doned.bsky.social
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Just like my American President, everything Putin says is a lie.
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www.yahoo.com/news/army-25...
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Showrunners know that they need the story to seem at least possible. So much of what's happened since 1/20/2025 has been unimaginable.
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You're welcome. I enjoy funny memes, etc., but sometimes I think more complicated stuff deserves a little more.
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QUOTE: "Trumpism is a kind of authoritarian autoimmune disease, one that has been ravaging the American body politic for so long that there are fewer small-d democratic antibodies left to fight it off."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I don't know if the DOJ under Biden was complicit in the coverup, but certainly Trump's DOJ is not going to be investigating it any farther.
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I don't believe the problem is that they don't know what is in the Constitution. They just don't care.
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I believe MAGAs are so far down the rabbit hole that there is nothing that could dislodge their loyalty. If Musk's files included videos of Trump forcing himself on young girls, (1) Trump would claim it is 'fake news' and deny it, (2) they would believe him, and (3) they wouldn't care anyway.
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I'm not sure that would be worse. Vance would certainly try to out-do Trump in creating evil, but I can't picture Republicans bowing down to worship (some literally!) him the way they do for Trump. The word that comes to my mind when I think about Vance is "twerp."
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I'd love to know if there was some betting pool about whether they would actually keep the information confidential, because I would bet all of our info will be available on the dark web soon.
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I look at that list, and mentally compare how many clicks those items will get vs Trump's constant barrage of headline grabbing, and MSM's harping on Joe Biden's mental status in 2024 (e.g. Jake Tapper's book tour). I believe Democrats are protesting, etc., you just don't hear about it.
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How can it be possible to get a democratic Russia with, apparently, a strong majority of Russians supporting Putin, supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and unbothered by the lack of free press or free speech? 48.34% of American voters voted against Trump in 2024. Russian percentages = ??
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How can we hear their voices, when they cannot speak without fear of brutal imprisonment or death?
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I'm not sure that is true. I know the meaning of lots of words for actions I am just unable to do.
(No, really, I have to give examples? ... "pole dancing" "running a marathon" "really understanding why anybody voted for Donald Trump in 2024" OK>?)
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I got the standard, sanitized US history 60 years ago in So.Cal. I was happier, not knowing the terribleness throughout so much of our history. I'm now listening to a terrific book called "The Small and The Mighty" by Sharon McMahon that is doing a nice job of filling in some of those gaps for me.
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Shocking. Might lead a cynic to believe that Trump's cabinet nominations were not based on getting the most highly qualified people for these important jobs.
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So claiming that Democrats did not oppose Trump's nominations was a gross exaggeration.
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ballotpedia.org/How_senators...
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<1>No.
Senators unanimously approved ONE appointment, another senator, consistent with the Senate's traditional collegiality. Six nominees received no supporting votes from any Democratic senators. Trump mostly didn't need any Democratic votes because the voters gave his party a majority.
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I think Democrats are calling out ICE's bad actions, we just don't read about it because that isn't news. What do you think they should do?
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Democrats unanimously confirmed Trump's appointments? I don't think so. Source?
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I am tired of hearing thoughtless raging at Democratic politicians for failing to do what they have no power to do since the American electorate gave complete control to the Republicans.
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I would swap out Donald Trump for Jamie Dimon in a heartbeat. But I would much prefer to have caught a ride in that alternate reality where Hillary Clinton was President for 8 years, followed by Kamala Harris.
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I couldn't find the Penn State study, but it's more understandable to me that Israelis would feel that way since a majority of Palestinians choose war against Israel, as they did in the years leading up to 2023 when Hamas placed their military in hospitals and schools.
www.npr.org/2024/07/26/g...
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Source please?
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Countries are made up of people, no two of which are the same. Some Israelis want their government to erase Palestine. Some Israelis want their government to withdraw from Palestine. Over-simplifying the situation, as if every Israeli citizen agrees with what Netanyahu does, is simply false.
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No, Israel doesn't want anything. Israel is a country. Some people of Israel (especially after the October 7, 2023 attack when Hamas posted videos of atrocities), surely feel that way. Some don't. Your hyper-simplification of the situation must let you enjoy feeling so morally superior.
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All the complexities of massive litigation, often against some federal agencies, still stand on the simple idea that "I want lawyers who will fight for me" and not lawyers who are worried about whether the other side likes them.
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Yes, and Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc., got a lot of money to do terrible things from countries that, basically, hate Israel & USA. Somehow, I don't see this point leading to anything getting better.
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I do think the country would be much better off if it was somehow possible to get someone into the White House to have sex with him.
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<2> If the goal of pro-Palestinians is something different they should use a different phrase. If they do mean to eliminate the Israeli's, that would certainly be fostering violence.
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<1> "No one" might be an overstatement. I've seen pro-Palestinians reciting "From the river to the sea" even though Israelis typically understand that as a threat to drive out the Israelis and restore Palestinian dominion to all of that land.
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I think all of the people who are either Pro Palestine or Pro Israel are fostering this horrible, endless tragedy. Terrible things have been done in the name these peoples by their leaders who gain power and wealth from the conflict. Any resolution must be Pro Palestine AND Israel.
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<4> He can fire all the employees & refuse to spend the money allocated by Congress for the agency's function, because all power to implement any laws in any way is supposedly given to the President. Then, four years later, a progressive president would have to rebuild the agencies from scratch.
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<3> And SCOTUS's reactionary-6 are set to further empower Trump's dictatorial ambitions with something called the "Unitary Executive" theory. Under some invisible part of the Constitution, no matter what stability the laws provide for federal agencies, the President can just destroy them.
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<2> They claim to preserve the safety net (e.g. Medicaid) while excluding many people who need it by cutting staff and imposing requirements that are impracticable for disabled people to meet.
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There was a time (e.g. 1/19/2025) when America understood that we were better off with allies and trading partners. Letting big countries gobble up little countries doesn't end well.
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P.s. Has anyone ever mentioned to you how much you actually look like Neville Chamberlain?
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"All we have to do is" (a) the impossible, since some NATO members won't approve Ukraine's entry, and (b) if it were possible, then NATO is immediately at war with Russia. You solution seems as practical as just wishing really, really hard that Russia would withdraw from Ukraine.
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<2>America can no longer be trusted to defend Europe, so Europe must increase their military, which is terribly expensive. "Pursue an agenda for peace" is just an elegantly phrased call to encourage Putin's desire for a new empire.
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<1>"The government" can't "care." At best the people running the government can, and should, and actually do care. But, you propose a false dichotomy. Voters won't give them unlimited resources. Europe now faces a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin, who must be stopped militarily.
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Sure. Or if he admits to being a felon and resigns as President, which seems about equally as likely.
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BTW, DOJ, per Merriam Webster dictionary:
Eighty-six is slang meaning "to throw out," "to get rid of," or "to refuse service to." The fact that there is also an obscure meaning for some people that involves someone KIA doesn't give you probably cause to do anything.
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<2> Republicans will blame immigrants, or Democrats, or somebody, claiming thereby to have solved the problem, and will send thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of the victims.