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Navy vet; Labor/employee relations professional; IT administrator; Retired; History buff; Audio junkie. No DMs.
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Hegseth is a cheap suit...and an empty one, at that.
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The founding fathers crafted a three-branch system to check unbridled power. But SCOTUS rendered the executive immune from accountability, while the legislative branch's majority underpins that insanity with willful blindness that's dereliction of duty. That requires a lot of peaceful standing up.
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Thanks for your integrity. It matters these days.
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Your tax dollars at...work.
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But...but...he has a magic marker.
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And you wondered if the Reichstag fire would ever find its way to the United States?
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Elsa Lanchester tinted it better.
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"If I make this face, no one will know what I'm thinking."
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Sorry for your loss.
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Sorry for your loss. Looks like she was a real sweetie.
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Obviously neither "thick" nor "thin" nor any combination thereof is sufficient to cover all the bases when it comes to Trump. Of course, anyone who's bothered to pay any attention at all to the guy already knew that. Or should have.
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What did she *think* was going to happen? All the warning signs were out there in broad daylight.
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And no doubt overcharged.
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A reminder that neither depth nor insight is valued by the purveyors of today's U.S. mainstream media. Most often that's because the uttered truth is an inconvenient obstacle to maintaining access. It's much safer to run the banal and highlight the bright shiny object to deflect from ugly reality.
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They noematter anymore.
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That was evident the day he went to work for Trump.
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The infrastructure plan for *this* term.
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Desperate.
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Hell hath no fury like a--hmm, I guess we'll have to make that "henchman"--scorned.
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Spock did it better.
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In a way, it's sad to see. They're both monsters who deserve each other.
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More cards.
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"Filamentary, my dear Watson."
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Kennedy is the norm for the weakness and incompetence of the Trump Cabinet. Mack Sennett would have done a better job of picking appointees.
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Trump's "24 hours" is like the horizon--it continues to recede with every step you take toward it.
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The Trump Administration has cut us off at the knees in so many areas that impact our health, safety, and national security. But then, Trump has his own weather forecasting tool--a magic marker.
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Wholly believable. They're lazy and incompetent. And that's before you even consider their unflinching fealty to the convicted felon who reads them--correctly--as the spineless cowards they are. Bozo is embarrassed that his name is used to describe them.
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Add the Kerch bridge (again!) to Zelenskyy's deck. Trump wanted the Nobel Peace Prize so badly that he was willing to sell Ukraine out to get it. Zelenskyy's kept him out of the forthcoming-operations loop precisely because of that, and Donald looks stupid as hell--which is not at all unusual.
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I'd add "outrageous" to that list.
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The Entity was busy scrambling her brain as she read this section of the bill.
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Well, for one thing, TrumpWorld is, after all, a wholly different planet.
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More than a little bit. The Trump Administration has declared war on the United States.
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Yeah, he's a disaster. And we don't have to wait for him to happen. He already has.
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Translation: "Yeah, the truth is, we really don't know what in the hell we're doing."
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Should the headline read "Guilty As Charged"?
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Headline: Soulless Oval Office Robot Claims Predecessor Was Just Like Him
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Some people can read a room. She's not one of them.
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On brand for those who haven't been paying attention.
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I know how Marco Rubio can sleep at night. He's never been the Mr. Clean he attempted to portray himself as. He's the same empty--& cheap--suit he always has been. His guiding star is perceived political advantage, & he seems most comfortable playing the role of stinky putty in Trump's hands.
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"Horrible person" and "disgusting" are extremely diplomatic as well. I'd consider "amoral" a starting point. The first letter of the next word that comes to mind in the wake of her dismissive "all die" remark follows alphabetically. She cares only about keeping her seat, not who she swore to serve
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What her Pete Hegseth confirmation vote demonstrated is that Joni Ernst cares deeply about only one thing--a primary challenge.
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Remember the racist underpinning of this when Marco Rubio attempts to present himself as a "reasonable Republican" presidential candidate in 2028.
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"The best people."
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Her casualness about death doesn't surprise. The only thing she truly fears--as was demonstrated in her vote to confirm Pete Hegseth--is...a primary challenge.
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DOGE is a scam. It's never been devoted to "efficiency". Its goals: (1) cripple government regulation by stripping essential staff from regulatory agencies; (2) appear to reduce the deficit to pave the way for tax cuts for billionaires. The harm it's done will end up costing more than its "savings".
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What Republicans prove every day: They can't govern.
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Marco keeps proving how little he really is.
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Planted, no doubt, by the dead brainworm. Meanwhile, his stance on COVID, measles, and avian flu vaccines threatens every one of us.
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Musk is overstuffed bravado. There's really not that much inside his suit.