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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 49m

That’s the thing about bad faith.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

Dick Cheney had I think the arc of a lot of republican politicians of his age, in that they assumed the foundations of liberal democracy were so rock solid they could be freely fucked with to no great cost. Then woke up one day to realize all those cracks in the foundation they wedged open mattered.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 4h

I would *not* like to play a game.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of people don’t know that if you also wrote in a candidate several times in tiny handwriting, those are each counted as valid votes. You can vote for Cuomo as many times as your penmanship will permit!

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Damn that’s a lot of massacres!

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Call me old fashioned but I don’t think this is especially dignified!

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Surely someone can scrounge up 9 figures to fund the Defector foundation.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is constitutionally incapable of not bringing things to a head—meaning a no fig leaf grab at illegitimate power through violence. Not sure where that will lead, but “worse” sounds right.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

You should do an appendix of Sabermetric stats re his adverb and adjective usage.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

He wrote that with a blender.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

No amount of playing with blocks during Political Gabfest tapings can prepare a 23 year old to hold forth on politics to sound like anything other than a child.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

“people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day”

::shivers::

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

Kash/Alexis surging to the top of the “Nightmare Double Date” leaderboard, blowing past midweek surprise debut at number 1, Vance/Kirk.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I Iearned today: Kash Patel’s girlfriend—a 24yo who sings “Grit” and “(I Want My) Country Back’ about the good ol’ days of John Wayne and vinyl records—attended the same Swiss boarding school that Tucker Carlson did. (Collège du Léman)

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 1d

They will go with the Republican for a smooth generation. Maybe a few. Different politics entirely there.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 2d

Hurt people (got ass kicked by Maxine Waters) hurt people (write incoherent hoes mad column).

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 2d

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 2d

Chin up Toronto. Y’all had a *much* better showing against LA than Drake.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 2d

Parenthetically do you know the over/under on FanDuel-precipitated Ch. 13 filings in Q4 2025?

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

Must replenish the shame reserve.

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

What if you pretend not to recognize the image and get indignant when it upsets people?

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

Better that (and we’re speaking in relative terms here) than next to the guy that paid for the privilege.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

a close up of the hood of a black car with the word ford on it

Alt: Avon Barksdale driving by slowly and wagging his finger “no”

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

“You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better.”

BARS

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

If we want to defeat Nick Fuentes in the marketplace of ideas we must first give him prime window space on the high street.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy @tinkertailorreply.bsky.social · 3d

From the Simpsons: “McBain to base: under attack by commie Nazis.”

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