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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 2h

Off the chart!

Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 4h

Hello, Bluesky. On a scale of 1-9, how do you feel today?

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 5h

What an asshole. 😂

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 21h

We are 9 months into Trump’s second term and the Dark Enlightenment chodes have thus far failed to destroy democracy.

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 21h

No, the FBI only investigates “leftists” now, where “leftist” is broadly defined as anyone who doesn’t want a monarch.

Red hats, however, are free to do as much crime as they want.

Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 21h

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Twitter occasionally get waves of posts like these?

I remember seeing a lot of this woo-woo “we jumped timelines” bullshit after Trump’s so-called assassination attempt and also after the Charlie Kirk murder.

Who pushes this programming out to vibes-based, low-cognition voters and why?

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, it's too late for all of that. MAGA is exactly what it looks like when civility becomes obsolete. MAGA is the preeminent symptom of our dying society. It's angry, malicious, truth-denying, get-that-bag-and-fuck-everyone-else sociopathy.

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Hell yes! This is the hope I needed today!

Thank you, @johnnybananas13.bsky.social

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 2d

Real RAM guys cannot wait to buy one of these at 18% interest for 96 months, get shitfaced drunk, and then rear-end a minivan full of kids at 103 mph. 🛻💪💥🇺🇸

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 3d

Trump organized and instigated the failed coup attempt on January 6, 2021, which he now blames on the “Biden FBI.”

As of that date, Biden had never been president nor been in charge of the FBI. Biden took office for the first time 14 days later.

The MAGAs know that Trump is lying and don’t care.

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 3d

It's really interesting how some parts of the United States have a high human development index, like Scandinavia or Japan, while other parts of it are basically the developing world.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

we need to abolish this shit

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 3d

How to Make America Great Again:

Step 1: Accept an illegal $400,000,000 bribe from Qatar in the form of a luxury jumbo jet.

Step 2: Ignore the fact that Qatar funds and sponsors terrorist groups like Hamas.

Step 3: Let the Qataris build a military airbase deep inside our own country.

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 6d

Our Constitution has some serious design flaws to let one man destroy our country like this.

We need an amendment:
• Proportional, rather than district, representation.
• One branch cannot delegate its powers to another.
• Lower the bar for impeachment and conviction.
• No one should have immunity.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

😕🇺🇸

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 5d

10/10 accuracy.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

Trump just threatened to impose severe, unprecedented tariffs on Chinese imports. He won’t negotiate with Xi at the upcoming APEC summit, choosing to sink the global economy. The Dow is already down 300 points. This will devastate American small businesses and cause your expenses to skyrocket.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 5d

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah. They slept on Trump’s criminal convictions too. They didn’t do their jobs. I’m not happy.

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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦 @collinfisherphd.bsky.social · 6d

Vivek Ramaswamy keeps finding out Republicans will never embrace him because of their bigotry. Here he is feeling the Christian love of a Turning Point USA event. www.instagram.com/reel/DPmRFNs...

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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 6d

Our Constitution has some serious design flaws to let one man destroy our country like this.

We need an amendment:
• Proportional, rather than district, representation.
• One branch cannot delegate its powers to another.
• Lower the bar for impeachment and conviction.
• No one should have immunity.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6d

If Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in these circumstances, it would be an unmistakable declaration that he's canceling our democracy and intends to rule as a dictator.
Everyone needs to understand that this would give us a sad but crystal-clear choice between resistance and submission.

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Bombín @bombin.bsky.social · 6d

Primera ley de la hipocondria: Nunca googlees tus síntomas.
Segunda ley de la hipocondria: Ante la duda, es cáncer.
Tercera ley de la hipocondria: Al final eran gases.

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