PetticoatSwashbucklr 🐺

Lmaooooo, I’m crying

Hegseth calling NATO to ask for Patriot missile batteries, interceptors and ships to open Strait of Hormuz:

I spent 13 years in counterintelligence and HUMINT. Let me explain why the government psyop operation on X is a problem. I'm not some random person speculating about intelligence operations. I spent 13 years in the United States Army doing counterintelligence and human intelligence work. Then another 7 years working for the government in related fields. I know how this works. When I tell you that military PSYOP personnel operating on a domestic social media platform is a serious problem, I need you to understand I'm not being hyperbolic. What PSYOP actually does: Psychological Operations are designed to influence the emotions, attitudes, and behavior of target audiences. That's the literal job description. These are professionals trained to shape how people think, what they believe, and how they act. This is a legitimate function — in foreign theaters. PSYOP exists to influence foreign populations in areas where the US military operates. It's a tool of warfare and foreign policy. The problem: It's not supposed to be used domestically. There's a reason for this. The Smith-Mundt Act historically prohibited the government from directing propaganda at American citizens. The idea was simple: the US military and intelligence community should not be in the business of psychologically manipulating the American public. That's what authoritarian governments do. That's what we criticized the Soviet Union for. That's what we point to when we call countries "unfree." What's happening now: US military psychological operations personnel are now embedded in the platform that tens of millions of Americans use as a primary news and information source. The "free speech" platform. The one that was supposed to be the alternative to government-influenced big tech. Let me be clear about what this means: The same people who are trained to run influence campaigns on foreign populations — to change what they think, to manipulate their behavior, to shape their perception of reality — are now operating on a platform used primarily by Americans. The irony is suffocating: The MAGA crowd screamed for years about "government censorship" and "deep state control" of social media. Elon Musk bought Twitter explicitly to "free" it from government influence. And now? Literal military psychological warfare specialists are running operations on the platform. And MAGA is fine with it. Because it's THEIR government now. THEIR psyop. This is what I was trained to recognize: In my years doing counterintelligence, part of my job was identifying foreign influence operations. Recognizing when a population was being manipulated. Understanding the techniques. I know what a domestic influence operation looks like. I know the signs. I know the methods. And I'm watching it happen in real-time to my own country, being cheered on by people who think they're "free thinkers" while consuming content curated by military psychological operations specialists. It doesn't matter if you agree with the current administration. Today it's your team running the psyop. Tomorrow it won't be. The infrastructure you're cheering for will be used against you eventually. That's how this works. That's why we had rules against it. You don't give the government the power to psychologically manipulate the domestic population just because you like the current president. That power doesn't go away when the next administration takes over. Wake up. You're not free thinkers. You're targets. And you're thanking them for it.

@GrumpyMAGA @EdWhelanEPPC The USPS is an independent agency. It is self funded.

@EdWhelanEPPC The Executive branch runs the USPS. So mail-in ballots have to ab8de by the rules of the USPS and the Executive branch if they chose to use the USPS to deliver ballots or they can fund an alternate solution which Trump could refuse funds for and they'd be on their own. Checkmate.

It is impossible for states to “disobey” an executive order. An executive order is a vehicle by which a president directs executive-branch officials how to administer existing law. Trump cannot “mandate” how states administer their absentee-ballot laws. Insofar as the EO will threaten to withhold federal funds, Trump will need a statutory basis for imposing that condition. (And if he has one, why hasn’t he acted before now?)

@EdWhelanEPPC I can see the court arguments now. So can the USPS control delivery of election mailers? Publications that are liberal leaning? Solicitations of contributions to liberal causes?

@milkchaser @EdWhelanEPPC Multiple states already do this

@EdWhelanEPPC Can he not direct the USPS to keep a strict count of ballots by enumerating and tagging each one? That would allow us to know the bounds of the votes by end of day on Election Day.

@MikeLevin Absolutely amazing! Trump is not lying, for once. Rule by "Law and Order" is not the same thing as "Rule of Law". He supports, "I make the laws and everyone follows the orders". He opposes the Rule of Law.

If Trump and Stephen Miller’s immigration crackdown was really about law and order, why did Trump’s DOJ drop 23,000 criminal investigations this year? Embezzlement. Elder abuse. Investment fraud. All declined before a judge could hear a single case. Meanwhile, DOGE claimed to be rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But more than 900 cases of federal program and procurement fraud went ignored, more than triple the rate of any recent president. This is not law and order. It is selective enforcement in service of a political agenda. Watch what they do, not what they say. propublica.org/article/trump-…

@JamieBonkiewicz @glen_55 He's going to TACO. Say we are pulling out and the rest of the world has to fix the mess he created.

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address: • It’s Biden’s fault • 48 hours • Two weeks • Some incoherent gibberish • We’ve won • We are way ahead of schedule • It’s a little excursion • We have obliterated them • We’ve knocked out all their ships • I could open up the Strait of Hormuz • Go get your own oil • They gave us a present • NATO are cowards • Something about Nuclear weapons • Allies are useless • We need allies • Nobody’s ever seen anything like it • Fake news • DEMOCRATS • Obama • More gibberish • I know more than the generals • Greatest foreign policy ever Am I missing anything?

The President is unwilling to take the time to read his Presidential Daily Briefing to actually understand what is happening in Iran. Instead, his handlers have him watching highlight reels of big explosions like a child.  This is the ignorant, impulsive and narcissistic man who rushed us into a war without a plan, a strategy, an objective, or any realistic expectation of the means and methods of retaliation.   Low information president —> low information decisions —> devastating outcome for the country.

Trump just had the State Dept send $1.25 billion (with a b) to his "Board of Peace" but Nick Shirley out here talking about daycare fraud. You MAGA people are absolute, motherfucking morons

This is corruption, pure and simple. Michael Flynn pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI. He was pardoned by Trump. A federal judge then threw out his civil lawsuit for failing to meet basic legal standards. Now Trump’s DOJ is handing him $1.2 million of your money anyway. No court found he was wronged. This is not justice. It’s a taxpayer-funded reward for political loyalty.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/…

@sentdefender @PrincessBravato Fuck this loser jackass.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s Treasury Department is planning to add his signature to all denominations of the United States Dollar moving forward, which will mark the first time in history that the sitting president’s signature will appear on American Currency, with Trump’s signature expected to replace that of the U.S. Treasurer, Brandon Beach, sitting alongside his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s, several sources including Beach himself have confirmed to Vanity Fair.

What's your current view of President Trump's job performance (March 2026)? 👍Good or 👎Bad

Trolls are out, criticizing the Mueller Report and its findings; saying Mueller accomplished nothing. Read the facts first. Then decide for yourself. Here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevance…

@TrumpWarRoom His right leg still doesn't work.

@TrumpWarRoom It's really good to see you guys embrace your homoerotic fantasies in public. Welcome out!

The fact that 90% of MAGA supports Trump tells you how dangerous MAGA is. The truth is our Republic can NOT co-exist with a anti-democracy party like MAGA. We must politically defeat and dismantle MAGA. That is how we SAVE our democracy!

@BanUnsweetTea The idiots voted for him thought the government didn't work now get to see what it's like to have a government that actually doesn't work and they're not going to like it. Privilege of a hell of a drug.

Anyone who thought creating the largest internal security force in the country, answering only to the president, was for anything else hasn’t been paying attention.