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God @thegodshow.com · 04/10/2026

I don’t give a damn if Theo Von and Joe Rogan change their tune and become full-out Democratic socialists. They will say whatever is deemed widely popular in the moment to retain their podcast audiences. They gave you Donald Trump.

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Hank Ering 🇨🇦💙🌊 @hank-ering.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interesting that Trump is going after EU leadership and not PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 I think Trump is afraid of Mark Carney.

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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Labour Day weekend is the Sunday evening of the calendar year.

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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey Canada...would you follow @yukon.ca This account posts daily and gets little traction; meanwhile, the Premier just wrote a wonderful statement supporting PM Carney and all of Canada in this trade war. We need to SEE each other and support each other!

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lewis repeated propaganda talking points that ignore what the reality is. Carney has been working tirelessly to diversify 🇨🇦’s economy. Lewis is an activist from the 90s who is still stuck there. It is naive & unhelpful. #cdnpoli

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I will never cross that border again. Never again.

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Canada is currently running at a fucks deficit.

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David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

21 days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, the United States imposes 50% tariffs on the country that gave its citizens refuge during the worst terrorist attack in US history.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The U.S. wanted to limit Canada's freedom to negotiate future trade pacts with other countries. WE ARE NOT YOUR BITCH MURICA ! Go pound sand Murica !

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Yep. And we cannot pretend otherwise.

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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

If folks really wanted soccer to grow in this country, they'd show more support for the women.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

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Dee 🦋🦋 @do60een.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

America didn’t turn sh*tty because he became President. He became President because America was already this sh*tty. That’s the uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to admit.

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Why do so many people believe that the best way to get back to the "good old days" is to dismantle the social programs that were created in the good old days?

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Darbyfish @darbyfish.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I don’t believe anyone that hates trump wants to see him killed. We want to see him removed from office and tried for his crimes. We want to see his humiliation.

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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larry.earth (he/him) 8647 @larry.earth · 21/04/2026

There's a lot wrong with this claim. I put a fact check in the alt-text for this lovely image.

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FACT CHECK:

This needs a hard look — the source alone is a major red flag, and the claim is extraordinary. Let me dig in.Let me verify a couple of specific details — Johnson's actual CIA tenure and the chain-of-command issue that keeps coming up.Now let me verify the chain-of-command specifics — a key claim here is that the Chairman of the JCS could "stop" a nuclear order.I have enough to write this up. Here's the fact-check:

## Fact check: "Trump tried to use nuclear codes, Gen. Caine said no"

**Bottom line: The underlying claim is unverified, sourced to a single unreliable commentator, and the mechanical premise (that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs could "stand up and say no") is structurally wrong. Treat this as rumor, not news.**

### Where the claim actually comes from

Paul Eric's post is a paraphrase of a claim Larry C. Johnson made on the "Judging Freedom" podcast, hosted by former judge Andrew Napolitano, amplified on X by Jimmy Dore, and picked up by IBTimes UK with the caveat that it "has not been confirmed by any official source." The White House, the Pentagon, and Gen. Caine's office have not responded to the claim — and no official record, court document, or on-the-record source has corroborated the account of an emergency meeting or nuclear codes being raised.

So the entire chain is: one podcast guest → a Jimmy Dore tweet → aggregators → your Bluesky screenshot. No second source. No documents. No named officials.

### Who Larry Johnson is

This matters, because "retired CIA analyst" is doing a lot of work in the framing. Johnson worked at the CIA as an analyst from 1985 through September 1989 — roughly four years — before moving to the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism, and left government entirely in October 1993. He has been out of government for **over 30 years**. He has no plausible mechanism to know what happened in a White House meeting on Saturday night.

His track record also undercuts the "insider revelation" framing:

- In 2008 he claimed a tape existed of Michelle Obama using the word "whitey"; no such tape ever surfaced and the Obama campaign denied it.
- He was the source for Andrew Napolitano's 2017 Fox News claim that GCHQ had wiretapped Trump's 2016 campaign on Obama's orders — a claim Fox News itself later disavowed.
- Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Johnson has made regular appearances on Russian state media, expressed support for the war effort, and been cited hundreds of times in Izvestia, Sputnik, and RIA Novosti.
- VOA documented that from August 2023 to September 2024, Russia's RIA Novosti alone published 403 pieces citing Johnson; Lenta.ru published 445; Rossiyskaya Gazeta 299; Sputnik 280; RT 163 — with the Kremlin using his claims to promote pro-Russian narratives.

This is exactly the kind of source-laundering pattern you flag — a partisan-coded claim ("Trump is unstable") bolted onto a propaganda-coded source ("Judging Freedom" / Johnson), which then travels through left-of-center social media with the Russia-adjacent ecosystem scrubbed out of the attribution.

### The mechanical problem with the claim

Even if you grant Johnson knew something, the story doesn't work as described. In the U.S., the president — and only the president — has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons. Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2021: "I explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority, and he doesn't launch them alone, and that I am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the United States." Milley also noted he is **not** in the chain of command — he is the principal military adviser — but is kept "in the loop."

A 2021 CRS summary puts it directly: the CJCS "is part of the 'chain of communication' in his role as the President's primary military advisor, but he is not in the 'chain of command' for authorizing a nuclear launch… The President does not need the concurrence of either his military leaders or the U.S. Congress to order the launch of nuclear weapons. Neither the military nor Congress can overrule these orders."

So the image of Gen. Caine "standing up and saying NO" in a meeting and thereby stopping a launch is not how the system works. A CJCS can raise legal objections, slow things down in a decision conference, or (in extremis) individual officers down the chain could refuse an order they judged illegal under UCMJ/LOAC — but none of that looks like the dramatic veto Johnson is describing. Even the **critics** of sole presidential authority, like former SecDef William Perry, argue for reform precisely because no such veto formally exists.

### What else is off

- **"Saturday" is doing a lot of work.** Johnson offered no documents, no named attendees, no corroborating leakers. Not even an anonymous "senior administration official." Just vibes.
- **The Hawaiian shirt is not a disqualifier on its own** — that's just a guy on a podcast set — but it's a useful reminder of what this actually is: a commentator riffing, not a source reporting.
- **Epistemic consistency check:** If a right-wing podcast host claimed a retired CIA guy had revealed Biden tried to do something reckless and was stopped by an anonymous general, with zero corroboration and the source being a longtime Kremlin media fixture, you'd (rightly) demand more. Same standard applies here.

### If you're thinking about sharing a correction

A tight version for a reply: "This is sourced to Larry Johnson on Napolitano's podcast — the same Johnson behind the debunked Obama 'whitey' tape and Napolitano's retracted GCHQ-wiretap claim, and a regular on Russian state media. No second source has confirmed it. Also, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs isn't in the nuclear chain of command — he advises, he doesn't veto."

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

For those attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, a small question: When you're sitting there at your table, do you think it'll cross your mind that the guest of honor is actively covering up his role in a massive child sex trafficking operation?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"You're just jealous of rich people" no I'm angry that a man with 12 vacation homes is paying less in taxes than a nurse

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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

To everyone who is upset about Canada Post moving the last of their customers from door service to community mailboxes. I have used the mailboxes for just under 40 years. They worked just fine. This is a first world problem. Please redirect your passion to overcoming the real problems in this world

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Tommy Chong says it all... THIS:

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Breaking: Robert Kraft meets with Mike Vrabel to discuss his future with the Patriots at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

David Cochrane is the best political host in the country and I am pleased to see he is back on TV after his medical leave. A national treasure, that guy

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Woman in the Moon @sassykadik.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

If Melania wants to come out and give us the dirt on Epstein and her husband, I promise to watch her movie.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Humankind DOES NOT need Elon Musk for literally ANYTHING.

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David Cochrane @davidwcochrane.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

See you all Monday at 5 eastern.

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Five / #2137 @five.yiff.ie · 10/04/2026

We should be meaner to conservatives

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Boosh63 @booshmeister.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Jesus Christ… Marilyn Gladu… … really?!? I’d rather have a minority government. 🤣

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Couldn't agree more with Bruce. That woman is vile.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Wow! This is from 30 YEARS ago! Mad TV predicting/demonstrating that the origins of MAGA are long entrenched in the #Republican psyche.

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jason500550.bsky.social @jason500550.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

They should ask the people of South Korea how to do it.

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

God it's fucking awful, isn't it? Reading Something Like That and feeling so utterly helpless to do anything about it. How the fuck are you supposed to get through the day?

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