The CAFFinator

The CAFFinator

@calfinator.bsky.social

Software Engineer. Cat person. Usually a smart-ass

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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The Big Picture
@readthebigpicture.bsky.social

Riley Gaines, on people who can’t move past a loss.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Riley Gaines: Hillary Clinton might be the only person in America who thinks that her loss belongs in the conversation…

The CAFFinator
@calfinator.bsky.social

Kevin has some serious Baghdad Bob energy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kevin Hassett responds to a bad September jobs report: "If you look at the data from this week, it's proving that Trumponomics is really working ... we're very very happy" The Fox News host responds by saying "you'll bullish and I expected that"

The CAFFinator
@calfinator.bsky.social

If he is, then he's doing a pretty shit job at it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Husted responds to polling showing a majority of Ohioans are concerned he's too close to Trump by kissing Trump's ass: "Donald Trump is fighting for lower prices. He's fighting for a stronger economy."

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.

The CAFFinator
@calfinator.bsky.social

IOW: Xi treated him like a toddler. "Do you like to play with toys? What's your favorite toy?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We had a great meeting and he has great interest in granite. He likes granite. He's an expert on stone. And he loves good granite. Thank you very much."

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dr. rich traditions, JD
@helldude.bsky.social

if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Anthony Michael Kreis
@anthonymkreis.bsky.social

This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Does anyone believe JD Vance would have the same opinion if a Democratic President removed Fox News? Hell, if they simply declined to call on a Fox News reporter for questions, he'd lose his mind...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "If you're gonna be a propaganda arm of the left, why would Donald Trump give you special access to his White House?" (It's not his!)

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

Honestly just touch the fucking stove already buddy. We’re already boned six ways to Sunday, might as well make it Sunday.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU

The CAFFinator
@calfinator.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We're carrying the European nations. All we have to do is say, 'you know what? We're not trading with you anymore.' We don't need anything we have.' We have cars. We have lumber. We have food. We have everything."

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

this is a man so hollow, pathetic and power hungry that he is actively trying to ingratiate himself with neo-nazi groypers who think he is a race traitor

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"

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Schnorkles O'Bork
@schnorkles.bsky.social

Well this is a man who's feeling very confident and not at all melting down in the background.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: On the checks, we have $40t in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote? T: I'm doing it as a reward for having to put up w/Biden Q: You also offered tariff refunds-- TRUMP: Not you Q: And that didn't happen T: You're the worst

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Charles Louis Richter
@richterscale.bsky.social

dem ad spot: run this tape, then: "that's right, the pointless and illegal war with iran *willI* end when you vote democrats into congress and we take back powers that trump has usurped for the executive"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Do you expect negotiations with Iran to restart? TRUMP: Ahhhhhh. We're not looking for it. This war with end immediately after our election.

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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social

Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"

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Simon Rosenberg
@simonwdc.bsky.social

More evidence that he can no longer distinguish between his fantasies and the real world.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS
@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

The @washingtonpost.com at least hints at how bizarre this is: “torrent of online memes, taunts”. The @nytimes.com fails again, sanewashing it into some sort of actual policy proposal: “Trump floats renaming New Mexico” Neither of them is willing to print the truth: the president is crazy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social

Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I'll be watching you

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on a land line phone to astronauts on the space station is an SNL cold open

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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Craig Harrington
@craigipedia.bsky.social

As @brianbeutler.bsky.social argued, the next Democratic president should send bulldozers to the Supreme Court and tell them they have 15 minutes to decide if the Unitary Executive Theory is real.

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social

Pretty brilliant how Trump is taking the Kennedy Center hostage, says he'll tear it down if he can't put his name on it www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... As Trump says, no one has ever seen anything like it before.

usatoday.comTrump admin says Kennedy Center 'to be taken down' without renovationsJustice Department lawyers argued that without President Donald Trump’s support for renovating the Kennedy Center the “decrepit” venue “cannot be saved.”

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Rory Johnston
@roryjohnston.bsky.social

Your regular reminder that excluding crude oil the US has always had a large trade surplus with Canada.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Canada has been ripping off the US for years...On January 1, Tariffs on all Cars, Automotive Parts, & Steel, will be increased to 50%...Canada will be treated like a State no longer! On Trade & in other ways they are among the worst Nations to deal with. WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!"

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Nick Pettigrew
@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social

You know when there's a rumour at work somebody is rattling a colleague and then at the next social function their spouse, who never goes to these things, turns up nailed to their arm? Yeah.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Melania Trump at the White House: "I've heard you missed me"

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

They’re really circling the wagons tonight on this. It’s all hands on deck. All he said was that they fly together a lot. Sheesh, these people are triggered. For some reason.

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This watching someone very, very, very deep in a cult. bsky.app/profile/deco...

Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

This is Natalie Harp, the close aide to President Trump. These clips are from 2021 when she worked at OAN. She ended her program with a daily Bible quote. Sometimes she swapped out the Bible for a quote from Trump leading with "And remember what Trump said..."

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TrumpsTaxes
@trumpstaxes.com

Just a gobsmackingly bad answer that will propel this story deeper into scandal. And the central thesis is this: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are incompetent and don’t give a flying f*** about our troops.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

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Matthew Gertz
@mattgertz.bsky.social

It was hard to anticipate that the guy who had spent the last several decades monomaniacally focused on promoting lies about vaccines would, given authority over them, try to curtail access and cut off research. Send a wallet inspector to the Senate Republican Caucus.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

CNBC: Do you regret voting for RFK Jr? BILL CASSIDY: If you want to tell me that somebody didn't tell me the truth, and I should've seen in the future they were not gonna tell the truth, you can say, 'Bill you should've seen into the future'