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Joe Tambien

@joetambien.bsky.social

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Just a regular guy who is all out of bubble gum.

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 4h

“ Wholeheartedly and without reservation“ was always my favorite.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 4h

Here’s a suggestion for your next piece, CNN: Send a reporter to Canada to interview all the people whose lives have been upended by the arbitrary, needless and unjustified tariffs that have been slapped on Canadian businesses. Interview the real victims and innocent bystanders of Trump‘s madness.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 4h

The problem is, the same could be said for any terrible regime. But this is who rules the US, applies its laws, and represents the country internationally to the world.

They aren’t just people who “live in the same society we do.” they are ruling your society.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 14h

Silas Marner is the best book ever written.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 21h

The addendum to this is that you have to be honest with yourself - and about who you are - in order to be truly seen, known, loved and accepted.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 21h

Bari, here’s a helpful hint:

The ‘m’ and ‘n’ go in the same order as they do in ‘damn’… as in “ damn are you ever incompetent!”

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 21h

“But, a Speaker, isn’t it pretty much in your job description that you pay attention to statements like this, and watch them when they’re part of the national conversation?”

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 21h

“It’s in a region that’s not safe security wise… can I meet Eric?… we’ll look for a better place…and little Don.”

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 23h

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 23h

The perfect soundtrack:

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Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Life is like a bunch of tourists. You never know what you're gonna get.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

What happens when fascists are in charge? America offers a glimpse.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Wins the internet.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

OK, the base is in Idaho, but I’m still confused.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

OK, explain it to me like I’m five:
The Qataris fund Hamas. The US funds Israel. The Qataris give Trump an airplane. Temporary foreign workers who went to Qatar to build the World Cup facilities are now showing up fighting for Russia in Ukraine. The US builds a Qatari Air Force Base in Colorado.
WTF

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Fact free writing.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Me too. The lazy, ideological stenography just became too much.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Are there no editors?

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

It’s at the bottom of the hill, and it will be an uphill battle to get out. This take isn’t helping.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

Why can’t these billionaires just devote themselves to helping people make a living, care for their families, build their communities, otherwise stay out of their way, and let them live their lives?

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

He needs to get his head out of his fucking ass and go volunteer in a hospital, or a community center, or a local farmers market, or any other place where people actually work for a living, help their neighbors, and don’t spend all their time wanking off about abstruse philosophical dialectics.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

This is what woke, DEI, and inclusive history was supposed to address. That’s why they’re trying to erase it. They are silencing all the voices that don’t belong to their chosen group. History provides an unending supply of brutal examples that show what happens when those voices are silenced.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

It’s thinking that you are one of the chosen people, the chosen race, the chosen gender… and that these things allow you to treat everyone else as though they are lesser. Less “intelligent“, “less cultured”, “less civilized”, “less human”.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is quite simple. Ideologies that tell you that you are better than other people. Better because you’re white. Better because some god favors you, better because your gender supposedly rules over other genders because some god said so. It is all narcissism and imaginary thinking.

Joe Tambien @joetambien.bsky.social · 2d

But you don’t have to.