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Gaily's avatar

So what would life look like for, say, office workers? if the boss wants a “nooner”, the gal he chooses had better deliver, and because of the “at will” status of all employees, if she objects, she might as well pack up and forego her last paycheck just to be let out the door. Or what about those subsisting on Social Security and Medicare benefits: will those continue or will the SS fund simply be redirected to the oligarchs?

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Tracy Sample's avatar

Is Ken Silverstein speaking of himself here? (An opinion I share)

If yes, ever so disappointing.

“Barnett said he was a Trump fan in part because “the establishment hates” the former president, adding that the Russiagate scandal that led to his first impeachment had been cooked up by Democrats as part of a politically motivated attack to drive him from office. (An opinion I share.)”

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Twyla 🇨🇦's avatar

Caught that part too.

So dissatisfying to see that people will ignore evidence if it doesn’t fit with their beliefs.

That whole thread was hair raising and made me think of Jim (and Badd Company from Xitter).

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Tracy Sample's avatar

I got off twitter in December after staying glued to it for years to my personal disadvantage. I followed Jim and Badd Company when I did participate, however, and encouraged people to follow Jim because I never doubted his findings.

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Tracy Sample's avatar

There is ample evidence that Russia was in the bag for trump. Manafort handed over our polling data. Just what does Silverstein think Russia did with that information? They weren't looking for new markets to sell their shitty vodka, that's for sure. And then there's Australia who blocked his bid to build a casino there because of his ties to the mafia, of which we can be sure included the Russia mafia even going back that far.

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Barnation Station's avatar

The biggest problem, as your article points out, is this is a transnational, criminal conspiracy. Part of the narrative is no longer a conspiracy, has been tested, and is at work fervently.

Since the supreme law of the land seems to be consistently altered, to various interpretations, to an extent that no one seems to have any idea how to manage a novel series of cases that need not bother with originalism yet somehow can't manage to bring conclusion to the reality of the moment.

That was obvious during oral arguments, for Trump's immunity claim, at the SCOTUS.

Dear Justice Gorsuch, as an example, you didn't care to answer all questions about CO's case, in full, on the 14th amendment, yet decided for the entire country, but wanting to write "for the ages" or "future prosecutions gone rogue" sounds absurd for immunity. This isn't what YOU rewrote the question to be answered in this case. Justice Jackson said it best.

No imperial POTUS will need a SCOTUS. An imperial POTUS will not need writing for the ages on whether prosecutions are too broad as there simply won't be any.

This, finally, brings me to my point. If extra Constitutional Executive powers have been used, as they have, now is the time to, excuse my anti-democratic sentiments, get Trump into court for the documents he stole, based on the D.C.'s assessment of the case, as that would sway the vote, in my lowly opinion. The jurisdiction should be D.C. He didn't steal the documents from their location originating in FL. They ended up there but the crime took place in D.C.

The SCOTUS is responsible for lower courts. However, when one can't be their own arbiters how are they to handle a slow walking, disingenuous, perhaps far too wet behind the ears, as her law school indicated prior to confirmation, judge sitting in some satellite office bending over to help the convicted felon.? Perhaps a different court steps in? How long is it until the election?

Why care about migrant crime, the Mexican border, or building a ridiculous wall when documents, stolen by the convicted felon, in an election subversion case versus hush money, are allowing our adversaries to enter freely, as criminals and bring that teeny component of fentanyl, through teddy bears, from China, as they are in our elections both past and present?

Those same extra Constitutional powers, as used to protect our republic from threats both foreign and domestic, past and recent, should be a focal point as Biden is already seen as the purveyor of stopping his rival through the very courts that a.) only work the way they do, for Trump's biggest indictments, if one has wealth and 2.) If one has sold something of value to obtain a favorable outcome. Which makes the case against Biden being the purveyor illogical, really.

These two cases are waiting on partisan hacks, at best, or enablers of the overthrow of the Republic they serve.

Voting being rigged or stolen or violently attended to is their way. Our way should be to use the precedents, set forth, popular or not, by other presidents when THEY, as the ones in the EXECUTIVE, and not the one trying to re-enter the Executive, have seen fit.

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Lonnie E's avatar

How to Prevent "GOP MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

❤️ Discredit totalitarian propaganda everywhere

🤣 Mock GOP worship of dictators

❤️ Promote moral organizations

❤️ Actions by everyone creates freedom

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M

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