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Chasstev365

(7,970 posts) Mon Oct 20, 2025, 03:05 PM Oct 2025

Well this is terrifying: Trump and Noem are building a private army;

https://www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-s-ice-spends-fortune-on-chemical-weapons-and-guided-missile-warheads/

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Well this is terrifying: Trump and Noem are building a private army; (Original Post) Chasstev365 Oct 2025 OP

Okay... 2naSalit Oct 2025 #1

Waco on Steroids by the freedom-from-government Republicans /nt bucolic_frolic Oct 2025 #2

This has been the plan all along. Trump's private army with nukes and missiles. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #3

Time to go back to reading fiction as it's much less strange. SheltieLover Oct 2025 #4

2naSalit

(103,450 posts)

1. Okay...

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 03:13 PM

Oct 2025

Stop the world, I'm ready to exit.

I just hope that if I have to live a lot longer that this will be over soon, it's already taken up ten precious years of my retirement.

bucolic_frolic

(55,478 posts)

2. Waco on Steroids by the freedom-from-government Republicans /nt

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Mon Oct 20, 2025, 03:14 PM

Oct 2025

Irish_Dem

(81,916 posts)

3. This has been the plan all along. Trump's private army with nukes and missiles.

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Mon Oct 20, 2025, 03:15 PM

Oct 2025

SheltieLover

(81,321 posts)

4. Time to go back to reading fiction as it's much less strange.

Reply to Chasstev365 (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 06:22 PM

Oct 2025

Mind you, I'm reading Chet & Bernie, a mystery series written from the point of view of the dog.

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