notralphmalph.bsky.social
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To be clear, Chuck Schumer, Fetterman and all the accommodationist Democrats need to resign, retire, or be primaried. But attacking AOC for not impeaching Trump is silly. She’s been out there fighting the whole time.
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They don’t have the votes and Speaker Johnson will never even allow a vote on it. And this is somehow the Dems’ fault?
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Vance literally served with Padilla in the Senate for 2 years. In JD’s mind he was probably always “Jose.”
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I didn’t say anything about decorum and letters. And I don’t need you to lecture me about the Nazis. My mother was in a Nazi labor camp. I know what they were, and history is repeating itself.
I support resistance. But criticizing Congressmen for not making an armed assault on ICE is just posturing
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Hate to break it to you but ICE has a lot of guys with guns. Do you think you could find an armed security person willing to get shot for Jerry Nadler?
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The most disturbing thing about this is that Trump seems to believe that the war in Ukraine is happening in Russia.
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I blocked them too, so I never saw their post. 😃
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I never said it was OK. I just prefer fewer bad things and more good things. If that means I’m evil, then that’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it.
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There’s always been shit. But do you want more shit or less shit? I’d prefer less.
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Now you’re just making stuff up. They said she had cash, but they never said how much. They said she had passports but never said they were fake.
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So what crime do you think they should have charged her with? Seems to me she may have been afraid her crazy husband was going to come after her next and she was fleeing to Canada while he was on the run.
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The feds can charge if they want but that wouldn’t make the state charges go away.
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As Ben Franklin said, it’s a republic, if you can keep it. He understood that it was only with hard work and vigilance that we will keep it.
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There is no such thing.
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There is no mechanism in the Constitution for citizen impeachment. There is no such thing. Only the House of Representatives has the power of impeachment.
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Ha. I’ll bet he’s celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day with an Irish flag before.
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He is leaving to spend more time with the young woman he left his family for.
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Arrested by whom?
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Of course it’s a constitutional crisis. When the president does things that are plainly unlawful and unconstitutional and the constitutional structure is unable to stop him or do anything about it, that is a constitutional crisis.
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As much as we romanticize the anti-war protests of the 60’s, remember that they led to the election and reelection of Richard Nixon. Chaos and unrest — even if provoked by an unjust war or by ICE thugs — does not win over average voters. This plays into the hands of MAGA. Gandhi and MLK were right.
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Elon Musk spends over 6 hours a day on video games and social media. Is that fair?
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One thing about the USA is that you have a right to wave whatever flag you want.
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I’m no expert on military law but don’t the military commanders — both of the National Guard and the Marines at Camp Pendleton — have a duty to refuse to follow illegal orders?
I guess that’s why Hegseth replaced the JAG’s.
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I fear a Kent State type incident is coming. These guys are going to shoot into a crowd at some point, and things could get real bad real fast.
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Neither, I think.
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Sadly, recent history shows that there is not a shortage of unscrupulous people willing to do almost anything for personal advancement. People with integrity still have to do the right thing, but what’s left is a government staffed by people without integrity.
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Suppose the Democrats had pushed a “codify Roe” bill to a vote, which would not have passed due to a few anti-choice Democrats in the House and a Republican filibuster in the Senate. The result would have been to lose some Democratic held seats in red or purple states. How would that help the cause?
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The Treaty of Tripoli, negotiated by the George Washington Administration, signed by President John Adams, and approved unanimously by the Senate in 1797, says this: “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.”
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Spraying bear spray at a person with a gun might not be a good idea. If he actually is a fed, you’ll be facing felony charges. Worst case, you’ll get shot, whether he’s a real fed or not.
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A novel in one sign.
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I have seen a lot of 0.00 DWI’s, where the police suspected a driver was under the influence of drugs and usually they get a search warrant and take a blood sample. The mere fact of a 0.00 DWI doesn’t prove that it was a bad arrest.
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He didn’t even read it. He reposted it because he was younger in the picture and it seemed vaguely critical of Biden.
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Case Price $86.47!
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I want to report an immigrant drug user from South Africa who set up a wacky pretend government agency that has been firing federal employees who do important work for our country.
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Much of what I know about President Polk came from They Might Be Giants.
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Who is going to arrest them? Who is going to prosecute them?
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I find this story hard to believe. No recent PhD graduate would
have $100.
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Miss South Carolina would have answered the question better.
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Trump has 3 arms in this photo and Epstein has no legs.
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I knew a guy who got 86’ed from a bar. Haven’t seen him lately. I guess it’s because the bar had him killed.
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You can “hold the white electorate accountable” and keep losing elections, or you can try to figure out how to win the next election.
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It means they know who it is but they haven’t announced it to the public yet.
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🤔
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Like my WW2 veteran father, some of the American soldiers at Normandy were immigrants. Some of them weren’t even US citizens.
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I oppose Trump as much as anyone. But treason has a specific legal definition that only applies in wartime - waging war against the United States or giving aid and comfort to its enemies.
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Chauvin is serving 22 years for his state conviction; Trump can’t pardon him for that. So he won’t be getting out anytime soon.
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The resolution is fine, the freezing and crashing not so much.
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So I take it Lipton believes it would be acceptable for a NYT reporter to accept lavish gifts from the subject of a story as long as there isn’t proof of a direct quid pro quo.