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John C. Pumpernickely

@bsfromwis.bsky.social

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Mottos of places I've lived: Forward. Equality before the law. “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · Feb 5

I had the thought in the last week or so that if OBL was still alive, he'd be acting pretty fucking smug right about now.

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John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 9m

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29m

Trump: “I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far.”

John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 16m

Ignoring problems always makes them go away.

John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 2h

Regardless of what happens with the rest of the season for the Brewers, they gave us one of the greatest moments in papal history.

Let's go, @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social!

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 2h

a man says it became personal with me in a close up

ALT: a man says it became personal with me in a close up

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John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 5h

This coming from the party this is famously unconcerned with what people are doing in their private lives.

John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 5h

"I'm faithful to my wife and my son ensures that I do not get off to pornography."

John C. Pumpernickely @bsfromwis.bsky.social · 6h

While I don't doubt that old Republican behavior plays a part in this (especially old Rs who live in the same house as the young Rs), the much bigger issue are the lab-grown young Rs who are spawned from online hate echo chambers.

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