a swirling, detoxifying outpouring of mildly sarcastic rage
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Why isn't mysogyny a crime? Not like a death penalty crime, more like a penile colony crime.
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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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‘minimalist’ 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. “King
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Trump, Emperor of America”! 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: “No. That would be racist.”
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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 “incitement to suicide” 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 “The Godfather” 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 “by-accident” 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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give a shit.
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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 “they do make good lawyers” 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 “reveal” 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 ‘enabler’. The reason we are
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‘triggered’ is because that gesture, along with the Nazi flag, have the same meaning as the words ‘we are going to exterminate every last Jew like the vermin they are’. 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 “free speech” 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 ‘movement’ 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 ‘woke’
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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.
