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Mr. America

@skinnerboxusa.bsky.social

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"The Simpsons" is a documentary. Homer is the median American. Formerly SkinnerBoxUSA at the other place. IFBAV.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · Aug 31

We're like a squabbling family whose car broke down in "Hills Have Eyes" country, smoke coming from the hood, and vowing to buy a better brand of spark plugs, or fill the tank with premium gasoline next time.

The engine blew up, son. You either need a new engine or a new car, period.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

On living in an age of magic and grappling with the price we are paying for it.

AWFUL MAGIC | Gin and Tacos

Get more from Gin and Tacos on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

They're doing all these things and more and worse, and it's actually difficult to understand why they're going to all the trouble.

Dems could win in a bonafide FDR-level blowout in '26 *and* '28, and clearly the only song they know is "let's work with our friends." 🙄
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The New Deal @thenewdeal.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is working towards 1 party rule

They're redistricting

SCOTUS is about to kill the Voting Rights Act, giving MAGA 19 more House seats

Doing trial runs with ICE & military in major cities for election day

MAGA ally just bought Dominion Voting Systems

Targeting Dem groups as terror orgs

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Do United States Senators have any sort of agency that can be utilized to, um, enforce the law and uphold the Constitution?

Asking for a couple hundred million friends.

This nazi regime has declared war on you, your party, and all your voters. And you seem somehow unaware of this fact.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 2d

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

There really is a wide-open market space for the candidate who says "this isn't working, let's figure out how to build something newer and better."

Pipe dream? Sure, but nowhere near the barking insanity of "everything was perfect before Uncle Fuckface showed up, let's go back to *that*."

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

I've been saying this since the first Trump regime, and throughout Biden's tenure, but here goes again: establishment Dems want to "return" to pre-Trump years, as if that's remotely possible simply by removing Trump -- and as if 2014 was anything worth returning to.

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Here's some numbers from about 15 seconds of googling.

I'm not willing to spend any more time than that on it, because it's not like anyone was going to *do* anything about it. But yeah, Dems seem uniquely craven about violent bounty-hunter gangs in the streets.
www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...

Insurance PACs contributions to candidates, 2023-2024

Insurance PACs gave $24,611,160 total to federal candidates in 2024. See the details.

www.opensecrets.org

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Even weirder is that both parties are rented by the very same companies responsible for raising those premiums.

Of course Dems are trying to blame *Republicans* directly for that, as if they're not side-by-side in the same pockets.

Chickenshit to the bone.
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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 1d

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 1d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

This fuckin' guy. 😤
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

How do you do, fellow violent anteefers?

a man wearing a music band shirt holds a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt holds a skateboard over his shoulder

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

For the billionth time, who is the median audience for this shit, who wants to waste one precious moment listening to these fucking ghouls slaver over Benny the Butcher's Genocide for Profit?

Those 1,200 YT "viewers" just clicked too fast on the sidebar, meant to hit "ASMR" or "healing frequency."

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Lol, it's just pure gravy that both Clinton (who will be played by Martin Short in the movie) and Rice (Eric Adams in a wig, maybe) both look like they were disinterred from their crypts and forced with garlic necklaces and flasks of holy water to do this. Awesome.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you can threaten all the "antifa" college profs Saint Charlie's dark-money org tells you to, but you look cross-eyed at this closet-case Russian sock-puppet, and WE WILL FIND YOU.

Meanwhile, Dickhead Durbin and the Do-Nothing Crew want to focus on rural hospitals. 🖕🤡💩
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pam Bondi held a news conference today with right-wing influencer Benny Johnson to highlight a threat made against him

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

PS: I will note for the record that while I like what I've heard from Platner so far, there is also that "I know how to talk to these Trumpkin assholes and win them over" undercurrent that could turn into a whiff of Fettermanism.

But it's a risk worth taking at this point.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

The solution for the Dems is actually very similar to the solution for the nazis -- put them on notice. Turns out we actually do *not* have to spend our lives taking shit from assholes.

Send 'em home broke. Deny them your wallets *and* your ballots.
#HadEnough

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani is about to send that same message in NYC. Hopefully Lander and other decent NY Dems start getting ready to primary Schumer and Jeffries (unfortunately Gillibrand just got re-elected).
#PrimaryThemAll

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

It *is* frustrating, but it's also the simplest, clearest way for the majority of Dem voters to demonstrate that frustration, and take it out on the gerontocrats abusing them, and squandering their own power.

Do the primary. Platner by 20. Point made for all observing.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck Schumer: Hold my beer. [fumbles beer all over himself, ruins his Cosby sweater, rambles about the Baileys for 20 minutes]
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats. They are HANDING YOU GIFTS.

The Attorney General just had a guy we know took Russian money speak to the country. There's a direct link from Russia to Benny. You cannot fuck this up.

Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

The classic "Silicon Valley" series, like "Idiocracy" and "Office Space" and pretty much everything Mike Judge has ever done, turned out to be more documentary than satire.

These weirdos exist, and we're at their mercy if we don't stop them somehow. They're assholes, but also genuinely evil.

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Mr. America @skinnerboxusa.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel himself -- a gay megalomaniac who issues weird apocalyptically themed pronunciamentos and harvests young men's blood to preserve his own youth -- would have been considered too on-the-nose by the Left Behind gang when they were writing that role.
#PopeOfSiliconValley