Bob Floyd
@twopennybeer.bsky.social
Girl Dad, Tech Fixer, beer nerd & Certified Cicerone®, sometimes beer writer, political creature, native Virginian, DMB junkie, Blind Pig Podcast, Collector of Vices, #COYS #RaiseHail
Weak sauce, @tottenhamhotspur.com You are taking the good will of the supporters for granted.
June 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Weak sauce, @tottenhamhotspur.com You are taking the good will of the supporters for granted.
Levy doesn't have the guts to create a winner. Under him, this club is the sports team equivalent of an abusive spouse, always apologizing and promising to do better but never really understanding they are the problem. #COYS #sorryAnge
June 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Levy doesn't have the guts to create a winner. Under him, this club is the sports team equivalent of an abusive spouse, always apologizing and promising to do better but never really understanding they are the problem. #COYS #sorryAnge
The hard truth of immediate reaction.
There is now a non-zero chance the Pope has drank Malort.
May 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The hard truth of immediate reaction.
Back in 2001, I had the opportunity to spend some time in China. The biggest shock to my system was seeing soldiers dressing in full tactical gear with loaded automatic rifles everywhere - the airport concourse, street corners, monuments, random checkpoints. Not something we should emulate here.
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?
By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...
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April 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Back in 2001, I had the opportunity to spend some time in China. The biggest shock to my system was seeing soldiers dressing in full tactical gear with loaded automatic rifles everywhere - the airport concourse, street corners, monuments, random checkpoints. Not something we should emulate here.
Yes. Yes they do.
Elections have consequences
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Yes. Yes they do.
Quick thoughts on trade wars:
1. Trade deficits aren't a bad thing. I've been buying Big Macs from McDonald's for 45 years, but they haven't bought anything from me. Both of us are doing just fine. 1/
1. Trade deficits aren't a bad thing. I've been buying Big Macs from McDonald's for 45 years, but they haven't bought anything from me. Both of us are doing just fine. 1/
April 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Quick thoughts on trade wars:
1. Trade deficits aren't a bad thing. I've been buying Big Macs from McDonald's for 45 years, but they haven't bought anything from me. Both of us are doing just fine. 1/
1. Trade deficits aren't a bad thing. I've been buying Big Macs from McDonald's for 45 years, but they haven't bought anything from me. Both of us are doing just fine. 1/
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Every once in a while, we get something right.
April 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Every once in a while, we get something right.
Just another little man in a job too big for him.
Liar Greg Abbott says he has refused to set a special election to fill the seat of recently diseased Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner because he says Harris County doesn’t do their elections properly.
April 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Just another little man in a job too big for him.
It's a foul. That's fair. As much as I hate to say it, it's fair call by the official.
April 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's a foul. That's fair. As much as I hate to say it, it's fair call by the official.
I'm wondering how many Trump voters there are who are within a decade of retirement. They can't be real comfortable today.
April 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm wondering how many Trump voters there are who are within a decade of retirement. They can't be real comfortable today.
I see a guy like this and I am left to wonder how more of us aren't billionaires. I mean, if he is smart enough...
Lutnick: "European Union won't take chicken from America ... they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."
April 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I see a guy like this and I am left to wonder how more of us aren't billionaires. I mean, if he is smart enough...
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
Light salt and pepper, 3 minutes a side over high heat.
March 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Light salt and pepper, 3 minutes a side over high heat.
The word you are looking for is bullshit.
After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
March 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The word you are looking for is bullshit.
Legend.
March 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Legend.
Then his mother-in-law is the only one.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month, my mother-in-law wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't."
March 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Then his mother-in-law is the only one.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
Clueless. Absolutely clueless.
Once more for the guys in back, Ctrl F is a search function, not a REsearch function.
A Pentagon official familiar with this Jackie Robinson issue tells me the use of software and key-word searches played a role in his history being scrubbed from a Defense Department website.
In new statement, Pentagon defends its decision to pull down content highlight the service of Jackie Robinson, the Iwo Jima flag-raising Marines, the Navajo Code Talkers, etc., citing the "DEI" framing.
Statement also seems to attempt a doozy of a new definition for DEI:
Statement also seems to attempt a doozy of a new definition for DEI:
March 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Once more for the guys in back, Ctrl F is a search function, not a REsearch function.
More Kennedy documents were released late yesterday. There won't be anything in there we don't already know, at least nothing of real substance. That means it's a bright and shiny object designed to draw our attention from other stuff they are doing.
March 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
More Kennedy documents were released late yesterday. There won't be anything in there we don't already know, at least nothing of real substance. That means it's a bright and shiny object designed to draw our attention from other stuff they are doing.
This is brilliant.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is brilliant.
I love how the Administration is dismantling the Dept of Education at the same time as so many Americans prove they can't pass a high school government or civics class. Rich irony that.
March 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I love how the Administration is dismantling the Dept of Education at the same time as so many Americans prove they can't pass a high school government or civics class. Rich irony that.
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Democratic leadership does not seem to know what time it is.
But Trump sure does. www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-democr...
But Trump sure does. www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-democr...
Hey Democrats: Maybe Now *Is* the Time to Fight?
Trump is racing to dismantle the rule of law before Democrats can make him unpopular enough so that other institutions can push back against him. Do the Dems understand this?
www.thebulwark.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Democratic leadership does not seem to know what time it is.
But Trump sure does. www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-democr...
But Trump sure does. www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-democr...
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
I've thought this since the 45 Administration but even so, it's tough to see confirmation.
"Republicans aren’t just closer in worldview to Turkey and Russia than they are to Democrats. The right-wing European parties are closer to Democrats than they are to Republicans." Quite the data point.
New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism
Inside the World Values Survey.
www.thebulwark.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I've thought this since the 45 Administration but even so, it's tough to see confirmation.