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Dave The Guy From Rhode Island

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A guy, from Rhode Island. Humanist, progressive, atheist, artist, and a lot more. Anti-fascist, anti-GOP.
#34xGuilty
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Couldn't be any more vague or bland. The epitome of English milquetoast. "My favorite meal is food." 🙄
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These posts of yours are very much appreciated by my mental health.
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Do all white male justices LIE like m'fers at their confirmation hearings? Yes. Yes, they do.
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You think Oprah cares? There are $3 billion reasons she doesn't.
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Our media is fully corrupted and there is no hope that we can expect them to ask such questions. They are Putin's puppets. I was serious when I said earlier that Biden should declare Fox News, et al, as Russian propaganda, declare them terrorists, and throw them all I'm Guantanamo.
Media— Instead of freaking out over the debate, how about asking Trump why his plane was right next to Putin’s plane for 2 FULL DAYS at Dulles? Or asking Trump about his foreknowledge of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Why the hell was he conducting foreign policy as a private citizen? -Lindy Li
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So Ohio State again. Let's remember that shit like this happened before, and the surprise isn't that it can happen again, but that it hasn't already. Also keep in mind that military and police aren't immune. There WILL be resistance to shooting civilians.
in.mo
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The only way we are finally going to be done with that fucking massive turd is when he croaks. I hope his clogged arteries and heart disease do their thing soon.
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Hell yeah!
I am a divorced parent with a demanding job and I’m in grad school. I still find time (ha) to show up to meetings and do voter outreach and I’m exhausted, so I guess I have too strong a visceral reaction when I see people say we’re doomed and I know for a fact they’ve tried nothing
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We have to think like the French. This marks the end of the American First Republic. There will be a hopefully brief Bourbon interlude, and then eventually an American Second Republic, by which time we may have learned some of the lessons of the first.
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Something else legal: Biden could make it an official act that Fox, Newsmax, and a ton of web media sites are Russian propaganda agents and have all the principles arrested as terrorists. Throw them all in Guantanamo for holding for a decade or three.
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Somewhere, Nancy Pelosi is getting ice cream from her freezer.
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Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.
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Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
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"As an Official Act, the president has ordered the admin to cease all payments to and on behalf of the Supreme Court. The building will be secured and the Court can go meet in CJ Robert's garage if they wish. And good luck hiring a praetorian guard to enforce their cute little bits of paper."
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WE DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT THIS. The MAGA Court is just some Trumped up human beings in robes who think they're divine. They've betrayed their oaths to uphold the Constitution. This is plain.
This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Biden can and should have them removed from the Court, thrown in jail for treason, and replaced with nine new Justices to bring the total to 12. As an Official act, it would be completely legitimate now.
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We need to be organizing mass actions for the next few months as best we can. Not giving in to apathy fear uncertainty and doubt.
there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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Throwing ones hands in the air and giving up is a very Democrat move. These are the same people who were fine with Pelosi's laissez faire attitude towards impeaching and removing Trump.
I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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Question: After SCOTUS ruling, can Biden now order DOJ to prosecute Manchin/Sinema on trumped up charges if they refuse to vote to end the filibuster and appoint four new justices? Wouldn't order to DOJ be absolutely immune, and wouldn't threat to the senators be at minimum presumptively immune?
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For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW
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it's important to not give into despair, and instead to look at the upside: for the next four months it is entirely legal to bribe the president to send seal team six into the supreme court building with official orders to do the funniest possible thing, as long as you pay him after the deed is done
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Insurrection by definition cannot be an official act.
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Appointing more justices immediately would be a great thing! In fact, removing Alito, Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Roberts and throwing them in prison for life would be even better!