ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 5hPoor [sic] Katie... she was a Saturday Night Live opener before the next show even aired! 😛 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 5hI said it elsewhere, but I'll say it here... you just *know* she lorded her appointment over **all** her "friends"! 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 5hThis is probably a stupid question, but... how was she booked for Fox, anyway? It's not as if she's a notable academic, diplomat or, well, anything. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 12hThere are dozens of people there! Dozens, I tell you! Dozens! ... Well, about a dozen. At most. 😛 010 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 15hI reckon she’s behind a lot of the leaks. A “You’re coming after me? Let me give you a taste of what that means…” 020 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026In his mind, he's asking, "What am I supposed to do here? Where's the latest Melanie? I need to get to the... oh, too late. Where's the latest Melanie?" 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026So Old Cankles McGee, who loves to set underlings against each other, is unhappy they're fighting? Probably because he's not directing the spat. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Should we start being concerned about popcorn supplies? 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"When one of the worst people in the world makes a good point..." 010 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"The president, this person said, was not helping." Why would anyone think he'd be of any help whatsoever? 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Let's not forget the "independent appointee" thing the conservative Supremes gutted. That whole thing about having the president pick who's going to lead government departments needs to change, somehow. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"Junior, pay her AmEx bill... Yeah, I know. But pay it, alright? Today." 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026American Express is now wondering who's going to pay that $100,000 bill. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Why do I get the feeling she is the wife Stephen Miller can’t really trust? 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Ever get the feeling that St Elmo uses Russian data centers for his various projects? 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Convicted of sedition and pleads for the ambassador to help? 😂 No one could make this up! 060 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Presidential immunity extends to all of *this* president's lickspittles, brown-nosers/hangers-on (of which there is an abundance) and lackeys." -- Chief Justice John Roberts, probably. 030 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“The White House is a sacred place,” begins [DoJ lawyer] Michael Velchik, arguing that the President can arbitrarily ban news organizations because he doesn't like their coverage of him. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/disp... (Pictures from NPR.) 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"One should not offend the people who advocated for and paid for your destruction, lest they voice concern." ... Probably. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026He's rename America if he thought he could get away with it. (I have little doubt he'll suggest that in the forthcoming days...) Except his lackeys and lickspittles are so incompetent, they'll pronounce it's now "The Untied States of Turnipland". 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Thomas Tillis' legacy: he finally retrieved his spine from the Lost and Found. 000 0
Reposted by @ian2nd.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Fixed it for Trump. 34865281 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Spoiler alert: he was never even considered! 😛 060 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Thinking about it, I reckon that's part of it. But the other part is that she thought he would remember and help her. 100 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Last one: "[...] after a decade, after a couple of decades really, they’re finally seeing that the system they thought they were defending doesn’t exist. [...] Giant corporations have monetized everything under the sun, and Big Tech has built a world where it’s immune from liability for anything." 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Another one: "Voters didn’t abandon Democrats because they hated all your policies. (They hated some of them. [...]) But mostly they walked because they thought [Dems] weren’t fighting." (They weren't; Chuck proved that, yesterday.) 100 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I can't get Rick Wilson's "Against All Enemies" Substack up, but here's a quote from it: "Nobody in this country is waking up in the morning thinking, my goodness, what I really need is an 850-page climate plan. [...] [Voters] want action on the economy, punishment for the pain they’ve suffered." 100 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He has to get permission from Mommy (aka Susie Wiles, over in the White House.) 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Somehow, I don't think she'll be "donating" her prize to the Orange Plague. (I just don't understand why Machado did that. Did she expect something in return?) 370 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Keeping a nation safe by allowing the enemy to destroy a couple of its cities... Yeah, making sense isn't his thing. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think it started as a tactic, but has since developed into an obsession. He's now obsessed with just about everything, including (especially!) his own grandiosity. 011 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think he got pro-bono representation from The Contrarian. Still, the stress would be bad enough! 090 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Some day, hopefully in the not too distant future, The Onion will return to satire. 000 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No they didn't! Well, Merrick Garland did. Eventually. He had to exhaust every expression of disdain and "Why are you making me deal with this?" he could muster, first. 110 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why did I read that in a faux-Jimmy Stewart "Awe shucks" voice? 🙃 031 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm sure he'll get almost* as many attending his rallies as "Couch" Vance. * Nah. Nowhere close to that number. 001 0
ian2nd.bsky.social @ian2nd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Whoa there... What's with the insane demand? Do something? What are you - some sort of taxpayer or something?!? (I wish I were being facetious. I really do.) 000 0
