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Old 02-19-2025, 01:50 PM   #1
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I find it unusual that their are some so Upset with the references to Naziish. or Fascist or authoritarianism.. as if they are just assigned without Thought or research or a basic criteria...

So to keep the example easy lets say. we identified. 25 examples in Trumps Administration or direct quotes .. that lead to the determination

We feel they fit falling in Naziish. or Fascist or authoritarianism or all of the above.

Our Republican and conservative members. in an attempt to discredit our observations. want to suggest. via whataboutism that others should also be considered Naziish. or Fascist or authoritarianism..

And their Logic is. lets take Bill Clinton. they suggest that if Bill had example 1 out of 25 of our examples in his administration.. why isn't he considered aNaziish. or Fascist or authoritarianism

Or how about Brits, maybe they have 1 , 4 and 8 out of 25. or the French, or the Belgians, or FDR, or LBJ, or Abe Lincoln

They want us to accept it's all the same! there are no degrees of behavior if you have any 1 of our 25 examples you are the same

its like suggesting water is no less dangerous when boiled because it's still water .. even when a chart suggest otherwise.

its disingenuous. all to defend the Man. as if everything he has done to Date would be defended by them with the same commitment and zeal if Harris was elected and did the exact same thing. with Musk sitting by her side. or Soros ... but I do know. I wouldn't be giving Harris a pass like republicans are giving Musk and Trump
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Old 02-19-2025, 03:07 PM   #2
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I think he has a man's crush on Putin bc Trump is hoping at the next G8 meeting he'll have Putin invited and then not everyone will be in a group looking over at Trump standing alone and laughing at him.
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Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid.

This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid.

It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.
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Old 02-19-2025, 01:54 PM   #4
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yep MAG you weren't lied to.
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Awe ...
See what you've done....chased away the only intellectual and now your stuck with me
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Old 02-19-2025, 02:27 PM   #6
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See what you've done....chased away the only intellectual and now your stuck with me
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In a post Wednesday on Truth Social, Trump went on to describe Zelensky as “a Dictator without Elections,” who was soon going to lose his country. The comment was immediately the top of the news in Russian media outlets.

keep cheering on your cowardly man crush.
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In a post Wednesday on Truth Social, Trump went on to describe Zelensky as “a Dictator without Elections,” who was soon going to lose his country. The comment was immediately the top of the news in Russian media outlets.

keep cheering on your cowardly man crush.
Ukraine is likely done, Trump has totally thrown it under the bus and I’m not sure Europe will back them without US leadership. Rubio is totally out gunned against Labrov and is just there to fly the plane into the ground. I’m guessing the US gets NOTHING from this other than Trump claiming he ended the war.

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Old 02-19-2025, 04:10 PM   #8
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Ukraine is likely done, Trump has totally thrown it under the bus and I’m not sure Europe will back them without US leadership. Rubio is totally out gunned against Labrov and is just there to fly the plane into the ground. I’m guessing the US gets NOTHING from this other than Trump claiming he ended the war.

Hey Marsh, вы говорите по русски?
Awe spence
You'll have to play that game by yourself. Or with yourself
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Old 02-19-2025, 04:16 PM   #9
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There have been rumors, for years, that Zelinsky has been quietly "squirreling" away millions of US aid in Swiss bank accounts.

No boat, back in the suds.
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Nah ...i think he is unattractive...but he took a bullet in the ear and came up defiant....that's more of a man than any of us....yeah...were you disappointed?
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Nah ...i think he is unattractive...but he took a bullet in the ear and came up defiant....that's more of a man than any of us....yeah...were you disappointed?
He took a bullet in the ear.

Man you still can’t tell the truth . I am shocked.
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Old 02-20-2025, 01:59 AM   #12
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He took a bullet in the ear.

Man you still can’t tell the truth . I am shocked.
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^^^^^and the stupidest post award goes to......wfsmo
Oh wait.....he didn't get shot?
Omg did you?
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^^^^^and the stupidest post award goes to......wfsmo
Oh wait.....he didn't get shot?
Omg did you?
No I got blown up in a humvee …. Got an a concussion and continued the mission. And I’ve been shot At. Since you’re asking. Trump was shot at. See the difference

But you’re so dishonest you claim he was shot…. That’s why I call say your a coward like most Trump supporters. Who are afraid to tell the Truth. Or even admit their dear leader loves Putin. Or lies 24x7….

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No I got blown up in a humvee …. Got an a concussion and continued the mission. And I’ve been shot At. Since you’re asking. Trump was shot at. See the difference

But you’re so dishonest you claim he was shot…. That’s why I call say your a coward like most Trump supporters. Who are afraid to tell the Truth. Or even admit their dear leader loves Putin. Or lies 24x7….
hit by a bullet fired from an assassin. Also completed his mission....he is your president if you are an american. Thats the difference there big fella.
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I almost wonder if most of Trump’s disdain for Zelensky is simply because he wouldn’t make up dirt on Biden,
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I almost wonder if most of Trump’s disdain for Zelensky is simply because he wouldn’t make up dirt on Biden,
Certainly, but Zelensky doesn’t like Trump and is vocal about it, that and Trumps bromance with Putin spells the end of Ukraine. When he pulls out of nato, which I suspect he is thinking about, our security and status in the world will be greatly diminished.
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Certainly, but Zelensky doesn’t like Trump and is vocal about it, that and Trumps bromance with Putin spells the end of Ukraine. When he pulls out of nato, which I suspect he is thinking about, our security and status in the world will be greatly diminished.
Interesting piece I read about how Trump dismantling the US led global order that’s led to 80 years of relative stability is going to usher in a new nuclear era where everybody is out for themselves.
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Go ahead it is on topic so...
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Old 02-19-2025, 05:34 PM   #19
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MAGA Marsh

He’s waiting for you to pledge fealty to him, the Republican Senators already have

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!
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I’m trying to figure out what he thinks he won…
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Old 02-19-2025, 09:40 PM   #21
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Those Who Say (X) Agency Should Be Eliminated:

DOGE: 25%
USAID: 21%
DOE: 17%
IRS: 13%
FEMA: 11%

EPA: 8%
CDC: 7%
CFPB: 7%
ICE: 5%
FBI: 4%
NWS: 2%
DOD: 1%

YouGov / Feb 18, 2025 / n=1603
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FFOTUS: "We're gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars advertising how bad drugs are so that kids don't use them."

I’m sorry but there was only one Nancy Reagan, please don’t google that…
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Old 02-20-2025, 08:24 AM   #24
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Half of Trump’s first month in office saw him visiting Trump properties
On one-third of the first 31 days of his second term, Trump played golf.

Yet Republicans when Biden was in office complained he was always on vacation


What happen to no working from home?
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Old 02-20-2025, 08:54 AM   #25
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Here’s a NFL player’s opinion of MAGA

Hello, my name is Chris Kluwe and I'm a 15 year HB resident here to speak out against the current city council.
As the community made clear at the Library commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast, VAST majority are against including a MAGA acrostic as the centrally defining feature (I'm ignoring the general ugliness of the design itself).
Unfortunately, it is *also* clear that this council does not care what we as a community want, so I'd like to take my time to talk about what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks.
MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence.
https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-righ...tion-explained
MAGA stands for resegregation and racism.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...funds-over-dei
MAGA stands for censorship and book bans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ibraries-trump
MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing.
https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-...ad8dcee31f3437
MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...ure-rcna192345
MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide, opioid addiction, and medical issues related to burn pits.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...ker-purge.html
MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.
https://www.al.com/news/2025/02/trum...cates-say.html
MAGA stands for a heroin-snorting junkie being placed in charge of the Department of Health; an abusive alcoholic Deus Vult wannabe crusader being put in charge of the Department of Defense; and a noted Putin apologist being confirmed to run our intelligence services. Mitch McConnell voted against her confirmation, by the way.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/...h/78525188007/
https://www.reed.senate.gov/news/rel...t-pete-hegseth
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...bard-confirmed
MAGA stands for a ketamine-addled, unelected billionaire ransacking our private financial details with no oversight. He has access to his competitor's financial details, and the bulk of his fortune comes from lucrative government contracts. He's also trying to get his hands on NASA, one of the jewels of American public innovation - again, one of his competitors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/0...e-irs-00204579
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-privatization
MAGA stands for hate, and fear, and the idea that we should have a king instead of co-equal branches of government. MAGA stands for a version of America that would appall the founders of this country, because they explicitly warned about this exact situation in the Federalist papers, multiple times.
MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakeably anti-democracy, and, most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. They may have substituted a red hat for an armband with a swastika, but every single thing MAGA stands for is what the Nazis did. Eugenics. Racism. Blind loyalty to the leader over what benefits the community as a whole. Removal or destruction of knowledge deemed "unsavory." Removal of groups deemed "unsavory." Sustained assaults on science, reason, and logic. Ceaseless propaganda that has no basis in reality. The promotion of fools, imbeciles, and charlatans to positions of power.
The threat to take everything you have, unless you give it to them first.
If this council wants to have MAGA represent our community, as someone who actually believes in the Constitution, I can only have one response to Nazis.
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US DECLINING TO CO-SPONSOR UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION BACKING UKRAINE AND CONDEMNING RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AHEAD OF WAR ANNIVERSARY, DIPLOMATIC SOURCES SAY

As the European papers call him now

Putin’s Poodle

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Calling Nicolas Cage

Trump: "There's a map on the back of the Constitution. We're going to be looking at it very closely. We've been talking about it from the day I got in, and we're looking at that very, very strongly."
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The secretary of agriculture canceled a meeting on biodiversity
The secretary of agriculture bragged about canceling a biodiversity conference because she thinks biodiversity is DEl-related. I wish this was a joke. It's just the level of stupidity and
"confidently incorrect" we're at right now.
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The secretary of agriculture canceled a meeting on biodiversity
The secretary of agriculture bragged about canceling a biodiversity conference because she thinks biodiversity is DEl-related. I wish this was a joke. It's just the level of stupidity and
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Wait until farmers can’t get proper climate data to maximize yields because it’s considered too woke.
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Once you realize that he works for Russia, not America, everything he does makes sense.
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