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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

Think I’m gonna file “Oh, you sweet summer child!” next to “Bless your heart” on my list of Condescending Bullshit I Do Not Need

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

2. Introduce bill to retroactively shield the names of sexual assault victims and perpetrators from the public

1. Launch Operation Nothing to See Here in the Gaza Strip

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

3. Pass law making it illegal to celebrate the deaths of prominent conservative commentators and/or say anything to suggest a sitting U.S. President is a child molester

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

4. Insist that instead of worrying about who may or may not be implicated in the Epstein Files, Congress should be focusing their efforts on the true perpetrators of sexual assault: transgenders who use women’s restrooms

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

5. Quell suspicion by claiming that the names of the suspected sex offenders cannot be revealed to the public due to national security concerns

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

6. Cite the 2024 Supreme Court ruling The United States vs. Fuck You which dictates that a sitting President doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t wanna

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

7. Condescendingly scold any overeager liberals who naïvely believe that these flight logs will be enough to send one or more sitting U.S. Presidents directly to jail without an ungodly amount of judicial and/or bureaucratic red tape standing in the way

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

9. Claim that the Congressional resolution is non-binding because the integrity of the vote was corrupted by untold quantities of illegal immigrants

8. Insist that the names on the Epstein list be redacted and replaced with names of Democrats

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 10h

TEN THINGS REPUBLICANS MIGHT PLAUSIBLY DO IF CONGRESS VOTES TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

10. Cite “The Biden Rule” as precedent where a sitting president is under no obligation to publicly release a list of suspected sex offenders because Joe Biden didn’t release them either

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 13h

At this point, we may as well describe David Duke as “Donald Trump without the baggage”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

When college kids publicly say "Israel's war on Gaza is bad" that is full-blown anti-Semitism that requires the federal government to crack down on all colleges.

When Young Republicans in their 20s and 30s privately praise Hitler and "joke" about the Holocaust, well, that's just freedom baby.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not gonna delete a post with over 300 likes; the detail isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 18h

This is the “locker room talk/very fine people” defense of 2025. Like Steve Bannon and Donald Trump before him, Vance understands that the chat-room racists are the Republican Party’s future base of support.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 19h

Entirely plausible

Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 19h

1. Persuade the necessary number of Republicans to vote against it

IF THAT FAILS

2. Introduce bureaucratic process to indefinitely delay their release

IF THAT FAILS

3. Hold breath; turn blue

Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 20h

If there’s someone brown
In your neghborhood
Who you gonna call?
TRUMP’S FLUFFERS!

They’re not from your town
They must be no good
Who you gonna call?
TRUMP’S FLUFFERS!

🎵

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 20h

The last No Kings rally drew 5 million protesters.

That sure is a lot of hardest-of-the-hardcore unhinged far leftists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

Fair enough

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

ADDENDUM: I was mistaken when I said Johnson needed to “hold a vote to confirm” Grijalva; all he needs to do is swear her in. This kerfuffle is sufficiently reminiscent of Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court obstruction that I inadvertently conflated the processes. The rest of my thread stands.

Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

Fair enough

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

ADDENDUM: I was mistaken when I said Johnson needed to “hold a vote to confirm” Grijalva; all he needs to do is swear her in. This kerfuffle is sufficiently reminiscent of Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court obstruction that I inadvertently conflated the processes. The rest of my thread stands.

Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

ADDENDUM: I was mistaken when I said Johnson needed to “hold a vote to confirm” Grijalva; all he needs to do is swear her in. This kerfuffle is sufficiently reminiscent of Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court obstruction that I inadvertently conflated the processes. The rest of my thread stands.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 21h

Rest in Peace

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 22h

Trump > Palestinians? I would absolutely believe it.

Trump > Israelis? Will need further evidence.

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 22h

I have heard many unconfirmed reports that Trump convinced Netanyahu to delay the peace deal so Biden would not get the credit, although I remain somewhat skeptical that Netanyahu was so invested in Trump‘s success that he would deliberately delay the release of Israeli hostages for six months

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Dreamweasel @dreamweasel.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of things I used to believe couldn’t happen

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