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You go bankrupt, the banks take over. Just sayin. Oh wait. Wrong thread. Belongs with Donna Brazile.

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they're just trying to "win"

it's fucking out of control, the whole situation has turned into a complete game

peoples' lives are at stake, billions of lives, but it's just a fucking game to them because they are insulated from reality by their wealth and status

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what I want is a fair fucking due process trial for this bastard, because we are AMERICA AND THAT'S WHAT AMERICA DOES

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I'll chip in

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I think it's not a bug but a feature, to be honest

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what about that fucking monster from Vegas?

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I think that should also be Bronzo the Outrageous' fate. In the Bronx, in a box, overlooking a schoolyard of playing children.

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50 American dollars - $50! - is hereby also pledged.

...$50!

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Maybe not if he ever wanted stars, but my hat is off to him nonetheless.

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So much winning.

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I usually wear a baseball-type cover.

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'Due process shmu proshmesh. Knuckledragging assholes whose grasp of civics mostly comes from watching vigilante superheros kick ass to overcooked soundtracks _love_ me when I say this shit.'

-- DJT, pretty much.

Me, I said it back when they first opened Guantánamo, will say it again: this is an incredibly fucking bad idea. You want to lose the real war, this is how you do it: hollow out what you were fighting for from the inside.

The people who want to see liberal democracy gone get this just fine. Make its own guardians destroy it out of fear, this works better than anything else. You can't bomb an idea into submission. You must confuse those who defend it sufficiently they betray it themselves.

... and they're doing pretty well, fact is. And this is what western civilization means, now, to anyone looking for grounds to dismiss it as mere lip service to ideals, with little actual delivery: torture and detention without trial.

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He doesn’t have “thoughts.” He has “urges.”

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Ask and ye shall receive, courtesy Wonkers! Really should not be surprised that so many of you have a deep understanding of quantum physics.

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So where we get screwed is after Democrats fix the economy, Republicans increase instead of decrease the deficit via war and tax cuts for the wealthy. I think I got it....

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Visceral ones...

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