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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 8m

The change in energy when he goes off script at “and me” is absolutely incredible.

We have reached peak narcissist. No one will ever do it better.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 28m

The moment he goes off script there and sees a chance to talk about himself you know that something truly insane is about to happen

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Pregame Empire @pregameempire.bsky.social · 3h

Happy These Are All Allegedly Real Schools Who Are Playing D1 Basketball Programs The Opening Week of Basketball Season szn to you and yours

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4h

Kaepernick was indisputably “cancelled” as the anti-cancel culture people use that term.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4h

Also Willa absolutely 100% would have died if the bounty hunter would not have had a crisis of conscience and saved her.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4h

It’s because to be a staffer or other low-level conservative organizational employee you have to really care, and the young people who really care and are ideologically committed to conservatism in 2025 are all nazis

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4h

Democratic scandals or pseudo-scandals stand out in the memory precisely because there have been so few of them

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 4h

Can you imagine if the “establishment” figure (for whatever that means) here was the former Blackwater mercenary?

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

The governor is “primarying” him

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

Okay but they’re actually talking like this:

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

“They were always like this”

No. No they weren’t.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

These guys weren't great before, but they weren't like THIS. But they spend nine hours a day boiling their brain in a social environment where overt race war rhetoric is how you indicate you're one of the cool kids

Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

There are republicans born in the 2000s who will sincerely tell you about how outraged they are about Robert Bork not getting confirmed in 1987

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 6h

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

All I know is Hunter Biden is responsible for this corruption

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 9h

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

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Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

Olympus Snowden is the masculine form

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

Chuck Schumer connived to foist the incumbent governor upon the primary voters of Maine.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 5h

How dare a popular incumbent governor challenge my preferred candidate, a former Blackwater mercenary

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 6h

For all the enormous number of rightwing “news” organizations and platforms in the country, it’s pretty remarkable how little journalism they do (outside of the WSJ and *sometimes* Fox)

Like, was there a major-ish story during the whole Biden administration broken by any non-WSJ rightwing outlet?

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 18h

I would’ve taken the hit, which I know because it would’ve gotten to me before I even knew what was happening much less had the reflexes necessary to dodge

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 18h

Wouldn’t have even needed to lean, just not dodge. It would’ve hit his back leg

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 21h

Really that’s all in the screen cap she’s QT’ing.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

"Well, everyone knows Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth 1,700 years ago. What this voyage presupposes is, maybe he didn't."

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

calling someone who not only has never won an election but has never even led in a primary poll (and has led in like one general election poll) an “absolute phenom” seems a tiny bit premature.

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