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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social

👀 👀 👀 Steve Witkoff doesn't read his email, doesn't read intelligence briefings and "isn’t consistently engaged. He will pop in for a visit to Vladimir Putin, say a bunch of stuff, not tell anyone what really happened and then just fuck off to his life again." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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aug 29, 2025, 6:37 pm • 296 97

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James @sonofivan.bsky.social

His government job is strictly a side hustle for Stevie.

aug 29, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dee Mack @carly911.bsky.social

Because he’s a Putin puppet like Trump. It’s all about making daddy Putin happy for some reason maybe being compromised is one.

aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 4 0 • view
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social

This piece spurred Vance to write a long whiny response tweet

aug 29, 2025, 6:39 pm • 17 2 • view
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irmam.bsky.social @irmam.bsky.social

That’s probably true of all the billionaires in the cabinet—there for the occasional photo op and to deliver the latest prepared statement then back to their yachts and corporations.

aug 29, 2025, 6:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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the summer of babs @babsallday.bsky.social

i'm stunned that a guy whose entire career experience is in real estate is not good at international diplomacy

aug 29, 2025, 7:05 pm • 5 0 • view
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social

JD Vance accuses the Politico reporter, Felicia Schwartz, of allowing "herself to be used by deep state con men" or using "her position to willingly participate in a literal foreign influence operation." h/t @ericcolumbus.bsky.social

Post Conversation JD Vance @JDVance This story from Politico is journalistic malpractice. But it's more than that: it's a foreign influence operation meant to hurt the administration and one of our most effective members. Notice how all of the people attacking Steve are on background? That means it's two or three deep staters who are angry that Witkoff has succeeded where they've failed. You know what this
aug 29, 2025, 6:49 pm • 75 17 • view
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reitwoman.bsky.social @reitwoman.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social

Also this does not seem, as they say, all good on OpSec?

When Witkoff flies to Moscow, he uses his own plane and brings no policy experts. He is usually only accompanied by his chief of staff, a translator and diplomatic security, according to two people familiar with the matter and the second senior administration official, who added that he pays for all of it himself.
aug 29, 2025, 10:22 pm • 49 12 • view
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Karma @karma-is-a-b.bsky.social

Who's checking the plane before he leaves? When it comes back for bribes? Seriously!

aug 29, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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fisak.bsky.social @fisak.bsky.social

Exceeding the all good threshold on OpSec sounds inconvenient and perhaps unprofitable.

aug 29, 2025, 10:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social

So that plane has more bugs than the Emirate one, which will at least be swept and broken down? Good to know.

aug 30, 2025, 12:20 am • 2 0 • view
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la-crystal.bsky.social @la-crystal.bsky.social

The guy who publicly and arrogantly said, essentially, "Yes, I will lie to further my agenda." now says 'Trust me.' lol gtfoh

aug 30, 2025, 12:53 am • 5 0 • view
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midnight-ninja.bsky.social @midnight-ninja.bsky.social

One things in this screed I do believe and that is JD knows a thing or two about how to talk to a reporter on background.

aug 29, 2025, 9:38 pm • 3 0 • view
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katherinewatkins5.bsky.social @katherinewatkins5.bsky.social

Hilarious that JD posits his defence of W by saying he is successful!

aug 29, 2025, 10:06 pm • 5 0 • view
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princesslbi.bsky.social @princesslbi.bsky.social

The only thing worse than the current president would be this nimrod

aug 30, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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deniselouis.bsky.social @deniselouis.bsky.social

We all can't wait for smarmy JD to get his comeuppance.

aug 29, 2025, 9:54 pm • 4 0 • view
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craiger02.bsky.social @craiger02.bsky.social

Must have been a good article, for once, from Politico. Also, 100% projection about Don’s bag man.

aug 29, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jack Carter Benjamin @jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social

Another example of how the Trump administration uses anonymous sourcing to their rhetorical advantage — “they won’t go on the record so they must be a lying member of the deep state”. No, they won’t go on the record because you’ll harass and threaten them if they did.

aug 29, 2025, 10:30 pm • 3 0 • view
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Baconfat @mwelsh1977.bsky.social

Deep state you say JD?

aug 29, 2025, 7:05 pm • 2 0 • view
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social

“Yeah, this administration just burned a spy, again, and we’ve sidelined the experts, but I don’t see why someone from Foggy Bottom or Russia House would go running to a reporter. Or why a she’d listen to them & their obviously true info, rather than a known liar trying to blame the pros.

aug 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 4 0 • view
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social

Also, setting aside the obvious face-plant of the Alaska meeting, why would you rely on Putin’s interpreter?! Have a shred of self respect, my guy!

aug 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 2 0 • view
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social

Circa 2016, when JD Vance was still telling the truth about Trump, Vance issued several warnings about Trump, calling him: America’s Hitler Unfit for our nation’s highest office A serial sexual assaulter If he were to be elected in November, 2016, we would see excess US deaths Vance was right.

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aug 29, 2025, 7:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social

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aug 29, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Styx&Stonz @clubsandrocks.bsky.social

Gutless, flip-flopping, pretend-hick J(ust) D(ie) Vance is accusing someone else of emulating his behavior? The problem is that we know #CouchCrooner is an opportunistic parasite, while Politico is a generally respected news source. I've never seen someone abandon truth and honor as quickly.

aug 30, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Tom Hilliard @tomh4.bsky.social

Hilarious that Vance insists that Witkoff’s big success is narrowing the issues to security guarantees and territorial concessions – the first blindingly obvious and the second forced on the agenda by Trump himself, apparently with Witkoff’s coaching.

aug 29, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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gracelesslady76.bsky.social @gracelesslady76.bsky.social

"Trust me" FUCK NO, DJ

aug 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 4 0 • view
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Canary in the Coal Mine @vaelis.bsky.social

As per usual the party of “I know you are but what am I” is accusing everyone else of the things that only they are guilty of.

aug 29, 2025, 7:09 pm • 4 0 • view
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Andy Knight @andyfknight.bsky.social

@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll

aug 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
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poivrotfarci.bsky.social @poivrotfarci.bsky.social

And he pronounces “Nobel Prize” as “noble prize”.

aug 30, 2025, 12:16 am • 1 0 • view
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MKY @mky603.bsky.social

Negotiating in ignorance. That is how the MAGAT Trump suck ups roll.

aug 29, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Bulcock @davidbulcock.bsky.social

This is fucking beautiful 😔

aug 30, 2025, 11:19 am • 1 0 • view
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WHILE AMERICA SLEPT @traitor45.bsky.social

And put bandaids on his knees

aug 31, 2025, 1:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Abby Koch @abbykoch.bsky.social

Totally normal

aug 29, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pjeanne97 @pjeanne97.bsky.social

lol this is the guy Vance is defending?

aug 29, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
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Julia @sdrose.bsky.social

There had to be at least one goldbrick in that morass of incompetence

aug 29, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view