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Retired military vet | Small business owner | Logical thinker Advocate for the rights of all | Defender of facts, truth and democracy

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Two weeks ago I posted that Trump was driving us into a recession. I hoped I was wrong but was certain I wasnโ€™t.

Well, the Atlanta Fed again lowered growth expectations. From positive 2.3% on February 19th to -2.8% yesterday, a swing of 5.1% in three weeks.

Stand by for heavy rolls!

04.03.2025 13:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

To all my UK friendsโ€ฆ. Wouldnโ€™t it be great if the orange bullyโ€™s visit were cancelled?

02.03.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Open Letter to Elon Musk From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are โ€œundermining civilization.โ€ This is my response.

A great letter from @marcelias.bsky.social and @democracydocket.com

23.02.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yup, and in reply folks should use ChatGPT or any other AI tool and have it write a 10,000 word essay on describing their role. Something similar to โ€œWrite a 10,000 word essay describing what a [โ€ฆyour roleโ€ฆ] might do in a weekโ€

Cut, paste, maybe edit, and submit

22.02.2025 21:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Use ChatGPT or any other AI toll and have it write a 10,000 word essay on describing your role. Something similar to โ€œWrite a 10,000 word essay describing what a [โ€ฆyour roleโ€ฆ] might do in a weekโ€

Cut, paste, maybe edit, and submit

22.02.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mark my wordsโ€ฆthere is a recession looming in our future.

21.02.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz channels Tiananmen Square to call on Americans to defy a tyrant.

16.02.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are people with courage out there.

14.02.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A farm worker walking through muddy rows full of water in a strawberry field

A farm worker walking through muddy rows full of water in a strawberry field

On this rainy day, Jose is slogging through slippery, muddy rows in Watsonville, CAs strawberry fields. His task is to remove flowers from the strawberry plants. This redirects the plant's energy to the berries and results in bigger, brighter, and juicier fruit. #WeFeedYou

13.02.2025 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 877    ๐Ÿ” 196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

If anyone has ever had any doubts about the need for Congressional term limits I present Exhibit 1: Mitch McConnell.

The only reason he voted against Trumpโ€™s nominees is because he is not running for re-election and somehow that made him grow a spine.

14.02.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

14.02.2025 01:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35367    ๐Ÿ” 21182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 592    ๐Ÿ“Œ 684

The image of a draft dodging convicted felon saluting during the national anthem is just sickening.

10.02.2025 02:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One has to wonder why any person can support Donald Trump. He has just invited apartheid supporting Afrikaners into the US, possibly granting them the same asylum status he just stripped from Venezuelans. Every day it just gets worse and Congress is doing nothing.

08.02.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If we FLIP these Districts we can cut the House majority to ONE vote and help put the brakes on the rampant corruption that is the Trump and Musk administration!

Letโ€™s get out the vote, letโ€™s show the Nation that Florida cares about our constitution and the rule of law

07.02.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FL residents who live in US House District 1 & 6, now is your time to make a HUGE impact. Both those seats are scheduled for a Special Election on April 1 and we can FLIP them if you do your part. You need to vote, you need to get your friends to vote, you need to get strangers to vote.(1/2)

07.02.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

THIS IS IT. The special general elections for Floridaโ€™s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses! Mark your calendars! Show up!

06.02.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36481    ๐Ÿ” 12014    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 973    ๐Ÿ“Œ 765

This both big and important. However, we now need to continue the fight for all Govt. entities and we need to seek, and hire, coding experts who can review every change and line of code to ensure Trusk and their minions havenโ€™t installed nefarious code and/or back doors.

06.02.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@secrubio.bsky.social Your previous strong support for USAid stands in contrast to your current cowering position and false statements. Now you wonโ€™t go to the G20 summit because SA does โ€œbad thingsโ€? How about you stand up to Trump/Musk if you are worried about โ€œbad thingsโ€

06.02.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am shocked that Congress isnโ€™t up in arms about the actions of the administration.

- Compiling lists of persons who โ€œworked againstโ€ Donald Trump
- Seeking wholesale resignations from key agencies
- Shutting down agencies
- Stopping the funds to agencies

Why arenโ€™t they doing their jobs?

05.02.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Letโ€™s see if I tally this correctly. Trump has threatened to invade Greenland, Canada, Panama and now, Gaza

He has also set or threatened tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and the entire EU.

Two weeks in and Trump has set back US diplomacy by decades and it can only get worse.

05.02.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But I guarantee he will seek a pardon!

05.02.2025 01:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I hope everyone realizes that the convicted sexual felon some call our President has ordered his billionaire lap dog to illegally access the Treasuryโ€™s computers and, this, give himself a back door to control trillions in government funds. You should be worried

04.02.2025 23:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m sorely disappointed in Lee Countyโ€™s (FL) decision to remove fluoride from their water. This is another example of heavily partisan County Commissioners voting on party lines, rather than what is right for their constituents.

04.02.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canada and Mexico didnโ€™t โ€œcaveโ€ on border security. How do we know? Because the Canada โ€œdealโ€ was announced last year (2024) and the Mexico โ€œdealโ€ has been in place since the Biden Administrationโ€ฆand re-affirmed last year.

Trumpโ€™s a pathological liarโ€ฆ.and a sexual abuser, fraudster and worse.

04.02.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How long before Musk deletes this post? Supposedly DOGE is about transparency so letโ€™s make it transparent and keep the names out there, visible for all to see.

03.02.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FAFO. Itโ€™s been on the tip of everybodyโ€™s tongue recently. Well, this weekend FOTUS decided to do the F**k Around part and now today and tomorrow Canada and Mexico are going to show us the Find Out part. Buckle up, itโ€™s going to be a bumpy ride!

03.02.2025 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is wrongful termination in so many ways. I pray they all sue!

01.02.2025 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NYAG successfully petitioned to block the illegal WH pause on federal funding.

31.01.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for taking the lead on reining in this chaotic, and corrupt, administration

31.01.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wow, if heard simplistic understandings of tariffs before but your version takes the cake.

I canโ€™t wait to see the pop-up factories that are going to immediately make those goods, or the magical farms that can meet our need and demand for FFV, or the immediate flow of oil to keep prices down.

31.01.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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