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Bertolt Ottoman

@trampolinechaplin.bsky.social
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Escaped internment in the 20th century. Poet, historian, bookseller, father, Texican.

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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
As Marie Antoinette famously said: "Let them eat catfood."
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
As Marie Antoinette famously said: "let them eat catfood."
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Enough with the threatening. Do it.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I can smell the their fear.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
By not playing the video you are protecting Kristi Noem from prosecution under the Hatch Act. Way to go, you woke bastards.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Chef's kiss.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hatch Act Violation.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Hatch Act violation. But nobody cares.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
America First now means 20 billion lifeline to Argentina while American Soybean Farmers Need to Get in Line.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Citation is an art. I'm stealing this one (for an epigraph of something not yet written): it's gnomic, comic, and suits the times we're living in.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
*spite and distraction.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Then contact the white house and tell them that Democrats agree not to include health care for immigrants in a negotiated bill. Guarantee it. Simple.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My favorite part of today's speech was Trump leaning on the Generals to use their connections & influence to whip up sales of U.S. made armaments and weapons to foreign countries, as if they were Fuller-Brush salesmen. Perhaps he thinks he can co-opt them thus--by paying them a sales commission.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My favorite part of today's speech was Trump leaning on the Generals to use their influence abroad to whip up sales of U.S. made armaments and weapons, as if they were Fuller-Brush salesmen. He probably thinks he can coopt them thus--by paying them a sales commission.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I heard this sculpture is called "Moving the Goalposts"
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I heard this Sculpture is called "Moving the Goalposts"
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Now do Colbert.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Now do Colbert.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Yes Mr. President, by all means, go into Chicago. Black women with MAGA hats are inviting you. Ball is in your court now, friendo.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
He's ideally suited to do it. Chicago rules.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Hahahaha
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Gonna need to cite a source. Right?
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I wish someone would take up the taxpayer angle on all these silly moves by Trump. We, all of us, are paying for this theater that does nothing but provoke court cases (more tax dollars).
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Unserious click-bait journalism at its finest: "Six months into his term, the Trump administration is veering toward what some say could be a constitutional crisis."
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is why J.D. Vance is a sub-human ratfucker. He's clearly lying out his ass, and he knows it, to try and demonize the opposition party. Everyone knows that the Epstein scandal is non-partisan, but there he is. Makes me think he knows Trump has serious liabilities.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Trust me, they're overrated (not to mention the legal costs)
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Just some math. Trump carried TX by 57% to 42% for Harris. Right now TX Dems hold 13 of 38 house seats in Congress, or 34%. Fair redistricting should give TX Dems 40% of house seats. But no, Trump n' Abbott want to shift 5 more seats to Republicans, leaving Dems with 22% representation. Bullshit.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
It would be worth celebrating if Robin Ventura was a bad guy. But he wasn't. He got halfway to the mound and started to have second thoughts, then got a beating. Sure it was a spectacle, but I'd rather not celebrate two guys doing what they had to do according to a bygone hit-by pitch-ethos.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
GOOD. This is gonna be Good.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
From Central Casting. Look at this guy.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A most excellent admission. Keep talking Donnuck.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Swear to god how fucking stupid MAGA if they didn't see this developing. There's a good chance Maxwell (and other actors) have solid evidence against Trump. Also good chance they trickled some of it out last week to make a point. Also good chance that "pedo rings" are, at root, blackmail rings.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Monarchical putz.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I signed an executive order today renaming the Bristol, TN landfill, known as one of the stinkiest sites in America, to "Trump's Hot Dump." Take that, you red state cretins.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I signed an executive order today renaming the Bristol, TN landfill, known as one of the stinkiest sites in America, to "Trump's Hot Dump." Take that, you red state cretins.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I signed an executive order today renaming the Bristol, TN landfill, known as one of the stinkiest sites in America, to "Trump's Hot Dump." Take that, you red state cretins.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It's really breathtaking to watch America lose all semblance of common sense for the adrenal rush of hate.
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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“Maybe light is a / pre-existing condition for love, an auspice of longing” — Alina Stefanescu (@alinaetc.bsky.social‬) . . . This poem appeared in Couplet Poetry, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hope Pam Bondi enjoys her pending beat-down in court.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Because as shitty as human beings most MAGA are, they still have more human decency in one toenail than Trump does in his whole corpulent load.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I see this as an attempt by Trump to save face. PS: Trump will lose in court, again.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Well, we're gonna just eat apples and cherries then. Like the founding fathers.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Sorry, but DJT's supporters and MAGA and the Christian Nationalists and the Opus Dei Legalists DON'T GIVE A FUCK. They are ALL IN with the Broligarch Monarchalists to snuff out our Democratic Republic. How did America get so stupid.?
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What a sad, sobering truth. Brownie looks Churchillian right now.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
They said he had no cards. He droned 41 bomber planes, not civilian targets.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I'm gonna be in Florence with family in about two weeks. Any super surprising, offbeat things you'd recommend? Appreciated.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Well done.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🤣😂🤣
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Elmo + TACO = a bad case of ETTD.
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Bertolt Ottoman @trampolinechaplin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Elmo + TACO= a bad case of ETTD.
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