“The damage Trump’s done by talking about w/drawing American power & acting in ways contrary to U.S. interests by causing our allies to back away from us—in hopes authoritarians will make [good] ‘deals’—is about as naive a FP approach as [one] can imagine.”—fmr AMB Bolton on Trump FP

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“Without a course correction, [Trump] may soon preside over the 1st negotiated defeat of a modern democracy at the hands of an aggressive autocracy in the heart of Europe—an area 🇺🇸 presidents have declared as vital to [our] nat’l interests for 80yrs.”—Fareed Zaharia on Ukraine

#StandWithUkraine🌻

Post “Quiet Piggy” the now-infamous AF-1 moment last Fri where Trump responded crudely to Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg News asking about Epstein—a subsequent OpenAI Sora meme music 🎶 track attributed to TayTay (aka Taylor Swift) captured da sentiment.

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From ‘Sieg Heil’ salutes to classifying the Nazi-era swastika, a fascism & white supremacy emblem—as “potentially divisive” to calling for political opponents to be HUNG…maybe it’s time🇺🇸thought more about who we are?

Do we step back from our global role—only to embrace hate at home?

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Beaverton, OR in 15 July 2025—Mahdi Khanbabazadeh (38), an Iranian national & his 🇺🇸 wife were awaiting green card approval after completing an interview w/immigration authorities—seems a crude ICE trend to target immigrants following legal American immigration procedures.

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“In our nation’s 246yr history, there’s never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump—he tried to steal the last election using lies➕violence to keep himself in power after voters rejected him…a real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters.”—#RIPCheney ☠️at 84 on 2020

VP JD Vance s**t talks predecessor—after taking 9 vacations w/his fam only 10-mos in office:

• Sugarbush VT—Mar
• Greenland—Mar
• Rome Italy+Vatican—Apr
• India—Apr
• Disneyland+San Diego CA—Jul
• Nantucket MA—Jul
• Miami River OH—Aug
• Cotswolds England+Scotland—Aug
• Israel—Oct

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“This was a real missed opportunity [by the CINC] to do the right thing…w/battle-tested [military] commanders.”—Leon Panetta, fmr SECDEF, CIA Dir & WH CoS as we confront China, Russia, N Korea, Iran—Trump & Hegseth are shortsightedly fixating on ‘culture wars’ & Michigan Ave ‘threats’
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