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Patrick Damp

@synonymforwet.bsky.social

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Writer in Pittsburgh. Co-host of Locked On Penguins. Purveyor of nonsense who speaks only for himself. I yell about sports and WWE too much.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Genuinely don’t like the fact that one of the most sure fire ways to go viral or get validation in this modern era is to be cynical.

You give up the game before it even starts, you lose.

You don’t have to irrationally optimistic but “lol nothing matters” isn’t better.

Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · Aug 6

Online comedians with the most followers are the most nihilistic people I’ve ever heard in my life

They sound like walking SI symptoms, and people love it — because they understand a similar misery

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 10m

She told him to fuck off to his face over trans rights! And won!

Nationally Published Troll @mongoebooks.bsky.social · 16m

Mills is one of the governors who has shown a will to fight.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 2m

Better than thinking the hab nots

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

This feels like the inevitable result of One Guy Can Save Us politics

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 2h

boss I’m tired

I see this guy and hope he is what we thought Fetterman was before he had some type of failed brain transplant. Platner's the fighter we need on our side!

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 4h

"Primary everyone!"*

*Obsess about one race in Maine while you are in CA or PA and your own Rep walks to reelection.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 4h

The posters revolution continues apace.

*they’re still posting

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Steve @zsteve.bsky.social · 4h

Live every day like it’s $1 hot dog 🌭 night

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 7h

The year is 2028, there is violence in the streets, structures burn even at night and leave an eerie glow. A simulacrum of peace and quiet settles over the land, and then quietly a lone finger presses the on button, and begins his post about how this is all Biden's fault

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 19h

Bills: FRAUDS. Ravens: MEGAFRAUDS. The entire AFC West: FRAUDS. In the American Football Conference, the Colts and Steelers stand alone in- hang on that can’t be right

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 20h

Blue Jays gonna give Toronto some real blue days, amirite

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 20h

Now you're getting it....

icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 23h

If a person looks at it with any sense, Netanyahu and Trump played a game with the hostages lives this last year so they both can be seen as heroes in the negotiated plan for their release. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't even his, it was Biden's and Blinken's negotiated plan.

When this shit show is over, there's a ton of accountability that needs to be done.

People better get right with their lord, because the end is not going to be pretty.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 20h

Starting to think the Cleveland-based outlet who started out with the mission of proving the Browns didn’t actually suck might not be a great authority on football!

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 22h

That’s actually the PFF headquarters

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 22h

Even in Perth, Australia, @thechrismack.bsky.social

Pittsburgh. Everywhere. Always.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I think he also knows that if he tries to pull the shit he did with the Jets in Pittsburgh, misses the playoffs, and faceplants, it damages his legacy pretty badly.

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 23h

Toronto Maple Laughs, imo

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

big uptick in annoying fucking eeyore ass responses all over the website today, grow up, get a helmet

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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Alexander Hamizdat @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 23h

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

(Watches the right run a 50-plus year strategy of voting at every opportunity coming to near total fruition) “this doesn’t work, imo.”

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Lotta posters have made politics their entire identity.

Same posters really don’t want to learn the ins and outs of the U.S. government.

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, take it up with Manchin and Sinema, because there were no Senate GOP votes for this.

Andrew Rudalevige @rudalev.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed so. The only major effort was to repair the Electoral Count Act. Important - but reforms to the National Emergencies Act, the Civil Service Reform Act (to bar Schedule F), the Insurrection Act, etc., should not have been out of reach.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Congressional Dems and the Biden admin should have put more effort into passing post-Trump reforms. We need more aggressive reform than what was on offer then, but it could really have helped

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but TikTok and Israeli’s version of Fox News said he didn’t so who’s to say what’s true and what isn’t?

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

Which makes the folks complaining about how it would be easier to simply take down capitalism rather than do this protest even funnier

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · Sep 12

Putting out a coded millennial message to activate some of a certain age. Please tune in.

Two to the one from the one to the three.

Three to the one from the one to the three.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

WELL THAT STUNK! @hunterhodies.bsky.social and I breakdown the Penguins' loss to the Rangers, give you an update on the farm system, and get you ready for some late-night hockey.

Tap in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQKm...

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