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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2h

He may have thought that way at one point but any ideological connection now is a pretext. If it was really about competitiveness they wouldn’t be taxing coffee and banana imports

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s fondness for Tariffs has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with having power over the fortunes of businesses and foreign countries. He can impose, remove, or alter them at his whim to extract favors or punish his enemies. Any connection to the interests of the US is ancillary

Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 4h

She’s no Angie Harmon 🫠

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 20h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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SpookyLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 16h

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 23h

Raising capital gains tax rates and eliminating the basis step-up at death would be much more effective and protected from legal challenge than a wealth tax

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

I do think there's some value in forcing putatively normal republicans to endorse the increasingly perverted and puerile actions of their demented god king

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

You took matters into your own hands and fixed the a/c. Seems lesbian coded? Straight guy here so I’m really just spitballing

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is 12 theory strikes again

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

This wasn’t even in response to the President of the United States posting an AI slop video of him as a king flying a jet and dropping diarrhea bombs on people

Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is 12 theory strikes again

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

Mine had 20 somethings in unicorn inflatable costumes and old guys playing Scotland the Brave on the bagpipes and I enjoyed every moment of it

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is 12 theory strikes again

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

Photo of a sign at a No Kings march, lady liberty is depicted removing her earrings and the sign reads “girl hold my earrings”

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings was a blast today. Warms my heart to march shoulder to shoulder with thousands of my neighbors who are also disgusted with the current state of affairs 🇺🇸

Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 3d

I knew you weren’t. The expectation that every cop is DUI free for life is not realistic

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 3d

Rare menswear guy L

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing. Not enough games out there where you can call your opponent a “pansy”

They used the same platform to make this one where you can murder Rocky Marciano with Larry Holmes because his reach was about half the screen

Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 3d

This game kicks so much ass, Switch needs to add it to their sega collection

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 3d

Yes it is really stupid to drink and drive. I know plenty of people who have gotten a DUI and lived perfectly good lives afterwards, and I think it is asking too much for one to be career ending

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 4d

KITT had a banger soundtrack, I’ll take that over the mecha hitler chatbot

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Knight Rider - Original Show Intro | NBC Classics

YouTube video by NBC Classics

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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grimely.bsky.social @grimely.bsky.social · 7d

"The executive has usurped the power of the purse to pay for a standing army" is something that the Founders very explicitly wanted to prevent from ever happening but, ah, well, nevertheless

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 8d

Instead of voicing the janky robot, Slim Pickens will be the voice of Dr Weir when he transforms into a hellish demon