Going to keep this account open for my bookmarks & the covid/communicable disease list of accounts I maintain here, bc many people on that list haven't migrated to other platforms yet (I expect that to accelerate). But my eyeballs will be elsewhere for everything else.
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Unfortunately this is symptom-level analysis. The actual root cause is that the electorate was programmed to be hyper-sensitive to these topics. Under different circumstances the programming would have been different. The real problem is the programmers' ability to program.
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Yes, we are headed toward a Potemkin democracy, where institutions will abandon their constitutional prerogatives and place loyalty to Trump above all else. Our Congress will become a rubber stamp, resembling those in Hungary, Russia, and imperial Rome.
People are not ready for what's coming
JUST IN: A Jan. 6 defendant is asking Judge Beryl Howell to postpone aspects of his case in light of Trump's election and promise to pardon many involved in the Capitol breach. documentcloud.org/documents/…
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Deport them to where? Other countries are not going to take back people that have been living here for years.
Trump will begin operations to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term, campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday morning.
He'll launch the "largest mass deportation operation" of undocumented immigrants on Day 1.
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The conclusion politicians will draw from this election is that voters think high unemployment is preferable to high inflation. So the next time we end up in a recession, there's going to be very little political appetite for big stimulus to get us out of it.
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It means he is going to take credit for the economy that already exists (as he did before) and over half the country will worship him for it.
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More than that, they’re going to be quitting subscriptions. The media failed us. Why should we support it?
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BREAKING: Deep red Missouri votes to repeal near-total abortion ban and codify abortion until viability into the state constitution. huffpost.com/entry/missouri-…
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When we get through this the ERA needs to be back in play. Women aren’t second class citizens and our rights and lives should never be on the line like this again.
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Maryland voters passed the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, according to the Associated Press. The measure has earned about 74 percent of counted votes and codifies abortion rights into the state constitution.
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for 80 millionth time, the only reason Pennsylvania can't do this is because Republicans blocked a bill that would've allowed the pre-processing of early votes
