Carl Smith
@53rdplacestudios.com
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...an old retired democracy loving guy trying to keep up (catch up?) with online and mobile phone technology in addition to putting my two cents in... the robots are coming...! (not really - they're just breathin' hard...😜) <no private chats UIKY>
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no bone spurs here... (aboard the uss tombigbee, off the coast of vietnam near the dmz, u.s. navy 1967-1970)
man standing next to a machine gun aboard a u.s. navy ship
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Yep… He hasn’t faced any consequences for murdering the people on those 5 Venezuelan boats he ordered the U.S. Navy to blow out of the water so he now figures he has a green light to drop bombs on Venezuela… Just more normalization of a MAGA grifting criminal conman, cosplaying as a president…😏
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Beyond the proverbial ‘lunatic fringe’…

“Hegseth’s rhetoric and policies are perceived as a bit unhinged and counterproductive, but the way forward is just to eat it and put your head down and act in accordance with his new policies,” said one current Army JAG.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics
For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...
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Hegseth’s vision (in his mind) of how the u.s. military should look:
www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...
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Hmmm… Hegseth must have seen this 1961 Twilight Zone episode sometime when he was a kid…?🧐😏

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quali...
A Quality of Mercy - Wikipedia
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Of course they are… Weiss is a whack job: youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...
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Good luck with that; I’ve been waiting since the beginning 😏
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and his pick for hhs secretary, rfk, jr😏
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1,500 measels cases in 42 states. Worst outbreak since 1992. Thank you Donald Trump.
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trump working on being anointed plenary power by stephen miller...?😏
gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.
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22 days to go for the republicans to surpass the 35 day shutdown in 2018-19 by their dear leader😏
buf2srq2.bsky.social
That awkward moment when Mike Johnson warns that the Mike Johnson shutdown, which allows Mike Johnson to prevent members from derailing GOP health care cuts and delay a new Democrat vote to release the Epstein files and bury tRump, Mike Johnson, and the GOP, may be the longest shutdown in history.
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Shutdowns by President in office at the time:
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yeah, birds of a feather...😏
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sorry... it's a fake posting; mick didn't say that...
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says the Trump ball gargling head Trump sycophant who is a lying faux 'christian' who shits on the constitution and the american people because he thinks he's '...doing the lord's work...'😏
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Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."
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yeah, guess they gave up on the other one: 'pray you don't get sick' 😏😁
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BREAKING: Mike Johnson and House Republicans just announced their new healthcare plan: Die.
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here's some advice for katie porter and other politicians running for a political office - feel free to pass it along: youtu.be/HOakTJPPPuQ?...
Goobernatorial | Democrat Katie Porter does her best Donald Trump impression
YouTube video by Hal Sparks
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katie porter - here's some unsolicited advice for you and other politicians running for a political office (listen & pay close attention, now): youtu.be/HOakTJPPPuQ?...
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MAGA republicans and your steadfast belief climate change is a hoax and it was a good idea to do away with FEMA... F**K YOU...!!
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...reality is not the kind of society MAGA wants to live in... open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...