Hal Cragin

Hal Cragin

@halcragin.bsky.social

11th generation American from MA circa 1650

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I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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Is manifested being a fascist in every single way Do you think Biden took a plane from Qatar? Do you think Biden has opened multiple golf courses using the power of his presidency to get billion dollar golf courses Don Junior is making billions off of his father I guess you just think that’s

Just normal politics But yeah, go out to those Democrats that aren’t doing enough to suit your little outrage machine while you sit there and your fucking bull work making money complaining about the problem Your Republicans You fucking made every inch of this problem Every fucking inch of it

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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I was gently reminded how much you are Republicans, and all the hypocrisy and bullshit that you put on us now super sized with your Trump Maga bullshit that you use to win votes You screamed about shrinking government Homeland security was the largest expanse of government ever

Every inch of your being is not Bulwork it’s bullshit Every podcast you come out of the gate complaining about Trump And then you go tearing into Democrats not doing this in that What about people? What about your people? What about your Republican people? Your entire Conservative Party

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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Our environment So I was just reminded that even though we can laugh along with mr and Mrs. Bolle work, including Tim and Sarah, who are both gay and benefit highly from the democratic agenda of spending their political Trying to get them, Tim and Sarah rights as citizens to marry

Meanwhile, during that same time, there were merrily supporting this Republican agenda, which routinely would use evangelicals to whip up their base to hate people like… Wait for it, Tim and Sarah But you spent your political capital trying to make oil and gas richer had enough @thebulwark.com

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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But watching them comment on the “jubilee” bullshit far right radicalized asshole surrounding Medi Hassan, who had no problem dispensing these idiots But listening to Tim and Sarah saying they know these types and that was pretty much many of the same people they were around coming up

Maybe not as extreme, but pretty much the youth culture of Republicans going back to their yield days of 2000 was always how big an asshole can I be and laugh at other people’s misery I’m sorry as a progressive, at that age we were thinking we should get these fossil fuel idiots out and try to fix

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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Legislation and just becomes a party of tax breaks and judges to capture our country The billions of dollars of heritage Claremont federalist… The Powell memo they stuck to and Russell Vaught, who is very much and inside elite

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

The Republican agenda of which they were very much a part of, built this shit house over decades, starting with Reagan and then George W Bush, ripping the rug out from under America and then crashing an economy that Democrats had rebuilt Or the fact that Republicans stopped crafting any meaningful

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What happened in Kerr county is the direct result of the voters of Kerr county. Period. Dems believe in science, climate change and that government is supposed to fund human safety infrastructure projects. The Kerr county voters and council believed only in owning the libs. That’s it.

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“When I asked Solheim [American Moment’s co-founder] if [American Moment] had received any money from Peter Thiel, the enigmatic conservative megadonor, he grinned and declined to comment.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

politico.comThe Brash Group of Young Conservatives Getting Ready for the Next Trump AdministrationThe GOP needs foot soldiers, not just cabinet secretaries. American Moment is making sure they’re ready for January 2025.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

In a pre-election opinion piece, Josh Hammer said that he and JD Vance “are two of the founding advisory board members for American Moment, which seeks to ‘identify, educate, and credential’ young New Right leaders.’” 1/ www.newsweek.com/chosen-one-o...

My whole adult life I’ve heard Rep saying shrinking the gov Of course, while enriching themselves /blowing the deficit thr the roof. just put that first lie aside for a minute They expanded the gov homeland, security, larger than any other time now they’re using it as a private police force

So this ice thing had a budget of $8 billion and now it’s up to 45+ billion with 45 billion just for detention centers How do we survive without this before? And we need to spend that much money when they just blew the deficit through the roof.

over many days of listening to this Texas flood story. I finally got information that that area of Texas far from being the poor people story. Its the most concentrated amount of millionaires in TX The reason no flood warning system is they were too cheap to spend on their community Got it

For everyone that wanders around and says this is all just a Trump era thing The Roberts court was created over a decade ago. Citizens united was put in place explicitly to create this environment This is all Republican This is not Maga. That’s the shitty storefront they’re using.

So the anti-tax party had no problem with their asshole cult leader putting 50% tax on everything without any legislation around it Multimillionaires eat the same amount of food, struggling people do, and yet the percentage of their income for that food is…x100000000 dif

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To avoid conflicts, I wouldn't even let Obama refinance his family home when I was his ethics czar Now Trump is hoovering in hundreds of millions in violation of the law! That's a threat to our national security as I discussed @msnbc.com

When have Republicans ever passed any legislation that helps people instead of pretend pretending they think people are ripping them off when the fact is the people ripping them off are the people Republicans have given tax breaks too and pretty much bent over for the last 45 years for

Love it, Mr. richest man in the world, douche bag, ketamine piss pants Had liberals eating out of his hand and corporate government welfare showered on him is now pissed off everyone in the country Because he’s a fucking asshole It’s all about him and his wealth Fuck this South African asshole

Seeing as Republicans are in locked up with a dictator asshole, who goes golfing during a national tragedy He blames governors for natural disasters. Is he gonna blame mr wheelchair? Hey Abbott, the reason you even have a fucking ramp to go up is because of democratic efforts over years

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As Texas officials point to the National Weather Service failing to predict the amount of rain that caused this tragedy, it’s fair to wonder if the cuts made to the dept that many warned about played a role here. (Now add FEMA cuts & hospital closures)

My entire adult life I had to hear these Reagan conservatives gutting our government services claiming they are deficit hawks only to blow up the deficit and reward their rich For 45 years this has been going on But the northeast grifter Conman has super sized it the Republican Party has fked us

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yes, those medicaid recipients should just inherit their father's business and then sell it for a fortune, like sen. mullin did

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Markwayne Mullin: "There are 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the US. There are over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now you're gonna tell me there's not room to make cuts?"

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NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

propublica.orgKristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political DonationsA dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

Citizens United was a ruling about whether a cable paid TV network could show a political movie 90 days before an election The movie was about Hillary Clinton The court didn’t decide and when they came back to decide, they decided that all corporations have power to spend unlimited $$$

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Really?? Nothing put democracy at risk more than his disgraceful, false Citizens United decision. First, he bought the obvious lie that unlimited funding would be transparent; then when the falsity became indisputable, he refused to correct. ZERO cred here. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

politico.comFormer Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.

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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

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Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism. When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless. Understand what's going on.

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Today’s GOP doesn’t want votes, it wants power. That’s why they gerrymander, purge voters, and pack courts. It’s not about democracy—it’s about dominance. If we don’t call it what it is—minority rule enforced by fear—we’re sleepwalking into tyranny.

Every Republican podcast crying about the Trump administration. The next thing out of their mouth is what are the Democrats doing? Guess what assholes they aren’t controlling either houses of Congress and what Congress is doing is absolutely nothing That would be the R Party doing nothing

For all these podcasting, never Trump is moaning on and on they never pick up on the fact that we had a surplus of jobs that wouldn’t be filled so all of South America came running across the border and we got out of the bottleneck faster than Europe Do you not remember this?

I wonder when our plutocrat New York Times will make a headline about ice running out of money because they squandered it on Christy gnomes stupidity The shit matters You better start chipping away at this fucking asshole Republican Party Because the idiots that watch Fox have zero idea

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I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

Looking forward to the day we ripped down those fucking flag poles at the White House Those fucking things will be destroyed Everything about this asshole is destroying our country from within And every Republican is completely culpable Every fucking republican

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A hugely important point: this is the most inexperienced natsec team in history and they're loyalists who will not stop Trump's final decision. We love to complain about elites, who can make terrible mistakes. But elites, including advisers, are a *vital* source of constraint on elected leaders. 1/

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...