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LewisNixon @lewisnixon.bsky.social

I grew up during a time when the press would have demanded that the White House release the President's medical records and ask why no one has seen him for four days.

aug 31, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2,478 584

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🌈 I would prefer not to🪡🧵⚒️🏳️‍⚧️⚧️☮️🕊️🍁 @c-anemone-d.bsky.social

Ah, the good old days, ie 9 months ago.

aug 31, 2025, 3:35 pm • 4 0 • view
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mikelochness.bsky.social @mikelochness.bsky.social

So, 8 months ago.

aug 31, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cathi B @grammacappy.bsky.social

Lloyd Austin

aug 31, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Angis Eyes👩🏻‍🦼 @angiseyes.bsky.social

I don't give a rats ass about his health or why he hasn't been obnoxiously televised. I care that, if he's not fit, his admin isn't taking steps to move him out - but then we get JDVance. The only hope there is maybe because Trump isn't around- his cult will turn.

aug 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 6 1 • view
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Anxious PolarBear @anxious-polarbear.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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andwhatfreshhell.bsky.social @andwhatfreshhell.bsky.social

Honestly, just nice not to see him.

aug 31, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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douglas0110.bsky.social @douglas0110.bsky.social

It will be interesting to see how the media covers this story on the Sunday shows. Just like everything else it will be white washed and non-confrontational out of fear of retaliation. Wake up America…it has come down to this.

aug 31, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 1 • view
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dog-cat5.bsky.social @dog-cat5.bsky.social

As a kid & only 3 channels with all day coverage of tricky dick I’d hoped we would improve as a nation. One thing is very clear history, including all its ugliness, needs to be taught far better.

aug 31, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Possibly Kimberly @possiblykim123.bsky.social

Last year.

aug 31, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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BillBill @abil.bsky.social

I'm guessing he has COVID

aug 31, 2025, 5:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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rebod.bsky.social @rebod.bsky.social

You mean back when the press had some balls

aug 31, 2025, 11:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Witchygrandma @witchygrandma1.bsky.social

That was when journalists really wanted that big scoop. They needed the real story, they questioned, they investigated and they were TRUSTED! The profession was honorable, and we relied on them for the truth. Now, they parrot the nonsense, and we are vulnerable because they don't care!

aug 31, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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WATT @wearethetruth.bsky.social

The MSM bosses are all cowards and so are the people that work for them.

aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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AmericanNOTDorR2 @americannotdorr2.bsky.social

I think the members of the press are just happy he hasn't said anything else incredibly stupid in the past few days other than about his EO RE: voter ID. I think they're grateful for the breather from the constant torrent of bullshit.

sep 1, 2025, 12:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Rot Removal @professorconst.bsky.social

DEMS AND PRESS ARE ALL COWARDS.

aug 31, 2025, 8:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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The Word Bird @thewordbird.bsky.social

Is it possible no one cares where he is? 😆🔥💙🍿

aug 31, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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donotcave.bsky.social @donotcave.bsky.social

grew up. Biden walked with a limp after hurting his leg and the press acted like he had the plague.

aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 19 2 • view
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shabbyroads.bsky.social @shabbyroads.bsky.social

Snap, also was a time he would not have been able to run for President considering his criminal links

aug 31, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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LilyGreen @lilygreen.bsky.social

shingles, pneumonia, covid vaccines all knocked my mom down for at least a day.

aug 31, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
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ElizaRose @elirose476.bsky.social

When the media reported facts but that ship sailed 🫤

aug 31, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 1 • view
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spa-bsky.bsky.social @spa-bsky.bsky.social

Imagine that!?

aug 31, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
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sorceress2.bsky.social @sorceress2.bsky.social

I'd just as soon not see him, thanks.

aug 31, 2025, 11:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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fminfl.bsky.social @fminfl.bsky.social

Oh, yes. I remember it well. When the press was falling over themselves to breathlessly report on the President's health, his age, every stumble and malopropism, their largely uneducated takes on his ability to lead. So many years ago. Months, I mean months. It was just F'ing last year.

aug 31, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 1 • view
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Political Theatrics @johndalston.bsky.social

So you are 12? Right

aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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OS Betancourt @olgasixta.bsky.social

There are no credible journalists at the White House Press Court.

aug 31, 2025, 9:30 pm • 1 0 • view
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dwheron.bsky.social @dwheron.bsky.social

Where is Potus? Where is Potus?

aug 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
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Toot-N-Scoot 🇨🇦 @tootnscoot.bsky.social

The absolute complacency amd silence of the press will be remembered during this period and I truly hope that this is their downfall leading to a surge in independent news that is not owned by billionaires that have any say whatsoever in the narrative.

aug 31, 2025, 3:58 pm • 5 1 • view
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MaMaDonnae @mamadonnae.bsky.social

Those days are long gone.

sep 1, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
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DEI Shaniqua @mediocrecoder.bsky.social

I grew up in a time when the press hid evidence of the president’s dementia. When was your time?

aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 11 1 • view
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💙Michigan Girl 💙🫘 Ω @michigan-girl.bsky.social

Which one, Reagan or the current guy?

aug 31, 2025, 1:30 pm • 20 0 • view
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DEI Shaniqua @mediocrecoder.bsky.social

lol - it’s sad that’s a fair question. Reagan

aug 31, 2025, 1:32 pm • 12 0 • view
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💙Michigan Girl 💙🫘 Ω @michigan-girl.bsky.social

They’re doing it again.

aug 31, 2025, 1:34 pm • 4 0 • view
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Bluestar47 @bluestar47.bsky.social

Both, but then I was a child and didn’t notice. Now? The FUCK?

aug 31, 2025, 7:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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thebillymask.bsky.social @thebillymask.bsky.social

Well that time wasn’t over the last four years right?

aug 31, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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catlady49ers.bsky.social @catlady49ers.bsky.social

He was having either a medical procedure or a serious meltdown. I bet he’ll have some more.

aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 4 2 • view
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HA Grace @oneofthesurvivors.bsky.social

Billionaires Propaganda Media outlets have been responsible for destroying our Democracy and Justice System. They are complicit in the Fascism Trump and his Republican Fascists have brought

aug 31, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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KW🍁 @kwalls.bsky.social

Just so. The good old days.

aug 31, 2025, 6:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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dkcoon.bsky.social @dkcoon.bsky.social

That Was Before Republicans Had Faux News To Go Hide From The Legitimate Press And Lie Away At....

aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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jonesgrrl.bsky.social @jonesgrrl.bsky.social

He probably died and they are trying to figure out how to pass him off as living.

aug 31, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gajep. @gajep.bsky.social

To be fair, no-one is looking for him. Would you want to find him when he is desperate for a scapegoat to blame for his policies failing?

aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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I’m Petty So Watch Your Mouth @fighttrump.bsky.social

That’s cause he’s dead and they’re scrambling in the background trying to get things together for themselves. Yep he’s dead.

sep 1, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Cuoco/pittore @afinta.bsky.social

You mean like a year ago? 😂

sep 1, 2025, 12:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Colleen 🇫🇮🇮🇪 @ladyindrak.bsky.social

Exactly right?

aug 31, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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DaisyDot @daisydot.bsky.social

Absolutely. And any medical procedure that put him under anesthetic would warrant a transfer of power in the interim.

aug 31, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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tempedan.bsky.social @tempedan.bsky.social

WTFCARES???!!!

aug 31, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kathleen @kparent.bsky.social

That was when president got impeached for being crooked, now they can shoot someone on 5th aveune.

aug 31, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Thelonious08 @thelonious08.bsky.social

Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi decided that Congressional Oversight is no longer a thing. They just refused to do it. So for over 8 years shocking misconduct has been running rampant in the Executive Branch.

aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 2 1 • view
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Deborah Jurges @lottesenkelin.bsky.social

Tell them.

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MarySez @marysez.bsky.social

Is he on a romantic getaway with one of his boyfriends? Putin or Kim?

aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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ee32958.bsky.social @ee32958.bsky.social

Really, who the fuck cares? Just let us know when he’s dead so we can start the party. #FUCKTRUMP

sep 1, 2025, 2:17 am • 0 0 • view
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SunSpirit455 @sunspirit455.bsky.social

So did I, along with a time that the media wouldn't be punished or sued by telling the truth.

aug 31, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social

How long were there "news" stories commenting on Fidel Castro's invisibility before his death was announced?

aug 31, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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godhatesyeast @godhatesyeast.bsky.social

lol that would be work the modern media stenography drone isn’t really about ✌️work✌️ no society has ever been failed by an institution as completely as the american people have been failed by the collaborationist court media

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aug 31, 2025, 7:56 pm • 2 1 • view
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Bonner🇺🇦🇨🇦 @copah.bsky.social

But boy, it is sooooooo nice NOT to see him!

aug 31, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Un granito de arena. @1granitodearena.bsky.social

Putin's reboot in Alaska went wrong.

aug 31, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 1 • view
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brooklyngal-ny.bsky.social @brooklyngal-ny.bsky.social

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bladenp.bsky.social @bladenp.bsky.social

Yeah. Like 9 months ago.

aug 31, 2025, 9:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Zomney Domnitz @zomneydomnitz.bsky.social

Nowadays that could end in a $5 million payment to Trump.

aug 31, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
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💙Michigan Girl 💙🫘 Ω @michigan-girl.bsky.social

Not when he’s dead

aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ben10_Extreme @ben10extreme.bsky.social

Them trying to keep quiet about this only brings MASSIVE attention to it. 'Is Trump Dead' circulation was only born because for once the press shut up, which ironically made everyone pay closer attention. Terrible move.

aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 20 2 • view
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langcow.bsky.social @langcow.bsky.social

#pedopotus

aug 31, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 1 • view
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serenejean.bsky.social @serenejean.bsky.social

Hell I grew up in a time when presidents who ignored the constitution (and put people in illegal prisons, exported migrants to overseas prisons, and put the US military on American streets) actually resigned because they were going to be impeached. Nixon’s crimes are quaint in comparison to Trump!

aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Heidi Mastrogiovanni @heidifeminist.bsky.social

I’m sure @jaketapper.bsky.social would’ve done that if he hadn’t been so busy being a cowardly, toadying hack and a hypocrite of the highest order.

aug 31, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Harpy Eagle @sarahx2024.bsky.social

We don't WANT to see him, that's why. We hope he is somewhere dead that's why.

aug 31, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jersey Blue Dot @cskoorb.bsky.social

Yup @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com

aug 31, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 1 • view
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givedogsthevote.bsky.social @givedogsthevote.bsky.social

They've always hid the president's health conditions to a certain extent. Cleveland's cancer, Wilson's strokes, JFK's Addison's, FDR's paraplegia, Nixon's drinking, Reagan's senility...

aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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elziesegar.bsky.social @elziesegar.bsky.social

We live in a time when the Washington Post owner is a union-busting billionaire monopolist who spikes his paper’s Harris endorsement, then donates $1M to the felon whose son-in-law received $2B from a man who bone- sawed a Post reporter www.npr.org/2024/12/13/n...

aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 2 2 • view
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Dave hater of racism , ignorance and hypocrisy @davehaterofracism.bsky.social

TBF the press knows his medical records are a work of fiction but it may amuse us reading that they claim he is super fit , 6ft 6 inch tall and not an ounce of fat on him.

aug 31, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
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waa2112 @waa2112.bsky.social

Yeah, that was like 9 months ago.

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Mike Pod @podmanietzsche.bsky.social

Ahhhhh….You mean Earth 1

aug 31, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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ccc333-05.bsky.social @ccc333-05.bsky.social

When was press like this? Was it when they covered Donalds empty podium for hours while Sanders got zero coverage speaking to 25k? Was it when they completely ignored all Donald's ties to Epstein available before his first election? I guess I'm jaded

aug 31, 2025, 5:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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ccc333-05.bsky.social @ccc333-05.bsky.social

Did you? I'm X gen and remember US press as propaganda. Always has been. Remember all the media taking headlines from Bush administration to invade Iraq. Later the so called liberal NT times apologized to readers.

aug 31, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social

Me too but most were not corporate owned and afraid of the sitting president.

aug 31, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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MollyRoseWalker @mollyrosewalker.bsky.social

Now we're just relieved that no one has seen him.

aug 31, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Babin-bsky @gmomthoughts.bsky.social

Tapper would be harping about it.

aug 31, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 1 • view
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Ger D @rardeenus.bsky.social

The Soviets kept Chernenko and Andropov ‘alive’ for years.

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druj-pepper.bsky.social @druj-pepper.bsky.social

RFK Jr has inculcated the brain worms to keep the host "alive". Though the extremities might continue to decay, & the host cannot technically make new thoughts, it can reuse old thoughts and combine them in ways that appear conversational. It's obvious

aug 31, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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Holli Winters @holliwinters57.bsky.social

I think they had him go out on Saturday because they had to prove he was still alive. But he didn't look good yesterday.

aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 5 1 • view
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Ron - and I resist @rnschltz.com

You mean like the fourth is supposed to? Like it used to?

aug 31, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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TDub @brewmaster75.bsky.social

Yeah that time was only 15 months ago, only feels like decades at this point

aug 31, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Richard Royster, LPCA @richardroysterlpc.bsky.social

Those were the days. I keep telling myself that but also a little nagging voice that says, “doesn’t every generation say that?” Still think a vibrant press is absolutely necessary.

aug 31, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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mat111.bsky.social @mat111.bsky.social

The press has become wimpy. They don’t want to ruffle feathers 😡

aug 31, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 1 • view
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Craig Carl 🐕 @craigrcarl.bsky.social

I'll never forget the day that Hillary stumbled at the door of her limo. Oh, the horror...

aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 5 2 • view
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I dissent 💙 @belladonna406.bsky.social

Everyone just kind of stands around looking at each other, wondering what they should do, besides HIDE.

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Sophie @southernfriedtarot.bsky.social

Especially him being a person that has to have cameras in his ugly face so he can spew shit over the airwaves on a daily basis.

aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 5 1 • view
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margot44.bsky.social @margot44.bsky.social

I know we're impatient, but it'll happen and SOON!!!

aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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dogwood83.bsky.social @dogwood83.bsky.social

Really, do you want to see him?

aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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petluv.bsky.social @petluv.bsky.social

Oh shucks I didn't even miss him

aug 31, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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bestbeth.bsky.social @bestbeth.bsky.social

Right!?! This is completely unacceptable. How far we have fallen.

aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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doris-1956.bsky.social @doris-1956.bsky.social

I know, me too. I remember the water gate. My dad watched the Watergate trial every damn day. And of course, I was a teenager, so it bored the hell out of me.

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

The press no longer demands nothing

aug 31, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 1 • view
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tiredofthisshit.bsky.social @tiredofthisshit.bsky.social

Probably some high-tech rejuvenation treatments where they exchange his entire blood volume.

aug 31, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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https://derkoolschrank.com/ @derkoolschrank.bsky.social

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Terri @meangreenmom.bsky.social

😂😂😂

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claghorn.bsky.social @claghorn.bsky.social

That was in the Biden administration.

aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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☮☮😸😸☮☮ @catsforpeace2.bsky.social

Wait, we have a corporate media that has reporters? I thought they were all pundits and sane washers for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist and his minions... like on his payroll or something.

aug 31, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 1 • view
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Jazzwamp @wampwamp.bsky.social

Was the President suing the Networks? Did he have 34 felonies? Was he in jail for them? Did he continue his business during his presidency? Did Congress step asile and allow him to rule by EO? Did he lead a coup? See the differences?

aug 31, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
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richarddonquixote.bsky.social @richarddonquixote.bsky.social

The "Press" is complicit.

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drcoxsfantasies.bsky.social @drcoxsfantasies.bsky.social

I want a press shithead to grow some fucking balls and ask why Trump was so VIRULENTLY anti mask during Covid because according to him and MAGA, "You can't breathe with a mask on," yet has NO problem with the ICE scumsacks wearing masks. Ask him to explain his disingenuousness on this issue.

aug 31, 2025, 2:05 pm • 4 1 • view
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Corejno @corejno.bsky.social

@jaketapper.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
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Phil Roberts @proberts01.bsky.social

MSM is scared shitless of President Childfucker.

aug 31, 2025, 7:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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PjLarks🦋💙💛 @gemini-iam2.bsky.social

For sure, they would’ve did this for Biden. Trump knew health issues when he ran for president but oh no it’s all about Biden.

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Matt @beanthedeceiver.bsky.social

Remember when the press when ape shit because Biden’s SecDef disappeared for one day to have prostate surgery?

aug 31, 2025, 7:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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John Shea 🍀 @johnshea122.bsky.social

We no longer have a MEDIA SYSTEM we can rely on for the truth.

aug 31, 2025, 3:58 pm • 9 2 • view
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captainfrogbert.bsky.social @captainfrogbert.bsky.social

And by that you mean last October?

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Never Forget Who Caused Jan 6th @savedemocracy58.bsky.social

That was a few short months ago. Ask @jaketapper.bsky.social where HIS followup is.

aug 31, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 1 • view
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Gigi @gin64.bsky.social

Maybe he croaked and no one knows 🤞

aug 31, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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St George Floyd @badtrump.bsky.social

It should be an impeachable offense to not address the public every day

aug 31, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Carol Steven’s NY @sjmedeiros111.bsky.social

Me too

aug 31, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adelle Loiselle @adelleloiselle.bsky.social

Man. We can barely keep up with Carney flying everywhere, making deals, looking at people… If he was missing for four days I would assume he tried to pass through a US airport. (I know I know it’s not funny for you but it is to me)

aug 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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AngryNap @patricklovesdogs.bsky.social

Remember when politicians getting gunned down in their homes would have been a big story with legs?

aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 2 1 • view
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thanksforbeingafang @getfcked.bsky.social

it’s time to start taking these white house failures to task

aug 31, 2025, 7:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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pjhrose.bsky.social @pjhrose.bsky.social

The time when the press would have demanded release of prez medical records was when journalist had a say with how their news organization reported a newsworthy national story. Now, it's billionaires that bought the newspapers. Thank goodness there are independent news sources popping up. Find them

aug 31, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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hereweare12.bsky.social @hereweare12.bsky.social

God knows the Right Wing propaganda machine would LOSE THEIR F*ING MIND if Biden disappeared for more than a day, screaming for investigations & deep state cover ups.

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