Rick Harrison

@rickharrison.bsky.social

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New Jersey expat, cynical idealist. My opinions are my own, not my employer’s. I don’t own a pawn shop.

Plaque on a wall over a stained and fading mural: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Dr. Klahn from the Kentucky Fried Movie retreats after using a prosthetic flamethrower for a hand and implores his attacker not to throw a bucket of water at him.
Truth Social screenshot from Trump: THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 agents into the crowd on January 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a scam. Do something!!! President DJT.
Tweet screenshot showing characters from the TV show MASH with text: We did the MASH. We did the Alda MASH. It was an 11-year smash for CBS.
Jan 6 rioters push a metal barricade against Capitol police officers.
Homer Simpson examines parts of a backyard grill before inexpertly assembling them.
Galactus looking down from above New York skyscrapers
Collage of four luxury yachts
Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift posing for a selfie
Protestors carrying signs outside the Connecticut capital building
Front page of Wall Street Journal with headline “Market Carnage Worsens” above a photo of Trump looking ancient and pale while on the phone and waving from inside his limo and headline “Trump Heads for Gold Club Amid Tariff Turmoil”
Val Kilmer from “Real Genius” film wearing an “I [heart] Toxic Waste” T-shirt
Nazi youth burning books in Germany in 1938
Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington DC
But, because people think that violence only comes when you’ve done something wrong, they easily believe the lies about the unworthiness of marginalized groups that never stop being told. If we understood that violence is about constantly sending a message about who belongs and who does not, then we might better understand that violence is about reinforcing an unjustified hierarchy, about insisting that only certain people are legitimate citizens with legitimate success and a legitimate right to belong.
Climate crises keep coming, genocides continue, women keep getting murdered, art is being strangled to death by AI, bigotry is on the rise, social progress is being rolled back … AND these men insist on being cringe? It’s a rotten cherry on top.
Screenshot of X notification that reads: Deactivated— Your account is deactivated. Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye
Mojo the monkey lies exhausted on a mat at the door of his trainer after an experience with Homer. He types “Pray for Mojo” into a device with a screen.
Police captain in Die Hard
William Atherton as evil TV reporter in Die Hard
Playing card for Art Monk as a New York Jet
Tweet showing Hawkeye and Trapper a John raising their martini glasses in a tent. Text: We did the MASH. We did the Alda MASH. It was an 11-year smash for CBS.
But professional baseball would never allow an umpire to continue to officiate the World Series after learning that the pennant of one of the two teams competing was flying in the front yard of the umpire’s home. Nor would an umpire be allowed to call balls and strikes in a World Series game after the umpire’s wife tried to get the official score of a prior game in the series overthrown and canceled out to benefit the losing team. If judges are like umpires, then they should be treated like umpires, not team owners, team fans or players.
NY Times Reporter David Carr