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[Nebe]

Oh look everyone! A MEME
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Originally Posted by Nebe

Oh look everyone! A MEME
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[Pete F.]

Theory is that you need 3.5% of the population to overthrow a tyrant.
To do that you need clear values that the majority of Americans want and can organize around.
Here’s a few
1. Term limits for Congress
2. Term limits for Supreme Court
3. No insider trading for Congress
4. Take money out of politics
5. Limit length of political campaigns
The vast majority of Americans support all of those.
We wouldn’t be in the position we are today if those were in place.
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Theory is that you need 3.5% of the population to overthrow a tyrant.
To do that you need clear values that the majority of Americans want and can organize around.
Here’s a few
1. Term limits for Congress
2. Term limits for Supreme Court
3. No insider trading for Congress
4. Take money out of politics
5. Limit length of political campaigns
The vast majority of Americans support all of those.
We wouldn’t be in the position we are today if those were in place.
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Are you suggesting overthrowing the twice elected and current president of the United States? ....you are.
You're the little fish I keep catching and throwing back grow up.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Are you suggesting overthrowing the twice elected and current president of the United States? ....you are.
You're the little fish I keep catching and throwing back grow up.

Since he’s currently ignoring the oath he took at his inauguration sure, but entirely through constitutional remedies.
Congress’ failure to assert its Article I powers is inexcusable
If the five things I listed became the law we would not be in the position we are now.
Which of the five do you find objectionable?

1. Term limits for Congress
2. Term limits for Supreme Court
3. No insider trading for Congress
4. Take money out of politics
5. Limit length of political campaigns

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[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Since he’s currently ignoring the oath he took at his inauguration sure, but entirely through constitutional remedies.
Congress’ failure to assert its Article I powers is inexcusable
If the five things I listed became the law we would not be in the position we are now.
Which of the five do you find objectionable?

1. Term limits for Congress
2. Term limits for Supreme Court
3. No insider trading for Congress
4. Take money out of politics
5. Limit length of political campaigns

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Marsh can't and won't just debate the issues, it's not in his MAGA , nature to have a civil conversation, but I for one certainly feel strongly about getting term limits, times change, the world theater changes, the climate changes (unless of course it admitting it threatens your agenda), to have 80 year old lifetime members of congress and the supreme court isn't a reflection of anything. The grifting going on in politics is unreal and Trump and Clarence Thomas are the poster boys for the shameless grifting going on.

Marsh will do the Trump thing deflect and insult, it's just who he is.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Marsh can't and won't just debate the issues, it's not in his MAGA , nature to have a civil conversation, but I for one certainly feel strongly about getting term limits, times change, the world theater changes, the climate changes (unless of course it admitting it threatens your agenda), to have 80 year old lifetime members of congress and the supreme court isn't a reflection of anything. The grifting going on in politics is unreal and Trump and Clarence Thomas are the poster boys for the shameless grifting going on.

Marsh will do the Trump thing deflect and insult, it's just who he is.

Im going to give myself a time out... for being mean to you guys. Keep this support group going... the comradery is special

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Marsh can't and won't just debate the issues, it's not in his MAGA , nature to have a civil conversation, but I for one certainly feel strongly about getting term limits, times change, the world theater changes, the climate changes (unless of course it admitting it threatens your agenda), to have 80 year old lifetime members of congress and the supreme court isn't a reflection of anything. The grifting going on in politics is unreal and Trump and Clarence Thomas are the poster boys for the shameless grifting going on.

Marsh will do the Trump thing deflect and insult, it's just who he is.

Well it seems like the First Felon has spent his first week on culture wars rather than any of his campaign promises.
Before you know it we’ll be told that no eggs and higher prices for bacon are good for us, the American thing to do.
I place most of the blame for where we are at on Congress, for the past fifty years it has worked for itself, not the voters.
Fifty years ago I knew almost every business owner in town.
All that middle class entrepreneurial money is gone, little by little.
Some is left in unique businesses but you no longer can go to your local banker, borrow money and sign the note. There’s no local banker, you think the bank that’s been bought ten times in the last fifty years and covers several states cares?
It’s the result of Tax policy, the rise of lawyers and MBAs in business and the legislature.
Both parties participated in offshoring jobs.
Congress including both parties were bought by big business and the wealthy.
Now they are openly controlling the presidency.

It won’t end well, Zi Jinping is grinning while FFOTUS is attacking our allies, neighbors and whoever he thinks is weak.
Meanwhile China is telling them, we can help you, no tariffs, we won’t invade you, our military spending is half of the USA and we have no military bases outside our borders.
Let us instead upgrade your ports, railroads and infrastructure. We will build manufacturing facilities in your country for our mutual benefit.
The Felon is threatening them with invasion, tariffs and killed the soft power he had with foreign aid.

Wonder who they’ll pick?
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[Pete F.]

Tucker Carlson's son, Buckley Carlson, is now working as JD Vance's deputy press secretary.

You know, the one who needed Hunter Biden's recommendation letter to get into Georgetown.

So much for "meritocracy" when they keep installing nepo babies.
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[PaulS]

Damn kids need to learn to lift themselves up by the bootstraps:

During a Tuesday interview on CNN, host Pamela Brown interviewed Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Pa.) about President Donald Trump's new announcement that he was imposing a 90-day pause on all disbursements of federal money until agencies could ensure spending is line with Trump's agenda. The vaguely worded funding freeze — which is expected to begin at 5 PM Eastern Time and is already being challenged in court — could impact everything from Medicaid funding to food stamps and possibly even federal funding for school lunches.

McCormick — who joined Brown from Trump's Doral resort in Florida where House Republicans are having a retreat — defended Trump's decision, and suggested that kids at risk of losing their school lunch benefits could instead learn the "value" of hard work.

"You talk about school lunches? Hey, I worked my way through high school. I don't know about you, but I've worked since I was 13 years old, picking berries in a field before we had child labor laws that precluded that," said McCormick, who is 56 years old and was born well after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced child labor laws in 1938. "You're telling me that kids who stay at home, instead of going to work at Burger King, McDonalds during the summer, should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work? I think we need to have a top-down review."

[Nebe]

Ahh yes. Its the old “cut benefits for the needy so afford tax cuts for the mega rich” plot again.
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[Pete F.]

Imagine if Trump got hold of the Supreme Court’s docket and said, “Y’know what, I already know how I want all these cases to go. I’m just going to go ahead and decide them myself. The people elected me to rule, so I’m gonna rule.”
Now imagine if John Roberts said, “I see no reason why the President can’t issue his own rulings on these cases. We’ll defer to his judgment. He is, after all, the President.”

That’s what’s happening to Congress’s power of the purse right now.
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[Pete F.]

Well the FFOTUS has put his plan in motion to assert the power he claims to have as a unitary executive.
This is the FAFO phase where you shake everything up and attempt to make what you want out of the pieces.
Now for the Felon and his billionaire buddies it’s pretty hard to have a downside.
Billionaires win in a recession and expansion especially with American tax policy.
I’m more concerned about what the people dependent on the services that disappear will do.
The options for an unskilled workforce are limited to labor or crime. More money in drugs
Ask Appalachia
We already have a higher percentage of our population in prisons than any other nation, that’s how freedom works?

Energy where are we going
The FFOTUS wants to drill baby and add fossil fuel generation, meanwhile solar battery base load systems are less expensive upfront and have lower maintenance costs.
Wind power he’s correct on, maintenance will kill that.
His fossil fuel based energy policy stifled the American battery and lithium industry and ceded that geometrically exploding market to China.
The winner of the energy race will dominate world trade, it’s not a sprint.

The dollar
It’s been The trade currency for the world since 1944 replacing the pound sterling which was the preceding empire Britain’s
Do you do business with bullies if you have a choice?
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[Pete F.]

A Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday.

Members of Towers Parry’s family did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.

Towers Parry, who was in the midst of eviction proceedings, came out of her house and pointed a shotgun at the two men before the 40-year-old, armed with a handgun, opened fire. In a phone call Wednesday, Pritchard said the men did not work in law enforcement and were not there to evict Towers, but he would not describe the paperwork they were delivering.

Tuesday’s shooting happened less than two weeks after Towers Parry’s home was foreclosed on and scheduled to be sold at a Sept. 20 auction, King County housing records show. Towers Parry had failed to make about $24,000 in mortgage payments and still owed more than $225,000 on the home, which she previously shared with her ex-husband, according to the records.

A photo taken of the house on Tuesday showed a large U.S. flag hanging from the home’s front window underneath the word “QAnon,” the name of a far-right conspiracy theory that gained traction online after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

A Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday.

Members of Towers Parry’s family did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.

Towers Parry, who was in the midst of eviction proceedings, came out of her house and pointed a shotgun at the two men before the 40-year-old, armed with a handgun, opened fire. In a phone call Wednesday, Pritchard said the men did not work in law enforcement and were not there to evict Towers, but he would not describe the paperwork they were delivering.

Tuesday’s shooting happened less than two weeks after Towers Parry’s home was foreclosed on and scheduled to be sold at a Sept. 20 auction, King County housing records show. Towers Parry had failed to make about $24,000 in mortgage payments and still owed more than $225,000 on the home, which she previously shared with her ex-husband, according to the records.

A photo taken of the house on Tuesday showed a large U.S. flag hanging from the home’s front window underneath the word “QAnon,” the name of a far-right conspiracy theory that gained traction online after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.
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So What!
In case you were sleeping or in a coma Trump is not just a former president....
He is the current president and will be for four more years.....unless he declares himself dictator....
There isnt a damm thing you can do about it....but maybe encourage more violence against the president and talk about "overthrowing". PATHETIC

[Nebe]

Not a meme but a classic example of ignorance. You think this person is unqualified because of the way they look.
You think this thread is all about making us look like we are hurting from trump being elected but it really just exposes the shear ignorance of a trump supporter.
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Not a meme but a classic example of ignorance. You think this person is unqualified because of the way they look.
You think this thread is all about making us look like we are hurting from trump being elected but it really just exposes the shear ignorance of a trump supporter.
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Well bless your heart!

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Originally Posted by Nebe

Not a meme but a classic example of ignorance. You think this person is unqualified because of the way they look.
You think this thread is all about making us look like we are hurting from trump being elected but it really just exposes the shear ignorance of a trump supporter.
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For someone so paranoid about the “garbage” label I’m surprised he keeps rolling around in filth.

Levine graduated from Harvard and Tulane Medical, was chief resident and taught at Mount Sinai in NYC, top doctor at Penn State, Physicians General in PA confirmed three times by the Republican controlled PA state senate. Her qualifications are impeccable.

This is precisely why Clinton made the politically stupid but completely accurate “basket of deplorables” remark in the 2016 election.

Trump and his unqualified gaggle of appointees all claim that “merit” will be their legal guiding principal when they themselves completely lack it and seek to trash those who do simply because they want to divide the nation with a manufactured culture war.

It’s outrageously hypocritcal, bigoted, illogical and just mean. I’m guessing Marsh is well aware of this but is so high from toking Trump’s pipe he’s willing to sacrifice his own integrity for a cheap thrill.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Not a meme but a classic example of ignorance. You think this person is unqualified because of the way they look.
You think this thread is all about making us look like we are hurting from trump being elected but it really just exposes the shear ignorance of a trump supporter.
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Oh so right, he is doing what a true Trumpet does, looks matter and what about Biden, not concerned I guess about a nut job putting our children at risk if he limits access to vaccines.

[Rmarsh]

Im thinking there are some big TDS suckers lurking...will they take the bait again?
Losing interest with all these small fries. Work is my life story and im heading out soon. Dont fret, ill be back to check on your well being afterwards.

[Pete F.]

Meanwhile
"Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, our new secretary of transportation in the new awful administration.
In 2017, Trump took credit that that there were no airline crashes that year. With that in mind, I think we know who to blame for this tragedy.
He’ll blame….

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-shee...dministration/

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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Meanwhile
"Obviously it is not standard to have aircraft collide. I want to be clear on that." -- Sean Duffy, our new secretary of transportation in the new awful administration.
In 2017, Trump took credit that that there were no airline crashes that year. With that in mind, I think we know who to blame for this tragedy.
He’ll blame….

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-shee...dministration/

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At least he is consistent and makes well thought out and researched comments. Always defends our military and Federal ees:

“The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,” Trump said. “The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane.”

“This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented,” Trump continued. “NOT GOOD!!!”

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by PaulS

At least he is consistent and makes well thought out and researched comments. Always defends our military and Federal ees:

“The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport,” Trump said. “The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane.”

“This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented,” Trump continued. “NOT GOOD!!!”

Last year Congress added 10 flights to Reagan, the most congested airspace in America, by sticking it into a bill authorizing FAA funding a week before it expired.

“No votes have been scheduled in either chamber on the measure, which President Joe Biden must sign by midnight on May 10 to avoid a lapse in FAA authority.

Washington National Airport
With endorsements from committee leaders on both sides of the aisle, the bill should have broad bipartisan appeal in both chambers of Congress.

But senators from the states bordering Washington, D.C., said Monday they opposed the provision adding five incoming and five outgoing flights to Washington’s Reagan National Airport, or DCA, located in Northern Virginia just across the Potomac River.

In a statement, Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia and Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland vowed to “continue to fight against this ridiculous and dangerous provision.”

Two planes cleared to take off from the busy airport came within 400 feet of crashing in an April 18 incident. The near-miss should have underscored the crowded conditions at DCA, which, as the closest airport to the Capitol, is a favorite of members of Congress, the senators wrote.

Committee members, none of whom are from the area, “decided to ignore the flashing red warning light of the recent near collision of two aircraft at DCA and jam even more flights onto the busiest runway in America,” the senators said. “It should go without saying that the safety of the traveling public should be a higher priority than the convenience of a few lawmakers who want direct flights home from their preferred airport.”

Because the federal government owns DCA and Dulles International Airport further into the Northern Virginia suburbs, Congress has the power to make operational changes.”
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[Nebe]

Maybe Marsh is shooting for a new government job and will be using this thread to prove his allegiance to the new fascist government.
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[Pete F.]

Now seems like as good a time as any to remind people that FFOTUS picked, as Secretary of Transportation, a former contestant on MTV's The Real World.
Because being on TV qualified both of them.

Trump’s initial approval rating stands at 47% — below all other elected presidents dating back to 1953.
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[Pete F.]

In a conversation with podcaster Jack Murphy in 2021, Vance - who publicly begged his mother to stop "spoiling" his children - argued: "I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice: fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people."

Vance doubled down on his stance, contending in the same 2021 interview: "And when the courts - because you will get taken to court - and then when the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it."

Nothing to worry about
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[Pete F.]

Notice every Republican official addressing the media today (re: the DC airplane collision) go out of their way to make a positive mention of Trump.

They know he's watching.

Even in the face of terrible tragedy, they're all dancing for his favor.

It's a North Korean level of sycophancy.
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[Nebe]

Checking my notes, this is chapter 4 of how a fascist regime operates
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[Nebe]

I am not sure RFK’s goal is to end vaccines but to not make them mandatory. Its ironic though that it is mandatory that I wear a seatbelt, but something as serious as polio is something that we should welcome back to walk amongst us.
Maybe this is back door population control to thin the herd ir even more sinister… less vaccinated people mean more sick people to feed the medical industries coffers.
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Originally Posted by Nebe

I am not sure RFK’s goal is to end vaccines but to not make them mandatory. Its ironic though that it is mandatory that I wear a seatbelt, but something as serious as polio is something that we should welcome back to walk amongst us.
Maybe this is back door population control to thin the herd ir even more sinister… less vaccinated people mean more sick people to feed the medical industries coffers.
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The issue is RFK uses vaccine conspiracies to prey on the weak to get attention and money then vaccinates his own children and lies about it all. He’s not just completely crazy he’s evil.

Trump just declared the DCA crash was due to Biden and DEI and he’s going to make sure it never happens again.

The level of stupid is mind bending. Where did Marsh go? He’s like a breath of sanity compared to what I’m seeing on TV right now.