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@ricj37.bsky.social

Blue Vietnam veteran in Red Texas. Living in interesting times.

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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

25.09.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 35544    πŸ” 8700    πŸ’¬ 1022    πŸ“Œ 352

Miller hates the majority of Americans.

20.08.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kash Patel plays pretend FBI, Pam Bondi cashes in her ethics, JD Vance bends like a wet flag in the wind… and Dan Bongino? Probably sulking in a corner somewhere.

This isn’t a legal team. It’s Trump’s discount clearance aisle.

08.08.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Another interesting things is that Trump can brazenly do something illegal for six months and no one will stop him.

31.07.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Should the Government Be Run Like a Business?
β€œRunning the government like a business” is just another way of saying that we should privatize government services affo Should the Government Be Run Like a Business?

β€œRunning the government like a business” is just another way of saying that we should privatize government services afforded to everyone.

You know who would love that? Wall Street and big corporations.

Don’t buy into the myth. https://youtu.be/hqn1uD_B70U?si=aClsRAYTJHYGXpB4

17.06.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5468    πŸ” 1687    πŸ’¬ 273    πŸ“Œ 94
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Sunday: "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran."
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Today: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran ... Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

He's not a hawk. He's not a dove. He's just a moron.

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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal."

That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

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Some were saying it was $100 million each.

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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

01.04.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 54434    πŸ” 10244    πŸ’¬ 942    πŸ“Œ 499

Recount-proof wins in all swing states, even.

24.03.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9
theonion.com/egg-companie...

13.03.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 13420    πŸ” 1776    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 126

Standard procedure for new management. If you can't do anything, or don't know how to do anything, you rename stuff.

07.03.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

02.03.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 25457    πŸ” 10159    πŸ’¬ 813    πŸ“Œ 697

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When will you MAGats understand that Trump doesn’t give two shits about you?
Myrtle Beach is on fire.
Myrtle Beach will have to wait until tomorrow for federal assistance.
Trump and Vance don’t work on weekends
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Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

02.03.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 25258    πŸ” 5741    πŸ’¬ 522    πŸ“Œ 258

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

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Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

02.03.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 54439    πŸ” 11978    πŸ’¬ 2457    πŸ“Œ 1174
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HERO vs ZERO
I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore.
#SlavaUkrainiπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ #ShameOnUSπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

02.03.2025 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 97229    πŸ” 16196    πŸ’¬ 2916    πŸ“Œ 548
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Leaders of the free world stand united in London

The United States is not among them

02.03.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 58525    πŸ” 13282    πŸ’¬ 2055    πŸ“Œ 850

Two fifths of his brain is in the penalty box.

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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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'Voters are angry': Brutal polling shows Elon Musk 'not doing much' to help Trump "Voters are angry" at Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor Elon Musk for cutting thousands of government jobs across the country, according to new polling. The South Africa-born tech mogul and his newly created Department of Government Efficiency have…

'Voters are angry': Brutal polling shows Elon Musk 'not doing much' to help Trump: "Voters are angry" at Donald Trump's billionaire benefactor Elon Musk for cutting thousands of government jobs across the country, according to new polling.

The South Africa-born tech mogul and his newly created…

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Musk goes to war with astronaut who called out his BS Elon Musk called Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen β€œfully retarded” and an β€œidiot” on Thursday after he blasted Musk’s repeated false claims that the stranding of two U.S. astronauts at ...

Musk goes to war with astronaut who called out his BS www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.

REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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Today's front page of The New York Post.

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This would be disqualifying for a Democratic or Republican nominee in normal times.

This Senate will probably find this to be a positive quality, though.

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