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Rand Barthel

@randomcoolzip.bsky.social
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Father, grandfather, retired software engineer, BA in Physics, lover of life, the stars, birds, sailing, history, and philosophy. Climate activist and believer in liberal democracy and humane values. Scantily clad women need not follow. Not here for that.

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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a fascist paramilitary masquerading as a police force, carrying out an ethnic cleansing operation disguised as immigration enforcement.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And our descent into barbarism continues.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That's basically been true ever since ships began to be powered by fossil fuels. It began with coaling stations.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Only better outcome would be the Big Beautiful Obituary.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Masculine men defend their families and communities. Masculine men face unpleasant truths without flinching. Masculine men are thrilled, not frightened, by the company of powerful, articulate women.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't think Melania is fighting for her share any more. What's to fight for?
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There seem to be multiple antichrists, so I don't think the word "the" is appropriate.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sure his idea of a great health care plan is a lot like his idea of a great economy.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Waiting for the Big Beautiful Obituary.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another self-monumenting strategy: since it is so problematic to build new monuments or put your name on other people's memorials, turn a building you already own into an official residence. I wonder what he thinks the odds are that any future presidents would want to be seen in the place?
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Delusions of grandeur and persecution.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And Johnson is a much stoogier stooge than Pence.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was driving home from church just now and briefly found myself following a car with a bumper sticker that said "Stop hatred, support Trump". I thought what on earth could this person be thinking of.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nor 67 senators.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Immigrants are only a problem if you insist on seeing them as one. They use less public services than native born Americans and pay tens of billions more in taxes than they cost the nation. The only reasons for seeing them as a problem are racist reasons.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
His innards must be a mess if barbecues cause him th chuck it up.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's the corruption, stupid.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The inmates are definitely running the asylum.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Innocent until we are proven guilty.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These people's spiritual ancestors burned mine at the stake. Looks like they want to bring the bad old days back.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maybe he's running against an opponent who won't shut up about them. Hmmm.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All different versions of a dumb person's idea of a smart person.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'd love to take a birdwatching tour of Britain. I'd be in "every one a lifer" territory the whole time.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This balderdash is what Hegseth is focusing on instead of how to prepare our military to fight actual enemies of the nation.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's what makes America America.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That has been true for a long time now.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
His definition of "Western Civilization" SHOULD be ended.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're still rats.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I subscribed to the Inquirer for a while to get Will Bunch. I ultimately couldn't justify a whole newspaper subscription just for him, but he's great. Nobody better for calling out naked emperors.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have a hard time believing that they want to do this.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A long time ago.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wand these guys to do hard time in a real prison: one with 6x10 concrete cells, high walls topped with razor wire, and guard tower with machine guns at regular intervals.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It will go on for two more years unless we find a way to force it to stop. That means expelling Trump from office, by impeachment + removal, 25th A, or the people shutting the country down to force his resignation.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Start shopping for real estate in Argentina, pal. We're coming for you.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the Epsteinth time.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Neither we nor Venezuela will ever see that money again.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He's actually right. Diesel prices are not high because there's a shortage in the US. They're high because there's a shortage in the rest of the world, and the price of diesel is set by the international market. Banning exports would make that shortage worse and drive prices higher.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Especially ones with a long history of regaling their viewers with white supremacist blather.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What the hell is the furry community?? Time to put Tuberville in a pot and water him every day.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The rats are deserting the sinking ship, but they're still rats. Remember.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I grew up before personal computers. I bought an Apple 2e with two floppy drives, viewing it as an expensive toy. Later my future wife and I composed our wedding ceremony on it, and then she wrote grad school papers on it.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is not too early for Miller to start exploring the real estate market in Argentina.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What is this guy talking about? Kelly has been a serious PITA to Trump, and he's exactly the kind of guy who can win Arizona. We know that because he's done it before.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rubio is not stupid enough to actually believe what he's saying. He's showing us what intellectual and moral corruption looks like.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The rats may be deserting a sinking ship, but they're still rats. They spent years sucking Trump's dick and telling us how delicious it was.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some of it won't be undoable. Trump's cock-up in the Persian Gulf is a permanent change of state in that part of the world that won't be undone. I also doubt that US-Canada relations will ever really return to what they were.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can we skip to the bunker scene now??
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's a much bigger problem that Trump gets intel.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Add this to the list of reasons why the building of this arch should be resisted to the last, and then why the next admin should tear it down immediately.
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Rand Barthel @randomcoolzip.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His ability to get in front of cameras and recite ridiculous falsehoods with a straight face is really impressive, in a dark and mean way.
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