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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 1h

They’re trying way too hard to make Charlie Kirk into some sort of deified GOP martyr. It is so delusional that even diehards aren’t quite swallowing it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 2h

Many of these people are his peers—they are in their thirties or even later. Trying to paint them as kids making bad jokes is just making up lies.

He thinks what they said is fine. He supports it. He agrees with it. This gross defense of the indefensible is really disgusting.

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 2h

These are not ‘young boys’. This is not youthful indiscretion—these are adults and Vance cannot bring himself to denounce them because he thinks it’s ok.

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 2h

What a smug, condescending asshole he is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

FOX: Grijalva says you're afraid of her being the 218th signer to the Epstein petition, that if she was a Republican you would've sworn her in. What do you say?

MIKE JOHNSON: I say bless her heart. She's a representative-elect, she doesn't know how it works around here.

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Dame of Destiny 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱 @dameofdestiny.bsky.social · 2h

Like the Nazis, Trump is spending your tax dollars to have video crews follow ICE around to document what they do, then editing out the actions they think look ugly & make propaganda videos of their fake "heroics."

They aren't arresting criminals. They're stalking schools & working tan people #maga

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 3h

Random murder at the whim of a madman. Or, more likely, by his handlers.

David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 4h

Not just Venezuela. Colombia, too. And not just extra-judicial, but indiscriminate: "the Pentagon was unable to determine the individual identities of each person on the boats before they struck them."

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 3h

Are the GOP kids until they are in their thirties? These aren’t ‘kids’ they are adults. This rationalization is grotesque.

Does their defense of the indefensible know no limits?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 3h

There almost NO left-wing violence. Over 75% is right-wing/conservative violence. <5% are progressives.

This attempt to rewrite history is disgusting. It’s all just lies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence, we have to train the investigatory and law enforcement powers of the govt to focus on that particular problem ... we really have to retrain the entire govt to focus on this left-wing violence problem. We are doing it."

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 6h

E.g., “anyone who isn’t a hypocritical piece of shit Christian like me. “

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 6h

If you oppose and demonize the antifa movement, the only conclusion is that you are the “fa”.

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 6h

There was no assaulting. They didn’t hurt anybody. Yelling at a police officer was not the same as tasing and hitting them with a flag pole like the J6 seditionists did.

Epic, truly epic, projection and revisionist history.

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Pop Tartarus @jack-a-dandy.bsky.social · 6h

...They are murdering irony like an old testament goat up there.

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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 6h

No, they just storm the capital when the government is going to do something they don’t like, and kill a few people. Totally the same, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Lisa McClain: "We don't need to do political stunts and storm the Speaker's office -- we just have the facts on our side."

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 6h

FFS, do they HEAR themselves? This is delusional.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Emmer: "Clearly, the Democrat Party of today is not your grandfather's Democrat Party. They care about one thing and one thing only -- appeasing the radical pro-terrorist wing of their party."

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6h

Let's have a serious conversation. When the youth wing of a major American political party is caught saying they "love Hitler" and want to send opponents to "gas chambers," what is the absolute minimum acceptable response from that party's leader?

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Canna Biskate (she/they) @canna-biskate.bsky.social · 6h

Los Angeles County declared a state of emergency because of the ICE raids. I’ll say that again, LOS ANGELES COUNTY DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF ACTIONS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are just pretending the 30-somethings in the racist Young Republicans group chat were in high school and college, marking the first time Republicans have wanted to move on when they think someone is a teen

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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 9h

They really just don’t grasp that we hate Trump and what he’s doing to America, but we love America.

Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 9h

Projection at a truly EPIC level. It’s truly delusional.

experimental22.bsky.social @experimental22.bsky.social · 9h

“We’ve watched legions of far left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror because they know that their ideas and arguments are persuading no one,” Trump said. “They have the devil’s ideology and they’re failing. And they know it, they feel it, and they become violent.”

Projection.

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Grace 💙 @grace2002.bsky.social · 10h

Reminder: Kirk was assassinated by another far-right lunatic.
No relation with "left-wing radicals".

Wolves killing one another. No sheep involved.

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Phoukaco @phoukaco.bsky.social · 10h

Whatever cocktail of drugs, they gave him to keep him awake during meetings, apparently seeps over into the trip home. This is a guy who can fall asleep sitting in a chair at a meeting that he is supposed to be running.

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Dianna1963 @dd1963.bsky.social · 16h

One thing we can all bet on is whatever the issue,JD will be on the wrong side.

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