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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman

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Amateur Titanic Historian, Baseball Nerd, and Simpsons quoter. I make money by giving you stuff you don't want every day. The United States Postal Service does not sanction or endorse anything I have to say about anything ever.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 41m

It really is just an historic failure of democratic messaging that Republicans have spent years getting away with branding themselves as the party of the "troops" (a sentiment many of my veteran coworkers believe) when it is almost universally them doing this shit.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 5h

It's insane how many after-market modifications you can do to a vehicle without being able to prove you can actually handle it, too. Those guys on lifted trucks who can't see the fifty feet in front of their hood and have tires wide enough to almost need two lanes have no business owning those.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 6h

Go invent your own stupid sport and stop ruining ours.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 15h

Cal Raleigh triple play is the funniest possible outcome, right?

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

In one of the younger little leagues I played in, after 4 balls they didn't give you a walk, they just let you hit off a tee instead. I see no harm in trying that out here.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine how many Pierzynski bunt references we'd have if there was a runner at second to start every inning

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

The fact the free runner doesn't exist in the postseason is all the proof we need that it shouldn't exist at all, as it creates an inferior product.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

They should let the original starting pitchers come back in, I think they're well enough rested

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Another inning ending double play and I don't know if that's a sign that there is no god, there is a god and he has abandoned us, or he is present and he hates us.

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

I hope he walks the bases loaded so I can hear AJ Pierzynski suggest a bunt

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

I went to an 18 inning regular season game and by the end I feel like I could count how many people were still there. And all of us remaining people were equally delirious for sure. You just start inventing shit to get excited about.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Of course this stupid fucking game is going to end because of a bunch of walks

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Finally found the guy behind that camera

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Getting him in that dress shirt and tie has him looking like JD Vance to boot.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Right, I'm agreeing with you. It both hit the bat first *and* it was offered at. It was every except a hit by pitch.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

Nevermind the NFL and the tush push. Major League Baseball needs an emergency meeting in the next 5 minutes to ban the sac bunt. All sac bunt attempts are an automatic 3 outs, ejection of the player and manager, $50 million fine for the owner, and the contraction of the franchise involved.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

It hit the bat first *and* I don't think he meaningfully pulled back from offering at it, so much as he flinched at a pitch coming at him. If that hit the bat squarely it was going fair.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 16h

There is no fucking universe in which that was a hit by pitch

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 17h

I fucking despise the sac bunt, but *especially* when the runner is already in scoring position. Congrats on giving yourself one shot at a sac fly instead of 3 shots at a hit, dipshit.

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 20h

I'm trying to think of what might have happened if Barack Obama had announced a middle eastern country was being given a military operating foothold in Idaho, and I genuinely can't think of a scenario that doesn't involve a lot of people dying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 21h

If our TV networks had not been captured by the right wing, some very easy journalism would be to play this clip besides a very not on fire Portland and then tell viewers that the President of the United States is living in an alternate reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 22h

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 22h

Wasn't it literally Mitch McConnell's *exact quote* about Warren? Lol. Someone else's words, about someone else entirely, appropriated by an unrelated 3rd party.

Reminds me of the old playground expression "This is an A-B conversation, Hillary, so C your way out of it"

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Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman @usps.bsky.social · 22h

"I've seen lots of people substitute this cause in for their personality the last two years" is a wild take for a guy who is subbing in contrarian concern trolling for a personality.