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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 20h

But why? Don't they have enough room in Qatar?

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 2d

Stop spending money.

Suza27 @suza27.bsky.social · Mar 8

If we cause problems he’ll call martial law. Then no elections. We’d be stuck with him longer! We need a better way to get rid of him! Come on you guys who are younger & smarter than me. THINK!

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 2d

Preventative health screenings= colonoscopy

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 2d

Gets medical care he doesn’t want American to have and brags about it.

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 2d

Do they know what happened to the Koreans?

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3d

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 4d

Is there some sort of sedative the the US water system? This is so cray cray yet there still are people thinking this is true.

UPBeachBum @upbeachbum.bsky.social · 5d

Bonkers crazy and completely detached from reality. Like his sick deluded cult. Judges need to be shutting down this clown's actions asap before it spirals out of control with his military opening fire on American citizens. This is not a joke. We have the feds, congress and SCOTUS aligned against us

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 4d

The prize would be cheapened beyond repair if he got it.

ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 4d

Trump says it would be “an insult to our country” if he doesn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize! There he goes again, trying to strong arm. Need we say? It would be an insult to the WORLD if he got a prize for ‘peace’ (of all things) as he is at war with his own people! share.google/ZF6CEwqxyhk9...

Trump: It would be ‘an insult to our country’ if he doesn’t get Nobel Peace Prize

President Trump on Tuesday said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize after helping bring an end to seven global conflicts. The president said he is…

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 5d

Military is nothing more than hired help if they are looking at other Americans as the enemy.

Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 5d

Truth-tellers don’t get silenced because they lie. They get silenced because they remind others, they’re not crazy.
This whole system was lost long before the military stormed our streets. But we will still resist. Unbought. Unbowed. Loud. And that matters, especially at the end. #Resist

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 6d

Well that's one way to taint the jury pool. But just saying it is the point. Makes Repugs look like they are doing something important.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "It absolutely was conspiracy. Crimes were committed. What they're gonna be able to successfully be convicted of, I can't tell you. But just look at the damage they've done to our democracy. Russia, China couldn't even hope to do as much as damage as people like Comey & Clapper & Brennan."

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 8d

Trump is, of course, not”directly” responsible. Like Michael Cohen warned. He speaks cryptically, and others do his dirty work. Whole regime needs to go.

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 11d

Well, that will be the rubicon won't it? Once you have the military killing Americans upon a president's orders that's it.
Trump will be Trump tho. Order will go through layers to give himself plausible deniability.

Dr. Ben Kenobi @drbenkenobi.bsky.social · 11d

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 12d

But the guy behind him seems to be pretty happy with what he's hearing. Scary.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12d

See the difference? 👀

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

Take away is that he's going to cause a civil war, call in the troops and declare martial law. No elections.

AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 13d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Here are some major takeaways from Hegseth’s military meeting. While troops will still have to report for duty, they will not be paid until the shutdown is over. Trump also gave the go ahead for the military to attack civilians.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against "woke" standards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the new name, the Department of War, saying "the era of the Department of Defense is over."

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

Very Jim Jones these days.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 13d

This was the desperately important speech that top ranking military were forced to travel from around the globe for?

.......the president rambling on incoherently with, "and you have animals...........shooting at them."

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

If its going to be okay for the military attack America's civilians, imagine what they will do in other countries. Very Putinesque.

AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 13d

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Here are some major takeaways from Hegseth’s military meeting. While troops will still have to report for duty, they will not be paid until the shutdown is over. Trump also gave the go ahead for the military to attack civilians.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against "woke" standards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth touted the new name, the Department of War, saying "the era of the Department of Defense is over."

www.cbsnews.com

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

Well. Once the troops start committing war crimes, then we will know if they have always been just willing to follow "orders".

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13d

Does someone want to tell the DUI hire that he can’t eliminate prosecution for war crimes?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

Seems to me it's not the generals who are worried about what's in their file. He's saying it will be okay to you work with criminally minded underlings.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13d

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 13d

Sounds like he is psyching up them to invade Canada.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

"War is Peace" is one of the three core slogans of the fascist government in 1984, and it's pretty damn chilling to see the Secretary of Defense demanding that the U.S. Armed Forces adopt it as truth.

George Orwell wrote that book as a cautionary tale drawing on, yes, history!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13d

"War is Peace" is one of the three core slogans of the fascist government in 1984, and it's pretty damn chilling to see the Secretary of Defense demanding that the U.S. Armed Forces adopt it as truth.

George Orwell wrote that book as a cautionary tale drawing on, yes, history!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 15d

Yeah. There was a movie like that with Tom Cruise. Didn’t turn out to be such a good idea. Why does the idea of constant police state turn people on?

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 15d

Telescreen in every apartment!

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 15d

No one is safe from his lies.

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 16d

None of this would be possible if Americans and Troops were unwilling to hurt their fellow men and woman.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 16d

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16d

BREAKING: Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, as he expands military deployments in U.S. cities.

Emily Dade @emilydade.bsky.social · 17d

People are stupid if they take advice from a person who won’t be held accountable if it kills people.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17d

Today, President is also providing “medical advice”

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