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TommyBen

@tbapple.bsky.social

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Nihilist in the kitchen, humanist in the bedroom and an actor at work, in the role of civil servant. Live long and prosper.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · Dec 5

The battle between burn it all down billionaires and status quo billionaires has begun.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 7h

This is great, thx

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 9h

When do they start building a Nixon monument bigger, and golder, than the Lincoln.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 19h

Some families have political connections that allow their children safer tours.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 19h

Robert Moses on a national scale was a bad idea.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 21h

The waffle joke getting canceled is very meta.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 21h

If the building process for the ball room doesn’t want to be “Woke”, at least 5 construction workers have to die during construction.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 1d

Pity the poor woman who has to hold up an iPad with the AI over her face while pretending to be his dead wife.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of that guy who got a Chinese character tattoo when they were 18 and not even once googled it until they ran for Senate decades later.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 1d

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 1d

“In Woke rant, Cuomo condemns White Flight”
- headline no where

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 5d

“It was a mistake to put so many migrants in New York City.” - Cuomo

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 1d

The GOPs National messaging needs work.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 2d

Reboot The Great Muppet Caper as a 8 part limited HBO series.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 2d

The irony is the 60 vote rule is not in the Constitution so the GOP could reopen the government at any time without Trump being a King.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t sell yourself short.
If you were sponsored into that power by money that agreed with your goals, and given a competent expert staff, I don’t think you would screw it up.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 3d

“Israel strikes southern Gaza in FAILURE of ceasefire”
- correction

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 4d

That’s sure to help NY Republicans regain their self respect after the whole Nazi thing.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN: Trump has commuted the sentence of former Congressman George SANTOS.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

By the way, I’m team introduce ocelots to Central Park. Sorry pigeons, squirrels and small dogs.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

With the size of NYC rats the cats would need to be ocelots.

a cartoon of archer talking to a cat with the words no babou that was all sarcasm

Alt: a cartoon of archer talking to an ocelot “no babou that was all sarcasm”

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

With the size of NYC rats the cats would need to be ocelots.

a cartoon of archer talking to a cat with the words no babou that was all sarcasm

Alt: a cartoon of archer talking to an ocelot “no babou that was all sarcasm”

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

One French Fry obviously.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

I like to confound people by telling them that a stock that is down 50% from its high would have to go up 100% to get back to that high.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

Some farmers be watching Goodfellas.

Scene from Goodfellas where young Henry Hill is running from a large conflagration of his own making as part of an insurance scam.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

Which is a worse case of “throwing good money after bad”?
Donating to the Cuomo campaign or bailing out Argentina.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

If this is truly about delaying the Epstein report, this is not going to end anytime soon.

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TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

To be fair, the turf war between local and federal agents might be the only thing that saves us.

TommyBen @tbapple.bsky.social · 5d

Weird how no wireless companies are offering an AI tool that deals with spam texts and calls.
Almost like they make money from letting them harass us.