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Retired news columnist (Military Update); book author (Glory Denied) Coast Guard vet. Directing folks off the bird to you-know-where to fight Trump-led fascism.

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Joined October 2012
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Quote someone when disparaging them, you say? The NYT, in disparaging Carlson, quote him endlessly. Please read and listen to the links before reacting with ignorance. That ignorance is what propagandists like Carlson count on.
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This could be any legacy Republican leader commenting on the quality of current GOP lawmakers:
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Replying to @TheTruth_Social
@TheTruth_Social If you prize our democracy, here’s a lovely sight:
I’d laugh at this but you might be handicapped in some way. So read: President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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I’m delighted to see this lousy investment in a lying autocrat lose value daily. Protect democracy instead.
We are hoping to get verified. But you know the anti free speech Twitter will try to suppress our voice on their platform. They could only do that because they are bigger and have a way bigger following and better platform but we have good ole 45! #TRUMP2024
No thought unspoken.
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Please, take a breath! My ears are ringing from the non-stop chatter! You paid by the word?
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These Apple announcer WON’T SHUT UP, not for a second!
Apple TV Mets-Nats: early returns: pxp has potential but has yet to take a breath and sounds like radio. Analyst referred to Pete Alonso's helmet face shield as a "chin strap." And turning the walk-up music into a promo for Apple Music reeked of the Home Shopping Network: C-
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Nats game only available tonight through Apple + TV. Female announcer,well, different but just fine. However, she must believe she gets paid by the word, like Charles Dickens. Because she will not shut up! Not for a second. I’m actually enjoying ads, to give my ears a rest.
Replying to @trumpmediainc
@trumpmediainc Investments in Trump Media are melting!
I see, Gaetz, that you’re a star in the large and growing Moron Wing of the GOP. Thank you for your ‘service.’ As a nation, we are dumber for it.
.@RepMattGaetz COMPLETELY takes down the WOKE @SecDef Austin!
Ronna, there are enough dirtbags in the world. We don’t need to return one of the worst — Trump — to the White House. Follow your uncle’s good example and work against that malignant narcissist. Oh, and read a book once in a while. You’ll learn stuff.
The Biden White House has now repeatedly said there was nothing wrong with Hunter selling influence to Communist China. Maybe that’s because Joe Biden is the “big guy” who was getting 10%?
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Replying to @trumpmediainc
@trumpmediainc Anti-democracy stock collapsing. 😊
Putin got fooled. He thought a nation that elected Trump had lost its moral compass and its ability to rally world democracies against a murderous tyrant. We bounced back, however. We’re still America; we tossed out Putin’s useful idiot, despite Sean’s cheering.
Putin got fooled. He thought a nation that elected Trump had lost its moral compass and its ability to rally world democracies against a murderous tyrant. We bounced back, however. We’re still America; we tossed out Putin’s useful idiot. He acted late to restore the evil empire.
Send Trump to Russia to give his expert advice to Putin, on the outside chance the Duma, stunned by the resulting corruption and stupidity, would impeach the fool.
If you don't want to give more weapons to Ukraine to stop Putin from killing babies in Ukraine, what do you recommend instead? Be specific.