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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop
look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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the decision lays out - explicitly in the case of the DOJ and implicitly in case of the military - that a president can order the prosecution of or a military strike on anyone he doesn’t like and fire anyone who doesn’t comply until he finds someone who will he may not be prosecuted for this
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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court
The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.
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The part I disagree with is that today's our only chance. Fixing the courts is likely going to require a new crop of reps even if it should be expanded today, yesterday really and the day before that and the day befo
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I remain worried that strategy aside, we just don’t have the power to fix anything
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Any “we”, there’s just so much concentrated money and influence against us
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No one alive in 1850 thought they'd live to see the end of slavery. We've overcome worst but the future isnt set in stone and it's up to all of us to carve the future we want
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you could believe, in 1854, that the night was dark. the moderates were smashed, the pro-slavery faction in control of the Dems - slavery was going into Kansas, was going to go into Cuba, was going to go deeper into Mexico, the bad people controlled all branches of government and would never let go.
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And soon throughout the sunny south, the slaves shall all be free, for his soul goes marching on.
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