Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Sec. of Agriculture, was just on CNN pushing the lie that tariffs are a “national security” issue. Right.👌Cloaking the plummeting of our retirement savings, rising prices & economic pain for everyday Americans—while isolating us from key allies—as nat sec? Give me a break. - ThreadSky

oliviaoftroye.com • 1 day ago

Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Sec. of Agriculture, was just on CNN pushing the lie that tariffs are a “national security” issue. Right.👌Cloaking the plummeting of our retirement savings, rising prices & economic pain for everyday Americans—while isolating us from key allies—as nat sec? Give me a break.

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lavandra.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another example of an administration appointee who desperately needs to try different prescription, one that doesn’t compel you to sell your soul.

cbmarz.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just sent a note to @briantylercohen.bsky.social asking him to do a deep dive as there were so many lies and horrid comparisons. Also sad Jake didn’t push back.

omg1954.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, I particularly liked it when Jake asked her why trumpkin put a tariff on two islands inhabited only by penguins. She said, “oh, come on, we have the best economic minds including trumpkin blah, blah, blah” but never answered his question.

bellamodaent.bsky.social•1 day ago

I sure hope the interviewer pushed back. Although why are they having her on to lie?? They know that’s all she’ll do!

cherylnix.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would argue that these tariffs *create* a national security threat. But it’s all about the grift with this administration. Watch the carve outs start. Oh and a plummeting stock market allows for buying stocks on the cheap. Someone is scooping them up while retirees like me lose savings.

clasb.bsky.social•1 day ago

…this must be spread far and wide. Peter Navarro’s expert on tariff’s is nonexistent…it is an anagram of his own name. Here…at about 6 minutes. https://youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...

thirsch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Gaslighting. Lies upon lies upon lies

isometricfit.bsky.social•1 day ago

They have to get bigger and bigger, so big where it can't be ignored. But NBC nightly news did cover it. But there were no interviews, just some short shots of protests around the country.

sjarvis.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have to apologize (not really) to some of Trump's other cabinet members. She might be the dumbest, most venal of them all. Just breathtaking, even with Jake Tapper's usual softballs and no real follow-up interviewing.

lgaud.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brook Rollins has major brain damage.

djmonijn.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think trump wiped out most people’s savings in two days. Time for IMPEACHMENT

musicarchives.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stop watching any television station that normalizes lying. @cnn.com is unwatchable.

puckmama.bsky.social•1 day ago

they forced us to build a retirement in stocks, then they play with it. I want to see them all burn in hell

agileaussie.bsky.social•1 day ago

And they are claiming the market drop is just a “correction”.

canadianbacon66.bsky.social•1 day ago

Your trade deficits are about to get bigger, if oil keeps plummeting, you won’t be able to export as much anymore because the production cost are going to be lower than the price of the barrel. This is going to kill the oil industry in the states.

blucowdawg.bsky.social•1 day ago

…bingo… general strike now…

cajunasfuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

But signalgate catastrophe wasn’t. These people are idiots.

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a big time rip off scheme is what it is.

ronchica.bsky.social•1 day ago

As if the administration that uses Signal to text war plans cares about national security.

blucowdawg.bsky.social•1 day ago

…been warning about this new Cold War narrative op for a while now… not cause I’m smart but because they got nowhere else to go… general strike…

booksondesign.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/booksondesign.bsky.social/post/3llxguyyjls2k

stroligus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ll never understand why people who at one point may have been somewhat normal and serious will lie through their teeth on behalf of a demented child, ruining their own reputations forever.

steveknapp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Generally don't agree with this guy, but he has a point.

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.
Bill O'Reilly

stark64.bsky.social•1 day ago

They get a new flavor of Kool Aid every day!

sockpuppetpundit.bsky.social•1 day ago

This has always been an issue.

Who are those new fighter jets protecting?

The person who can’t afford healthcare and will die of a preventable disease?

Public health is a matter of national security.

ctrlaltwrite.bsky.social•1 day ago

Calling tariffs “national security” is like calling arson fire prevention.

dolpher.bsky.social•1 day ago

She mostly wanted to brag about all the "think tanks" she's worked on before tanking the economy with geniuses like Navarro and Lutnick. What a self-serving hypocrite.

nojustdan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Billionaires are not particularly concerned about inflation or job losses. We have government BY billionaires FOR billionaires.

v-ron.bsky.social•1 day ago

If that were true, she would have shared it on a Signal chat & invited an editor of...oh, Wired magazine

lpeterp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, tell us how the world’s largest economy by far is being taken advantage of by others.

rpgill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doubt that it's national security, but it clearly has global security implications. If it was national security, wouldn't there be a Signal chat with a journalist invited by mistake?

natashiad.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why does CNN have these people spewing lies? They ask such incredibly lame questions instead of the hard questions that would make them tell the truth. It's like they are on Sesame Street.

stephielynn204.bsky.social•1 day ago

In reality, if they are a national security issue, an unprovoked trade war increases our chances of being attacked, not the other damn way around.

krisve.bsky.social•19 hours ago

National security means a diverse supply chain, not putting all our eggs in one basket.

honesttalkgene.bsky.social•1 day ago

They only know how to lie .. the truth is too painful even for them

ggl25.bsky.social•1 day ago

Rollins toadiness was a new low

ridiculata.com•1 day ago

THEY are the security risk.

tereserenee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Did you see her eyes? I think she was showing signs of some anxiety, stress and lies... BLINK, BLINK, BLINK! 👀

harrymaroudas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah, her eyes are full of whitechristofascist zeal.

octoberbelle57.bsky.social•1 day ago

We need the white hats to deal with Faux Entertainment. STAT.

dadavies.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s funny. After the admin’s reaction to the heads of national security depts exposing military secrets to hackers on Signal, Musk’s kids exposing PII of millions of us on the web, & the dismantling of team tasked w preventing cyber attacks, I didn’t think national security was a thing anymore.

davidjkerr.bsky.social•1 day ago

The tRUMP team throws ketchup at the wall, thinking we will miss the real stain: him!

jogobonit0.bsky.social•1 day ago

The crashing market while the President holfs in FL is the National Security issue. Global, really.

jogobonit0.bsky.social•1 day ago

* golfs

sirpauled.bsky.social•1 day ago

And as Agriculture Secretary, he should understand that American farmers may be the most vulnerable early victims of these tariffs.

winlundn.bsky.social•18 hours ago

There are two ways to read what you wrote, Olivia. I didn’t like the first way I read that. It suggests to me that there’s enough of an internal power argument so that cracks are now appearing. Trumpers are walking a fine line between reality and being complete fakes that even the stodgiest see it.

plankowner996.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are all a bunch of blow hard. Keep telling people the bullshit lies and they will believe you just like they suck up to Trump's assnine narcissist lies. Soooo full of BULLSHIT.

cutbush.bsky.social•1 day ago

It definitely is a national security issue... Alienating your allies and trading partners definitely makes you less safe. Oh well,sure, I am glad I'm Canadian.

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