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Mark Affleck

@flick131.bsky.social

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USAF RET (24 yrs), Cornhusker at heart, NC by choice. Married animal wrangler: 3 dogs, 6 cats, 3 guinea pigs & a turtle. 65 & just getting started!

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · Sep 3

VA has officially rated me 100% disabled. It’s a hard truth, but it’s also validation. Proud of my service in the USAF from Cold War vigilance through two Desert Storms and Afghanistan and grateful it’s finally recognized. We thought the Cold War was won… until Trump capitulated to get elected

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not his house it’s our

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact

USA is the #1 oil producer on Earth ironically consumers can’t get cheap gas like Saudi Arabia.

We ship our oil out, buy theirs back, and let oil execs fund the politicians who keep it that way.

The scam isn’t hidden it’s sponsored by politicians

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 2d

The Great Pumpkin 🎃 is unfortunately in the White House, holding daily press briefings about how he’s the biggest, orangest gourd ever grown.

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 2d

North Carolina is fucked

Just toss out elections altogether and let Trump hand-pick whoever worships him the loudest. Why even pretend this is democracy anymore? They’ve gone full authoritarian and everyone’s supposed to just clap.

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 2d

May your urinal always stay empty

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 2d

Throw the whole demolition company in jail
Who could operate a machine and do this destruction of your own house
we all own it

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 2d

Inflation data will be released soon so will trump try to fudge the data?
He’ll try
why else replace leadership?
We have to expect the worst everyday from him don’t believe anything his administration says
www.brookings.edu/articles/aro...

Around the halls: The cost of compromising federal data | Brookings

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

Hegseth is laser-focused on making sure an airman’s barracks has fresh paint while Trump literally bulldozes the East Wing of the White House for his ballroom ego project. Priorities so sharp they could cut through common sense.

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

Leavitt still playing dress-up in politics like it’s a high school talent show. Every meltdown, every lie, every “gotcha” moment just screams arrested development. The ballroom story’s big — but her ego’s even bigger.

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

Jim Cramer. -Still undefeated at being wrong.

Proof that yelling doesn’t equal insight.

Where logic goes to die.

Because why make money when you can do the opposite?

CNBC should give him a warning label: “For entertainment purposes only not responsible for spontaneous portfolio combustion.”

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

I guess people had short memories.

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

Why you ask?
The wall of previous presidents pissed him off
He’s a toddler

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

37 percent still love the great pumpkin 🎃

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA will accept him

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 4d

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d

To be fair to Stephen, it happened during the day, and everyone knows he hangs upside down then.

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 4d

Oh sure, a perfectly vertical falling star ⭐️ because gravity suddenly decided to pull things straight down from the middle of the galaxy like it’s clocking in for work at NASA. Totally normal. Next up, maybe the moon will start orbiting in a neat little rectangle too.

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 4d

Both of them are clueless about anything related to this issue but clicks will ensure they get paid

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 4d

The asymmetry of outrage and participation

One of the reasons MAGA politicians survive, even when unpopular, is because their most extreme base turns out reliably, while moderate or disillusioned voters withdraw in exhaustion.
americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 6d

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 6d

Textbook Trumpism: scream “biased fake news,” dodge the receipts, and try to bully the story into submission. Halligan’s Signal DMs echo the playbook attack the messenger, never the facts. We see it. We remember. And the courts will too.

Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 6d

The 9th Circuit majority effectively said, “If the President says he needs to do this, we must defer.”
That’s troubling because deference without factual scrutiny can become abdication.

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