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Jim Treanor

@jimtranr.bsky.social

Navy vet; Labor/employee relations professional; IT administrator; Retired; History buff; Audio junkie.

created November 9, 2024

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Trump has debased everything else--including his official residence--so why not?

1/9/2025, 10:26:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's a clear and present danger.

1/9/2025, 10:23:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RFK Jr. is a walking strapped-together Fat Man and Little Boy.

1/9/2025, 8:27:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Whatsoever a man rippeth, that shall he also sew.

1/9/2025, 8:21:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is JD Dunce ever ready for anything?

1/9/2025, 8:11:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stupid is as Kristi does.

1/9/2025, 4:22:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It isn't just mojo. Vance has nothing. Absolutely nothing.

31/8/2025, 11:23:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pirro is numb. Period.

31/8/2025, 11:21:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wondering how much conniving, wheeler-dealing, and infighting is going on inside the inner circle and its environs for the rights to the mantle of real, and not just figurehead, successor.

31/8/2025, 10:59:45 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks a bit bloated, too.

31/8/2025, 1:58:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Possibly not. Maybe it's just Botox.

30/8/2025, 11:37:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The kindest thing I can say about the Chief Justice is that he's a flaming mediocrity. Thomas is a corrupt-to-his-eyeballs bribe taker; Alito, a 17th-century urchin running amuck in the 21st; and the last three appointees, oath-breaking liars about their commitment to precedent. What could go wrong?

30/8/2025, 7:49:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He forgot to go into a telephone booth to change into his cape.

30/8/2025, 7:39:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Good lord, even the Oxford comma.

30/8/2025, 7:36:50 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's leaving the door open because he can't open or close it anymore.

30/8/2025, 7:32:09 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A Mar a Lago bathroom, maybe?

30/8/2025, 7:27:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This Administration is a mob enterprise. So who's really surprised at this?

30/8/2025, 7:26:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So now Tulsi Gabbard has disclosed the name of an undercover CIA officer. What the hell else has to happen before the senators who confirmed her appointment as DNI call for her to resign? Or don't they give a damn about national security? Oh, wait a minute. They confirmed Hegseth, too, didn't they.

30/8/2025, 7:18:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A nest of sycophantic vipers.

28/8/2025, 8:23:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is there a vaccine that wards off RFK Jr.?

28/8/2025, 8:08:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's also a graphic depiction of the massive waste of taxpayer dollars on a bogus law enforcement mission for which our military is neither trained nor intended.

28/8/2025, 7:17:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nailed it.

26/8/2025, 6:31:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guaranteeing that every new hire will be a putz.

26/8/2025, 6:23:06 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Ghislane Maxwell is his Dulcinea.

26/8/2025, 4:54:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yup. In spades.

26/8/2025, 12:06:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A Radio Shack Color Computer purchased in the early '80s for my youngest son, but "appropriated" occasionally by his dad to learn BASIC and serve as the springboard for *my* first real computer, an MS-DOS-based Tandy 2000 on which I frolicked with WordPerfect, Lotus, and dBase.

26/8/2025, 12:04:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time we stop screwing around by calling what's going on "authoritarianism". The wholesale suspension of due process, the lowering of FBI recruiting standards, & the naked use of military force to police cities smells more like "tyranny", "dictatorship", or "fascism". Liberty's on the line, folks.

25/8/2025, 11:09:14 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't hold your breath. He's likely to ban that, too.

25/8/2025, 8:48:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd scrub the "if" and the "may be". Trump's in this up to his [fill in the anatomical blank], while Blanche is burnishing his credentials for his post-Administration career as a mob lawyer.

25/8/2025, 8:45:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Waste taxpayer dollars and degrade military readiness in one motion. That's the Trump definition of government efficiency.

24/8/2025, 3:23:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's concept of capital punishment.

23/8/2025, 6:48:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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DOJ suborning what?

23/8/2025, 3:30:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Answer: Everything.

23/8/2025, 3:24:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why am I not surprised?

23/8/2025, 3:11:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"...a gentleman in all respects." That's the tipoff. Because we all know better. He demonstrates his crudity at every opportunity. This is an orchestrated attempt to erase every one of his underage victims...and, by extension, Epstein's as well. "Monster" is too generous a description of this woman.

22/8/2025, 11:21:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can't fire or wish away the truth. It has a way of coming back to bite you in the ass.

22/8/2025, 11:16:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How long before Donald begins hawking--for profit, of course--the official Trump-certified brown shirt?

22/8/2025, 5:08:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The point here is that going after a prominent who is at least theoretically on their side of the political spectrum signals to Trump-allied politicians that they'd better stay in line or face, at minimum, expulsion from the club and the ending of their political careers. Fear's a powerful motivator

22/8/2025, 5:04:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glasses are clinking in Moscow, Beijing, and Pyongyang.

22/8/2025, 5:46:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance is such a chucklehead.

22/8/2025, 2:33:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Respecting the law, you mean.

22/8/2025, 2:02:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the kind of statement I'd expect from the seedy one.

22/8/2025, 1:36:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fight fire with a flamethrower. In Donald's own image. He hates it.

22/8/2025, 1:30:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the mental acumen that made him such a ripe target for the KGB back in the 1970s. He hasn't, uh, lost a step.

22/8/2025, 1:27:39 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Obviously a pup who's not afraid to go out on a limb.

22/8/2025, 1:25:49 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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On sycophantic brand for JD Dunce.

22/8/2025, 1:24:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brothel Baroque.

21/8/2025, 1:48:58 AM | 38 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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JD Dunce.

21/8/2025, 1:48:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Make that "the most criminal".

21/8/2025, 12:32:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vice President JD Dunce is about to take his eighth vacation in seven months. On our dime. Maybe there's something wrong with this picture?

21/8/2025, 12:26:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So much for the professional courtesy accorded Rubio by the Senate with its 99-0 confirmation vote. He didn't deserve it then--he's never demonstrated the gravitas he worked so hard to project--and he's now part, parcel, and facilitator of the utter destruction of soft power once wielded by the US.

20/8/2025, 7:36:00 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suspect that he had them the first time Sergei Lavrov walked into the Oval Office in 2017.

20/8/2025, 1:51:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You heard it from Nancy Mess.

20/8/2025, 1:35:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of Trump's flunkies, possibly Stephen Miller, wrote that tweet.

19/8/2025, 11:43:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where I sit at the computer...when she lets me.

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19/8/2025, 11:24:39 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like you hosed him.

19/8/2025, 10:59:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Heaven is installing razor wire around the Pearly Gates.

19/8/2025, 9:44:52 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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When they go low...undermine them.

19/8/2025, 9:14:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well...there goes the neighborhood.

19/8/2025, 9:13:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who wrote Trump's tweet? Stephen Miller?

19/8/2025, 9:11:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now *here's* a situation that might actually merit a waste-eliminating investigation by DOGE. Bongino, after all, has already voiced his distaste for a job that involves real work.

19/8/2025, 9:06:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Brothel Baroque.

18/8/2025, 11:54:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She's as delusional as her boss.

18/8/2025, 11:33:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One has to wonder if Putin didn't bring up what the SVR and GRU know about the Epstein files to focus Trump on what *Vlad* wants.

18/8/2025, 11:31:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And you really think he wants the Epstein files released?

18/8/2025, 11:28:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The takeaway: Ingraham believes that selling out Ukraine is a good thing. I think that's a fair and balanced assessment.

18/8/2025, 11:16:49 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The president's mind stalled on Inauguration Days 2017 and 2025.

18/8/2025, 11:14:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, and why does he get to leave his coat unbuttoned?

18/8/2025, 11:04:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It seems clear from this photo that Trump's gilt complex has motivated him to turn the White House into a brothel.

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18/8/2025, 10:19:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Expect Friday's output to be a beguine--you know, a song and dance.

18/8/2025, 9:30:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It keeps everyone's attention off of Epstein, doesn't it.

18/8/2025, 5:47:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Throw whatever you can think of at the wall...except, of course, Epstein.

18/8/2025, 5:45:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Five minutes must be a record.

18/8/2025, 5:41:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Marco Rubio should resign.

18/8/2025, 5:13:35 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His handlers aren't doing him any favors.

18/8/2025, 12:47:58 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the only way Donald knows how to make scents.

18/8/2025, 12:37:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The factual reporting on his Alaskan blunder has obviously gotten under his skin.

18/8/2025, 12:36:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Little white noodle." Perfect.

17/8/2025, 11:42:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Might the subservience reflected in that photo and the Alaska "summit" outcome suggest just how much the SVR and GRU know about Trump's ties to Jeffery Epstein?

17/8/2025, 10:34:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The days of whine and poses...

17/8/2025, 8:14:19 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Flustered" is a normal condition when you're Trump's Secretary of State. Rubio knew what he was getting into when he accepted the appointment, banking on it to be his 2028 steppingstone to the White House. Demonstrates just how bright he isn't and how poor his judgment is. Sucking up is hard to do.

17/8/2025, 1:22:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's Trump's, uh, art of the, uh, deal.

16/8/2025, 9:57:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He walks a crooked mile...every waking hour.

16/8/2025, 6:43:46 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Proving that they don't need Signal to get into trouble.

16/8/2025, 5:52:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump Administration Klutz Klown operations manual: "And if you don't want to log into Signal, here are simple nontechnical ways you can screw up and put your country at risk..."

16/8/2025, 5:37:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chaplin did it better.

16/8/2025, 5:53:39 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The hair dye is atrocious.

16/8/2025, 3:31:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are you sure his name shouldn't be spelled W-I-T-L-E-S-S?

16/8/2025, 3:26:23 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The closed door meeting... Trump: "Now, Vlad, about Ukraine..." Putin: "Excuse me for interrupting you, Donald, but I think you should know that thanks to the SVR and GRU, I know more about you and Epstein than that Maxwell woman does. Shall we end this meeting now?"

16/8/2025, 3:16:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And then some.

16/8/2025, 2:56:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No mystery. Trump can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

16/8/2025, 2:21:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump's reluctant admission that *he* can't make the deal.

16/8/2025, 2:10:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And what Putin knows about Epstein is likely his trump card.

16/8/2025, 2:07:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Rubio" and "adult" don't belong in the same sentence. That's been evident for years.

16/8/2025, 1:57:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump looked stupid. That may not be news, but it's the image left behind by the overhyped "summit". I wonder how much catsup is spraying the White House walls tonight.

16/8/2025, 1:40:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Trump had balls, he'd step up arms and and intelligence co-op to and with Ukraine. But all he has are tiny hands.

16/8/2025, 12:53:39 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lachlan, are you listening?

16/8/2025, 12:43:16 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I came all the way to Alaska--[puff],--for--[puff]-- *this*?"

16/8/2025, 12:34:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, Trump was Epstein's best friend for 10 years, so...

16/8/2025, 12:31:02 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Left unspoken: "He knows that our intelligence services have everything the public would like to know about him and that Epstein fellow. So he really had no leverage to begin with. But he did give our leader a much appreciated photo op. At no cost to us."

16/8/2025, 12:11:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view