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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 14h

I feel like a big part of his crashout right now is him realizing that a huge part of his long-term audience is "liberals who know he doesn't agree w/ them on everything, but think he's funny and his heart's in the right place," and he may have done real damage to his relationship w/ that crowd.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not even a believer, but I do wish Jesus had just said "Sorry, no rich guys. Give it away or else." instead of being all poetical about camels and the eye of a needle. We all know what he meant, but you can't give these people an inch or they'll take a mile.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

The rate at which people who self-describe as a "curmudgeon" (especially in a social media bio) turn out to just be huge, boring dorks is approximately 100%.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for 2026, The Riyadh Comedy Festival II: The Laughter Continues!

I'm sorry, I'm being told that's a typo, it's *Slaughter. The Slaughter Continues.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

That feels a little like cheating, since the whole reason she got recruited to run for office was being an Instagram/Maxim model (in a very Trumpian kind of way)

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

"I Hate My Sad"
-Me, realizing I need to seek treatment for my depression

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Sirianni and the Eagles seem hell bent on discovering all of the formations and plays that fit the rubric of "highly effective despite looking and feeling like dogshit to anyone who actually enjoys football."

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

The Congregationalists are alright, but they all live in New England, so we're not really worried about them.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

This is both a) an extremely healthy attitude for a human being to have, and b) the absolute last thing you want the quarterback of your NFL team to be saying LOL

From the nfl community on Reddit: [Highlight] Tua on tuning out the noise: "I'm not on social media. I don't have any of that. I go home, I see my kids. Whether I throw 5 picks or 5 touchdowns, we win...

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

One of my last remaining bits of hope for the future of the country is these people's complete and total lack of ability to *be professionals* for more than two or three minutes at a time. None of them has an ounce of discipline or restraint, both of which are necessary to consolidating authority.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

The chuds got way too confident about their ability to boycott stuff after the Bud Light mess, because none of them were smart enough to realize that light lager being a totally fungible, commoditized product was the only reason that worked as well as it did.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

"I will go with you on a trip to Paris, and will find something very much else to do in the city while you're out at Disneyland." feels like an acceptable compromise.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

The Creed movies managed (so far) to remember what the Rocky sequels forgot immediately in Rocky II: that the original Rocky isn't a boxing movie, it's a character study and love story that happens to be about boxing.

Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't think I'd ever live to see a campaign that was lazier and dumber and worse than Martha Coakley in 2010, but here we fuckin' are.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

Machine politics works (for a certain definition of "works") when it's made up of dead-eyed, cold-blooded political realists who know what a winning candidate is. When it (inevitably) devolves into whatever the fuck nepo-bullshit's going on in New Jersey... not so much.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 1d

At the very least, it should only count as one strike.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Belichick, the Jumbos of Tufts University yearn for Seasoned, Hard-Nosed Leadership (tm)

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

screenshot of ESPN.com showing an article by David Hale from May 9, 2025 headlined "UNC says Bill Belichick's girlfriend still welcome at school" with an opening graf reading "The University of North Carolina issued a statement Friday saying Bill Belichick's girlfriend is a welcome guest at football facilities after reports claimed she had been banned by the school."

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

We know he likes esoteric bits about the NBA on TV...

Roundball Rock - SNL

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

[Drives around all day in a brand new, $80k Ford Super Duty pickup, stops briefly at a picturesque part of the farm to watch other people working] "Ah, yes, I do love the noble work of farming."

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Responding, test 1, 2, 3.

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

Yes!

Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 2d

BAC! TA! TANK! BAC! TA! TANK!

Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 3d

The guy in the middle has definitely been caught on tape giving a Nazi salute and chanting "WHITE FLOUR!" (It's okay I'm also allowed to say it)

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 3d

Outside of Pats fans, who mostly saw this coming, NFL people were hyping this up like Belichick was somehow going to be playing 4-dimensional chess on the ACC.

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