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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3h

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 20h

JB Pritzker: “Whenever the president talks about somebody critically, it’s often projection about what he himself is insecure about. Each of the things he said about me, they’re all true about him. I can take it. I am not afraid of this president.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 20h

JB Pritzker: “Whenever the president talks about somebody critically, it’s often projection about what he himself is insecure about. Each of the things he said about me, they’re all true about him. I can take it. I am not afraid of this president.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

Pramila Jayapal: “They don’t want to talk about healthcare. And if they do talk about healthcare they want you to blame immigrants instead of the billionaires. It’s not the immigrants who slashed your Medicaid, it’s the billionaires.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker: “What we’re talking about is authoritarianism. In the early days of the Nazi regime they started slowly but surely taking away people’s rights and what we’re seeing now is the very same thing”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Fonda: “No president has ever sent troops into the Democratic cities across the country saying full force. He is amassing power in a way that will destroy our democracy.“

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Tammy Duckworth: “We know the Trump administration lies consistently. For the large part people are being very respectful, but ICE is being very aggressive. They are using Gestapo tactics in Chicago and this is what Trump wants to do. He wants to intimidate the people of Chicago.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Kelly: “The Federal law is that undocumented individuals do not have access to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, even the Affordable Care Act. That’s the law. So this is a red herring from my Republican colleagues. They don’t want to help folks out”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Fonda: “No president has ever sent troops into the Democratic cities across the country saying full force. He is amassing power in a way that will destroy our democracy.“

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 2d

Jasmine Crockett: “Stop believing the lies they are putting out there. The only person that is harming you right now is the old white nepo baby that is sitting in the White House that is causing all the destruction, pain, and problems you are enduring”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Actor Richard Gere on Benjamin Netanyahu: “He has to go. This is not someone who can change. He has to go. And all the enablers in the coalition that he has together, they all have to go”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Donald Trump: “He is unstable in every way possible. Unhinged and unhealthy. The idea of describing the American people as enemies from within is clearly not just a sign of authoritarianism, he has totally imbibied the full spirit of tyranny”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 3d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

JB Pritzker: “Trump’s treasonous words are leading to treasonous actions. Pushing back at authoritarian regimes starts with a resistance that can effectively ridicule the opposition and look into the camera and say this guy is full of shit”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 4d

AOC: “What we are seeing right now is that Republicans are desperate. They have shut down the government. They are getting walloped in these negotiations because they have no plan for people and we are here to ensure every American has expanded and protected healthcare”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 5d

Lawrence O’Donnell on Mike Johnson: “He spends every working moment of his life as a coward. He has taken in effect an oath of cowardice to Donald Trump. He’s not the Speaker of the House, he’s the Speaker of Trump in the House”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

JB Pritzker: “What kind of a country are we in here? The United States used to be a country where the president followed the Constitution. There is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Actor Richard Gere on Donald Trump: “We have a president who’s not only crazy, he’s a dark, dark presence. And it’s happened so quickly. Six months, he’s almost destroyed our country”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

JB Pritzker: “What kind of a country are we in here? The United States used to be a country where the president followed the Constitution. There is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th Amendment ought to be invoked”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump: “That son of a bitch. It’s really unbelievable. I never imagined that we’d ever have a president like this and I hope we don’t have another president like this again”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 6d

Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump: “That son of a bitch. It’s really unbelievable. I never imagined that we’d ever have a president like this and I hope we don’t have another president like this again”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Kathy Hochul: “I want to be very clear. This shutdown is a choice. A deliberate decision by Donald Trump and the Republicans to abandon the very people they were sent to Washington to represent. They alone are responsible for this”

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 7d

Wes Moore: “A prerequisite to keeping the government open should not be cutting people off of healthcare. My message to President Trump is clear. Stop this shutdown. You’re the one causing it. We’re the ones dealing with it.”

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