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The Frolicking Gadfly
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◊ Antagonized Curmudgeon ◊ USAF Vet ◊ Recovering Snarkaholic ◊ GFY MAGA ◊ Drumpf is Traitor ◊ Vote Blue ◊ #Resistance ◊ Old skool blogger https://thefrolickinggadfly.blogspot.com/ ◊ Skol!
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If anyone is wondering, and without getting into too much detail, I am a 60ish, curmudgeonly grandpa, IT guy, veteran, and part-time internet political junkie who was weaned on Bartcop's blog yonder a century ago, and if you know who Bartcop was and grokked his style, then we'll get along just fine.
a man wearing glasses says allow myself to introduce
ALT: a man wearing glasses says allow myself to introduce
media.tenor.com
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‘FCC You!’ Stephen Colbert Flays CBS in Defiant Opener for Nixing His Interview with Democratic Lawmaker
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fcc...
‘FCC You!’ Stephen Colbert Flays CBS in Defiant Opener for Nixing His Interview with Democratic Lawmaker
Colbert rounded on FCC chair Brendan Carr and CBS network lawyers for "enforcing" the "equal time" rule to prevent the interview airing.
www.mediaite.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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I have a prediction: Sooner than later, one of Epstein’s victims is going to get fed up with the slow-walking BS, step to a mic, and light a match that sets proverbial asses on fire. When the system stalls long enough...someone decides it’s time. ALWAYS.
February 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Richly deserved postscript for Bill Maher after his dinner with Trump last year.
February 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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A strange find from the Epstein files:

A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev."

Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.

But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Vladimir Putin is the 21st century’s biggest mass murderer with over 2 million victims.

Orban would have welcomed the Soviet tanks in 1956. He’s a traitor to Hungary and mankind
🇭🇺❗️🇪🇺 Orban: We must get used to the idea that those who love freedom should not fear the East, but Brussels, and should turn their concerned eyes toward Brussels.

Putin-bashing is primitive and unserious. Brussels, however, is a tangible reality and a direct source of danger.
February 15, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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ohhhhh have you now
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Her masked paramilitary goons are still in the process of terrorizing a major US city where those same goons have murdered two U.S. citizens. Noem has no business commenting on election security anymore than she does on family values or marital fidelity. 🫤

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
February 14, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Federal agents used chemical irritants, less-lethal munitions and physical force against observers and protesters during Operation Metro Surge.
More than 80 Minnesota observers and protesters detail mistreatment by ICE
The latest testimony adds to an ACLU class-action lawsuit about the conduct of immigration agents.
bit.ly
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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🤷‍♀️
February 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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I hope the Richie Riches supporting a regime that repeatedly and excitedly ignores laws understand that laws are what keep the rabble from eventually showing up at their doors.
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Indeed. 🫤
Turns out “They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists…” was Trump introducing his own administration.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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If the DHS really wanted to make our homeland secure they would immediately arrest Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and Pam Bondi.
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Bobby better lay out a few lines on a toilet seat. He's got some explaining to do. 🫤
Ghislaine Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein in 2012:

"didn't we go fossil hunting with [Jack Horner] and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?"

In this context, Bobby Kennedy refers to RFK Jr.
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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We murdered three more people in a boat today
February 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Hehe. 🫤
“This morning before dawn, a hostage rescue team stormed a New York City townhouse and freed Savannah, who miraculously did not appear to be injured or even malnourished in any way,” said FBI director Kash Patel
FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie
WASHINGTON—Praising the tireless efforts of the hundreds of agents who worked around the clock on the case, FBI director Kash Patel announced Friday that after almost two anguishing weeks, Savannah Gu...
theonion.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Lol.
February 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Utterly evil. 🫤
NEW: Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with ICE agents, WIRED has learned, in a move that goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
25th amendment time. President Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs has clearly lost the sanity plot line. 🫤
"Helicopter pilots were wounded pretty badly in the legs landing on the couple of machine gunners seemed to have make it through a thicket of bombs. But they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who stationed on platforms. Hellu-- actually unbelievable, helicopter platforms all the way the line"
February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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It's not enough to criminally prosecute these people when Trump is out of office. We need to be going after their fucking money relentlessly, hounding them and their families and dismantling their financial empires like a resurrected Thomas Dewey from the 1930s.
February 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM