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Protection racket 101

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Anyone else really dislike the term "Founding Fathers"?

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What kind of half assed dictator only manages an approval rating in the 60s?

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

I'n glad Mitch McConnell lived long enough to taste the rotten fruits of his harvest. He was responsible for creating the extremist MAGA movement that has fully turned on him. One of the great villains of the past 30 years.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

Ukraine gets security guarantees, provided it gives rare earth minerals to the US. That's a protection racket, isn't it?

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Okay, please stop calling Yalta what's quite frankly can end up being a mixture of Munich and Molotov-Ribbentrop 😃

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Republicans leadership: The election was stolen! Republican base: Goes beserk, riots, attacks police, plants pipe bombs, invades the Capitol Democrat leadership: The whole country is being stolen right now! Democrat base:

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Ah, shit. I thought it was his ECG.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Big thanks to the Supreme Court for allowing unlimited money in our elections, making the President a king and taking away the right of a woman to control her own body. WTF

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hurling abuse at elected representatives for not standing up to Trump & Musk is fine. But you can't do it on X. Demanding someone risks their life & income when you're unwilling to even risk your follower count is beyond hypocritical. You're toweling down the opposing fighter. Get off X.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Hopefully Trump will decide that Obergruppenführer Von Ketamine has gotten a little big for his boots and fire him on one of his rockets into space.

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a secret fifth thing

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Really refreshing to see there's at least one establishment wonk not falling into the gravitational well of pre-emptive obsequiousness. Let's medically examine Ellen Weintraub's spine and see if we can culture it in a lab for mass distribution.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately now we have 3 co-fecal branches of govt.

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This might become one of those posts I repost every 2 weeks or so. I'm aware the mechanism that causes a republic to fail comprises of many spinning cogs and gears, but some contributing factors are more significant than others. And this one here is the Franz Ferdinand of contributing factors.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I'd show up like 2 hours late on my first day, unwashed, sleepy, wearing a tiara and be all like sorry but what does a Canadian fentanyl czar do again

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you can hear this reply becoming gradually muffled as the car window slides up

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Sure, Trump evicting war orphans and genocide survivors from Gaza, razing their homes and replacing them with Vegas del Mar is the purest malevolence yet conceived this century, but Kamala Harris almost spoke to Joe Rogan so they're basically the same.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The law is to billionaires what ink is to squid.

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I really don’t think it’s happenstance that pretty much every remaining institutional safeguard broke down within 15 years of Citizens United

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I can't quite fathom how decent, informed and intelligent people are still posting on X. They have to know they are driving engagement and contributing toward Elon Musk's advertising revenue. Perhaps they're victims of sunk cost fallacy. Whatever the case, their numbers are very disappointing.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The immediate response of any truly patriotic UK Prime Minister to Trump tariffs on UK imports to the US should be to submit an application to join the European Union. Just like Sweden and Finland joined NATO after Putin invaded Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Authoritarianism nearly always rides in on the back of free and fair elections. It comes in through the front door, quietly closes it and changes the lock. The longer we give the Trump/Musk cabal to entrench, the more likely bloodshed will be required to remove them.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

People, please accept the worst, so you can get past the dread & move on to fighting back. The worst things we were worried about WILL happen. Gabbard, RFK Jr, Patel, purges, arrests, abandoning Ukraine, NATO, illegal acts, theft, mass deportations. All of it. Fight like it's already happened

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Van Gogh drew amazing pen drawings. Beautiful!

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Many of the people who voted for Trump voted for Liberal tears, and we appear to be granting their wish with a fire hose, at the moment. Our response should be cogent and organized, our fury targeted and dispassionate.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

You have to remove the demand to dry up the supply. This goes for everything from fentanyl to political extremism. And the first step is ALWAYS to understand what's driving the demand.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Every moment spent debating "measured" responses to Trump and Musk's seizure of government power tips the scales further toward constitutional collapse. They move with decisive speed while defenders of democracy wait for proper procedures. This is how coups succeed.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment