brntburke.bsky.social
Father to three, lesser half of a great team, San Jose State grad, longtime Californian, loves to travel, Catholic. Voted for her. No DMs unless I've met you IRL
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You forgot and he weighs 190lbs 😅
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So this is where our US tax dollars go when we give money to SpaceX? A state of Elon? We’ve gone completely crazy!
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Trump blinked…now says he’ll negotiate.
All he wants is to create problems then “solve” the problem he created. Too many Americans fall for is BS.
He is the epitome of the saying “don’t confuse activity for achievement”.
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Socialism for red states and farmers…it happens under every GOP Administration
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Omg! How about fund cancer research instead
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We teach our children “to do the right thing”…the Trump administration made a brutal mistake, maybe more than one, and rather than do the right thing they want to fight it. Unbelievable!
SCOTUS better tell Trump to return him.
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“Mistaken” or war criminals hoping to avoid consequences?
It’s amazing how much violence Israel causes with almost zero retribution.
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I understand, but it goes to my point about how simple-minded this administration is. We have a global economy where the U.S. has benefited, unequally in the U.S. , but overall we had a strong economy. Blanket tariffs is a simple minded solution. Just like “build a wall”.
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Thank you for sharing this post. I wanted to know where Trump got the figures since they were so different than everything else we’ve seen so far.
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So, a Toyota built in Tennessee, is that American or Japanese? This administration is so simple minded it’s astonishing!
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He should resign, but he’s not honorable or honest, so I expect him to stay and take taxpayer money while any other individual would have been fired.
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Hegseth is a very unserious person with no clue what he’s supposed to be doing.
Clear difference between him and his predecessor.
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I don't blame you for never looking at the US as an ally.
If I were Canada, I would double down on trade agreements with EU, UK and Mexico and let those in the US learn the hard lesson of isolationism.
I'm afraid there are about 100m Americans who only learn through direct experience.
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I think the Canadians have a better take on this...most Americans want to be friends with Canada (I do), but we treat them like crap.
I would love to see a poll on how many Americans think Mexico is an ally/friendly country - I bet it's a lot lower than 82%, due to too many racist in the US.
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Government by spasm
(I repurposed that from a work colleague who 25 years ago described the management at the company I was working at in that manner - so credit to Kelly, she was an insightful colleague.)
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Time to start shopping specifically for Canadian goods.
I would rather pay more and support rationale government than pay more and support US corporations who’ve given millions to Trump in order to curry favor
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Government by “tweet”…total lunacy
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I wish AOC would go on Fox. I know it will be exhausting, but the millions who only get their info from Fox have to start hearing a different POV.
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Agree.
And to think the Russian economy is smaller than France’s economy, yet Trump acts as though Putin is the most powerful person in the world.
Hell, California has a bigger economy than Russia, Trump is a total embarrassment.
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Have you seen the GOP? It’s the authoritarian party now.
But I agree with you.
I also don’t believe we would be in this mess if we didn’t limit the number of congressional representatives. We may even have a strong third party
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Thank you for sharing this. I knew it wasn’t the powerhouse it once was, but Italy!
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Ahh…just like a “well regulated militia…” is optional now “representative government” appears to be optional.
Thin skinned cowards, but we already knew that about most of the GOP
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Trump should write a new book - “The art of the giveaway” or maybe “The art of exploiting USA for personal gain”
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Every time Elon speaks I realize he’s dumber than a doorknob.
Russia invaded Ukraine! Russia can leave Ukraine and the war would be over!
Elon just wants minerals
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I hope Zelensky never caves…Putin invaded, that’s who Trump should be pressuring. And that’s who the press should be pushing Trump to pressure.
War can be over as soon as Putin leaves
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He uses the power of the presidency because he’s a weak and unethical SOB
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He lies like he’s breathing!
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Five weeks in and he’s bailing out crypto…if only he read the oath he took and focused on America
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Good for Canada! Trump is a bully and bullies wilt when confronted by true strength
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We all know Vance is only doing Trumps bidding, Zelensky should stop engaging with Trump until Trump stops kissing Putin’s ass!
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Horrendous choice…zero qualifications other than to say “yes” to Trump
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Trump is weak and uneducated about foreign affairs and the importance and benefits of our longstanding relationships
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Well, at least nude images is one topic she has experience with
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Elon and Doge are both inept
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This is madness.
Trump is so weak he’s unable to take any criticism
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The only weak one is Trump, and he’s too dumb to understand it. Mercedes, Siemens, Rolls Royce and others can produce military weapons.
Trump is destroying the credibility of the US. All because he’s a tiny man who’s weak
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I’m done listening to weak ass Republicans. Zero courage for eight years!!
They’ve sold the reputation of the USA for power. GOP is anti-American.
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What a joke she is. At least he was wearing clothes. Now go look at Churchill when he visited the WH during WW II.
How can anyone in Ireland support Trump, his family or his politics?
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Incompetent.
I doubt Fox “News” will report it so their viewers will continue to believe DOGE has saved billions. That has to get fixed
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Not a complete waste of taxpayer dollars, but given our debt and deficit spending it should be very high on the “cut, reduce funding list”. It’s nothing but welfare for a billionaire
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You think there could be higher prices? What happened to him lowering prices? FFS Forbes, when will start truly holding this clown to account?
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He’s a complete buffoon. Four more years…God help us!
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They only see resources, not people. It’s not an intentional “screw”, they just don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves
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Denmark should propose a trade. Trump and the US gets Greenland and Denmark gets California. As a Californian I would delighted to no longer be under Trump’s madness.
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But they used twice as many words to say the same thing so they must be “more right”, kinda like how Trump wins golf tournaments - he thinks the highest score wins 🤣
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Nice!
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And Trump has heals, Newsom not so much
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Slap in the face to all of America!
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Thanks for sharing.
The other way people can help is to try and only buy from California businesses. It helps local employment and state taxes.
As a state we give a lot to the Federal Government, buy from local businesses instead of multi-national companies like Amazon, Target, etc.