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The Prodigal Carpetbagger

@letuscontinue.bsky.social
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CA -> VA -> CA | He/him/his | pfp by Alex Bairstow

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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"So you're saying we need to keep pairing movie releases with contrasting tones and try to force a meme name?"
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate how much anger you have directed at things I didn't say. Those would indeed be upsetting things to say, if I had said them.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are only so many waters in the world and if you use too many waters there won't be any more
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Look once old Buzz gets around to sending everyone those $5,000 checks Shad Ledue is gonna raise so many goddamn chickens
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fish for catfish by shoving a part of yourself in their nest and then pulling them out when they attack you
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These are states where one can legally noodle, for those wondering
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At last, I've discovered it! A coherent definition of the South that includes Wisconsin and Illinois and excludes Virginia and Florida! The Census Bureau will be overjoyed!
A map of the United States where Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Maryland are colored red
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That newspaper business is a stressful gig
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The offending salmon:
An older white dude in a camo jacket holds a massive king salmon. Like truly a big honking fish, probably 4 feet long, a titan of the sea.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Electric eels are really effective in a suicide attack situation
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A horror movie about teaching 4th graders PE would be too scary for the big screen. Grown men would be carted from the theater sobbing and deposited directly in a large sick bed from the Victorian era where they would remain for decades
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
4th grade is like if a kid with the mouth of a middle schooler also can't tie their shoes or solve an interpersonal conflict without destroying something or screaming, PE is like what if a classroom but running is allowed and no one can hear you scream
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The hardest age to teach is 4th grade and the hardest K-12 subject to teach is PE you can't change my mind
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Account books are the first draft of history
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Whenever your parked car gets smashed beyond usefulness, remember that the other driver's phone buzzed and there was a tiny chance it was a life-or-death emergency
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I feel like it's undersold that Bleeding Kansas was initially some (mostly unsuccessful) northern small business owners and farmers vs. an organized militia led by a former fucking US Senator
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Popcorn sharers and theater masturbators
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gavin Newsom has never met a flim flam scam that he doesn't want to crush into a fine powder and snort off his desk
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The new ChatGPT ads really highlight how useless it is as a search engine and how great it is at reflecting back the things I'm saying to me so I feel less lonely
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Big army, big pile of cash, and a direct relationship to the last king is a solid claim!
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
People are responding to this like I'm not joking and wasn't in a Rush-themed high school drumline for literal years of my life. Polyrythms nearly killed me I know they exist!!!
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My cat knows I'm reading a horror novel and has decided to set the mood by being extra scary. Like she's never snuck up behind me to boop the back of my neck before, but she's done it twice in the last hour and also screamed like a human baby from the dark kitchen. What an asshole
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Okay in fairness you have to count to three twice simultaneously while also counting to four sometimes! That's a lot
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The Decider @vibinthrghhistory.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Roosevelt and Truman wanted the Soviets to join the Pacific war. The August offensive in Manchuria was the culmination of that diplomatic effort. Do people just not know this or…?
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think it's just that everyone (me included) who has an unhealthy relationship with text-based social media starts to adopt personal quirks in the way they communicate on said media
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
God's love became obscure and in revenge the Dutch invented capitalism
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short king simp↙↙↙ @yeospaceman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
you know I think I can believe these heartless swamp germans invented capitalism
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The chair was so pointy it mesmerized them
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You also get a similar vibe with the Gulltown Arryns (canny businessmen) and the Eyrie Arryns (yeah I'm going to be an asshole come up on top of my giant fortified mountain and stop me)
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I genuinely hate this administration and everyone that's worked to make it possible beyond what can be put into words or actions. Like I could scrub them from the earth like a stain out of my shirt and I'd still be mad
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Guy whose only shot at relevance was California having the dumbest primary election system possible desperately tries to cling to relevance
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is like that line in Moby Dick about everyone's shoulder being thumped by someone else so we should all rub each other's shoulders
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Three times today I had holds available at my local library branch and three times today I walked two blocks and picked up barely used hardcover books entirely for free. I need to focus on this aspect of the modern world or else I will go insane and eat a building
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Lyndon Johnson mentioned!
Passage from Twilight of the Gods by Ian Toll referencing Lyndon Johnson's involvement in congressional procurement for building a naval pilot training station in Corpus ChristiRick Dalton pointing at himself in the movie Once Upon A Time in Hollywood which I have mixed feelings about
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Look it's a lot to expect of people who hate all books to read a really long one
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Everyone involved in these decisions seems to be either dumb or a coward at this point, especially considering Platner's scandals started dropping like six months before the primary filing deadline and still everyone just looked around for someone else to deal with it
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Mills is honestly included on my list of people that functionally didn't jump into the race, only one Democrat in the state seemed to like actually try
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline...
en.wikipedia.org
Decline of newspapers - Wikipedia
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I do not understand why no one wanted to hop into this primary
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You know the part of Henry VIII's reign where a huge portion of the country is just like waiting around tapping their watches wondering when this fuck is finally going to die of his many diseases? Yeah.
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
More than half even!
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Who are you, Zachary Taylor?
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Kinda sucks we don't have a French-speaking Canadian enclave in like Fresno or something
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I really don't understand the pathological commitment of so many to dying in office
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We need a government of, by, and for those over 65 funded by heavily taxing those idiots who were stupid enough to be born more recently than 65 years ago
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm so sorry but as a Californian you should know why this is a dipshit thing to say, and you really need to learn more about how and why Prop 13 is strangling our state
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I appreciate movies and shows now always showing me they take place either before or after 2020-2021. The bad years were a lie and never happened. Thank you for reminding me
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We'll get vape-filled rooms choosing candidates by the end of the century I think
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The Prodigal Carpetbagger @letuscontinue.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Adams would have been involved in crimes Spidey was working to stop
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