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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The question in and of itself is a bad question. Because it provides no context.

Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The question isn’t a good question with no context. It’s a gotcha question. Because if you’re really asking the correct question it would be,”Is it OK to interrupt religious services when the pastor violates religious teachings in his professional life?”

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

10 Days till pitchers and catchers report! Life begins when the season starts.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Um, that’s William Shatner better known as “Captain James T. Kirk Starship Enterprise.”

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Let me say this, everyone was warned and they chose to ignore the warning. NOW, they get to live with the consequences. Not one ounce of compassion for them. They can suffer and I will gleefully celebrate as they do. Let them lose their farms, healthcare, foodstamps. They deserve it. They voted…

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Happy Birthday Mom! Wherever you are.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Yes, I know. Romney, the guy who believed corporations are people.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Can’t wait to read it. Eugenics? I’m looking for a PhD program to which I can apply that won’t clutch their pearls when I mention the subject with regard to parents involved in child protective services.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

And that right there is the anger that enrages so many of us.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My Wife’s Brioche Bread!

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

There are some crimes that are so egregious the only justice is death.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Ah! Yes. The moment it isn’t what you want hear…LOL

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

OK. You’re entitled to your opinion. Just remember it’s like part of your anatomy, everyone has one.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Well, to get there, then men need to step up . None of this damn sitting around the house playing video games and believing women are just vessels for their pleasures. They need to cook, they need to clean. And women shouldn’t have to beg them. It’s their house as well.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My parents were quite dysfunctional. Same two people got married, got divorced. Got back together , got married again and then got divorced, again. They had an open marriage.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Well, it’s interesting. My Dad was a firefighter and Captain, my Mom worked as a paralegal. Remember, I was socialized female. I remember being devastated as a kid especially when I kept constantly being told,”You’re a girl.”

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

No, we aren’t. We are quite cantankerous. The issue becomes how much we are fawned over as children. Which means it about that legacy nonsense and carrying it forward. I think women actually do a better job because they have stories and traditions.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I probably do. I am a Boomer ya’ know. LOL

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

You’re right. I do think though in the case of my parents for example, my Dad’s job paid the bills. My Mom’s job allowed us to live a decent life and afford the nice things. Your generation doesn’t have that opportunity and you’re resentful and rightfully resentful.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

No, it isn’t . Quite frankly, if she earns more than he, let him stay home and take care of house and home. And all the domestic responsibilities that go with it.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I think it goes beyond just securing income. We define men by the type of provider they are. That’s an issue. Look, cooking, cleaning the house, doing laundry is WORK and it isn’t gender specific. Although, we have made it that way.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Right, I’m speaking to the issue of affordability, being a provider. I think if you solve that first in addition to getting men to actually feel their emotions and holding space to do it we get healthier men. I think we victimize women when we tell them all they can be is emotional.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I can agree there. I also think it is about the fear of not being viewed as enough. You need a living wage, something no job is offering anymore. Can’t go to work for one company 30 years and then retire and live well.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In your opinion. If you say that you want 1950’s social values then you must allow for the living wage to allow for those values. A woman with a law degree will date the guy who doesn’t provided he treats her correctly. Because if he’s horse trainer, farrier he’s making bank.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Especially, when not everyone has the talent or opportunity to be a doctor, lawyer, teacher. I despise people who say to these young men,”I’ve got my degree which means I’m smarter.” No it means you had opportunities they didn’t .

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I think the issue for men especially young men is that they see their lives being destroyed which creates the perfect environment for the manosphere and toxic masculinity.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

No dumb, dumb. You never got up at 3AM to turn horses out. Grain down barns, much stalls, gather eggs. Go gather fresh vegetables. Your generation thinks meat automatically comes in cellophane.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I never said I did. That was your assumption. But my generation always heeded the call. Unlike yours that needs safe spaces because oh! Words! LOL. Little children that you are. Get over yourself.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I can only go based on your interactions with me. And for me not if you were the last individual on earth would ever entertain dating a wild feral animal. And that is exactly what your generation is. Your parents didn’t understand they were never meant to be your friends.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So cute. You never had to get up at 3AM. Your life was handed to you. Your parents were your friends instead of being your parents and your generation grew up to be nothing but feral wild animals.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Why are you interested? I usually don’t discuss the details. And I sure the hell don’t discuss them on an open public platform. I’m born yesterday just not last night.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

My Wife is My Queen. Something you’ll never be to anyone. A gentleman like myself appreciates a Lady who is also my favorite little emotional gangster. She has more attitude than you could ever exhibit. As she says,”The best way to someone’s heart is between the 4th and 5th rib.”

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The moment it got sent off to VietNam is when our mettle was tested. The moment we had to push back

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Awwww, c’mon little person is your resentment showing? Is it the fact that my generation knows life isn’t fair? Anything you want in life is how bad do you want it and what are you willing to sacrifice to get it?

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Shut it down last night. For its rest period. My wife runs her business from it. I’m better than most she knows.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

No, I have evidence. Your generation is a great group of test takers not much else. My generation is responsible for letting it happen. As I said to my son,”Start with Plato’s Five Dialogues” go from there. Tell me the purpose of a stick, rock? What are their purposes?” See, the difference?

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I don’t . My wife’s generation of the two generations Millennials and Boomers is superior because they grow up in the sweet spot of analog and digital. I can turn my own computer on and off, thank you.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Ya’ know maybe they might want to look at how Sanders ran Burlington, VT.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Millennials are excellent test takers and worker bees. That’s all they are. They haven’t had their mettle tested. The standardized testing to which they were subjected destroyed teaching them to critically think. Just cause one can pass a test, doesn’t mean one can think.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Maybe, I have finished debating. I can debate and I actually enjoy the exchange and rigor of solid ideas and policy. What I can’t stand is I keep giving you policy and you keep coming with personal stuff.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I’ve been there for quite sometime. And I will gladly debate. However, once you start the Boomer nonsense game on.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Without a lick of common sense. Without common sense there is no education. They may have theory, they don’t have lived experience. They refuse to listen to anyone whose experiences are different or opinions which are different.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If I can get you away from me, then it becomes by any means necessary. Which in my world means the more offensive, the better. By the time I’m at the pitch black place once there there’s no going back.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Yes, if I’m pushed, I will now look to offend whoever I can. I can debate any issue. However, if you keep being disrespectful then eventually you get what you put out there.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Absolutely! Release them ALL. Everyone of them deserves to pay the price.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Ma’am, I don’t paint. I can paint a wall and spackle it well. To do art as a painting, I never could. I’m as inept and impotent and ignorant as they come when it comes to the visual arts. It’s why I go to museums.

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Les Cook @umpref13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I was waiting for that one to come. Such a good little bot you are.

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