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# ![@BillKristol Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2800581040.png) @BillKristol Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol posts on X about strike, donald trump, national security, united states the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[strike](/topic/strike) #1149, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) #416, [national security](/topic/national-security) #426, [united states](/topic/united-states) #3369, [the first](/topic/the-first) 2.65%, [jeffrey epstein](/topic/jeffrey-epstein) #134, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.65%, [money](/topic/money) #3152, [to the](/topic/to-the) 1.77%, [strong](/topic/strong) XXXX%

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### Top Social Posts
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"Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith: But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces killing the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who were clinging to the smoldering wreck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1994778086630723998)  2025-11-29T14:38Z 1M followers, 145.2K engagements


"The simplest explanation is often the correct one: Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate confusing and impossible lie all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1994892115055169659)  2025-11-29T22:11Z 1M followers, 181.8K engagements


"Trump normally: Let me be clear: As Commander-in-Chief I am totally responsible for this successful military action. Hegseth normally: Let me be clear: As Secretary of War I ordered and directed this warrior-like military action. Trump and Hegseth today: We know nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1995580075841126863)  2025-12-01T19:45Z 1M followers, 235.2K engagements


""Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now hes attacking naturalized Americans citizens who were born elsewhere. Hes trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans.The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996213080376697315)  2025-12-03T13:41Z 1M followers, 117.5K engagements


"Im kind of new to the Democrats but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process and AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time. Is there some insider memo I didnt get that would set me straight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996291720070279205)  2025-12-03T18:53Z 1M followers, 124K engagements


"Trumpism was not a rejection of a status quo that no longer served peoples legitimate needs. The American order was tremendously successful. Liberalisms great liability isnt wokeness. Its a lack of self-confidence bordering on masochism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996310129864495536)  2025-12-03T20:06Z 1M followers, 12.7K engagements


"Bessent isn't the most damaging and destructive Trump Cabinet member. But he's surely the most cloying and oleaginous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997702661060358445)  2025-12-07T16:20Z 1M followers, 127.5K engagements


"The Caribbean operation is the foreign policy equivalent of one of those domestic emergencies he is forever declaring in order to access extraordinary extra-legal powers. Trump plans to bootstrap every shady thing into the concept of self-defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998193486542344215)  2025-12-09T00:50Z 1M followers, 21.5K engagements


""Weve all seen Donald Trump dozing off at cabinet meetings. Maybe hes not sleeping well at night. At 2:37 a.m. today the president of the United States was wide awake. How do we know Because he took to Truth Social to sound the alarm.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998402351426687191)  2025-12-09T14:40Z 1M followers, 14.9K engagements


"Good. New Ipsos and YouGov polls have Trump at XX% approval"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998404058206322739)  2025-12-09T14:47Z 1M followers, 45.4K engagements


"84 years ago today: Pearl Harbor the culmination and consequence of two decades of retreat into isolationism nationalism nativism protectionism and a refusal to defend democracy and confront the dictators. We have started down that path again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997659058946425052)  2025-12-07T13:26Z 1M followers, 21.5K engagements


"Tim Miller reports on the DHS raids in New Orleans explaining how Greg Bovino's sick operation is all about cruelty spectacle bigotry and intimidation and not about public safety"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998008174406722004)  2025-12-08T12:34Z 1M followers, 32.3K engagements


"An epitaph for Republican members of Congress in the era of Trump: They never failed to fail to step up. "The Republican chair of HASC said he doesnt see the need to investigate a controversial military strike that killed survivors of an attack.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998745751472513210)  2025-12-10T13:24Z 1M followers, 18.8K engagements


"What the trained eye can detect is Trump apologists lying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998955762689933485)  2025-12-11T03:19Z 1M followers, 87.1K engagements


""When I said that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999063723663606201)  2025-12-11T10:28Z 1M followers, 77.6K engagements


""Among these dangerous criminals being deported were a mother arrested on her way to pick up her special-needs child a mother separated from her two-month-old the mother of a 5-year-old whose husband is a citizen and hundreds of others.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999065047369138657)  2025-12-11T10:33Z 1M followers, 68.4K engagements


"Donald Trump: Making the United States into the Soviet Union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999211421515522551)  2025-12-11T20:15Z 1M followers, 105.1K engagements


""All twelve regional bank presidents are up for renewal in February and Hassett and Bessent have hinted a purge may be coming. The pretext would be a bogus residency requirement that Bessent proposed.This would be the way Trump co-opts the Fed.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999497830357172708)  2025-12-12T15:13Z 1M followers, 18.7K engagements


""One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trumps face.Another showed Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by the committee.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999498711810888035)  2025-12-12T15:16Z 1M followers, 49.1K engagements


""In a recent batch of emails released by the committee Epstein claimed that Trump 'spent hours' with one of Epsteins most prominent accusers the late Virginia Giuffre. Epstein also wrote in an email that Trump 'knew about the girls.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999499305128718535)  2025-12-12T15:19Z 1M followers, 25.6K engagements


"Hegseth's failure to deny he ordered Adm. Bradley to kill all of them makes one wonder if that order isn't memorialized in a document. In any case all relevant documents orders memos records of meetings and videos should be provided to Congress. Along with sworn testimony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1995966074060505243)  2025-12-02T21:19Z 1M followers, 29.4K engagements


"They put Trumps name on the trucks. This is the clearest signal that ICE is intended to be a personal partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump. This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1957856148356272631)  2025-08-19T17:24Z 1M followers, 58.8K engagements


"Our president is a joke (a very bad joke). So our country is becoming a joke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1989871736184095021)  2025-11-16T01:42Z 1M followers, 400.9K engagements


"Dear MAGA: Bannon thinks you're an idiot. He was helping Epstein. Bannon to Epstein: there is a crazed jihad against u ive never seen anything like it.Its an op dude.If you do an interview it has to be amazingly professional and perfectly cut"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1995514148298613044)  2025-12-01T15:23Z 1M followers, 55.3K engagements


"NEW. Robert Kagan on Trumps Foreign Policy and the New World Disorder. We take for granted the degree of peace weve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think thats the norm. The norm is a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996681050727108748)  2025-12-04T20:40Z 1M followers, 16.9K engagements


"When Sen. Mark Warner vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and an experienced and sober legislator is alarmed we should all be alarmed. By the boat strikes and generally by what the Trump administration is doing to our national security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997728146330894369)  2025-12-07T18:01Z 1M followers, 52.9K engagements


"Theres a race to get an astronomical amount of money out the door in DHS before Democrats take over the House. Theyre hiring ICE agents juicing contracts for the social media snuff films theyre doing building private prisons.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998009483436433768)  2025-12-08T12:39Z 1M followers, 21.1K engagements


""In a practical sense the laws of war are maintained by powerful nations because these laws serve their interests. They help the military recruit people who arent violent monsters; and they minimize the degree to which populations oppose our actions.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1995560312423268689)  2025-12-01T18:27Z 1M followers, 13.7K engagements


"Shorter Pete Hegseth: Trumps Defense Department will not be distracted by advancing the actual national security interests of the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997666701689634926)  2025-12-07T13:57Z 1M followers, 46.2K engagements


"In a speech on the anniversary of the eve of Pearl Harbor at the Reagan library Hegseth rejects Reagans foreign policy and embraces the foreign policies that led to Pearl Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997670258086232485)  2025-12-07T14:11Z 1M followers, 97.5K engagements


""The National Security Strategy published late last week.marks a sharp break with the direction of U.S. national security strategy since 1941.With XX instances of Trumps name in XX pages of text it is a strategy document worthy of North Korea.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998010243549106347)  2025-12-08T12:42Z 1M followers, 30.8K engagements


""Trump has put us back in the position that we were in the 20s and 30s.Its been demonstrated how ultimately ineffective that is from our own point of view. It is the permanence and reliability of the system that has been such a great force for peace.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998015237237194981)  2025-12-08T13:02Z 1M followers, 32.7K engagements


"whole conversation here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998015374097363167)  2025-12-08T13:02Z 1M followers, 8543 engagements


"If someone in the White House press corps doesn't ask Trump today why he's so scared of strong women they should all go home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998370787368300982)  2025-12-09T12:34Z 1M followers, 103.9K engagements


""Is it a sense of foreboding about matters relating to his old pal Jeffrey thats been disturbing Trumps sleep We cant be sure. Trump may not even know just whats keeping him awake. But if hes disturbed we should be cheered. If hes alarmed we should be heartened.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998402726179328281)  2025-12-09T14:41Z 1M followers, 9908 engagements


"This cinematic saga is a tidy microcosm of Trumpism: The resurrection of a sex pestThe palm-greasing for Trump. The nostalgia for racist cultural referencesAnd perhaps most importantly the wholesale degradation of what has made our economy great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1995565440702238732)  2025-12-01T18:47Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements


"If the Sep. X boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked where more drugs were stashed etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997690729620193360)  2025-12-07T15:32Z 1M followers, 92.6K engagements


"Lively talk with @Timodc on the disgrace of ICE and the Border Patrol in New Orleans the oleaginous ridiculousness of Scott Bessent and the administration's indefensible murders at sea near Venezuela. Also: A strange new respect for MTG and Ted Cruz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998168672796618761)  2025-12-08T23:11Z 1M followers, 47.9K engagements


"They released the video of the first strike. They wont release the video of the second strike or the complete video. Theres no national security rationale for releasing the first part and not the whole thing. The only reason is to cover up the truth about what happened Sep. 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1997666163816358063)  2025-12-07T13:55Z 1M followers, 127.1K engagements


""This is the way a fascist talks: vilifying an ethnic minority blaming them collectively for crimes rallying crowds against them and wielding state power against them. And this is the way a fascist audience responds: applauding his slurs.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998696753000792236)  2025-12-10T10:10Z 1M followers, 49.9K engagements


"The Trump administration is going to try very hard not to release the complete September X video or accompanying documents. They're going to try not to release the complete Epstein files. To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998748726785909106)  2025-12-10T13:36Z 1M followers, 35.4K engagements


""So over the last five weeks weve seen Democrats running about ten points ahead of their 2024 results. Not coincidentally current polling shows Donald Trumps approval almost ten points behind his approval of a year ago.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998763266919768544)  2025-12-10T14:34Z 1M followers, 16.4K engagements


""And yesterday in South Florida and northeastern Georgia the public administered Trumps party resounding defeats.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998764208838922413)  2025-12-10T14:38Z 1M followers, 9411 engagements


"Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans dont want you to be cared for as a patient when youre sick. They think of you as a consumerand tough luck if you dont have money for the care you need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998955053189865885)  2025-12-11T03:16Z 1M followers, 136.7K engagements


""Trump's approval rating on the economy per the latest AP-NORC poll is a grisly XX percentthe lowest number hes ever gotten in that category in that poll.His overall approval rating is down only six points since Marchto an abysmal XX percent.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999128971670065260)  2025-12-11T14:47Z 1M followers, 13.6K engagements


""More than XX people are dead. Their deaths seem to have been unnecessary unjustified and unlawful. President Trump may not care. We should.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999130308050870512)  2025-12-11T14:53Z 1M followers, 37K engagements


""Never daunted we cannot falter In the battle we're tried and true Indiana our Indiana Indiana we're all for you." -- IU fight song"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999491964862157154)  2025-12-12T14:50Z 1M followers, 15.6K engagements


"This is not America having priorities that dont involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe because one of Americas two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999536107277435232)  2025-12-12T17:45Z 1M followers, 70.1K engagements


"Trump: Ive known Jeff for XX years. Terrific guy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999639088870125667)  2025-12-13T00:34Z 1M followers, 103K engagements


"Release the boat video. Release the Epstein files"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996954143009763830)  2025-12-05T14:45Z 1M followers, 132.6K engagements


""We could pretend regular order still exists. In private everyone admits nothing in the federal apparatus can be trusted. But publicly we pantomime as if the foundation of the federal government hasnt transformed. America chose pretend.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998135957120536604)  2025-12-08T21:01Z 1M followers, 23.1K engagements


""My plea to Democrats is: Press your advantage. Full speed ahead. Its not yet time to indulge thoughts of peace and good will to all men (if thats your thing). For the next two weeks the Christmas spirit we need is Washington crossing the Delaware.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998171801793499306)  2025-12-08T23:24Z 1M followers, 36.4K engagements


""As outlined in this document the administrations agendas for Europe seem to be Make Europe white again and Make Russia great again. Its not just abdication from leadership of the free world; its an open embrace of the forces of unfreedom.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1998697442322038799)  2025-12-10T10:12Z 1M followers, 29K engagements


""The US government can seize boats sailors and cargo without killing anyone. The military is able to support law enforcement in such efforts. Steps can be taken to ensure they are legal.The administration has chosen to do none of these things.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999130024302002326)  2025-12-11T14:51Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements


""The administration is stonewalling on releasing the full video of the Sep. X strike despite President Trumps statement last week hed be happy to do so.and the fact the administration was perfectly happy to release the first part of the video.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999475285385941367)  2025-12-12T13:43Z 1M followers, 10.9K engagements


"Its a pending looming disaster heading our way. We are facing almost certain defeat. You hit the nail on the head. This is an absolute disaster." -- Joe Gruters Trumps hand-picked Republican National Committee chair on the 2026 midterms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999487578740060517)  2025-12-12T14:32Z 1M followers, 40.1K engagements


""Trump doesnt distinguish between foreign adversaries domestic opponents and local officials who get in his way. If you dont 'wise up' hell apply coercion or force.A strongman wont just go after people you dont like. Hell come for you.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999488647490600979)  2025-12-12T14:36Z 1M followers, 19.2K engagements


""Republicans in the Indiana Senate did something remarkable: They stood up to a mammoth pressure campaign from Donald Trump.Yesterday XX Indiana Senate Republicansmore than half their majorityjoined the Democratic minority to kill the effort 3119.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999491114638934131)  2025-12-12T14:46Z 1M followers, 15.2K engagements


"Bannons close (and presumably well-compensated) relationship to Epstein nicely illustrates how fraudulent his whole MAGA/populist shtick is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999541824612978835)  2025-12-12T18:08Z 1M followers, 112.5K engagements


""We take for granted the degree of peace weve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think thats the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. I dont think people are ready for the world were now moving into.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1996952557659295780)  2025-12-05T14:39Z 1M followers, 151.6K engagements


""We may be at an inflection point as the Trump administration tacitly threatens to purge not only Powell but other officials who set interest-rate policy. If successful Trump could seize direct control of the money supply and turn America into Venezuela.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999475983305646312)  2025-12-12T13:46Z 1M followers, 40.5K engagements


"Trump: Hundreds of people have photos with him so that's no big deal. Dunno but the display of Trump-labeled gag condoms suggests a degree of familiarity between Epstein and Trump perhaps greater familiarity than Epstein had with hundreds of others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999861453256581468)  2025-12-13T15:18Z 1M followers, 23.1K engagements


"Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1999887392745156969)  2025-12-13T17:01Z 1M followers, 5294 engagements

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Social category influence celebrities #2832 countries XXXX% finance #6063

Social topic influence strike #1149, donald trump #416, national security #426, united states #3369, the first 2.65%, jeffrey epstein #134, if you 2.65%, money #3152, to the 1.77%, strong XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @bulwarkonline @timodc @secwar @_everythingism @melvin8654401 @davidkeithlaw @proud_boomer2 @timdennis0u812 @grok @gasngogo @kenpw97070 @kelleytomm @billgriffin1980 @aja2130 @theoriginalpro9 @davidjslawson1 @miking85499291 @hypertension57 @thepartykid24 @rainbird42true

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Very strong piece by Jack Goldsmith: But there can be no conceivable legal justification for U.S. Special Operations Forces killing the survivors of a first strike on a drug boat off the coast of Trinidad who were clinging to the smoldering wreck"
X Link 2025-11-29T14:38Z 1M followers, 145.2K engagements

"The simplest explanation is often the correct one: Trump and Republicans are lying. Lie after desperate confusing and impossible lie all aimed at an impossible goal: erasing history and the many deep and troubling ties between Epstein and Trump"
X Link 2025-11-29T22:11Z 1M followers, 181.8K engagements

"Trump normally: Let me be clear: As Commander-in-Chief I am totally responsible for this successful military action. Hegseth normally: Let me be clear: As Secretary of War I ordered and directed this warrior-like military action. Trump and Hegseth today: We know nothing"
X Link 2025-12-01T19:45Z 1M followers, 235.2K engagements

""Trump targeted illegal immigrants. Then he went after legal immigrants. Now hes attacking naturalized Americans citizens who were born elsewhere. Hes trying to turn white against nonwhite Americans.The U.S. government now openly stands for bigotry.""
X Link 2025-12-03T13:41Z 1M followers, 117.5K engagements

"Im kind of new to the Democrats but I thought we were FOR respecting the legal process and AGAINST political corruption. And that it was especially important to hold to these principles at this time. Is there some insider memo I didnt get that would set me straight"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:53Z 1M followers, 124K engagements

"Trumpism was not a rejection of a status quo that no longer served peoples legitimate needs. The American order was tremendously successful. Liberalisms great liability isnt wokeness. Its a lack of self-confidence bordering on masochism"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:06Z 1M followers, 12.7K engagements

"Bessent isn't the most damaging and destructive Trump Cabinet member. But he's surely the most cloying and oleaginous"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:20Z 1M followers, 127.5K engagements

"The Caribbean operation is the foreign policy equivalent of one of those domestic emergencies he is forever declaring in order to access extraordinary extra-legal powers. Trump plans to bootstrap every shady thing into the concept of self-defense"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:50Z 1M followers, 21.5K engagements

""Weve all seen Donald Trump dozing off at cabinet meetings. Maybe hes not sleeping well at night. At 2:37 a.m. today the president of the United States was wide awake. How do we know Because he took to Truth Social to sound the alarm.""
X Link 2025-12-09T14:40Z 1M followers, 14.9K engagements

"Good. New Ipsos and YouGov polls have Trump at XX% approval"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:47Z 1M followers, 45.4K engagements

"84 years ago today: Pearl Harbor the culmination and consequence of two decades of retreat into isolationism nationalism nativism protectionism and a refusal to defend democracy and confront the dictators. We have started down that path again"
X Link 2025-12-07T13:26Z 1M followers, 21.5K engagements

"Tim Miller reports on the DHS raids in New Orleans explaining how Greg Bovino's sick operation is all about cruelty spectacle bigotry and intimidation and not about public safety"
X Link 2025-12-08T12:34Z 1M followers, 32.3K engagements

"An epitaph for Republican members of Congress in the era of Trump: They never failed to fail to step up. "The Republican chair of HASC said he doesnt see the need to investigate a controversial military strike that killed survivors of an attack.""
X Link 2025-12-10T13:24Z 1M followers, 18.8K engagements

"What the trained eye can detect is Trump apologists lying"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:19Z 1M followers, 87.1K engagements

""When I said that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous.""
X Link 2025-12-11T10:28Z 1M followers, 77.6K engagements

""Among these dangerous criminals being deported were a mother arrested on her way to pick up her special-needs child a mother separated from her two-month-old the mother of a 5-year-old whose husband is a citizen and hundreds of others.""
X Link 2025-12-11T10:33Z 1M followers, 68.4K engagements

"Donald Trump: Making the United States into the Soviet Union"
X Link 2025-12-11T20:15Z 1M followers, 105.1K engagements

""All twelve regional bank presidents are up for renewal in February and Hassett and Bessent have hinted a purge may be coming. The pretext would be a bogus residency requirement that Bessent proposed.This would be the way Trump co-opts the Fed.""
X Link 2025-12-12T15:13Z 1M followers, 18.7K engagements

""One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trumps face.Another showed Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by the committee.""
X Link 2025-12-12T15:16Z 1M followers, 49.1K engagements

""In a recent batch of emails released by the committee Epstein claimed that Trump 'spent hours' with one of Epsteins most prominent accusers the late Virginia Giuffre. Epstein also wrote in an email that Trump 'knew about the girls.'"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:19Z 1M followers, 25.6K engagements

"Hegseth's failure to deny he ordered Adm. Bradley to kill all of them makes one wonder if that order isn't memorialized in a document. In any case all relevant documents orders memos records of meetings and videos should be provided to Congress. Along with sworn testimony"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:19Z 1M followers, 29.4K engagements

"They put Trumps name on the trucks. This is the clearest signal that ICE is intended to be a personal partisan police force that exists at the disposal of Trump. This is not a choice someone makes if they intend to leave office in three years"
X Link 2025-08-19T17:24Z 1M followers, 58.8K engagements

"Our president is a joke (a very bad joke). So our country is becoming a joke"
X Link 2025-11-16T01:42Z 1M followers, 400.9K engagements

"Dear MAGA: Bannon thinks you're an idiot. He was helping Epstein. Bannon to Epstein: there is a crazed jihad against u ive never seen anything like it.Its an op dude.If you do an interview it has to be amazingly professional and perfectly cut"
X Link 2025-12-01T15:23Z 1M followers, 55.3K engagements

"NEW. Robert Kagan on Trumps Foreign Policy and the New World Disorder. We take for granted the degree of peace weve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think thats the norm. The norm is a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:40Z 1M followers, 16.9K engagements

"When Sen. Mark Warner vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and an experienced and sober legislator is alarmed we should all be alarmed. By the boat strikes and generally by what the Trump administration is doing to our national security"
X Link 2025-12-07T18:01Z 1M followers, 52.9K engagements

"Theres a race to get an astronomical amount of money out the door in DHS before Democrats take over the House. Theyre hiring ICE agents juicing contracts for the social media snuff films theyre doing building private prisons.""
X Link 2025-12-08T12:39Z 1M followers, 21.1K engagements

""In a practical sense the laws of war are maintained by powerful nations because these laws serve their interests. They help the military recruit people who arent violent monsters; and they minimize the degree to which populations oppose our actions.""
X Link 2025-12-01T18:27Z 1M followers, 13.7K engagements

"Shorter Pete Hegseth: Trumps Defense Department will not be distracted by advancing the actual national security interests of the United States"
X Link 2025-12-07T13:57Z 1M followers, 46.2K engagements

"In a speech on the anniversary of the eve of Pearl Harbor at the Reagan library Hegseth rejects Reagans foreign policy and embraces the foreign policies that led to Pearl Harbor"
X Link 2025-12-07T14:11Z 1M followers, 97.5K engagements

""The National Security Strategy published late last week.marks a sharp break with the direction of U.S. national security strategy since 1941.With XX instances of Trumps name in XX pages of text it is a strategy document worthy of North Korea.""
X Link 2025-12-08T12:42Z 1M followers, 30.8K engagements

""Trump has put us back in the position that we were in the 20s and 30s.Its been demonstrated how ultimately ineffective that is from our own point of view. It is the permanence and reliability of the system that has been such a great force for peace.""
X Link 2025-12-08T13:02Z 1M followers, 32.7K engagements

"whole conversation here:"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:02Z 1M followers, 8543 engagements

"If someone in the White House press corps doesn't ask Trump today why he's so scared of strong women they should all go home"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:34Z 1M followers, 103.9K engagements

""Is it a sense of foreboding about matters relating to his old pal Jeffrey thats been disturbing Trumps sleep We cant be sure. Trump may not even know just whats keeping him awake. But if hes disturbed we should be cheered. If hes alarmed we should be heartened.""
X Link 2025-12-09T14:41Z 1M followers, 9908 engagements

"This cinematic saga is a tidy microcosm of Trumpism: The resurrection of a sex pestThe palm-greasing for Trump. The nostalgia for racist cultural referencesAnd perhaps most importantly the wholesale degradation of what has made our economy great"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:47Z 1M followers, 12.9K engagements

"If the Sep. X boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked where more drugs were stashed etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:32Z 1M followers, 92.6K engagements

"Lively talk with @Timodc on the disgrace of ICE and the Border Patrol in New Orleans the oleaginous ridiculousness of Scott Bessent and the administration's indefensible murders at sea near Venezuela. Also: A strange new respect for MTG and Ted Cruz"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:11Z 1M followers, 47.9K engagements

"They released the video of the first strike. They wont release the video of the second strike or the complete video. Theres no national security rationale for releasing the first part and not the whole thing. The only reason is to cover up the truth about what happened Sep. 2"
X Link 2025-12-07T13:55Z 1M followers, 127.1K engagements

""This is the way a fascist talks: vilifying an ethnic minority blaming them collectively for crimes rallying crowds against them and wielding state power against them. And this is the way a fascist audience responds: applauding his slurs.""
X Link 2025-12-10T10:10Z 1M followers, 49.9K engagements

"The Trump administration is going to try very hard not to release the complete September X video or accompanying documents. They're going to try not to release the complete Epstein files. To which the response should be: No Kings. No Cover-ups"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:36Z 1M followers, 35.4K engagements

""So over the last five weeks weve seen Democrats running about ten points ahead of their 2024 results. Not coincidentally current polling shows Donald Trumps approval almost ten points behind his approval of a year ago.""
X Link 2025-12-10T14:34Z 1M followers, 16.4K engagements

""And yesterday in South Florida and northeastern Georgia the public administered Trumps party resounding defeats.""
X Link 2025-12-10T14:38Z 1M followers, 9411 engagements

"Democrats would be crazy not to make this comment super-famous tomorrow when the Senate debates health care. Republicans dont want you to be cared for as a patient when youre sick. They think of you as a consumerand tough luck if you dont have money for the care you need"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:16Z 1M followers, 136.7K engagements

""Trump's approval rating on the economy per the latest AP-NORC poll is a grisly XX percentthe lowest number hes ever gotten in that category in that poll.His overall approval rating is down only six points since Marchto an abysmal XX percent.""
X Link 2025-12-11T14:47Z 1M followers, 13.6K engagements

""More than XX people are dead. Their deaths seem to have been unnecessary unjustified and unlawful. President Trump may not care. We should.""
X Link 2025-12-11T14:53Z 1M followers, 37K engagements

""Never daunted we cannot falter In the battle we're tried and true Indiana our Indiana Indiana we're all for you." -- IU fight song"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:50Z 1M followers, 15.6K engagements

"This is not America having priorities that dont involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe because one of Americas two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:45Z 1M followers, 70.1K engagements

"Trump: Ive known Jeff for XX years. Terrific guy"
X Link 2025-12-13T00:34Z 1M followers, 103K engagements

"Release the boat video. Release the Epstein files"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:45Z 1M followers, 132.6K engagements

""We could pretend regular order still exists. In private everyone admits nothing in the federal apparatus can be trusted. But publicly we pantomime as if the foundation of the federal government hasnt transformed. America chose pretend.""
X Link 2025-12-08T21:01Z 1M followers, 23.1K engagements

""My plea to Democrats is: Press your advantage. Full speed ahead. Its not yet time to indulge thoughts of peace and good will to all men (if thats your thing). For the next two weeks the Christmas spirit we need is Washington crossing the Delaware.""
X Link 2025-12-08T23:24Z 1M followers, 36.4K engagements

""As outlined in this document the administrations agendas for Europe seem to be Make Europe white again and Make Russia great again. Its not just abdication from leadership of the free world; its an open embrace of the forces of unfreedom.""
X Link 2025-12-10T10:12Z 1M followers, 29K engagements

""The US government can seize boats sailors and cargo without killing anyone. The military is able to support law enforcement in such efforts. Steps can be taken to ensure they are legal.The administration has chosen to do none of these things.""
X Link 2025-12-11T14:51Z 1M followers, 11.7K engagements

""The administration is stonewalling on releasing the full video of the Sep. X strike despite President Trumps statement last week hed be happy to do so.and the fact the administration was perfectly happy to release the first part of the video.""
X Link 2025-12-12T13:43Z 1M followers, 10.9K engagements

"Its a pending looming disaster heading our way. We are facing almost certain defeat. You hit the nail on the head. This is an absolute disaster." -- Joe Gruters Trumps hand-picked Republican National Committee chair on the 2026 midterms"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:32Z 1M followers, 40.1K engagements

""Trump doesnt distinguish between foreign adversaries domestic opponents and local officials who get in his way. If you dont 'wise up' hell apply coercion or force.A strongman wont just go after people you dont like. Hell come for you.'"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:36Z 1M followers, 19.2K engagements

""Republicans in the Indiana Senate did something remarkable: They stood up to a mammoth pressure campaign from Donald Trump.Yesterday XX Indiana Senate Republicansmore than half their majorityjoined the Democratic minority to kill the effort 3119.""
X Link 2025-12-12T14:46Z 1M followers, 15.2K engagements

"Bannons close (and presumably well-compensated) relationship to Epstein nicely illustrates how fraudulent his whole MAGA/populist shtick is"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:08Z 1M followers, 112.5K engagements

""We take for granted the degree of peace weve enjoyed over the past eight decades. We think thats the norm. The norm is actually a lot more like what the world looked like before 1945. I dont think people are ready for the world were now moving into.""
X Link 2025-12-05T14:39Z 1M followers, 151.6K engagements

""We may be at an inflection point as the Trump administration tacitly threatens to purge not only Powell but other officials who set interest-rate policy. If successful Trump could seize direct control of the money supply and turn America into Venezuela.""
X Link 2025-12-12T13:46Z 1M followers, 40.5K engagements

"Trump: Hundreds of people have photos with him so that's no big deal. Dunno but the display of Trump-labeled gag condoms suggests a degree of familiarity between Epstein and Trump perhaps greater familiarity than Epstein had with hundreds of others"
X Link 2025-12-13T15:18Z 1M followers, 23.1K engagements

"Release the boat videos. Release the Epstein files. Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage. Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting"
X Link 2025-12-13T17:01Z 1M followers, 5294 engagements

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