Gold Country Rich
@goldcountryrich.bsky.social
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ex-Twitter / NO MAGA CA Gold Country retired, ex-SF Bay Area IC industry exec. Golf, Ski, Pizza, Foodie, Wines. Love Kailua Kona, Big Island / Napa-Sonoma wine country Happily Married(!) Independent / moderate. DMs ONLY from follows. NO solicitations.
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"The notion that NATO is the spear that protects Western values and that the European Union is possibly the West’s best modern political creation, a vast center of free people and free markets, stabilizing a continent that was known for tribal and religious wars for millenniums, is alien to Trump."
Opinion | Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals How Un-American Trump Is
www.nytimes.com
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Mean girls not having lunch anymore together? Bummer.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
The main point is not really to win convictions. If they wanted to do that, they’d be going about things very differently.

Instead, the goal is to put Trump’s enemies, and the Democratic opposition more broadly, through the wringer — again, and again, and again until January 2029. - VOX
The insidious legal strategy Trump and Stephen Miller are using against their enemies
They’re bringing weak cases that will likely fail — again, and again, and again.
www.vox.com
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Clusterfuck: a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation : a muddled mess
Run by the biggest collection of idiots....ever.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Lemme fix this:
Barrett: "We use the shadow docket to defer to Trump while we make up some bullshit reason later to approve the decision we made....defending and supporting the president".
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Clusterfuck: a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation : a muddled mess
Run by the biggest collection of idiots....ever.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Looking at all options? Yup. Stephen Miller has found them...
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Lemme fix this:
Barrett: "We use the shadow docket to defer to Trump while we make up some bullshit reason later to approve the decision we made....defending and supporting the president".
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
When will someone finally call in a 5150 on PsychoDon?
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Democrat programs?
Well, there goes Social Security!
Social Security - FDR
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
About the Congressional House shutdown and Epstein matter, consider this thought. My own btw...
Johnson doesn't want a House vote b/c it's likely a fair % of the GOP will vote in favor of release. I bet he/they are s***g their pants since no one sane wants to be exposed as a pedophile supporter.
goldcountryrich.bsky.social
Longtime Florida insurance agent Alan Reynolds, 65...
The loss of his wife’s subsidy means she is likely to pay about $1,200 or more each month, up from about $500 in 2024, he said. “I voted for Trump,” Reynolds said. “I didn’t expect this.”
- WaPo

Stupidity is not an excuse. They were warned.
Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring
The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.
www.washingtonpost.com