warrenrb.bsky.social
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Democrats buy TV ads. MAGA buys TV stations.
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They're setting it up so it'll happen after mad king trump's regime is over, and anyway they'll make it "the Democrat's" fault no matter who's in office.
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In the last 9 presidential elections, Team Red has only won the popular vote twice. What they're selling isn't actually that popular.
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One scenario I've heard, from a credible source, is this: the ship was leaving at slack water. The dock was at right angles to the river, and it was backing out under power while turning. There was a mechanical failure and it could not be put into neutral nor could it be throttled down.
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* A majority of that same cabinet has to vote a 2nd time to remove him
* 2/3 of the House votes to remove him
* 2/3 of the Senate votes to remove him
* He's gone
Impeachment:
* A simple majority of the House votes to impeach
* 2/3 of the Senate votes to convict
* He's gone
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25A:
* A majority of the cabinet, who got their jobs by sucking up to a vicious, vindictive sociopath, has to vote to remove the same guy who gave them their jobs in the first place
* He'll send a letter back to them saying, "no, I really can president now"
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Avoiding the upcharge is how I found myself driving a stick shift out of downtown Dublin on the "wrong" side of the road. Travel sure is broadening! And yes, I'd do it again.
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How it is that DBAD became radically left-wing?
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It's willful CALCULATED cruelty. Aside from that, you're totally correct.
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On the one hand you're right, on the other hand MAGA in Congress is spineless and won't even consider getting to the strongly worded letter stage of preserving their own power.
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It's a Boeing 747, right? So it's not foreign made. Now if it was an Airbus...
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DOGE says translators are waste, fraud, & abuse so they fired them?
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I've long since quit calling it an administration: it's a regime
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Or "emoluments", maybe that's the right word
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A dozen big men abducting an unarmed woman, in front of her children, in broad daylight, without an arrest warrant, aren't brave. They're thugs.
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Why oh why can't they conclude with "I'll note that you didn't actually address the question, and shift to our next topic...." Either that, or "I have other questions is like to ask, but I feel it's important to get a clear answer to this one, so once again (repeats the question)..."
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That number sounds big; in real life years of litigation would have ended up at a fraction of that. Even the full amount wouldn't have been enough to change his behavior though - which is, after all, the alleged purpose behind punitive damages. Is it OK that those charges disappeared? Not at all.
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F*cking Democratic "leadership" is anything but. She is the reason Congresscritters are still allowed to buy and sell stocks, essentially greenlighting insider trading.
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Last week "we" thought that jackbooted thugs from the federal government overriding local government was a bad thing. But today they're the good guys?
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IIRC Martin Luther had the same idea in 1517.
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They're bored, they have the attention span of a goldfish. So what if 35 million people are turned over to Russia for slaughter, theft, rape, imprisonment, forced labor?
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Very, very bad, yes indeedie
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That approach works for trump, why wouldn't it work for Vance? Especially after trump's flattened all opposition?
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I remember being in a procurement meeting with a USN Captain who was making the point that we'd damn well better deliver exactly what we'd contracted to deliver. He told a story about being in a war zone unable to defend himself because he had A GUN THAT WOULDN'T SHOOT because a supplier f*cked up.
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Waiting to see how high the trump DoJ's price to disappear this suit is.
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Why vote "Republican lite" when you can get the real thing?
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She says "it's time for Congress to step up..." She's not wrong but in true Democrat fashion she missed the opportunity to be crystal clear: "it's time for REPUBLICANS in Congress to step up..."
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They want to do the unpopular stuff first and rely on the fact that the average voter has the memory of a goldfish, then ride to overwhelming victory in the next election, on the backs of those whose votes HAVEN'T been suppressed.
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For-profit concentration camps. What could go wrong?
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Oh, good, let's get rid of DCMA that audits contracts for compliance. They're just bean counters, they don't drop bombs, what do we need them for? /s
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Many years ago (20?) I explained to a Republican the actual burdens this created for my 86 year old mother. Time, money, who to contact, a trip to DMV - I had to help her every step of the way. It took the better part of a month, nearly $100 (then), and several hours of my time. He finally got it.
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I can hardly wait for AI to deal with people's Social Security problems
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This is the essence of conservativism
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Sounds great, it would help if there were some institution to actively referee competing views instead of just being a stenographer, though. Any suggestions?
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Diese Bilder sind wunderschöne. Danke!
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Thank you for this
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His CHARACTER liked firing people. His actual cowardly self makes it known to his people, who do the job for him.
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Tang™!
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Also possible: he can't feign coherence long enough to get through one. Also also possible: he's having so much fun kinging he doesn't need to bother. Why be satisfied with adulation from the hoi polloi when you can get it from people who matter?
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Read the WHOLE passage. It's MUCH harder than impeachment. 2/3 of the House (instead of "just" half) as well as 2/3 of the Senate, need to vote to remove. That's after the cabinet, who got their jobs by sucking up to him, vote - twice - to remove him.
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Is there a prohibition on wearing a mask if you want to?
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I have no expectation that a FOIA request would be honored by the current incarnation of the FBI. If they were to surprise me and provide it, how redacted would it be?
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Sounds like they could have taken lessons from McConnell & the Republicans. But that would have been uncivil, I suppose.
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Modeling good behavior doesn't work when your opponent's sole reason for existence is to troll you while burning everything down. Exhibit A: the complete lack of a coherent media strategy that invades the MAGA bubble half as well as their shit invades mine. /fin
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Partly a feeling of futility: periodically, Democrats half-heartedly try, and fail, to rise to the occasion (but please send money), because leadership is sclerotic and fails to grasp that Republicans have unilaterally changed the rules to a "heads I win, tails you lose" model. 2/
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Speaking for myself, it's a combination of things. Partly overload - every damn day they're doing something unprecedented, illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional. Which one to focus on? 1/
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I thought we were against admitting sexual predators into the US? I'm so confused.