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A sidebar to this: Something that comes across in Crusader kingdom history is that any influx of new people from Europe is all like: "YESSS! WE ALL HATE THE HEATHENS RIGHT?!" And then are shocked when some Templar takes them aside and is like: "Calm tf down. They're cool. They make nice bread."

time to dust this one off. amen.

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See, using gulags to torture political prisoners to death is not Josef Stalin's plan. The Council of People's Commissars, who describe him as the "embodiment" of their efforts, made a plan *for* Stalin. Stalin, however, has sought to publicly distance himself from the effort, as reported by Pravda.

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*casually lighting my law degree on fire* you see, the framers’ vision of the separation of powers requires that congress not regulate moonshiners, but the president can send agents to kill them in order to secure his royal monopoly.

New: Trump-appointed Judge Mark Pittman in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon at home. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge ruleswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon for their personal consumption.

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He against whom you fight, if he prevail, Will straight inthrone himself in tyranny, Makes slaves of you, and with a heavy hand Curtail and curb your sweetest liberty.

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The thing in America that most urgently needs to become non-binary is its political system

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The French elections have showed us that we should revise the Constitution so voters get an "are you sure?" runoff before letting the far right take power

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The polls didn't predict a first-place finish for National Rally. For the love of god learn how other countries' electoral systems work.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Look on my low-cut toe socks and despair.

Every time someone complains, I get a lower-cut pair of socks

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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.

Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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There’s uncertainties with every choice. My concern is the steady drip-drip of “Biden is old” stories eat up all the oxygen in the room. So low-info independents are really surprised when abortion is banned and Trump is openly soliciting bribes from the Oval Office in late January.

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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David Bikman

See what the polling is like in a couple weeks. But also get out there in spontaneous settings and give Kamala increased prominence in the campaign. Dems cannot have 4 months of “Biden is old” coverage. Any moment not spent talking about abortion and democracy is a moment wasted.

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Ah yes. The just-following-orders defense.

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The Piper at the Gates of Jawn

We need to get out of the Biden is old story and it appears that this is not happening. It’s sucking all the oxygen out of the room. I’m increasingly leaning towards Pres Kamala and pivoting to abortion and democracy instead of this drivel.

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“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.” couldn’t be clearer!

if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...

The Avalon Project : Federalist No 69avalon.law.yale.edu

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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

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Reminder that POTUS can direct the DOJ not to prosecute the trigger puller and, failing that, pardon anyone who carries out his order and still faces federal charges. Utterly lawless.

Real news in 2024. Not a drill. www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

Umm. The poll was conducted from June 26-28. The debate was on the 28th.

I can see the campaign ad: a vignette of the greatest hits of all the stupid shit this man say. “Do you really want to have to listen to this guy for another four years?”

A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"

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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"

Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.

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Nick Brumfield

If Joe stays in, for the love of all that is holy, you have to give Kamala tons of airtime and get Americans used to her, because there’s a good chance that Biden resigns in a second term. Americans have to be comfortable with the idea that if Biden resigns there is someone capable of doing the job.

At first I thought the SC was crazy: “What happens if the Pres orders a goon squad to start throwing people out of helicopters and then pardons the perpetrators?” Then it hit me. The SC majority thinks that Pinochet did nothing wrong and that throwing people out of helicopters would be really cool.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.