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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦
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For the masses, not the classes.

Born tired. Likes hikes and bikes. Still in Texas.

Did you add alt text to your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
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Undertaker looming over and behind AJ Styles meme format. Undertaker is labeled "A Jury of Your Peers" AJ Styles, grinning wildly, blissfully unaware of the fate about to befall him, labeled "Prosecutorial Overreach"
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Resting full-of-shit face.
JD Vance photo from Vanity Fair. It is an extreme close up, with somewhat unflattering lighting and detail.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Owner of the site posting straight up Stormfront shit every day, and I'm supposed to go hang out there for fun?
Elon Musk's pinned tweet is this QT: Elon: "Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end" Quoted Tweet from Gad Saad: "Please try to be empathetic and look the other way as your civilization is being raped and murdered into oblivion. Die kindly."
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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"Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars, LOTR, or Marvel."
Gene Hackman in The Conversation. He's sitting in a room in an old brick building, with large bright windows in front of him. He is surrounded by electronic equipment, such as several reel-to-reeel tape recorders, headphones, etc. He's wearing horn-rimmed glasses, a beige long-sleeve shirt, and brown slacks. His brown sport jacket hangs over the back of the chair he's sitting in. There's another nerdy guy in the background, doing something with the equipment.
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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ICE on SVU, explaining the latest drug craze: "Kids are calling it scromiting"
December 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Ice T on SVU, explaining the latest drug craze. "Kids are calling it scromiting"
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Important message from the brands.
"No Take Only Throw" meme format. A dog is hold a ball or Frisbee or something. Hopeful look, "PLS SHOP" Angry look, "NO FAIR WAGE!" Menacing look, "ONLY SHOP"
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Jim Jordan, the Ohio State wrestling coach?
Jim Downey on Conan O'Brien. He's a man in his 60s or early 70s with a grey mustache, glasses, and a receding hairline with grey hair. He's wearing an olive green polo shirt. He looks surprised.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Olbermann barging into the discourse, making fun of Nuzzi's other affair with a creepy old weirdo. No, not RFK Jr., the other other affair with a creepy old weirdo.
Screenshot of two scenes from Arthur cartoon: A sign on a door: "Arthur's room. D.W. NOT allowed. Mary-Moo Cow is a bad show!!" Next scene, D.W. standing with her hands on her hips: "That sign won't stop me, because I can't read!"
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Title page of the first edition of "Ducks: and, How To Make Them Pay." By William Cook.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The Post doesn't do journalism, but this is about the level of respect this whole story and everyone in it deserves. She and RFK Jr. should be a punchline and a dumb pun and then wiped from our collective memory, later recalled vaguely like Lorena Bobbitt or the Tiger King.
New York Post front page. There's a photo of Olivia Nuzzi, a 30-ish white woman with long blonde hair with darker roots, in an animal print top and red skirt. Subhed top: He did it all for the Nuzzi Hed: My Affair With RFK Subhed below: Writer details their sext-ramarital fling, says it was 'love' There's also a small picture of RFK Jr. a lizard creature in a poorly fitting human skin mask with gray hair.
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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They not only sexually abused Virginia Giuffre and sold her to friends for favors, they hounded her for years afterward to keep her silent.
From: Alan Dershowitz <dersh@law.harvward.edu> Date: December 9, 2015 at 2:50:58 PM EST To: David Boies <DBoies@BSFLLP.com> Cc: David Boies2 <xboies@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Possible Statement “We should be aiming at a short simple statement such as: “The events at issue occurred approximately 15 years ago when I was a teenager. Although I believed then and continued to believe that AD was the person with whom I had sex, recent developments raise the possibility that this may be a case of mistaken identification.” Alternative: "that it may have been someone else." "That someone mistakenly told me it was him." We should be able to come up with a mutually acceptable statement. It would be acceptable if the statement came from you rather than her, if she prefers. Sent from my iPhone
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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With alt text.
From: Alan Dershowitz <dersh@law.harvward.edu> Date: December 9, 2015 at 2:50:58 PM EST To: David Boies <DBoies@BSFLLP.com> Cc: David Boies2 <xboies@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Possible Statement “We should be aiming at a short simple statement such as: “The events at issue occurred approximately 15 years ago when I was a teenager. Although I believed then and continued to believe that AD was the person with whom I had sex, recent developments raise the possibility that this may be a case of mistaken identification.” Alternative: "that it may have been someone else." "That someone mistakenly told me it was him." We should be able to come up with a mutually acceptable statement. It would be acceptable if the statement came from you rather than her, if she prefers. Sent from my iPhone
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The Untouchables.
Screenshot of GMail showing an Inbox with 133,031 unread messages.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Bill Cosby, the beloved sitcom dad?
Jim Downey, a white man in his 60s or 70s with a white mustache and glasses, on the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast, looking surprised. He's also wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. Because he's on a podcast. He's wearing a dark green polo shirt.
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Nielsen sent me two dollars, cold hard cash, and an invitation to be a Nielsen household? Is this what democracy feels like?
A screenshot from Better Off Dead. There's a paperboy at the door, he's combing his hair with a switchblade comb, and his bicycle can be seen lying on the ground behind him. The boy is probably about 12 years old, has dark hair, and a stern expression, and is wearing a dirty white paper holder vest thing over a black long-sleeved shirt and black fingerless gloves.
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Drowning high five meme format. A hand waving just above water, labeled "America's working class" A hand reaches out from left of frame, labeled "Democrats" The hand high fives the hand of the drowning victim. Then drowning victim's hand sinks below the surface.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Drowning high five meme format. A hand waving just above water, labeled "America's working class" A hand reaches out from left of frame, labeled "Democrats" The hand high fives the hand of the drowning victim. Then drowning victim's hand sinks below the surface.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Sure, bro.
Drowning high five meme format. A hand waving just above water, labeled "America's working class" A hand reaches out from left of frame, labeled "Democrats" The hand high fives the hand of the drowning victim. Then drowning victim's hand sinks below the surface.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Wall Street is doing fine. Which helps exactly no one except the wealthy. Of course, when AI collapses so does the stock market, because it's like 90% of the growth for the past couple years.
Chart of the S&P 500 year to date, showing an increase of 14.66%.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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And, this is Biscuit, but I call him Biggie, Piggy (somebody did something terrible to his tail and it's twisty like a pig tail), Big Pig, Big Big, Piggy Pig, Bingo, Busy, Brisket, Britches...
A tiny terrorist type dog, er, terrier. He's mostly black and brown with white on his chest and head, his fur is wiry. He has a white Mohawk, naturally occurring, and large pointy ears. He is smiling, thinking about crime.
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Muppet was originally Frank (after Frank Oz). And, Potato was called "Tank" by his previous owner, which I misheard as "Tate" and assumed was short for Potato, because look at him.
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Undertaker meme format. Wrestler undertaker looms over another wrestler from behind. The wrestler in front is smiling broadly, oblivious to the presence of Undertake. Undertake looks menacing. Undertaker is labeled "Jury of your peers" Other wrestler "Prosecutor charging felony assault for a harmless act"
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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There's a high-res version of the incredible NY Post "Red Apple" front page, and I'm not saying I'm going to print it out big, frame it, and hang it on the wall, but I'm not not saying that. nypost.com/wp-content/u...
The New York Post front page for November 5th 2025, "Late City Final" "On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayer" "THE RED APPLE" And, the image is a Soviet style propaganda poster of a man holding a hammer and sickle over his head, with Mamdani's head photoshopped onto the body.
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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More than 50% and more than a million votes. Call that a Mamdani Mandate. Alliterate their asses.
Screenshot from Washington Post: New York City mayoral election results 2025 Democrat Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, according to an AP projection Updated November 4, 2025 at 10:43 p.m. EST10 minutes ago By Washington Post staff Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old New York assemblyman and democratic socialist, has won New York’s mayoral race, according to a projection by the Associated Press. He faced Republican Curtis Sliwa and former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary against Mamdani and ran as an independent in the general election. Mamdani will become the city’s first Muslim mayor and is the youngest person in a century to win City Hall. Zohran Mamdani Dem 1,026,261 50.3% Andrew Cuomo Oth 848,295 41.6% Curtis Sliwa GOP 145,360 7.1% Other candidates 18,560 0.9%
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM