Wishing everyone a happy Fourth of July!
249 years since we declared independence from a king, the work of living up to our founding promise is more important than ever - and it calls on each of us to do what we can for our country.
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Judge J. Michael Luttig had a wonderful suggestion on how to honor today's 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Every household should take a moment and read out loud,The Declaration of Independence.
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I can’t celebrate. I am ashamed to be an American
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Thanks.
#EndTheTrumpRegime
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241 years since we turned it over to a felon/wannabe dictator.
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Fuck that FELON POS and anyone that celebrates what he did to America today! How can a nation celebrate when their POTUS says he “hates” half of the country?
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Good luck!
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First need to get rid of the swamp monster.....until then, there is nothing to celebrate when a Nazi regime is running the country (and yes, it will get worse)
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Happy 4th? Really?
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On this 4th of July a look back through history doesn't hurt. let's remember Edward R. Murrow. His words have never been more needed. Ever wonder why both Dems and Repubs call Bernie a communist?
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I find it to be a very unhappy Fourth. Especially to find a tax payer funded email that pretends the Horrible Huge Hypocrisy was passed. We live under a black cloud. Holding my breath while time passes.
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Now... youtu.be/kB5XXn0eKow?...
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This is more than a little muted given our current circumstances…
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I'm m sorry, Mr. Buttering can't celebrate this year. Too much. Is being stripped away....
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I am experiencing a day of anger and deep sadness at the dripping oozing hypocrisy and the greed and cruelty of America’s Independence Day. So, not today, sir. Please let me know when we are a free country. That will be about when America’s Christians start emulating Jesus.
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Eat a taco!!
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My flag is upside down until the felon is out of office and justice returns.
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It’s evident our country is over. It was a wonderful dream until 2024…
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Happy 4th @petebuttigieg.bsky.social to you + yours!🚫👑🇺🇸✊
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We didn't make it
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There’s ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to celebrate! We don’t even have a Party that’s effectively fighting for us! We have NO DEM LEADERSHIP! We have NO ONE in the Party organizing and taking the lead to fight this! House wouldn’t even band together to vote YES on a symbolic motion to impeach! Sinking ship!
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I will NOT celebrate. Freedom no longer exists in America.
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I appreciate the thought, but today, "happy" is beyond me.
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There's no celebrating this country right now.
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Thank you tho.
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I don't feel happy or independent.
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Sad to say but nothing to celebrate, as long as this country is allowed to kidnap people off the street and disappear them.
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If MAGA cult members would disappear off earth , we’d be a better place.
Some of those are family members but they suck & have turned on me for NOTHING but psychological warfare. They’ve been brainwashed to hate me after 58 yrs of me loving them beyond what they could ever. America FAILED us all
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That's all you've got? And you want to be President?
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It’s just another day, now, isn’t it? Nothing to be happy about today.
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So what are our paid elected reps going to do for Independence and for our country and to take back our White House all this time and there's no action just talk talk talk empty talk words are cheap
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Well the king is in place but wears no clothes so good job America in 249 years we're right back where we started and worse
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What’s with all these politicians wishing a “happy 4th”?
Have respect, we are in mourning.
P.s. You are still awesome. Just please stop trying to spin this.
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Nice that we almost made it 250
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We Hold These Truths
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The land you stole from the native indians is not yours.
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DEMOCRATS need to start yesterday telling America what is in the BUB = Big Ugly Bill! No distractions. Walk and chew gum at the same time. Run a Safe White Man for President! No running candidates that are "Is USA ready for ____________?".
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Will work on it. Give me a couple days. 😖☹️
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Happy NO healthcare day to all MAGA DIPSHITS
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There is nothing to celebrate. The USA is not free and never has been. This is a country built on genocide & slavery. We have never been a democracy. It's way past time to wake the fuck up. We can turn our country into the nation we want it to be, but we will have to fight to do it.
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Not this year Pete!
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Went to the Museum of the American Revolution this week. Made me realize how young and hard fought our gov’t is. Revolutionary War ended in 1783, 100 years later, the Civil War, and then world wars, civil rights,l. It all seems very young and fragile now.
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Love you, Pete, and no disrespect to you, but fuck the fourth!
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Our work is just beginning #NoKings #NoConcentrationCamps
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How can this be a "happy Fourth of July"?? There isn't much to be happy about as we watch in horror as a felon and his MAGAts gleefully destroy our nation along with many innocent immigrant's families and lives. I won't celebrate Independence Day until the orange Dictator is dead and gone.
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I just don’t feel it this year.. I feel sad , lonely, left in the dark , thrown away all because of a man who could care less about the people. I wish him the worst karma
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What's so sad on this 4th is the realization that so many MAGAts who feel threatened by a changing world are willing to give up independence & democracy to a new king for some false sense that they can reverse the changing tide of time. Good luck with that. We must move forward to a better USA!
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My POV: Today, 4th of July, 2025, is a day of INFAMY. Today I will remember & mourn the GOP's cruel treasonous betrayal of ALL in the USA, of all non-mega wealthy US citizens for their own personal-party's >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wealth.
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Hard to celebrate today.
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Nice words. Aint gonna work any more.
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Love ya Pete but today I’m in mourning…
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Lead us Sir.
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I'm feeling pretty powerless right now, Mr. Buttigieg.
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trump's DEATH SPIRAL IS PULLING US INTO F_A_S_C_I_S_M! 25th AMENDMENT/IMPEACH!!!👇 youtu.be/SMtOUwYH1lw?...
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It's just not a happy one this year. I'm watching comedy all weekend to get out of this funk
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Why didn't you start repairing air traffic control? Now Duffy gets the credit?
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you pretend to be a leader -- but, what kind of fight are you leading....a fight to get more folks to contribute to Dem coffers...or to stand around with a sign where a permit allows it....not even calling for civil disobediance....let alone a strike...get inspired.
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When cabinet nominees stopped being required to pass security clearances the Dems in the senate should have shut it all down. That should have been EVERYTHING. There should have been a public fight and SHAMING. "What the hell are you hiding? She's a Syrian agent, he's putin's lapdog, he's BOTH"
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8647 #DefianceUntilDeath
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Yeah, and we didn’t make it to 250 years in this democracy as we are now in An autocracy ! Once they pass that bill yesterday that was the end of it! RIP American democracy! So this July 4 is more like a funeral!
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Not celebrating this year. Mourning the loss of freedoms.
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Fuck the King. Tell the truth about the Founding Fathers. I want to see how Christians clutch their pearls over the Ben Franklin was cozy with the Hellfire Club.
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I wish I could be as optimistic. I don’t feel like celebrating this place right now.
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I sure hope the significance of celebrating our 250th anniversary will be the US once again celebrating our Independence but this time from Donald Trump and MAGA. Time to put MAGAts where they belong, in the trash bin.
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To you and your lovely family as well. 💙
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Today we mourn how far our country has fallen.
Tomorrow, we get up and we fight.
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Celebrating America…?
How I wish. 😞
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Get out if you are able. It’s over. No more illusions, please
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America, remember what we stand here for. 🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸 fb.watch/AEqRxveq6m/?...
https://fb.watch/AEqRxveq6m/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
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Only certain people did, the rest still had a master.
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Sir with all due respect, and I like you very much! There is nothing to celebrate today there is no happy 4th of July!
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This is the 1st 4th before 86ing the 47th.
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the budget battles over, now will dems commit to vocal anti racist populist dem socialism to secure our liberal democracy future or yall gonna keep your work buddies happy until we're in their camps?
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Wish the people were ready for an extremely bright, well spoken, young man who could lead the country to recover its former worth.
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What we can do is work to defeat the radicalized and #corrupt Republican Party - enablers of a would-be king - in every election in every corner of this country.
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So quick question? What the fuck are we celebrating today? Cause last I check I don't give a fuck. With all the bullshit that's going on in this country and the world I seem to not give 2 fucks about this shitty holiday if you want to call that.
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VOLUNTEER TO TAKE LEADERSHIP AND stand against the MAGA SS, Gestapo and SA ( Brown Shirts) they are Bragging about. They will come for anyone that does not toe the line: "which right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk tweeted will give MAGA “a standing army.” " newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.
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Time to come out and lead the resistance: They have just funded the SS, gestapo and the SA and they are going to come for us different people. and they are bragging about it: "which right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk tweeted will give MAGA “a standing army.”" newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.
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When do we start reaching for the freedoms that each and every human deserves to have now that it’s clear those freedoms won’t ever be won under our current governmental structure? We deserve to seize freedom in our lifetime, not to make people who come after us die for them since we didn’t.
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Yes! Good trouble from now until the problem is solved!
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It’s not happy. It’s tyrannical.
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Celebrating this holiday is now only a memory🙁
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Save us Pete! We need a real leader in the White House as opposed to the Bribery King we have now...
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Pete, much respect to you and your work. I hear your message. Frankly many of us feel there is little reason to celebrate when the country we knew is being turned into a fascist failed state with little we see being done to stop it.
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Fuck you. You still have your body autonomy and right to vote among other things the right trash want to take from us women.
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No more flying flag unless upside down. No taking the high road. Dem party leaders weren't aggressive enough, now our rights have/are disappearing. Since people like Merrick Garland were too chicken-shit to put trump in jail, party didn't protect voting integrity, USA is being destroyed day by day
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This is not a happy fourth and you know it. No true American will celebrate this country this year. Not while democrat leadership is failing while a tyrant runs rampant scaring a population from rising against him. Anyone celebrating 2025 America is a disgrace.
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Rest today, for tomorrow we begin anew.
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Based. Thanks.
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Also on this day it's sad to realize that the Pledge of Allegiance has become fiction because it ends
"...with liberty and justice for ALL."
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I am a witness to the United States of America From our Justice To our injustice From the greatness of the service of Selfless Leadership To the embarrassment of the self serving From the trappings of great wealth
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At 250 we'll do it again.
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What's to celebrate?
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I'm not celebrating the Fourth this year ... there's nothing to be happy about when your death has been approved by your own government ...
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No. RAGE is all I have for the 4th of July. We're not free until we're all free. Right now, the only free people in America are rich, straight, white men. America is Nazi occupied. There's not shit to be happy about!
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Sorry, there’s nothing happy in this day…
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It is hard to celebrate given the bill that has just passed. Nonetheless, this is how we are marking the day while vacationing in Italy.
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Nothing to celebrate.
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We’re in serious distress!!!
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Hey Pete: Read the room! There is NOTHING happy about today after the big BULLSHIT bill’s passing yesterday, Alligator Auschwitz being built in Florida and just another mass shooting in Chicago with four dead and fourteen injured. Elected Democrats should’ve fought harder a long time ago!!
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Now you have a mad king. Good luck with that.
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May we channel this energy, made more precise and inclusive. Thank you for all you do! m.youtube.com/watch?v=gkFx...
The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Today we mourn the death of our country, America!
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We almost made it to 250.
But she had a weird laugh.
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Pete, you and the democrats bear partial responsibility for this mess too, don’t gaslight people
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249yrs of COLONIZATION, GENOCIDES, THEFT, MURDER.
Promise to do what? Promise to do exactly what the English ran from? There wasn't just 1 king. There were many wearing crowns who brought us to this point. The USA NEEDS A 180 TO SURVIVE.
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Thx Pete But I’m not feeling it 😔
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Your boss failed and now we have a king. We're being led to the slaughter by weak fools like Chuck Schumer. When the shit hits the fan and shootouts start happening across the Nation who is going to stop it? America is headed for destruction.
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America died yesterday. RIP
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Seems silly to celebrate independence as this country funds a secret police force. Fuck the 4th!
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All fine and good, but I am not going to celebrate FOTUS signing off millions off of healthcare and giving billions to masked men taking people & now he wants them to also take citizens? I will celebrate when he’s no longer on earth.
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You cannot be serious with this post. The hatred & damage that continues to be perpetrated against BIPOC, disabled, veteran & immigrant communities are off the chain. Millions will lose their health insurance & possibly their lives due to Trump's policies. So, I don't give a da*n about the 4th.
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HOW? HE controls everything. There is no way for us to stop the horror.
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Looking good for monarchy restoration for the 250th!
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Not this year, Pete. Not this year.
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I’m trying Pete, I really am. I am also despondent.
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Love 'ya, Pete - but doesn't this kind of normalize impending fascism?
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And what can we do right now to stop this insanity. Ours reps stopped working for the people a long time ago. The things that have lead to this current regime should have been squashed a long time ago. But no greed has lead our leaders, at our peril. If we manage to get control, no status quo again
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Next year's Nuremberg rally is going to be something.....
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Fuck JULY 4TH and fuck this shithole we live in!
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When doe the civil war start? Any dates been set?
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Today is just Friday for a lot of us...
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Gather ye vets and make it so!
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Mein Kampf on his bed table Putin in his ear extorting US 360 m of US just lost OUR Freedom to Ice $45 b + A Ridiculous extortion payoff to Putin to destroy US Relax you'll pay for it His Gestapo has ALL your information everything about you uploaded to Palantir they know who and where you are
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Please be specific on what we can do....
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coup time wouldn't you say?
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And in year 249, a king usurped power.
The First American Republic has ended. July 4, 2024 was the last observance of anniversary of living ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
Can we overthrow the new dictator?
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Love ya, Pete, but that first sentence sounds dippy and oblivious, especially as the sick, aging, disabled and impoverished are terrified at what the future holds - and they're far from the only ones.
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A much needed reminder of why we celebrate today. Share it, especially with those folks on the right who have forgotten who we are.
www.telos.news/p/luttig-the...
The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny
Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.
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We’re wearing black today to mourn the death of our democracy. We chose to go mainly because I’ve got kids, and I’ve got a feeling that celebrations and happy memories are going to become a rare thing indeed. I wanted them to have a good memory. A reason to hold on and fight on. An image of hope
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While we're at it let's start celebrating Hitler's birthday too.
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Fuck the fourth of July. I don't celebrate shit about a fascist country. I don't celebrate a country who's military is chomping at the bit to turn it's guns on us citizens. I don't celebrate a country of 339 million do nothing slaves.
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It's not so happy, especially since yesterday's horrific bill passing. But, we will continue to fight this administration, and I know you will too.
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United States more than any other time in History needs a liberator like Pete Buttigieg now. Pete holds in his hands the Democracy the founding fathers created. Don't fear what is so needed in the Power of Pete. Who he sleeps with & loves does not define the man. Look no further than Melania.
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Always loved your optimism!
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Happy 4th of July to all Americans here and abroad . 🇺🇸🇺🇸💙🤍🩷🇺🇸🇺🇸
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There is nothing "happy" about this day. Not in the current climate. You and Dems in office are really quite tone deaf
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This is not the same 4th of July when our independence is being trashed like yesterdays news. Our country is spiraling further down to a historic moment many Americans never could have imagined. Right now there are confederate flags flying in a small march for this day. What does that tell you?
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Happy Irony Day
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The lifespan of empires is around 250 years. Do with that information as you please
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Sad we now have an evil (mobster) monster taking it all away!
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Du auch
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Happy just isn’t it today. Exhausted, SO angry, depressed, sad, confused, pensive, deliberate, nervous.
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What now Pete, we protest, we vote, we post truth and facts, we call our Representatives but the REPUBLICANS CAVE TO An OLIGARCH FUNDED TYRANT. So what now? We've lost control of FBI, CIA, Military aiding Deportations....so what? REVOLUTION BEGINNING TO FEEL INEVITABLE unless 2026 is Fair election.
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PROJECT 2026 is coming to OUST EVERY Repugnican in the House & Senate!
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I am not celebrating. Nothing about this day resembles what used to be. My heart breaks for the devastation that will be coming to our country. I chose to become a US citizen 30 some years ago… this is not the America I chose.
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What? Shoot the king?
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Idk dude, I think we've dropped the ball since then.
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Unfortunately we need to be free of the wannabe king now who is every bit as mad as the original one.
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What - specifically - does that mean? What - specifically - should we be doing? So many people say "We have to fight" & "We'll lose democracy unless we fight."
Fight HOW? WHEN? WHERE?
Our Dem leaders couldn't even win an election when Rs put Fascsim on the ballot. Did they even want to win?
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We need someone to lead us out of the wilderness. Is that someone you?
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Well said, as always.
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You need to be specific about what this bill does. And be ready for the AFP to come after you.
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Hard to celebrate when the GOP is trying to kill off the poor. Deport if you’re not a white male or a yes woman that sells her soul. I don’t recognize America
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The anodyne, vaguely hopeful stuff is wearing me out.
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"how to say something without saying anything"
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Only for the asshole in the Oval Office Torrey and turn this country back 249 years! It’s time to stand up and fight back even if it means another civil war! I’m praying that it doesn’t but here we are!!!!
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Thank you for standing up throughout this most critical. Crisis in our Nation . 👍💜🇺🇸
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What you need to be doing while working on your own campaign is get ANYONE with an ounce of fight in Alaska to start TODAY and flip Murkowskis seat. The iron is white hot, for the LOVE of all things HOLY pressure the weak spots with REAL fighters and take back the senate!
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Sir, it is anything BUT a Happy 4th of July...
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We must keep fight for our independence! And not trumps autocratic rule!
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Some of us are hoping you can help facilitate in getting our independence & world standing back!
Happy 4th to you & your family! Stay safe!
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There's no happy about today for most of us in this country.
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With all due respect, Pete, what exactly are you celebrating? I'm wearing black today.
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@petebuttigieg.bsky.social and so, after 249 years, here we are with every single thing we fought against.
anyone taking bets on whether we make it to 250?
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Love you, Pete Buttigieg. Happy 4th of July!
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Happy 4th 😔🗑️
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
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And for what! This man openly said what he'd do on day one and the media shoved it aside. The media pandered to this madman and belittled an honest hard working president because he had 1 bad debate because he was ill. The media gave this cretin more free air time that any other candidate!
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Which means standing and fighting in myriad ways to keep magas from trouncing our democracy and our constitution...
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@borowitzreport.bsky.social thank you!
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Judge Luttig STICKS THE DAGGER in SCOTUS’s Sellout of the Constitution
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTS...
Judge Luttig STICKS THE DAGGER in SCOTUS’s Sellout of the Constitution
YouTube video by Legal AF
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Hi Pete! Like you! Now give us your view of Frederick Douglass' inspired 4th of July speech? It's so apropos for the times. A small extract:
"the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced".
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Have a good day off. We love ya Pete, but your “independence” left the building in January this year. All the flag waving and fireworks are quite absurd given the state of your country. Enjoy your family time.
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Right now I feel we are called to do what we can for each other.
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Happy 4th of July you little dystopian hellscape you!
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Now we have to do it all again
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@fetterman.senate.gov this is how you do it, you moron.
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It's not happy this year. It's somber with a dose of depressing.
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The Revolution continues!
