Ham Tharp

Ham Tharp

@hamtharp.bsky.social

Irreverent skeptical optimist. Here we are...

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If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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Musk just warned Democrats he'll "come for" anyone who investigates him. Look, that’s not a threat. It's a dare. If Dems win the House and don't hit him hard on Day One, subpoenas in hand, every vote we cast drifts away in fear. He called the bluff. Now they have to call his.

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We are not a serious country.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"

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Just when you think this administration has finally scraped the bottom of the barrel, they decide to live-stream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad. We have a self-proclaimed “Christian” administration producing a snuff film, and they’ll probably sell merch too.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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The Republican Party has elevated and insulated a vulgar, incurious, racist, sexist, greedy, self-dealing, emotional unstable, narcissistic, delusional, unrepentant sexual assaulter andfelon. Voting for any member of that party means you support Trump. Period.

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If you know anyone stupid enough to still support Trump after this year, I hope it gives you solace to know they'd be the 1st person dead in a real occurrence of Survivor. They're alive only because humankind overcompensates for their stupidity. We're all picking up the tab here.

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This is an important concept in our anti imperialist quest for utopia. When it comes to the crimes of the USSR, Russia is *not* the soviet union. When it comes to "defeating fascism" and having that UN seat, Russia *is* the soviet union. Think of it as Schroedinger's Soviet Union.

brettthecharmer.bsky.social@brettthecharmer.bsky.social

Russia is not the Soviet Union

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After his testimony, there is no doubt that the rule was changed for one specific person that Kash Patel knows personally and he wants to hire (or already hired) and their circumstance is definitely not "trafficking victim."

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com

FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals reut.rs/4yFCKuV

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Replying to @atrupar.com

"My wife hates it when I use rude words." Yes, we all know that Melania Trump, a person who posed in soft-core lesbian porn and supposedly worked for Jeffrey Epstein, is notorious for being a delicate prude.

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This England / France game is teaching the world a lesson that all of us who have ever played in the Nordecke Cup have understood for many, many years. Soccer games are better when nothing of value is at stake and both teams are very obviously hungover and/or still drunk.

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People asking me "how can we ever choose candidates without primaries" seem to have no recollection that primaries were once not as a powerful as they are. Conventions, my friends. Have conventions. Lots of "superdelegates." Lots of smoke-filled rooms.

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“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

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The only thing I'll remember about Lindsey Graham is his mistreatment of Dr Christine Blasey Ford. Acting apoplectic at nonsensical details because he knew the most powerful misogynist in the world was watching him. I've never seen a man debase and humiliate himself so much.

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Louder for the people in the back

Nathan Casebolt@nwcasebolt.bsky.social

What I mean to say is that the Democratic Party is an unserious clown show that still doesn’t understand that all its little factional micro-causes are going to be liquidated if they don’t win the center, rather than running fringe experiments in Nazi-curious populism just for funsies.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

Ham Tharp reposted

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

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Gosh, someone's jealous. Mitch McConnell is really interested in everything I'm saying, I think

Zach Schonfeld@zachschonfeld.bsky.social

Disappointed to learn that so many of my friends, avowed leftists and Democratic Socialists, have been having secret phone conversations with Mitch McConnell. Do better.

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The media has not stinted on Paxton coverage, which is why he's known nation-wide. What really makes people mad, I think, is that none of it matters to Republicans. "If only there was more coverage" usually means "Why aren't people as mad as I am" Because Republicans are different, sadly.

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People talk about Orwellian too much in a dreary cliche sense and in not in a "lol George would have loved this" way.

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social

The ceasefire with Iran ‘has at least temporarily ceased,’ a U.S. official tells CNN

Lol!

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

fantasy GOP: salt of the earth blue collar guys who really connect to regular non-coastal-elite folks actual GOP politicians in R+73 seats: Harvard law degree, has worn a suit and tie every day of his adult life, half-heartedly affects an accent that sounds like a drag queen doing Foghorn Leghorn