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Gerard LeConte III

@gerardleconte.bsky.social
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US government and politics watcher. 145k on TikTok. Mostly just a voter with takes. I do a lot of typos, and BlueSky won’t let me fix them.

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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A rising, bipartisan sentiment that really bums me out is the idea that experience in public office is irrelevant, if not bad, when choosing executive leadership in government.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You’re telling me that we wasted another entire season on Aiden. ANOTHER.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This hunter biden interview got me like
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
My two-year-old is currently being terrorized by the concept of cherry tomatoes.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Felt like that movie was openly antagonistic to F1 fans.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
There are higher standards of behavior for Love Island contestants than leaders in the Republican Party.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Nico Hülkenberg.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The aura farming boat kid if going to do numbers in NFL endzones this season
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I sure hope gen z isn’t as cooked as this season of Love Island suggests
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We had to say goodbye to one of our best friends today. He had a lot of names, he wore a lot of hats, and he helped me through many challenges. A dog might be man’s best friend, but a cat is man’s best roommate. You were a real one, Bean. Love you forever.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sinners looks like a masterpiece.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
What’s the deal with Australian beef?
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s pretty jarring in Toy Story 3 when you’re abruptly reminded that Buzz Lightyear is a cop.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My first act as POTUS would be to make Derek Guy the social media czar.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Elon couldn’t pay people in Wisconsin to vote for a Republican. Might not be a good sign for them.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Cory! Cory! Cory!
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
From the NYT editorial board yesterday. Note that the current administration is hyper-focused on personal identity and Americans' differences. Especially race, gender, sexuality, and religion.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I think it’s annoying when shows like Paradise go through all the trouble of setting up an atleast somewhat interesting setting and situation only to tell a whodunnit that could just as easily be told without the setting or situation.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Stringer Bell would never.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
For the love of god will someone give Hulu a hand with color grading.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but I loathe the idea that only those who don’t have a lot going care enough about who runs our government to think about it carefully. Apathy isn’t a virtue.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My son likes Make Some Noise more than Ms. Rachel. Stay tuned for my parenting courses. They will not be cheap.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Maga makes more sense if you treat it like an MLM. That’s all it is.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“People celebrated William F. Buckley, and I think I’m like Buckley, but people don’t celebrate me. In fact, people these days would be more likely to celebrate James Baldwin instead of be appreciative that Baldwin was even allowed in the same room as Buckley. Therefore, down with the Constitution.”
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Instagram is down. Quick: post your best takes.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Anthony Hamilton is such a class act.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I think the United States should treat as many kids with cancer as we can, regardless of their parents’ paperwork. Then again, I’m just a atheist liberal heathen. What do I know about morality.
nbcnews.com
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My son emphatically enjoy eating the rinds off citrus fruit. Psychotic behavior.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The message I'm sending my Senators in case anyone finds it helpful:
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My life will become so much easier when this kid can reliably eat soup.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Since the GOP budget slashes federal funding for SNAP, I would like to remind everyone that it is not only a good idea to make sure people can eat because it’s the right thing to do but also because it is good economic policy. Every $1 invested in food stamps returns $1.5 in economic growth.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
WSJ is reporting that Disney has shut down 538. Wow.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Americans should spend less time worrying about me, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering the US - so that they don’t end up like Europe,” Putin said to state media today. Just kidding.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Real men don’t need to be thanked for doing the right thing.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“So a kid got measles and died. Big deal. It happens.” - Psychopath supported by people who want me to believe they’re pro-life.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Employees at the Grand Coulee Dam were just fired without cause. If you think that an example of fraud, waste, and abuse is the people who keep the largest concrete structure and hydroelectric facility in the United States functioning correctly then I am sorry to tell you this, but you’re an idiot.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Musk is big mad because no one responded to his wittle email. Hr@opm.gov if you want to help fill the inbox.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Trump’s golf trips during his first term cost American taxpayers $153M. That’s roughly 3000 years of average park ranger salary. I wonder how many park rangers taxpayers spent sending Trump to the Super Bowl. Somehow, I don’t think this is the kind of “waste” DOGE is targeting.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The email address Musk told all federal employees to email their list of accomplishments to is hr@opm.gov. Just in case you’re interested in telling Musk and DOGE what you think of their behavior.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A conference of anti-Trump conservatives in Washington DC called Principles First was just evacuated due to a bomb threat.
independent.co.uk
Anti-Trump summit in DC evacuates after receiving ‘credible bomb threat’
DC Marriott hotel evacuates convention floor as building was swept, event organizers said
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Park rangers at Yosemite National Park are flying a large upside-down American flag in distress. There have been mass layoffs at the National Park Service since Trump took office, with thousands of pending job offers rescinded. Trump has not nominated a park services director.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
For anyone who doesn’t know, hiring the best people unless those people are a race or gender the boss doesn’t trust is not a meritocracy.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Can’t overstate how stupid this is. Musk and DOGE are utterly unqualified to make this ask, but it’s worth noting that this is also bad management in the private sector.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 23/02/2025
How it's going
Email from NAVSEA Executive Director with subject Please read: OPM Email Guidance and body
All, We're seeing in the media and hearing from our team directly that civilian employees are receiving an email notification from OPM entitled, what did you do last week? The email requests employees respond with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. We are also aware of the associated statement from Elon Musk on X stating that failure to respond will be taken as a resignation. At this time, if you have received this email, do not respond. We are awaiting DoD and DoN guidance and will send an update as soon as we know more. More to come. v/r Chris
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It’s great to see people showing up at town hall meetings and making their voices heard. Truly. However, we can’t ignore the fact that we’re in this mess, in part, because those people aren’t showing up when a democrat is POTUS.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
omfg.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/02/2025
here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Twitter outcome is legitimately very sad. What used to be a pretty fun place is now akin to a room full of the dumbest people you know playing Zoo Tycoon poorly while being entirely convinced that they’re actually engaging in serious and sophisticated wildlife reserve management.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Not for nothing, but South Korea just went ahead and arrested their President for thinking he was above the law.
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Gerard LeConte III @gerardleconte.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Dude really just issued an executive order that says, “I am the law.”
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