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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Aug 29

The New Yorker…

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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

This is like FDR saying, "We're thinking about an invasion at Normandy, but first I have to talk to Hitler"--and then Hitler talks him out of it.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

But who could resist those lips, machine-gum lips?

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

This is like FDR saying, "We're thinking about an invasion at Normandy, but first I have to talk to Hitler"--and then Hitler talks him out of it.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

This would like FDR saying, "We're thinking about an invasion at Normandy, but first I have to talk to Hitler"--and then Hitler talks him out of it.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

Sounds like a forerunner of Dorian Gray.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 6h

The New Testament would be a real eye-opener for this person--if they could get past the Book of Revelation and the Pauline epistles.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

That tracks.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

The middle kitten is really feeling it.

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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

Especially for a dandified martinet like Pete Hegseth.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

In the same spirit:

It is astonishing how much difficulty and anxiety and sorrow and misery and doubt and fear can be got rid of by denying life's responsibility and taking one's position as a mere spectator.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel (1900)

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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

Remember, nothing is too small or petty for Donald Trump.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 22h

The only way Trump can prevail over the next 3 and a third or so years is to become more and more extreme. Nothing is out of the question.

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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 23h

The point for Trump is that it won't be him.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 23h

Marco Rubio is Faust redux.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 23h

On the other hand, maybe it's time people stopped calling Oz a doctor.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 23h

By the time her scandals get sorted out she may be making license plates.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 23h

He has very fixed notions.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

The doctor should be using a little ice doll.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

I guess human sacrifice is off the table too.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when guys with whistles around their necks teach sex education.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

All those guys are walking a razor's edge. Looking at that striped barber pole all day plunges them into despair. Also, keeping track of magazine subscriptions doesn't help either,

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

The mosquito bearing it is a friend of JFK Jr.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

It's nice that he telegraphs everything like this.

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jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

The first clue is they're Swiss watches that weren't made in Switzerland.

jmitchelldalton.bsky.social @jmitchelldalton.bsky.social · 1d

His taste alone should be an impeachable offense.

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