Chris Plourde
@cplourde.bsky.social
My days are filled with walking dogs, doing dishes, playing guitar, taking pictures, reading books, and making tv shows. Maybe not in that order.
Trump's always been a class act.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's always been a class act.
Explains why tech billionaires are cozying up to Trump. Government bailout coming.
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Explains why tech billionaires are cozying up to Trump. Government bailout coming.
Because they all work for corporations, and the first rule in a corporation is to keep your job.
That means not becoming a problem for the corporation, which generally means not creating corporate problems.
Journalists have lost their jobs because they didn't keep their heads down.
That means not becoming a problem for the corporation, which generally means not creating corporate problems.
Journalists have lost their jobs because they didn't keep their heads down.
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Because they all work for corporations, and the first rule in a corporation is to keep your job.
That means not becoming a problem for the corporation, which generally means not creating corporate problems.
Journalists have lost their jobs because they didn't keep their heads down.
That means not becoming a problem for the corporation, which generally means not creating corporate problems.
Journalists have lost their jobs because they didn't keep their heads down.
Reminds me of Rumsfeld's assurance we knew where Saddam's WMDs were...
November 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reminds me of Rumsfeld's assurance we knew where Saddam's WMDs were...
By the way, I write this as a former Republican whose political hero remains Eliott Richardson, a Republican who was Attorney General of the United States.
His resignation was first in the Saturday Night Massacre, that ended when Robert Bork (later of "Borked" fame) fired Special Counsel Cox.
His resignation was first in the Saturday Night Massacre, that ended when Robert Bork (later of "Borked" fame) fired Special Counsel Cox.
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
By the way, I write this as a former Republican whose political hero remains Eliott Richardson, a Republican who was Attorney General of the United States.
His resignation was first in the Saturday Night Massacre, that ended when Robert Bork (later of "Borked" fame) fired Special Counsel Cox.
His resignation was first in the Saturday Night Massacre, that ended when Robert Bork (later of "Borked" fame) fired Special Counsel Cox.
Well, it's public, and Congress doesn't object, and SCOTUS rules that he can keep doing it unless and until an appeal reaches them "the right way" because they ignore reality for theory, and pretend their theory isn't enabling his lawlessness...because they haven't been asked to rule on an appeal...
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Well, it's public, and Congress doesn't object, and SCOTUS rules that he can keep doing it unless and until an appeal reaches them "the right way" because they ignore reality for theory, and pretend their theory isn't enabling his lawlessness...because they haven't been asked to rule on an appeal...
Silence = acquiescence.
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Silence = acquiescence.
No one has more disdain for the intelligence of MAGA than its leaders.
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
No one has more disdain for the intelligence of MAGA than its leaders.
So ICE says he's not ICE, but his neighbors and he all say he is...
When the FBI alerted the nation that people pretending to be ICE/CBP were acting just like ICE/CBP except that because they're not ICE/CBP their actions are criminal, this is what they meant.
When the FBI alerted the nation that people pretending to be ICE/CBP were acting just like ICE/CBP except that because they're not ICE/CBP their actions are criminal, this is what they meant.
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
So ICE says he's not ICE, but his neighbors and he all say he is...
When the FBI alerted the nation that people pretending to be ICE/CBP were acting just like ICE/CBP except that because they're not ICE/CBP their actions are criminal, this is what they meant.
When the FBI alerted the nation that people pretending to be ICE/CBP were acting just like ICE/CBP except that because they're not ICE/CBP their actions are criminal, this is what they meant.
That's a damning admission.
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
That's a damning admission.
Most honest answer: ALL Awards are bids by the members of the awarding club to make their voices louder than all others.
That's true from the Oscars to kids' sports.
That's true from the Oscars to kids' sports.
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Most honest answer: ALL Awards are bids by the members of the awarding club to make their voices louder than all others.
That's true from the Oscars to kids' sports.
That's true from the Oscars to kids' sports.
It's also pointedly incoherent.
Is she trying to say he's a failson, or that his dreams destroyed him, or both, or neither?
Is she trying to say he's a failson, or that his dreams destroyed him, or both, or neither?
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
It's also pointedly incoherent.
Is she trying to say he's a failson, or that his dreams destroyed him, or both, or neither?
Is she trying to say he's a failson, or that his dreams destroyed him, or both, or neither?
Trump has always been a thoroughly dishonorable and corrupt man, and that fact made him appealing to the religious right. They know, and love, exactly who he is.
Make of it what you will.
Make of it what you will.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Trump has always been a thoroughly dishonorable and corrupt man, and that fact made him appealing to the religious right. They know, and love, exactly who he is.
Make of it what you will.
Make of it what you will.
These guys convince themselves everyone is as corrupt as they are. They see virtue as a fraud, because they cannot imagine decency.
November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
These guys convince themselves everyone is as corrupt as they are. They see virtue as a fraud, because they cannot imagine decency.
Since when does the Fed think deflation is good?
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Since when does the Fed think deflation is good?
Dual State at work.
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Dual State at work.
Vance knows exactly what he's doing here.
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Vance knows exactly what he's doing here.
Amd yet the harm for either the 5-year-old or the 15-year-old is significant.
Not that Epstein's friends care.
Not that Epstein's friends care.
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Amd yet the harm for either the 5-year-old or the 15-year-old is significant.
Not that Epstein's friends care.
Not that Epstein's friends care.
I appreciated drawing out the difference between transcribing and translating, especially as translations are continually accused of bias while transcriptions often fail to make the material comprehensible.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I appreciated drawing out the difference between transcribing and translating, especially as translations are continually accused of bias while transcriptions often fail to make the material comprehensible.