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Peter in Birmingham

@grumpygit1.bsky.social
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Lifelong labour supporter. Long retired. Usually holiday in the US, on hold for another two years. Interests: politics, classical music, travel. 

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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 2h
SEAL Team six? Jason Bourne? Kash Patel’s FBI? Lindsey Graham? They could all kill a man. Oh sorry Lindsey has ‘died’ and has been replaced by his ‘sister’ after a full transformation. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 2h
I’ve never heard him accused of taking oxycodone but he certainly is a dopey moron. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 2h
STDs?
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 16h
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 5h
Oh, this is just nasty. I was going to make my lunch but after seeing this, I think I’ll start on a diet. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 5h
God keeps smiting him but the devil keeps re-animating him because he doesn’t want him in his neighbourhood. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 5h
Sharks wearing necklaces of magnets. Yes, I know this is all getting very silly. I think we are all getting giddy with these thoughts. And I think this is the only time in 3/4 of a century that I would have described myself as giddy. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 5h
Perhaps we have all been wrong and the caboose on his arse isn’t XXXL diaper storage but a sprinkler system to suppress his pants fires. Or it could be both. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 14h
And Trump is the prize for the fight’s loser.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 15h
And the courtiers sang in response: "The sun has gone to bed and so must you. So long, farewell, goodbye.”
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 15h
Only four words needed: “Is he dead yet?”
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 15h
“ But I won’t do that”.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 15h
Now I’m confused. Are you talking about the Amazon guy’s wife or Melania? For some reason I’m reminded of the line in the film Evita when she complains about being called a prostitute and an old guy responds that he is still called Admiral even though he hasn’t been to sea for half a lifetime. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 15h
The vast majority of those who were Nazis in Germany got away with it and their history was whitewashed until it started to come out in the 60s and 70s. The youngsters were shocked by the reality of their grandparents’ actions or inactions. I suspect there will be few court cases in US in 2029. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 16h
I’ve had over 70 years speaking English. I have degrees and qualifications far beyond my intelligence. A major joy is reading, everything from high literature to pulp fiction. So utilising my high IQ knowledge of the best of words, all I can say in response to Trump is ‘just shut the fuck up.’
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 16h
These guys in the full face masks and dark glasses don’t look sketchy at all. If any of them have managed to reproduce, I dread to imagine the meal time conversations in 10 or 15 years when the child realises that their parent was an ICE agent. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 16h
He has lost that magic that put a spell on so many followers in his first term and in the run-up to this. He doesn’t have the nasty putdowns, he seems tired, at best he seems irritable, as if he wants to be there but doesn’t know why anymore. He seems to be at the end. DG (recovering catholic)
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Show me 😡
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 17h
I’ve never seen the situation for women shown as clearly and concisely as this. It is a complete rejoinder to so many of the arguments for laws and religions and ‘common sense’ that I heard so often by my fellow men. Thank you for this summation. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Ah the good old days! Just look at the origins of several of the tech bros. With strong Germanic connections via South Africa. And didn’t I read somewhere that Trump has got roots back in the old fatherland?
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Oh God! Now he’s hinted at some big surprises and the media will big it up so Trump will have to think of more and more extreme things to fulfil the expectations of his cult followers. I am just sorry that there is only an ocean between his country and my country. God help America!
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Are we sure that this is not Miss Lindsey after a facelift and full change? 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Is she Stephen Miller’s sister?
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Yes, that’s a scary combination.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
A perfectly concise summation of her career.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
But the plan was written before 1945 to get people like him and his co-believers into positions where they are today ready to build a new world order. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
In any other timeline I would call this crazy tin foil hat talk. With Trump I believe he would do anything to stay in power and he has enough cult followers in positions of power to help him do it. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 18h
Brit-land does get too much drizzle and grey skies but doesn’t get hurricanes, seldom gets major floods, seldom gets major wildfires, seldom gets prolonged droughts. We potter along with few extremes unlike the USA. Of course with climate change, it’s even starting to affect here.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
💙 vote.gov November 3rd is the last day that you can vote.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there nothing that will make Trump‘s cult desert him? I have always had a fairly dyspeptic view of many voters, but the Trumpers are beyond salvation. Hillary Clinton‘s “basket of deplorables” was far too kind. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“on full display”– I was just going to make myself a cup of tea but after that thought I will have to have a mid-afternoon very large whiskey. (VERY large)
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nothing wrong with this. If I was to take part in a marathon, I would use my car. Less sweaty and much less of a drain on the NHS as I keel over with a heart attack.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can’t this law just be un-repealed? After all they can head towards repealing the 1964 civil rights act, and the 1920(?) final acceptance of women voting. And a final objective of going back in time before 1863/65.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Doesn’t that refuse disposal happen in a month time? Unless Trump can interfere.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even from across the pond, she is the most hypocritical and pathetic Trump Senator because she tries to pretend a distance between them. And can I say without being sexist or ageist that she looks like she has been preserved in salt for far too long?
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AND every voter will get $5000. What if you don’t bother to vote? Do you still get the money? And if you vote Democrat will you get the money or will you get deported?
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So far only two men have made Jacob Rees Mogg look like a comparative genius whilst in conversation with him - Tucker Carlson and Ali G.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m sure the people Trump has put in charge of various aspects of AI, sorry SI, will be as competent as the president of the United States (HIM!)
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank goodness Trump’s short-term memory is shot. He has forgotten that there is such a thing as the Nobel prize. And his carers are keeping every mention of it away from him.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, Zelinsky, or Mark Carney, or the pope. (I’m surprised as a recovering catholic I put the last one in.)
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have never hated anyone in my life. Trump has made me a worse human being than I was. I hate Trump for what he has done to America, for what he has done to the world, and for what he has done to individuals including members of his own family. I hate that he has done this to me.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We can only sit back and admire such Churchillian oratory.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So is it AI, oops sorry SI, that has changed all the full seats with energised cheering people, to half empty listless audiences? 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was talking about Hassett’s smug face. I can see there may be confusion except for Jake Tapper‘s face usually looks concerned. Concerned just like Senator Collins.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ignoring the sheer bollocks he spouts, his inane smiling face takes bland smugness to a whole new level. It is just so irritating even before he opens his mouth. And when does Jake Tapper’s book on Trump‘s dementia come out? Four years time? I’m sure he will tell us it was so obvious all this time.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I thought his IQ was 47?
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fair. Agree.
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On election day you will have two choices. One of them is Trump‘s GOP and the other is the only other option that you’ve got. It might be who you want or it might be far from perfect, but if too many people don’t vote for it, your country will get another two years of unfettered Trump. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I used to laugh when I heard the sanctimonious democrat leaders say when they go low we go high. Where I come from the phrase would better be when they go low it puts them in range of your feet. 
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Peter in Birmingham @grumpygit1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, the 84 in her username obviously isn’t a reference to her low IQ.
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