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peppermintjack@peppermintjack.bsky.social |
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David Forbes
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
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peppermintjack
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biden can't even pardon the guy who leaked trump's tax documents and got slapped with a 5 year prison sentence; the court was confident in handing the president dictatorial power because they know biden is too stuck in the 1970s to adapt to change and use those powers for his benefit
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Adam Gurri
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This should have been the priority of the 2021 Trifecta. They did not take the threat seriously and now here we all are again
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peppermintjack
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and fellow UCONN player tim boyle keeps getting jobs in the nfl despite being an atrocious qb because he and mega-conspiracy theorist aaron rodgers are on the same wavelength so rodgers demands teams hire him despite his lack of skill in order to have a buddy in the locker room
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peppermintjack
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i dunno man, still feels like pretty garbage tier analysis when the dude is claiming that the DOJ and the lower courts have 'trump derangement syndrome'
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peppermintjack
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shame that Count Binface is almost entirely out of frame in this picture
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peppermintjack
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i got no problem with my neighbors setting off small fireworks but sometimes they buy stuff so oversized that it makes my walls shake when they set them off and i really wish they wouldn't do that
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peppermintjack
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it's so frustrating to have been a critic from the left of biden for years, to resignedly support him because i believe that trump is an existential threat, and now there's this screaming faction wanting to overturn the results of the primary and replace him with another candidate at the last moment
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peppermintjack
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it doesn't matter what the democratic party's wish list is; even if they had a trifecta and supermajorities in both chambers trump's judges will simply say every bill the democrats pass is unconstitutional
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peppermintjack
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very excited to learn that politico's chief washington correspondent is engaged to an ann coulter fangirl
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined
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peppermintjack
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buttigieg thinks he's luke skywalker but is actually the sort of guy who sits in imperial cabinet meetings and watches darth vader choke out a dude and then later blames the dude who got choked for speaking intemperately
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peppermintjack
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the U.S. Constitution is the Model T of democratic republics; amazing for its time, changed the world, but almost totally unsuited for use in modern circumstances
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peppermintjack
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got addicted to twinkies while on the beat, i guess
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peppermintjack
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the majority? is there, like, a signed letter or something from the democratic caucus urging biden to step down?
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peppermintjack
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biden is overall in pretty solid shape for an octogenarian grandpa i'd prefer a president at least a decade and a half younger but given his opponent i'll take the guy who needs to be in bed by 8pm or else he starts looking like a zombie
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peppermintjack
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the calls for him to do something like hold an immediate town hall to prove that he can answer questions on the fly aren't totally without merit but there's no way on earth the president can schedule something that quickly, especially when there's already a major holiday happening this week
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peppermintjack
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biden has made multiple public appearances since the debate that were boring and normal so no one paid any attention to them because it didn't fit the narrative of him being completely feeble
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peppermintjack
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look, biden isn't the guy i wanted back in the primary but this sort of panicky overreaction about his performance at the debate might as well be an in-kind contribution to the trump campaign
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peppermintjack
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michael flynn is just a syril karn who inexplicably managed to climb through the ranks
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peppermintjack
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erik prince (boba fett?) falling into the maw of a sand creature and suffering the slow agony of being digested for a thousand years
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peppermintjack
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this guy wrote takes completely divorced from reality but because they catered to the right wing's preferred world view he got promoted to a cushy gig at one of the country's top paper
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peppermintjack
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ryan cooper
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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism
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peppermintjack
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also, the rating of michelle obama is totally bonkers, there's now way that a person who has never sought nor held elected office like her would be more likely to be nominated for president than incumbent governors like gretchen whitmer or jb pritzker
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peppermintjack
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the political betting markets are insane, there's no world where the incumbent president wins every single primary but is somehow nearly a three-to-one underdog to garner the party's nomination when the convention is being held in one month's time
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peppermintjack
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and half of them are proudly descended from some brute from, like, the 12th century who was so good at maiming and slaughtering that the king recruited them to come work for him
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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peppermintjack
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damn, you really owned the random guy on social media by pointing out that he's not as involved in politics as the guy who is literally president of the united states
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peppermintjack
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truly one of the most pathetic things i've ever seen for the ACLU to roll over and meekly accept the rulings of a supreme court that is paving the way for a trump dictatorship
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peppermintjack
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it might even be funnier if instead of forgetting to pay them entirely he just moved the decimal place over several digits. "mr. roberts, sir, we know you were expecting your monthly paycheck of $22,000 but it seems there has been an irrecoverable error and your paycheck has been made out for 22¢"
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peppermintjack
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i mean, maybe?? one of biden's first acts as president was establishing a commission that issued a finding recommending against any judicial reforms and admonishing against taking actions that might diminish the public's perception of the courts' legitimacy
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peppermintjack
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watching erudite PBS programming sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and meanwhile the johnson heir is an insane reactionary who owns a terribly managed football team and thinks that trump is a savior
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peppermintjack
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it's hard to wrap my brain around it but the evidence suggests that a lot of right wingers viewed the 2020 protests as such an intolerable affront to their idea of order that they will eagerly destroy the institutions of democracy to make sure someone will brutalize all future protesters
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peppermintjack
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trump has publicly stated his desire to deport something on the order of 20 million people, if 2% of the deportees died in the process the death toll would exceed 350,000
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peppermintjack
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at a minimum biden should start some shit with the court; have the TSA put them through onerous security screenings on every flight, direct the IRS to audit all the gang of 6 justices, have DOJ goons stalk them 24/7 on the pretext that they're looking for evidence of bribes. ffs biden, do something
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peppermintjack
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it's been mostly forgotten at this point but the evening before the J6 insurrection a pipe bomb was placed at the DNC offices and the culprit has never been found i can only imagine what sort of plans that bomber has in store if he doesn't like the outcome of the next election
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peppermintjack
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biden one-upping dukakis by taking command of an M1 Abrams and using it to crush all the cars in the supreme court's employee parking lot
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peppermintjack
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clarence thomas taking bribes has been one of the top news stories for a year, if biden arrested thomas for corruption and put him in the clink he would win in a landslide (he could also arrest a corrupt dem like bob 'gold bars' menendez to diminish the claims that it was a partisan witch hunt)
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peppermintjack
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the conservative movement is 80% of the way towards installing trump as a despot meanwhile the biggest concern the democratic party has is doing damage control over their geriatric candidate giving his highest profile appearance in years while looking feeble and wizened
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peppermintjack
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biden just got handed an enormous amount of power by the supreme court but he's gonna keep fighting with his arms tied behind his back because he believes that nothing about america's institutions have fundamentally changed since the '70s even as SCOTUS is giving trump power to be a despot
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peppermintjack
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but that would require biden to recognize the severity of the current circumstances and make a conscious decision to change course and there's nothing to suggest that he's doing anything like that
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peppermintjack
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this analysis is basically 'the good king biden is simply *unaware* of the problems because of his bad advisors' when the reality is that biden has been in government for half a century and he is making an informed decision to choose these people because they share his beliefs
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peppermintjack
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the majority of white men in this country are gonna vote for a fascist because they would rather destroy democracy than tolerate slightly higher tax rates and permitting women and minorities to be partners in power
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peppermintjack
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half the country is terrified of authoritarians taking over the government meanwhile the supreme court has handed this democratic president the tools to take virtually any extraordinary action he deems necessary to stop it from happening because they are so confident biden won't actually use them
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Jonathan Ladd
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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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peppermintjack
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the democrats fucked up by failing to pass democratic reforms when they had a trifecta in 2021 but it's not too late! — joe biden could block republicans from entering congress and use that time to pass reforms
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peppermintjack
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this country is designed so that republicans win power even when they don't win majorities at the ballot box and the democratic party as an institution has spent decades meekly going along with this arrangement instead of demanding reforms that enhance american democracy
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peppermintjack
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a trump victory is gonna have his most ardent supporters believing they have free reign to spill blood in the streets and there's not much to suggest that they're incorrect in that view
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