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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 18h

He should just be happy they didn't use the poopy pants picture.

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah... this sounds like maybe they can't figure out how to re-allocate money to cover payroll like they promised (for whatever reaons or reasons - legality, priority, etc.), and are trying to pretend there's a back-up plan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 3d

ICE goons are still not getting paid though.

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: President Trump directs the Pentagon to use “all available funds” except the ballroom construction budget to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

Trump directs the Pentagon to use 'all available funds' to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

President Donald Trump says he's directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure that U.S. troops are paid on Wednesday despite the government shutdown.

apnews.com

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 5d

Dude needs a street corner and a hand-written sign.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 5d

Not everything has to be about a man not getting something he didn't deserve.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 5d

I hope hell has a sub-basement

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 6d

Baby in the placenta, circumcision causes autism, or a mysterious third thing that will make me want to hurl my phone across the room?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

somebody please have the birds and the bees conversation with our duly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 6d

Whereas the military and national guard are currently *not* getting paid. But go on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 6d

Literally bought so much stuff last Oct in Portland that I almost needed another suitcase in my way home.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 7d

Not quite a fuck-up, but he surely didn't realize what he was saying: When he said maybe his team wasn't showing him real footage from Portland.

And a fuck-up: When he told the Navy he couldn't remember his book's title.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 7d

Only thing these guys are gonna be chasing is Italian Beef

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 8d

It's good to remind your elected representatives once in a while that they work for you.

CNN @cnn.com · 8d

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

A swing-district Iowa Republican says she’ll hold town halls ‘when hell freezes over’ | CNN Politics

Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans in an August meeting that she’ll hold town hall meetings “when hell freezes over.”

www.cnn.com

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen is just mad because a South African immigrant with questionable status is stealing his wife.

Not sure why this has to be everybody's problem, but here we are, I guess.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 9d

Was in Toronto in June during the will-we-or-won't-we moment of tariff idiocy, and I am not sure I saw an American brand on any menu.

Good.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 12d

Is the sleep deprivation responsible for the lunatic drivel coming out of his mouth, then? I thought it was the dementia. Maybe it's both.

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 13d

The other kids on the bus absolutely needed to pound him into mush after this. Would've done us all a favor.

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 13d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 13d

Oh give it up, Eric. He's never gonna tell you he loves you and is proud of you.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 14d

There is absolutely no reason to think those people would negotiate so much as a lunch order - let alone anything important- in good faith if Dems did them the favor of keeping the government open.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 15d

Yeesh, there's gonna be a couple hotel or airport bars in the DC area with some absolutely *wild* low-volume conversations later today.

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 15d

Once again I really don't think that pulling people away from their important jobs, demonstrating incompetence and lunacy, and then withholding their paychecks in a shutdown is going to accomplish what they think it will.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 15d

I think he didn't think about the people at all.

Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 16d

I'll bet him a bottle of Hendricks he can't do it again.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 16d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 17d

I similarly suggested canceling cable at the WH and, yeah, should've done.

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 17d

What you really want is to show the whole military how incompetent and insane these two are, right before a shutdown where their paychecks will probably be held back. Good for morale. 👍🏻

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17d

Exclusive: President Trump has decided he’s going to the last-minute global gathering of the nation’s top generals in Virginia that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered last week.

Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans

President Trump will attend the unusual gathering of hundreds of generals summoned to Virginia on short notice by Pete Hegseth, adding new security concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly @ksd1123.bsky.social · 18d

Here's what I saw in the "warzone"

Sign at coffee shop reading work hard and be nice to people. Good advice.

Portland skyline from under a bridge along walking trail

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