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A. Whitney Brown

@awhitneybrown.bsky.social

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SNL Alumni, The Big Picture, Daily Show original member. Election clerk, President of FOMMS, ordained minister, pillar of the fucking community! I love my life, my wife Carolyn Wonderland, and Texas my home. Photo: Todd Wolfson

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is not the time to be walking on eggshells. We’re walking through ruins now, the deliberate desolation of the temple of our ancestors: self government, sovereignty of the Law, generosity to the poor, welcome to the stranger, and justice without mercy to the tyrant.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 16h

I will always remember you.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 1d

Alright, I got a beef in addition to the saw; ‘limited only by your imagination’, a very severe limitation, in fact.
“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.” But squirrels find their nuts by smell. So a blind squirrel would find more nuts!
If he didn’t kill himself falling out of a tree first.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 1d

I have survived 4 wars; the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on Christmas, and the ongoing war on woke. Where’s my parade? Can I get a simple,
“Thank you for your service, you broke ass, drug fueled, bad Santa, woke motherfucker?” Anyone?

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 3d

You won’t hear any politicians say this, but over our history, we’ve done pretty well by open borders.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 3d

Bad news: I lost two friends this month. Descanse En Paz
Good news: I outlived two friends this month.
Caminando Por La Tierra!

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 6d

The rumored picture of Trump with half naked girls reported to have been in Epstein’s safe: the thing is, everyone knows there is nothing in Trump’s character that would make you doubt it exists.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 6d

There are a lot of great living lyricists. One of them even received the Nobel Prize for literature. Don’t forget Broadway. There are some greats there. Motown, most of those cats are still alive. Leonard Cohen, Springsteen, Tom Waits…She’s not in the top 100.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 7d

@tracesoftexas.bsky.social
RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 7d

Speedy passed today. RIP

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 12d

The ferociousness with which the MAGAS seek power and then use it to do stupid things throws everyone off balance
They are “filled with passionate intensity”. While we still seem to lack all conviction.

“Wars are won in the will..” (The 13th Warrior)

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 12d

This whole “ Dems want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants” lie just illustrates how much they’ve got us fighting over crumbs,

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 14d

The carnage will continue until the functioning government and alliances built with great effort since WWII is a trashed out ruin of ashes, rubble, and cheap red hats.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 14d

Really great understanding of the subtext. Their vision for and of the military is just juvenile though.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 14d

It’s baffling. Ruled by adolescent idiots…

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 14d

What freaking buffoon. He’s an adolescent. Just…stupid. The triumph of the slack witted yokels. It’s disgusting.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 15d

One of my veteran friends is convinced Hegseth is calling the flag officers to DC so they can either swear a personal oath to Trump or be fired,

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 15d

It’s getting worse faster. All the checks and balances are broken, meaningless.
The key to unleashing all this destruction, it turns out, was five judges on the Supreme Court.
These motherfuckers are pyromaniacs intent on burning the rule of law to the ground. We’re going to rebuild from ashes.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 16d

Yeah, ability is the key there. Any people with the ability will use it.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 19d

Have to agree with your USS Cole take. Attacking a military target is not terrorism, it’s just regular war.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 19d

By prosecuting his political enemies on blatantly meritless charges. trump actually makes it less likely that Democrats will prosecute MAGAs for real crimes. He discredits the very idea of public corruption prosecutions.
Much like crying voter fraud when there is none makes it easier to commit it.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 28d

It excels at stoned conversation. Toke up and engage on all your wild theories about obscure topics and it really shines. It’s needs a stoner voice, though.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · 28d

If we have learned one thing from the Trump era, it’s that the Law don’t mean diddly squat.
With sufficient will, you can ignore it.
Constant, unrelenting will, an absolute lack of shame or empathy, amoral to the bone, can trample the Law and make fools of all who abide and adhere to it.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · Sep 15

I have to pose this question to the billionaires ripping our country to pieces right now; ‘Would you rather be fabulously wealthy in a stable and prosperous country, or obscenely wealthy in a lawless shithole of a country?’ Because they are steering us toward the latter.

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A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · Sep 15

Moving Great Lakes water any distance to areas of chronic drought is just too big a task right now. The states near MI already have good water. I wouldn’t worry about it.keeping the Lakes clean is the main thing.

A. Whitney Brown @awhitneybrown.bsky.social · Sep 13

Consider Kennewick Man, an ancient skeleton found in the Columbia River. He lived 8500 years ago, and had a stone spear point lodged in his pelvic bone.
He lived at a time when only 10 thousand or so people inhabited the entire continent, and they were already trying to kill each other.

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