Mike Billips

Mike Billips

@mbillips.bsky.social

Actor, handyman, retired Navy officer and former newspaper reporter. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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I’ve been to a couple of Saddam’s palaces, Mr. President, and they are nowhere NEAR as tacky as the pictures I’ve seen of the current oval Office decor. I think you owe the late President Hussein an apology.

Flunked out of LAMDA in a dream last night because I quit on the calculus class midway through the semester. Dream me quite reasonably argued that an acting BFA shouldn’t HAVE a calculus requirement.

What the hell now, Pete, you drunken weirdo? Is France just too gay a country for the red-blooded troops?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Exclusive: The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to block the U.S. military’s ceremonial participation in the NFL’s first-ever game in Paris this weekend but relented after the State Department intervened, officials told The Post.

Basketball is wild. The Valkyries played Atlanta step for step in the first half and fourth quarter but got blown out in the third. Both teams seem equally talented with the exception of Angel Reese, who is earning every dime of her superstar salary.

Good couples Halloween costume: red sweats and a purple fright wig. Pin a white circle with a sharpied number on it and boom! Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Rising toward the top of the Democrstic agenda should be taking Starlink/Starshield away from Elon Musk. He is at best an adversary of US national defense policy and that is a key battlefield resource.

Mike Billips reposted

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

Angry phone call right now between Lorne Michaels and Trump. They have the sketch all written and mf couldn’t wait until Sunday to fire her?

Not sure what’s more annoying, FB boomers posting “cute” AI slop or angry FB Gen Xers posting fake AI-generated food horrors on nonexistent menus and window displays.

People are misinterpreting this because of Trump’s fractured speaking style, which continues to worsen with dementia. “This is a very small price to pay” refers to gas prices. “Let them…” means, “wait til they nuke a US city, then gas prices won’t seem so important.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

This is the scale of project that gets announced by a mayor or local development board, not the US president in a national news conference. Governor-grade dog-and-pony show, tops.

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This Georgia Tech-Stanford game was always gonna be an ugly game between two bad teams. But I did not anticipate the worst unit on the field being the officiating crew. #Holding

The most disappointing thing about Saturday’s big football game between Tennessee and Texas, their first-ever regular-season matchup, is that they will NOT be settling for all time which school is the “real” UT.

Mike Billips reposted

Please keep Michael Berryman and his family in your thoughts. On his way home from a convention, his house caught fire. Michael and his wife, Patty lost everything. We're working with his agent on this GoFundMe to lessen the burden Michael and Patty now face.

I got in a bunch of arguments on Facebook with people who were convinced that McConnell was dead and Trump didn’t get his ear grazed by a bullet. They’ll probably claim it’s a body double when Mitch shows up. No, shut up, he has a fucking scar where it just touched his skin.

The last two new-tech ads I’ve seen have been bragging about their usefulness for people who can’t see well. So they’re trying to guilt us into using Chat GPT and Meta’s perv glasses in order to help the disabled. Good luck with that, fellas. Very selfless of you.

Uh, who gives a shit about heresy? You god-botherers can sort that out while you’re arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.

Is he gonna pay us this before or after the rebate we were gonna get from all the tariff revenue?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Only I can make this promise to you: If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000"

Forgetting about the attacks on 9/11 would be good and we should do it because the US response to 9/11 killed far more people and made America a less-free, worse place.