John Barelli
@jbarelli.bsky.social
From Gig Harbor, Washington, now in Sant'Alessio Siculo, Sicily.
Liberal, curmudgeon, retired Sailor. Generally rude, crude, and socially unacceptable.
Liberal, curmudgeon, retired Sailor. Generally rude, crude, and socially unacceptable.
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The words "indiscriminate murder" come to mind.
October 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The words "indiscriminate murder" come to mind.
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I'm sure that Trump being *obsessed* with undermining Venezuela has NOTHING to do with the fact that it competes with his authoritarian pals in Russia and Saudi Arabia in selling oil.
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I'm sure that Trump being *obsessed* with undermining Venezuela has NOTHING to do with the fact that it competes with his authoritarian pals in Russia and Saudi Arabia in selling oil.
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These are all quotes by Trump-appointed judges. Pretty damning, wouldn’t you say? 😡
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
These are all quotes by Trump-appointed judges. Pretty damning, wouldn’t you say? 😡
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JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless."
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"
I may have to go for Italian citizenship after all.
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.
theintercept.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I may have to go for Italian citizenship after all.
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports
theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
Apparently he said this with a straight face. He only SA'd those thirteen year olds in order to maintain his cover?
And as soon as the ink dries on the documents "proving" this, he'll be happy to show them to us.
Is it possible that there is also a certain Louisiana Congressman on the list?
And as soon as the ink dries on the documents "proving" this, he'll be happy to show them to us.
Is it possible that there is also a certain Louisiana Congressman on the list?
September 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Apparently he said this with a straight face. He only SA'd those thirteen year olds in order to maintain his cover?
And as soon as the ink dries on the documents "proving" this, he'll be happy to show them to us.
Is it possible that there is also a certain Louisiana Congressman on the list?
And as soon as the ink dries on the documents "proving" this, he'll be happy to show them to us.
Is it possible that there is also a certain Louisiana Congressman on the list?
Yes, he really posted this.
Why does it sound eerily similar to "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?
Why does it sound eerily similar to "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?
August 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Yes, he really posted this.
Why does it sound eerily similar to "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?
Why does it sound eerily similar to "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?
The picture says it all. H/T Kissing Fish Book.
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The picture says it all. H/T Kissing Fish Book.
I have heard it said that if someone only refrains from doing evil because they're afraid of hell, then they aren't a good person, but just a bad person on a leash.
Okay. Some people need a leash.
Okay. Some people need a leash.
August 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have heard it said that if someone only refrains from doing evil because they're afraid of hell, then they aren't a good person, but just a bad person on a leash.
Okay. Some people need a leash.
Okay. Some people need a leash.
The Constitution says what it says, which isn't always what we want to hear. Yes, the lot of them deserve to be tossed out on their ears. But it has to be done one at a time.
August 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Constitution says what it says, which isn't always what we want to hear. Yes, the lot of them deserve to be tossed out on their ears. But it has to be done one at a time.
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These servicemembers put their lives on the line for this country. It is disgraceful and wrong to deny them at least the same benefits any other veteran would receive.
Pure hatefulness and spite from the least qualified Secretary of Defense in history and President bone spurs.
Pure hatefulness and spite from the least qualified Secretary of Defense in history and President bone spurs.
BREAKING: The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service
The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of service.
bit.ly
August 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
These servicemembers put their lives on the line for this country. It is disgraceful and wrong to deny them at least the same benefits any other veteran would receive.
Pure hatefulness and spite from the least qualified Secretary of Defense in history and President bone spurs.
Pure hatefulness and spite from the least qualified Secretary of Defense in history and President bone spurs.
Here I was thinking that maybe, just maybe I could have a "feel good" day.
Then it's a quick splash, and I'm back in the cesspool.
Once again, my desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane.
Then it's a quick splash, and I'm back in the cesspool.
Once again, my desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane.
August 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Here I was thinking that maybe, just maybe I could have a "feel good" day.
Then it's a quick splash, and I'm back in the cesspool.
Once again, my desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane.
Then it's a quick splash, and I'm back in the cesspool.
Once again, my desire to be well-informed is at odds with my desire to remain sane.
Apparently the multiple times she shoots puppies in this video didn't bother her, but this part really got under her skin.
So sharing this image isn't a friendly thing to do, and if I were a better person, I might feel a tinge of guilt at doing so.
I'll have to work on that.
Eventually.
So sharing this image isn't a friendly thing to do, and if I were a better person, I might feel a tinge of guilt at doing so.
I'll have to work on that.
Eventually.
August 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Apparently the multiple times she shoots puppies in this video didn't bother her, but this part really got under her skin.
So sharing this image isn't a friendly thing to do, and if I were a better person, I might feel a tinge of guilt at doing so.
I'll have to work on that.
Eventually.
So sharing this image isn't a friendly thing to do, and if I were a better person, I might feel a tinge of guilt at doing so.
I'll have to work on that.
Eventually.
Who was it that arranged to release all those Taliban leaders without even consulting the Afghan government?
So now he's helping them round up the Afghans that fought against them.
So now he's helping them round up the Afghans that fought against them.
“They should’ve come here legally,” MAGA says. Well, they did. One Afghan interpreter was arrested after a green card appointment. Another? Detained after his asylum hearing. Both helped U.S. troops. Now ICE wants to deport them.
Masked ICE Agents Detain Interpreter Who Helped U.S. Military
The Afghan man was living the U.S. legally and was detained during a routine green card appointment.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Who was it that arranged to release all those Taliban leaders without even consulting the Afghan government?
So now he's helping them round up the Afghans that fought against them.
So now he's helping them round up the Afghans that fought against them.
So, Russia is openly threatening the Pedoführer if he doesn't stop working against Russian interests, while openly admitting that Israel also has this information.
We're still only in month number seven.
We're still only in month number seven.
August 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So, Russia is openly threatening the Pedoführer if he doesn't stop working against Russian interests, while openly admitting that Israel also has this information.
We're still only in month number seven.
We're still only in month number seven.
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No sense in this. He has dementia, brain damage, kidney failure, and congestive heart failure. This isn't curable. That makes him a candidate for hospice. The state should transfer him to hospice and just let him die naturally. With dementia, he probably doesn't even understand the punishment.
Tennessee set to execute inmate without turning off his implanted defibrillator
Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black without deactivating his defibrillator, raising concerns about potential shocks during the lethal injection.
apnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No sense in this. He has dementia, brain damage, kidney failure, and congestive heart failure. This isn't curable. That makes him a candidate for hospice. The state should transfer him to hospice and just let him die naturally. With dementia, he probably doesn't even understand the punishment.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
www.muellershewrote.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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In the immortal words of Jim Carrey, "Alrighty then!"
August 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
In the immortal words of Jim Carrey, "Alrighty then!"
Tom Lehrer was a fixture of my youth. His songs are often just as timely today as when he wrote them back in the late 1950s and 60s.
I wish that he could have lived long enough for him to see them become outdated.
Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.
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I wish that he could have lived long enough for him to see them become outdated.
Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.
bbc.com/news/article...
American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report
Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.
bbc.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tom Lehrer was a fixture of my youth. His songs are often just as timely today as when he wrote them back in the late 1950s and 60s.
I wish that he could have lived long enough for him to see them become outdated.
Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.
bbc.com/news/article...
I wish that he could have lived long enough for him to see them become outdated.
Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.
bbc.com/news/article...
We're six months in.
"Whites only" communities are being established.
People are being sent to concentration camps.
Officials of the US government are disappearing people off the streets.
Broadcasting companies are bowing to government pressure to silence criticism.
We're six months in.
"Whites only" communities are being established.
People are being sent to concentration camps.
Officials of the US government are disappearing people off the streets.
Broadcasting companies are bowing to government pressure to silence criticism.
We're six months in.
July 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We're six months in.
"Whites only" communities are being established.
People are being sent to concentration camps.
Officials of the US government are disappearing people off the streets.
Broadcasting companies are bowing to government pressure to silence criticism.
We're six months in.
"Whites only" communities are being established.
People are being sent to concentration camps.
Officials of the US government are disappearing people off the streets.
Broadcasting companies are bowing to government pressure to silence criticism.
We're six months in.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Incompetent! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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July 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
No, dad. When I was complaining about sugar in coke, I wanted LESS sugar.
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
No, dad. When I was complaining about sugar in coke, I wanted LESS sugar.