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Oh this isn’t going to totally turn into “how do you do, fellow kids?” Memes.

Nope. Not at all.

FuglyDuck,
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Not even sure what he was trying to say?

D-day was a failure of appeasement?

D-day was why appeasement failed?

Too many lives were lost on d day to call it “a victory”?

That we should totally go all in on supporting Ukraine? Even with troops?

That Putin’s invasion isn’t about nato? Or that we should leave nato because it’s leading to war?

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Huh. Guess sharks sometimes do eat junk food….

18+ Mexico’s elite struggles to comprehend left’s landslide election win (www.ft.com)

The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader...

FuglyDuck,
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He was probably paying attention to dicks in the shower scene

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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It was a mixed gender shower.

They may have been artfully concealed, but yes. Everyone there was neked.

Not that there’s anything wrong with checking out the dicks. There might be something wrong with being a raging homophobe, though, and still checking out said dicks. It that sounds like a personal problem

Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border (www.whitehouse.gov)

Four months ago, after weeks of intense negotiation between my staff and Democrats and Republicans, we came to a clear — clear bipartisan deal that was the strongest border security agreement in decades. But then Republicans in Congress — not all, but — walked away from it. Why? Because Donald Trump told them to. He told...

FuglyDuck,
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He is going to the right though, and a clear issue here is that many independents are actually on the left of. democrats. We’re not a cohesive group or a “party”.

And he is fucking over the border. We know what we need to solve it- increased funding for more clerks/judges/legal aid

But that’s not funding for their salary raises/expenses, or the corporate/billionaire mega donors subsidies and tax breaks. So fuck even trying that.

FuglyDuck,
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Long term it’s an awful idea, for the DNC

It’ll put the DNC in competition for the conservative votes, while leaving progressives free to form a legitimate party that’s actually progressive.

For the short term, it means the republicans are just going to further into fascism while the dnc progresses to fascist lite (exactly where the repugnants used to be.)

The only hope is if one or the other parties fails and/or progressives to finally figure out that “lesser of two evils” is exactly how we got here in the first place

FuglyDuck,
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Short therm, you’re very right- long term, 2+ decades, if the dems keep shifting right, it’ll happen on its own.

Democrats and republicans are not the first political parties in the US. They probably won’t be the last.

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20 years from now, they won’t remember this specific act. But it doesn’t change the shift, and people will remember the broad strokes.

Not sure how that’s a far cry. Short term, democrats are going fascist lite as republicans are full on embracing fascism.

Progressives (and the centrists being passed by,) are either going to continue voting for the lesser evil (which is increasingly fascist…) or they’re going to find other answers.

This is just my prediction.

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You’ve seen that huge conference table, right?

It’s not that he’s trying to be intimidating… he just wants a head start on running,

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i dunno. polonium poisoning usually makes it pretty self explanitory.

FuglyDuck,
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Dudes an actual billionaire. He already has a direct line.

FuglyDuck,
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“So what if we burn down the government. What are ya gonna do? Impeach us?”

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5b43db3f-5ed9-4cbf-b00e-8cc62897bd7c.jpeg

The particulates involved are going to increase cancer incidents as things go forward.

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They didn’t notice that in ‘16?!?

FuglyDuck,
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I’m with Nougat. He’s about to become very familiar with other people’s shit. One might even say intimately familiar.

FuglyDuck,
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I’m not sure on the specifics, but if it could be proven that he interfered in the proceedings of a criminal trial? yeah. there’s a charge there.

Republican Operatives Swoop in to Help Cornel West This Election (newrepublic.com)

”This helps take away votes from Joe Biden,” the activist told one person at the rally, according to a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) by a Washington Post reporter. “We’re helping the Trump team who’s trying to get him on there,” added a woman by his side.

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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They didnt just screw Bernie. They screwed America

FuglyDuck,
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Mandate ethics standards, add in term limits.

I like the idea of a scheduled rotation. Let’s say, every two years, or mid year to give presidents time to get the hearings out.

Senate must begin immediate and expeditious proceedings for confirmation.

Finally, and most importantly, their robes must be tie dye.

FuglyDuck,
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If we replace a scotus judge every 2 years, they would individually have 18 year terms.

If we assume they’re experienced enough to actually be on the SC, they’ll be pretty close to retirement age anyhow. (If they’re 40, and that’s young, they’ll be 58 when they’re done.)

This doesn’t really change the slow nature of the court. What it does, is to remove unpredictable nature of appointments. Right now, we have a hyper conservative judge because McConnel played games and certain judges died at very inconvenient times. A consequence there is a SCOTUS that doesn’t reflect America at large.

FuglyDuck, (edited )
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I can give them something to be mad about.

(what flavor would you like? Universal voting rights; and removing the ability of asshats to gerrymander shit? universal health care? No more funding for Israel for as long as they remain an aparthied state? broad anti-corruption measures…? Congressional term limits? Locking up Trump?)

FuglyDuck,
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Or just calls themselves Charlemagne, really.

Not exactly a nice guy, what with all the warmongering and forced conversion to Christianity. (Though it should be noted several social reforms including education helped spark the carolingan renaissance)

FuglyDuck,
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Just act like you meant to. I’m sure it’d piss trump off if we kept confusing him for other presidents. Taft, for example. Or Obama.

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