plooger.bsky.social
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Exactly the point of the law.
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There are good people in the world.
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“Branch” Manager. Classic.
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Seems relevant to note that they’re also getting there by stripping people of their legal immigration status.
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Just saw another comment mentioning that this is a 3-day weekend for much of the rest of the Army, in celebration of their 250th year. Just not for these troops.
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Did you watch the same parade as The @WashingtonPost.com
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Wow.
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I’m sure he didn’t hear it this time either, unless the writer was clever enough to regularly insert words/phrases that sound like “rump.”
But at least he had to sit through it, unable to duck-out like at a military cemetery.
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I’d have lost money betting that DoD directing a propaganda campaign at Americans was illegal.
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Even worse when your party is turned into a history lecture. I LOVE the audio from these clips, knowing that he can’t just walk away or turn it off.
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physician…
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I like how his ludicrously long bright red tie and his hands form a sort of arrow indicating where his legacy is headed.
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Kinda love that he’s forced to sit through a lecture on history.
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To be fair, the obviously farcical shooter quote is what makes the Noem quote seem authentic; the original Noem quote could probably have been kept to make the same point. (I thought the Noem quote was authentic, given this context.)
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It’s foolish to believe that they were fooled, versus simply putting on a show to vote along party lines and rubber stamp Projekt 2025’s dismantling of the federal government.
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Best case, their incompetence precludes permanent rule; it doesn’t limit the damage they can do in the meantime.
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Not exactly what Dems ran on, though no voters (or too few) seemed to care that Trump had sabotaged the immigration legislation so that it could remain a lightning rod for the campaign.
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This reminds me of a conversation with my MAGA uncle & aunt, who seemed to think they had me cornered on the issue of immigration, asking if I was OK with all the people seeking asylum. They seemed dumbfounded with my reply, saying it was a legal process and I was OK with following the rule of law.
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Gotta love the due process figure down at 63%. Would love to see the Venn diagram of the 37% and those flying “don’t tread on me” flags.
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And the rest allowing it to continue. It’s systemic.
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SpaceX should have been nationalized the first time he threatened restricting service in a Ukraine.
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… enabled by the GOP, as a whole.
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Brings up a memory of a brief stint working in London, the various flower stands I’d pass when walking from my residence to the office.
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(I wonder whether he had to struggle between crafting such a transparently ignorant statement and praising actual Nazis for their role in putting men on the moon.)
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“Make America Grovel Again.”
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This Cooper Lund person is granting far more credit to the DOGE participants than they warrant. This wasn’t naivety.
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“there’s more where that came from on my YouTube show”
I was wondering why the hell Colbert would be making any comment on such an old topic, from 7 years back; seems more like this is an ambush PR play just to drive numbers for the YouTube show.
(Maybe embrace pioneering an “E-list.”)
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You were informed beforehand that he was going to bring it up, you chose to go on the show; but it was an ambush. You were aware that it was a topic likely enough to be brought up that you requested that it not be discussed (which would have seemed odd to the audience); but it was an ambush.
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Well, the purchase of Twitter should be included in the bottom line. This likely isn’t accomplished without his having bought the platform.
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Heh, just typed this the other day commenting on the So. Korean pol standing-up to a soldier…
“The insanity is that the MAGA crowd would think the J6 insurrectionists are the equivalent to the lawmaker, rather than the soldiers doing the bidding of the guy trying to overthrow the government.”
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Just nope.
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Did I miss where Hunter Biden had an official role in the Biden Admin?
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“Once again”? And pardoning someone who was actually targeted as a political prosecution seems, to me, to be in the national interest, but only if a light is shone on those involved in redirecting the prosecution.
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Hard to verbalize just how many bags of dicks a take like this can choke on, but sufficient to say that it’s a staggeringly large number.
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He supposedly bemoaned his choice of Garland, but fat lotta good that did for Lady Liberty.
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It’ll be surprising to see typically amenable wealthy oligarchs backing any such efforts in the face of Putin-esque targeting of opponents and their connected business interests.
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“Oops.”
LOL
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Biden and Harris were punished for higher prices (inflation result), but I don’t recall a single Congressional bill or hearing going after those profiteering off the pandemic.
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> Trump's just the gangrenous foot of the diabetic; even if removed in time, the patient will remain in danger until they alter their (media) diet.
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“failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."
Tougher to stop when there’s this much momentum, further down the slide. If we’d only acted earlier, say… when the Right was proudly proclaiming themselves distinct from the “reality-based community.”
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George W Bush 2001-2009?
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chuckle
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(caption: “how fascism begins”)
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Kinda feel like the artist is trying to promote Wilders, relative to the photos I’ve seen.
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If not already mentioned, the first term also didn’t have a SCOTUS “Presidential immunity” ruling in its back pocket.
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(raises hand)