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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 11h

It's a probable yes...when POTUS #48 is a Democrat who appoints an ethical AG who then creates an Independant Counsel to prosecute all the Trumpers who violated the law... because without deterrence, there is no criminal law.

And following orders on Truth Social is not a defense.

MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1d

Given her sneering Senate performance Tues, AG Pam Bondi, one of Don Trumpleone‘s top capos, clearly thinks there‘ll never come a reckoning over the institutional homicide she’s carrying out at the DOJ. Is she right? Will she & the rest of the regime pay? Sure wish the answer was definitely yes.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 11h

Priceless.

Kathy Downs @kathykatd.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 11h

Trying to turn Antifa into the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
probably won't work.

Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 11h

GI Jane confronts non-violence protestors.

Awk-ward.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry: the "Roberts Court."

Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 5d

New Substack on whether Robert's Court will save or sink us.

bit.ly/46QJnhw

SCOTUS SCORECARD: Will the Roberts Six Embrace Trump’s Tyranny?

I.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 5d

New Substack on whether Robert's Court will save or sink us.

bit.ly/46QJnhw

SCOTUS SCORECARD: Will the Roberts Six Embrace Trump’s Tyranny?

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 5d

So the world's biggest con artist will try to persuade taxpayers that he'll give them free money...although the "dividend" comes not from tariffs but from them as consumers.

This is three card monte involving hundreds of billion$.

www.aol.com/trump-consid...

Trump considering $2,000 tariff ‘dividend’ for Americans

“We're thinking maybe $1000 to $2,000 – it would be great,” the president said of the size of the checks Americans might get.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 8d

Beginning of the End...

...when a C-i-Chief who never served due to multiple "bone-spur" deferments lectures 800 silent top brass aboput the "warrior" ethos to excite his base & scare Americans.

His menacing remarks + rambling U.N. rant will lead ppl to question his stability.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 8d

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.

www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...

www.rawstory.com

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 10d

"Fascism? Authoritarianism? Backsliding?"

Trumpers regularly assault constitutional values as #47 pursues a "Police State" (troops into "war-ravaged Portland"). But most Dem electeds & nearly all MSM avoid a word GOP hates - "Fascism."

Is that smart or weak...while Rs toss around "communist"?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d

To be fair, my 1999 twitter account was a lot quieter, but I regularly told friends on the right: calling Clinton and Obama socialists was dumb. But we weren't fighting to keep democracy so I didn't think it was worth explaining over and over.

But I wrote this:

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 11d

Pipsqueak Hegseth reminds me of Peter Sellers in "The Mouse that Roared".

Pictures now coming on-line from "war-torn Portland" make him and Trump look like the liars they are.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11d

Good new detailed reporting from @washingtonpost.com on Hegseth calling all the brass to Pentagon at great cost and security risk. Here's the last paragraph: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The timing of the event has been of particular concern: The speech is set for Sept. 30, the last day of the fiscal year. If there is a government shutdown, it could leave key staff stranded in Virginia as military commands across the globe are juggling the security implications of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza, new military operations in the Caribbean against drug cartels and the continued threat to U.S. personnel in the Middle East, where the Houthis and other Iranian-backed militias continue to fire missiles and drones at U.S. interests.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 12d

Biden had awful debate agst Trump in 2024, leading to massive calls for him to quit race b/c of incapacity...and he did.

Trump ranted incoherently for an hour before world at U.N. earlier week. Has one media platform urged him to resign?

Biden couldn't recall facts. Trump doesn't believe in them.

Colin Moore @cmcabo97.bsky.social · Jun 17

The countdown is on: The first debate between President Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump will be hosted by CNN on June 27. ☕ ☕ ☕

www.clearingouttheclutter.com/2024/06/mond...

Monday Clutter: Biden-Trump Debate, U.S. Supreme Court, Social Media Warning Label, Maryland Pot Pardons, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Chiefs, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, NCIS, R.E.M., The Offspring, and mor...

Hi everyone, Welcome back, and a happy Monday to you all. How are you? Things have still been hectic on this end. However, I'm hopeful that we're about to start a calmer stretch soon which would allow...

www.clearingouttheclutter.com

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Colin Moore @cmcabo97.bsky.social · Jun 17

The countdown is on: The first debate between President Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump will be hosted by CNN on June 27. ☕ ☕ ☕

www.clearingouttheclutter.com/2024/06/mond...

Monday Clutter: Biden-Trump Debate, U.S. Supreme Court, Social Media Warning Label, Maryland Pot Pardons, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Chiefs, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, NCIS, R.E.M., The Offspring, and mor...

Hi everyone, Welcome back, and a happy Monday to you all. How are you? Things have still been hectic on this end. However, I'm hopeful that we're about to start a calmer stretch soon which would allow...

www.clearingouttheclutter.com

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 13d

BOOMERRANG!

*Kimmel went through hell..but ended up more popular because he beat obvious assholes.

*Comey too will go through hell...and will also beat the rap because he'll survive an obvious political prosecution and possibly save his tattered reputation.

Trump's digging a deeper grave.

lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 13d

First they made me feel bad for Jimmy Kimmel and I said nothing. Then they made me feel bad for James Comey and I said I can’t even.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13d

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 13d

BOOMERRANG!

*Kimmel went through hell..but ended up more popular because he beat obvious assholes.

*Comey too will go through hell...and will also beat the rap because he'll survive an obvious political prosecution and possibly save his tattered reputation.

James Comey @jamescomey.bsky.social · 13d

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 13d

Another day. Another dodge.The walls are closing.

May we play hypothetical? If Trump's name appears multiple times in "Epstein Files" & it's confirmed he raped underage girls (both likely)- and he denies everything - what'll be impact?

Polls static? Loses 5-10 points b/c evangelicals? Impeached?

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, I was an adult in the 1990s. Raping young girls was still frowned upon.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

"People don’t understand that Palm Beach in the 90s was a different time, he groused."

Every word of this is a yikes

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 13d

Sens Cruz/Rand create false hypo of some unnamed future Dem using FCC to censor GOP. Remember T.S. Eliot: "the greatest treason is to do the right thing for wrong reason."

Dems don't believe in that & would never do it -- base would revolt.

No, Trump's party owns this.

Wayne Johnston @wajohnst.bsky.social · 14d

Ted Cruz and Joe Rogan oppose Trump's censorship of Jimmy Kimmel because "they could do the same thing to us." That's not the reason to oppose it. Totalitarianism is repugnant and should be opposed in all of its manifestations by all sane people.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 13d

Example 293 of "The first lie wins," which is Rule #1 in Trumpland. Already, @NYPost front-paging more "Left" murder.

So every day Trump has an Oval monologue b/f MAGA influencers certain his lies will be reported for at least a day.

Recycle.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14d

I can't believe MSNBC is falling for this "anti-ice" on the bullet thing. The shooter's brother says he wasn't political and didn't have strong feelings about ICE. Where's the scrutiny?

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 14d

2/For example, @nytimes.com helped push Biden out. Will it try to eject a more cognitively unstable POTUS?

History is on line #1 demanding an accounting.

Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 14d

1/ Worse than a Dictator is a Dumb Dictator. Any prez have lousier day?

*Kimmel's back
*Homan taped $50K bribe
*House closer to Epstein Discharge
*Orders 'Pam' to prosecute foes
*U.N. rant a world-class humiliation

Serially corrupt. Will many MSM seek Resignation/ Impeachmt/25A?

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 15d

DISEASES DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: Chickenpox/Diphtheria/ Measles...

Trump's unique.

Never before has one president so eroded trust in science, truth, law, democracy...and in only 8 months.

Only ways now to escape Trumpism are: SCOTUS, Elections, mass protests or Epstein disclosure.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 18d

Today's @NYTimes shows Trump's as the Mar-a-Lago Mussolini. (Before cancelling my license, read on):

*Bill proposed to allow him to kill drug suspects
*DJT forces out USAtty for not charging NYAG
*DJT targets broadcast stations w/delicensing
*SEC drops million$ in civil fraud cases post-pardons.

Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 18d

“The idea that speech or thought contrary to the government line could trigger punishment is the dream of autocrats. Eventually, it makes enemies of everyone.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Seeing Enemies Everywhere

The government’s working definition of “hate speech” now seems to include anything that offends Donald Trump personally—including late-night comedy.

www.newyorker.com

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 20d

The "MAGA McCarthyism" of the Trump-Carr far-right is the greatest attempted assault on the First Amendment in our history.

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 21d

2/ We're on brink of actual "cancel culture" of MAGA censors & corporatism.

Trump sues WSJ & NYT for straight reporting re Epstein.
Conservative oligarchs control WaPo/Fox/ABC/CBS/NBC/
Salem/X, perhaps soon CNN if Ellison succeeds in merger.

Will rest of MSM push back or cave to new RED scare?

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 21d

1/ MAGA McCarthyism

Trump's FCC Chair today threatened to end ABC licenses for Kimmel's factual comments that Kirk killer came from a white Christian GOP family...and then Disney/ABC DID suspend Kimmel. WTF!

This during week TeamTrump pushes persecution of "left."

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Mark Green @markgreenny.bsky.social · 21d

Critics often point out Trump's addiction to projection, when he attacks opponents with a guilty mind.

In the context of his relationship to Epstein, here's what he said about his lawsuit against @nytimes.com, calling it "the most
degenerate of newspapers in the history of our country.”

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