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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump's ballroom: where the elite will meet to eat... our lunch!

Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Talk about flip-flopping. Suddenly, numerous Republican candidates who have been swimming agreeably along with Trump now find themselves high and dry in the eyes of voters. And they're not going to be thrown back into the (Reflecting) pool.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What a petulant child! A federal judge just blocked the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from restoring the president’s name to the building. So, Mr. Trump said, he would block a $257 million renovation of the center that he has been championing for more than a year. Waaaa! 😭Waaaa! 😭

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Votesafe.org WARNING. This website is a data mining effort to identify messaging targets for Radical Right Propaganda. It is funded and operated by Elon Musk’s super PAC. The data collected will be used to influence the election by distributing misinformation and disinformation.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally! After weeks of Mike Whatley's blatant lies, Roy Cooper has responded. Bluntly. Factually. Powerfully. Whatley has shown himself to be a morally bankrupt party hack in thrall to his big money PACs. We've had enough of this from the GOP (Greed Over Principle). Good on you, Roy Cooper!

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Of course, Trump takes all the credit for it. U.S. prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago. Mostly due to a law from Joe Biden's time in office that allowed Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Pay up, Donny! The Supreme Court declined for a second time to take up President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a jury verdict that awarded $5 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for alleged sexual abuse and defamation.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The people - all the people - are the electricity that runs democracy. Resistance produces heat... and light. We must keep turning the heat up and letting the light shine brighter as we do so.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump's blathering about rigged elections is profoundly insulting to all the civic-minded volunteer poll workers. These men and women freely take time out of their lives to make sure we have free, fair, and well-administered elections. What a slap in the face to these truly patriotic citizens!

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

America has problems in search of solutions. The Republicans have solutions in search of problems. Let's solve the problems we have... not the ones we don't.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's true. Snopes verified that SecDef Hegseth actually announced mandatory testosterone-level screening for troops. And he did not appear to make an exception for women. Whoa... does this mean that women will go into the military and come out men? Quick, someone tell the President.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Here's an interesting irony about Trump's claim of election rigging in 2020. When he won in 2016, Obama was in office. No rigging. And when he won in 2024, Biden was in office. No rigging. But when he lost in 2020, he was in office. So, did he rig the election against himself? Duh!

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The midterms are more important than ever. Congress doesn't need the President to pass legislation. Any bill that passes the House and Senate by 2/3 or more will become law in 10 days, whether he signs it or not. We can make Trump irrelevant! He won't just be a lame duck; he'll be a plucked duck.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Iranian Peace Deal: M.A.G.A. - Make America Grovel Ashamedly.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A sign of things to come? Just past 3 a.m. this morning, workers began removing President Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in compliance with a federal judge’s ruling that the attempted rebranding was unlawful.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

During his presidential campaigns, Trump often emphasized how he would do things "quickly." He had a reason. In recent court arguments, the DOJ spelled it out: Break the law so quickly no one can stop him. The damage is done. His power, demonstrated. Their example: bulldozing the Statue of Liberty.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Worth noting. While this year marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, it is also the 237th anniversary of another world-changing No-Kings protest: Bastille Day, Tuesday, July 14. Vive La France!

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Trump recently said, “I know some very stupid people who went to good schools.” We can name one.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Washington already has a ballroom. The Great Hall at the National Building Museum is 36,636 sq. ft. with a ceiling rising from 75 ft at the entrance to 159 ft under the atrium. It seats 2,000. Trump’s Grand Ballroom is about 25,000 sq. feet, with a 40-ft ceiling. The Great Hall is almost 50% larger.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Don't fall for it. Trump likes the idea of renaming U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement to National Immigration & Customs Enforcement. So, agents become "NICE", not "ICE". They weren't "U.S. ICE" agents, so "National" doesn't make a difference. Call it manure or shit. It still stinks.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Secret Service is to be commended for their courageous protection of the President and everyone at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night. As corrupt as this administration is, violence can never be the remedy. Ballots, not bullets. In a democracy, our weapons are ideas... not guns.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." Thomas Paine

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Trump and Hegseth say Iran started this war 47 years ago in 1979 when they took Americans hostage. Wrong! We started it in 1954 when we imposed a dictatorship that brutalized its opponents, especially Islamic clerics.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Here's an interesting historical note. The last time we sent astronauts to the moon, the President (Richard Nixon) ended up resigning. It appears, to quote Robert Heinlein, the moon is a harsh mistress.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth - a former National Guard major - fired 4-star General Randy George, the Army’s Chief of Staff. Like his boss, Hegseth is a petty little man unable to deal with people with character, honor, and intelligence. Once again, incompetence trumps (pun intended) competence.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Please explain this to me: Trump has essentially told NATO they are on their own to fight their own battles. Despite facing a nuclear-armed adversary, Russia. He doesn't want to get sucked into a foreign war. So, why doesn't he say that to Israel? Which has sucked us into a foreign war.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The "Deal Maker in Chief" may need to go back and read the book he supposedly wrote. Suddenly, he needs the help of all those allies and other countries from whom he has extorted trade deals. Now, they are in a position to extract concessions from him. So much for "The Art of the Deal"!

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The US war in Iran meets the criteria of Cipolla's 3rd Law of Stupidity: A stupid person causes losses to others while gaining nothing, or even losing themselves.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

President Trump called on other countries to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz as fighting in the Middle East rattles the global economy. Why should others put their service men and women in harm's way because of Trump's catastrophic, ill-conceived, and ego-driven war?

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Affordability? Gas prices are just the beginning. Fuel costs affect the shipment of products from overseas and the imported components used in US-made products. Delivery costs will go up. Fertilizer costs will rise, impacting farmers and food costs. It's bad now. It'll get worse.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Trump is following the same old playbook. Mousolinni created a pretext to launch a war against Ethiopia. Hitler created a pretext to launch a war against Poland. Japan created a pretext to launch a war against China.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

There was a catch. Remember when Trump ran for president in 2024, he promised to start "no new wars," and asserted that Kamala Harris would send the "sons and daughters of Americans to a war in a country that you’ve never heard of." There's the catch. We've heard of Iran. So it must be OK,

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Will María Corina Machado take back her Nobel Peace Prize?

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Send this to Congress: The President just started a war with Iran without Congressional authorization in violation of Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution and his own repeated promises not to engage in foreign wars or regime change. What are you going to do about it?

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

How is the attack on Iran different? When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the U.S.and Japan were in intensive but ultimately deadlocked diplomatic negotiations over Japan’s war in China/Indochina and U.S. economic sanctions. Iran is not an immediate or imminent threat. Barely even a potential threat.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Perhaps Trump's claim that this is the greatest economy ever isn't a delusion, especially if you respond to his boast with "For you, maybe." After all, the Trump organization has made millions on crypto and stock manipulations. He is making out like a bandit... and bandit is the right metaphor.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Using game theory, one can view "conservatives" as tending to see life as a zero-sum game, whereas "progressives" tend to see life as a positive-sum game. This dichotomy applies to so many issues, e.g., universal health care, climate change, trade, immigration, etc.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

What should we call it? The gaudy ballroom, proposed triumphal arch, the renamed performing arts center, and anything else his "edifice complex" decides. Trumpification: the creation of tawdry structures designed to shore up a fragile ego struggling vainly to achieve some measure of self-worth.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Should we be worried? Is Elon Musk becoming too powerful? SpaceX has acquired xAI to create a $1.25 trillion giant. Elon Musk controls both firms. This merger would allow Musk to deploy data centers in space and use them for AI services, outside the jurisdiction of any one country.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"Let me see your papers." Long has been a typical hallmark of a totalitarian police state. So, note: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem recently advised reporters that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may ask some Americans for proof of citizenship during enforcement operations.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just another con. Trump wants to lower credit card interest rates. Yes, that reduces credit card payments, but really, it just makes it easier to go into debt to buy things you can't otherwise afford. How about making things affordable so you don't have to use your credit card in the first place?

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It's not about ICE going after "them" anymore. Whatever their reason or excuse, the fact is, ICE shot a white, suburban mom. She wasn't an immigration target. (She was white and spoke English.) So, they could have just let her drive away. They didn't, and now she is dead.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

STGM47- sic transit gloria mundi (thus passes the glory of the world). A reminder for this President.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Recently, Trump said it himself in Pennsylvania: "I love minors."

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote on social media: “America was founded by settlers and missionaries, not immigrants." FYI: All immigrants applying for citizenship are tested on their knowledge of U.S. history & government. Perhaps we need to require members of Congress to meet the same standard.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I wish I could be there. Protest group Refuse Fascism is holding a demonstration on December 13 in which it plans to surround the White House to deliver a “people’s indictment” against Trump, claiming he should be removed from power.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Did they cave? Maybe not. Eight Democrats joined Republicans to end the shutdown in exchange for a promise to vote on the ACA tax credits in December. This promise keeps the affordability of healthcare on Republicans! Will they keep it? They may have shot themselves in the foot with that promise.

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Mr. Fox @smart-as-a-fox.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Sleepy Joe? What about Dozing Donald?

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