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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 8h

I watched a bunch on Insta influencers tell me that sprinting was good for you. So I eventually said, what's there to lose and started doing hill sprints a couple months ago.

Im skeptical it's really do anything, but I have made it to the point where I don't think im going to tear a hamstring.

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Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 10h

I keep thinking I can’t be any more disappointed in political media coverage and I keep being made a fool

Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 10h

It's amazing. I checked news sites... CNN, Fox news, msnbc, npr news.

Literally none of them have any story about the nasdaq tanking 3.6%, sp500 down 2.7%, dollar index down 0.7%. All in direct response to a trump post.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 10h

The only days worse in the history of the index were the 2 days following "liberation day" and March 16, 2020 when we all collectively realized the world was totally fucked.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 10h

Today was the 4th largest point drop in the history of the nasdaq composite. Not a peep.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 10h

It's amazing. I checked news sites... CNN, Fox news, msnbc, npr news.

Literally none of them have any story about the nasdaq tanking 3.6%, sp500 down 2.7%, dollar index down 0.7%. All in direct response to a trump post.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 15h

Stonks got whipped. Yikes.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 16h

This shows up catholic sphere big time where left aligned groups are doing education, health care, orphanages. And right aligned groups are campaigning for Republicans under the flag of banning clinical abortions.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 17h

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats are afraid to point out that the Kushners are the "globalists" that Republicans accuse Soros to be.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 16h

Id say, I don't think bill Maher is the only one that noticed the extreme flirtatiousness going on. Pretty obvious at the time.

Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 16h

She's denied under oath that she had an affair with him and that the segment has cost her roles in the administration since people think they have been romantically involved.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 16h

Okay, I figured it out. She sued Bill Maher for 150M for running a segment about who trump was f___ing. And somehow during the leaked deposition Lindsey Graham caught a stray and was outed as gay.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 17h

Did we ever find out if Loomer was pregnant last September? Iirc, she threatened to sue somebody for 100 million dollar or whatever for running a story, which makes me think it was probable.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 17h

Rumored to have an affair with both of them. Remember last year when he was paraded Loomer around to campaign events while shouting I love You to her in the crowd. While MTG was having daily meltdowns.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats need to figure this out. There's lots of jurisdictions where they could run this playbook. There's lots of GOP controlled states that are budget rehabilitation projects.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 18h

The most popular politicians in america are guys that come in after a period of government expansion, and promise to do basically nothing except freeze budgets in place until there's a AAA credit rating and pass tax cuts to the middle class.

The GOP governor of a deep blue state theory of politics.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

Correct. Every time he posts a fake golf score cards, and fake stories about winning a club championship, or his fake medical checkups and cognitive exams, he gets to be the main character for a day.

And it's totally generally jaunty and relatively positive. He's playing all of us. It's a skill.

Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

No one would cover trump saying he's going to bring down medicine prices with zero concrete plans and the GOP spinning in circles on it for 15 years.

But bringing them "down 500%" will hit the trending algorithms.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

He's relatively precise in his use of these tricks.

For example, Trump/Miller will stuff typos into tweets/truth social posts that are upbeat, positive, high favorability. But, the deranged posts will be comparatively well edited. Still with his signature upper case & what not.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

... but I think the left, even after 10+ years of this, still takes the bait every single time.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

Trump is legitimately a social media maestro. For a period of time, he was arguably the greatest poaster in the game. He owns a social media platform. And he's surrounded himself with people that social media masters. Is it cringey that we have an administration of influencers? Of course...

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

His greatest skill is being constantly the main character. Since he has a plurality of right wing voters, he gets to be the face. Even thought he's less popular than the republican party overall. In 2024, the GOP (house) won +2.5 nationally, while he was +0.9 against a 100 day campaign.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

He doesn't care that it's mathematically nonsense. He knows the average american adult can't do 4 function math. But directionally, the message is what much of the electorate wantd to hear. "Im fixing it and the democrats are the problem."

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

He's got a set of little rhetorical tricks. He keeps coming back to this one with the percentages over the last several months.

He's able to say this with a completely straight face knowing that it will be picked up and amplified by the media & social.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

This trump's greatest skill, by the way.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h

The only thing that’s been reduced 500 percent are his brain cells.

Tweet from Acyn quotes Trump: “We are the ones saving health care. One of the things we're doing is we are going to be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500%, even more.” Below is a Fox News image of Trump speaking at a White House meeting.

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Michael Bradley 🍕 @mikebradleymke.bsky.social · 19h

Everything they say about Soros is the right-wing projection of Kushner.

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