Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 20/07/2026We should consider the benefits of editing Trump out of all media, and attributing any of his otherwise unexplainable actions to whichever Greek god seems appropriate. 011
Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Turns out Trump Derangement Syndrome is just accurate predictions running at 1.5x. 041
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026It's helpful to think of The Constitution less as guardrails and more as a velvet rope. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 30/01/2026People: it's not fascism yet Government: how about if we do this? People: eh, not really - still not totally fascist Government: how about if we do this other thing too? etc... 000
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Come for the extrajudicial killings Stay for the self-enrichment 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 29/01/2026This is the Stanford Prison Experiment, except with real kids. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Reduce ICE to the size where we can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. 020
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The thing I like about Trump trying all the things that might piss people off, is that eventually he may hit on the things that do actually piss people off. 000
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Broke: having a mad king Woke: getting shot of a mad king Bespoke: celebrating the 250th anniversary of getting shot of a mad king by... checks notes... having a mad king 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Convinced that the point of Bessent is to incite violence. 011
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgVi...youtube.comA Mach piece (in D minor) by Nigel Tufnel of Spinal TapYouTube video by Andrew 000
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Dems: don't follow illegal orders Sensible people: It's not like situations in combat where an individual is in a position to judge whether it's legal or not. Hegseth: hold my beer 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 29/11/2025'It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead…which should make all the difference…shouldn't it?' - Rozencrantz (by way of Tom Stoppard) 020
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Classic blunders: 1. Land war in Asia 2. Going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line 3. Having Jeffrey Epstein as your wing-man 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Yes. It turned the question of 'should we be a monarchy?' to be something more like: 'should you fire your granny?'. 000
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Mike Johnson is basically a walking SNL skit at this point... one of those annoying character ones that is reprised repeatedly long after it outlived its welcome. 020
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025An analogy for where we are in the US right now: Berlusconi as President, with Mussolini as his most important advisor and de-facto Prime Minister 000
Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The first person to give Tylenol a headache. 41189
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Gotta say, the most pointless enduring consequence of the great awokening is that git repos randomly either use 'main' or 'master'. Good job guys. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Presumably I'm just one of many parents wondering how I explain that Disney doesn't work any more to a 5 year old. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025We'll see if the king gets (metaphorically) burned this time. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025It's weird how authoritarianism is basically just 'isolated demands for rigor' at a large scale. 040
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 24/08/2025It's not so much that people who vote for Trump are stupid, as that the Trump administration keeps testing the boundaries of how stupid people are, and they haven't found the edge yet. 042
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Much as I dislike Trump, at least you can't say that his mantle is unurned. 020
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Turing test v2: Any technology that can successfully navigate the Apple password reset system. To reset your icloud account password, you need access to your icloud account. Real brain geniuses over there. 011
Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Immigration systems show you what governments would do to everyone if they weren't accountable to the people they serve. 021
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A bit premature to celebrate independence when we are yet to dispose of the King. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The one thing I appreciate about the Trump admin is that we get very divergent kinds of bad, such that's it's quite hard to think about what's worse: - killing 15 million off health insurance - creating an expanded ICE that looks increasingly like the apparatus of a police state Which is it? 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 19/06/2025My wokest point of view: that Juneteenth is the most important US holiday 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 06/06/2025It's rather unfortunate that the biggest threat is a shipping container full of drones from China. When the main thing you get from China is a zillion shipping containers. It's as if the Trojans were trying to get their horse into a city that went through 10,000 giant wooden horses a day. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Revising my point of view that being petty and vindictive is _always_ bad. 000
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 26/05/2025It's a damning indictment of the concept of patriotism that it's insufficient motivation for enough people to solve our current problems. Love of country is a reason one might put aside petty political one-upmanship to solve the issue of the squalid deprivation of our current leadership. 110
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 26/05/2025The thing that's truly great about the USA is that it's the only country to make singing the national anthem into a competition between individuals of near superhuman ability. 000
Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Turns out the good advice for the Trump orbanist project was: - Don't do most of the bad things the first time - Do the bad things the second time One weird trick to discredit the people who were right about the what but ran ahead of the when. 041
Reposted by Tom ClarkeTom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025If we can't get them for authoritarianism, maybe we can Al Capone them for insider trading. 041
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Trump was elected by a combination of low information voters, low intelligence voters and low imagination voters. 010
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The stock market is the knife. The bond market is drawing it left and right. 110
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as applied to Trump. The more we nail down Trump's stupidity, the less we know about his badness and vice versa. 241
Tom Clarke @tomeclarke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce 010
