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Retired Navy musician and audio engineer. Self proclaimed smarter than a fifth grader, and at least as left as Bernie. Wine, food, scotch, and music keep me going.
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Just in case folks have forgotten, the last time 45b “negotiated” with Zelenskyy, it was to coerce him into digging up dirt on Biden to help him win the election. Always a con artist who lies about everything.

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Trump returns seized classified documents back to Mar-a-Lago aboard Air Force One: President Donald Trump on Friday took back to Florida boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.

This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3. Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.

If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

“Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history. Tempers flared, voices were raised & protocol was shredded…As Trump got into a shouting match with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a horrified Europe watched the post-second world war order crumble before its eyes.”

Senator Tim Kaine nailed it. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The people wanting to privatize government functions say they want to remove inefficiencies, but time and again the government provided functions are always more efficient than private sector ones. The inefficiencies are hidden in the profits of the private companies.

You can’t support both Donald Trump and America when Donald Trump supports dictator Vladimir Putin and America supports our ally, Ukraine. You either stand with Donald Trump and Putin or America and Ukraine. I pick America and Ukraine. I stand with freedom.

this was always the agenda and some of us said so and were called hysterical bsky.app/profile/jame...

We need to learn and adapt. Every single Senate Dem vote for Rubio. It got us nothing. "Rollover and play dead" got us nothing. Fight back or lose the democracy. Full stop.

2016: GOP dilutes party platform regarding aid to Ukraine under Trump 2019: Trump tries to withhold military aid until Zelensky “announces” an investigation into the Bidens 2025: Trump and Vance openly side with Putin It’s been the play the whole time, now it’s just out in the open

Ex-Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton is calling for Secretary of State Marco Rubio and current National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to resign over the Ukraine debacle.

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Trump & Vance are disgusting PIGS rambling on about how Zelensky didn't thank them and how bad that is... THIS was a publicity stunt for King Trump to show Putin that he's a STRONGMAN -and on Putin's side. This was a planned public flogging of Zelensky. Pathetic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Tear down and destroy the government agencies responsible for many necessary functions and replace them with for-profit companies led by private oligarchs who will fleece the public to provide the services at twice the price. The GOP wet dream is coming true.

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

Holy crap.

“I am ashamed for my nation; even if Congress acts to support and aid Ukraine, it cannot restore the American honor lost today.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social captures this shameful episode and treatment of an ally. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Sound up! 🔊 “…unbecoming of an American president to pollute the Oval Office…” Please take just 2:57 to listen to my friend, @joelmrubin.bsky.social’s, interview with the BBC regarding today’s fiasco at the WH. Brilliant as always, Joel! youtu.be/67tR65otYJ0?...

It's not hard at all, Zelensky is HERO Trump is LOSER

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Donald Trump has betrayed America. If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.

Leon traipses around the oval office and attends cabinet meetings in a T-shirt and grimy baseball cap and 🟠 have the nerve to complain about President Zelenskyy‘s attire? AYFKM???

Lemme get this straight... JD Vance has a meltdown in the Oval Office because Zelenskyy points out that he's never visited Ukraine once. Donald Trump cancels the press conference. President Zelenskyy doesn't sign the minerals deal. And MAGA thinks this was a win? Clown. Show.

#IStandWithZelenskyy 🇺🇦 Pass it on.

Former French President François Hollande said the United States government under Donald Trump is "no longer an ally." www.politico.eu/article/dona...

In a meeting, staged by and for the Kremlin, Trump today proved he is truly the useful idiot for Russia that we all suspected. He is breaking America for the benefit of Russia. We are under attack terrorist attack and he and Vance are leading it.

On the "Krasnov" rumors, Trump, and Russia. Free full article here: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

Trump and Vance's behavior is disgraceful and dangerous. They're helping our enemies, hurting our friends, and weakening our security. Putin’s bloody, unjustified invasion has left hundreds of thousands dead and is killing more every say. This is a shameful moment in our history.

Pretty clear. The goal here was to do a kind of ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine. They pushed Zelensky past his limit. Trump now says, in essence, you're own your own with Russia. Up to the free states of Europe now.

We just watched two Putin Puppets demand Zelenskyy bend the knee and kiss the ring of a deranged, thin-skinned, miserable fool. We're not even two months into this horror show and America's standing on the world stage has been obliterated.

Today, the current occupant of the White House and his lap dog @JDVance tried to act tough. Zelenskyy made it clear to the world how weak they are. They have reduced the United States position to be nothing more than Putin or bust. Zelenskyy smartly chose to go home.

This Oval Office meeting is a total disgrace. The attacks on Ukraine, on Zelenskyy, on Biden - a shameful response from an American President. I’m disgusted.

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

An Epigram Oh, mighty Trump, so bold, so brash, Yet grovels low for Putin’s cash. With puffed-up chest and empty boasts, He kneels before the man he toasts. MAGA cheered their iron-willed knight, Who works Vlad's junk most every night.

If you’re at home today, not spending money, and feeling bored, you might be wondering, “What could I do?” Well, task one: you can make random reports on this website: enddei.ed.gov

The media better stop calling the Zelenskyy press conference a “heated exchange”. Call it what it was, a crazy, inappropriate, unhinged, shakedown, by a madman and his lapdog.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

Trump is a disgrace to the United States and the human race.

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

So, Melon Husk can wear a T-shirt and ball cap to a presidential cabinet meeting and no one bats an eye, but wow did they go apeshit when Pres. Obama wore a tan suit.

What AOC said. Dammit.

Elon Musk’s penis rocket and exploding car companies have been given $38 billion in government funding, but he’s cutting funding for children’s cancer research, gutting the VA’s suicide prevention hotline and letting palettes of desperately needed food expire because it’s “wasteful spending.”