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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 10h

I just wish they’d tell us what country London is in. Otherwise it’s perfect.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 10h

This is a world-class reply.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 11h

edino, 6 ft tall human, has “same genital size” as 14 ft elephant, doctor says

Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 11h

In fairness, most people (and most of Nate’s readers) probably assume its main uses are doing better at gambling, and opening new frontiers in porn.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 14h

James Woods attempts to discredit Antifa by admitting that he would’ve voted for actual Hitler. Incredible stuff.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, what was happening in Germany in the 1930s? I forget.

James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
For those who actually respect history, the origin story of Antifa is well documented. Antifa is an organization that emerged with the “German Communist Antifaschistische Aktion” movement in the 1930’s.
German Communists smeared anyone to their right as "fascists,” a common ploy used by the ignorant hysterical activists of the Democrat Party today. Like today’s leftist loonies, the German Antifa of the Weimar years even labeled the leftwing SDP as "social fascists." Today’s Antifa are a paramilitary mob used by the usual suspects to foment fake “mass protests” and burn down cities. The same puppet masters of the Democrat activist judges ruining America today also fund these “useful idiots” of Antifa to impede the mandate given to the current President in his landslide last election victory.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Airports should play public-service announcements for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals instead

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

“And how will the children ever learn how to join society?”

“Oh, robots, artificial processes, things of that nature.”

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 16h

Also how is this meme supposed to specifically be “liberal”? It’s just anti-fascist.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 17h

“It’s just a 5 oz sample dude, how drunk could it get you?” runs my inner monologue as I stumble into line for my 17th 5 oz sample.

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 17h

“Most Americans don’t care *how* something gets done, they only care *that* it gets done. As a journalist on the left, my role is not too disabuse people of this confused and often morally problematic ideology, but to praise Trump for another brilliant exhibit of the art of the deal.”

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 22h

America first!

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the O/U on number of days before someone who goes by Fat Shaft is put in charge of firing long-tenured reporters

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the full memo.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"No, no, we have the Nobel Peace Prize at home."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

he wants people from other countries to come to the US during the World Cup. woah, no way, really

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

wtf is an “internationalist”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bartiromo attacks Mamdani for pointing out that tourists aren't traveling to the US as much because Trump is brutalizing people: "You just heard that. He wants illegals and internationalists to come here, particularly ahead of the World Cup."

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: I think participation trophies are for babies

Wired: I didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize so I am having a public tantrum

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 2d

New meme format

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 2d

The malicious prosecution of Attorney General Tish James is baseless.

And the indictment is not worth the paper it is written on.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 2d

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

You certainly don’t have to have a rosy view of the American electorate (I don’t!) to think that dems can win without burning the country to the ground first. And if your assessment is *this* grim, why do you think we elect a democratic socialist to lead us from the ashes, rather than actual Hitler?

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Enlightened Despotist in Name Only @edino.bsky.social · 2d

“The only way to make Americans not be Hitler is 30% unemployment” sir I do not think that is correct.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

Just 'cause it has to be said every now and then.

GOP Senators and Representatives are obviously okay with...everything...that's happening.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 2d

They’re targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James for one reason: she had the courage to hold Donald Trump accountable.

This is political weaponization of our courts, plain and simple—and proof that when you stand up to corruption, they come for you.

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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 2d

No money for health care for Americans, but $20 billion for Argentina?!?

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