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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a bit surprised he hasn't tried to bribe them, let's say with a slightly used luxury Boeing jet.

jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 7h

“This is the moment for people to stand up." This is that existential testing moment in one's life when we find out what we really believe in, what we really will stand up for, what we are truly made of. It is that moment when we self-identify for life as brave or cowardly, role models or doormats.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 8h

"It creates winners and losers." It also creates huge opportunities for grift and corruption. The recipients of that grift and corruption probably think they are the real winners.

jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 8h

Ironically symbolic of what MAGA is trying to do to genuine Christianity in America --shoot it in the head.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 10h

"smirking Scott Jennings." It's a common MAGA smirk. Speaker Johnson and Tucker Carlson have it too. It displays a juvenile 'frat-boy' attitude. They think they are 'owning the libs' when they are really trying to 'own the adults'.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 10h

Have MAGA elites actually ever read the New Testament? King James version would count. They talk and act as if they are reading their own revised version of the Bible in which Jesus is completely unrecognizable to the rest of us.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 10h

This could be a very educational and politically effective message. Show pictures of Allied 'antifa' soldiers in Europe fighting fascists.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 12h

Why? Because Trump knows he can do whatever he wants now that he totally castrated the Republican Party. He now can use the unrestrained power of the Presidency to reward all his friends and punish all his enemies.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 12h

Secret unethical or illegal dealings like this is what binds MAGA elites together and gives Trump power over them.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 13h

His egomania is completely unleashed. The Republican Party has completely abdicated its role and its Constitutional duties. There are no guardrails of rationality or decency left.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

Comey and James are not his 'political' opponents. They are not politicians. They are people who he assumes have been the cause of painful public humiliation for him. Because he is so unprincipled, he cannot imagine that anyone associated with his humiliation could just be doing their jobs.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration seems to be mentally incapable of imagining, much less proposing, any regulations or laws that do not first pass the test of Trumpian grift.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

Restoring trust in American elections depends on restoring trust in the willingness of political elites to abide by election results when they are verifiably proven to be correct results. That requires honesty and integrity, concepts totally foreign to many current political elites. Heal thyself!

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

If Americans have not learned the painfully obvious lessons from Project 2025, they may deserve Project 2029.

jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 15h

The dam has not really been breached until the integrity of the justice system is thoroughly corrupted. We are still far from that, fortunately. It should hold for another few years.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 16h

“celebrating Faith, Family, & Freedom.” Sounds good, until you realize it's a MAGA organization where 'faith' means belief in a 'God' defined through Trumpism; 'family' is a patriarchal construct defined by MAGA's toxic masculinity; and 'freedom' means the right to impose your values on others.

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jimdc.bsky.social @jimdc.bsky.social · 16h

It represents warrior/fascist style Christian nationalism stamping out 'sermon on the mount' style Christianity. A new narrative for a darkening new age of self-righteous sociopathology.