Kevin Russell Cook

Kevin Russell Cook

@citizencook.bsky.social

Politics, world events, culture, and, every once in a while, something gratuitously silly. Good discussion accepted & appreciated. Not looking for online pals. Lastly, I Will NOT chat (DM / PM), unless I otherwise know you.

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And, people wonder, why hasn't the opposition been more effective. With this being a fact, pretty much all they can do is mobilize you. So, how about it? It's show time, election '26. Are you mobilized?

AW Sylwester@aw-sylwester.bsky.social

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First, we get through November 3. Then we deal with what comes after. Many people, including Secretaries of State, have gamed out various scenarios. Right now, I think we need to focus on getting out the vote (especially the early vote) & on protecting people’s right to vote without interference.

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“The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president.” -- Obama on felon Trump seeking to deport Rep. Ilhan Omar.

commondreams.org'This is So Appalling': Barack Obama Delivers Blistering Rebuke of Trump's Ilhan Omar Deportation Plot | Common DreamsFormer President Obama condemns Trump administration's plot to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of citizenship.

Any elected public official who has supported a president who is literally OUT OF HIS MIND should be considered as one who has FAILED to have met the most minimally standards of competency for public service. Same is, of course, true of candidates for office.

Any elected public official who supports a president who is literally OUT OF HIS MIND should be considered one who has FAILED to have met the most minimal standards of competency for public service. Same is true of candidates, as well.

Lawrence O'Donnell just cited a poll which indicates 54% of Americans want a Senator who will be a check on Donald Trump. How many people are there out there who are like me - bothered by the fact that this number isn't way higher?

The premise of the Senate hearing w/former special prosecutor Jack Smith is built around the idea that Trump was treated in an unusal & unfair manner by the Mr. Smith's investigation and in subsequent indictments This & periphiral charges made by Senators trying to gain Trump's favor are Trumped-up

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This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

The reason why Donald Trump was not shown the door a long time ago: a) the citizenry is disinterested in politics. b) the people are too dumb to grasp what's happenng. Is there a "c" possibilitywhich explains the situation?

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We don’t talk about Russ Vought enough and he’s the most powerful villain in Washington, D.C.

"(which) federal law has long prohibited."

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The sad, sad truth:

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people.

Of course too, there will be the wholesale challenges to tranches of ballots from chosen locals, efforts to 'dirty' them, and toss out entire elective districts. Damned right, Phil, there will be a multi-layered effort to deny and overturn election results all over the USA.

Phil Leighton@joseph-yossarian.bsky.social

There’s no way that there will be a smooth transition of power. Quite what they plan we don’t know yet, but probably it’s a series of things to challenge election results, allege fraud and refuse to seat “fraudulently elected” Democrats. It will be a layered response.

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It's perfectly obvious he's a mental case. What is truly astonishing is how the SCOTUS and our Congress so easily turn a blind eye to it. The majority in both Congress and the SCOTUS are unfit to serve. They are, along with the president, destroyers of our nation.

Everything will be unconstitutional. [This is why the next Democratic president must restructure the SCOTUS. RESTRUCTURE THIS ALREADY PACKED SUPREME COURT!

Jeff Tiedrich@jefftiedrich.bsky.social

can't wait for there to be a Democratic president so the Supreme Court can start saying 'no' again

Only 875 signed on when I reposted this. Come on everybody! Don't you think it's important to express yourselves on this? (post by Marcus SOBER 5 YEARS@papacitogordo.bsky.social)

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Even more confused, faced with our manifestly unfit POTUS, Congress misses (or pretends to miss) the obvious, while the SCOTUS feeds his bottomless needs for authority and validation. Not sort of, not almost; we are right there in Alice's wonderland.

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People want the Dems to use some kind of secret political ju-jitsu. Or, maybe get a bigger soap box, I guess. What will they want others to do after our elections are trashed this November?

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The US Treasury elected not to print bills in denominations over $100 in order to inhibit illicit dealing. But, not to worry! We now have CRYPTO. Which itself should have been made illegal since almost day 1.

mweinstock.bsky.social@mweinstock.bsky.social

“All Pay the Chief.” Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich’s take on what was once unthinkable and is now common practice.

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Agrees? This is ESSENTIAL if there is to be any realistic hope of saving our nation, of making it something better, OR even of restoring it to its former and imperfect state. ** RESTRUCTURE the Supreme Court. **

California Dreamin’… 😎@jerasikehorn.bsky.social

We MUST fix the SCOTUS by increasing the number of justices, and adding on term limits… WHO ELSE AGREES?! 🤚

The limits of his power may be at their weakest. Yet, he does not act like a weak president. This is because he is frequently acting at the limits of what he can get away with. Other presidents usually acted below that limit, observing instead the rules of precedent and the constitutional order.

Freedom Writers Collaborative@fwcollaborative.bsky.social

America's weakest in 50 years —with two more years of Trump to go: analysis

dlvr.itAmerica's weakest in 50 years —with two more years of Trump to go: analysisConservative Dispatch writer Nick Catoogio can’t stop agonizing over the number of ways President Donald Trump has destroyed American strength — worse than a Democrat. Trump’s latest wacky decision to revert the U.S. Navy to “steam catapults” is only the latest goofball decision that hit Trump’s ear during on of his more ‘lucid’ moments, said Catoggio. “As it happens, the steam-catapult idiocy isn’t the only fiasco in the news this week that involves the world’s greatest military,” rages Catoggio. “The most sordid has to do with conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where morale has allegedly deteriorated after nine months at sea.” When U.S. infantry from Fort Hood held military exercises against a Ukrainian drone unit, the Americans were defeated “easily” despite the Pentagon having had many months to adapt its tactics accordingly. Our armored vehicles were spotted and “killed” so quickly that U.S. units had to “re-spawn” simply to keep the exercise going, according to the Wall Street Journal. Burning through your billion-dollar missile stockpile in a war with an enemy using low-cost robot knives is another fiasco that should haunt the Trump administration and Republicans for years. And Catoggio said the Pentagon is already urging defense contractors to crank out weapons “significantly faster” at taxpayer expense. All that, and America’s Gulf allies are having to accept the fact that Iran now owns the Strait of Hormuz, prepping to pay a “fee” to Shiite forces so tankers can safely travel through the strait. But there’s a fourth fiasco in motion, Catoggio warned — something a president who has declared bankruptcy multiple times may not easily understand. “Even before the president returned to office, the United States passed the grim milestone of spending more on debt servicing than it does on defense. But under Trump, the problem has worsened considerably: In an age of high interest rates, America nonetheless borrowed more in the first 10 months of this fiscal year than it did in all of fiscal year 2025. Last month’s budget deficit was the steepest since March 2021, putting us on track for an annual deficit of no less than $2 trillion.” All that money going toward debt servicing is definitely not going to national defense. “All in all, there’s a solid case to be made that this presidency will end with U.S. military power at its weakest point since the Carter years. And we’re still not even halfway through it,” said Catoggio. “ … Since Vietnam, Republicans have been the party of strength abroad. The Cold War, the Gulf War, the war on terror, now the war with Iran: The GOP is forever eager to throw roundhouses at foreign villains while the hippie Democratic base cries, ‘There has to be a better way!’ If you’re a hawk who believes in hard-power projection, choosing between blue and red has been a no-brainer since 1980.” Will that still be true in 2028? Not likely, said Catoggio. And how many more of Trump’s military-related fiascos will be necessary before the longstanding Republican advantage on national security among voters “ends up as depleted as the Pentagon’s missile stockpile?” “That’s a trick question, actually. According to some polls, that advantage is already gone,” he said.

It is extremely important that the Senate show spine and reject Blanche's bid for AG. Be aware, already Senate approved, he may remain as #2 at the DOJ. Where he can be a #2 who directs a string of acting AGs, each of whom having been told by Trump, they will be taking their orders from Blanche.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Political cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

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I know a lot of you get it. I see it all the time on post responses. I recieved a thousand replies telling me exactly what's going on out there. For the 1st time 2nite, I discovered @jamestalarico.bsky.social is ready to fight the real fight. Millions are starving for this. youtu.be/7AyG1PBzQrU?...

youtu.beA converstation with Mark Thompson re The Clean New Deal. The only plan requisite Project 2025.YouTube video by Patrick Lovell Truth Bombs The Con

It is a disease, and it is very real. But, it is NOT TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, It is Trump appropriate response syndrome (TARS). I have it. It brings me down too much of the time. We do need to dump this affliction, and the person who is the cause of this dark curse on our USA.

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Well Mr. Sidis now gets a block. Republicans hiding a Senator’s condition… blame a Dem. Nope, not playing that game!

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The people who are almost always BLAMELESS are THE VOTERS. We are poor little lambs who cannot distinguish when we are being fed lies. The politicians are to blame when they take office, and the ones that lose are also to blame, because they ran campaigns that were "too weak" to have won.

The sad truth is there is no democratic system that can successfully be run without the good will of the participants and a willingness to abide in the rules. And, we've gotten to the place where we have neither. One party alone, however enlightened, cannot make it work.

Essence of RBG 🦋@rbgprevails.bsky.social

Did that ever stop McConnell himself and his Republican buddies?!

Every day there are several new & negative NEWS STORIES about Trump which, under past administrations, would have each gotten a couple weeks of coverage. They're lucky to get a day in some while getting none in others. "THE ZONE" is "flooded" with shit daily. Not tales, but actual shitty events.

True. EVERY PRODUCT MADE on EARTH is recyclable, (If you are in the right place or are willing to go to the trouble.) I've had it with commercial plastics claiming themselves to be "recyclable" while actually having very limited locations and opportunities for recycling.

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Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: You can’t say that you want to make sure sex offenders and sex traffickers are behind bars and then vote for him. Every vote for Blanche is really a vote against survivors. If Thom Tillis wants to call, I’m happy to talk to him. We’ve been trying to get in touch