steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels are particularly insidious and amusing for this. 000
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Got tired and lazy? Money's corrosive effect? Proximity to power/influence? Little from each column? 000
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steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My man looks like a block of gouda in a sports coat. 020
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My man looks like a block of gouda in a sports coat. 050
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He's getting paid to churn out a product. He knows what the specs are on that product and he hops to. Might as well be putting together Dodge Coronets on the line in 1968. Same level of intellectual curiosity. 130
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Back on AF1 classic. Qatar Force One must be on the fritz. 100
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's the price he pays to have hair on his head now. He's like a werewolf only way less fun and with it. 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Does she ever stop with the rictus grin? Even Kevin Hassett gives the smirk some time off. 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So, great, now they're going to be crankier. Awesome... 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A supine Congress and captured judiciary were not among the Founders' imaginations. 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, we certainly need some Amendments in the Constitution to deal with the norms he walked right through. 110
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm down for a damnatio memoriae. 120
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, pretty straightforward normie until he asked God's blessing for each traveler and America as a whole at the end. Unlike Magabarbie he harbors no identifiable greater ambition. 121
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I was at an airport this weekend and watched his little recorded TSA spiel: he was clutching it in that too. Remarked on it to my wife. 1161
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oddly enough in a previous incarnation he was a fairly pragmatic moderate Republican. At some point he just seemingly went off the rails - seems to have been around when he became MO AG and wanted to make a grab for the brass ring. Is he Vancing? missouriindependent.com/2026/09/29/e...missouriindependent.comCommentary: Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become • Missouri IndependentMissouri Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over a Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up, highlighting how his political style has changed. 110
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh he's a talented politician but his talents lie in figuring out novel ways to whip up the rubes and keep their attention. He knows what he's doing, but it's about culture war nonsense and trying to harness the magachuds to his own power not competent governance. 120
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No one. He won in 2022 so he's not up until 2028. Looking forward to seeing him around town and calling him a fash cocksucker in the meantime though. 060
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's all he needed to do: introduce this claim into the chud info stream. Doesn't matter if it is true so long as it whips up the rubes. It's *exactly* his MO back in MO. 031
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He rode culture war rube bait into office. When he was lower down the food chain here he was kind of a pragmatic moderate but realized the path to power was through idiotic signaling like suing China and other covid nonsense. He took the Hawley elevator (which failed for Andrew Bailey yesterday). 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Material evidence for another article of impeachment. Spread 'em around for the entire claque of toadies. 030
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Looks like Captcha asking to select all squares with pedophiles. 0160
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In the dictionary under "rictus grin." 000
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Lots of cheering but it just sounded solid before and after - loud stadium sound. But he looks oddly diminished and shrunken: a tired old man. 3170
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They'll still vote for him when in the confines of the voting both. Because they also knew Trump was a crook and here we are. 040
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We had that once and then again but just enough idiots wanted the racism or were wishing really hard for a time warp back to 2017. So here we are. Again. 041
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026All I see is a guy who bites the head off a chicken at a 1930s carnival. 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Crassus' Parthian disaster has some strange relevance at this point. He was a real estate guy... 020
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And what about the "to the victor go the spoils" comment? Like wtf even was that!? At the UN!? 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Isn't this the plot of Bad Lieutenant? 021
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comNorth Korean News Anchor Delivers PropagandaALT: North Korean News Anchor Delivers Propaganda 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Next up: Trump-Kennedy Military Center for Performing Arts and Things That Go Boom 001
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Maybe even if we are vital and with it we might want to enjoy that time for ourselves? You know, enjoy life while we can and not have to give our whole healthy life to the billionaires' money machine. 001
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I'd *like* to send him to Iran. Either airdropped without a parachute or simply plopped on the tarmac at Tehran International with a note pinned to him saying "war criminal and doofus, do as you please." 010
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"This is War" on his shirt. No, dipshit, war is not prancing up some steps for a photoshoot after your makeup crew gets you fancy. What a consummate ass. 160
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026He's almost the shade and texture of a partially inflated football. Just a bit more. 000
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Humbling punishment and confiscation of all wealth for all families involved. Don Jr and Eric and Jared and all should be reduced to penury once they are released from a long spell in a labor camp. 020
steveehrstein.bsky.social @steveehrstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I envision a Nork parade made up entirely of Tom of Finland characters. 000
