Rob-in-New Mexico
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Rob Vaughan. Got my PhD in my 50s in American Studies from Univ of Hawai`i. Along the way I taught college for 20 yrs. Then high school for 5. Retired now. Before teaching, 20 years in trucking. CDL to PhD. Long strange trip, etc.
'68 Ford Galaxy station wagon w/ 390 cid, 4 bbl carb. Drove one of these bad boys back in the mid 70s. Could pass everything on the road, as they'd say, except a gas station.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
'68 Ford Galaxy station wagon w/ 390 cid, 4 bbl carb. Drove one of these bad boys back in the mid 70s. Could pass everything on the road, as they'd say, except a gas station.
Dress like RFKjr.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Dress like RFKjr.
Barefoot fellow cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shows how to dress for flying. Not AI. Stories say he even uses airplane toilet this way. 🤢🤮🤢
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Barefoot fellow cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shows how to dress for flying. Not AI. Stories say he even uses airplane toilet this way. 🤢🤮🤢
Every day Team Trump has a major, amateurish screwup. Every day this Casey Stengel quote goes through my head.
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Every day Team Trump has a major, amateurish screwup. Every day this Casey Stengel quote goes through my head.
In first Trump admin I joked he would bomb Belize because their beauty pageant entrant wouldn't show him her breasts. Now ... Now I just don't know what he's gonna do.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In first Trump admin I joked he would bomb Belize because their beauty pageant entrant wouldn't show him her breasts. Now ... Now I just don't know what he's gonna do.
At the eye doctor's yesterday. Background music in the waiting room: "Only Sixteen." Love Sam Cooke, but couldn't help feeling a bit creeped out.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At the eye doctor's yesterday. Background music in the waiting room: "Only Sixteen." Love Sam Cooke, but couldn't help feeling a bit creeped out.
Real "High Noon" energy, kitty style.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Real "High Noon" energy, kitty style.
Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
Did they lure Boebert down to the Situation Room telling her it was named after that dude from Jersey Shore and he'd be there to "de-brief" her?
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Did they lure Boebert down to the Situation Room telling her it was named after that dude from Jersey Shore and he'd be there to "de-brief" her?
I was thinking of Captain Kangaroo, if the Capitan were ever to wear brown, which he would never do.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I was thinking of Captain Kangaroo, if the Capitan were ever to wear brown, which he would never do.
When you're no longer mayor, you're no longer on the Goody Train.
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
When you're no longer mayor, you're no longer on the Goody Train.
Updated architect's rendering of interior of Trump's ballroom.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Updated architect's rendering of interior of Trump's ballroom.
No Kings march in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Good crowd, good people. Not a terrorist in sight. Just a large gathering of fellow Americans demanding their country embrace its core values and knock this shit off.
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
No Kings march in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Good crowd, good people. Not a terrorist in sight. Just a large gathering of fellow Americans demanding their country embrace its core values and knock this shit off.
The GOP congressman called the Capitol police because he honestly believes "an ANTIFA commando, outfitted in a giant frog costume, dropped from the ceiling a la Tom Cruise in that Mission Impossible movie and put that American nazi flag in that poor young man's cubicle."
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The GOP congressman called the Capitol police because he honestly believes "an ANTIFA commando, outfitted in a giant frog costume, dropped from the ceiling a la Tom Cruise in that Mission Impossible movie and put that American nazi flag in that poor young man's cubicle."
Bold new advertising idea for Wells Fargo: Sponsor ICE raids w/ the bank's famous stagecoach logo slapped all over the goon squad's SUVs. Music blaring from loudspeakers like it's an ice cream truck:
🎶 O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street
Oh please let it NOT be for me 🎶
🎶 O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street
Oh please let it NOT be for me 🎶
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Bold new advertising idea for Wells Fargo: Sponsor ICE raids w/ the bank's famous stagecoach logo slapped all over the goon squad's SUVs. Music blaring from loudspeakers like it's an ice cream truck:
🎶 O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street
Oh please let it NOT be for me 🎶
🎶 O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street
Oh please let it NOT be for me 🎶
Seems appropriate.
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Seems appropriate.
Trump (maybe): I am a very aesthetic person! Therefore, I want every captain on every ship to start gluing this gold bling shit to the sides of every US Navy vessel!
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump (maybe): I am a very aesthetic person! Therefore, I want every captain on every ship to start gluing this gold bling shit to the sides of every US Navy vessel!
If seeing a POTUS wearing a suit not to your liking sends you into fits of apoplectic rage, and continues to do so just thinking about it years later, how can you remain so even keeled watching Trump every day in one of Khrushchev's castoffs?
September 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If seeing a POTUS wearing a suit not to your liking sends you into fits of apoplectic rage, and continues to do so just thinking about it years later, how can you remain so even keeled watching Trump every day in one of Khrushchev's castoffs?
Who can blame Tulsi? Past threats are easier to see than future ones. Like the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight when he knows he dropped them elsewhere where it's dark.
September 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Who can blame Tulsi? Past threats are easier to see than future ones. Like the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight when he knows he dropped them elsewhere where it's dark.
Maybe Trump should demand a Nobel Peace Prize for not ordering a B-2 strike on the UN building & all of Midtown NYC over the terrorist escalator attack he survived. (Thanks, Melania, for leading the clearly befuddled man up and out of danger!)
September 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Maybe Trump should demand a Nobel Peace Prize for not ordering a B-2 strike on the UN building & all of Midtown NYC over the terrorist escalator attack he survived. (Thanks, Melania, for leading the clearly befuddled man up and out of danger!)
Maybe gonna be like that crazy purge Saddam Hussein carried out in 1979 where his top officials were gathered together in a great big room. One by one he pointed at individuals he suspected of disloyalty. Each was then dragged out and shot.
Gosh, hope not.
Gosh, hope not.
September 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Maybe gonna be like that crazy purge Saddam Hussein carried out in 1979 where his top officials were gathered together in a great big room. One by one he pointed at individuals he suspected of disloyalty. Each was then dragged out and shot.
Gosh, hope not.
Gosh, hope not.
Same energy.
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Same energy.
Before Air Jordans ...
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Before Air Jordans ...
What good does it serve for a professor, who holds a PhD in the field, and has years of research on the topic, to "debate" an 18 year-old, hungover, frat boy who believes Thailand is pronounced Thigh-Land?
September 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
What good does it serve for a professor, who holds a PhD in the field, and has years of research on the topic, to "debate" an 18 year-old, hungover, frat boy who believes Thailand is pronounced Thigh-Land?
Ship is going down while Schumer and Jeffries reach across the aisle to nicely ask MAGA to sell them a soup ladle and help bail.
September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Ship is going down while Schumer and Jeffries reach across the aisle to nicely ask MAGA to sell them a soup ladle and help bail.