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If this isn't naked fascism, I don't know what is. We are reverting to monarchy, and if we don't stop it, we're cooked as a republic. Back to business as usual: TYRANNY. Our 250 year experiment in democratic governance failed once and for all.

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Anyone who fails to see the through line from the abdication by Congress of the War Powers, granted unequivocally to it in the Constitution, to where we are now, with the President well along in the process of arrogating ALL POWER unto himself, is just not getting it. We MUST RESIST by all means.

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"Concentrated power in one set of hands is dangerous." --Sen. Angus King this weekend. That just about says it all. WE MUST RESIST at ANY COST.

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

A healthy functional society? Never heard of it! Not around here, that's for damn sure.

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No, no, no. Carry on! We hate you both so much!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I find it absolutely delicious that these two utterly deplorable human beings are tearing each others' throats out.

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Absolutely phenomenal. Spiderweb will go down in history alongside The Trojan Horse. No kidding. It's epochal.

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I'm no expert, but as I understand it, the Constitution gives Congress the power to determine the scope of jurisdiction of the courts, but only the Constitution, which has certain implicit common law basis, sets the POWERS of the Court. So this provision is likely UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

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I wouldn't eat a taco... or anything else from there. Ptomaine salad anyone?

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The fact that the first thing he thinks of is whether a criminal "liked him" or not tells you all you need to know about this narcissistic sociopath.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Ick. I did not want to have that image in my mind. Ever.

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All the more reason to expedite the court decision which of course WILL FIND the tariffs are UNCONSTITUTIONAL and ILLEGAL...unless the decision is rigged. Which, of course, it probably will be (sigh).

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I wish I could say I believe a single word this disgusting weasel ever says, but I can't. Hopefully this will happen, but his saying it reassures me not one bit.

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This is absolutely disgraceful. Democrats need to stand against FASCISM ... at home and abroad.

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I don't fully understand who is behind this, etc. but it is RIGHT ON. I've thought Schumer was out of touch for years, but his actions this year qualify him to be ousted from leadership, primaried, and forcibly RETIRED. There is NO COMING BACK from this.

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What a GDSOB. Seriously. This man is despicable.

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As a Tesla owner who can't afford to ditch the car for what amounts to symbolic reasons, I hate Elon Musk. I don't like to hate people, but some people are so destructive to humanity that they actually deserve to be hated. And he's one of them. I don't wish him dead, but I wish him GONE.

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This level of cluelessness in any normally functioning political system would be instantly career ending.

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Well, duh. I think this is a major concern for a lot of judges.

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I am so sick of Republicans and Trumpers droning on about debt as justification for their horrific anti-human 1BBB (ugly). The debt is ballooning for just 1 reason. THEY refuse to impose fair taxes on the very rich. We are now living in THE MOST INEQUITABLE society in history. Due 100% to them.

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Jesus. This is about an honest to Baal monster. WTF?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Well, that pretty much clinches it. The fix is in. We need to lean heavily on the few Republicans who just might vote no... we need 4 or 5 if that a*hole Fetterman votes for it. Gonna be tough.

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Obviously the right decision. This is going to end up in the Supreme Court, sooner rather than later. I'd say not all that unlikely that there will be at least 5 votes that agree that this EXCEEDS the temporary, limited transfer of an inherent Article I power to the exec. that the statutes confer.

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What total crap. Scary thing is this sociopathic idiot probably actually believes that.

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The principal problem in most American cities is that the pattern of development makes the "last mile" virtually inacessible by rail lines, unless literally hundreds of lines and feeder shuttles criscross development built for access exclusively by cars. Not impossible, but a huge project.

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Since graft and money laundering are the principal raison d'etre for crypto, especially this kind of naked personality cult BS, this is hardly surprising. Anyone who thinks this is a real investment, and not a beyond risky pump and dump scheme, is JUST PLAIN STUPID.

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This is so ridiculous. "86" can mean "get rid of" figuratively, and is used in that sense all the time. The idea that for saying "get rid of 47" Comey can be treated as having seriously threatened Trump's life is beyond absurd, and is obviously yet another fearmongering tactic of Trump's gestapo.

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Total bullshit. Biden's not steping aside earlier certainly contributed to Trump and Trumpism's victory. But Biden is gone, and the American people are suffering under THIS regime. The past is the past; what matters is the present. And the future. And even MAGites are seeing they're getting screwed.

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Do they really think that even most MAGites won't realize that it's Trump and Trumpism that's causing this inflation, which is specifically focused on consumer products purchased mainly by working and lower middle class Americans?

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If you really can't understand why this is grossly inappropriate in a republic with a government of, by, and for the people, then you are FAR too clueless to hold ANY job in government.

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Actually nothing new about this. Rich political donors have gotten private tours of aircraft carriers and similar perks from time immemorial, and it's worse than unseemly in a democracy. I have always thought so.

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Amen. I wont return to the disgusting past I was born into with separate doors, bathrooms, tables, water fountains etc for whites and "coloreds"- a Jim Crow world supported by the KKK and Southern Evangelicals. They had these kind of water fountains in my school.

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

Accusing the opposition of exactly what the regime itself is doing is so quintessential a totalitarian characteristic that you can use it as a clue to what they're REALLY up to.

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Uh, dumbo... almost by definition, White South Africans were not born in the US, so the question has no meaning. If they were, they're citizens, unless they've renounced their citizenship. Next question, please. (Whether other countries have birthright citizenship is not up to us).

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Before this is over, all but the MOST deluded MAGites will have figured out they've been royally screwed by people who despise them and care only about themselves. To the point that they've wrecked our country. The literally DO NOT CARE. Impeach! Remove!

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Just like prohibitive tariffs = defacto embargo, unsupportable indirect costs, which are essential to nearly all research, amount to the elimination of government support for scientific research. Which is definitely one of the stupidest, most destructive policies of the regime. Impeach! Remove!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

What an absolutely stunning image. What evolutionary purpose does the human sense of beauty serve that when we see an image like this, of beauty on the largest scales, we (Some of us, anyway) get goosebumps?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This whole revolting development made me feel literally sick.

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Helping the U.S. gets you banned, being white gets you a welcome mat. Got it.

submitted 27 days ago • 522 comments

Oh, that'll be super popular.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The Constitution is clear. The president cannot accept this bribe except by act of Congress. Under the founders' intent, that should definitely NOT be enacted. If he accepts it without Congressional approval, it should be given back and he should be impeached, if Congress cares about the law.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is, quite simply, a travesty of justice. Period.

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Uh, yeah. I think BRIBERY, in addition to being an explicit ground for impeachment, is a "substantial ethical issue". Then there's the emoluments clause(s). Which are ALSO violated.

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Notwithstanding what people say about Tesla, they're actually great cars... not the most technologically advanced in all respects, but pretty great and getting better. It's the politics that's WRECKING the company. They should FIRE Musk from the board. And launch a major rebranding campaign.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Two tangentially related facts. Guam is territory of the United States. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot.

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