Tanlehn
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Tanlehn
@tanlehn.bsky.social
Enjoyer of history, science, gaming, tabletop minis, traveling, etc. HS science teacher and dad. Watcher of soccer and rugby. Me? Aggressively average as always.
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This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?

LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If the settlement leaves the Sacklers with more than a penny then the fine needs to be larger.
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
These are his exact internal thoughts. Trump gonna croak before end of 2026.
JD Vance: "I serve under Donald Trump, who is very healthy. If I served under Joe Biden, I'd probably be worried every minute of every day that he was gonna croak and that I'd have to become president."
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like
August 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Remember Virginia.🕊️
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I think Hegseth's weird thing about beards is a mix of he probably can't grow one, and he fucking hates JD Vance.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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[Medieval monastery]

Abbot: Did you draw in the margins of this bible?

Me: Yeah, it's called illumination. Very fancy.

Abbot: *opens book* Is this a tree growing dicks instead of fruit?

Me: lol yeah
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Fuck, just saw a dude say "if corporate dems found a genie they'd negotiate down to one wish then wish for something they think the Republicans would like"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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That’s it. I’m dead. 😭
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide.

The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists.

Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
When the AI bubble pops, they’re gonna blame tonight’s winners especially Mamdami. When I’m right, please clap.
a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
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November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
That’s a bar.
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Maybe authentic messaging works? Aka just be your fucking self and REPRESENT the people and you’ll be golden. But wtf do I know?
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Hi, I'm God and I have called the NYC race for Zohran Mamdani. Hey corporate assholes, go fuck yourselves.
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Spanberger and Sherrill should both win by 20 pts but apparently the US has way too many voters that sustained major head trauma. Or they’re just fucking idiots.
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
And for him to be thinking about his couch the entire time.
Imagine going to the effort to have your husband shot in the neck, only to sleep with JD Vance.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Everything old is new again.
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM