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Heidi

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21. It's interesting that they don't have the guts

Reply to Boomerproud (Reply #19)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 10:30 AM

Aug 2025

to act against those they *really* hate, like Presidents Obama, Biden, and Clinton, SCOTUS Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, et al, so they’re plucking lower-hanging “fruit.” Because they’re essentially gutless, tyranny will continue to trickle down, with the most vulnerable targeted first.

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The world is watching this latest (Bolton) escalation of tyranny. [View all] Heidi Aug 2025 OP

I guess they think making the place so shitty that nobody wants to come here is solving the immigration problem Walleye Aug 2025 #1

Crazy, right? Heidi Aug 2025 #2

I hope your husband knows that many Americans are in shock as well. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #3

Thank you. He does know that. Heidi Aug 2025 #6

Yes of course. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #7

I hope we don't come to that. Heidi Aug 2025 #8

Once the military controls the people at gunpoint, they can do anything. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #9

I think I kind of understand. Heidi Aug 2025 #10

Yes it is way past embarrassment now, it is now humiliation, shame, fear. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #12

your ETA nails it LymphocyteLover Aug 2025 #15

Well, there appears to be a purge going in Russia, too. surfered Aug 2025 #4

Not yet anyway. (nt) Heidi Aug 2025 #17

The question is who is next? Historic NY Aug 2025 #5

It could be any of us. Trickle-down tyranny and all. Heidi Aug 2025 #11

They want to get Hillary and Obama. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #13

No criticism of the toddler king will go unpunished, Heidi Aug 2025 #18

Like Russia, China, North Korea, one word or look and you get taken away forever. Irish_Dem Aug 2025 #20

I suspect that Laura Loomer, the Madame DeFarge of MAGA, has a list dedl67 Aug 2025 #16

just reading Bluesky on this case and it is very scary... overall things are very very bad LymphocyteLover Aug 2025 #14

I'm no fan of Bolton, but if he were a real national security threat requiring that kind of raid, why wasn't he taken Heidi Aug 2025 #22

also do we know anything about the warrant they (hopefully) used? LymphocyteLover Aug 2025 #23

I think one of the few ways to access federal search warrants, Heidi Aug 2025 #24

We ought to start a "who's next" poll. Boomerproud Aug 2025 #19

It's interesting that they don't have the guts Heidi Aug 2025 #21