Today's Office Hours question: What the hell do Trump and his regime really want? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-the-hell-do-trump - ThreadSky

jm-renner1981.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want to kill the sick, poor, disabled and elderly. They want the middle-class destroyed and an underclass of slaves created who work till death and die young

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delfinr.bsky.social•10 days ago

To destroy America and democracy. This is obvious 😒

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gr8fuldad.bsky.social•10 days ago

Chaos so they can take over.

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birdingcraft.bsky.social•10 days ago

Not necessarily in this order- attention for narcissistic, fragile egos, making money and having power through corruption and ensuring that keeps taking place years in advance, and using the gov. to attack any perceived enemies that could eventually hold them accountable.

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mjayne01.bsky.social•10 days ago

Ask Comrade Krasnov!

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alibali60.bsky.social•10 days ago

Money

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eonrecoil.bsky.social•10 days ago

😡
Trump protest song

https://youtu.be/nbsLkB7jUUA?si=rKEACbHIm-zBK_gi

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1950srobots.bsky.social•10 days ago

Gold mountains to count all day and ski on in their climate proof bunkers while the world burns

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ratchetology.bsky.social•10 days ago

to burn things down

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ricklw.bsky.social•10 days ago

They are evil. Their goals are destruction for the sake of destruction, the acquisition of power for the sake of gaining more power and wealth for the sake of gaining more wealth.

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andrewlindsey.bsky.social•10 days ago

Pump and dump. Buy low, sell high. Move fast and break things. Rinse and repeat.

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barbie68.bsky.social•10 days ago

💲and 💪

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ostrakon.bsky.social•9 days ago

They want to go back to when America was great like it was when only white, male property owners mattered.

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kylebmccullough.bsky.social•10 days ago

What did you think Putin recruited him for?

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lrosenthal.bsky.social•10 days ago

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madcolorist.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want to live like royalty in the lap of luxury.

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santorinidreaming.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s all part of Putin’s grand agenda of revenge. Since Putin holds all the kompromat cards on Satan and the GQP minions, Putin is ordering the destruction of America from within — destroy the economy, our health, our alliances, our foreign influence and reputation — everything

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bcstid.bsky.social•10 days ago

When Trump told Zelensky he had no cards to play, what he really meant was that Trump has no cards to play with Putin.

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freeworld99.bsky.social•10 days ago

Bingo

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feminist-mamabear.bsky.social•10 days ago

This is the 100 million dollar question, right?

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headsturn25.bsky.social•10 days ago

To be a dictator 🤬

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cawriter.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't know about anyone else, but for Trump it's always, always about money. He's using the presidency to enrich himself, and the welfare of the American public be damned.

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zman1527.bsky.social•10 days ago

Power, control in order to punish, humiliate and gather all the riches. Whoda thunk a doofus like Trump could do this.

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jonathanled.bsky.social•10 days ago

Their sense of identity is not tied up with the nation. Their commitment is to something else. Probably different things. Some wants their own nation state, others to build a global financial empire, one pursues colonizing other planets. No commitment to the collective wellbeing from any of them.

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todoscojones.bsky.social•10 days ago

"More"

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hazdaz.bsky.social•10 days ago

Following Putin's orders. Putin wants power and even more wealth, while Putin wants to send the US back at least 50 years.

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jesperfjoelner.bsky.social•10 days ago

Putin has a villa ready for Trump next to Assad's.

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sandradny.bsky.social•10 days ago

Total domination now and forever, obviously

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theliberalvol.bsky.social•10 days ago

All the money and an all white society

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nietzschestrong.bsky.social•10 days ago

For all the fairly newly minted MAGAt(s) in the 18-34 age range…I think it’s time to reapply the mandatory military service requirement.

America First!

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jaytski.bsky.social•10 days ago

Trump is an unwitting Trojan horse. As a result White Christian Nationalists are rising to power in our government:

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abisabi.bsky.social•10 days ago

They are Russian assets, so the total destruction of our nation

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shipperxphile.bsky.social•10 days ago

Power. And a white ethnostate.

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maryjka.bsky.social•10 days ago

Own comfort. They do not give ..monkey if they hurt anyone, including their closest!, while on it.

What's so new?

My whole family is like that!

Glad we talk more about narcissism !

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hey.rupert.murdochbait.click•8 days ago

He wants a big, beautiful hell, where Trump is the Tormenter in Chief.

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deborahdavis.bsky.social•10 days ago

I believe the orange man wants to start a race war so that he can declare marshal Law and stay in power. He is already ignoring the courts, which is the only current guard rail we have. Not sure what shape we will be in at midterms 😡

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jwoodlands.bsky.social•10 days ago

The regime serves multi masters. Putin gets the end of America. Christofascists get the End Times with a side of white supremacy. Racists get plain vanilla white supremacy. Jewhaters get to continue scapegoating Jews instead of owning their own shit. Billionaires get more billions. So much winning.

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facedamuzk.bsky.social•10 days ago

This is why:
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-hijacking-republicans-to-control-entire-us-government/

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ernesto-761-167.bsky.social•10 days ago

Easy: take the money

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rhombusticks.bsky.social•10 days ago

To destroy the dollar

But are too chickenshit to do it

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david-stone.bsky.social•10 days ago

I disagree with Luttig on the intentionality. Trump is destroying the country for reasons that will serve him well:

https://bsky.app/profile/david-stone.bsky.social/post/3lpp4zojhtk2n

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avamcmc.bsky.social•10 days ago

Exactly cheap
Realstate, land, business, factories, bankrupt everything and let the mega rich buy and control at bargain basement prices

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noligarchs.bsky.social•10 days ago

He's pissed because Western banks stopped loaning him money because he would go bankrupt on them.

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jackmari.bsky.social•10 days ago

It makes way for his dictatorship

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dperlowski.bsky.social•10 days ago

I honestly don't think they know what they want. Miller will be the quintessential madman who wakes up owning the world and asking "now what do I do with it?"

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slygrin.bsky.social•10 days ago

The fact that M![[er is flying relatively under the radar is the thing that should be raising everyone's hackles.

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rarebeef.bsky.social•10 days ago

Have you read Hunger Games or Oryx and Crake? They have.

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literarychick10.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want more money through grifts, bribes, gifts and tax breaks. That is all they want, everything else is political theater to keep us outraged.

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rebel95.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want destruction so they can loot all of us!

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witchywomin.bsky.social•10 days ago

He and his oligarchs want everyone who is not them to hurry up and die. THAT is what they want. Because if there are no voices of dissent they can rape the planet and no one will stop them.

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grafikfeats.bsky.social•10 days ago

Ask Putin… Trump is the means to the end...

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always4bangtan.bsky.social•10 days ago

📌

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largo161.bsky.social•10 days ago

Get richer and take down U.S. at Putin’s behest.

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witwarrior.bsky.social•10 days ago

Trump is a family annihilator, like Alex Murdaugh, on a national scale. The narcissistic injury he suffered when he lost the election in 2020 has resulted in his becoming a national annihilator.
Below: Trump, Murdaugh.

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danieltuttle.com•10 days ago

They want to go back to individual States being sovereign.

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transitfossil.bsky.social•10 days ago

paying off Putin for all the money he laundered through Trump since the 80s.

transactional.

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teedublavee.bsky.social•10 days ago

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philipskipper.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want unlimited power with no end date.

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petcharles.bsky.social•10 days ago

I figure they want to bring us back to 536 A.D., except for Trump who just wants to enrich himself and avoid prison. Every day they have me pounding the sand like George Taylor at how they’re blowing this thing up.

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shafawn.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s like a 3 Stooges routine. Moe kicks Curly in the butt, then moves. When Curly turns around, he sees Larry & kicks him. MAGA masses are dispossessed, resentful, ignorant & reactionary. They’re angry & easy to fool. So they take it out on usual suspects—minorities, women, foreigners, etc.

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shafawn.bsky.social•10 days ago

MAGA operatives like Bannon, Miller, Patel, Bondi, etc. for the most part are just like the dupes they deceive. But they actually buy the ideological dope they’re peddling. They think the Left is a real conspiracy that has seized the Deep State, ruining everything for them. Want to burn it all down.

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oconnellmark.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/south-sudan-deportation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I08.0yq8.K-eRpMPWw0dn&smid=url-share

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pashleyg.bsky.social•10 days ago

And what is he going to go about if Absolutely nothing

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pete316.bsky.social•10 days ago

And they came bearing gifts for the new king, who was born under the star of economic ruin. 😐

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bigrde1969.bsky.social•10 days ago

This✊✊✊✊✊✊✊

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philiphenika.bsky.social•10 days ago

What do they want? Laughs. Trump told the Atlantic that he is "having fun".

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drmonologue.bsky.social•10 days ago

Much of their current efforts are designed to create a desperate, debt-ridden, working class. They repeatedly explain that their massive layoffs and cuts are so there will be unemployed to fill low pay labor positions. Shredding and tying to work what little healthcare Americans have is the same.

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toddadam.bsky.social•10 days ago

All of it.

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elgatonyc.bsky.social•10 days ago

Isn't it obvious by now?

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whingywelshman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Tax cuts for the rich mainly

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grnlght.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want to punish everyone and make them slaves to their wealth and Americans are bending over and letting them. Either rise up now and stand for something or kneel for nothing.

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singchoirsing.bsky.social•10 days ago

Russia

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mikeep.bsky.social•10 days ago

Everyone's money.

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sailustothemoon.bsky.social•10 days ago

He wants to build a wall… between the rich and everyone else, while enriching himself with wealth and more power taken from other rich/powerful people, along with whatever the rest of us who are inconsequential to him share. Everything else is scraps for the GOP whores. He is playing monopoly.

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darbrina.bsky.social•10 days ago

We know why. So they can create a violent uprising, declare martial law, and install Tramp as dictator. Easier to manipulate poor uneducated ppl.

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apocalypse3dx.bsky.social•10 days ago

Put simply:

Trump wants to grift the system and people for every cent he can, have the rich, powerful, and intelligent made subordinate to him (because they make him feel inferior), and break the system so badly that by the time we are even aware of ALL his crimes he'll have died of old age.

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mandimoss.bsky.social•10 days ago

And power.

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mandimoss.bsky.social•10 days ago

Money.

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gerrymanders.bsky.social•10 days ago

All the power and all the money?

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larrytmg.bsky.social•10 days ago

Trump's doing Putin's bidding. They just want to raise hell and destroy us. (They're doing it.)

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kv417.bsky.social•10 days ago

To finalize the vile German dictators dream.

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justgot1.bsky.social•9 days ago

Someone spoiler the article for me, what does the regime want

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miketheknife007.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want to watch the world burn from their fleet of yachts.

🎵Twenty twenty twenty-four hours a daaaay, they wanna be felated🎵

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violetvixenisme.bsky.social•10 days ago

Hand it over to Putin!

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eskargo.bsky.social•10 days ago

He already got a public SURPRISE warning shot from Putin. The next one won't miss after Trump is no longer useful to him.

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eskargo.bsky.social•10 days ago

Ask Jake Tapper.

He probably knows.

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dreamchaser4ever.bsky.social•10 days ago

To rule over the masses with an iron fist.

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cghcghcgh.bsky.social•10 days ago

Actions Speak Louder than Words...

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victorn86976916.bsky.social•10 days ago

Kings, Queens and Princes of a banana republic... What else?

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johnpfree.bsky.social•10 days ago

Putin’s agenda

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joebug.bsky.social•10 days ago

Destruction of our country to rebuild in their image

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kenpct.bsky.social•10 days ago

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lightsphere.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/victinibcn.bsky.social/post/3lpocxslka22b

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cooltxchick.bsky.social•10 days ago

Everything!

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methu.bsky.social•10 days ago

Everything

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stevenhildebrand.bsky.social•10 days ago

Control, and that's literally the whole plan.

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sinziana.bsky.social•10 days ago

They just want to enrich themselves that is all.

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rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social•10 days ago

"Trump was elected to enrich and protect Trump. That was his only motivation. On issues of direct concern (e.g., getting a plane as a gift from Qatar or profiting off cryptocurrency), he has views. Otherwise, he is an empty vessel."

Paul Rosenzweig, DHS under George W. Bush

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cghcghcgh.bsky.social•10 days ago

Camel For Sale

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huckmucus.bsky.social•10 days ago

If he's that bad, someone would fix him, right? Maybe things are hunky dory. If there really was a deep state, or a secret society, they'd fix him, right? Doesn't his continued shit just prove there is no man or men behind any curtain?

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hiptrigger.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/hiptrigger.bsky.social/post/3llnjli5vec2q

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t1personaltraining.bsky.social•10 days ago

Gilead.

They want Gilead.

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noanarcocapitalism.bsky.social•10 days ago

to destroy the STATE. The fed, the enemies are Russia and the remnants of the KGB. The religious south. Paul Weyrich literally wrote it in his manifesto and he was founder of the Heritage Foundation. And the Anarcho capitalists from Rothbard. is an attack on consittuion and the welfare state. y

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thedeviantsaint.bsky.social•10 days ago

Impeach. Convict. Remove. We should be calling for it every day. Impeach. Convict. Remove. He's violating the constitution daily. Impeach. Convict. Remove. He openly encourages bribery. Impeach. Remove. Imprison. He is kidnapping American citizens. Impeach. Remove. Imprison. (202) 224-3121. 8647.

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bernie747.bsky.social•10 days ago

Their working for Putin. Only explanation.

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terry46.bsky.social•10 days ago

They want this country for themselves , if they control the wealth , they control the poor , the hungry , the desperate .

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desertdane.bsky.social•10 days ago

Rob the nation
Privatize public services
Privatize all government functions that funnel money
They want the govt more like private health insurance

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giraffequeen.bsky.social•10 days ago

great question, sir. I was literally just thinking about why evil people do what they do. How can people be so hateful, and for the life of me, I just can't come up with an explanation. I think a lot of it boils down to greed and ego.

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pints99.bsky.social•10 days ago

Make life shitty enough for folks to get out in the streets in the millions. Riots break out naturally or are instigated by agent provocateurs planted by the administration. Trump declares a fake emergency so he can institute martial law and suspend habeas corpus. And that's the ball game..

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avamcmc.bsky.social•10 days ago

Absolutely, martial
Law is part of project 25 plan, and his military parade, once those tanks role and his thugs march it won’t be for just a day

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mikemyhre.bsky.social•10 days ago

A neo-techno-feudal system, where anyone not already a billionaire becomes a penniless serf, stuck in indentured servitude for generations is my guess.

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