Colonel Curmudgeon 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️

@smokedoyster.bsky.social

Disabled Vietnam vet, NSA, USCENTCOM, Army, Political-Military Analyst (FAO) turned smart-ass. Old AF Cranky Grandpa. #NSPM-7 #antifa #bluecrew #lgbtq #ForeignServiceInstitute #NPGS #bluecrewfriends #democracydefender #democrat #fucktrump #antifa

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Phang: "Think about what could be done if the FBI was deployed to really follow the investigative leads that have come out of even these bullshit redactions that we have in the Epstein files right now."

A president threatening senators who’ve stopped being afraid, a senator who won’t speak for his own daughter, and a health agency raising drug costs in an election year — this is what a party looks like when it’s spent everything it had on loyalty and has nothing left to offer anyone else.

Phang: "The fact that it's taking France and England and other foreign countries to be able to launch investigations, and yet our American DOJ is sitting on it doing absolutely nothing, including not cooperating with those foreign nations, is such a big red flag."

Hinojosa: That is Greg Abbott’s record. That’s why the polling shows people want change. They know Greg Abbott. They know he’s been there 12 years, and they will not elect him to another four. That’s the opportunity we have in this election.