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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you for admitting you humiliated yourself.

Forget your ignorance about grammar: the real problem is you know fuck all about politics.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 11h

I hate the term "grammar Nazi" for a variety of reasons, but we need a term for people who pretend they know grammar and just embarrass themselves.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 11h

it’s called a complex compound sentence, john!

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 11h

JFC. You know less about grammar than you do about politics, which is really saying something.

It's not a compound sentence because there's no subordinate clause. It's possible that gibberish in the middle is supposed to be an appositive, but who knows?

Just walk away.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 11h

I apologize for understanding politics and being able to read.

I also apologize for pointing out that your response to my comment is literally "vacuous bullshit." That second sentence is a random series of words.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 12h

I know everyone's dunking on this, but it's an almost flawless display of political ignorance paired with vacuous bullshit.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

clownery/absurdity in the face of extremism and violence function to take the wind out of the sails of whatever volatile opposition is being stood up against.

that tactic, though, only works if there’s a direct confrontation.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 19h

You seem like the kind of guy who responds to emails from Nigerian princes.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 20h

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all frogs in Christ Jesus.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 20h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 20h

Agree completely and somehow she raised $2.6 million more than Ciattarelli.

newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/07/n...

Just astonishingly incompetent.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill holds cash lead in NJ governor's race • New Jersey Monitor

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) has outraised ex-Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R) so far, but both are set to max out their public matching funds.

newjerseymonitor.com

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure about that. In a list of almost exclusively Democratic senators he included Hawley for trying to ban stock trading among members of Congress, which Collins had opposed.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 23h

I think "reverse tone policing" is a great term, and I think it's analogous to the disparaging ways that certain people talk about "wine moms" and "pilates grandmas" attending protests.

People oppose Trump in different ways. Obama has never been a firebrand and expecting him to become one is silly.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

That would be the opposite of patronage, even if it weren't impossible.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

They can't afford that: they'd be broke in two weeks.

Don't overthink it: it's just Trump bullshitting.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

This is true of incumbents in general: "I hate Congress and will gladly vote again for my six-term House member."

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is deeply unpopular and has never won a majority in any election but many people on Bluesky think we should emulate his tactics.

Anyway, Obama was speaking plainly.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing your ignorance.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. He shouldn't be trying to convince the public? You think a meaningless comment about the VMAs is a model for politics?

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly! There are people on here who know nothing about him AND didn’t listen to the clip saying “yeah, I’m going with my ignorant vibes.”

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

“Cult of personality.”

Bye.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

...except that he said nothing like that here.

Seriously, tone?

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

So correlation, not causality.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

That whole thing is idiotic Green Lanternism: “Obama had some magic words he just refused to say!”

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Blocked for being a moron.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

He’s talking to people who haven’t yet realized Trump is a fascist.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Who’s “we?”

It’s not the normies he’s talking to.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll ignore the fact that that’s totally unrelated to anything I wrote and simply point out that your question is nonsensical. What can an ex-president do or say that’s impactful?

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