CougarSpider

CougarSpider

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High school history teacher

Southerner with a Western heart

All about history, K-12 Ed, the Mazda Miatas, and God's finest creation--the Great Pyrenees

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(1) Trump picks Rubio as VP (2) Rubio buys a house in Georgia, and then resigns his Senate seat (3) Federal court declares Rubio constitutionally ineligible, due to transparently attempting to circumvent the double home state clause (4) Trump dumps Rubio from the ticket

You may hate Woodrow Wilson....but he'd totally have a huge following on BlueSky had it existed in 1915

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Waffles went to the groomer today and got a treat for being brave.

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In this Louisville diner, McClellan voters are underwhelmed by Lincoln’s first term

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If we can get back to neocons being the biggest threat to American liberalism I’ll be thrilled

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really cannot be emphasized enough that libs winning control over the military is actually very cool and good from a "survival of the republic" perspective

If you know which predicts to look at from 2018-2022 in Virginia, it's pretty clear The Pentagon officer corps is switching parties en masse

HEY LOOK GUYS CHECK IT OUT MCCLELLAN GOT 45% OF THE VOTE!! HE KEPT HIS BASE HOORAA--oh lol wait a sec never mind lol

Sometimes I do wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to just scrap local police entirely and have the State Police take over and expand--as again they tend to have higher standards, more accountability, and less corruption than local Donut Cops

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The problem when your slogan becomes "ACAB" without a hint of irony is when you start slapping every authority figure under the status of "cop" and just sort of tip your hand by revealing the Bad Guys are Anyone Who Tells Me To Do Things.

And notice this is the one type of cop the far-right hates

Very 'Lawful Good' energy IOW and ofc federal law enforcement is the level of law enforcement with the least issues in this country

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The general political leaning of the officer corps matches the larger college educated class, albeit with more apolitical and weird third party support

then there's the officer corps, aka college graduates raised on the idea of American exceptionalism, who often don't like the way Trump makes the nation smell. again, not a universal rule - but a real thing.

Especially since Harvard wasn't a place you went for the academics back then It was still essentially a finishing school for wealthy, connected Eastern WASPs

Washington was a great man ofc but far outshined by the other members of the Revolutionary Generation in the brains dept--and he knew it! Hence, listening to Hamilton FDR? lol, C- student at both his elite boarding school and Harvard, which means 'Fs' at a public secondary or State U

Washington was a great man ofc but far outshined by the other members of the Revolutionary Generation in the brains dept--and he knew it! Hence, listening to Hamilton FDR? lol, C- student at both his elite boarding school and Harvard, which means 'Fs' at a public secondary or State U

I mean of our top three presidents only one had a high powered intellect (Lincoln)

Donald Trump: The Midwit's Candidate (tm)

So who were the five smartest presidents, intellectually? I'd say Lincoln, Jefferson, Wilson, Hoover, JQA #6 would be a Nixon/Clinton tie if you're curious

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Hahahahahahahaha y'all Trump is turbo-fucked.

Snap poll: 50% of Americans agree with the guilty verdict in Trump's hush-money case. (YouGov) today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Hey guys here's a thought: what I'd Trump *doesn't* have some sort of reverse jujitsu jedi mind trick he's doing by violating the gag order and then trashing the man that decides his sentence? What if he's just a dumbshit with all the impulse control of a toddler? 🤔

Some people are quite confident about their prognostications about Trump's sentencing even though we got told for years he'd never even be indicted and arrested and that, after he was, it'd only be a hung jury or all misdemeanors

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

"convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump" should be his new full name in all Dem messaging, but instead we'll get some "we don't want to be too divisive" bullshit

Wow we are actually seeing the advent of RETVRN to 2005! guys

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That is one way of looking at it, yes.

Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial on Thursday gave President Biden’s campaign a fresh way to frame the race: a stark choice between someone who is a convicted felon and someone who is not.

Hopeful Yet Cautious, Biden’s Team Aims to Exploit Trump’s Convictionwww.nytimes.com The verdict in Manhattan gave the president and his allies a new way to frame the race: a choice between someone who is a felon and someone who is not.

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The NY Times has become a machine that just spits out the same "Despite X, Trump's most die-hard supporters still like him" articles over and over again

Donald Trump’s campaign donation website crashed on Thursday, a technical issue that his campaign attributed to the number of people trying to donate in the immediate aftermath of the guilty verdict.

Trump’s Campaign Donor Website Crashes After Guilty Verdictwww.nytimes.com Mr. Trump began soliciting donations off his felony conviction almost immediately after the verdict

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in the hallmark store looking for something that says “sorry I threatened your daughter” under the “for sentencing judges” section

Good day just got even better

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I personally want to congratulate Donald Trump for finally winning a popular vote

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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

You know the jury system is one thing in America that works well these days In every recent high profile case I can of? The jury has been dead-on

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Unfortunately the untimely passing of DMX means that the judge will not write the sentencing to be performed over a cover of "X Gon Give It To Ya"

GUILTY!!! GUILTY, GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY!!!!