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@garthb42

Question everything. Especially Fox News. Facts are facts and truth is truth, but my opinions are my own. No DMs. I follow back after vetting.

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Garth
Garth@garthb42·
Anyone else notice that MAGAs went from “it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic” to “the courts must not interfere with the will of the people!” Wonder what changed?
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Rep. Mike Levin
Rep. Mike Levin@RepMikeLevin·
No president in modern history has used the office to enrich himself the way Donald Trump has. That's not a political opinion. It’s the conclusion of ethics watchdogs who have spent their careers watching this stuff. The crypto ventures. The foreign deals with the Saudis, the Qataris, the Emiratis. The $400 million Qatari jet. The $90 million in media settlements. The gold golf balls from the Japanese. This is the man who told you he was going to clean up Washington. For this President, the presidency isn’t about protecting our democracy or the public trust. It’s about turning the highest office in the land into a personal cash register, and he’s been doing it from day one.
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Governor Newsom Press Office (parody)
DEAR MR. TRUMP, THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION TO THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE COMMITTEE. WHILE WE REVIEW YOUR "LIVING IN HELL" STATEMENT OF LOVE AND PEACE, WE SUGGEST YOU APPLY TO THE INTERNATIONAL COURT AT THE HAGUE. YOU ARE EXACTLY WHO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.
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Republicans against Trump
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump·
MTG on Trump: “He has gone insane…Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.”
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Garth
Garth@garthb42·
@bravohorn1 @FrankenforIowa And you think the Major without any relevant experience is smarter than all of the Generals he’s been firing? The least qualified Secdef in modern history.
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Kirby Horn
Kirby Horn@bravohorn1·
@FrankenforIowa UGH, another democrat who thinks he's smarter than the magnificent patriots we have leading this country today. Spare me:
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Admiral Mike Franken
Admiral Mike Franken@FrankenforIowa·
The Army's new Chief of Staff, LaNeve, is the guy who called to congratulate Trump at the inauguration. He then replaced a fired officer, then replaced a fired officer, and now replaced another fired officer. Get it, America?
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Garth@garthb42·
@PattiFunnie @michaeldweiss Unfortunately Biden had very few good choices. Since trump had arranged the deal, then withdrew far more of our troops than military leaders recommended. Then refused to share information with Biden during the transition. It’s actually impressive that the withdrawal was not worse
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Patti Mayonnaise
Patti Mayonnaise@PattiFunnie·
@michaeldweiss Biden left behind $85 billion in military equipment to the Taliban and over 100 military K9s he left abandoned at Kabul airport during his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and also killed 13 soldiers. Sooooo this op was well worth the $300 million
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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
Details about the rescue op for the U.S. Weapon Systems Officer, via a U.S. military official: "The mountain top area on the left is where the WSO was hiding (he ejected 5ish miles northwest of there). The right area is the makeshift landing strip where they landed 2 C-130s and had 4 MH-6 Little Birds. "One Little Bird flew to that mountain top area and rescued the WSO and brought him back to the landing strip. And of course the two C-130s' nose gears got stuck in the dirt. So after a few hours they had to bring in three AFSOC Dash-8s to fly out the rescued WSO and the 100 or so personnel involved in the op." 1/2
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Marc E. Elias
Marc E. Elias@marceelias·
Hey media-- Pam Bondi is not a victim -- she willingly carried out Trump's agenda to prosecute his political enemies and undermine free and fair elections. Todd Blache is not shouldering a "burden" or "walking a tightrope." He is a willing accomplice. Language matters.
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Garth@garthb42·
@Brodido3214 @adamscochran Yes. Who cares if airplanes start blowing up or being high jacked. As long as we can save a few bucks. Not that I believe we would actually save money
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Bob Boston
Bob Boston@Brodido3214·
@adamscochran This is a great idea. Why have the government involved? Let the airlines and airports hire private security. It has nothing to do with corruption is had to do with saving taxpayers money.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
One of his largest donors, who also contributed to Project 2025, included private prison operators. Many of them have introduced “Private Security Screening Services” for secure checkpoints. Project 2025 pushed to privatize TSA as a kickback to them. It’s all corruption for profit.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales

US President Donald Trump proposed to begin privatizing airport security operations handled by the Transportation Security Administration, in an effort to save money, per Reuters

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Marc E. Elias
Marc E. Elias@marceelias·
NEW: A group of voting rights organizations has filed the fifth lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to control mail-in voting procedures. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/vo…
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Molly Ploofkins
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins·
Lying Trump "No new wars" - LIE "I'll bring the cost of everything way down" - LIE "I'll have the war in Ukraine settled within 24 hours" - LIE "I inherited the worst economy in history" - LIE "Inflation is plummeting" - LIE "We have secured $18 trillion in investments" - LIE "More Americans are working today than at any time in history" - LIE "I ended 8 wars" - LIE "I cut drug prices by 1,500%" - LIE "I will cut federal spending by $2 trillion" - LIE "Groceries will be much cheaper right away" - LIE "No tax on tips" - LIE "I will protect Medicare and Social Security" - LIE "Prices will come down on Day One" - LIE "I will end the war in Gaza on Day One" - LIE "I will release the Epstein files" - LIE "I will slash energy and electricity prices by half" - LIE "No tax on overtime" - LIE "No tax on Social Security" - LIE "I will balance the federal budget" - LIE "We will make America affordable again" - LIE "I am the candidate of peace" - LIE
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
20 out of 23 Cabinet members have directed at least $30 million to benefit Donald Trump, through political contributions, property visits, stock holdings and donations to White House-related funds since 2023. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
It was bad enough when the Trump sons were expanding the Trump family real estate business abroad. But now, it looks like they're trying to profit from a war their dad started, through a drone company targeting deals with the US and foreign countries. apnews.com/article/trump-…
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
We filed a complaint on the military flyover of Kid Rock's home. The DOD IG must investigate whether the stunt violated any federal or DOD rules, how much taxpayer money was spent.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom·
Reports now that Hegseth oversold the war to Trump and underestimated Iran's willingness to fight back. It's almost as if he's unqualified for his job. Too bad the Senate didn't have confirmation hearings; those would have proven his manifest unsuitability to lead the Pentagon.
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Citizens for Ethics
Citizens for Ethics@CREWcrew·
The Justice Department's Inspector General has seemingly ignored 20 incidents of potential misconduct by the Trump administration, according to a letter written by a DOJ whistleblower's lawyers. nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/…
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FierceLionProv281
FierceLionProv281@FierceLionPrv28·
Trump's objectives on Iran have stayed consistent and are delivering America First results protecting families with real security and stable prices ahead. Krassenstein claims amnesia over a supposed different list of four but strength is crushing the threat exactly as stated. What exactly changed in winning for American paychecks?
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Ed Krassenstein
Ed Krassenstein@EdKrassen·
They think you have amnesia. Does anyone else remember an entirely different list of 4 objectives, or am I going crazy?
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Garth@garthb42·
@Rudeboytko @Nrgill1 @fyllo87 @Acyn The deal included international monitors who agreed they were, in fact, following the deal (as did our intelligence agencies). Only your liar in chief and his sycophants have claimed otherwise.
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Acyn
Acyn@Acyn·
Kayleigh: The Obama deal gave billions to Iran Jessica: We just gave them 14 billion in sanctions easing which is way more Watters: We used sanctions to keep the oil prices in check Jessica: I get it—when it’s you, everything’s great.
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Bishop Talbert Swan
Bishop Talbert Swan@TalbertSwan·
Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud. Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist. Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.” That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe. The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful. Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag.  This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power. And then having the audacity to say God said it.
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