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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was as close as I could get to the White House today. President Donald Trump just doesn’t want to hear or understand the grievances of American veterans. All of D.C. is fenced off, folks! I’m ashamed and embarrassed to be an American under the fascist Trump regime!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My front yard right now, I just mowed my lawn, I think that the bucks are pissed at me for disturbing them.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My granddaughters trekking the trails at Georgia’s Amicola Falls State Park.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Veterans against Trump! United States President & Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump, who faked a disability to dodge the Vietnam War draft, claims that the USS Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln’s time asea wasn’t long enough and that loved ones’ families are lying about their sailors’ sufferings.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A couple of handsome bucks in my front yard munching on my tomato plants!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My mother was in her 90s when she died and said that the only world leader that she hated as much as Adolf Hitler is Donald Trump and my mom wasn’t a hater.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sadly, when I travel to view the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the third time next month, this time with my son, my thoughts of the gravity and poignancy of the experience will be interrupted by how the country elected a mendacious narcissistic buffoon who has no respect whatsoever for our war dead.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales whose young 19 year old life was sacrificed to distract from evidence in the Epstein Files of Trump raping children. Back in the US this courageous patriot would have likely been stopped by ICE thugs. “It is the sacrifice of the best of us by the worst of us.” - W.B. Yeats

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“It is the sacrifice of the best of us by the worst of us” - W.B. Yeats

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I get blinding drunk every July 4th, as I take visceral exception to the hypocrisy of celebrating the misnomer - “Independence Day”, a day that ignores the enslavement of Black Americans, the genocide of Native Americans, and subsequent years of the oppression of these peoples and other minorities.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So, my most caustic, but incredibly witty, daughter, Miss Haley, created for me for Father Day.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

And mine shall be: “He was an idler, added nothing to the world at large. Was known only for his nauseating braggadocio. Family requests no flowers - a life best left forgotten"

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hey, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio - The Hague is calling y'all. Y'all are gonna have to eventually answer to them.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

"It is the sacrifice of the best of us by the worst of us." - W.B. Yeats

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So, not only does Donald Trump rape little girls, but he murders them as well. Ain’t y’all proud to be Americans?!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My granddaughter doesn’t care for naps, not at all.

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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

America this was the last fucking time, we will no longer died for you, you fucking ungrateful shithole country, shame on you all. It is a rupture, you are on your own.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just so courageously, insightfully, and brilliantly articulated!!! Greenlandic Politician: "What Trump doesn't know about Greenlandic people, is that we don't really value cash, Kardashian lips, fake boobs and stuff like that." www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMPe...

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Greenlandic Politician Shows Mirror To Trump Over Island Invasion Plan: 'He Doesn't Know About...'

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My granddaughter singing on stage while her daddy accompanies her with his guitar.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I recall processing at AFEES on Balboa Dr. in Chicago. My enlistment, on a stark gray dour day, forced me to put away my childish things, though I did hold on tightly to the CASE penknife that my dad had given me, which my grandpa had earlier gifted to him before my father shipped off with the Navy.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Displaying my letter to Letter to the Editor here on BlueSky as our local Dunwoody Crier newspaper refused to print my letter that identifies Charlie Kirk's bigoted remarks subsequent to the Crier publishing an article (more like a paean) that essentially canonizes Charlie Kirk and his "disciples".

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Just voted for the Public Service Commission here in Dunwoody, Georgia for Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard as they aren't in the pocket of the utility corporations as the incumbent Republican candidates are.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

We marched from the No Kings Atlanta Civic Center rally to the Georgia Capitol, but none of us anti-fascists trespassed or battered police or called for the Georgia Lt Governor to be hanged as what occurred at the Trump's Jan 6 insurrection So, mendacious MAGA Mike Johnson, who are the terrorists?!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Then arrest me first for unabashedly displaying a tattoo on my right wrist that shows my allegiance with the anti-fascist White Rose group, who, including Sophie Scholl, were guillotined for sharing anti-Nazi pamphlets. "Trump’s executive order prosecutes donors who support antifascist philosophy"

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thanks a lot, you worm-brain riddled, unscientific, dangerous lunatic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for making it so bureaucratically Kafkaesque difficult to get one of those new Covid-19 vaccinations, especially for us old folk! I was in line for at least four hours today to get one here in Georgia.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Amicalola Falls here in Georgia. My granddaughter just loves the water!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

My granddaughters twilight swimming in Lake Lanier with their daddy.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Twilight swimming with her momma in Lake Lanier in at age 20 months. My granddaughter Cora Mae sure loves the water!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A busy day at the office for my granddaughter and her momma.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It’s not an Independence Day weekend without Shakespeare.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

With their daddy and mommy, my granddaughters at their Italian nonna’s in Charleston, South Carolina

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

My dense overgrown backyard, that is consuming the haunted doghouse, that my son built decades ago for our three rescue dogs. Nowadays I only spot copperhead or two slithering in and out of it.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

My signature vertical slice for this season’s homegrown fried green tomatoes.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

That’s me walking into the tear gassed foray holding a “Veterans Against Trump” over my head. Some smart aleck commented in reference to me: @10 seconds in, who let grandpa out of the nursing home?! "ICE protesters clash with police along busy DeKalb County road" www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO31...

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Holding my latest granddaughter for the first time. Such a lil’ darling!

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My daughter created this for her husband on Father’s Day.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

So, at yesterday's nonviolent anti-deportation rally in protest of Donald Trump and his policies on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road in DeKalb County Georgia. At least eight protesters were arrested and they tear gassed us multiple times. #DeKalbCounty #Dunwoody #Georgia #NoKings #ChambleeTucker

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My incredible daughter, her wonderful courageous husband, and their growing family of two lovely daughters, one, of course, a darling newborn.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My youngest daughter, Delaney Mae, a bona fide Emmylou Harris' red dirt road girl here in Georgia...

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Veterans for Ukraine since Russia's genocidal invasion on Feb 24, 2022 and forevermore!!! The fascist Russian regime must be driven from the sovereign nation of Ukraine, arresting the murderous dictator Vladimir Putin and try him for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide at the ICC.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's the Gulf of Mexico, folks, as it has been since 1550 and will be forever, and that's the truth that I shall teach my grandchildren to know. And you MAGAs can take my Gulf of Mexico shirt when y'all can pry it off my cold dead torso! #GulfOfMexico

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As the U.S. stock market continues to decline precipitously, it appears that Donald Trump's Black Tuesday is nigh.

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Gary Ray Betz @garyraybetz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I moved from Chicago to Georgia so that a couple of my causticly witty daughters might digest the vernacular and metaphor laden aphorisms necessary to one day sit at the same dais as the other great Southern women writers, but with the advent of Trump's fascism, I'll just buy them diaries.

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