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Gold Country Rich

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ex-Twitter / NO MAGA CA Gold Country retired, ex-SF Bay Area IC industry exec. Golf, Ski, Pizza, Foodie, Wines. Love Kailua Kona, Big Island / Napa-Sonoma wine country Happily Married(!) Independent / moderate. DMs ONLY from follows. NO solicitations.

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · Aug 20

"The notion that NATO is the spear that protects Western values and that the European Union is possibly the West’s best modern political creation, a vast center of free people and free markets, stabilizing a continent that was known for tribal and religious wars for millenniums, is alien to Trump."

Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is

www.nytimes.com

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 40m

Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65...
The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”
- WaPo

Stupidity is not an excuse. They were warned.

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1h

The 'coin operated' presidency...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 2h

It's 5150 time in DC...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 2h

Who was Prez on Jan 6th?

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 2h

Machine Mouth Jordan. Non-stop, rapid fire bullshit. Even when he's called out he keeps on spitting out the nonsense. BTW? He has yet to author and pass ONE original bill.

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

What do you expect? 2 blonde bimbos, both of whom are nothing more than life support systems for b00bs and walking advertisements for women's make-up (and wearing a shitload of it btw).

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

And no called in a 5150 on this???

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

NO shit...

a man in a hat is driving a car with a red light behind him

ALT: a man in a hat is driving a car with a red light behind him

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

When the big ice storm hit TX a few years back, both PG&E and SCE sent utility workers. July 2025 CA sent firefighters and specialized urban search and rescue teams to assist with recent severe flooding
Newsome better make damn sure that f***g state gets ZERO from CA ever again.
F**k Off Abbott.

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 23h

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely. Fascism eats everyone. If you are a 'loyalist' or even just a supporter, once one is deemed un-loyal, or no longer needed, people are disappeared, exhiled, or murdered. See...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...

Night of the Long Knives - Wikipedia

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 17h

Even this guy knows it's bullshit...

a cartoon of flintstone with the words the math ain 't mathin ' above him

ALT: a cartoon of flintstone with the words the math ain 't mathin ' above him

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 23h

About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 23h

Yup...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 23h

a cartoon of flintstone with the words the math ain 't mathin ' above him

ALT: a cartoon of flintstone with the words the math ain 't mathin ' above him

media.tenor.com

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

The coin operated presidency and admin'n...

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

'Democrat agencies'...?!?
PsychoDon rambling like a fool idiot. If your loonie uncle at the holiday party starting babbling like that, someone would call in a 5150.

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

The 'coin operated' presidency...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

"The perv-fascist solidarity in Trump’s Washington has come to seem like the #MeToo movement in reverse. Lechy newcomers get to burst onto the scene at Butterworth’s—“me too, guys!”—into the loving arms of the sex-scandal-plagued elite: Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr....and Trump himself." -TNR

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

newrepublic.com

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for your service and speaking out.

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Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

He's updated 'the look'...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

Guess "The Tool" missed an episode of "Hate America"...

Gold Country Rich @goldcountryrich.bsky.social · 1d

And no one called in a 5150 on this?

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