The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 14/10/2026static.klipy.comGlass OnionALT: Glass Onion 010
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Headline writer: look boss, I... I don't know what to do here. You're telling me to create a headline that 'doesn't flatter' the president? How can I even approach that task? Editor: Simple. Imagine the President is a Democrat. Headline writer: Ohhhh... of course! Now I get it! 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and the B-52." Benjamin Franklin 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm just going to assume the folks on the other site literally think that the militaries of every nation on the African continent are basically the militia guys in Black Hawk Down. 0100
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yeah, having been part of Walz’s admin, Flanagan is having a hard time separating herself from that fraud stuff 040
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The senate race is close as well. Political conditions in the state *have* been affected by the Medicaid fraud cases in a way that has helped the local GOP counteract the prevailing national trends 140
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is the central challenge of of Dem/progressive governance! Any attempt to make police accountable or operate in a way that aligns with a Dem admins priorities is met with recalitrance and or open rebellion, but what gets reported in local media is "crime going up/city out of control!" 1712
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 08/10/2026That this is being put out there at the same time we are tucking tail and scuttling away from forward bases that we can't defend across the Middle East and (squints thru reading glasses to be sure) Great Britain! - is quite the timing. 030
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tapper: What is just so clear tonight is this late surge towards the GOP that is playing out across the country, and it means their message of the sanctity of girls' sports really rings true as the #1 kitchen table issue & sends a clear signal to Dems that they must reach across the aisle to govern 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Getting to the stage where Dems take the House by 25 seats & get the Senate 52-48 (including squeaking by in TX) but the MSM will declare it a great night for the GOP b/c they didn't lose SC/KS/NE/ID senate seats, noting this "overperformance" vs. late polls means the country is evenly divided 160
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Election *should* be like the gargantuan waves of 1994 & 2010 but it won't because of this (GOP voters staying home.) We won't get that "2-for-1" effect of a vote flip, b/c the Fox News infosphere & social media algorithms have poisoned the brains of so many into never ever casting a vote for a Dem 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 08/10/2026static.klipy.comHans Landa's 'That's A Bingo' MomentALT: Hans Landa's 'That's A Bingo' Moment 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This has been a fav for years but I NEVER share it. At all. Too big a risk. In most of the social circles I run it it’s like saying you like Donnie and Marie’s covers from their variety show and not ironically 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Alright, this Hellcat glazing is getting out of hand, how about showing some love for the real Zero daddies 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 06/10/2026People also grab at what they are hearing and repurpose it as motivational because they don't actually know what is driving their awareness of something. Hence all oft he "I'm very concerned about info security" from voters in 2016; they never were and never would be again 070
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Been on this for ten years at least. The reason every astroturfed scandal against Dems seems to become A Thing is because RW media (and now the RW-controlled social media algorithms) is because they are now "reporting" a thing and moving on (as MSM still might do), they are broadcasting propaganda 040
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 06/10/2026static.klipy.comAlonzo Mourning's Disappointment on the BenchALT: Alonzo Mourning's Disappointment on the Bench 010
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s not the sneering in the second that gets my goat. It’s the deliberate framing of actions of the Trump admin as ho-hum normal bureaucratic stuff. So what if it is! The more important issue is that the clock is broken, not pointing out it is right twice a day 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He needs money. He's only got $500K in ads booked and another $500K on hand. GOP just booked $8M w/money transferred from NC senate race, Marshall has $2.5 million to spend, and god knows what Musk might show up with. Kansas is a pretty cheap media state & we're about to be swamped with ads. 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 02/10/2026static.klipy.comThe Office StanleyALT: The Office Stanley 0120
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comJeremiah Johnson Nodding YesALT: Jeremiah Johnson Nodding Yes 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is a nuanced and well thought out take and my wish for you is that a real dialogue can grow from it, but also this is Bluesky so 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is like when Lori Baker's husband noticed that her Tetris scores from just casually playing were better than the world record at the time: www.reddit.com/r/todayilear...reddit.comFrom the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL That a journalist accidentally discovered his wife was the world's best Tetris playerPosted by scootscoot1477 - 4,829 votes and 175 comments 0315
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There is only one correct answer and it is the XB-70 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It makes it something a lot of adults may not have bothered to watch. 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I thought Skeleton Crew was a kids show. As in aimed at twelve year olds 300
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Don’t know what is top 40 is now, as opposed to 20 years ago, because back then I’d listen to the radio in my car and I’d watch basic cable, and these things would just be the background we’d all become familiar with. And now that I’ve listened to it I’m not sure I’ll remember it b/c is just meh. 030
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wait, what he hell is "negative" and "positive" regression? Do you mean they are candidates for regression if their performance should not be sustainable and progression if their performance should improve? 100
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Didn't Canada used to allow dancers at strip clubs to be as young as sixteen well into the 1980s? 100
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 24/09/2026static.klipy.comNoooooo The OfficeALT: Noooooo The Office 001
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've always assumed that the "Trump lean" was because of the lifts in his shoes, and as he gets older he has a harder time maintaining his posture 010
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Touring the facility And picking up slack 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You forget 4) They ride it out. Count on the MSM to harass Ds for being "too extreme" & "going too far" with investigations and pushing "Dems in Disarray" narratives combined w/knowing that voters have the memory of a goldfish Worked for them after J6. Probably won't now, but it is what they know 110
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026static.klipy.comEndgame Avengers: Clint Barton's HopeALT: Endgame Avengers: Clint Barton's Hope 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Absolutely. Had a similar thing happen with an art collective where I live that opened with great fanfare about its inclusivity & everyone gets a voice etc, etc and less than a year later completely fell apart from the holier-than-thou infighting that was eerily similar to the stuff in the article 0340
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026static.klipy.comSpider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily SeahamALT: Spider-Man Pointing Meme: Hamily Seaham 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Reporter: There's just nothing to it, boss. I looked into all of it! Editor: (slams fist on desk) by god I didn't get to where I am today in the national political press by just "looking" for Dems in Disarray! The Dems *have* to be in disarray, even if it means you have to create the disarray! 020
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ugh. I live in a blue-dot college town and have had a few brushes with this kind of thing; always my reaction is to just nope out. But this is whole other levels of ridiculousness. The haters in this article are like the fever swamp beliefs of a Fox news article comments section come to life.static.klipy.comBaby's Hilarious Wrong TurnALT: Baby's Hilarious Wrong Turn 1291
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It was the late 80's, so stern finger-wagging at the "responsible" parties, a few "never agains" tossed in for good measure, but otherwise stuff that happened to individuals got swept under the rug: "alcohol was involved, judgement was cloudy" & families didn't want to make their kids a target, etc. 120
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Usually the gods trying to trick me into believing (so they can rip my heart out again) with a "D47 / R41 / 7 Other / 5 Undecided" poll, cleverly leaving a viable "Rs come home" path that would inevitably happen. Looks like its gonna be "polling miss!" with this D50 stuff. Not today, Satan. 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Grew up in a small college town, the summer I was 16 the college's rowing club recruited high school kids (boys & girls) to row with them so they could keep the program running over the summer instead of shutting down. The end-of-summer party went exactly as badly as you would think 140
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Got quite the jumpscare from that righthand pic as I scrolled down 000
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 21/09/2026against him the last few cycles, Todd Tiahrt, and who'd never gotten more than 35%. Glickman was seen as so strong there'd been no polls done to that point! Not saying it's looking like that kind of wave (b/c of gerrymandering & reluctance by calcified Fox viewers to vote D) but the vibes are there 160
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 21/09/2026a scheduled endorsement ad. Even though he had gotten a desperately needed airplane liability law reform bill passed that spring that was huge for his district (Wichita was a big union aviation manufacturing town, his numbers were collapsing vs. the token loon R who had run a suicide candidacy 150
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was on the campaign staff of the Dem nominee for govof KS in 94. He was actually a slight favorite thru the early summer. We knew things were turning bad as the fall dragged on, but a few weeks before the election, Dan Glickman, the 18-term D congressman from Wichita, called and asked us to pull 190
The Last Essential White Guy @far-far-away.bsky.social · 18/09/2026RFK Jr bursting into the oval office: "Guys! You know how bringing the politically disaffected MAHA movement into the fold sealed Trump's win in 2024? Well here's what will save us in 2026 - we're gonna corner the market on the untapped chemtrailers!" 010
