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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 9h

A known sexual predator and adjudicated rapist, who bragged often about his predatory exploits, ordered Pam Bondi to protect pedophiles. She's following that order. The "following orders" defense didn't work at Nuremberg. Let's hope we get to the point where it doesn't work here either.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

When we defeat Trumpism and democracy survives, we do need to amend the provision regarding presidential pardons.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

Man, Trump and his closest minions act like what's in the Epstein files implicates Trump in THE biggest scandal OF ALL TIME.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

I just rewatched the Bondi hearing. (Oy, the things I do sometimes, contrary to my own mental health.)

I didn't catch it the first time, BUT - while Bondi was prepared to show fangs and make Trumpian body noises in response to almost everything, she was silent and guarded on one topic.

Epstein.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Broadview police are investigating.

The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi is now the all-time poster child for "methinks the lady doth protest too much."

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

Shallow State to Bondi: "Every sentient being on the entire planet already challenges your integrity, many times over, and has already concluded that you're NOT fair and impartial."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

"Smugness, defiance, and contemptibility without substance" was never high on my list of AG qualifications.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

"These questions are basic. Having you respond with incredibly irrelevant far-right talking points is not helpful here. - Sheldon Whitehouse

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

Psychopathy enabler and Fox retribution reporter Pam Bondi is speaking at the Senate. She didn't bring Epstein files with her. I was inclined not to watch - didn't want to throw a shoe through the TV. I took them off, put them away. This will be a disastrous hearing. She is a terrible propagandist.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 2d

You want to know who "The Enemy Within" really is? Stephen Miller.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson's disingenuousness is unnerving. People should not confuse his outward calm with any bipartisan reasonableness. He's MAGA through and through - and even worse. Hiding behind God to help shepherd the oligarchy to endless power. He's a well-groomed religious zealot. A dapper homophobe.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, basically: Listen to MY reality! MY reality is real!! Portland is burning! Prices are down! Inflation is gone! Green energy bad! I WON in 2020! I've done nothing wrong! My polls are great! Foreign countries pay tariffs! Trillions in new investment! Put away your eyes and ears. Listen to ME!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3d

The last part is what most infuriates me.

The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

(1/2) It's quite a phenomenon that a 79-year-old man struggling with speech and gait, can tell an audience that prices are down when they're up, that tariffs make other countries pay which they don't, that he has solved wars he hasn't, over and over again, and it gets reported as sane utterances.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

Democrats good. MAGA bad.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

(2/2) No doubt history will speak to the MAGA cult; how easily they were gaslit; embraced the most flawed cult leader ever; rallied around grievance; railed against their own interest; fell for an obvious con. But the unforeseen disaster - the biggie - is the media's wide normalization of a madman.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

(1/2) It's quite a phenomenon that a 79-year-old man struggling with speech and gait, can tell an audience that prices are down when they're up, that tariffs make other countries pay which they don't, that he has solved wars he hasn't, over and over again, and it gets reported as sane utterances.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

(2/2) Our government is a made for TV enterprise. Each boat explosion was perfectly captured on video. Whether it was effective strikes against cartels, cold-ass murder, or some of each, our government doesn't care if we know. They can say what they want. It looked cool. That's all they care about.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 3d

(1/2) I don't know if boats being blown out of the water near Venezuela are carrying drugs or contain narco-terrorists. You don't know either. But we know that IF both things were true, our government (which lies incessantly), might share a sliver or two of evidence, at least with Congress.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 4d

I've not seen CNN or MSNBC utter a single syllable about Trump's 4-day disappearance, days after his garbled speech at Quantico, a month after a 6-day disappearance. Strangeness, health questions, incongruities, inconsistencies - nothing.
Not even to just say it happened. Normalization on steroids.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is allegedly golfing today. But the press pool has been prevented from seeing him. Not prevented from interviewing him, but from even seeing him, at any distance. He hasn't been seen or heard live since Tuesday. Whatever his state is, they don't want anyone to see it, smell it, or know it.

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Shrinking Trump @shrinkingtrump.bsky.social · 4d

SHRINKING TRUMP: EPISODE 70 - THE FINAL EPISODE
John and Harry discuss their decision to end the series. They also analyze a bizarre gathering at Quantico. They are joined by Really American’s Justin Horwitz plus Laurie Winer and Ahmed Babba⬇️

PLEASE SEE COMMENTS BELOW

This series on Trump’s mental condition comes to a close | Shrinking Trump

YouTube video by Really American

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 5d

Jeffrey Epstein was mysterious. Much about him is not fully known. Yet three extremely horrific aspects to Epstein ARE known, and all seem to be linked:
1. He was the most notorious pedophile of modern times.
2. He was the greatest blackmailer ever.
3. He was Trump's best friend for a decade.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, they're yelling. They yell a lot. I know these are frustrating times, and the noise is deafening and the pace over the top, but they're losing this argument - polls show more and more Americans concluding that the shutdown is the responsibility of the GOP.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 5d

(2/2) Is it off base for Dems to say: "Hey! You're corrupt. You're forcing people into insolvency to benefit the wealthiest. Your trade war is a tax. You lie as the wind blows. Your leader is abnormal, malignant, and losing what's left of his deranged mind. Damn right we're not funding this shit!"

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