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I’m a local elected official in the American Midwest trying to help save democracy and do right by my fellow humans in my small corner of a destabilized nation.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m still not over the fact that 1,500 traitors were pardoned in January and the whole Republican Party applauded. I’ll never get over this. For me, it’s the moment the United States was lost. In the civil war to come, that was the first shot.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

They’re not. Dems are patriotic while Republicans are indoctrinating young people to hate America.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

Also, I don’t see any bullet scar on that ear.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

Spies in the Trump regime will help speed up the implosion.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

It’s not a peace deal if you threaten violence the day after signing.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

If another country was doing this to American boaters, we’d have sent in the Marines by now.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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...

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

Hot damn, this patriot captured and gave voice to my thoughts precisely.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

This is why the sick new effort to put a Turning Point USA chapter in every high school must be stopped. The GOP is indoctrinating children to hate America.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11h

Zero surprise that the new GOP is manufacturing these horrible young men www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 10h

This is why the Republican Party must be pulled out by the root and defeated once and for all. The GOP is an America-hating indoctrination organization.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 18h

TPUSA is what happens when all the home-school kids who got participation trophies throughout their privileged childhoods get together with billionaires who are trying to plant seeds for a White America.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 18h

Another wealthy, creepy Republican man is held accountable by the courts. One more down, about 50,000 to go.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 19h

American patriots who attend this weekend's No Kings rallies should proudly fly the flag and talk to the media about how much they LOVE the United States. Just ignore the baiting attempt from Republicans.

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19h

Steve Scalise just called the upcoming No Kings rally, where millions of Americans will protest peacefully against the corrupt and authoritarian Trump regime, a “hate America rally.”

They’re scared

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 1d

Same.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 1d

Trump thinks he has actually achieved peace in the Middle East. I predict another bombing or shooting within a month.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many parents, with children in tow, will now avoid Publix and opt instead to get groceries at stores where there are fewer guns.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 2d

Respect, especially for the use of “balderdash.”

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 2d

Invoking the Insurrection Act would be an admission that this new regime has absolutely failed at governing and uniting Americans. It would be a sign of weakness, not strength.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

Where I come from, shooting a man who is trying to shoot your dog is considered a justifiable action.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

Why aren’t local police pulling them over and issuing citations?

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

This is all the Republicans’ doing. Dems need to hold the line and show voters exactly what they have put into power.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

Not in my America, it’s not. And not in yours, either. The First Amendment applies to EVERYONE.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the shout out, Bill. Let’s keep pushing America away from the brink. Together, real patriots can restore democracy and stabilize the nation. First task: defeat and defund Republicans everywhere.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 3d

Regime change, hopefully. If he’s uniting real American patriots to defeat Republican fascism, then that’s a start.

NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 4d

Didn’t Trump say he would unite the country?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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NotSurprised @notsurprised24.bsky.social · 4d

Isn’t Kid Rock, like, 70 now?