Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Stalingrad, January 1943: "Ja, vell, imagine how bad zis vould be if der Weimar Republic vas still in charge!" 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The goal is for the press sec to reach the same level of unintelligibility as Trump himself. They'll end up just making noises at each other like Minions. 0180 18
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Remember that Putin's role model Stalin was not above starving his own people to export food, selling it for hard currency to industrialize. 030 3
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Two years ago I referred to them as looking like "rejects from the cast of 'Animal House.'" 020 2
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm not sure it's fear so much as knowing that the White House will just lie about it anyway. And probably blame Biden. 020 2
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don't mind eels Except as meals And the way they feels. - Ogden Nash 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Even in Europe it fits a pattern: massive war, grand settlement, several decades of peace, then general breakdown. Since what, 1648? 040 4
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At this point the GOP sees being embarrassingly stupid as a qualification for higher office. 1181 18
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do they have enough Fox News hosts to fill those jobs? 031 3
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I always feel crummy all the next day. Second day, mildly crummy. Third day, fine. 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"An' we'll build sooper-dooper intelligence! With racing stripes and flame decals! And nobody can play with it but me!" This man is a cartoon. 031 3
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 18/09/2026*it is. You can get 3-, 4- or 5-way. Gold Star and Skyline are the major local chains, but Empress Chili claims to be the inventor. 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I guess you can have a conversation with a dial tone if you do all the talking. 050 5
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Translation: "Whatever, we're just making it up."nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 031 3
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Alzheimers-addled Uncle Ronnie used to tell movie scenes as true stories. 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Maybe it's a ploy to let Republicans inspect all the guys' crotches too. 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today: All female athletes must submit to Republican crotch inspections! Tomorrow: All female athletes must have straight sex with Republican crotch inspectors! 001 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I've lived in Florida and several other southern states. Florida's big problem is that, for multiple reasons, there is very little shade. A walk there is far hotter than anywhere with old-growth deciduous trees. 250 5
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I don't know if I count as a bookworm, but I'm definitely some sort of book vermin. 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 24/08/2026If you're in Columbus, Ohio, go to York Steak House. Used to be a chain, now only one left - a weird windowless building with the door in the back. But step inside and it's 1983. Great food, too. 050 5
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Abraham Lincoln was approached at a public event by a man who began "They tell me you are a self-made man," but concluded "All I can say is, it was a damned bad job!" 010 1
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 20/08/2026A store owner with whom I was acquainted golfed with Rush Limbaugh, and she told me that he was really OK because he didn't believe any of the stuff he spouted on TV. I told her that made him even worse. 1402 40
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I remember restaurants billing themselves as "smorgasbords." Lived near one in the Cincinnati suburbs. I think it's just a result of the general dumbing-down: "buffet" is easier to say and spell (and fits better on signs). 040 4
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Historically the Navy had the best food of any service branch. That we now can't resupply two of our best ships is a sad testament to this administration's incompetence and corruption. 020 2
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Don't forget it's not just staff and press. The presidential plane is crewed by about two dozen members of the military. 0121 12
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Leavitt has been eager to tell me a lie every time I asked for one." 000 0
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 09/08/2026At the climax of the ceremony, we get to watch Rudy Guiliani's head melt again. 140 4
Jim Gaines @jim-g.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Torn down, rebuilt on the same site, more people killed there since. 100 1
