Joel Irby
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Joel Irby
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What-cha-got?
If there's anybody who can manufacture a crisis that requires a "deal", it's President Trump. #ArtOfTheSteal

Republicans: They're not sending their best. 🙄
October 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Yes, he'll use the time range that makes him look good. Big picture, violent crime in DC & nationwide is *way* down from its peak in the 1990s. What's up since 1994's federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004? Mass shootings with AR-15 style rifles. So weird. 🤔

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Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia
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August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's the perfect opportunity to arrest Putin for war crimes, but will Trump do that? Almost certainly not.
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reposted by Joel Irby
Cool that you made him melt down, but you shouldn’t be making ANY deals with the openly fascist far right party. You should be doing what they’ve always done when they were out of power: obstruct. Refuse to work with them. Stop doing anything that furthers their agenda.
August 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The buck doesn't stop here. 🙄
July 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
At a conference in Birmingham circa 2016 I took a couple of sips of boxed beer, and it was exactly as warm and flat as you’re imagining right now. 🤮

Just before that, a Brit quaffed it to rehydrate after an intense DDR session. (This was at a let-your-hair-down session at the end of the day.)
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We don't have to pretend, but advert-funded news media do, right? Because they want to sell ads, they must bend over backward *not* to tell the American people what the MAGA-R pols are doing.

It's a case of I've-got-mine-jack, right? And many (D) incumbents do likewise. 😠 #VoteThemOut
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Yup. It’s government by special dispensation from Pope Donald I. 🙄 #NoKings #ReligiousFreedom
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing those memories! 🙏
June 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Yes, and governments know Trump Always Chickens Out because he's shooting from the hip, destabilizing the situation, without listening to expert opinions about pros, cons, next steps, etc.

With all eyes on him: Happy Trump. With no news, good or bad: Grumpy Trump.

They can outlast him. #TACO
June 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Thus violating Molly Ivins's First Rule of Holes: When you're in one, stop digging.
June 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Is this A.I.? 🤔
June 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Yup! Because Trump sees power as relative, making others less able to effect change (or even just do their basic jobs competently) provides a fleeting dopamine hit that he craves. As long as he's the center of attention, nothing else matters. #InsaneCrownPosse #NoKings
June 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Yes, just like the Obamacare replacement was always 2 weeks away.

As a reward for reading, here's a Caddyshack meme for an Idiocracy presidency. Are we great (again) yet? 🙄
a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it
ALT: a man in a white shirt stands in front of a crowd wearing a hat that says ' sx ' on it
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June 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
First rule of Big Lie Club: Don't tell the truth about Big Lie Club.
a man is talking into a microphone with the words `` one rule fight '' written above him .
ALT: a man is talking into a microphone with the words `` one rule fight '' written above him .
media.tenor.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
ICE is full of thugs: agreed. DHS probably has some employees who get off on the power-trip of selecting folks in airports for extra screening just because they don't like their looks. That's just profiling: ugly and wrong for sure, but until mind-reading exists and is okayed by SCOTUS, not a crime.
June 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In the latest poll, he's underwater with *all* age ranges, thanks to my cohort, the 45-to-64 year-olds. 👏

And don't call us Gen-X. We don't believe the hype 'cause we saw Reagan, Gingrich, & Dubya Bush start what Trump's now trying to finish: total takeover by monied interests and racists.
June 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yup. This is not the time for weasel words from journalists. Or maybe what NBC News is producing isn't really news? They do sell adverts, and heaven forbid they might lose some business from maga boycotts. 🙄 #NoGuardrails
June 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I can't get the image of his tiny little hands groping the body politic out of my head now. 🤢

I hope you're happy with yourself. 🙄 (🙃)
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM