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Kate Shaw in an Op-ed in the NYT writes: “It could also be that for a majority of the justices, support for the administration’s substantive agenda, including its restrictive immigration policies, outweighs concerns about specific legal violations.” And then feigns bewilderment as to why SCOTUS

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any inconvenient legalities. Which of course means that their agenda is a political agenda. This should be no surprise since each and everyone of them lied to Congress in their confirmation hearings when they all declared Roe as settled law. This is the GOP folks, and these are the fruits of

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their long campaign to undermine the government of, for, and by the people, the greatest experiment in liberty and self governance the world has ever known. For SCOTUS and for the GOP Trump is distasteful but a bitter pill they’re willing to swallow in pursuit of their anti-American agenda.

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Kate Shaw in an Op-ed in the NYT writes: “It could also be that for a majority of the justices, support for the administration’s substantive agenda, including its restrictive immigration policies, outweighs concerns about specific legal violations.” And then feigns bewilderment as to why SCOTUS

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continues to empower this lawless president. But hasn’t she already answered her own question? The conservative majority on the court has an agenda and that agenda is to radically change how we interpret the Constitution, and in pursuit of that goal they are willing to cast aside

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Ned Webb
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Just remembering those heady days in 24 when our economy was the envy of the world, before tariffs, and the strait was still open that many of us thought were unbearable.

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Maire Raven
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Never forget.

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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two decades confirmed something that belongs on the front page of every newspaper in this country. The Epstein estate paid a financial settlement to a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor.

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So building on my previous post one might ask about the membership of the Republican Party as to their state of mind. Are they all traitors? Well unfortunately it’s complicated. It’s not dissimilar to what was asked about inhabitants of the Confederacy after the Civil War concluded.

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the Conservative Intelligentsia, the Oligarchs providing the funding can claim no such distance from conscious intent. They have no plausible deniability. So what’s to be done with them? How do we hold them accountable and reconcile with their power and influence moving forward?

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As the monuments to the Confederacy attests, we tried wishful thinking and it didn’t work. It only enabled and legitimized nostalgia for a world that never existed and provided our enemies with a fertile base from which they would launch their next assault upon our nation. Movement Conservatism.

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So building on my previous post one might ask about the membership of the Republican Party as to their state of mind. Are they all traitors? Well unfortunately it’s complicated. It’s not dissimilar to what was asked about inhabitants of the Confederacy after the Civil War concluded.

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as it is today, they do not. The overwhelming majority of people calling themselves Republicans are loyal and patriotic Americans. That’s not a difficult conclusion to come to. They are here amongst us and have been all our lives. They just believe in faith more than they believe in certainty.

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Certainty takes a focused effort whereas faith requires only the willingness to believe. It’s essentially wishful thinking. This, to my mind, accounts for the rank and file. It doesn’t relinquish them of responsibility but it does provide an approach to reconciliation. The Party’s leadership,

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So building on my previous post one might ask about the membership of the Republican Party as to their state of mind. Are they all traitors? Well unfortunately it’s complicated. It’s not dissimilar to what was asked about inhabitants of the Confederacy after the Civil War concluded.

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If you held that the whole of them were traitors, what then? No easy answer there. So next you would ask if that’s an accurate assessment, could they all have the necessary conscious intent to make an informed and rational argument for overthrowing the government? The answer then is the same

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Donald Trump is the fruit of the Republican Party. Blaming him for changing the Party is wishful thinking, naive, and dangerous in that it propagates the notion that the Rep Party is run by patriots. It is not.

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his talent, which is evident in his inability to create anything of lasting value. He destroys things and profits off the anxiety & chaos that produces. It’s a strategy the Rep’s have long utilized which is why DJT fit so nicely within their framework, why they are lost in offering any resistance.

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against the government over the last 7decades is what’s to blame. The roots of which spread back to the anti-New Deal propaganda spread by the oligarchs of the day. Trump is an opportunist, he responds to and acts upon conditions as he finds them. He doesn’t create them, that’s not

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The modern Republican Party has never been a good-faith governing party and Donald Trump is the fruit of that bad faith rather than the other way around. Ideas matter & the blatant denigration that the Republican Party has consistently leveled

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Christopher Webb
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Whoa‼️ This article from 2014: US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them. And remember, Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer, a veteran, and spent over a decade working for DHS.