Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
Yup.
Fact. You would think, oh, I don’t know, maybe a retired General/Admiral would be selected to head the dept of national defence…but no, a retired NG Captain, who’s resume does NOT scream “leadership material”, was selected because of his small role in guarding prisoners in GITMO and spouting Lies.
Do unto others .. Never forget they arrested the US President, his lawyers, his accountants, his campaign manager, his media allies, and even his valet.
MAGAts are so stupid.
And they should do it again, magat
Because they are all criminals. This isn't hard.
He should have been arrested on January 6.
Because they broke our laws
So absolutely true
this whole thing is bs but ask SCOTUS why. they know why bs. but they will try to get away with it bcz it's them.
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JFC
No one can stand on the sidelines anymore. No one. We're watching our way of life and 250 yrs of Democracy being shredded in real time. Stand up.
Giving off Soviet party vibes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Rw...
1st Act ⚠️ Coercive funding freezes ⚠️ Ideological purges, forced exits ⚠️ ICE intimidation campaigns ⚠️ Federal coercion of adversaries ⚠️ Local police co-opted ⚠️ FBI raids Coming Soon from Trump 🔥 Sham trials, politicized verdicts 🔥 IRS audits, asset seizures 🔥 Televised spectacles of violence
and they don't play by the rules they demand you play by
Perp walks will be high up on the hit parade
If we let rich cheaters and stealers get away with their crimes, they have an advantage in accumulating wealth and power
Unfortunately, yes
Senior generals and admirals need to speak out, now!
Why? Plenty of people have already spoken out, to no avail. Trump will just have them court martialed.
This is the party that fool voted for because he thought the State should manage a citizen’s womb. Eff Nichols and Cheney.
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Absolutely true and maybe not even middle management.
I’ve always said that the sheer stupidity of these people would be hilarious if they weren’t so dangerous.
Do not underestimate them. The true string pullers names are probably not even known yet.
Check out the secretive group Rockbridge.
We know some of them… Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezo’s Mark Zuckerberg And most Fortune 500 corporations.
Their incompetence will be what preserves Democracy.
Middle management? Most of these ignorant buffoons would be struggling to keep a job flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
Authoritarians are losers who fail upwards.
Sociopaths surround themselves with like pathology.
Reminds him of the Soviet Union in the 50’s…
It’s almost as if Putin gave old ‘canks McGee step by step instructions.
But the clowns with power destructive vindictive evil power, and are exercising it
Tacky.
Rather alarming.
Truth!
I wouldn't rate them as middle management. I mean, just think about trump, trying to hold a job in any capacity. He'd screw up anything, and quickly. Create a toxic workplace enviro and get people fighting. I'd can him after one day. The others? There's a reason they were on fox. Sensationalists.
It’s like AI. Being super dumb and clumsy still doesn’t obviate the risks of damage.
"Clowns with flamethrowers" Great analogy
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Bessent s one fine example of an asshole clown
That’s why eventually they will stupid themselves right out of existence. Our job is to help them get to that point sooner rather than later.
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This is something I think about a lot. A guy swinging a lead pipe at your head is dangerous even if he’s a moron.
Beware #ClownsWithFlamethrowers
My parents lived through communism. Communists killed the intelligentsia post WWII and elevated garbage by giving them enough power to keep the population submissive and ensure loyalty to them. I’m sure this is textbook of any totalitarian regime, communism is just one flavor of it.
Exactly. It’s like we are entering Stalin’s “Great Purge”.
i can't 💯 this enough
The machinery is broken and someone who understands his/her oath has to fix it by any means necessary even if it requires to step outside the lines.
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Fuck ice
That’s what I say driving around in winter when I can’t stop.
When your only talent is abusing vulnerable people.
So true.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social totally on point. Coupled with shamelessness and any lack of accountability spells doom
It spells a fight! We Can’t lay down and just take it. Better start planning how you can destabilize these goons. 1st., by not feeding them a supply of cash flow. Don’t buy from companies that support them. 2nd., get out on the streets & Stand up to ICE. It can be done! A small loud woman did it!
Truth!
Let’s no knock retail management . It’s a field that makes certain all you consumer needs and wishes get met.
They are the dregs of America, the underbelly that every society is forced to endure.
Like dt, they are boils on the ass of humanity
Actually they’re just clowns with water pistols who are getting a lot of help from Republicans in Congress and across the country. Don’t forget that any time they want Congress can shut this circus down and impeach and remove this orange shithead. We have to force Republicans to do that.
with the likes of reps like susan collinses ?
I was in retail management many years ago. I am deeply offended....
Somebody who believes that Jews were at the lower end of German society? This is about Christian jealousy. They cannot have anyone be successful without drooling on the cock of Jesus. It hurts their very sensitive feelings.
EXACTLY as Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, et al. Every dictator gathers around him life’s losers and dummies, who have the chips on their shoulders to prove it. Revenge against the “intellectuals” and “left” is their motive, and the US regime is infested with them. Wake up, people!
Middle management is where they put you when you suck at everything else So you traipse around all day looking over real workers shoulders pretending you know their job I’ve run a corporation for 46 yrs We never needed one middle manager Lead Follow Or get outta the way
Good old MSNBC interviewing, not one, but TWO former Republicans!
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
In the White MAGA ghetto where I reside, people actually call professionals like me “suits” who lack common sense. It’s a big achievement when someone takes a few basket weaving classes at the community college. 87% voted for him here.
Trump chose them for that very reason. The last thing Trump wants is people telling the truth.
This reminds me of an American state department’s telegram back to u.s. when visiting Hitler s Germany prior to the invasion of Poland—he was alarmed at how “unwell” the people were running the country.
A guy wearing a hat that says “I was right about everything“ is an absolute disgrace for the office of the President of the United States. And so are the ones supporting him whose only qualification is either a tenure at Fox News and/or the ability to never object to his deity.
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Tom Nichols should consider using words that "regular folks" understand and avoid terms like "machinery of government" and "middle management".
So they’re feeling empowered…
He has immunity, the rest of them don’t.
ASS KISSER!
Nichols, is the guy having spent an entire career saying government doesn't work and lambasting that bureaucracy and promoting a party that ensured government didn't work now laments the 40 + year end game account that is maga and that he built up.
We keep talking about this apparent dire situation. A little less conversation and a little more action, baby!
This video keeps playing in my head on a loop: youtu.be/QxYmm5yCJBg
Das ist ein interessantes Muster. Do unto others, aber scheint man nur auf bestimmte Leute anzuwenden. Werden diejenigen, die die Regeln brechen, auch bestraft?
How do we take their flamethrowers?
Yes!!!👏👏👏💪👍
And in 4 years most of them will be unemployed or in prison. Start pulling down the masks.
Really? You might think Trump is bad, but it's the next guy like him who you have to be worried about. And the people who back him.
Why are people still referring to Republicans as Republicans, they need now be called fascists or Nazis as they’ve earned those titles. The old days are gone, the Republicans don’t exist. They’ve been subsumed by Maga and it is clear Maga is Christian separatism in action. Nazi 2.0 in unfurled
Like a bad guy in a Batman film
"Clowns with flamethrowers" how horribly accurate.
It is annoying when I do my annual work mandatory HR/job rules & expectations, realizing who is at the host positions of power in the country & how they behave.
We will forever see Republicans as lowlife racists. Yes, they are dangerous. They sit in seats of power in our government affecting every aspect of our lives. These MF’s have got to go. The MAGA Supreme Court destroying our Constitution days are numbered. ONLY FOR A SEASON
Conservatives tell us this is what the 2A is for
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These ass-kissing sycophant loons shouldn't be in charge of anything! They're intentionally (illegally/unconstitutionally) dismantling our federal govt for Putin (who is blackmailing Trump) while also destroying it due to their staggering incompetence. #HomeGrownCriminals #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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I have a crush on Tom Nichols. He should have his own show on MSNBC.
"clowns with flamethrowers" A great description of everyone in this administration. Although I would add the word "criminal" right before "clowns". And every one of these criminal MAGA clowns needs to be prosecuted and locked up in a prison cell to rot until the day they die.
Evil clowns with flamethrowers.
While living in their mom’s basement!
Remember audience. The lady on the left and the man on the right spent their careers until now getting these people the power they are now using and abusing.
I think you need to cite some proof to that claim.
I think maybe you should look up who these two people are then cite to me evidence showing I am wrong.
Did you READ what I wrote? I didn't write you were incorrect. I suggested identifying your sources. Why? There have been a LOT of dubious posts lately, causing me to wonder if the "bots are back" a la Twitterville. Someone has thin skin / fragile ego.
Nah, the proof is in their published articles. A Never Trumper is a still a Republican, who brought us good times like the war on terror, the TSA and the patriot Act
I will be using clowns with flame throwers from now on
Precisely why the peaceful transfer of power was insane!
Beware #ClownsWithFlamethrowers
How do we defend ourselves from this government of armed thugs?? Is it time to buy a gun and take to the streets before they systematically kill us all?
I was sure the NRA🤡 would save us... but nah🫣. And... "There's things that gnaw at a man[and/or a woman] worse than dying": bsky.app/profile/john...; bsky.app/profile/foof.... Perhaps this Anti-Fascist Female Fighter of 1936 Spanish Civil War may inspire: www.thenewfederalist.eu/european-her....
I have said this for decades. Dipshits like Vance, Mike Johnson, & Agent Orange would be FIRED from Dollar General due to gross stupidity & harassing female customers. I hope to live long enough to shit on all their graves.
Donald is a five year old, throwing a tantrum in the mall... with a hand gun.
Ha, what an indictment of great retailers. 20 years a retailer, all very good years. Then went on to other enjoyable activities.
"These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere" Couldn't have said it better myself.
Nazi goons. Evil and inept.
Spitting facts
oh, he is SO CLOSE to getting it
Exactly! Evil morons— with weapons & the law in their pocket! Fucking terrifying!
I think @radiofreetom.bsky.social nails this here- it does seem to be the 1950's Soviet Union. Government destroying people's lives because they dare to go against the grain. Clowns with flamethrowers should scare the hell out of more Democrats!
I think 99% are terrified.
Ruzzin chucky clowns is more precise
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Isn't that the truth. Case in point? The financial "team" of Bessent & Hassert. I wouldn't let them "balance the books" from a lemonade stand.
Tom Nichols, noted master of the obvious, with no solutions.
There's a simple solution, but no one wants to say it in case they lose their social media account.
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With their felonies, many could not get a job at a department store.
Which is why this country is in DEEP shit.
I completely agree with @radiofreetom.bsky.social on this. They are pretty talented manipulators though, and someone has done a great job examining past failures, finding loopholes and weak points in our system, and making a diabolical plan. It wasn’t Trump, but someone in the shadows.
Russel Vaught
That’s being overly generous. They could t even run a 7/11.
So so so true.
He’s not wrong.
We r so screwed. This is getting worse by the day.
not true of the guard but likely true of ICE
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Flamethrowers are legally available to the public just fyi. Is that a good idea? I don’t think so. But they’re not broadly regulated. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulat...
Thinking out of the box. Good for you 😆
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Our normal lives in USA HOME OF THE FREE AND BRAVE
DT is destroying America
Clowns with flamethrowers @sykescharlie.bsky.social
Nichols, who lives in a babbling tower of privilege, ought to STFU about which words Dems shouldn't use.
TRUTH!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Tom always speaks the truth.
That’s unfair to people that work in Department Stores!
American Democracy is RIGHT NOW on Life Support. THE CANCER is The Heritage Foundation, A Man-Child in Office & A Corrupt Administration COMBINED. Complacent Apathetic American Citizens will Unwittingly be responsible for THE END. THEN - All Americans will wish they had ACTED when they had a chance
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The insanity makes no sense it must stop
These are men whose wives left them because they are morons. These are men who cannot get laid because they are morons. These are men who think that masking up and threatening innocent people will make their dicks bigger. It’s sort of working now. Soon we will tire of cosplaying pencil-dick incels.
Monkeys with machine guns
Beautiful insult!
This is why I prefer tRUmp in charge vs JV Dance. The Unterfuhrers he will choose are likely to be more competent
💯🎯. Nichols said it even better... in reference to MAGAZITARDS😵💫🐡😵 generally: "This is the part that's harder than having a political difference. Talking to someone who believes in the Trump catechism and feeling like I've been cornered by a Moonie in an airport or something." x.com/RadioFreeTom...
Trump has assembled an incompetent bunch and that makes them dangerous. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/trum...
At the moment dt is the leader that doesn'tseem to have a problem continuing to deal w/ &/or support Putin (kidnapping & bombing babies & children) & Netanyahu starving & bombing using US weapons against babies & children. He is an amoral ass ruining US reputation.
Let’s not forget who’s running this shit show, she intentionally stays hidden, it’s time to put the spotlight on her!
its not a fault, its a feature.
MAGA will not resist the strongly-worded letter from Chuck Schumer that we know is coming.
I thought the samething about the Generals. Why would they work for this admin.
To try to keep us safe - like General Milley et. al. in the first administration. At least I hope so. 🤞
Agreed. I don't think this is going to happen, unfortunately. Loyalty or nada. It's Project 2025 in full swing.
Don't be unkind to middle managers. Anyway such clowns would never get promoted in any halfway decent store.
They wouldn’t get hired after a background check. No carrier would write a business liability policy. They would be the very definition of negligent hires. A Plaintiff lawyer would have a field day with this.
This how Putin did it.
Could’ve just said unqualified and sycophantic without casting shade on people who work in retail, many of whom are struggling to hold onto their jobs in case you haven’t noticed.
No lies detected.
This is the same asshole who worked diligently to shove Biden out of the race... I really don't care what he has to say.
Tom Nichols nailed it.
We are behind a new iron curtain in the new USSR.
Yep
These assholes would be hard pressed to handle a shift leader job at McJunkfoods.
Clowns with flamethrowers. Genius.
Fact
You say that as Alligator Alley is being torn down without any acts of violence.
Because, as we all know, someone struggling to hold onto a middle manager job in a dept store somewhere is a worthless person. Nichols is such a dick He coulda stopped with the 1st sentence
Department store mid-level mgmt requires a certain skillset judged by their qualifications. When you take someone struggling to keep that job and make him a Wall Street CEO, that is what he is talking about. Try to think critically before getting abusive. It's why we are here in the first place.
Nah, Nichols is a dick and so are you 👋
Bless you
America is now taken over by old frat boys who only got in b/c their legacy parents. Homework? Lol. The rich white boys want to be among only their kind and piss on everyone else. With the keys to the institution they’re now changing the rules so they can just party freely.
Animal House tried to tell you!!!
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This is what autocracy looks like.
She is 💯 correct
They have all the power and we are sitting ducks 🦆
Trump loves stupid people.
And stupid people love Trump.
Trump went from “only the best people” to *anyone who is loyal*.
Wow, smug contempt for mid managers. Way to go.
Weee Live in a kakistocracy A tacky whacky-stocracy The plutobrats think that we don’t mind While their clown car robs us blind
Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, those affected by the wreckage or the threat of it will have had enough and decide to act upon it.
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Truth being told
And in many ways it makes them more danerous. Loose cannons.
First person I’ve seen on here who used “loose” the right way!
TY
Doesn’t make them any less dangerous.
Hmm, many of the same type of clowns who served in the Reagan and Bush Jr administrations? Funny how Nichols gives those presidents a pass
Well if that's the case then all we'll need is gasoline and a water pistol.
CHUMP adminstration: I would hire them to clean toilets, hoping they would flush themselves beyond the 'S' bend... Beyond The 'S' Bend the story of MAGA
"...clowns with flamethrowers..." sums it up nicely.
Killer clowns like the ones in horror films.
"Clowns with flamethrowers" With zero accountability. The havoc they will cause the next three years😟
All thanks to the Nazis at the #FascistHeritageFoundation
exactly right!
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#Trumpism = #Deception #LieDenyDeflect #Hate #Nepotism #Corruption #CoverUp #Narcissists #Racism #Bigotry #Nazis #Republikkkans #WhitePrivilege #WestRussia
Republican betrayal cannot be forgotten
Every cop is a criminal
An insult to hard working dept store mgrs.
He did say they would be struggling to hold on to those jobs.
That’s an insult to department store managers. Don’t look down on retail jobs at any level
Where are the democratic protections assured by the US Constitution? Honestly, King George is dead!
Yep.
The very people Hitler relied on to be his willing executioners.
They have the machinery of the fear of the Democratic Party, the fear of commentators, the fear of journalists, the fear of pundits, the fear of American business, and the bigotry of the American people behind them... they cannot fail.
Not EVERYTHING can be Nazis. It’s boring.
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The ones in front of the curtain may be clowns, but the ones behind the curtain are deadly serious and very dangerous.
EXACTLY
This is important! They are buffoons, but they are filled with hate, greed and a lust for absolute control and they are DANGEROUS AS FUCK.
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Yep. The danger of an angered mediocrity.
Failing upward is so on-brand for Republican twits
If Trump wants to start bombing Blue cities, who’s going to stop him?
Apparently no one Decades of his flagrant disregard for the law He should have been stopped on J7
EXACTLY!!
