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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker

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Bluesky user number 125,860. That and $6.00 can buy me a latte. You're damn right the Trump people live in my brain rent-free. That's because they're actively wrecking my country and I resent it.

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · Aug 20

For a movement that claims to be dedicated to making America great again, these chucklefucks are amazingly ignorant of, and often hostile to, the things that actually DO make America great.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

New Normal Men! @golikehellmachine.com returns to tell us about Portland, we break down the shutdown, and @ed3d.net talks @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social into buying Hades 2.

Episode 27 - Frog in the Streets and a Freak in the Sheets

Podcast Episode · Normal Men · 10/08/2025 · 1h 2m

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 2h

Today is 08 October 2025.
Greenland: Danish
Panama Canal: Panamanian
Canada: Canadian
Russia: at war against Ukraine
12 large grade-A or better eggs available at Safeway near me: $3.19
Tomatoes: $2.08/lb
Haitian immigrants in Ohio who have eaten household pets: 0
President's felony convictions: 34

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 2h

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

wizard frog is insane

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 2h

I had to read that several times to figure out WTF his hypothetical even was.

I'm glad actual doctors don't (usually) think the way Mike Johnson does.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 2h

I was most certainly not thinking of Pam Bondi when I was thinking about people who have made mistakes but then grew and did better later on in life. Like, LOL at the prospect.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 17h

These are different kinds of people.

You ought to figure out which category of person you're talking about before you seek social media moral righteousness points by portraying someone's past mistakes as proof of their indelible, irredeemable evil.

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 17h

Sometimes good people have made moral missteps in the past; sometimes they weren't as morally good in the past as they are now and they had to learn from their mistakes. Such people should get grace.

Other people continue to repeat their past misdeeds and don't reform. They shouldn't get grace.

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 18h

Can confirm!

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 18h

Oh man let's hope this doesn't happen.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 18h

I thought i heard they were looking at opening a location in Beaverton? And the location in Ridgefield seems quite busy.

Sorry Oregonians but it looks like the ex-Californians in your life are going to get some more joy.

(What I would like is a Tommy's.)

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks, I appreciate it. (Sincerely.)

I'm not curious enough to step into the Nazi bar tho. A bit scared of who and what might track me.

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 19h

Is there more to the video? Sounded like he was about to argue that there were more protestors that the ones they could see. On the one hand, damn, they're on to the ninjas, but mainly, want to know what he's telling his RW audience about the double nothingburger that is "violence in Portland."

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 19h

The phrase "contempt of Congress" came to mind watching earlier excerpts.

Maybe Bondi telling Schatz tgat she'd like to fire him was taken out of context and really, that was respectful.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 19h

He would eat you raw, like human shashimi.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 19h

I keep on having use for this. I oughtn't.

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate

NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrat...

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 20h

This photo is more than a little bit surreal.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 20h

Burgerville does not give me happy cheeseburger orgasms. I say they're mid.

If, unlike me, you get those happy little cheeseburger orgasms when you have Burgerville, I bid you much enjoyment!

I did not want to hold public office here anyway.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 20h

Affirmed.

If you're going to have fast food, they're fine. A reasonable enough choice, but I have never understood why a certain kind of PNW native behaves and speaks of them as if the burger were made from filet mignon. See: Texans, Whataburger.

Walla Walla onion rings are pretty damn good tho.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21h

Shoutout to the Boomers, really showing everybody else up in 2025

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 1d

Even a claim of credit turns in to an overt demand for loyalty, in less then ten seconds.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha

But not, we need none of that.

Deny her the violence she seeks AND the deference craves.

Photos of her picking her nose, maybe.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 1d

Such a notorious and dangerous criminal that this 65 year old man seemed to work at the same food truck for twelve years without ... um... committing any, ah, crimes.

Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 1d

@amandaknox.com is doing so.e really interesting and thought provoking interviews, and her series on false confessions was eye opening and scary. Admittedly, I'm a fan, but please give a listen.

Plus, this is a great way to see other nominated podcasts that folks think are giving quality product.

Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 1d

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