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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our laws & societal norms & expectations have been outrun by tech. Flock, filming in public areas, spam calls, data centers, IG prank stunts, AI; the list goes on and on. A new norm requiring adjustment every damn day.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Any day, I'm expecting RFK Jr to advocate Strontium 90 in kid's milk and Thalidomide for pregnant women.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lovely wife & I went to the local pharmacy & got our flu shot & COVID booster. That counts as a date, right?

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the '50's, Mr. Mason, a widower, lived in the above-garage apt at the rear of our property. He didn't like to do dishes, a task his late wife had always done. So he threw dirty dishes away & bought new ones at Woolworth's every week.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today: Got my flu shot. Got my COVID booster. 'Cause I'm not stupid. Tomorrow: Casting my early vote, straight Blue ticket. 'Cause I'm not stupid.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Retired, but I still get rumors & stories drifting back from Capitol Hill. GOP members & staff all quietly & privately saying the same thing: Won't somebody (else) PLEASE bell that cat?

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Woke up to more food recalls, more stupid squabbles with Canada, continued flailing economy & oppression on our streets. But, disappointingly, no sudden new national holiday.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In 1945 when Hitler died only one country -- Ireland -- sent condolences to Germany. How many countries will send condolences to the US when THAT DAY inevitably arrives? Needer needer doesn't count.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Trump could solve his problems with the Reflecting Pool by simply changing the color of the field on the American flag from blue to algae green. Ta da!

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Old 47 continues his renaming spree. The National Mall is now Donald Trump Platz. Constitution Ave is now MAGA Strasse.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Serious question for space telescope operators. Do you ever turn them around to point back this way to stalk your ex?

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

7 arrested in Scotland for vandalizing Trump's golf course, including spraying grass killer on greens & fairways. I have been expecting that eventually someone would get around to attacking his golf courses. Here it is.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another morning without a new national holiday on the calendar. Oh, well.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dems should be putting together task forces of monitors to monitor Trump's election monitors.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ICE thugs are armed and armored to take on MS-13 but find it more efficacious to go after five-year-olds in bunny hats.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Nixon's enemies list (as amended) contained abt 600 names. Trump's domestic enemies list is essentially the US census.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Note that Carney left himself some wriggle room when he declared Canada would match US punitive tariffs dollar for dollar. He never specified Canadian or US dollars.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I drove thru backroads Central VA recently. Used to be Trump signs & flags sprouting everywhere, even in non-election years. This time I saw only one & it was on a sign for a known local kook who runs for everything & wins nothing.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The world has lost the wrong 80 year-old. The one the world mourns, not the one the world would cheer.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In 1958, Clennon King Jr. tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Instead, he was committed to an insane asylum. Because, reasoned the judge, a black man would have to be crazy to think he could get in to all-white Ole Miss. (4 years later James Meredith did enroll.)

Mug shot of Clennon Washington King Jr after being arrested during a failed attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi, 1958.

James Meredith in suit and tie on the campus of the University of Mississippi on his admission in 1962. He is closely escorted by federal officers while numerous other federal officers populate the background.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This looks a lot like the obligations Hitler imposed on Vichy France.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven." -- Yuval Noah Harari "Sapiens"

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As a 50's kid, my brothers & I would play the license tag game as Dad made the long drive to Florida & Mom refereed. "Ohio!" "New York!" & check them off the map in the game book. The tags of the snowbirds from Ontario & Quebec teased of exotic unmapped realms.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Of course I can park in a handicapped spot. I'm left handed.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was stationed in Panama during my US Army days some decades ago. Strangely, the Canal Zone TV station broadcast Canadian, not US, football. Calgary had quite the fan base among US soldiers. Go Stampeders!

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Roman emperors used bread (imported cheap/free grain) and circuses (chariot racing) to keep the population docile. Trump offers imported beef and IndyCar. You feeling docile?

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Natalie has a job because the women who normally work caring for doddering, fading, diaper-wearing old men are being deported.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another day that's not a new national holiday. Oh, well. Maybe tomorrow.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yesterday, St. Louis Cardinals baseball rookie Joshua Baez hit the first Major League pitch he ever saw for a home run. Next time at bat, he hit another. Third at bat, one more. 3 homers in 3 at bats by a rookie. Holy Moly.

Baseball player Joshua Baez swings his bat, watching his first home run sail away.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Theory: Trump & Kegbreath are trying to goad the crew of the Abraham Lincoln to mutiny, giving them an excuse for declaring a national emergency.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Little chi mix buddy Toby & I were kicking back in the den when a lizard scuttled along the baseboard. Pup immediately dropped back to 10,000-year-old factory settings & went on the hunt. Chase, stalk, ambush. 8.5 pounds of ancestral canine behavior. (The lizard escaped; c'est la guerre)

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I would not want to be an aviator flying off the Abraham Lincoln knowing my aircraft was prepped by dirty, hungry, lonely, tired, suicidal, pissed-off sailors.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you’re grabbed by someone wearing “shock gloves”…your body may convulse involuntarily. It could look like you’re resisting arrest when in reality, you’re in medical distress. The appearance of resistance will embolden ICE to use lethal force. These gloves will kill people.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

C'mon, people. ICE needs electric shock gloves to do their job. Look how much trouble they had dealing with a six-year-old in a bunny hat.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Went for a haircut yesterday at local shop run by very nice Korean ladies. My barber lady was wearing a face mask. I thought, "good health protocols." But when she bent close to me for trim work, despite the mask, I learned the truth: kimchi breath.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dr. El-Sayed puts it plainly: “ICE has nothing to do with immigration.” I agree completely.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Woke up this morning hoping this would be a new national holiday. Oh, well. Maybe tomorrow.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Climate change is not all bad news. When the glaciers and polar ice melt, I can set aside my fear of falling into a crevasse.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reported by Newsweek Looks like she hasn't been paying attention for the last several years. Leopards eat another pre-leopard face.

Newsweek article extract:
Trump-voting Texas woman's law-abiding longtime nanny arrested by ICE. She is quoted as saying "I don't think this is what I voted for...I thought we were targeting criminals." She is now facing $1.8 million in civil immigration penalties.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

True confession: I hate cats. I spent the whole weekend playing with a kitten. Maybe not all cats.

Kitten in my lap chasing a dangling toy bird on a string.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

FWIW, spent the weekend driving around Central Virginia. Last time I was thru here, the area was rife with Trump & MAGA signs. This time, I saw only 1 & it was part of a local candidate's sign.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump bragged his Reflecting Pool repair job would be good for 100 years. It lasted less than one scaramucci.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If only there was something to take to make you as smart as alcohol and drugs make you dumb. Not you, Algernon.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I ordered a back brace from Amzn. Now FB is feeding me a constant stream of ads for back pain relief gadgets. Privacy? What's that?

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Kids today will never know the sweet anticipation and joy of the odometer rollover.

Pictures of mechanical car odometer as the milage rolls over from 99,999.9 to 100,000.0.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I hate to brag but I'm the WINNER for the 43rd straight time of the one-hole water glass putting tournament on my championship living room rug course. Toddler grandkid and pet chihuahua were big LOSERS. Your congratulations would be appropriate at this singular moment of glory.

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Old Trooper @oldtrooper.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Who would you rather have dinner with, Dr. Fauci or Rand Paul? Now who, if your could throw the dishes and tableware at him?

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