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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · Aug 21

1/8 ALERT: U.S. democracy is at a crossroads in 2025. With Trump’s inauguration, surveillance (PRISM, Tempora, NSANet), Red State National Guard deployments, and equity stakes in tech like Intel, we’re seeing a chilling shift. Thread explores the implications. #DemocracyInDanger

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 6m

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Cliff Young of @ipsosus.bsky.social Ipsos Public Affairs to discuss latest public opinion polling on the #governmentshutdown, performance of Trump, Congressional leaders.

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 22m

Not once during that disgraceful exchange did the words "freedom", "liberty", "democracy" ever pass Trump's lips.

And when the two pro-Palestinian delegates were removed from the Knesset chamber, did Trump condemn it at all? NO! He said "that was very efficient." He LOVED it.

That says EVERYTHING

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 24m

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Israel and Hamas have reached a peace deal and have agreed on the release of hostages.

Today also marks day 13 of the government shutdown.

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1h

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SOON: President Trump addresses Israel's Knesset following a ceasefire deal and release of hostages. The Washington Journal will begin following those remarks.

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 16h

Carry a shield.

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 16h

Let it be known. If you commit a "violent" crime in the District of Columbia, the Trump Regime will put you to death.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Enforcing the Death Penalty Laws in the District of Columbia to Deter and Punish the Most Heinous Crimes

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

www.whitehouse.gov

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 22h

Now why am I not surprised....?

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's "Peace Plan" for Gaza turns #Gaza into not a sovereign state, but a SOVEREIGN CORPORATION with him taking tribute from their tariffs as a vassal state.

Plus Curtis Yarvin feels Trump 2.0 is FAILING Neoreaction and so Yarvin wants to flee the US.

#GazaCorporation #GazaCeasefire #Neoreaction

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

@mdubowitz.bsky.social Has an incumbent or former President ever addressed the Knesset before in Israel's history?

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

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Foundation for Defense of Democracies CEO Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz.bsky.social joins us to discuss the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.

Watch here: tinyurl.com/3e6wpxze

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

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Former U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon (D-TN) & Greg Pence (R-IN) join us to discuss the government shutdown and ways to bridge political divisions and achieve consensus.

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

You ever speak with Director Cannon on this? His response and concurrence with the idea of UBI came as quite a surprise to me.

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump travels to Middle East for phase one of the Regime's peace plan, attempting to end #IsrarlHamasWar

Today also marks day 12 of the government shutdown.

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's plan for #Gaza is to turn the ruin and wrack of Gaza into #GazaCorp #GazaCorporation a technofeudalistic #NetworkState or #FreedomCity that he will own and rule.

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

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@tparsi.bsky.social of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft joins to discuss the latest with Gaza ceasefire and phase one of the Trump administration's peace plan.

Watch here: tinyurl.com/2s26vbxk

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

Copying your post to Washington Journal's X page, show's on right now. Thanks!

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

SOW 🐖 Hogsbreath insists that the US will retain control of the #QatarMilitaryBase being built in Mountain Home ID, but if that's so, then for example South Korea would and should retain control of Yongsan and Osan bases (under US control) and Okinawa should retain control of Kadena Air Base

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

Letitia James isn't the only one facing bogus charges. Trump's Department of Injustice is looking to frame Ambassador John Bolton for something to do with classified materials relating to the FBI raid on his home.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

Criminal charges against John Bolton expected as early as next week

Federal prosecutors are considering filing charges against the former Trump national security adviser as either a rushed complaint or an indictment.

www.msnbc.com

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

@scottsantens.com @theubiguy.bsky.social @misterjworth.bsky.social OH you guys are gonna love this:

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Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪 🇺🇸 @mfcannon.bsky.social · 2d

Capital idea.

Let’s start by turning Medicare into a cash-transfer system, like Social Security.

Doing so would implement the traditional Democratic idea of a “public option“ in Medicare.

www.cato.org/outside-arti...

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

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What is your top news story of the week?

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RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

The man literally cannot stand not being the center of everyone's universe.

I could be wrong, but isn't this pretty much classic narcissism?

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

How very selfless and altruistic is our Dear Leader Donald Trump...

He congratulates Maria Corina Machado for her win of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, then tries to take credit for her victory. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump speaks with Nobel Peace prize winner Machado after his administration denounced the decision to award it to her | CNN Politics

US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday with Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado after his administration denounced the committee awarding her the honor.

www.cnn.com

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

The universality aspect is key - rich or poor, employed or unemployed, an income sufficient for basic needs such as food, healthcare and all else, and then stepping aside and letting them do as they will with it. That would satisfy a Libertarian argument in regards to UBI Vs market-based solutions.

RobertNDouglass🇺🇳🇵🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 @realantipartisan.bsky.social · 2d

How very droll, Director Cannon 😆. Did it ever occur to Libertarians such as yourself that perhaps instead of government getting out of families' ways entirely and letting them fend for themselves in a market designed first and foremost for profit generation, we give them a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME?

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