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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 1d

Angry incels don't have to date women to harm them.

linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad I'm not a young woman. Imagine dating young men who expect women to be hypersexualized toys.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 1d

We're now woefully unprepared for any crisis you could think of. Not just a terrorist bombing but an earthquake, another pandemic, a cyber attack that shuts down our power grid... You name it, Trump and DOGE have wrecked our ability to respond to it.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. Not incompetence. Just another part of the plan to traumatize federal workers, as explicitly laid out by Project 2025. Fire them, rehire them, keep them scared. If they quit, that's a bonus.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 2d

This! I keep hearing about how "only" 39 percent of Americans approve -- I mean, *3.9 percent* would be scary, 39 percent is just incomprehensible.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 2d

It's not even a matter of believing it. Vought is on record stating that he wants to make federal workers miserable. His exact words: “We want to put them in trauma.”

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 2d

The Project 2025 architects did say explicitly that they intended to traumatize federal workers. "Erroneously" firing and rehiring them sure is one effective way to do it.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 3d

It just depends on whose rights they're trying to violate.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 3d

Is this a real post? Michael Steele doesn't know how to spell "martial law"?

linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 3d

He apparently said he was fine, it just tasted a little minty.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 4d

There are dementia mortality risk calculators online, and you would be shocked to see the favorable odds that he completes his term, even considering presumed heart health, etc.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 4d

I'd love it if someone could put together a time lapse of the ever-increasing tackiness.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, Trump has only had nine years to come up with a plan, don't rush him

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 5d

I had exactly the same thought.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think ending the tariffs will make other countries come back and buy our exports, when Trump could and would change his mind and reinstate tariffs in the blink of an eye.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 5d

What is the creator's name?

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 6d

*martial law

linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 6d

If only we had treatment programs for dementia... And that prospect has probably receded even further into the future thanks to the DOGE wrecking ball.

linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 6d

No, it doesn't.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 7d

I'm terrified for young women. It's bad enough that young men already think porn is sex -- now we're going to train them to expect cooing, fawning emotional slaves too?

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 7d

Racism certainly was a huge factor in 2024 but let's not forget that voters apparently prefer a demented criminal to *any woman.*

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 7d

I don't get it either. It was all right there in Project 2025, and we all should have seen that Trump unfettered by the need to run for reelection would be a force for pure evil.

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 7d

Golly gee whiz, I wonder why the Chinese don't want our soybeans. I just can't think of a single reason...

linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking about this again, and under the current regime, who's to say that utterly unqualified Trump loyalists won't be plucked from the ranks and elevated to positions far, far above their qualifications and experience?

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linnaea72.bsky.social @linnaea72.bsky.social · 8d

These are the people who will replace the silent, stony-faced generals. We are so screwed.

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