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川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸 @nkfinity.bsky.social · 4h

The entire history of mankind has been states constantly fighting these low-level border wars. Pax Americana was just a short exception to this and so many Sovereign states just assumed it’ll be forever like this, and are finding out hard that it is very much not!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11h

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 4h

Graham Platner. Sadly, we probably don't get to see it.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 4h

But hey, at least Trump got a plane out of it. One that definitely doesn't come with any hidden bone saw compartments.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 4h

But hey, at least he keeps pulling increasingly desperate stunts in the hopes of turning things around. I'm sure that insisting everyone call it "Trump Ocean" will do wonders to save him.

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Carl Gibson 🍉 @crgibs.bsky.social · 7h

The Predator meme of two hands coming together. The left arm is captioned “political polling” while the right arm is captioned “Jeffrey Epstein.” The two hands in the middle are captioned “getting Trump into the teens”

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 5h

This shit was supposed to be over ages ago and instead Vlad's been spinning his wheels. Sure, this little humiliation ritual is gonna be fun for him but it's not going to magically make a unwinnable war suddenly winnable for him. Shit, Zelenskyy didn't even bother to hit pause on the strikes.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, he hasn't really worn that mask at any point. What frustrates him is that Putin was supposed to have been much more successful with his invasion to justify a more somber "It's unfortunate that Zelenskyy didn't surrender sooner so that Russia wouldn't have to take so much land," declaration.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 5h

That's really been his superpower throughout all this: humiliating those around him and convincing them to enjoy it. Call me a prude but I really feel like that sort of kink shouldn't be televised, let alone participated in by reporters who are supposed to be keeping us informed.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 5h

It's fun watching so many chumps desperate to please this hollow creature, They'll serve him for exactly as long as he lives and then?

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 6h

"And by standing with, we mean standing to the side hoping this all resolves when we're not looking."

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 12h

Weird

Jeet Heer “Trump is doing more to rein in Israel than Biden ever did”

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 8h

The Skittles have a pleasant tang but mostly just feel like you're chewing on a spoonful of sugar with a gummy center. Not a big fan.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 8h

Always neat when the wife gets to attend NACS and bring home samples of the next year's variety of novelty sugar formations.

Peelable gummies, skittles gummies covered in crystals, and liquid siur patch candy.

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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I wanted to have a SEGA splash screen with a colonial marine walking in front of the logo. He convulses and spits blood and falls over. A chest burster pops out and the camera zooms in super close as it screams “SEGA!”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 9h

People will still come into my comments fairly regularly and be like “your liberalism blinds you to the fact that there’s not actually any difference between Obama and Trump” and no, that’s not true, and you’re actually dumb for saying it.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 9h

Boy howdy is that up there on the list of true things he's not supposed to say.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 10h

Well, she does have lady bits so her odds of getting canned are higher than they might otherwise be. The real question is whether she was giving Trump a taste or not.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 10h

Like... is there any sort of adoption of this one with his sycophants? Feels more trying to make Fetch happen than a lot of his shit and a lot of *that* comes off as pretty desperate.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 11h

"I never bothered to learn my own food allergies. How could the Jews do this to me?!?!"

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 11h

A key part of stealing elections is that they're close enough that there's wiggle room and that there's least a few shreds of credibility for it in the reporting. Trump is not enjoying the fact that neither of those scenarios are playing out.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 11h

Thing is: as Trump spirals closer and closer to the abyss, the folks he's willing to allow to be his mouthpieces are going to necessarily get worse themselves.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 11h

It's pretty impressive how devoted these fuckers are to pretending that Trump is just a shit-stirring content creator as opposed to a guy with the unilateral authority to launch nukes at any target he sees fit.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

The trick is to use one with copper coils in a nice stainless steel sink. Ask me how I know.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about Trump gelding the party is that they're still gelded.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Not to mention their tendency to shoot first, identify themselves maybe.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Beginning to suspect that they don't see our government as a reliable ally interested in helping with their defense.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, pretty much. I'd add that the right-wing culture warriors see Putin as a champion, a leader of the new Fascist Internationale. Their worldview, their very sense of self, needs Russia to win.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Okay, but what if I want to brag about torturing small animals to death ironically? That proves what a stable person I am, right? It's folks telling me that it's fucked up who are the problem.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Like, it's not complicated here: Putin is everything Trump wants to be, he hates Ukraine for not helping him fabricate evidence of Biden's corruption to win the 2020 election, and he's desperate to pin the blame for gas prices on someone else. I'm curious who's left to buy the lie except him.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

At best it's PETA logic, and those guys are fucking assholes.

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Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.social · 13h

Love Hogfather for many reasons but especially Death's speech on justice.

‘HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.’
‘Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little -’
‘YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.’
‘So we can believe the big ones?’
‘YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.’

‘TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET - Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME…SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.’
‘Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point -’
‘MY POINT EXACTLY.’

‘YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?’

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Remind me again how folks behave while they're all rolling around in multi-ton death machines and find themselves mildly inconvenienced by their fellow travelers. No doubt pocket-sized death machines willdothe trick.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Trump cannot bear the fact that Ukraine refuses to go out of its way to bolster his political position.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 13h

Man, remember that event ages ago where a Republican jackass thought he had finally destroyed their hated foe: Jack Smith based on the fact that there were texts about him going to a sportsball game?

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 14h

Quite a thing to watch Trump try to convince everyone that *Russia* is the key provider of oil for the world and not, ya know, that region we've been waging wars for oil over for decades that he just happened to further destabilize recently.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 14h

"We, a party that only occasionally wins in meaningful elections, would lead the Dems to victory if only their main voters would accept us as their natural leaders. Never mind that the actual core is Black women who don't trust us, we're careful not to acknowledge them at all so we can't be racist!"

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 14h

Mostly I'm amused that they imagine the DSA is the natural center of the Democratic party. They've been trying to make that particular Fetch happen since miller was working for Jeb!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16h

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 15h

Nice of him to list them, I suppose, but it's quite the thing to see a guy listing what might generously be described as basic US diplomacy as some sort of uniquely Trumpian accomplishment. And that's before we get into the specifics of the wars he's 'solved'.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 15h

The time traveler's natural enemy: people who check the dates on obscure newspaper articles.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 15h

Would be nice if folks could realize that a thing working *now* doesn't mean it would've worked even a couple months ago no matter how nice it'd be if that were the case.

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 15h

Doesn't hurt that Trump's also MUCH more deteriorated and unpopular and that his coalition is fraying as they start to realize that they, personally, are in trouble leading to poorer decisions that leave them increasingly vulnerable.

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