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Especially when we have so many actual human whistles. Forcing birth! Overwhelming hospitals! Killing the planet! Hello, hello, is this thing on?

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Republicans recognize that power is not constrained by words or documents or law. Its only constraint is will. Republicans know this and act accordingly. Democrats are still too timid to use their power. The fact that they spent a full year kowtowing to Manchinema’s every whim I swear to Christ. Hope they finally realize those two are a lost cause and start governing without the Senate. Trump proved it can be done. Just appoint all your staff as acting, right up to the SOS and the AG. Promulgate EOs like snowflakes, they can sue if they don’t like it. Ignore court orders and subpoenas, and dare anyone to do anything about it. Declare emergencies and confiscate military funding, they have way more than they need. Can’t anybody here play this game?

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Fucking suburban white women voters.

So dumb and so easily persuadable with the thinnest of proven lies, yet they are all hell-bent on helping morally bankrupt republicans create an authoritarian theocratic broken hellscape due to their own lingering daddy issues. And yet foolish septuagenarian democratic leaders seriously think that they can appeal to those same idiots with facts over unfounded fears while ignoring the needs of their voting base, AA women.

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Why do white men get a pass, like, literally always?

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Richard Nixon would be too liberal for today's Democrats (and probably not corrupt enough for today's Republicans).

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It's the change that's come from migrating the "free press" into the "corporate media".

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The asshole set up a tipline for people to narc on teachers for doing things like discussing racism. I'm not saying we should flood the line with fart jokes but I'm not not saying that either.

https://twitter.com/braided...

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I’m sorry, but I don’t know this bit of history. What did Ted Kennedy remove?

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maybe because he was so “easygoing.”

No, it was because of articles like these.The press painting this fucking fascist prick, with a history of being a fascist prick, as a moderate and some people just being too fucking stupid to understand that yes, off year elections DO MATTER.But mostly, the fucking press made him

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They're trying to break the public school systemThose who can afford it will whisk their young off to private schools. More money in private school coffers.That is the end game

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So long as you voted for him (if you are a virginian)

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To the press.The press made him. On purpose. The press sold him to the voters.This one is 100% on the media

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Republican senator Roger Wicker, who is on the Intelligence Committee, the other day proposed "raining destruction" on Russia with nuclear weapons if they invade Ukraine, and there's hardly a peep in the press.

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Splitting firewood is a good combination of the two, at least for me.

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He's equally responsible with the Clintons for selling the Democratic Party to Wall Street.

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Just once in my lifetime I would like the opportunity to vote **for** a presidential candidate rather than **against** their opponent. I'm tired of having to vote for "lesser evil", can I please have a candidate who is at least "not evil"?

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