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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 4d

The police are getting more and more violent. They feel like they have permission from Trump. www.instagram.com/reel/DNRpg1H...

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Mike McIntosh @mikemcintosh.bsky.social · 10d

Add in a high probability of civil unrest, partisan violence, and institutional failures.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 9d

"So let me get this straight. Trump gets into a trade war with China. China stops buying American crops. Argentine farmers fill the gap, screwing US farmers out of billions. Trump then sends $20 billion to help out Argentina's economy. How is this winning? What am I missing?" ~ Marc Pocan #ProudBlue

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 9d

So, why is the Trump Administration gifting Argentina $20 billion dollars for “infrastructure” when Natives on the Navajo Nation Reservation must have water trucked in because reservation water is polluted from decades of non-Native mining?

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 9d

Guys. Guys. GUYS!

I just spontaneously uttered a phrase that I will henceforth use every time someone begins mainsplaining to me:

“I’m sorry but I’m not here for this conversation”

Just delivered to a bozo who literally sat down so he could lecture me on nuclear weapons.

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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 9d

Republicans are shutting down the government because they don’t want to release the Epstein Files. They want to protect themselves and their big donor Republicans.
Especially the pedophile in the WH.
#RepublicanShutDown

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9d

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

Think about the over-valuation of Tesla, AI stocks, the thousands being laid off because of AI. The amount of investment crypto products and NFTs that could become instantly worthless. Some part of this bubble is going to pop… and it won’t be pretty.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

The economy was actually better before the 1929 crash than it is now, although conditions are remarkably similar.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

What the USA DID have in 1929 that we don’t have now is STABLE to slightly DECLINING INFLATION, and LOW GROCERY PRICES driven by agricultural overproduction.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

This decade also featured extreme income inequality, excessive stock speculation that drove valuations to unsustainable highs

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

The crash was also precipitated by overvalued utility stocks, which were propped up by speculative investment trusts. When the utilities sector began to fall in October, it triggered panic selling that spread to the entire market.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit a historic high of 381.17 on September 3, 1929, an increase of 218.7% since 1922.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

Stock prices in 1929 were unsustainably high and far exceeded their actual value based on company earnings.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

Here’s a thread that describes some
of the conditions of the USA economy right before the stock market crash of 1929… #proudblue #stockmarketcrash

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

It’s actually happening, just like Germany in the 1930s. Wake the fuck up USA! If Trump consolidates enough power before the public turns on him, we will all be (very poor) prisoners in our own country. #WakeUpUSA #TrumpIsANazi

This is a historical photo with Trump’s head very convincing photoshopped in place of Hitler’s.
The result is Trump giving the Nazi salute in a Nazi uniform.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

In the USA watch your backs if you’re struggling, middle-class or even entry-level rich… there are laws for you that are enforced with extreme prejudice. If you’re wealthy, just do what you want… no need to worry about it.

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The Proud Blue Texan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸 @proudbluetexan.bsky.social · 10d

Elon wouldn’t be in the Epstein files and photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell if he didn’t have some social or business dealing with Musk. Since the only thing Epstein did
(that we know for sure) socially or for business was traffic minor girls… any questions are reasonable.

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debbiefr.bsky.social @debbiefr.bsky.social · 12d

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are in the Epstein Files. TY to the Estate of Epstein for cooperating with this investigation and releasing info.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12d

Epstein’s contacts: “ far-right Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and on-and-off-again Trump supporter and mogul Elon Musk”
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

MSN

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 12d

Wait a second. Elon Musk's big bombshell was claiming Trump is in the Epstein files…but it turns out Musk is in the Epstein files? What a world.

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Axios @axios.com · 12d

NEW: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon are all named in Epstein docs released today by Democrats

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon named in Epstein files released by Democrats

The three Trump allies are all mentioned in redacted copies of Epstein's daily schedules.

www.axios.com

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Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 12d

Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r... #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinList #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Resist

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ElizabethC @econklin44.bsky.social · 12d

Hegseth served in the Nat'l Guard for 22 yrs., reaching the rank of Major. No combat, no high-level strategic jobs. He knows zero about "warrior ethos" & is copying an mtng Hitler held in in 1935 when officers “swore a personal oath to the Führer.” Hitler didn't have Zoom. Insane. #ProudBlue

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