Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 11/12/2025"War on Drugs" is a metaphor, not a military engagement Drug cartels have tactical weapons for defence & local intimidation, but not armies to conduct war The aggressions at sea are against hoodlums, not military force. Law enforcement, not war Rules of war do not apply. Rules of decency do. 🚫👑🇺🇲 0200
Reposted by BillbeauxAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Cc @jaketapper.bsky.social 23698873029
Reposted by BillbeauxChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/12/2025TRUMP: THE DRUG TRAFFICKER’S FRIEND Why is he blowing up boats with low-level drug runners, and letting the kingpins go free? Despite his anti-drug rhetoric, Donald Trump has issued more pardons to drug dealers than any president in history. 1/2 621341650
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025& If Ms Daniels can be believed, it wasn't particularly good sex, either. 0180
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Maybe if we sent Trump a Constitution printed in gold leaf he'd read it. Or have Melania read it to him. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Federal law may trump state law, but an EO is not law. Congress, not POTUS, make laws. Nowhere does the Constitution recognize a President's power to boss the States around. Someone needs to send that guy a copy. They're really cheap. 120
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025The thinking behind the $1M Trump Gold Card visa seems to be that if you are you are a millionaire, you can't be a crook I'm not sure all of us think that is true. 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Is it significant that the countries that score highest on the Happiness Index all have democratic socialist governments? 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Because you know I'm all about that base, 'Bout that base, no Lib'ral! I'm all about that base. 'Bout that base. Base! Base! Base! Base! (Sorry, Mehgan. We still love you.) 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Opposing wanton killing on the high seas for the cameras makes me a pussy? Are those my only choices? 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Cankles. Dementia. Somnolence. Confusion. Gait instability. Taking note of such things might once have been mistaken for compassion. Actually, it's treason. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It's truly unsettling to know that the quality I can most rely on in my president is the consistency with which he lies to me. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 10/12/2025So Trump wants more immigrants from Norway & Sweden, eh? Who's gonna tell him those are socialist democracies. 100
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Hypothetical: USN interdicts a cigarette boat in international waters & finds her loaded to the gunwales w/ cocaine, which manifest show was bound to Amsterdam via Surinam. Has a US crime been committed or any US overdoses been averted? Probably cleanest just to sink her now & silence the crew. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Is it possible that the survivors of the destroyed speedboats must be killed or repatriated because if they were captured & rendered for trial, it would turn out they were just sportsmen or fishermen after all? 🤔 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025The go fast boats look dramatic when they blow up, but that is not the best way to keep their cargo out of the US, if that is indeed where they're headed The Navy's precision weaponry could just as easily disable them without sinking, so they can be boarded. Interdiction, not murder. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A couple of guys in a cigarette boat, maybe w/ sidearms or even a long gun or two, pose no risk to aircraft high above or a battleship miles away Blowing them up is not combat. It is shooting fish in a barrel This is not a war on drugs. It is a crime spree The sailors involved should be ashamed 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025If you feel powerless, then you are. If Trump has taught us anything, it is that if you want exert power, first you have to seize it. Together we are stronger than he is. Vote as if your country was depending on you. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025If there had been some sort of accountability for Watergate, for Iran/Contra, even for Oval Office blowjobs (Clinton's wasn't the first) would we be in the situation we are today It is one thing to say no one is above the law, quite another to make it so. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Wherever Trump goes, there is a stench of dirty diapers. Is that pathetic fallacy? Or just pathetic? 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025In a democracy, it is often necessary to tolerate policies you find disagreeable because a majority has voted for them. Trump is different. He is a small, vile man, a predator, intellectually lazy, amoral, cruel, devoid of empathy & narcissistic almost beyond comprehension. And he smells bad. 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Sometimes Trump makes me wish that Winston Smith-style erasure of history were possible--no presidency, no TV show, no Epstein, no buildings, no stench. Nothing. Then I remember what history is for: so we know what we want to help happen again, & what we want to make sure never does. 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025If you ever have any doubt that this administration is about cosplay, consider the Yankee Doodle Dandy duds Hegseth sports over the Nazi & White Supremacy iconography tattooed permanently on his skin. Talk about cognitive dissonance! 000
Reposted by BillbeauxMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯 629329158373
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Obamacare polls way higher than Trump. Apples 🍎 & oranges🍊, I know. 022
Reposted by BillbeauxGuardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 09/12/2025🚨Graphic ICE Content Warning 👹Lucifer, Beelzebub, Satan & Mephistopheles all converged for this kind of evil intentional shit to happen! 🤬This is a one way ticket straight to hell! Don’t pass go, don’t collect $200 & no 🤬 hand basket! 74490391
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Watching Hegseth strut the Nazi tats he sports under that cosplay finery makes me wonder what Kristy Noem has inked under her Halloween wardrobe. No!! I don't want to see it! 🤮 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This is how it's done. Interdiction, not murder. Advanages include: *Actual evidence *Prisoners to interrogate *Low risk of military escalation *Moral clarity Disadvantages: *Less "Warrior Ethos" *Lower TV appeal for some *Morally dispicable. 020
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025For-profit prisons & for-profit healthcare share tis feature: They only appear to work if you don't look closely at the incentives. 000
Reposted by BillbeauxMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025happy bday rear admiral and pioneer of computer programming Grace Hopper, b.1906, NYC. "Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.'" "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones." 822545
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025This is the same thinking Gerald Ford used when he said if he pardoned Nixon then the nation would not be torn asunder. He was blind, wilfully or not, to the rift that was already there. 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025The thinking seems to be: If they don't release the Epstein files, then it won't be true that our government is riddled with criminals & sexual predators. They do it for our own good. 100
Reposted by BillbeauxRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/12/2025What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works. 488289678214
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Step 1: POTUS deploys armed troops to Democratic cities Step 2: Outside our border he establishes the principle that he can fight crime at his sole discretion with overwhelming, even lethal, military force Step 3: TBA 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 09/12/2025It is proper that POTUS should have extraordinary power during emergencies such as insurrection or invasion. It is not proper that he should be able to unilaterally declare or create an emergency for the purpose of granting himself extraordinary power. That's what advise & consent is for. 000
Reposted by BillbeauxEDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it’s not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power. - Dwight Eisenhower 058691908
Reposted by BillbeauxHallo 🌹🪻🌱🥀 @hallo44.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Why are the tax payer funded police not protecting the tax paying public against ICE terrorists.. 1442815807
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The great fallacy of Conservatism is that govt must be small. The purpose of govt it to represent the people In an arena where players are large-corporations, unions, parties, nations-the govt must be large enough to play, too Without that the people have no voice, & oligarchy triumphs. 021
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Retribution perpetuates the evil it is intended to correct. The seeker of retribution is never free Reconciliation recognizes the evil & replaces it with good. It frees the soul Retribution is the road to perdition Reconciliation is the road to Justice Justice, not revenge, is the way to liberty 011
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Among the wisdom of Bill W is this: without a searching & fearless moral inventory of ourselves, recovery is not possible Negro Slavery & racism, genocide of indigenous people, Japanese internment, & xenophobia are as American as apple pie If we deny this in ourselves, we cannot recover from them 010
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Retribution can be recognized by the grim glee with which it is handed down. It diminishes it's wielder, & can never be satisfied Reconciliation brings a somber acceptance, and the sense a heavy burden has been lifted. It brings peace The path to justice runs thru reconciliation, not retribution 000
Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The US govt is wildly corrupt. There is little doubt about that. The solution to corruption is not concealment & retribution. It is truth & reconciliation. With reconciliation must come understanding & compassion. Accountability must be proportional, even-handed, merciful, & firm. 000