I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but “the president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes him” is in fact very alarming
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Once they silence all the famous people, they will come after us little people. So stand up before you have to stand down.
aug 22, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Scare tactic. AS it's intended. Sending a message to GOP strays ..comply or else Kash shows up at your door. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
aug 23, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
FSB, FBI... guess this is where we are at. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...
aug 23, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolton today....we are tomorrow. Wake the F*ck up!
aug 22, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
💪😱
aug 22, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Fascists gonna Fash!
aug 23, 2025, 7:09 am • 0 0 • view
It's not about Bolton It's about the power What @schumer.senate.gov & all those @democrats.senate.gov who voted Yea on Rubio don't get is that their Yes vote won't protect them Anyone, not matter how loyal or compliant, could be added to Felon 47's enemies list at any time
aug 22, 2025, 4:42 pm • 36 7 • view
His enemies list is literally everyone except Putin. He just hasn’t gotten to some of the list yet.
aug 23, 2025, 1:53 am • 5 0 • view
Very
aug 22, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Same re Bolton, but to be accused by the very man at the top of the food chain who has boxes of confidential files in his bathroom at his golden mansion, is beyond the pale. Everyone on “the list” should be concerned and alarmed. So should every American.
aug 22, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
i just hope they keep going after all the “apostate” MAGA instead of anyone else
aug 22, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
alarming?
aug 22, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes
aug 22, 2025, 7:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It is and John Bolton helped make it all possible
aug 22, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Make copies of your hard drives.
aug 22, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I couldn’t agree more.
aug 23, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
who woulda thought?
aug 22, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Niemoller told it like it is.
aug 22, 2025, 4:47 pm • 1 0 • view
niemoller voted for Hitler lol
aug 23, 2025, 6:13 am • 2 0 • view
We can both hate John Bolton because... things... and still hope it ends one day in Patel, goons, and boss in irons.
aug 22, 2025, 6:07 pm • 6 2 • view
You don’t have to defend Bolton’s politics to defend his rights. Are people generally unable to make such distinctions anymore?
aug 22, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 0 • view
Donald needed a distraction today: he was supposed to release some of the #EpsteinFiles to Congress. So he picked someone to persecute off his long list of "enemies." Happened to be John Bolton. (And somehow this is supposed to make life better for MAGA people?? How???)
aug 22, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Right?!? I wasn't sure which way to go at 1st either. But the raiding goons won the "Are you freaking kidding with this sh*t"!
aug 22, 2025, 5:38 pm • 1 1 • view
thehill.com/homenews/adm... Appears #Bolton really pissed Putin-asset Tulsi off last month… #TulsiGabbard
aug 22, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I mind Bolton less and less, because he's a Russia hawk and always was, and if he's being targeted it's not a fishing expedition, it's because he knows something. He must have lost his MIND over the Alaska debacle.
aug 22, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
note in particular that they are starting off with UNPOPULAR people for this. meaning that they will soon move on to others once this is an established norm. so regardless of our dislike of this buffoon, it's critical to speak up and yell about this. because they will NOT stop here
aug 22, 2025, 4:45 pm • 106 12 • view
Yes! Just because they haven't called your number yet doesn't mean you don't have one.
aug 23, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
First they came for John Bolton, and he's an asshole so I said nothing...
aug 22, 2025, 10:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Could be a strategy. Raid the house of the guy everyone hates first. See how it plays out. Then widen the web against their enemies list. You know? The list Patel and Bondi swore under oath didn't exist? Pretty sure it includes Kinzinger, Cheney, Brennan and Comey.
aug 22, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 1 • view
absolutely my point * disabled * women (esp reproductive rights) * lgbtq, particularly trans * immigrants, particularly PoC and now moving right along * white ppl everyone hates absolutely doesn’t end here
aug 22, 2025, 7:23 pm • 4 0 • view
It's the same reason they attack immigrants and trans people first, before widening the net later.
aug 22, 2025, 6:49 pm • 6 0 • view
Bingo!
aug 22, 2025, 4:53 pm • 11 1 • view
You KNOW they are counting on most of us to go EW BOLTON GOOD RIDDANCE and "IT'S A TRAP!!"
aug 22, 2025, 5:00 pm • 38 3 • view
Truly. “That’s no moon.”
aug 22, 2025, 5:03 pm • 11 0 • view
Sic semper tyrannis
aug 23, 2025, 1:01 am • 4 0 • view
amen!
aug 23, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 0 • view
I think we all resent it but realize the importance of it. It shows how far off the rails this administration is when someone like Bolton is so deeply against them and has become a target to be silenced. Bolton is his own kind of criminal, but clearly not criminal enough for these people.
aug 22, 2025, 4:54 pm • 1 0 • view
oh now, everyone knows better than criticizing the fuhrer
aug 22, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Including his vindictiveness against Californian for not overwhelming voting for him and being a Democrat state. He’s so Petty-has too many demons!
aug 22, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 1 • view
Yea, the Walrus didn't deserve that. He does speak truth to power. But like you, it's hard to defend the warhawk!
aug 23, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
#ReleaseEpsteinTrumpFilesStates
aug 22, 2025, 4:59 pm • 3 1 • view
NYT headline on the topic: "Trump says everything's fine and above board - no need to worry, we're dealing with the dangerous extremist leftist terrorist Bolton."
aug 22, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
It is classic Fascism! 🤬
aug 23, 2025, 4:55 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. Bolton is appalling but he doesn’t deserve to be harassed and wrongly accused.
aug 22, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 22, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 1 • view
Agree but Bolton should have known better than to take that job.
aug 22, 2025, 5:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Bolton's actually one of the smarter ones. Which may be why he's not in too deep this time around. He doesn't want to have to face a firing squad. (Unless we wind up in a French Revolution 'Terror' situation, where nothing could save him.)
aug 22, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolton is indeed an asshole, but I proudly defend his right to be heard and promptly told to shut the hell up!
aug 22, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
John Bolton refuses to admit that his war-mongering eventually would hit home, faster than he expected. Now the USA is turning fascist, since the USA can't exploit more foreign countries anymore. This is just the backlash of Reaganism.
aug 22, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly
aug 22, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm with you. I have NEVER liked John Bolton but I will stand up to defend his rights now against the Fascist bastards running our government into the ditch.
aug 23, 2025, 12:38 am • 4 0 • view
You’d think anyone of consequence in ‘Merica who is criticizing him and his regime architects would have figured out this potential consequence already. The other thing I’d have prepared is a bolt-hole along with a grab bag of necessities including cash. Maybe that should be a rule for everyone soon
aug 22, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Does this happen in America now?
aug 23, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I won't defend anyone who failed to defend us. Bolton could've testified against Trump at an impeachment trial but instead held out for his book release. Play with fire, and you're gonna get burned.
aug 22, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
RESIST!!!!!! Voicing your opinions and concerns are a great first step. Now report to your Democratic Party headquarters and assist!! That is the next step!! Your resistance matters!!!
aug 22, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya think?
aug 22, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
You know, we do not have to lead with "I hate John Bolton, but.." Trump's acts alone are what is terrifying. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with politics.
aug 22, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Deliberate choice to start with someone many people dislike. Soften up the public; get them used to it.
aug 22, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
So, who’s next?? Obama, Biden, Clinton, McMaster?? All could easily fall into this idiotic witch hunt,,, and if Bolton does/did this then he should be in trouble but let’s see evidence before we start kicking in doors.
aug 23, 2025, 1:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Venn diagram of the intersection of scary and funny.
aug 22, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
This is fascism! Plain and simple!
aug 22, 2025, 7:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Bottom line: It is very alarming. Regardless of how we feel abt Bolton (not great) a violation of his constitutional protections is a violation of ALL of us so we must condemn & defend. Considering Bolton continues to speak out against Trump & criticize him, there’s courage & commitment in that…?
aug 22, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
You're either loyal to Trump or you're not. That's the way he's running this country now. Basically, strong-arming and blackmailing people and organizations into submission. Be loyal or lose your government funding. There's no democracy anymore, just dictatorship.
aug 22, 2025, 6:49 pm • 2 1 • view
Yes; Very!! Every day a new illegal/immoral/unpatriotic act....why don't we stop him, Cold?
aug 22, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree, but it’s still a fact that Bolton was an enabler who was in it for himself, and is a pathetic excuse for a pile of dog shit.
aug 22, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Only if you care about the rule of law in this country, which a majority seem not to.
aug 22, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not going to defend John Bolton. He knowingly danced with the devil. I am, however, going to defend anyone who speaks against Felon47 and gets their right to freedom of speech taken away.
aug 22, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
trump sued Bolton to stop the release of his book and lost. Now he has the FBI to do his bidding.
aug 22, 2025, 6:13 pm • 3 1 • view
Bolton sucks but fascism sucks much, much more!!!
aug 22, 2025, 6:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Marginally clever of them to do the fash on a guy whom no leftist could defend without throwing up in their mouth. One way to normalise the fash.
aug 22, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't think it's alarming that Trump would ask the Department of Justice and the FBI to do this. It's who he is. What is alarming is that they're doing it!
aug 22, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree. I think Bolton is a shithead, but he's got a right to be a shithead and shouldn't be harassed.
aug 23, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I can oppose the action while still being a little bit happy about the result…
aug 22, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Same! This wormy puppet for Israel has lived his life mostly within the bounds of our crooked set of rules. What cowardice, too! How does he get to act tough by picking on the weakest, least defended people at home and abroad? He can't even do a push up and wouldn't kick down a door at gunpoint.
aug 23, 2025, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Distraction. Release the Epstein files.
aug 22, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 1 • view
This is the point. We have to stand up for ANYONE WHO IS PUNISHED FOR EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH. What Judge issued the search warrant?
aug 23, 2025, 6:18 am • 3 0 • view
I'm looking forward to us finding out that they perjured themselves in the probable cause affidavit… and nothing happening.
aug 22, 2025, 4:37 pm • 28 1 • view
What do you base that outcome oon?
aug 23, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
It's coming.
aug 22, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 1 • view
And the Snakes in Polyester Crowd in Congress are where exactly today ? No offense to actual snakes who have purpose on this planet & I have a found affection for.🐍
aug 22, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah I believe we can remind people about Trump Epsteins ties and take his blatant authoritarian abuse seriously. This attack on Bolton is serious shit. Weaponizing FBI, DOJ, etc, to attack your political critics and opponents is a major authoritarian escalation.
aug 22, 2025, 7:28 pm • 3 1 • view
And very fascist!
aug 22, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeahhhhhhhhhh...BUT. Bolton s a Fascist POS. No Pity.
aug 23, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
Far too alarming actually
aug 22, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I resent it too, but I'm no mood to "cut a road through the law to get after the Devil," to cite A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. *heavy sigh* None of us have rights unless... *checks notes* ...John Bolton has rights.
aug 22, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 10:09 pm • 4 0 • view
He could speak up when it would matter. He is only against trump because he can’t get well paid position at Fox News. They are all scums.
aug 22, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree. "I AM JOHN BOLTON" is an "I am Spartacus" moment I was not expecting.
aug 23, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I think you are defending Bolton's rights, not his actions. That is different.
aug 22, 2025, 4:41 pm • 195 3 • view
thank you for making that (I would have thought) very obvious point
aug 22, 2025, 6:37 pm • 22 1 • view
Is it "obvious" anymore? Does #maga TRULY understand what they're setting themselves up for? Let alone Republicans that just kept paving the road to their personal hell, yet still find time to say "Democrats abandoned" anyone, anything, any time.
aug 22, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Revolutions are built from coalitions that have a common goal. The differences can be worked out after they succeed. That's how parliaments are formed.
aug 23, 2025, 1:06 am • 3 0 • view
This isn't a revolution it's a slow motion slapdown aimed at right. That maga will lose those rights just the same as the poc they were hoping to harm was my point. There was no national emergency. #gop is just letting him invent this.
aug 23, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
THAT is an ASININE response.
aug 22, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Goon-on-goon violence?
aug 23, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
But that’s exactly why they are starting with people like Bolton. They want to socialize their fascism with those who are hated by both MAGA and Democrats, hoping we say “good riddance, we hate Bolton anyway” and then next thing they will move on to AOC, Newsom, etc. It’s so dangerous
aug 22, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
"Very alarming" is a heavy rainstorm that swells local creeks and might flood my basement. "Catastrophic" is the word you're looking for. That's what describes a government that has veered into authoritarianism and nobody has a clue how to stop it, short of civil war.
aug 22, 2025, 7:07 pm • 11 2 • view
Yeah, I know what you mean, bt at least he's had the courage to speak out against him, which so many Republicans have said nothing, in the face of all of his corruption. I'm not a fan of his views, bt he is a victim of this regime & their fascist takeover.
aug 22, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
That what mobsters do.
aug 22, 2025, 7:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I console myself with the fact that Bolton has been a Republican all his life, so is, therefore, an objectively bad person
aug 22, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
But very true
aug 22, 2025, 5:07 pm • 0 0 • view
I dont resent having to defend John Bolton. That's what American jurisprudence is all about, why we fought the King of England and the British Empire for. Equality under the Law. Its precious and worthy of the centuries old fight to maintain it. But get that youre not a fan of the man and thats ok
aug 22, 2025, 7:47 pm • 6 0 • view
They won't find anything so... more taxpayer waste.
aug 22, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolton should have gone to jail for war crimes. That said, this attack on him is domestic terrorism. Regardless what the FBI claim they find, no sane person would believe a claim made by any FBI agent. All 13,700 FBI personnel should be prosecuted for ignoring their oaths of office.
aug 22, 2025, 5:40 pm • 3 0 • view
It's the "first they came for" parable. Start with the unpopular people. They'll come for you later.
aug 22, 2025, 8:13 pm • 2 0 • view
His ego is a colossal waste of time and money!
aug 22, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
i expect everyone on bsky is already in their database and queued up for government harassment.
aug 23, 2025, 11:41 am • 0 0 • view
How actually dare Trump make us take John Bolton's side
aug 23, 2025, 6:14 am • 12 0 • view
His greatest crime yet
aug 23, 2025, 6:14 am • 9 0 • view
First they made me take solidarity with James Comey, and I did not speak out because at least it wasn't John Bolton
aug 23, 2025, 6:20 am • 7 0 • view
This has been one of my rallying cries for 8 years now. "I will never forgive Republicans for making me agree/with/root for/defend _______" Like, every other week.
aug 23, 2025, 6:20 am • 5 0 • view
The stink you get from getting close to agent orange follows you around.
aug 22, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump just loves to show off HIS PETTY, VENGEFUL EGO
aug 22, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Even wealthy connected white men? Trump has finally crossed the line.
aug 22, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/cher...
aug 23, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 3 • view
Ditto. Resent it. His book is from 5 years ago so this is so lame.
aug 22, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen on all points.
aug 22, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Some day, in the not to distant future, it will be Obama, Harris, and Biden.
aug 22, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Opposing lawless political raids is fine, its not defending Bolton. He helped create the climate where such things are possible so if anyone has to be an early target, at least it's someone reaping the whirlwind
aug 22, 2025, 8:18 pm • 6 0 • view
They signed up for it but they thought it would involve the other person
aug 22, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, and: It's pretty much the definition of democracy that even the worst people have the same rights that we do. And we can't defend democracy without defending it for everybody.
aug 22, 2025, 6:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Where are the files Twaddle took to Florida? All recovered? And anything he else he took that wasn’t his to take?
aug 22, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is pulling a 'Putin'.
aug 22, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
To say the least👽
aug 22, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump knows firsthand the chances of finding child porn on a conservative are worth the gamble.
aug 22, 2025, 11:56 pm • 1 0 • view
It's pretty awful but we do live in a police state I deeply hate Trump maga and all evangelicals more than ever
aug 22, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
"It's a distraction!" It is and/but it's literally making an example of how he's going to enforce his lies. Not even his old accomplices are "safe"
aug 22, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
If only we had cared more when they did this to non-white non-men, our sweet baby john bolton would have been safe.
aug 22, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
A G R E E D ~ reminder: He said he would do this before he was elected
aug 22, 2025, 4:42 pm • 1 0 • view
No need to defend Bolton to decry political harassment or persecution.
aug 22, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Alarming but not surprising. And does not being in a functioning democracy.
aug 22, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
💯💯💯
aug 22, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
this so-called president and his so-called fbi are doing the exact things they claimed democrats were doing during Biden's presidency that the democrats did not do.
aug 23, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump doesn't like anyone else cashing in on his schtick Oh, and #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
aug 22, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not Bolton's biggest fan either, but I don't think the raid will shut him up. Just the opposite.
aug 22, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree 💯%
aug 22, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
we do these pigs who work for The People not a dick-tater keep doing his bidding? this may be just like nazi germany at this time it still isn't and nobody forces anyone to do anything, his goons are more guilty than some feeble old man who can't even wipe his own ass. why do they lower themselves?
aug 23, 2025, 2:49 pm • 1 1 • view
Trump said he wanted retribution against his political enemies on both sides of the aisle. Good luck, this is just the beginning 🤔🙏
aug 22, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Said they were looking for classified documents. Did they try Mar-a-Lago?
aug 22, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
Just call us “ little Russia”
aug 22, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Right there with ya bsky.app/profile/vega...
aug 22, 2025, 5:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't care what's in Bolton's home ... unless he has the Epstein Files.
aug 22, 2025, 6:59 pm • 1 0 • view
You never, ever have to defend John Bolton
aug 22, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Fascism is a strategy of minority control through intimidation after all. As demonstrated even on prior supporters. bsky.app/profile/rinc...
aug 22, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Where is the search warrant?
aug 23, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I predict that were about 3 months away from the start of the public executions of Trump's enemies
aug 22, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Umm...that would be quite a wildwest show... but on the other hand that would legitimate to execute Rumps inner circle and then the military has to pick a side. Well nothing will happen...fat arse America will still eat burgers and hate themselves and the immigrants.
aug 22, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s funny he would choose a “documents in the bathroom” case, right?
aug 23, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
I’d like to know what crooked judge approved a warrant
aug 22, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I know, right? How bizarre how bizarre
aug 22, 2025, 5:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The upside is if they were to plant a classified document it would probably be current rather than when Bolton would have access because well…not that bright.
aug 22, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Welcome to the 2nd American Civil War brought to you by the corrupt SCOTUS & GOP cowards. The 4th Reich would appreciate all Americans to be true patriots and civilly cooperate with your imprisonment and enslaved labor to the oligarchy.
aug 23, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
It's the hallmark of a police state. This is also completely incompatible with the liberal capitalism that is the bedrock of the US system. The rule of law is being systematically undermined by a dictator mentality.
aug 22, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Meanwhile domestic terrorism and foreign espionage are ignored. From Putins puppet this makes sense. This will all end badly. Trump’s FBI sole job has become domestic state police, targeting political enemies of the regime. Donald gave the DOJ and FBI their gestapo orders to attack Bolton.
aug 22, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Nice to see him turned on, just as will happen to most who align with that human # stain.
aug 22, 2025, 9:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Thou shalt not cross Father Trump. “Off with their heads!”
aug 22, 2025, 6:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Bolton accepted Trump's nomination, so I have no sympathy for Bolton, but the precedent is dangerous for everyone.
aug 22, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Patel said that “nobody is above the law” with a straight face 😐. These people are unsalvageable and rotten to the core
aug 22, 2025, 7:25 pm • 16 1 • view
No one is above the law. But there's two types of law: one for the rich and one for everyone else.
aug 22, 2025, 7:50 pm • 2 0 • view
One for cronies. One for who speaks against cronies.
aug 22, 2025, 8:09 pm • 4 0 • view
You hit that one right when you called 'em "unsalvageable" Just going to have to wait for nature to take its course
aug 22, 2025, 8:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Bolton could've done something to save himself and our nation, but instead of doing any of that, he chose to promote his book over the welfare of our democracy during Trump's second impeachment. It is alarming, but also karmic retribution.
aug 22, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
I guess now we know who has a unredacted copy of the Epstein Files ! www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...
aug 22, 2025, 6:42 pm • 2 1 • view
. Classified Documents BACK AT Mar-a-Lago. ONE WEEK after Trump was sworn in, he had ALL THOSE BOXES that were seized from Mar-a-Lago flown back to Florida. The news showed video of them loading the boxes on the plane!
aug 22, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I doubt there are enough prisons or deporting aircraft to attack everyone who has ever criticized Trump
aug 22, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Chutzpah too. 457 stole plane loads of documents and lied he returned them knowing he didn’t. He deserved his jail time but of course got the get out of jail judge.
aug 22, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
incredible. but here we are.
aug 22, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn straight!!
aug 22, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
he's denying he knows about it, same old lies he always tells. I know nothing about it. 😂
aug 22, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you ever wonder if assface has a fish bowl filled with names on paper??? He picks out everyday who he's going to trash. He's a pig.
aug 22, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Indeed, the principle involved here far outweighs the serious ambivalence about the person involved.
aug 22, 2025, 4:36 pm • 14 1 • view
It's not fishing. His security clearance was removed and he has not returned the secured documents that they know he has.
aug 22, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
He is making an example of John Bolton, so people think twice about questioning him.
aug 22, 2025, 6:16 pm • 5 0 • view
It’s defending him, it’s defending justice.
aug 22, 2025, 4:32 pm • 3 0 • view
*not defending him
aug 22, 2025, 4:33 pm • 5 0 • view
#Distractor-in-Chief Trump's trying everything to distract from the Epstein scandal. Release the Epstein Files! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
aug 22, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolton laid down with fleas. Yet this is a warning shot to those who align with the rapist felon pedophile racist misogynist.
aug 23, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
The face eating leopard party is eating faces… I am not gonna run to his side.
aug 22, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed.
aug 22, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
That should be the front page headline.
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 am • 0 0 • view
I know my mail has been gone through numerous times since trumps re-election. If they get off looking at mode!ing supplies and.paints more power to them. The day will come when they will pay me a visit. I spoke to the post master here when my mail kept showing up opened and she told me FBI.
aug 22, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
He must of had loads of notes for his books.
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
And it hasn't even been a year Which means he's got help. There are people who are giving him a planned list with names,dates,times and areas of gov.institutions for destruction to change our democracy pathway.
aug 22, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
At least Nixon had the dignity to not order the FBI to do it
aug 22, 2025, 4:30 pm • 39 1 • view
Are we sure about that? Serious question, I actually don't know the answer.
aug 22, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
At least Nixon had the dignity of resigning his office. What do you do with people who have no shame and the SCOTUS hands them unlimited power?
aug 22, 2025, 5:06 pm • 6 0 • view
Diagnose them.
aug 22, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
J. Edgar Hoover didn't need to be ordered, he used the FBI to intimidate political opponents on his own initiative.
aug 22, 2025, 4:37 pm • 62 2 • view
Tragically for Nixon, Hoover died in May 1972. Hunter S Thompson compared it to Lee losing Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville. Hoover's death was a crippling blow that hastened Nixon's ouster.
aug 22, 2025, 6:15 pm • 18 0 • view
Oooh this is fascinating. Who, if anyone, in tr*mp’s admin would hasten his ouster if they shuffled off this mortal coil?
aug 22, 2025, 11:36 pm • 5 0 • view
Steven Miller is the engine behind the White Nationalism within the administration. If he goes, the power vacuum left behind tears the MAGA movement apart as they all fight to either seize control over Trump or race to distance themselves from the implosion.
aug 23, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
I think it's more likely that Trump himself will shuffle off stage because one of his health issues catches up with him. His dementia could very well become such liability his handlers will invoke the 25th.
aug 22, 2025, 11:45 pm • 5 0 • view
Oh, pablar
aug 22, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
And it’s going on right now the FBI are traitors and we know longer need them and a lot need to be prosecuted
aug 22, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Hoover had his own agenda, which (for a while) was compatible with Nixon's, but if they'd ever found themselves on opposite sides (not that I can imagine how, but bear with me) then you just know J. Edgar would have been wiretapping and harassing at least low-level Nixonians.
aug 23, 2025, 1:19 am • 3 0 • view
Man in the high castle pretty perfectly nailed Hoover
aug 23, 2025, 1:24 am • 2 0 • view
The difference, for what it’s worth, was that those were Hoover’s opponents, not Nixon’s.
aug 22, 2025, 10:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Do we know whether Trump ordered this (earlier he said he didn’t know about it)? Or is Kash Patel another J Edgar Hoover?
aug 22, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 1 • view
Yeah it is pretty alarming but it couldn't happen to a nicer guy
aug 22, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
So, the fascist buffoon steals troves of classified documents, is indicted for it, calls it a witch-hunt, DOJ weaponization. But, this is somehow legit while Patel says “nobody is above the law”?? Am I missing something here??
aug 22, 2025, 7:45 pm • 2 0 • view
This is the Time of Patel. #PatelShchina
aug 23, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
Fascism is Fascism no matter what.. 💜✊🏻💜
aug 23, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 0 • view
Extremely critical support I guess
aug 22, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course, the are running escapes the MAGA crowd. Trump, who stored classified documents in the bathroom of his private club wants to go after John Bolton over a book he wrote, so Trump orders the FBI to get a search warrant for Bolton‘s house in office looking for classified documents.
aug 22, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 1 • view
if it makes you feel better you aren't actually defending bolton
aug 23, 2025, 6:44 am • 14 0 • view
It is alarming. There should be recourse against this, but our justice system is under Trump's thumb.
aug 22, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember when Biden did the same exact thing?
aug 22, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Notice how Micah resents the TDS that causes him to reflexively oppose every action by the Trump regime and thereby defend Bolton. Micah seems more evolved than some, as he does not blame it on an external agent. TDS is a form of propaganda-induced totalitarian menticide.
aug 22, 2025, 8:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember how the guy who tried to make a "TDS" law was a pedophile? Why are you letting those people dictate your headspace? Why are you swallowing absolute absurdities about a "Syndrome" that's obviously meant to shut down any criticism of Trump? Jesus, what an illogical rube. 😂
aug 23, 2025, 6:29 am • 2 0 • view
menticide is probably the stupidest neologism I’ve ever heard - just genuinely the least mellifluous latinism I’ve ever heard. Dante and Virgil would’ve vomited at this noxious abuse of language
aug 23, 2025, 6:29 am • 2 0 • view
Jeff has clearly never spoken with someone from a totalitarian culture. Jeff should learn about what totalitarian propaganda does. Jeff, have a better term to describe totalitarian brainwashing?
aug 24, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
lol, there’s one right there: “totalitarian brainwashing” Look: when a tyrant breaks the law to persecute someone he personally dislikes, it’s still illegal - even if the person is a war criminal like Bolton. In fact, this makes it much harder for us to ever prosecute Bolton for his actual crimes.
aug 24, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Jeff, I was observing that victims of TDS reflexively oppose any action taken by the target of their hatred. This sometimes leads to absurdities. Hypothetical question: If DT personally invented a safe, effective, & cheap cure for cancer, would many denizens of Bluesky give him credit for it?
aug 24, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Why are you dodging the point? How is the unlawful of John Bolton equivalent to curing cancer? It’s not even legal, and it makes actually legitimately prosecuting John Bolton for his crimes impossible. If you had a point to make here, you should make it - instead of inventing insane hypotheticals.
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Jeff, I agree with you about selective prosecution. Not dodging. We agree. That said, please answer my hypothetical question. Be honest. If Trump invented a cheap, safe, and effective cure for cancer would many residents of Bluesky give him credit for it?
aug 24, 2025, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Where did you get the insane idea that Donald Trump is a doctor? Do you know anything about him?
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Observers, notice how Jeff studiously avoids answering my hypothetical question. This is because he knows the answer is "No" but knows that admitting as such is insane. Under no circumstances will victims of TDS credit Trump with anything, ever. They will only hate and seethe. Which is insane.
aug 25, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
If Hitler had cured cancer, would you become a Nazi and support him?
aug 25, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Also - if you agree, then why aren’t you apologizing to Micah?
aug 25, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Jeff displays his lack of integrity by dodging the question. Jeff has zero intellectual integrity. Jeff chooses lies and evasion over honesty. This is typical for victims of totalitarian menticide.
aug 25, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Jeff, it is a well known fact that totalitarian governments devote great effort to brainwashing their population. For example, both the USSR and Nazi Germany did this. The word "menticide" was coined (by a man who survived Gestapo torture) to describe that process. Got a better name?
aug 24, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Go boof some MMS you anti-science quack
aug 23, 2025, 6:21 am • 8 0 • view
Shut the fuck up you dick
aug 23, 2025, 7:07 am • 0 0 • view
> STEM geek in bio > talks about some organisms being "more evolved" than others, meaning more advanced or sophisticated fake fan
aug 23, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Notice how your a fucking moron
aug 22, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It is of course alarming, but I hope it gives Bolton an opportunity for a little self-reflection. All those years bashing Obama on Fox News and then joining the Trump administration - maybe, just maybe he exercised bad judgment in terms of who the relative good guys are?
aug 22, 2025, 4:38 pm • 3 1 • view
And yet not at all surprising. Conservatives are petty and spiteful but also incredibly predictable. This is the country they wanted.
aug 22, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Is, in fact, very fascist.
aug 22, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
And then, they came for John Bolton, and I did not speak out because….
aug 22, 2025, 4:49 pm • 16 5 • view
...I'm not an arrogant douchnozzle. But he has rights.
aug 22, 2025, 5:20 pm • 5 1 • view
Trump is pulling a Putin. What Trump is doing is headed toward exactly the kind of authoritarian thuggery that happens in Russia. Not surprising at all though, given Trump's admiration for autocrats along with his obvious affection for Putin.
aug 23, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
No, it's just an "Uneasy Mix" of authoritarianism and, uhh, whatever excuse-making the execrable NYT coughed up a bit ago.
aug 22, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Tbf John Bolton is almost a complete abstraction so you can defend "abstract Trump political opponent" and lose basically nothing without defending Bolton per se
aug 22, 2025, 4:32 pm • 3 0 • view
John Bolton is as radical as they come with a war mongering world view, but the one thing he has over the convict is intelligence, so I'm sure he thought about what kind of response he was going to get, even before he said what he said, and was ready for whatever the felon sent his way.
aug 22, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I think it’s quaint that people still thing intelligence will overcome the brute force of fascism and state sanctioned violence. He may be smarter but that won’t stop a group of thugs from murdering him.
aug 22, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean if he stole top secret documents and especially personally profited from that intelligence information. He should be locked up for something … say treason…
aug 22, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Bolton has been out of office for almost 7 years...What info do you think he has now? The fat orange shitsatain screwed the MAGATs for 9 years..we have known that for 9 years...the only one who has profited off of anything and everything in the WH
aug 22, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 1 • view
or anything he could get caught stealing is sitting in the WH!
aug 22, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And to distract attention from other things. bsky.app/profile/july...
aug 22, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Just another step.
aug 22, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
you don't have to defend the target to attack the targeting
aug 22, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Well stated. Once again, that fucking asshole -- whose house should not have been raided -- should have fucking testified. What a coward. Letting his subordinates stand up and take the heat while he hides in the corner.
aug 22, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
We can hold two ideas in our heads at once. To paraphrase Jefferson, You may be an insufferable spunk trumpet but I'd die to defend your rights to liberty!
aug 22, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if Susan Collins has shifted from concerned to alarmed yet.
aug 22, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I very much doubt Bolton had classified docs in a guest room or the garage. It'll be interesting to see if any charges are actually filed or if this is just American Gestapo tactics directed at Trump's staff.
aug 22, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 1 • view
*sigh* Everything is "alarming" and "will have a chilling effect* but any call to arm up against it is called "violent" and "ammosexual".
aug 22, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Why do you think Epstein is dead
aug 22, 2025, 8:02 pm • 0 0 • view
We've been at that point for a while now. It's probably going to require seeing a few people railroaded to get through to people. I'm glad they are going for a scumbag like Bolton first.
aug 23, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
Not bad enough for this old pacifist to buy a gun, but getting there. And that says one hell of a lot, none of it good.
aug 22, 2025, 5:33 pm • 3 0 • view
We’re a banana republic now. It’s more that alarming.
aug 23, 2025, 2:23 am • 2 0 • view
Is he getting what he deserves? Yes. Is this the way to do it? No.
aug 22, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
And that’s why he packed the courts.
aug 22, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, it's not good.
aug 22, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Merritt Garland, Chris Wray?
aug 22, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
makes me feel like a very principled person, that despite how much i resent john bolton i can still see how wrong this is. because i have hated john bolton since the early days of GWB, that's like half my entire life hating john bolton. but today is still not a schadenfreude moment.
aug 22, 2025, 5:49 pm • 4 0 • view
His disciples would say, ‘it’s what Biden did to trump’
aug 22, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
What is happening bolton is a prime example of why there is not one credible member of his administration. It's just fox news personalities, these are the people his MAGA brain dead follow!
aug 22, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view