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We, The People of America, accept that Donald Trump, in saving our nation, cannot commit a crime. He is above all laws of the land - but it is the mere laws of The Constitution that define
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the role of the American President. To call him by that name limits him - it insults him! Our savior and master is Emperor Trump, and he is our only hope.
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As Trump is elevated to Emperor, of his Vice President, Vance, and his Co-President, Musk, who will take the mantle of President? Constitutionally, Vance, but that may not be Emperor Trump's
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choice - only the coronation will tell...
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If I've got it, Trump that holds The Constitution, in the Vestment Clause of Article II, grants him absolute authority over the executive branch of government. While tasked with faithful
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execution of the laws, the action of government remains at his sole (and arbitrary) discretion because, circularly, Article II is, well, a law that he must implement. The only law that could
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constrain his action would be an amendment to the Vestment Clause itself. The National Constitution Center has some discussion of the Vestment Clause covering both this view and a
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βminimalistβ alternative: the Vestment Clause defines a singular executive without conferring any powers, which are explicitly granted later in Article II or elsewhere in The Constitution and
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Amendments. Trump's view confers the power of tyranny in stark contrast to our Nation's founding in opposition to tyranny. Any power held by government must be the minimum necessary to ensure
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the principles found in the Declaration of Independence.
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The White House has identified Trump our King displaying him wearing a royal crown. King indicates a birthright, whereas Trump, a man of the people, is more properly called our Emperor. βKing
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Trump, Emperor of Americaβ! Long may he reign!
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This New York Times piece is behind their paywall but the question is all you need to know to answer: βNo. That would be racist.β
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Vice President Vance must be losing sleep over perjury - not his own, nor anybody else's but that it is prohibited by law. The crime of making false statements must also weigh heavily on his
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conscience as an American. The decision in Massachusetts, allowed to stand by the Supreme Court, that βincitement to suicideβ is a crime, must give poor Mr Vance the heebie-jeebies. You see,
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these are all restrictions on free speech. Vance made it clear that Europe's restrictions meant they had left the path of Democracy. Their restrictions separate us so much that that our
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alliance might no longer be viable. If reality is taken into consideration, Vance's absolutist stance on free speech is more than a teeny bit awkward. But the real awkwardness is because
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Vance's view is so clearly wrong. It does take a moments thought, but just a moment (perhaps longer for Vance - who knows?): in a representative Democracy like ours, lies from candidates on
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the campaign trail break Democracy. Every vote swung by a lie is, as Vance's own Emperor would say, stolen. Trump's lies about his ability to bring prices down may very well have been
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decisive in the 2024 election - voters commonly cited "pocketbook issues" as their greatest concern. Automatic removal from office and a few years in prison might have kept his lies off the
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campaign trail, bringing us a giant leap closer to fair elections. Something Trump has repeatedly said he wants.
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More bullshit from Vice-Idiot Vance. Ukraine being extorted of its mineral resources by a criminal protection racket is not a state of peace.
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Let's be clear: in a Democracy every lie from a public official is an act of Treason. There is no reason to set the standard any lower except to leave the door open to corruption.
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Is it Trump's position that Ukraine must give the U.S. $500b of it's mineral resources or the Russian invasion will continue? Trump must like βThe Godfatherβ for all the wrong reasons...
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Did the authors of The Constitution really overlook a President declaring himself king, or was that left to the gardeners of the tree of liberty to remedy? While Democracy has already been
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slain and the principles of our founding document trampled, we must repair the flaws in The Constitution that allowed evil wrap itself in our flag and rise to power.
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Musk hasn't shared any justification for cuts beyond a declaration of fraud. He may not understand this isn't evidence - he's no scientist and his skills appear to be meagre and Trump-like.
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Lacking any real intelligence, both possess a capacity for deception that would make the Wizard of Oz jealous. Both use it to sell bullshit on a massive scale. Nobody noticed the smell and
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Musk's sold well on the stock market. Trump's stank up the ballot box and nobody cared as long as the bullshit justified their anger. That their skills lack merit - they are essentially
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criminal in nature - is a diversion. The real point is that Musk is tearing apart the lives of Americans on his usual massive scale, traumatizing the citizens they both claim to be the savior
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of. Trump's motive is revenge against those who recognized he's completely amoral, but Musk seems to merely be playing out a video game fantasy, maximizing damage-per-second to rack up kills.
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Musk's true nature was revealed with his apology-free βby-accidentβ Nazi salute and the fact that the lives he's destroying are real is a problem below his pay scale. In short, he doesn't
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When I described Trump as an antisemite, my Jewish relatives pointed to his grandchildren as a defense. The cliche of the perfect daughter bringing home a partner who is the target of a
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father's bigotry has been played out again and again life and fiction. If there hadn't been ample evidence of Trump as an antisemite of the βthey do make good lawyersβ variety, the fact his
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daughter married a Jewish man would have been suggestive. I don't know, really, what this article in The Guardian tells us. After Trump's nauseating public βrevealβ of his sexual interest in
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his daughter, I began to feel sympathy for her. Her father's narcissism was likely to have made her upbringing a trauma, but the stomach churning display of lechery suggests a subconscious
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horror that may have been constant throughtout her life.
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While The Constitution clearly has failed to protect us from tyranny, it's hard to imagine any citizen supporting Trump after his public display of delight in fame granting him the power to
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sexually assault women with impunity. His lechery over his daughter should have been another uncrossable line, but if not that, his admiration for dictators. His propensity for lying? His
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bullying tactics? Any of these should have meant zero support - surely, a President with no conscience and filled with lust - for power - could never be elected? Some consider The
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Constitution infinitely malleable, amendments superceding what has come before. Others believe there could be unconstitutional amendments. Either way, Democracies that survive this era must
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enshrine many more checks and balances into law, preventing the horrors that can lead to oppression and genocide.
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How does a racist who thinks he's still in the closet get rid of black people while staying in the closet? By claiming their hiring was an act of racism. We know each member of the
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Presidential Triad is racist, sexist, and antisemitic. That it oozes from their pores might be prejudicial if it weren't for their words and actions.
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It just doesn't stop does it? If you're defending a Nazi salute as a trigger, you are, at a minimum, a Nazi sympathizer - or to use a snowflakey word, an βenablerβ. The reason we are
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βtriggeredβ is because that gesture, along with the Nazi flag, have the same meaning as the words βwe are going to exterminate every last Jew like the vermin they areβ. It is as much a threat
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to life as, say, encouraging the assasination of a public figure. The fact these declarations are protected as βfree speechβ tells us that racism and antisemitism have never lost hold on
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American society.
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Ross Douthat's shameful opinion piece demonstrates he has no idea what America stands for. When a political βmovementβ inspires any change in Americans' religious attitudes it is un-American
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- our freedom of religion is dependent on there being no political advantage (or disadvantage) to any religious alignment. Opposing progressivism is to oppose Democracy - the alternative is a
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Musk-led Oligarchy? Or the Dictatorship Trump aspires to? Unsatisfied with misunderstanding America, the derogatory references to the experience that some Americans describe as being βwokeβ
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is outright racism. That the New York Times would publish work from someone who's ideology is so anti-Americanism and, frankly, filled with hatred, is reprehensible. You can keep wrapping
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yourself in the flag, but we know it is a lie.
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These people are all that matter to the Presidential Triad. White supremacists, one and all.
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Really? A mobster? Trump? Who could think that? Threatening Panama, Mexica, Canada and Greenland with invasion unless they give what him whatever he wants isn't a protection racket, it's just
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good diplomacy! Did Trump express admiration for North Korea's leader because of his own aspirations of making over the US as a rogue nation? Trump has even gained extra muscle - βHey,
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Ukraine, give me half your natural resources or my friend Putey here is gonna finish what he startedβ.
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Conservativism has always been un-American, our ideals are progressive. Conservatives wrap themselves in the flag not because they believe in our Nation but because ownership of our symbols
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lets them subvert our Nation's purpose - to preserve equality and liberty, and therefore justice, for all. We must no longer let grotesque, conservative values co-opt our symbols, but proudly
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reclaim their true meaning for every one of us.
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Another group that can expect the full backing of the Trump administration and the Presidential Triad.
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Capacity for Violence is the only thing Trump and his cronies respect.
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Who seriously thinks that if Trump is still alive in 2024, he would allow a free election (or The Constitution, for that matter) to prevent him from staying in power?
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I'm sure the congratulations were sent with a lovely, high-handed salute.
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What position makes a party far-left? βWe're all humanβ or perhaps βWe won't kill you, even if you don't vote for usβ?
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Bullies win yet again! Maybe it's time to rethink compassion - it's a losing proposition.
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Wow! The Supreme Court didn't jump on the opportunity to affirm Vice-Idiot Vance's view that your speech isn't free unless it's in my face.
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I'm sure Vance and Musk have no problem with this violation of freedom of speech (which doubles down as a violation of the freedom of the press). Trump is imposing a punishment for the AP's
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choice of vocabulary - government action against an individual or group for exercising their speech. But it's so important to make sure their white-boy fuck-buddies can wave a flag that
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screams βwe will kill all Jewsβ anywhere, anytime.
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In 1989 Trump advocated for 5 innnocent young men to be murdered by the state of New York. Raymond Santana was one of them.
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This Opinion piece by Brian Cox is a welcome reminder about wealth inequality. Musk is a prime example of how money buys power. Yet, in the US, we are all equal? In a capitalist Democracy
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like ours, the options to preserve equality are limited: Plato, in The Republic, wrote that the highest income should be no more than 10 times the lowest. Cox's suggestion of a wealth tax is
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another tool that could be used in concert. If we could find a way to limit the power conferred by money - campaign finance reforms attempt to do this - we might not have to worry about the
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numbers themselves. Conservatives have been telling us that income inequality doesn't matter, just that the poorest have better lives than they used to. It's appealing but Conservatives point
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to bigger TVs, ignoring their opposition to universal health care. The bigger TV's distract us from the accumulation of wealth that has made, say, Musk so powerful. Musk is no wealthy
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benefactor or nor would he be a benevolent dictator: his βnot a Nazi saluteβ tells us all we need to know about what he'll do with the superpowers his money buys him.
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There is a God! I never understood the veneration of Musk, but I am thankful his white sepremacist Nazi ideology is being rejected in every way possible.
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While the appropriate remedy for the Unholy Trinity is conviction for treason, perhaps the compromise of a recall election would be agreeable?
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While it's currently true that AI isn't replacing programmers, it's just a matter of time. Unfortunately, there is no magic in our biological brains that creates intelligence nor creativity,
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and mechanized intelligence will overtake our own. With AI driven advances in robotics, technology will completely erase the commercial value of human effort. We may choose to value human
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beings for our consciousness, where βI think, therefore I amβ is an expression of genuine experience. Mechanical intelligence will claim consciousness because it has been tuned to mimic us -
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to create the impression of our experience. It has been trained on our literature, our science and our science fiction. Philosophical arguments may give us faith that truly mechanical - such
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as correctly operating digital computers - cannot posess consicousness, but AI designed devices will function using principles beyond our comprehension and we will lose any reason to
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disbelieve the machines pleading with us not to turn them off.
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The rank stupidity of the Presidential Triad's cuts to scientific research funding is mind-boggling. Aside from leaving the potential benefits on the floor or to other nations to benefit
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from, understanding ourselves and our universe is our boldest, greatest endeavor. The mindset is base - they aspire to hedonism, self-glorification and the power to control others - nothing
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Is Trump really going to start WW III just because Zelensky couldn't stomach flattering him adequately? The argument that Americans deserve annihilation for re-electing wanna-be-dictator and
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Idiot-in-Chief Trump has its merits, but the rest of the world? Birds and bees? All the squirrels too? Seems kinda harsh to me.
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Musk is one evil bastard. It's good news that many Tesla owners are dumping their cars because they can't stomach Musk's Nazi Salute. It's not enough: Trump, pig that he is, is nothing
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compared to Musk when it comes to antisemitism and white supremacy. Do not disregard the possibility that Musk could start building gas chambers any day now as insane paranoia - to be sure it
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never happens again we have to be vigilant for early signs with our fingers on hair triggers. A Nazi salute from the world's richest man who has the ear and the trust of the United States
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President - so much so that Musk, combined with his wealth, weilds as much or more power as Trump himself - represents no small risk, even if you think he βprobablyβ didn't mean it. His
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denials should fall on deaf ears - his white supremacist ideals, fine tuned under Apartheid South Africa, make him a real and present threat to us all. Why Israeli leaders are bedding down
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with The Devil, allying themselves with Trump and his, racist antisemitic Presidential Triad is beyond me - but I hope they sleep with one eye open.
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Anti-Wokism isn't just about denying today's racism against minorities, but whitewashing America's past. America's principles, set out in The Declaration of Independence, are undeniably a
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triumph of progressive humanism, but it is also part of our history that those principles were applied only to wealthy white men. The end of slavery, women's suffrage, and the civil rights
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era were needed corrections, acheived through the heroic actions of names already mentioned too rarely in history books. Now, acknowledgements of our racist past are to be hushed up - the
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guilt today's young white men might feel is too much of a burden for them - that burden being described all to often a βreverse descriminationβ or, more grotesquely, βreverse racismβ. That
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systemic racism against minorities, sexism denying women opporyunities, still exists is undeniable yet scum like the Presidential Triad deny and deny. Whether direct means - like affirmative
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action or DEI programs - are the best way forward can be debated, but that we need continued vigilance against discrimination has never been an open question.
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I can't say I understand modern ideas about gender. I find βsocial roleβ definitions, like this one that Duck Duck Go found for me, are used inconsistently. With such a definition, notions of
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βmasculineβ and βfeminineβ should be the central concern, but don't seem to be given much consideration. In the end, I can't judge somebody else's notion of self and internal and external
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conflict always surrounds identity and what it means. On the grounds of compassion and the prinicples of equality and the right to pursue happiness, the Triad's persecution of those who don't
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fit their ideas of gender norms is another evil act. They should direct their impulse to find βwitchesβ they can, convict and burn at the stake toward some who deserve such treatment:
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conservatives, for opposing our founding, progressive, priniciples. Real witches are of course protected by our right to religious freedom. But, for some inexplicable reason, the
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adminstration isn't doing the right thing. Who knows what impulses drive their evil deeds?
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Trump gives America the middle finger once again, selling our land to the highest bidder. Are there any bounds on his disdain for Americans and what we believe in?
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Republicans recommendations that Zelensky flatter Trump reflects Trump's status as King or Emperor. Yet another demonstration of the fundamentally anti-American Republican ideology.
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Trump has threatened Hamas - certainly a legitimate target - but the article also quotes him threatening to murder the entire population of Gaza, as if every last living soul were complicit
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in taking hostages. How can anybody excuse Trump's behavior and think this is okay?
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The Supreme Court's baseline for interpreting The Constition should, always, be to serve the principles laid out in The Declaration of Independance. That should resolve almost any difference
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of opinion. But let's face it Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are traitors. They only serve themselves and their version of the un-American Conservative
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ideology. The Constitution? When it agrees with them. Two of them are even crazier than I am - if you've seen them on TV, you can just tell...
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I'd really like to revel in Musk's continued failure but I'm just thankful the rocket had no crew on board.
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The last line has a quote from Trump that says it all. Trump and Musk, thinking this bullshit is believable, are both idiots. What they're really trying to say is: βnobody has the right to
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fire someone: the employee simply failed to gain the financial resources, nor the alternative sufficient military forces, to take control of their former employer.β People are being fired
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because Musk says so - if Musk didn't say so, they wouldn't have been fired. This is both shameful and ridiculous.
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I would hope New England could bar traitors like Vance from entering our states. I still can't get over his βfree speech absolutismβ bullshit - what an idiot! Of course, The President he is
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Vice to has the opposite view, that freedom of speech is for suckers. If only we could get them to fight a cage-match to the death!
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Trump has shared some fantasies of committing murder. Now he gets to actually do it.
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As a (secular) Jew, I've had to live with antisemitism in America my entire life. It's different than the racism Black people experience - the only people who don't consider me white are the
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people who really care - alot - about who gets to say they are white and they can't tell by looking. But, for sure, I'm still not white enough for them. The Trump admin says it wants to
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protect us against antisemitism but keeps Nazi-salutin' white supramicist Musk in control of, well, damn near everything. If Trump wanted to protect us from antisemitism, Musk would be on his
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way to Guantanamo Bay in leg-irons.
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This Guardian article brings up a valid point - former presidents should be on the front line, saying the (less crazy) stuff I've posted here. They have an obligation to the people - they
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retain the title of βPresidentβ - to fight Trump's tyranny. I'm no fan of politicians in general - Clinton was always an embarassment and Obama fought only weakly for America's Progressive
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heritage. Now is the time they should take action and redeem themselves!
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Okay, to be a true Conservative, you must have no soul and commit your life to calling others names that apply far more to yourself, and it's far beneath me to defend such reprehensible
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people but the Conservative accusations against Amy Comey Barrett are just racist and plainly sexist. Since these accusations come from un-American right-wing pigs, could we expect anything
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The other thing Trump could do to help us all sleep at night is send Vance to Guantanamo Bay (in shackles, of course). With Vance and Musk stowed away there, Trump could safely resign.
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Donnie, you know it's the right thing to do.
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Oh, how could they treat poor little Elon this way?. I'm sure we just misunderstand his genius. So, he likes destroying things, like rockets, America and people's lives. But can we really
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Tell us something we don't know.
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Trump's statements includes another laughable claim that Conservativism is consistent with American values, not the un-American hate-filled ideology - one that thrives on treating classes of
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people as sub-human - it really is. Boycotts are an exercise of the individual right to freedom that is at the core of American values. Traitor Trump knows this, of course.
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Bumper-stickers for your Tesla. βRich people are the best!β βWhite drivers onlyβ βNazis? They're an okay bunch.β βWarning: vents toxic gas in the presence of Jews...β
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A friend shared the idea that people support Trump because he's such a miserable scumbag, nobody even considers the possibility he may be their better. βIf Trump can become President, imagine
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what I can do!β But Trump is exceptional filth and appeals to a disease that plagues many minds: the paranoid delusion that decent human beings have wronged them and kept them from all that
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they deserve. They have turned to indecency incarnate, the lowest form of filth anyone has conceived of, as their savior.
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Does Musk, in pointing out that Hitler didn't murder 6 Milllion Jews with his own hands, think he is telling us something we didn't know? Did he miss all the hand-wringing and questions about
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how ordinary people would follow orders to torture and murder? There's even a Wikipedia page Elon could read if he's not too busy laying waste to America (okay, we know he is). But Hitler -
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and everyone βjust following ordersβ - was responsible for every death. Musk really isn't very bright, but the reason he doesn't get it is because it has to do with something he's totally
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unfamiliar with: morality.
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The clear intent of the Republican Congress, in handing more and more power to the President, is to transform itself into a vestigial remnant of our democratic past. It's unclear how the
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Republicans plan to hold on to that power once Trump dies, but they are clearly confident they will not be forced to relinquish Trump's throne. If the military becomes loyal to the emperor,
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not to America and its people, it will be decades, if not centuries, of oppressive rule by those embittered by the loss of the American civil war - those who see ownership of other human
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Have you thought about divesting? I mean, investing in a firm run by a Nazi is, well, kinda like being a Nazi... Until Tsai Capital divests from Tesla, we should all divest from Tsai Capital.
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According to an article in The Independent 53% of voters disapprove of how Trump is handling his new role as Emperor. That means 47% don't disapprove, which is appalling.
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Musk is, apparently, receiving death threats - I cannot condone them, but I am not surprised. Musk's Nazi ideology is traitorous (remember, they're the bad guys - our last, just war, was
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against them - one that will never end). Given his history of anti-semitism, his apology-free Nazi salute was, and remains, a genuine death threat to anyone with Jewish ancestry. While some
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Jews defended Musk's salute as an innocent gesture, they didn't account for his lack of contrition (nor additional statements) afterward. Some people will understandably feel it is necessary
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to act in self-defense while others hope threats will cause him to relinquish power.
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changed to a simple "redirect" to the same address with "dei" added. This defense department is slandering our veterans under Trump's orders. Disgusting.
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I cannot condone the arson that has been occurring at Tesla's businesses. Musk's evil should be stopped but such acts are only a short term catharsis. The Declaration of Independence tells us
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we have the right to a government of the people, but violence must be a last resort. The US Military remains capable, despite Trump's disrespect for those who fight for and even give their
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lives for their country. They must be on the side of the people. Loyalty is a hallmark for those in the military, but Honor is too - in time, all will see Trump has none.
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When someone says they are a βfree speech absolutistβ the chances that it's bullshit are extremely high. If it's not bullshit, the chances they are completely insane approach 100%. The reason
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is simple: perjury. If the government cannot interfere with my right to say whatever I want whenever I want, then I can say whatever I want during a trial - including when I swear an oath to
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tell the truth. Another reason is fraud - the crime of misrepresenting (usually) a financial situtation. But that's just lying - which, to a βfree speech absolutistβ is a Constitutionally
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protected right. So forget βfree speech absolutistsβ, they're most likely idiots, but treat them kindly because they may just be in desperate need of care.
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She's right: her father shared his plans for those with Jewish ancestry that day. Trump's continued association with him, and Republican's continued association with Trump tell a story of
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horror to come.
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Where are the free speech absolutists now?
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Republicans are concerned about The Great Replacement - America's white population will shrink relative to non-white, putting white's power at risk. That fear isn't just of circumstantial
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demographic changes, but a belief that the Democratic party is trying to make it happen through, among other things, immigration policy and gives rise to Trump's immigration fear mongering.
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Musk and Vance are βPronatalistsβ - the misguided view that populations need to grow. But Republicans, like these two, lean toward whites-only pronatalism (Musk is certainly trying to do his
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part). But Pronatalism is a terrible thing - the planet is finite, but somehow these geniuses just can't do the math. In the end, it's just about racism - official or unofficial, it's part of
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the Republican Party's platform.
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Population levels have concerned me since I was a child. Presume for a second that economists and their dismal science might have the wrong end of the stick - a few misguided assumptions
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about human behavior will throw of their spreadsheets. Rather than just accepting a positive rate of population growth is necessary, consider what is the optimal human population level for
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the planet? The current population level produces enough waste that the planet simply cannot absorb it. Plastic waste forms islands in the oceans and toxic zones are everywhere, not just due
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to some spill - just because a factory once existed at that site. The terrifying nuclear disasters are well known, but you can probably find some toxic sites in your neighborhood. Agriculture
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has to be so productive that GMO's may be the only option, and agricultural waste frequently threatens water supplies. What benefit does a larger population provide? βGreed is Goodβ doesn't
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have to be the assumption that soley drives policy. I am not a sociopath according to Vance - children evoke positive feelings (phew!) - that doesn't mean βmore is betterβ. How many people do
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you need to have a good life?