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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com

"If you don’t want to tear it down and start from scratch, you’re part of the problem. If you *do* want to tear it down and start from scratch, congratulations, you’re hired." Not much more to it than that.

aug 31, 2025, 8:00 am • 1,258 322

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Oeishik @oeishik.bsky.social

Sounds like a destructive rampage. youtu.be/5BNj-BneTNI

aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 2 1 • view
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dargster.bsky.social @dargster.bsky.social

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

aug 31, 2025, 11:53 am • 0 0 • view
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john3-16.bsky.social @john3-16.bsky.social

The current administration’s motto is actually “if it ain’t broke, break it”.

aug 31, 2025, 12:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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dargster.bsky.social @dargster.bsky.social

Yep. Just for the hell of it. Vandals, all of them.

aug 31, 2025, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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MsChiz @mschiz.bsky.social

Junior needs to get the hell out of HHS and go back to practicing law. He has no credible place in a job responsible for the nation's health.

aug 31, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kavi (Kavita) @brittexkavi.bsky.social

The fluoride part. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Also I’d somehow missed his bigoted covid comments. He’s a nightmare person.

aug 31, 2025, 8:10 am • 8 0 • view
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annapolis1873.bsky.social @annapolis1873.bsky.social

The electorate is disgusted with both parties. The polling is clear. Dems are hemorrhaging voters to the unaffiliated category. We The People do not trust the corporatist dems. Any effective presidential campaign from the Dems must include effective campaign finance reform. Remove big money

aug 31, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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birdyscout.bsky.social @birdyscout.bsky.social

The disregard for the waste of trillions of tax payer money and services is repulsive….should be criminal.

aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Julie Bee🐝🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @junebug1925.bsky.social

Cheryl Hines and his adult children should be questioned everyday about his brain. The USA accepting a heroin addict, tanning bed addict, who drove home with a shark head in the car & puts a dead bear cub in Central Park at age 60, & still has a brilliant IQ, needs all of their judgement questioned.

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aug 31, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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JessicaWessica @jessicatzonteti.bsky.social

I think it was part of a whale tied to the top of the car through the windows. I remember reading about how bits of the carcass splashed through the open windows onto the kids in the back seat as they drive down the highway.

aug 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Polly @polipolly.bsky.social

Someone will get to him.

aug 31, 2025, 8:04 am • 1 0 • view
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paulamcaughan.bsky.social @paulamcaughan.bsky.social

His family needs to have him committed.

aug 31, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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good george @goodgeorge.bsky.social

The dumbest and lowest among us..,

aug 31, 2025, 11:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Laura @lbuffi.bsky.social

Seems impossible, utterly ridiculous, that he is in this position of authority. Everything I see and hear from him is just stunningly stupid.

aug 31, 2025, 10:09 am • 4 0 • view
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Leighton brenholt @leightonbrenholt19.bsky.social

WORMHEAD CAN GO TO HELL , MANY WOULD LOVE TO SHOW HIM THE WAY .

aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Raymond Guiteras @raymondguiteras.bsky.social

But they don't want to start from scratch. They want to burn it down and walk away.

aug 31, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
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mags69.bsky.social @mags69.bsky.social

😳😳😳 he’s going to kill a lot of people

aug 31, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
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opsan @opsan.com

RFK: The Band is Back Together. bsky.app/profile/opsa... Some have fallen into the trap: "RFK said something sensible a while back; therefore, he must be trustworthy". He did, but he's not.

aug 31, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
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pillsbury @pillsbury37.bsky.social

Cramalot.

sep 1, 2025, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Synchronizing @synchronic-2000.bsky.social

That’s the mantra started by Silicon Valley influencers & con artists. All those destroyers ultimately end up looking like old institutions, because these institutions had gone through the reality of with real life. Snappy buzzwords & consultant speak can’t replace institutional knowledge.

aug 31, 2025, 1:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cozy🏡Clubhouse❤️🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @cozyclubhouse.bsky.social

Let’s stop referring to him as “RFK Jr”, and more like just plain Robert Kennedy. Let’s not keep perpetuating the only reason he was able to get ahead and fool people was through association with his father and uncle. Just use his name without the Jr, not the monogram, not the fairytale.

aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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US Asunder @usasunder.bsky.social

Is there a single MAGA, Proud Boy or Oathkeeper man, who would let RFK or even TRUMP for that matter... Tear down their broken pick-up truck, to rebuild it from scratch? No, because they are not Mechanics.

aug 31, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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sweetooth1 @sweetooth1.bsky.social

If you want a 14 year intravenous heroin user, a guy who undercooks pork resulting in a dead worm in his brain, & who ate too much fish ending up w/mercury poisoning Republicans sought fit to hire, it's much more than tear down & scratch, it's power at any cost even America's health!

aug 31, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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billstir.bsky.social @billstir.bsky.social

Exactly, fvck all that money and time we put into the SCIENCE of vaccines and other medical advances. We should all Pretend we're science experts.

sep 1, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
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Just Wake Up! ⚖️ 🇺🇸 Remove The Fascists By Any Means Necessary! @calmthoughts.bsky.social

He may be profiting off of vaccine alternatives? If so: it is like a trump Scammer copycat. Scam for personal profit! Are all elected Republicans & appointed Cabinet Members Scumbag Swindlers? YES THEY ARE ‼️They Are Traitors & Pirates ‼️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

aug 31, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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white ribbit @thewhiteribbit.bsky.social

it is a silly place youtu.be/dviEWs_VIG4?...

aug 31, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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Squish @squish42.bsky.social

The implication that they intend to actually build or improve anything is still comical. No, they don't want to start from scratch. They just want to tear it down.

aug 31, 2025, 2:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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Votey McVoteface @wokeymcwokeface.bsky.social

Also, when we say "start from scratch," we're talking about some seriously shitty scratch.

aug 31, 2025, 8:12 am • 6 0 • view
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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 @politicalamericans.bsky.social

politicalamericans.com/rfk-defunds-...

aug 31, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Rick @rick-gi.bsky.social

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jac61.bsky.social @jac61.bsky.social

Nothing’s more exhausting than a know-it-all who thinks they alone have the answers. They see their view as the only morally correct one, convinced of their superiority. That mindset isn’t just annoying—it’s dangerous, and it will cause preventable deaths.

aug 31, 2025, 12:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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CalleyCat @calleycat.bsky.social

And throughout the wealthy will continue to have access to established healthcare.

aug 31, 2025, 1:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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suncloudswe.bsky.social @suncloudswe.bsky.social

Good thing all the lessons from Covid are now being studied and used to prepare for the next pandemic.

aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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JessicaWessica @jessicatzonteti.bsky.social

You joke, but they being studied. Not by anyone who wants to help the greater public, however, just the ones who want to profit off our deaths.

aug 31, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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suncloudswe.bsky.social @suncloudswe.bsky.social

Not as much a joke as dark irony. Besides, I think profiting off our desth is a bit harsh. Profiting off disease is much better, if the host dies so does the parasite, essentially.

sep 1, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
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lolmao500.bsky.social @lolmao500.bsky.social

RFK jr is the biggest threat to america since the soviet union and i'm not exagerrating. Even Saddam Hussein, ISIS and Al-Qaeda were a joke compared to this POS.... and YET his face isnt on a FBI poster with a 50 million bounty on his head for being a mass murdering psycho

aug 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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Concerned Citizen @free-ish.bsky.social

You don’t put a pestilent catcher’s mitt in charge of public health unless you want people to die.

aug 31, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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Todd Hill @rockney.bsky.social

Their plan: Tear it all down and rebuild it with the minion of MAGAt Cult domestic terrorist traitors so it becomes almost impossible to stop their crimes.

aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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sg1954.bsky.social @sg1954.bsky.social

RFK Jr. is a symptom of a deeper sickness — where conspiracy takes the place of science, and loud armchair coaches drown out experts. We don’t have to accept a future where public health is dictated by lies.

aug 31, 2025, 11:47 am • 14 4 • view
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Ms.Information (she/her) @kindregardz.bsky.social

Social media gave everyone a voice - even the stupid. The malevolent right gamed the system.

aug 31, 2025, 11:57 am • 10 2 • view
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RiskyLiberal @riskyliberal.bsky.social

That's a horror, invoking his relatives legacy for this failed ex-heroin addict loon.

aug 31, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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diane-liberal-one.bsky.social @diane-liberal-one.bsky.social

F-ing asshole told everybody not to listen to him about medical issues—WTF—we already knew that but WRF is going on? He must resign!! He has blown up the entire CDC and HHS!

sep 1, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
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jcricket.bsky.social @jcricket.bsky.social

He doesn't have the personal integrity that allows for self-regulation. It's going to be such a malfunctioning agency that he will walk away, washing his hands of it all, claiming that he was somehow sabotaged from doing the stellar work that he otherwise would have accomplished.

aug 31, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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fuscoe1.bsky.social @fuscoe1.bsky.social

We have a recovering drug addict we our health agency. If that isn’t crazy, I don’t know what is.

aug 31, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

I never thought he'd exclude most people from getting COVID vaccines. I don't know what I thought it would look like, but not this.

sep 1, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

This one really hits home. If you have a primary immune disorder, you want as many people around you to be vaccinated as possible. If you're the mom of a young woman. Planning on children. You want her pregnancies and children to be safe.

sep 1, 2025, 12:36 am • 0 0 • view
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blustar62.bsky.social @blustar62.bsky.social

TIme to sit on the chests of the numbnuts that voted this guy in and pound them (rhetorically!) to submission and remove this very lethal guy. How many children have to die? how many teens? seniors? everyfckingone

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Bridgettes corner @bbardot.bsky.social

Tear it down for sure starting from the top and get rid of RFK.The rest will be a lot easier to fix after that

aug 31, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mike Pod @podmanietzsche.bsky.social

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gmhh.bsky.social @gmhh.bsky.social

The confirmation committee should come out and tell us why they confirmed some of these people why was this not taken seriously?? RFK Jr confirmed 2/13/2025 Republicans: 52 Yes, 1 No Democrats: 0 Yes, 47 No

aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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FNU LNU @mop-fautneddy.bsky.social

Eliminate the threat -- Expunge the psycho. QED.

aug 31, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
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silverfox125.bsky.social @silverfox125.bsky.social

The man should be thrown to the curb for the moron he is!

aug 31, 2025, 2:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Dr. Merri @merri24.bsky.social

Great title

aug 31, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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rockmegarden.bsky.social @rockmegarden.bsky.social

Just part of Trump's Cabinet aiming to torture us!

aug 31, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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proudguy.bsky.social @proudguy.bsky.social

YES VERY CRAZY

aug 31, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kilgore's Trout @awdeoenginear.bsky.social

As the worm turns.

aug 31, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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gracepeace @gracepeace.bsky.social

TRUMP FIRING MANY BROADCASTERS OF "THE VOICE OF AMERICA" sending the news of America worldwide.

aug 31, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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zenpilgrim.bsky.social @zenpilgrim.bsky.social

You're hired.

aug 31, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Wax Chicken @waxchicken.bsky.social

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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

Doctor's boards are doing this, too.

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Wax Chicken @waxchicken.bsky.social

That's good to hear!

sep 1, 2025, 1:11 am • 1 0 • view
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lilylighthouse.bsky.social @lilylighthouse.bsky.social

Secretly vaccinate yourself & children.

aug 31, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adam CA @adamarket.bsky.social

Equivalent to touching a hot stove.

aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
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ian14723.bsky.social @ian14723.bsky.social

I still don't get it how a 1st world country could vote in a fat, orange, tax fraud, insurance fraud, pedophile supporting, openly racist piece of shit like Trump who appoints gobshites like Vance, Miller, RFK Jr, Patel, etc. Your whole country needs an enema!

aug 31, 2025, 8:35 am • 21 4 • view
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Tnresist @tnresist.bsky.social

God, I agree with you. The worst part is watching the glee with which his supporters welcome the destruction of our country. I fear we have lost it all.

aug 31, 2025, 11:59 am • 9 3 • view
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JessicaWessica @jessicatzonteti.bsky.social

They’re all in a death cult, trying to bring about the apocalypse. They don’t just welcome the destruction, they’re trying to speed it up.

aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 1 • view
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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

No, it's more like "survival of the fittest." The MAHA don't care if a bunch of us die. The Trumpists and billionaires can get any vaccines they want. If the pull Medicaid from thousands. They really don't give a sh%t.

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jac61.bsky.social @jac61.bsky.social

Fact-blind, greedy, and bigoted voters—precisely the people a charlatan knows how to exploit. In 2024, there were enough of them, and the country is now paying the price for their ignorant, selfish, and racist choices.

aug 31, 2025, 1:34 pm • 3 0 • view
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drg @drg0nzo.bsky.social

It was too successful in protecting the stupid from the effects of their stupidity.

aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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silveryfir @silveryfir.bsky.social

That's America...land of the lowlife

aug 31, 2025, 1:45 pm • 2 0 • view
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NoOneWins @noonewins.bsky.social

If you know NOTHING about EVERYTHING then you are the right candidate for a job with this current crazy RFK. How very proud the Kennedy family must be. How very proud his father would be, right? or is he rolling over in his grave?

aug 31, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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Eunicecycle @eunicecycle.bsky.social

To their credit, the rest of the family has been outspoken against him. Caroline Kennedy even spoke before his confirmation. Republicans voted for him knowing full well what he was.

aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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richarddonquixote.bsky.social @richarddonquixote.bsky.social

I CHALLENGE YOU TO CALL IT WHAT IT REALLY IS, #SocialMurder

aug 31, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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The Present Progressive @johwondine.bsky.social

Imagine starting science from scratch. 😳

sep 1, 2025, 1:29 am • 0 0 • view
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I was being sarcastic (Ummm I WAS LYING) @kevinjburke.bsky.social

the arrogance of ignorance

aug 31, 2025, 8:47 am • 9 2 • view
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Everlast2 @everlast2.bsky.social

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deerwatcher.bsky.social @deerwatcher.bsky.social

don't "tragedies" come to dynasties in "3s"? What's taking so long?

aug 31, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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Eunicecycle @eunicecycle.bsky.social

Maybe Joe Kennedy Jr counted as the first to die, as he was supposed to be the one to run for Senate then President. But he was killed in WW2.

aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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deerwatcher.bsky.social @deerwatcher.bsky.social

yeah, I always forget Joe Jr, the very 1st Suicide Drone pilot in History..."drats". Ahh well, then..we're ALL gonna die.

aug 31, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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msbonnie.bsky.social @msbonnie.bsky.social

How much $$$ does a Covid vaccine cost? If insurance doesn’t cover it how many can afford it?

sep 1, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Doug Brown @bugdrown.bsky.social

I'm part of the problem, then.

aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social

Destabilizing the U.S. at the request of Putin. washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...

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bikeguy2024.bsky.social @bikeguy2024.bsky.social

Do your part to stop racism, stupidity, and fascism by the Felon and MAGA! Vote every Pedo/insurrectionist supporter OUT!

aug 31, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
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susanmills158.bsky.social @susanmills158.bsky.social

Steve Bannon said deconstruction of the administrative state. Breaking down the bureaucracy, regulations and trade pacts. 2017 he must be pleased as punch.

aug 31, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fluke StarBucker (Chris Foreman) @flukestarbucker.bsky.social

The Kennedy name for me is trash! It’s rich 🤑 heroine addicted brain 🧠 worm’s 🪱 who has killed more kids than a serial killer! Fuck Kennedy and Fuck this Administration! They talk health while cutting USDA and USAID aid and have already killed hundreds and soon thousands!

aug 31, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ros @roshart.bsky.social

Chaos is ok for the very rich. Not so great for the rest of us.

aug 31, 2025, 8:02 am • 13 1 • view
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terg.bsky.social @terg.bsky.social

It's not great for them either. Their just narcissistic enough not to realize it.

sep 1, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Cindysum @cindysum.bsky.social

Stupid is as stupid does. I would like to tear him and the entire Trump administration down, including the Republicans in congress who enabled his destruction of our democracy. I am trying, but I can't do it by myself.

aug 31, 2025, 11:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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CapricornOne @rdm23.bsky.social

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David 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @davidminich.bsky.social

He's extremely dangerous.

aug 31, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bud Jamison @grunteledboomer.bsky.social

IS he talking about the WTC?????

aug 31, 2025, 8:03 am • 0 0 • view
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JimBird@bsky.social @jimbird.bsky.social

The “nuttiest Kennedy”.Hes in charge because of trumps insanity.

aug 31, 2025, 10:11 am • 0 0 • view
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silveryfir @silveryfir.bsky.social

Works for the wealthy...watch the rest burn

aug 31, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view