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Randy

@rkbrown2230.bsky.social

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Mostly just lying low until this is over - if it ever is over. Hoping that BlueSky will eventually be known as the home of trustworthy sources.

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Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 10h

A few of Trump's billionaire friends lost money in Venezuela. That's all this is about. Trump is a mob boss murdering thousands of people because someone disrespected him, and he's only going to get worse.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 10h

Well, yeah. I am anti-fascist. And I want the brutal punishment of the people of Gaza to stop. I also want Trump to abdicate.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 11h

Hamas laying down arms was part of the deal? Hamas is a mercenary terrorist organization based in Qatar, Russia, and many other places. They get their arms from Russia and they fight when Russia pays them to fight. Even if a few foot soldiers laid down arms it would mean nothing.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 15h

True. But the consequences are entirely on them. It's important that the MAGA nation sees exactly what they voted for.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 15h

They won't. Eventually they'll do it themselves as they did on the original bill. But then they will be entirely responsible for the consequences.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 16h

Certainly not worth paying for. Time for a tax revolt.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 17h

When will American workers realize that they are the ultimate target of all this? Republicans are recreating serfdom.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 17h

Blue states should create zero voting districts for US Representatives and Senators, allowing ranked voting for however many Representatives the state is allowed, and use districts only for local elections.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

This has been true since the 1960s. The Civil Rights movement and the political actions it lead to are rightly famous, but I remember the backlash. It started immediately and grew stronger with every passing year. And Republicans have capitalized on it. It's their core strategy.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

It's justification for a tax revolt.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, we can stop importing from China. It will just cost US consumers much more. This is yet another tax on the American middle class.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is not what the letters stand for. ICE is Trump's private army. ICE is the American SS. Already 20,000 strong, in five years their number will be 200,000. They will be armed with every weapon in the US arsenal, and their mission will be whatever Trump says it is.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

Right. That's not actually a commitment to do what Trump is going to ask, because Trump needs to issue unlawful orders.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has a serious problem with the military. He needs them to make his dream of power a reality, but he hasn't won them over. His use of National Guard units from deep red states is telling. It means he knows that Active units will not comply - nor will Guard units from the states he's invading.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 1d

Stationed with the Ground Launch version in Europe in the 1980s. They work. We were a response to Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles deployed by the Soviet Russian Empire. Russia was on the brink economically but becoming more threatening. Our GLCM deployment said we will not back down.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

I would be very surprised if the files are released while Trump is President because the evidence we do have makes clear that the files contain damning information about Trump, and the Speaker's refusal to swear in the 218th signer is daily confirmation.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

Same thought. They're going to pound their base with propaganda because they're very afraid of the truth.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

100 million Americans are anti-fascist. That's a serious problem for Trump, because, even if he declares martial law against these "terrorists", there are only 2 million men and women in the US military, and at least half of them consider themselves anti-fascist. Trump is digging his own grave.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

Religious zealotry and public education are mutually exclusive. The religious zealots running these states are creating a serious problem for the people of their states.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, she was right about Trump all along. The problem is that our neighbors put him back in office. America has gone off the rails.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 2d

Russia starts a war. Russia pays Hamas to start another war. Trump pays Hamas to stop the second war. So now maybe Trump pays Russia to stop the first war? Maybe. And then in five years...

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 3d

And in most cases religious abuse.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 3d

They should think about how easy it would be to burn Moscow and St. Petersburg to the ground if Putin doesn't remove Russian forces from Ukraine and work for a truly peaceful resolution.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 5d

We've been training foreign pilots for decades. This is the first I've ever heard of them bringing their own jets.

Randy @rkbrown2230.bsky.social · 5d

One of the biggest red flags yet that Trump has no intention of holding honest elections ever again. He's no longer pretending to care about his base.