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The Cleric

@thecleric.bsky.social

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I love Jesus, being a nerd, D&D, and college football (🐊). Unapologetic wife guy. II Corinthians 8:13-15 Tampa by birth. St. Petersburg by choice.

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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · Mar 11

You know what this means?

Full US Women’s Rugby Free Bird!

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 5h

congratulations to taylor and to penn state

Pop Base @popbase.tv · 18h

Taylor Swift will make an exclusive announcement on GMA (Good Morning America) tomorrow, October 13th

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 4h

I talk to my mom weekly but only because she’s 75 and I’m for all intents and purposes the only support system she has.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 6h

Reading “The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich”. Just getting to the point in 1933 where Hitler has received the chancellorship and is about to turn dictator, but is still, for now, just a head of the Nazi political party.

Just leaving this quote here for no reason. Doesn’t remind me of anything.

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might be true, as some Socialists said, that fortune had not smiled on them: the Communists, unscrupulous and undemo-cratic, had split the working class; the depression had further hurt the Social Democrats, weakening the trade unions and losing the party the support of millions of unemployed, who in their desperation turned either to the Communists or the Nazis. But the tragedy of the Social Democrats could not be explained fully by bad luck. They had had their chance to take over Germany in November 1918 and to found a state based on what they had always preached: social democracy. But they lacked the decisiveness to do so. Now at the dawn of the third decade they were a tired, defeatist party, dominated by old, well-meaning but mostly mediocre men.
Loyal to the Republic they were to the last, but in the end too confused, too timid to take the great risks which alone could

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 7h

There was a reason the Nuremberg trials were in Nuremberg and not London or France.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

For a hug right? Right?

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

That’s still high enough to make me uncomfortable.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

So they can hire James Franklin instead?

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

Heights make me “lock up mentally and physically” scared.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

ICE is the Monday’s of federal agencies

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

Whatever you point it at.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

a cartoon dog is holding a remote control with a red and green button

ALT: a cartoon dog is holding a remote control with a red and green button

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The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

Gainesville. Please.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 8h

Lord, please consider Billy Napier and the suffering he causes me.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

Some say they’re still playing the first game….

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

I already failed

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

If they had learned to speak English they’d be very upset right now.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

I watched a quarter of it and have no idea.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah to be clear GT is the only team I would actually be happy with if they won. Maybe Indiana.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

I will remember this.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

Aye.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

If it makes you feel better I don’t think anyone is enjoying a game right now.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

You’re just lucky we were scared of your mascot’s badass new look.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

SEC fans wishing we were more like the ACC. A tale as old as time.

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

The Cleric @thecleric.bsky.social · 1d

He's doing his best okay?