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01-07-2025, 10:02 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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Bluesky is like the upside down clown world of X
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I'm not sure what you mean by that, but I rather like Clowns.
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01-07-2025, 11:59 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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01-08-2025, 11:46 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
I'm so glad he is working to make Twitter a more positive place.
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01-08-2025, 11:52 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
He’s picking up on Trump’s trolling methods. But in fairness, I’ve started going to X and a lot of people have been calling Musk a retrard due to his Aspergers. Not a an excuse by any means but he takes his share of abuse.
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01-09-2025, 08:25 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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01-10-2025, 04:20 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
Teflon Don wins again.
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01-10-2025, 04:38 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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He'll pardon himself on Day 1.
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01-10-2025, 06:07 PM
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here to bore you with pictures
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Re: Good King Trump
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He'll pardon himself on Day 1.
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He will, even though it's a state conviction and he can't.
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01-15-2025, 10:17 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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The UK government will not sign off a deal to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until Donald Trump’s administration has had a chance to consider the future of the joint military base, Downing Street has confirmed.
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UK stalls Chagos Islands deal until Trump administration can 'consider details' | Chagos Islands | The Guardian
The story of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean and its people is pretty epic. Europeans had no idea the place existed until the early 1500s. The Brits brought people there as slaves to work plantations in the 18th Century. As slavery goes, the enslaved in this particular arrangement fared pretty well. Chagos is a tropical paradise, and the companies that ran the plantations never had enough personnel to impose brutality on the population. If the overseers got too far out of line, the populace would simply kill them. So the people ended up with a substantial degree of freedom, property rights, etc. Generations of families lived good lives there.
Of course, after WWII, the British - like any sclerotic, elderly former despot who's now just a shadow of his former self - were unwilling to give up their "Empire" entirely. They hung onto Chagos as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
The Americans, who always compete hard with the Brits for the title of Most Massive Piece of Shit in stories like this, became interested in locating a military base on the Diego Garcia, the largest Chagossian island. The Americans gave the Brits submarine-based nukes for the privilege of building the base. The Americans wanted the island cleared of inhabitants, but didn't want the publicity associated with depopulation. (The U.S. Navy was asshole-deep in bad publicity over their rampant fuckery re: the Puerto Rican island Vieques.) The Brits were more than happy to oblige. It started with "temporary" relocation to places like Mauritius that became permanent.
There's a truly delightful tale about how during the latter stages of the depopulation, the Chagossians weren't allowed to take any animals with them. Too big a logistical problem for the Brits, ya see. Most of these families had dogs who served as both family pets and working dogs. The Americans certainly didn't want a bunch of wild dogs running around on the island, so they offed them. As the Einsatzgruppen figured out decades before, shooting living beings to death is unwieldy and takes a big psychological toll on on the killers, so they moved on from shooting the dogs to rounding them up and gassing them with vehicle exhaust. Lovely.
The Brits' treatment of the Chagossians after exiling them was legendarily awful. The International Court of Justice ruled (non-bindingly, of course) in 2019 that the Brits are obliged to bring an end to their involvement in the BIOT as soon as possible.
There's an agreement in place, as yet unsigned, for the Brits to turn over Chagos to Mauritius, which gained its independence in the late 1960s, and receive a 99-year lease for the land on which the American base is located. That deal is apparently on hold now until the incoming Pussy Ass Bitch administration gets a chance to review it.
The U.S. base on Diego Garcia, which opened in the early 1970s, was and remains a major staging area for military operations in that part of the world. And although the U.S. has never admitted it, it's beyond any rational dispute that we tortured prisoners there during the Shrub II Iraq war.
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01-16-2025, 05:55 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
Quite the collection of DUI hires coming up.
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01-16-2025, 07:49 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
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If the overseers got too far out of line, the populace would simply kill them.
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01-16-2025, 08:05 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
Carrie Underwood lost a little over 10% of her Spotify listeners in one day.
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01-17-2025, 10:21 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Good King Trump
If Vance wasn't real, you'd say haha AI just can't get people quite right.
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01-17-2025, 10:45 AM
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forever in search of dill pickle doritos
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I love how the BBC compares it to his mugshot
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01-17-2025, 08:08 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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"resentful".
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Ding ding ding.
Those 'Daddy's coming home' lines from a couple months back were just that.
'Daddy's bringing his belt and gonna punish everyone.'
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01-18-2025, 07:42 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
Story I heard, is it true? When he was in grade skewl Donald T. Rump rode the short bus.
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01-18-2025, 02:11 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
Is that what they’re calling limousines now?
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01-19-2025, 12:33 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
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01-21-2025, 07:39 AM
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01-21-2025, 06:05 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
A quick screenshot of my first look at the news this AM
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01-21-2025, 06:18 PM
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Re: Good King Trump
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01-23-2025, 03:49 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
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01-23-2025, 06:13 AM
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Re: Good King Trump
If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ. — Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@brcremer.bsky.social) January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Also, if you get mad and lash out when someone calmly suggests you should try to be kind or have empathy for those less fortunate, you are probably a sociopath. — The March Hare (@therealmarchhare.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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