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You’ll know me by the company I keep. Retired US Army Foreign Area Officer

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OPENING ACT FOR MARTIAL LAW??

As US military leaders prepare for Virginia meeting, agenda comes into focus - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

27.09.2025 01:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Only instead of gold, Trumps items are cheese. Real American Cheese.

Are we GREAT yet, or what?

27.09.2025 00:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SCOTUS opened Pandora’s box.

27.09.2025 00:02 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Gayle King left stunned after ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host Tony Dokoupil torches Jimmy Kimmel on air The on-air exchange followed Disney’s decision to bring “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” back on Tuesday.

Does he not understand only 36% of voting age adults still support Trump? Why should we treat Trump as “normal?”
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27.09.2025 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s definitely a decision-making process taking place. It’s a matter of “who whispered in his ear last” process.

26.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And sending another violin to Arizona next week for the Violin Makers Association International competition in October. #41 Completed this summer.

26.09.2025 23:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Received a third place for tone! I’ll take it! Certificate bottom left.

26.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Comey and why now?

Reason #1: Statute of limitations runs out Tuesday

Reason #2: Epstein

26.09.2025 01:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“I’m innocent. Let’s have a trial”

26.09.2025 01:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Pam Bondi’s Own DOJ Staff Explode at Indicting James Comey: ‘Worst Abuse’ A former DOJ staffer said the department is “broken.”

TRUMP ABUSE OF POWER GOES FULL TILT

"Career officials have largely been either pushed out or silenced and are not in meetings about major decisions about cases."

www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondis-o...

26.09.2025 11:07 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

25.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 21143    🔁 7903    💬 681    📌 347

Just what we all suspected!!

26.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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cnbctv18india on Instagram: "In an Oval Office meeting on Thursday (September 25) with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump referenced …" In an Oval Office meeting on Thursday (September 25) with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump referenced “rigged elections,” saying he had been “in exile, unfairly” because of that, adding that Erdogan “knows about rigged elections better than anybody.”Trump said their friendship endured during that period, calling it a “test of friendship.”Erdogan's first visit to the White House in about six years comes at a time when Ankara is keen to take advantage of a U.S. administration eager to make deals in return for big-ticket arms and trade agreements.......#TRUMP #turkey #erdoğan #turkishpresident #presidenttrump #whitehouse #cnbctv18

EXILE??
Sitting next to Pres Erdogan of Turkey yesterday, Trump remarked the two “have been friends for a long time, even for the four years when I WAS IN EXILE unfairly, rigged elections. He [pointing at Erdogan] knows about rigged elections better than anybody…”

www.instagram.com/reel/DPDXa1L...

26.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech and says this is not going to end well ALT: a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech and says this is not going to end well

Almost as popular as “you know who”

26.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JUST NOW AT THE UN…

26.09.2025 13:27 — 👍 36236    🔁 9546    💬 1938    📌 1054
Melania Trump: “Who gives a f*** about Christmas?”🎄🫣
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats Melania Trump: “Who gives a f*** about Christmas?”🎄🫣

Poor Melania. It’s that time of year again.
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26.09.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ok. Now I get it. Gold equals ROYALTY.

23.09.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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23.09.2025 04:11 — 👍 24477    🔁 6170    💬 679    📌 426

decide to try to appease Trump voters are making poor business decisions.”

23.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the polls in 2024. Figuring that number into Trump’s popularity shows that only about 32% of American adults voted for Trump in 2024, while 53% of adults currently disapprove of his performance in the White House, with 48% strongly opposed. So businesses that👇👇

23.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ONLY 32% of Americas adult population is reaching Trumps ears. He is WILDLY out of touch with America, and the real world.

Heather Cox Richardson explains: “That is, while polls frequently measure how voters feel about the president, only about 64.1% of American adults eligible to vote went to👇👇

23.09.2025 14:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return

Tonight is going to be interesting.
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23.09.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

So far, it’s working.

23.09.2025 12:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Mille💫 (@mill.sni) on Threads As a Dane, it hurts to see how the US has treated us. After we refused to let Them annex Greenland, they targeted our companies. Today, we had a Danish win. Our wind power company Ørsted just won in U...

Trumps “stop work order” on wind farms built by Danish company has been thwarted in US Courts.
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23.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump‘s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous The president signed an executive order Monday declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Hey Donald EPSTEIN, RELEASE THE TRUMP FILES!! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

23.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return

www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...

23.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return

www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...

23.09.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Fact check: Trump and the case of the nonexistent $600 billion EU ‘gift’ | CNN Politics Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC. As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave th...

NO, I DONT THINK SO.

“European side had said in July that the $600 billion figure referred to private-sector European companies’ “intentions” to invest in the US over time rather than some sort of lump-sum EU handout to the Trump administration.”

www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...

22.08.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tulsi Gabbard Slashes 40% Of US Intelligence Workforce Citing 'Abuse Of Power' And 'Unauthorized Leaks' Tulsi Gabbard, Director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced a significant reduction in the workforce and budget of the office.

RUSDIA AND CHJBA WOLL LOVE THIS NEWS:

The Trump administration plans to implement a 40% cut in the ODNI workforce and reduce the budget by over $700 million annually. Gabbard cited the ODNI as having grown “bloated and inefficient” over the past two decades

www.benzinga.com/news/politic...

21.08.2025 13:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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