A lot happened for a Monday. But there’s a common theme: Trump’s increasing openness about his power grab. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The US Armed Forces' mission is protect citizens, NOT assault them!
aug 26, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social I’m really freaked out Joyce. The fire drill is over.
aug 26, 2025, 6:02 am • 0 0 • view
The only "voices" calling for a dictator are in his head. I wonder how many of them there are?
aug 26, 2025, 1:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Sometimes I look at this era and feel fear. Sometimes I look at this era and feel sad. And sometimes I look at this era and see an entire nursery of toddlers in a collective meltdown as they throw toys and knock over blocks. And then I feel pity and wonder when they'll finally exhaust themselves.
aug 26, 2025, 5:54 am • 0 0 • view
Well I am happy to see the Democratic governors pushing back. Walz, Pritzker, Newsom, Moore, doing fine work.
aug 26, 2025, 6:12 am • 18 1 • view
Stop this Pig …
aug 26, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
His contract with Satan is nearing its end.
aug 26, 2025, 6:00 am • 2 0 • view
Thank you Joyce VERY GOOD READ
aug 26, 2025, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
Before ! Some voices said.." No..this cannot happen here..this is America"...then it started to happened..even among my Dem friends there were doubts..not Me. I lived it. I learned .
aug 26, 2025, 11:00 am • 0 0 • view
Sooner or later, these guardsmen will kill someone in public. Whoever it is will be identified by the administration as a terrorist.
aug 26, 2025, 9:44 am • 2 0 • view
He is feeling quite comfortable.
aug 26, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
And why shouldn't he feel comfortable? He is walking over all Americans & their democracy. And he is getting away with it because no one has the guts/desire/willingness to stop him. Every single week he dismantles your freedoms & you all let him do it. So of course, he is comfortable.
aug 26, 2025, 6:01 am • 3 0 • view
All because white, working class voters, (along with those who crave white adjacency & acceptance) voted for Felon47 due to racism/misogyny.
aug 26, 2025, 9:00 am • 1 0 • view
There's a common theme: Trump looks drugged, his gate is off, look of constant fatigue, chopped up thoughts, makes sh't up, blown up ankles, back of his hands hidden w/make up! He's not mentally nor physically healthy & it's being ignored, ergo; covered-up! Who's running the country!
aug 26, 2025, 8:21 am • 5 0 • view
Stephen Goebbels Miller is running the country
aug 26, 2025, 8:56 am • 5 0 • view
Everyone who voted for him knew he would do this. Unless they were in a coma or cave from 2016-2020. He had decided he is not leaving office. No matter what.
aug 27, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
He said “people are saying we’d like to have a dictator”. How much more openness does he need display?
aug 26, 2025, 5:50 am • 1 0 • view
Wrong again, Chucko! Most, if not all, Americans absolutely DO NOT WANT A DICTATOR. If this is indeed your most desired goal in life, please go to Russia and ask Putin if you can be one of his boys. Russia is big and surely has a place for you to reign.
aug 26, 2025, 6:15 am • 3 0 • view
Remember, she did not lose because too many Republicans voted for her. She lost because too many people who would normally vote for her found a million different reasons not to vote. Own goal.
aug 26, 2025, 5:54 am • 15 1 • view
Not voting is a cop out, no excuses this go around Vote in all elections until the seats, states and potus are flipped. No more GOP, no more maga.
aug 26, 2025, 3:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0 • view
People are missing the thread. The threat to Trump isn’t 2028, it’s 2026. He is accelerating his efforts to takeover the country before the midterms. We are at DEFCON 1 regarding our democracy.
aug 26, 2025, 6:36 am • 16 1 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 6:01 am • 2 0 • view
No a lot of people were saying maybe we'd like a dickhead
aug 26, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
could he go so far as to fire the intelligence people to give putin an advantage over Ukraine or to leave the US defenseless to an attack or to fake an attack? could he go so far as to try to take over Venezuela for the minerals? it is awfully easy to under estimate him
aug 26, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
Who in the WH is pushing him to produce all these EOs? Or do we truly have an Emperor's New Clothes situation going on...they are afraid to push back on him.
aug 26, 2025, 6:05 am • 2 0 • view
They want power at any price including our heads! Not even cowards anymore, just TRAITORS!!
aug 26, 2025, 6:21 am • 1 0 • view
The Heritage Foundation people. Read project 2025. They all prepared 200 EOs before the inauguration.
aug 26, 2025, 6:11 am • 11 0 • view
And now the nazis in the white house continue producing them.
aug 26, 2025, 6:12 am • 3 0 • view
How long before he declares it a federal crime to disagree with him?
aug 26, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Uniformed Nat Guards, Armed and Patrolling our streets - DO NOT REPRESENT America. They REPRESENT THE ROGUE PRESIDENT ONLY. THEY have forsaken THEIR OATH by what they are doing! They deserve no Respect - for supporting an Unconstitutional Act of Intimidation. Record them for future use in Court!!!
aug 26, 2025, 11:12 am • 0 0 • view
🔻 It’s not Trump 🔻 He can’t do it alone 🔻 It’s the entire GOP 🔻 It’s state & local politicians 🔻 It’s corporations 🔻 It’s the media 🔻 It’s the super rich 🔻 It’s the fascists 🔻 It’s those who give in 🔻 It’s those who give up 🔻 It’s those who don’t bother 🔻 It’s those who look away 🔻 It’s capitalism
aug 26, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
A dying man who says things he wouldn't if he was not dying. Bad omen.
aug 26, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump says: “A lot of people…” We say: he is making this up This is super, super sinister. Stop him.
aug 26, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know who a lot of people are because I sure in the hell didn't ask for a dictator! #ROTINHELL
aug 26, 2025, 9:25 am • 1 0 • view
SCOTUS hasn't lost its mooring it's pulled up anchor and full steam ahead. The corruption being passed as laws with an untouchable life time appointment protection is another broken wheel of our government. Turns out democracy is actually a COMMITMENT not an experiment.
aug 26, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
at his age the way he looks it wont be him in charge
aug 26, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The Republicans are stealing, cheating, and grabbing power right before the media’s eyes and they say nothing!
aug 27, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
It wreaks of desperation and fear. He is declining quickly and that is why he is rushing.
aug 26, 2025, 10:47 am • 0 0 • view
He's admitting to the power-grab, instead of admitting he's an Epstein pedophile & admitting that they have no reason to be holding Kilmer except to save their own asses! But hey, I like to think we're on the right track!
aug 26, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Hes tapped in to the inner Karen in all of us..For most of us tho, that just pisses us off even more
aug 26, 2025, 7:52 am • 0 0 • view
So condescending to we citizens!
aug 26, 2025, 5:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Each of these statements is a market test looking for pushback. If no significant pushback or outrage, he takes the next micro step toward that dictatorship.
aug 26, 2025, 5:53 am • 8 1 • view
When was this a secret?
aug 26, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
He’s already an authoritarian working toward dictator. I can’t imagine that he would ever willingly leave office.
aug 26, 2025, 6:22 am • 4 0 • view
#Trump is trying to grab the US by the pu...., well you get the meaning of my drift here.
aug 26, 2025, 6:04 am • 1 0 • view
The Spreading Fascism is apparent to all of us that know History Simple.. Egregious Yup
aug 26, 2025, 6:07 am • 2 0 • view
It’s not an accident that this is happening during the Congressional recess and that SCOTUS is sitting back - attending Heritage parties and congratulating themselves. When does he dissolve both? In the name of order.
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 am • 0 0 • view
Who are these “people” ???👀
aug 26, 2025, 2:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Not one person said that to him...not one!!!
aug 26, 2025, 7:55 am • 0 0 • view
Bill Pulte This phony motherfucker...
aug 26, 2025, 7:06 am • 1 0 • view
Everyone I hear hopes he dies a slow painful death with constant visits from jr and Eric
aug 26, 2025, 7:25 pm • 0 0 • view
"A lot of people" are the made up ones in his head. And maybe the staff with their own agendas, like Miller.
aug 26, 2025, 6:17 am • 13 0 • view
"Openness" is not a befitting word to describe our current POTUS. It sounds nice and normal. How about "outspokenness?" It has a more narcissistic ring too it, yes?
aug 26, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
He has started forgetting to include the line about how "all the people are big strong 'whatever' with tears in their eyes, begging him" to take over everything for them! His mind is going faster than even we thought it would go out of town! Maybe his Egotistical Arrogance has just gotten that bad!
aug 26, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
We should have believed him the first time. bsky.app/profile/bone...
aug 26, 2025, 5:52 am • 7 1 • view
When Trump & his Republican lackeys undermine the rule of law & the economy with policies “designed for maximum damage”… Public opinion is against this madness. The MAGA propaganda network will only get more frantic & dishonest the more public opposition hardens. #Resist & #Vote Blue.
aug 26, 2025, 12:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Joyce, I say this without trying to be brash or unkind. What the hell can we do? With armed forces walking up & down city streets it’s only a matter of time before protestors are ordered shot/arrested. Many of us feel powerless watching this unfold. Each day something more horrific than the last..
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 am • 6 0 • view
Why need to keep the Epstein files front and center. The only way to get the MAGA crowd to engage and turn against him. We need the Dems to get it together and be on msm 24/7 calling him out. Our msm has failed us. This is not going to end well. Glad I am old.
aug 26, 2025, 7:33 am • 6 0 • view
March every chance you get and bring all of your friends. They can't arrest EVERYBODY.
aug 27, 2025, 1:12 am • 1 0 • view
No, but they could shoot almost everybody if he gets that whim up his ass. That’s what worries me, his next move.
aug 27, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
Every time Trump talks about "a lot of people say" only means those people are the voices he hears echoing inside his otherwise empty head.
aug 26, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
The military is failing to uphold their oath
aug 26, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course, those "people" are in the West Wing.
aug 26, 2025, 2:12 pm • 2 0 • view
This is what happens when the National Guard is sent to police citizens. The victims were Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Allison Beth Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer. Please put these pictures on posters in the cities occupied by the National Guard to remind them of the consequences.
aug 26, 2025, 8:09 am • 2 0 • view
#TRUTH! #FACTS! #REALITY!
aug 26, 2025, 7:03 am • 2 0 • view
aug 26, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I think a firing squad would have higher ratings.
aug 26, 2025, 7:58 am • 1 0 • view
🪳🌮🤡 we have audio of him saying he likes them as young as 12 years old. How can anyone look the other way. 🤮 Release the #EpsteinTrumpFiles m.youtube.com/shorts/RISMN...
aug 26, 2025, 7:43 am • 0 0 • view
Let's remember why America was founded in the first place. Seems like it's time once again.
aug 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Forcing an inevitable outcome sooner than later he didn't anticipate. SO DON'T BE SURPRISE if soon #TraitorTrump & his #CriminalAntiConstitutionalAdministration by #MilitaryConstitutionalOath are remove as a threat & #EnemiesOfTheState in defending our democracy, American citizens & Constitution 👇👇👇
aug 26, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
He's starting saying he thinks the American people want a dictator. If he says it often enough without sufficient pushback, the citizens will start believing it and allow it. Lawsuits take too long, if they work at all. Voting will be too late, if it happens. Haven't seen significant resistance yet
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 am • 0 0 • view