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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 6h

I'm all for the billionaires collectively clenching their sphincters after data centers became a valid target in war.

Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do, every night. The white noise drowns out all the small noises that might otherwise wake me up. the only difference is where it is pointed. Summer, across the bed. Winter, away from the bed.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I tried to take a video but was laughing so hard that I couldn't hold the phone steady. Had to clip this out of it as the best shot of the bison humping the side and front of my car.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Grass grows there. View from the road.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes they decide to mate with the cars. (My car, ~12 years ago, in Custer State Park)

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have agreed that fraud took place. We disagree on the amount. You're using Republican and Trump provided numbers. You know, the guy who set out to punish Minnesota for Tim Walz being on the ticket against him.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's the bullshit game Republicans have been playing my entire life. Claim that large portions of social programs go to "fraud" as a justification to completely shut down the program. Then we all saw what a massive failure DOGE was in proving any of their bullshit claims.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's a number Trump pulled out of his ass after they walked the number up from two, then five, then nine billion. So of course his goons are repeating that number. They're literally claiming that HALF of the Medicare money in Minnesota was fraud. And you believe that?

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here's the problem with that accusation. There's been no proof or evidence of 'billions of dollars' in fraud. Did it happen? Sure, but less than $1 billion. That's right wing's made up, ever increasing numbers. Senator Rick Scott of Florida is, by himself, responsible for more fraud than that.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our bus system is a secret gem. For years, I drove 1.3 miles to a suburban transit station and took a bus downtown. $100 pre-tax deduction, 10% bonus meant it cost me ~$70 a month. Parking downtown was 3-4x that. No 'incidents' or trouble on the bus in 4 years, avg rider age in their 40's.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are six lights between highways 35W and 77 in Burnsville, MN. The entire stretch is 55mph and there are speed limit signs just past every one of those six lights. So why do I wind up behind people doing 42-45 in the left lane or in packs, every damned day and every damned night?

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MarketMove It's Go Time Meme

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Did you or did you not commit acts of piracy as captain of the Black Pearl?" "That was Jack Sparrow"

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't know how plausible gaining 13 seats in the Senate is, but whatever number, we can likely count the Democrats down one when ManchinSinemaFetterman switches parties.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump referred to RAF Fairford as "Our fort". He really is a child.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, you're screaming because they fixed one thing before the thing you want fixed. That isn't helping anything. Should they fix that shelter? Hell yes. But figuratively stomping your feet in anger over a tennis court being fixed first? Grow up.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump picked Minnesota because of Tim Walz running on the ticket against him. Pure petty retaliation.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had that conversation with someone last year. Claimed Republican run states are in bad shape because of previous Democratic governance. I asked "Republicans have been in charge of your state for more than 40 years. When does it become their fault? Because the best off states are run by Democrats."

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

C'mon man, this "HOW DARE YOU FIX THIS ONE THING BEFORE THIS OTHER THING!" thinking and complaining needs to stop. You're not helping anyone.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'd be in my car headed for DC. Not for violence, but for demonstration.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No, we're not going with "Super Intelligence".

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The average UHC nation pays 11% of GDP for healthcare. The United States pays 18% of GDP for healthcare. But Republicans have so demonized 'taxes' that the right will never go for it.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sorry "Royal", but the President of the United States is a rapist and a traitor. And a convicted felon. And Jeffrey Epstein's best friend.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The term was coined in 1955 and has been around for 71 years. No one is going to suddenly refer to it as something else just because Trump is a vain moron.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A few weeks after Trump was sworn in, he was complaining about Trump's policies. I said 'you voted for this'. In less than 30 seconds, he was showing me a clip of Trump saying that Democrats would never win another election because of trans people. He just wanted Trump to hurt other people.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had a Mexican co-worker, US citizen but his mom lives in Mexico City. Super MAGA and sure that he and his had nothing to worry about, as it was the filthy Venezuelans who Trump would go after. 1/

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You did, Hank. We ain't denying reality to spare your feelings, sunshine.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Then there's an entire political party dedicated to making shit up and declaring all actual evidence as "fake".

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Imagine being such a fragile little snowflake that someone's hair color upsets you.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now can they go back to the old, fatter burgers instead of the thinner, overcooked crap they're serving now?

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're going to rebuild it when he's gone.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Although that would make a good D&D adventure.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Somewhere around #1300, I began to suspect that Rich Burlew had no idea how to end Order of the Stick.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Last week I drove through the town I work on the edge of on my way to lunch. I saw three Lisa DeMuth signs. Yesterday I drove the same route and they were all gone. Why does she look like a traumatized Cthulhu mythos victim? Why is she all-in on Trump? Refusing the smallest criticism?

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Charlie Kirk wasn't a racist! He just questioned DEI hires!" When you assume that every minority hired has to be an unqualified DEI hire, you're a racist. When you try to defend Kirk on that basis, you're a racist. Thanks for telling me who you are.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just pulling up the state medical ethics complaint form when I get a message from the doctor I intended to complain about. "What is this medication, how long have you been taking it and WHO prescribed it to you???" I've been taking it for 30 years and your records show YOU have for the last five.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At least you're not throwing out the ever increasing numbers the Republicans use, which have absolutely no basis in reality and there has never been any evidence of. The solution to fraud is increased enforcements, not across the board cuts that only hurt the innocent.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So Jared, when they 'gave up' territory in 2014, did that create a permanent peace?

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I hate being in a stupid amount of pain and having to put on the mask of normality for others.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gas prices are wild. Most at $4.24 today with some outliers near highway off-ramps at $4.39. Found one this morning selling at $3.99 and waited in line (thankfully not long) to fill up. But hey, Trump is successfully achieving all of our worst-case scenarios in the middle east.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Poor employees, having to spend every day explaining to stupid cultists that Trump did in fact, say something stupid that day. Probably dealing with a lot of abuse too, because that's how those people roll on the best of days.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Republicans are playing alarmist ads on YouTube with fraudulent claims about the amount of fraud in Minnesota. I notice how the numbers keep going up (now to NINE billion) without any actual evidence. Search engine AI's tell me that the actual fraud uncovered is less than one billion.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

For your meme'ing needs and responses.

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Old Man Brett @oldmanbrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Canada needs their own version of Google named Eh?

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