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Rob Pollard

@robpollard45.bsky.social

Midwesterner. Skeptical, particularly of "economic anxiety." Trying to stay open-minded but generally, they are who we thought they were. Michigan fan. Very disrespectful to Beck.

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I was just thinking about something similar the other day: there’s only one William the Conqueror. Lots of English, French, and Scottish kings and rulers who invaded, defeated, and killed lots of people. But it’s a heck of a reputation burnishing to have the appellation “the conqueror” attached.

07.10.2025 13:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This just meant the translation was done by the "I'll Stop the World and Melt with You" guys.

06.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is his pinned tweet: "For folks who don't know me, I am a complete idiot."

That's fair warning to ignore him, but it's up to you.

06.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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10.4.15 The last sound check.
The look on Ed’s face when Wolfie starts singing. 🥹

06.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 552    🔁 30    💬 41    📌 3

I live near Ann Arbor. A country artist, who I had never heard of (and apparently just became popular in the past 3 years) just sold out Michigan Stadium -- over 110,000 people, the largest concert in the history of the US.

I hope he's doing OK, but I understand why a lot turn to alcohol & drugs.

06.10.2025 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Age Caleb Ragland voted for Donald Trump three times and doesn’t regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.

Caleb Ragland voted from Trump three times!

All he is doing is advocating for a bigger government check, b/c his guy Trump sure as heck isn't going to let him sell soybeans to open markets.

www.facebook.com/theageAustra...

06.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

With all his plastic surgery, does he just stay frozen next to the Zamboni until it's time to roll him out for his video hits?

06.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those two guys absolutely love each other and still have their performer's itch to scratch, so I hope this goes well.

That said, I really hope they figure out what to do w Getty's voice, as he was struggling at the 40 year mark, and R50 is going to be a challenge (and not just the early stuff).

06.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Totally divorced from reality.

06.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 1702    🔁 435    💬 302    📌 82

Not the point of the picture, but how terrible does that hoodie look?

Some of the best colors in college sports and it's looks in that camo version like an off-brand being sold at Cabela's.

06.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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06.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Dave Bondy Michigan Democrat Rep. Karen Whitsett appears on Fox News saying she won’t caucus with Democrats because they are out of touch with real people and haven’t learned any lessons from the November electi...

When did this change?

www.facebook.com/DaveBondy25/...

06.10.2025 00:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

05.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 5495    🔁 1322    💬 97    📌 38

That does not look real. The print is too clear for a picture.

05.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why not say “Trump-supporting Detroit legislator attends…”

Karen Whitsett gets along better with Matt Hall than leadership in her own party. That’s her defining feature, along with the fact she’s from Detroit and somehow still has a (relatively small) constituency among the apathetic voting base.

05.10.2025 13:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Planting the trees is great. I see lots of cities doing that.

What I often don’t see is cities spending the money to take care of them—watering, pruning, etc. I’d love to hear more stories about how that happens (e.g., budget; staffing)

05.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

I’m OK with this answer. Because it’s the truth.

Some bad things happened, they had an impact on the team, and Franklin didn’t do his job getting his squad ready to overcome those obstacles & come out and play from the jump. It was his responsibility and he failed.

05.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

04.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 17479    🔁 7375    💬 470    📌 306
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a bald man is holding a glass with the words you 're doing it wrong above him ALT: a bald man is holding a glass with the words you 're doing it wrong above him

Pineapple?!?! On Chicago-style pizza?!?!

05.10.2025 01:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yep. Like I'll need evidence the army is "woke" in a way that has hurt their capacity to do the role our nation needs them to do.

Because all is see from Noonan et al. is too many black people and women (let alone transgender people) were in the army, and de facto, it underperformed.

04.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It has some good points, but any column that multiple times asserts, without evidence, statements like “our defense structure can’t be the cultural left’s plaything. All of that got out of whack and carried away” can’t be considered very good by me.

04.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Honestly, he’s got a ways to go. This is what he was doing during the bye week? A vacation? He’s not even trying hard. The arrogance is off the charts.

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04.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Makes sense.

I'm a Tigers fan, and even I realize out of those 4 games, Tigers vs Mariners is easily the least attractive of the options.

03.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two people who've never been in my kitchen.

03.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't know -- he is on CNBC like every other day, and his level of suck up & praise for Trump is literally at North Korea levels.

He may say some stuff that Trump doesn't like, but Trump gives a lot of rope for useful true believers.

03.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This...is easy to follow, for me?

1) Her main issue is against genocide. So Cuomo, rightly, is out.

2) Then she is against taxpayer funded help for immigrants. So that means she's for Sliwa, who's very unlikely to win. So she looks at Mamdani, but doesn't like his taxpayer funded policies.

03.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Venezuelan-Americans who backed Trump now "shocked" by deportations Why some thought their Venezuelan relations would be spared.

A sad leopards eating face situation has reached its end.

3rd time wasn't the charm.

steveinskeep.substack.com/p/venezuelan...

03.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I remain astonished that lawsuits haven't ground this to a halt -- it's Disney,Paramount, etc: all supposed fearsome corporations with elite lawyers.

The King Estate has kept a lockdown on the "I Have a Dream" speech for years, yet this image & likeness assault on the man is somehow legal?

03.10.2025 16:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dude stopped posting here so he could go back to Twitter to, in part, post his @theatlantic.com articles and get a whopping 40 likes after 2 days.

I guess when you find your people, they come in all types.

03.10.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"It’s unclear why Winchester was fired."

I understand why this was written, and is technically correct, but the rest of the article you wrote makes it pretty clear.

03.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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