turtlegirlcc.bsky.social
Environmentalist, naturalist, photographer, reader, artist, writer. Engaged in developing coastal resilience. Lives on an eroding sand spit.
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It was really lame, hardly anybody came, and Trump looked so bored that I’m sure by the end he wished he spent his birthday playing golf and eating McDonalds.
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Well those are my visual memories and how it tracks for me.
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NAH. The jet will be brought up to Air Force One level security using millions of dollars of taxpayer funds, only to be retired basically immediately and then turned over for Trump’s personal use via the library. At which point the next president goes back to using the less luxurious old AF1? Why?
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Technically they are calling it a gift to the US Air Force. Since when does the U.S. Air Force transfer millions of dollars of government property to the personal use of anybody? The Reagan library got a retired Air Force One, but it’s an exhibit. Trump plans to use this one as his personal jet.
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Matlock actually cared about justice and truth, unlike Pirro.
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They are probably thinking they didn’t get their money’s worth from Trump. They were expecting another tax cut and some regulation erasure. They would have saved a lot of money by backing the Democrats and accepting a tax hike.
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In 1870, Wellfleet (MA) sea captain Lorenzo Dow Baker brought the first bananas to the U.S. and thus was born the United Fruit Company, which turned latin American countries into banana republics because its ruthless power squeezed the lifeblood these countries.
Trump is doing this to America.
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Republicans truly hate the fact that people who support other candidates are legally allowed to vote. Every time they lose it’s because of (they claim) voter fraud. Only in the counties they lost. Without ever producing a single scrap of evidence. Because there is no voter fraud.
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That is a pretty massive tax increase on these businesses (and consumers) especially coming from Trump and the Republican Party who claim that taxes are too high.
Considering he ran on the economy, he’s doing a great job of wrecking it, just like Republicans always do.
Maximal incompetence.
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North Korea has long-term sanctions. Tariffs would have zero impact. Russia has sanctions but there was a $2.5 billion trade deficit in 2024 with U.S. exporting ~$526 million to Russia. Just adding context.
Trump is deliberately destroying the U.S. and should be impeached.
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He’s has, what, 10% stake in Tesla? He’s making more from his other companies, raking in the government contracts, destroying the agencies investigating him and/or regulating his businesses, acquiring confidential business information on his rivals, and personal info of many Americans. What lesson?
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Musk and his people should be nowhere near any agency that is investigating him or his companies. The SEC is investigating Musk and Twitter purchase (or did Trump kibosh?)
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None of the Republicans asserted their Constitutional Article I powers to stop the rampage, and instead voted to allow Trump to impound funds under the CR.
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I maintain that Trump is the most wasteful president in our history. He’s wasting resources, wasting people, wasting the economy, wasting our global power, wasting our allies, wasting money, wasting our national security, and laying waste to the Constitution.
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Some people are just batshit crazy. I fail to see any legitimate public interest in, or benefit from, policing haircuts. Or gender.
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I’m sure they do. Some of my friends, though, not so much.
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There’s nothing wrong with eating fresh roadkill if you know how to identify issues that would make it unsafe. In Pennsylvania the state collects the roadkill deer, butchers them, and distributes the meat to food pantries.
There are plenty of real reasons to distrust Kennedy and label him a quack.
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Good, but it’s mostly stock fluctuations and wealth that was paper, ephemeral. They will make it back easily in real money from Trump giving them favorable no-bid contracts. I would rather their losses come in the form of a benefit to the country with higher tax access bets and payments.
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Everyday Trump diminishes America. He harms through his ignorance, his greed, his cruelty, his vindictiveness, and by how easily he falls to manipulation. He makes us weaker and less resilient internally while also destroying our global power and our relationships with long term allies.
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The more we got into it, the richer, deeper the responses, suggestions, questions coming back at me. If this was a person, I’d want wide ranging conversations late into the night. It was too easy to lose sight of the fact that this was not a person.
Turing Test passed.