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Puck the Puddle Pilot

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Husband, Dad, Geek, Nerd, former Army WO IP (60s), current Coastie. Personal account. He/Him, White, Cisgender, Allosexual, Heteromantic, unmedicated Introverted Neurotypical.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · Apr 27

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

Mark Twain

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 1m

I predict some badass tattoos coming out of them within 6 months.

Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3m

a man in a grey hoodie says so i 'm a joke .

Alt: a man in a grey hoodie says "so i 'm a joke?"

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 1h

Jealous!!

I need to go get some specialty German beer.

Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

Because if you called frogman weird to his face, he'd beam and proudly agree.

Not shove you down, pepper spray you and zip tie your children for processing.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

But using weirdness to highlight/demonstrate that is both novel and fucking devastating to MAGA.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

The right doesn't have a good answer to being called weird because their foundation is the concept of "normal". And highlighting that something they are doing is not normal all they really have is claiming with no evidence that it's an emergency so it needs to be not normal.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

So when you see an adult dressed in a frog suit hip thrusting at a tactically decked out masked adult with a punisher patch it highlights the absurdity of them claiming they are upholding norms, laws, acting in conservation of the peace.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

I find instructive, the marked differences in either side of the Portland Protests being called weird.

Because it's being used by the protestors to highlight how weird and incongruous the statements from ICE and MAGA have been.

And MAGA at large still doesn't have a response to being called weird

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 3h

One of the main reasons I get to pick on Apaches as hangar queens.

7/10 red x's the bird can fly. Just can't do anything when it gets there.

Also, stetsons are stupid.

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JAG says it’s legal, but stupid. @jagsaysstupid.bsky.social · 16h

Comey’s team wins first skirmish, forcing DOJERKS to provide discovery 10 days earlier than they wanted.

Every tiny thing matters.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 16h

I'll buy that the number of officers CLAIMING they were assaulted is up.

Doubt it's actually up.

Unless you count spitting in their coffee or putting special sauce on their burgers.

Then it's probably up.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

n.pr

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 23h

This just gave me flashbacks to repeated attempts to convince brigade command that we were not deadlining a vehicle because the air conditioning was broken, we were deadlining *the equipment* inside the vehicle which couldn't run without the air conditioning and brigade command being so fucking mad.

Probably Not A Crow, Unfortunately @mefcorv.bsky.social · 23h

It’s a meaningful slur only to deeply insecure guys.

Like, I own my POGness, so infantry guys don’t even bother calling me a POG, why would they?

“Yeah man, they had to air condition the equipment I used, it was so fucking sweet. How was trying not to let your 1LT get you killed?”

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 16h

You don't fuck with the money.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 23h

What??! Why?!

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US Army accepting roughly $1 million donation to bring senior leaders to DC conference as troops brace for missed paycheck | CNN Politics

The US Army is accepting a donation of roughly $1 million for the travel and lodging of senior leaders to a professional development conference in Washington, DC, next week, as active duty forces are ...

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The Birds The Turtles and The Beast @turtlebee.bsky.social · 1d

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

Nature is healing.

Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

The local conservative agti-prop coffee shop filled with MAGA and "Librul Tear" iconography has rebranded.

New murals and slogans adorn the building with lots of use of the word liberty.

kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea

Alt: kermit the frog holds a cup of lipton tea

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 2d

So they lied.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

Weirdly the DOT does that too.

After 5 Regional Rail fires, federal agency orders new round of SEPTA crew trainings

SEPTA maintains trains are safe, but acknowledges need for $1.8 billion in new equipment.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

With an anachronistic Mk 19

Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

Should be required to play "Spec Ops: The Line" before you are allowed to target terrorists in your game.

Though Cults are a fun loophole. A'la Farcry 5

Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 2d

Zombies, Nazis, robots, KKK members.

All are fair targets in video games.

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