John Elliott

John Elliott

@velcroski.bsky.social

Refugee of sorts. Picture shows actual Tower of Sauron.

4,444 Followers 4,700 Following 7,357 Posts Joined Nov 2024
27 minutes ago

In this Ohio diner, Iran is what you did when your ex-wife's lawyer tried to serve you papers. But they do know this: At least we're talking about the Strait of Hormuz and not the Gay of Hormuz.

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26 minutes ago

Terrorist attacks on American Jews prove that they need to move to Israel, where they'll be compelled to join the IDF and wage wars that inspire terrorist attacks on American Jews, who need to move to Israel, where they'll be compelled to join the IDF and wage wars that...

by Benjamin Netanyahu

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2 hours ago

Legacy media is failing democracy. Rather than complain, I did something about.

Six years ago I started Democracy Docket from scratch. Now it has more than 400,000 subscribers. But to help protect democracy, it needs to grow and scale. Subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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Legalize comedy!!!!!

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Iran, please wait in line until your number is called.

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4 hours ago
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When you bomb Iran… what happens to the Strait of Hormuz?

Oil tankers. Mines. Generals with charts.
And one guy asking: “Remind me… was it Iraq or Iran?”
My new AI satire song STRAIT OF HORMUZ drops tomorrow at 9AM.

Watch here:
youtu.be/ze2l3XBaBrc

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6 hours ago
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I can understand why the Doge Bags wanted these videos removed. I listened to two of them, and both tech bros came across as breathtakingly stupid. It's scary that they had access to so much sensitive data. Elon lied. They weren't sent to do accounting; they were sent to do hacking.

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10 hours ago

If Trump wants more than strategic advice from Europe on the Strait of Hormuz, the price should be a gigantic US military aid package for Ukraine to compensate for the additional oil revenue Russia is receiving due to the Iran War.

Military aid. Not defence contracts paid by Europe.

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These are the brave souls who died in service to our country.

Donald Trump used photos of him at the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force base to send out a fundraising email.

There is no bottom.

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If Trump puts boots on the ground, a lot of young Americans are going to die. 😳👇

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Reporter: The UFC training the FBI is being greeted with a lot of derision among FBI officials. At a time when the U.S. is facing significant terror threats in the wake of the Iran war, this is not the kind of thing the FBI should be focusing on. #sheshed

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3 hours ago

Fuck him very much.

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2 hours ago

Small correx: it came out in 1974--I was a year off...

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2 hours ago

Thinking of my friend Peter Davis's devastating 1975 film "Hearts and Minds," which is named after a different use of that phrase but still holds many lessons for the country today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcE6...

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4 hours ago
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8 accused of antifa ties convicted on terrorism charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility A federal jury has convicted eight people accused of having links to antifa on terrorism charges over what prosecutors called an attack on a Texas immigration detention center.

8 defendants in Prairieland Detention Center case found guilty of providing material support to ‘terrorists’. “A federal jury on Friday convicted 8 people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa..." apnews.com/article/prai...

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5 hours ago

the good news is that the monkey's paw business successfully sent them out to all the correct people

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I think a lot about how the worst possible thing that has ever happened to all these low-level bullies and swindlers is accidentally getting absolute power

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“Sources close to the president have told Zeteo that on separate occasions over the past year, Trump has talked to longtime advisers about what it would take to officially make his birthday a national, federal holiday….

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The visual & slang language of this White House, wartime edition. Every time they try to make fetch happen with the “panicans” thing, it just calls attention to Republicans panicking.

But they think these AI-generated memes are too dank to leave in the drafts.

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8 hours ago

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

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2 hours ago

War is peace and peace is gay.

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Grassley's votes up to this point don't reflect this take.

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2 hours ago

Suddenly realized I’m too bitter about reality to want to watch a new Guy Ritchie series. Specifically need something far more somber.

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3 hours ago
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Nuremberg is currently very popular on Netflix. Gee, I wonder why . . .

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3 hours ago

I see this criticism of this sentiment a lot and I’m sorry it’s often dumb. There is only one regime on the planet right now that behaves in a way towards its leader that the gop elite behaves towards Donald trump

I say this as An Asian

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2 hours ago

Spouse, just landing, and then the long taxiing dance at ORD, notices a number of darkened Qatar Airways planes sitting.

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3 hours ago

Depending the sizes, shuffling off the cliff. Immediately losing the shoes that are sizes too big.

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Who will be the first to take off their shoes? Across Washington, D.C., a new fashion trend has taken hold of those in Trump’s circle: embarrassingly oversized clown shoes.

NEW: A new fashion trend is taking over D.C. — oversized clown shoes.
Trump reportedly loves gifting poorly-fitting shoes to his inner circle, who silently accept.

While comical, the spectacle reflects a scary reality: the GOP will follow the president off a cliff, Marc Elias writes.

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4 hours ago

Fwiw, not the first time there's been a Trump fundraising blast using the war as the hook. My scooplet on a fundraising tactic they've used at least three times — which might indicate that it's not working too well straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/trumps-pac...

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