mjrdude.bsky.social
Grateful to FDR’s policies and Mom for keeping me and my siblings together.
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Does the theory behind our current interpretation of the 2nd amendment apply to countries? Do they have the equivalent of a 2nd Amendment right?
Should individuals - even Americans living under the laws of our constitution - have some restrictions if they’re irresponsible and untrustworthy?
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But if the authorities are aware that you beat your wife, or you threaten your neighbors, or were so misbehaved on a plane that the airlines won’t accept your money and you’re never allowed to fly again, shouldn’t that ban you from owning a gun?
Can we be consistent here, please?
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Now, I understand that Iran has threatened Israel, and they stood up to the U.S. when we protected their former leader who they overthrew because he was a tyrant who tortured and killed his own people…
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“Second Amendment!”, they say. ‘You have the right to protect yourself against criminals or a despotic government’.
Yet, a sovereign nation, threatened by the leaders of the world’s largest military as “evil”, “must never be allowed to have nuclear weapons”.
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The devil is a liar and a divider. Do they think this trope of Harris’ nomination will divide Democrats? They’re living in glass houses. They shouldn’t even bother bringing it up.
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They’re about to do it again when James David Bowman takes over after Trump’s McDonald’s binging - and/or Divine Intervention - catches up with him.
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They caused us to have a President, Leslie Lynch King, Jr, who was NEVER elected to national office. He had only been elected by a congressional district in Michigan.
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7. Yet, the Republicans chose him as their nominee. A convicted felon and rapist. Now THAT’S derangement.
Republicans are THE LAST people to criticize another party’s nomination process.
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5. Trump didn’t bother showing up for a single debate. He acted like he was anointed.
6. In 2020, the Republicans CANCELLED PRIMARIES so Trump wouldn’t be embarrassed by strong showings by William Weld and Joe Walsh.
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2. 100% of the state delegations all supported her as the nominee. No Democrat challenged that.
3. Trump is a convict with 34 felonies of which he was found guilty.
4. Trump’s been adjudicated as a rapist.
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Also, do gang members decide to stay home when a major protest is happening? Do they say, ‘No! This is THEIR time. Let’s just stay home tonight’. (I don’t think so, and if you do, you are naive).
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Michael Levine commented. The “it” he’s referring to is ‘The War on Drugs’.
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Thats not “defunding the cops”. Thats rebooting the mission.
Imagine.
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What if the children who are born in and living in the homes of addicts were given the tools to break the cycle, including a healthy diet and adequate health care so their education wasn’t drowned out by the static of hunger and flashbacks of the previous night’s terror?
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If you want to solve “the Immigration problem” AND the Crime AND the Drug Problems, we should understand the underlying causes and be willing to address them.
What if, in addition to Law Enforcement Officers, we had as many Mental Health Officers who were paid on par with Law Enforcement?
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Why was Panama invaded by the U.S. military & its president, Manuel Noriega, arrested & jailed in the U.S.? What could he have told the world about the international drug trade and international money laundering - if he could have gotten his story out, unfiltered & uncensored by his captors?
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You may be left wondering if ‘the war on drugs’ wasn’t conceived mainly to eliminate the competition.
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(2). Read former DEA Agent Michael Levine’s book, “Deep Cover”. Read how, at great risk to his life, he infiltrated the highest levels of the international drug gangs. Read also how a huge bust was undermined “from the top”, by the Executive branch of the U.S. government.
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…at least part of what we were fighting FOR was the maintenance of their economy which was largely built on supplying the opium trade.
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(1). the U.S. allowed the poppy trade in Afghanistan to continue throughout the war.
The poppy fields were protected. For over 20 years, through four presidents - Republicans and Democrats -
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No drug-motivated prostitution.
No gang turf wars on our streets.
No governments destabilized by the violence and corruption of the drug trade.
No deaths by overdose.
Before you take aim at me, consider these two things:
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No smuggling.
No violent gangs who would kill cops and corrupt elected officials, here and in their source countries.
No addicts burglarizing homes, armed robberies, grandma’s looted bank accounts - to get money for drugs.
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That’s the same tack taken with solving society’s drug problem. Punishment over treatment.
That strategy has clearly failed.
Imagine no addiction to “recreational” drugs. Or a health-care approach to those who are.
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The authoritarian-reactionary answer is to blame the addict for being ‘weak’ (as Trump refers to his elder brother) or some other charecter fault, and choose to punish rather than heal.
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I don’t expect the Adderol abuser-in-chief to see his own woeful self in that description, but the dude has been broken by some deep emotional pain since childhood. It would be pitiable if, instead of working on it, he wasn’t so toxic to others (as happens with addicts).
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Before her, Jimmy Carter got blasted for suggesting that America was suffering a “national malaise”. His choice of words was too kind.
The rate of alcohol and drug consumption in this country indicates a DEEP DESPAIR and PAIN, both physical and emotional. Why? What’s at the root of that?
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When will the DEMAND side be addressed? Nancy Reagan tried with the “Just Say No” campaign, bless her heart. She didn’t ‘get’ why some would say ‘yes’. That campaign was not taken seriously. It became a punchline.
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Suspending habeas corpus threatens you too.
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Booker: every time I think he’s got greatness in him, he proves me wrong.
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Trump devalued the labor that went into his projects (“take 10-cents on the dollar, or sue me”). My guess is that he’ll try to use prison labor to fill those jobs.
I wish some interviewer would ask him how he’ll replace those workers.
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I agree, it’s like he’s pitting goods against services.
Those jobs that need to be done will have to pay higher wages to attract Americans - unless he has some other plan to harness labor.
Will we have inflation or bondage?
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From my Substack, today:
substack.com/@mjrdude/not...
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We need to make our democracy less absurd. Then, maybe, we’ll get greater participation in it….if it’s not already too late.
#MoveToAmend
#EndCitizensUnited
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The money that is raised and spent is obscene, and most for the purpose of suppressing the vote for one’s opponent. They lie about one another’s character (mostly lie, some are truly miscreants) and their voting record.
So, many refuse to participate. They don’t vote.
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We’ve been like frogs, slowly boiling.
The whole George W Bush administration was a steady erosion of our rights, with the 9-11 attacks as a catalyst for government control.
Phil Ochs’ ‘A Small Circle of Friends’ comes to mind.
And, to be fair, our politics are absurd.
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If I was a fan, I wouldn’t show up for this and risk this administration’s treatment.
Are Trump and Vance sure that Stephen Miller approved this?
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Interesting that she got so defensive.
Fact is, he was a failure and on the balls of his ass when he got elected. Bankrupted multiple casinos.
And he did us a favor by being president. Thanks, but no thanks.