Berton Averre
bertonaverre.bsky.social
Berton Averre
@bertonaverre.bsky.social
Played guitar and wrote songs for a living, so I wouldn't have to work.
And I have to add to this cocaine is NOT the drug racking up hundreds of thousand deaths: that's fentanyl, which does NOT come from Venezuela.

In case you're wondering, I despise cocaine. Of all the highs I experienced, it was the worst. But I also despise the GOP lying by interference.
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm going to be a stickler and suggest aluminium shouldn't be on this list because that's the way they spell it: so not an odd pronunciation. And when you think of it, "ium" seems a more legit spelling for an element.
December 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Running for governor in this state on a platform of more oil derricks is... it's a choice.
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Our country is in good hands. Good small, pudgy, double-dipping, scabrous hands."
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We don't enunciate the U, nor do Nicaraguans. It's 4 syllables, not 5.

Nick-uh-RAH-gwah

As in the Spanish word for water.
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Don't get me started on Bugs as the coy Southern Belle.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
eek.
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Rhymes with "Mater's going to play the piaahhno."
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Correction: "Who put the Bomp" was probably his lyrics.
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Holy cheese whiz.
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Great song. Just checked. Written by Barry Mann: without Cynthia Weill. Only lyrics I know he ever wrote.
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This song has a shortish bridge, and every other part is basically the chorus.
December 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
This has to me mentioned during any and all discussions. And they should be called out for the trick they play of tacking on "terrorists", which just happens to justify military response. I mean seriously, "drug runners" and "terrorists" are by no means the same thing.
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Shameful. Sometimes I wonder if my opinion is fair: that maybe I'm seeing them through my own partisan lens. But, no, they'll throw us a few crumbs, and then go right back to riding Trump's jock because abortion. I'd get a perverse pleasure from reading a Thomas treatise on the establishment clause.
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Hearty handshake?
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
It seems to me that, sadly, quite a number of sports stars lean that way. When the Dodgers went to the White House, as a lifelong fan it broke my heart. But I honestly think it was one or two prominent voices, and the rest went along out of solidarity.
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
We should add "terrorists" to any word or name suggesting GOP, to combat their attempt to turn a non military group into a military one, to justify killing civilians. I just heard Trump say they're "trying to kill Americans." No, they're selling drugs. If anything they don't want to lose customers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Honestly, in this context I think he's just trying to sound like cops on a tv show. "It was a righteous bust sir."

But to your point, in these killings no one sees them as "righteous".
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This pretzel logic from Hassett isn't just flat wrong, it's really hurtful to those out of work. We hear from all sectors the opposite from what this schmuck is saying: if you lose your job, good luck getting the next one.
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I get it.
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
That's a lot of wrought.
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Gee, and he was on such a roll.

Seriously, if we added up all the horrendous news for Trump in the last couple months it would look like 50 years' worth.
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Rip Van Wrinkle.
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Maybe instead you could say ".ti ssim ton oD"
December 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
And any boats entering Miami harbor that seem the slightest bit sketchy are boarded by Coast Guard, specifically to interdict drug mules.
December 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM