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Erik the Rural Juror

@edoggthered.bsky.social

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If you can’t tell whether or not I’m joking, I probably am.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · Nov 13

I wonder what previously unimaginable thing will happen today?

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 11m

"The Young Republicans are doing politics the right way" - Ezra Klein, probably

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 45m

Expanding the Hegseth “no fatties”
rule to the press corps.

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 52m

same for mike johnson but with male reporters

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 52m

he's a couple weeks away from demanding female reporters flash him to ask a question

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1h

If the billionaires can pay more directly for government functions well then they can just pay higher taxes, can't they

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1h

And the wild thing is we have the money, the GOP just doesn't want to do the work to access it.

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 5h

My team has never made it through a summer intact.

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 5h

FOX: Okay, then swear her in.

MIKE JOHNSON: No. That's socialism.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder if playing video games is what keeps them able-bodied. I run and play tennis and am constantly injured.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 6h

and the eldery, disabled, and young pregnant women should also have to fill out exceedingly complicated paperwork that will likely result in them losing benefits anyways

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 22h

Big big news for the great Stan Kelly!

Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 23h

Finally! I’ve broken through the glass ceiling for old, white men hoping to work in animation.
Be sure to tune in. As I tell all my lovers, this might just be the best 20 seconds of your life.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1d

no not like that

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1d

And have just turned off The Wizard of Oz.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1d

Snails: are they just eels with a home? @greenleejw.bsky.social

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1d

"There is no south pole of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all south".

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 1d

they can't call it bi-annual because then he'd be lgbtq

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

Nine Inch Nails soundtrack is pretty solid tho.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s the only way to fix social security” - Scott Bessant, probably.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn’t really change anything except the song makes me think of Thanksgiving a little.

Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

When Smells Like Teen Spirit first came out, one of my roommates was convinced that “mashed potatoes” was one of the lyrics in the chorus.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

And, I assume, a circumcision.

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

next pandemic is gonna be lit

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 3d

Needy Amin

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 4d

If they were *actively trying* to destroy the country, how would they be behaving differently?

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