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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What Hegseth did in purging Gen Chris Donahue and the 40+ before him is reminiscent of Stalin’s purge of Red Army GOs in 1930’s. In 1941, that cost Russia the lives of 2 mil soldiers (KIA, WIA AND POWs). Hegseth, because of his incompetence and hatred of good leaders is making the same mistake.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,...I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" My answer to THE NAZI GOONS OF ICE!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ICE operations are nothing short of NAZI methods. Abolish ICE and restore sanity to immigration regulation under the law.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not that our soldiers, sailors and airmen don’t deserve the best in support, they emphatically do. But, I wonder if our military successes during WW2 were born in part from the quality of the men and women emerging from the hardships of the depression had better coping mechanisms for deprivations.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The death of “Jackie” the beloved eagle from Big Bear CA is a symbolic metaphor of our steep decline in international prestige and power under and because of trump.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What do Cornyn, Tillis, Cassidy, and the rest of the GOP gang on Capital Hill have in common? Self-castration!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Watching the Senate Committee hearing, during which Dr Fauci was mercilously grilled trying to trip him into perjury, is like reading aloud the inquisition of Jean d’Arc. Good soûls being twisted by evil.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
If Dem and Independent voters are motivate to vote and GOP voters are not, and if trump succeeds in dramatically restricting mail-in ballots, the GOP stands to be the bigger loser. If not motivated to vote, why stand in line for hours? Motivated Dems and Independents will!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Trump’s narcissism is the manifestation of his fear of death. As a result, he: is selfish; clings to his belongings, his safe spaces and familiarities; flouts authority; ignores social mores; and steals from others to provide for himself. He really is a sick person.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Like Pharaoh Ankhenaten, when trump is no more, we can erase him from our memorial memory. His ugly face banners removed. The Ballroom demolished, the Rose Garden restored, LaFayette Park restored, Arch de Trump demolished, the East Wing restored, and on!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What do these two evils vile monsters have in common
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trump’s ballroom is his Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Among all the isms that afflict him, he suffers an immense illusion of grandeur thinking of himself as if he were the Sun King Louis XIV. Time to end his time to save the Republic.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So the reflecting pool, after millions spent to paint the bottom blue, is now a beautiful shade of Kelly green. Ha!! Any good engineer would have flushed the water lines feeding the pool to Baker tanks until they had clear water running. Idiots!!! Another project turned to shit touched by trump.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Since Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton were hired by David Ellison as hacks to put “60 Minutes” into a graveyard spiral, I have boycotted all CBS programming, period!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Hegseth’s apoplectic, disingenuous cultural war rant during his commencement address to the graduating class at West Point was disgusting, inappropriate, insulting and just damn wrong. When you have a band of brothers from different cultures going to war with common purpose, the bond is unbreakable
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’ve been a student of the French Revolution for some time. The more things change (time) the more they remain the same (human condition). Things here in the US relative to those who have and those who don’t is worst than 1789 when the Bastille was stormed. It didn’t end well for the “haves”.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
All this garbage about a “new” South, that we’ve heard about these past decades is BS. What we’ve seen this past week down there, in redistricting to negate the black vote, is the racism that still exists below the surface of what was the Confederacy; a malignant cancer to our Union.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
So, James Carville, on the suggestion of a genteel southern dame, trump’s face reminded her of her husband’s scrotum; ergo a no moniker for trump: “scrotum face”.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Interesting. Comey gets charged by DOJ for posting 8647 on social media, allegedly a threat to trump. Yet trump tells MTG if her son were to be killed because of her support of Epstein victims, his death was on her. This just isn’t rank hypocrisy, it’s abject sickness. Trump is mentally sick!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Is Angelo Curosone a descendent of Nicolo Machiavelli?
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Hegseth is nothing more than the excrement blown from the backside.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
One line I’m my Alma Mater rings crystal clear, “…Country be ever armed…” trump - hegseth, et al have born abject strategic incompetence in draining critical tactical munitions to a dangerous level for an elective illegal war exposing serious security concerns in Europe and the Pacific. Danger is on
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Mad dog trump has backed himself into a corner. 33% approval results from: surging gas $, affordability crisis, Epstein scandal, rising inflation, an illegal war, etc.. Like a rabid dog he may invoke the insurrection act to stall midterm elections to retain power. An actual insurrection may result.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We Americans should do what the Egyptians did 4000 years ago when Pharaoh Akhenaten died. Erase every evidence that he even lived. Destroy the Arch de Trump if built. Destroy the Golden Ballroom if built. Restore the Oval Office as it was. Obliterate everything trump
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you think of what a post trump America should be, we’ll to have a cultural revolution. Under trump, culture has nullified every institution we held dear, save the judiciary - minus the SCOTUS. All, except the judiciary, lost their courage and integrity. Restoration will be hard, but must endure.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thinking out of the box. Arab oil cartel establishes an international oil terminal in Oman on the Indian Ocean shore. All oil producers construct pipelines to said terminal thus completely by pass the Gulf and neutralizing Iran’s threat. Arabs can work out the details.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I sincerely hope Americans have not lost the lyrics and spirit of Neil Diamond’s song “Coming to America”. It is who we truly are. A nation of immigrants. Who among us can say we or our ancestors came from another place. No one; save native Americans. OBTW, they too are immigrants from Asia.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Hegesth’s rabble-rousing assertion that: “…we’ll show no quarter and show no mercy…” is A WAR CRIME!!! Trump’s assertion of bombing Iran “…to the Stone Age…” is a war crime. Is this what we are as Americans? Hell no!!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
…All this because the Trump’s “gut feeling”. Is it any wonder that we are where we are: FUBAR or for this administration SNAFU!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Trump’s rush to war without defined strategic objectives, clear goals to achieve them and doable execution plans to achieve the goals created confusion at home, doubt among allies, market chaos, elevated tensions with our adversaries and more economic misery among our friends and neighbors…
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Clearly, Trump is a criminal within our own borders. Since launching a war of aggression without the authorization of our national legislative representatives; he now an international criminal. Another new low for the US Presidency.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The GOP has signed its own death warrant by allowing a demented fool send our nation into the abyss based on his gut feelings. It doesn’t get anymore asinine that this.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
To the Epstein Class: “Because you are a grand seigneur you think yourself a great genius…nobility, wealth, rank, offices! …What have you done to have so much?…While I, damn it, lost in the anonymous crowd have had to use all my science and craft just to survive.” Opera Figaro, 1784, Paris.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Trump’s fatal flaw is his belief that authority descends from the top; whereas, in a republic it is just the opposite - from the bottom up. The people hold the power! You are bearing witness by protests throughout this great country. Exercise your power! Resist!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Proverbs 11: 7-17: When an evil man dies, his hope dies with him. Everything he expected to gain from his power will be lost. Those who do right are saved from trouble. But trouble comes on those who do wrong.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
For our rights and those of our children and those yet born, resist! For the rule of law, resist! For free and fair elections, resist! For due process for all citizens or not, resist! For those we’ve lost to murder or those disappeared or detained, resist! If not tyranny and a police state awaits us
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The cold blooded murders of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti by Federal agents gives the cause of freedom two martyrs. Their murders will not be in vain. Trump et al are the incarnation of abject evil. There will be an accounting. It won’t end well for Trump and his sycophants. What goes around comes around.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The start of the French Revolution was organic; the market fish wives protesting the cost of bread. The fuse was lit and led to storming the Bastille. Tolerating a tyrant is antithetical to Americans. The French didn’t nor will we! Like 1789, the American response is organic. Power to the people!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Pope Leo should consider de facto excommunication of all Catholic ICE/Border Patrol agents engaged in and perpetrating rank civil and human rights abuses in the US. They all are truly sideways with the Holy Sea and deserve spiritual accountability.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Trump is an anathema to the American creed and character and therefore surrenders his legitimate claim as sovereign. He ignores and habitually violates our Constitution and his obligations to it. He espouses hate and wages war against Americans. He is traitor all cherishing life and liberty!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Woe betide the power established on the ruin of the laws…the Prince will be forced to reign over his state as he would over a conquered land.” Mnsr. Montesquieu, 1748, France. Can we remember what happened in 1787?
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump’s vision of sovereign government is essentially that of the absolute monarchs of France: “In my person alone resides the sovereign power.” Sound familiar? That attitude sent one French king to the guillotine and be Trump’s undoing in a constitutional republic.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Insurrection?? If Trump says it’s so, let it be! The lawyers will fight it out in court. Meanwhile, Trump doesn’t have enough boots to be everywhere at once (cities throughout and across the country, Venezuela and Greenland). He’ll be asking our warriors to bring it down on their own. That won’t fly
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
What do you do if you can’t feed your family or self; or pay for essential medical care for your children; or provide safe comfortable shelter; or communications; or transport; or clothing; or any other basic necessity? You seek help where you can find it and hold those responsible to account.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The greatest social and political challenge of our time lies straight ahead in 2026. Techno change (AI) is faster than anyone thought possible. Labor hiring is frozen. Jobs are way down. Life is not affordable. Trump wants a Latin American war. GOP is impotent to do anything. Bad moon rising!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
To Katie Tur, MSNOW: Patriotism is not running around waving “Old Glory” or wearing a t-shirt with a bald eagle or an American flag emblazoned on it; rather, it’s speaking out against tyranny and standing firm in the public place for liberty and the ideals on which this country was founded
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
When the price of bread rose beyond the reach of people to buy in France for their families it triggered a blood bath that lasted a decade costing the lives of the King and Queen and thousands more. Do you think Trump and MAGA should wake up on the issue of affordability?
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If I were still in active service and in a command center controlling these strikes on boats in international waters, I would be scared shitless of being prosecuted for murder; ergo, the theater commander resigned and I would on his heels likewise.
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Republicans are so twisted calling “No Kings” protests as un-American. Reallly!!! Are you kidding me!! There is nothing more quintessentially American as protesting being ruled by a king. It started in 1775 in Boston, then declaring our independence in ‘76. After a bloody war we dumped George III!!!
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espritliberte.bsky.social @espritliberte.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Before “No Kings Day”, briefly review the decade of 1784 to 1794 in France. Institutions failed the people, Nobels failed the people, the King failed the people. The French Sovereign from King to ministerial institutions were corrupted & rotten. Those who couldn’t flee were executed by the people. 🇫🇷
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