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DaveN50

@daven50.bsky.social

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Retired. Notre Dame alum. Student of American history. Grateful Dead. Anti-Trump and anti-MAGA. "If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine..."

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · Jun 17

Scorned at home and abroad. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · Jun 17

He's on a really epic losing streak at home and abroad. What's more, nobody at the G7 (or anywhere) really has any use for him. I don't recall a more impotent, ostracized, poorly thought of president in our modern history. At his parade, at G7, he gives off a very very strong pissed off loser vibe.

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, but you probably also never would have believed that the speaker of the house could be so detached from reality.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1h

Alex Jones is evil incarnate. He is a truly reprehensible person who delights in the suffering of others.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't it a requirement that a person be literate before they name a library after him?

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1h

What kind of nonsense is this? What does flouride have to do with religion?

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 10h

What a colossal imbecile.

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 10h

Pam Bondi saying it doesn't make it so.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 11h

She's a blithering idiot. But we knew that already.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 12h

Can posthumous medals of freedom for Robert E. Lee, Jefferson David and Roger Taney be far off?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 17h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 16h

If any person in America deserves to be ruined financially, it is Alex Jones.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 21h

Good. Alex Jones intentionally caused misery and suffering for so many families already wracked with pain. I hope he ends up penniless and living on the street.

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 22h

Needless poking another person in the eye. Just gratuitous insults.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News is a de facto ministry of propaganda in this country. Whatever "story" Trump and the right want to make public, Fox News is happy to provide them with a forum to do so.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It is a disgrace that Fox continues to put them on constantly day after day to spew their propaganda to their friends when Hegseth & Wilson are afraid to face real press and are obviously in the process of covering a lot up that they don’t want the American people to know.

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1d

The toddler in chief is unhappy about his picture. The self absorption is off the charts.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1d

But of course. The presence of these goons has nothing to do with safety or security. Rather, it is all about creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1d

Good. The administration should not be allowed to broadcast blatant propaganda at US airports.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 1d

Wait. Wasn't Trump the guy who complained incessantly about rigged elections?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 2d

As long as these people support Trump, the fact they are has been is immaterial to the right.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 2d

Of course US consumers are paying the tariffs. This is how tariffs work. The Trump claim those other countries would be paying the tariffs was always nonsense. Any thinking person knew this.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 2d

The corruption of this administration never, ever ends.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem deserves every bit of the scorn and contempt she receives.

DaveN50 @daven50.bsky.social · 2d

She learned her trade from Trump, a guy who regularly accuses everyone else of lying when, in fact, he is lying.

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