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Vaquera Elisa

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Daughter of the American West. For Union and for Liberty. No Kings But Christ.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · Mar 2

You WILL pay your fair share of taxes

You WILL take a govt job through a 3rd New Deal program

You WILL attend a mainline lib church

You WILL respect trans people's pronouns

You WILL turn off the podcasters, Twitch streamers, and op-ed columnists

You WILL be imbued with republican civic virtue

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 9h

This is not being a edgy lefty calling it murder by the way. It's just straight up what it is when you target and kill people that aren't a threat and also aren't a belligerent

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 6d

The trump administration has been murdering people off the coast of Venezuela. This is not a small technical thing or an abstract constitutional testing of the war powers. Even if everyone on the boats were exactly who the Trump admin says they are they aren't enemy combatants, just criminals.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 12h

Every single Trump would have been busy throwing stones at the fallen woman, and calling for Jesus to be crucified.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1h

There is plenty to be said about Bush and his attitude toward Arabs and Muslims but he did, on some level, at least believe they were humans capable and worthy of democracy

This was a quality that was continually less present in every
President that succeeded him

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 2h

The Global War on Terror where Bush and Co. were in command on 9/11 was a nightmare of cruelty and racist despotism

The Global War on Terror where Trump and Co. are in command on 9/11 features Treblinka-on-the-Tigris, if not just the nuclear holocaust of everything between Morocco and Pakistan

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 8h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3h

As in, spun from whole cloth from the wreckage of Soviet and post-Soviet despotism a civil society that was capable of taking on a dictator in the streets and winning, twice? Yeah, I’d say it did

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3h

My straight-edged gun-hating Mormon abuela at least mumbles something about how she wants Trump to come to Utah because “that Charlie Kirk business shows we don’t miss” basically every time I speak to her

Columbia @mdhtrisys.bsky.social · 4h

So I have heard, apparently they're saying things over brunch that would get you visited by the feds if you posted them online. bsky.app/profile/gnos...

mark 🎃 @gnostichippie.bsky.social · Aug 17

my interactions with normal Dems nowadays are like

me: hello
voter: someone ought to do something about that motherfucker [photo of Mussolini hanging upside-down]

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 3h

Not referring to Euromaidan

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 6h

The current U.S. President straight up hates America and roots against us. We should talk about that more. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h

"Amero-Wagner alum has better FP positions than the replacement-level Democrat" is a replacement-level Democrat problem

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah he was in a PMC and I really don't care. I wish we had more YPG vets willing to run instead

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 4h

seems particularly on point if we're still banging the poor Charlie Kirk the free speech (shut up about him, you're fire) martyr, what a blessing he was for campuses in particular

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a real water is wet scenario here

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

May The Lord have mercy on the boys who helped to smash the van

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 9h

And here is Mike Lawler, all thumbs up and smiles with the current Chair of the NY State Young Republicans Bobby Walker who:

*Referred to rape as 'epic'

*Regularly used the homophobic epitaph 'f----t'

*Mimicked Trump and said 'I prefer my war heroes not be captured'

#NY17

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re going to have zampoliti you should probably see to it that they’re less visibly insecure about the program but I suppose that would defeat the whole point wouldn’t it

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 4h

Famously, deeply moving speeches have to have the rule "no laughing" enforced

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Fynn Bytez @fynnbytez.bsky.social · 4h

Mamdani is one of the most successful coalition builders right now and has actively engaged basically every part of the big tent and people are STILL acting like he's a weird outcast who can't win.

He's literally the best of us, he can win!

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

Not even an exaggeration, he’s literally just the living breathing archetype of Guy You Frag

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

how these fuckers think politics works

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DisheveldYoshi @disheveledyoshi.bsky.social · 4h

Never forget Hocul’s engoodening began with her telling the Trump admin to bend it over congestion pricing

She went YIMBY and has been a nonstop trajectory towards full resistlib (laudatory)

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 5h

I just watched this whole clip and oh my god Kathy??? The way she also takes the opportunity to boost Zohran and drag Mike Lawler????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4h

2012 is when Republicans developed the unbreakable intuition that they were entitled to win elections notwithstanding what the voters said.

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 9h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

Naturally the divide here is between a governor whose foremost issue is an Esoteric Obamaist one (“muh left behind WWC labor union big doodz want tariff socialism”) and a governor whose foremost issue is a Resistance one (“yes the African Muslim is an American you provincial backward hicks”)

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