Randy Davenport
@redavenport.bsky.social
Just a guy from Iowa who should really be doing other things
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
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A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
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people as things, that’s where it starts
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
people as things, that’s where it starts
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
This is the way someone might talk to their grandparent while they’re on their deathbed and need comfort
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is the way someone might talk to their grandparent while they’re on their deathbed and need comfort
Homie we just won multiple important elections on Tuesday and Trump’s approval ratings are falling by the minute, how is it not working
SENATOR ANGUS KING: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power."
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Homie we just won multiple important elections on Tuesday and Trump’s approval ratings are falling by the minute, how is it not working
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
If only there was some recent metric or bellwether to judge public opinion of the democratic party by
Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them
If only
Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them
If only
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If only there was some recent metric or bellwether to judge public opinion of the democratic party by
Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them
If only
Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them
If only
These are the questions political candidates actually need to be asked.
When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week?
When is the last time you cleaned a toilet?
When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill?
Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.
When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week?
When is the last time you cleaned a toilet?
When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill?
Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.
It baffles me that, to my knowledge, no one has ever asked him when was the last time he bought groceries in a grocery story.
Surely it’s been decades?
Surely it’s been decades?
Given this and Trump's past comments about groceries (he calls the term "old-fashioned"), there is a legitimate, I'm-just-asking-this-as-a-factual-inquiry-purely-based-on-the-president's-own-rhetoric question to be asked:
Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?
Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These are the questions political candidates actually need to be asked.
When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week?
When is the last time you cleaned a toilet?
When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill?
Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.
When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week?
When is the last time you cleaned a toilet?
When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill?
Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.
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it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
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i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin
October 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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It's bad that cogent argument and data analysis doesn't matter at all.
October 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's bad that cogent argument and data analysis doesn't matter at all.
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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I am just so fucking proud of her.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!