly as real as things that actually happen. One of the most-common examples are the “where were you when X happened?” questions.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ok, here’s the thing about people with his type of psychology: he probably now believes this. Memory is a pretty crappy thing for all people (yes, including you), and it’s incredibly-malleable. When narcissists like trump construct these tales - they often make them retroactive, and “remember.”

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The third word in the headline is bullshit.

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Davethegreat @davethegreat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Same! Though that’s kinda always my take on democrats (aside from our three federal ones, who are great).

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