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Bon Bon John

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#SundowningInAmerica #DementiaDonnie #NoWar #NoBootsOnTheGround Trump is fundraising off the death of soldiers ffs.
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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · Jan 22

Excellent substack post by @pkrugman.bsky.social asking important questions:

"How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?"

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It’s Sundowning in America
A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose
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10 Photos of Donald Trump Making Funny Faces (and Our Attempts to Describe Them) - Newsweek

A short post. Today doesn’t seem like a day for charts and number-crunching.

I had never heard the term “sundowning” before it happened to my own father, yet it’s a fairly common syndrome. In his last few months my father remained lucid and rational — remained himself — during daylight hours. Once the sun went down he deteriorated, becoming confused, paranoid and aggressive.

It’s terrible to watch sundowning in someone you love. But that’s a personal tragedy – not a national or global one. It’s an entirely different matter when the president of the United States is sundowning — a president surrounded by malign sycophants who tell him whatever he wants to hear and indulge his every whim, no matter how destructive.

For good reasons, it’s normally bad practice to pronounce on someone’s mental health from afar. Some of us still remember when right-wing pundits liked to call anyone critical of George W. Bush mentally ill. But after reading the letter that Trump just sent to the prime minister of Norway (Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed that it’s genuine) there should be no doubt that we have a president who is suffering a real detachment from reality:

Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.

Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.

I have done more for NATO than any othe…

March 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM

Mommycbs aka Cathy

@mommycbs.bsky.social

#NoBootsOnTheGround
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March 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM

barbiejo1.bsky.social

@barbiejo1.bsky.social

Send Barron 1st!
#NoBootsOnTheGround
#SendBarronFirst

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 10

Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"

March 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM

R Michelle Urdang

@michelleurdang.bsky.social

Trump and Netanyahu Cannot Bury
the Epstein Files Under Iran's Rubble

#NoBootsontheGround #TrumpsIranWar
#EpsteinFiles #WarCrimes #WarRubble

Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · Mar 13

BREAKING: BOOTS ON THE GROUND. The pentagon is sending a Marine Expeditionary Unit of up to 2,500 to Iran. 1/ www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East

The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approve...

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March 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM

Lisa

@pinwheel777.bsky.social

That's because he's sitting in a nice, comfy chair behind the desk in the Oval Office!😈😈😈👎👎👎 #Trump #Impeach #War #Iran #Troops #Nobootsontheground #Congress #Oil #Gas #StraitofHormuz

March 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM

Lyndy D.

@lyndybloomer.bsky.social

#NOBootsOntheGround

March 20, 2026 at 5:05 PM

Lisa

@pinwheel777.bsky.social

End this EVIL, UNJUSTIFIED WAR that should never have been started!😈😈 #Iran #War #Trump #Congress #MiddleEast #Civilians #Children #Troops #Nobootsontheground

March 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

Government by, for and of CHAOS.

#TrumpWarCrimes #TheHague #EpsteinClassWar #TrumpKillsChildren #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #NoBootsOnTheGround #25thAmendment

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'Unethical and disgusting': Growing questions about well-timed trades ahead of U.S. military action

YouTube video by MS NOW

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March 31, 2026 at 1:06 PM

Patrick

@blackhawkphoto.bsky.social

Oh yeah,
#NoBootsOnTheGround!!

March 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM

Zee.Nurse.(NoKings).Ratchet🍀🇮🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸

@nurseratchet2u.bsky.social

Deployed to Albania in 1999, flew SAR missions with KFOR, and I've seen the total destruction of an entire society... 👇

🔖He's following Bibi's lead, because he now knows that's the only way that he can declare a national emergency and cancel the elections, so he thinks ...

#NoBootsOnTheGround 🇺🇸

March 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM

Sands of time

@brierfieldpoet.bsky.social

The United States will now consider the removal of Donald Trump in order to bring peace and stability to the Middle East

#foreverwar #unitedstates #fakenews #falsenews #negotiations #peace #war #conflict #middleeast #iran #nobootsontheground #regimechange

March 27, 2026 at 8:19 AM

Bestemor

@susabelle84.bsky.social

TRUMP IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND PEOPLE ARE DYING BECAUSE OF IT!!!!! IF THATS NOT A REASON FOR THE 25th AMENDMENT I DONT KNOW WHAT IS!!!!! #NoBootsOnTheGround👹😡🤬🤡💩🤯😱🖕🖕🖕

March 21, 2026 at 11:46 PM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

War crimes can’t hide Epstein Class sex crimes..

Trump and Hegseth are war criminals!

#TrumpWarCrimes #HegsethWarCrimes #TheHague #EpsteinClassWar #TrumpKillsChildren #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #NoBootsOnTheGround #25thAmendment

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hegseth’s embrace of vice signaling is most obvious in his efforts to combine his adolescent, gung-ho excitement about war with Christian prayer, which results in a rancid mess that should offend believers and nonbelievers alike.

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Pete Hegseth Is Vice Signaling

The defense secretary is trolling America.

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April 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM

Manuel A. García

@ftpmag.bsky.social

Preserving #history & discarding #lies.

#Resist

#nokings #nobombs #nobootsontheground

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March 28, 2026

Almost exactly a year ago, on March 27, 2025, President Donald J.

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March 29, 2026 at 4:10 PM

Lisa

@pinwheel777.bsky.social

As the war with Iran rages on, my prayers are with the many that have to say goodbye to their loved ones!💔💔 #Music #Iran #War #Trump #Love #Peace #Pray #Prayer #God #Children #Protect #Song #Troops #Army #Navy #AirForce #Marines #Hope #Nobootsontheground

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Someone Watching Over You For Me by Main South

YouTube video by Main South c/o Michael Foy & Ryan Bellis

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March 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

Trump and Hegseth are war criminals!

#TrumpWarCrimes #HegsethWarCrimes #TheHague #EpsteinClassWar #TrumpKillsChildren #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #NoBootsOnTheGround #25thAmendment #ImpeachAndRemove

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'Pretty worried': Stocks rally despite ongoing Strait of Hormuz blockade

YouTube video by MS NOW

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April 1, 2026 at 10:34 AM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

War crimes can’t hide Epstein Class sex crimes..

Trump, Hegseth & the military officers linked to Iran School bombing have war crime charges awaiting them!

#NoBootsOnTheGround #TheHague #WorldWarEpstein #TrumpKillsChildren #TrumpWarCrimes #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #25thAmendment

March 31, 2026 at 3:40 AM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

War crimes can’t hide Epstein Class sex crimes..

Trump and Hegseth are war criminals!

#TrumpWarCrimes #HegsethWarCrimes #TheHague #EpsteinClassWar #TrumpKillsChildren #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #NoBootsOnTheGround #25thAmendment

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'Damage is immense': Even if Trump pulls out of Iran, serious consequences remain

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April 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

War crimes can’t hide Epstein Class sex crimes..

Trump and Hegseth are war criminals!

#TrumpWarCrimes #HegsethWarCrimes #TheHague #EpsteinClassWar #TrumpKillsChildren #SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising #NoBootsOnTheGround #25thAmendment

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‘Complete corruption’: Disturbing questions grow around Hegseth broker's attempted pre-war trades

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April 1, 2026 at 10:14 AM

Boston_Banned_Rebel

@blue-coach.bsky.social

Pudding brain Trump obsesses over his goddamn ballroom as thousands of service members are sent to a war zone..

#TheHague #TrumpWarCrimes #WorldWarEpstein #TheFelonsWar #TrumpKillsChildren#SendBarron #TrumpWarDeadFundraising
#25thAmendment #NoBootsOnTheGround

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OMG: Trump HUMILIATES himself on Air Force One

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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March 30, 2026 at 4:52 AM

Lisa

@pinwheel777.bsky.social

HOW MANY MORE INNOCENT LIVES WILL BE LOST?💔🇺🇲🇮🇷💔

TRUMP'S UNAUTHORIZED WAR HAS GONE TOO FAR!😈👎

Iran’s foreign minister “ Iran has no hesitation in defending itself and is prepared to continue the war for as long and as far as necessary.” #Iran #War #Trump #Congress #Nobootsontheground #StraitofHormuz