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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It sucks when the cats ruin your car toys.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What I mean is loud. Sort of the heavy metal of traditional music. I mean no disrespect.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very aggressive instrument. The Tannahill Weavers go through pipers the way Spinal Tap goes through drummers.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The lust for revenge is always disproportionate.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump has been whittled down to Rule 1 of the Adulterer's Handbook: Deny, deny, deny.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think at the very least if someone complains after sexual intercourse it has to be very bad sex.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can watch Trump's inhibitions draining away on a daily basis now.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Be thankful for small favors: Trump doesn't have the patience to oversee a Newspeak Dictionary.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Aside from the targeting of nonexistent targets . . ."

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"We regret we will be unable to give further accurate updates because this is the dirtiest word we're allowed to use."

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think I've seen this picture before but it was with Maximilian Schell and he was pretending to be a concentration camp commandant.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You have to understand the lingo here. "We have to talk" means "I get to lecture you and you have to listen."

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mainstream news media are the kind of people who would try to appear neutral when interned in a concentration camp. It's like they know no other way of being.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a tourist attraction, and I say that as a compliment.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What did you study the blade for, Sensei?

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There's a means of enforcing that and it's called impeachment, but you need an honest legislature.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Never guess the right number of "l"s with that O'Neil guy.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's possible to do good things with it, as witness Alan Moore and Frank Miller, but normally Batman comics have a certain level they don't much above. High water mark of the normal level would be Denny O'Neill and Neal Adams.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can qualify it, but it would be hard to say that Netanyahu hasn't fueled antisemitism.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have a theory Fetterman saw the position of power Manchin had and wants something similar for himself.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You elect a madman and you send you around the world to do his madman act.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Feelings" is the song the enemy plays on an endless loop when they're torturing you by sleep deprivation.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The settlement movement only makes sense as a strategy to drive Palestinians out of the West Bank.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It was the wrong war, but to give them their due, people who were on the scene like Michael Kelly saw the plague of violence that was going to engulf the Middle East and thought something ought to be done to stop it. Bush Minor's war didn't do that.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Honestly, I always assumed Saddam was holding a little something back, and was actually surprised when they didn't find anything in the end. I never thought it was worth going to war over.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Begging the question is a personal foul and always will be.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I had my doubts about withdrawing from Iraq when there was a clear road to Baghdad after the Kuwait war, but boy were Bush and Powell right.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Look, the whole world went one way on medical care and the United States went another, they were right and we were wrong. I'm just telling how it actually is and why it stays that way.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, it's a big country and people don't trust each other.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also there's a luxury tier in employer-based healthcare plans that many people pay for voluntarily, and they would not want to give it up.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What you had was the problem of going a president who listened to Colin Powell to a president Colin Powell had to listen to.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you have risen to the exalted rank of Just Some Guy Posting you lose your patience of whippersnappers and upstarts with actual jobs.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Most notable absence is Reagan, I thought.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Saw them playing a theater in Downtown L.A. last year and Darnielle talked about how on his morning run he'd encountered his drug dealer from the old days.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Requirements: Good at fellatio and no sense of smell.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We can just hope and pray that the contractors hand in an estimate that makes them reconsider.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Spent a certain amount of time this year going to concerts of people I started following when I was young and being reaminded that they're older than I am. Martin Carthy, Graham Parker, Peter Stampfel, Nick Lowe . . . it begins to seem like the last look around.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Polling is one area where it's easy to keep track of accuracy.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The phenomenon of the tenured radical becomes more understandable when you find out that academics are paid about the same as the better class of clerical worker. You can see how they'd thing of themselves as the proletariat of the educated classes.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Millions of people voluntarily pay more for their employer-provided insurance so they can go to the fancy doctors. If they were compelled to go into a Medicare-for-All system thew would get care that they'd consider inferior to what they'd been getting.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

More like, he's pretending to be something he isn't for political gain, even to the point of seemingly denigrating his own family.

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robertfiore.bsky.social @robertfiore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

An evolution that I rather regret is the phrase "willy nilly", which comes from "will he or nil he", meaning whether he wants to or not. It just plain doesn't mean that anymore.

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