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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. erroneously contends President Joe Biden is more of a threat to U.S. democracy than former President Donald Trump, a notion political experts find to be “preposterous” and “absurd” Former President Donald J. Trump has declined to...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 08:32 PM PDT
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Yesterday, Trump filed his brief in the Supreme Court asking them to agree that a president should have "absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his official acts." . Trump wants absolute immunity for criminal acts! . Let’s come back to that in...
by JoeGadway
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 05:02 AM PDT
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The battle between democratic freedoms and despotic oppression worldwide is intensifying. As we saw here last month, more people will vote for national governments in 2024 than in any year ever. Bizarrely, many American voters seem happy to vote for...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:44 AM PDT
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TFG is declining physically and mentally. Win or lose, he’s got a short horizon. Ruth Ben-Ghiat (historian of dictators) points out that a cult-of-personality doesn’t survive the loss of its leader. There is no heir apparent; not among the dwarfs who...
by SCRW56
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 05:21 PM PDT
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The Royal Supreme might crown its king, Donald the First, by continuing to help delay his numerous trials, and by ruling in his favor regarding Presidential immunity. Trump has told us openly that he wants to be a dictator. Vote accordingly.
by laloalcaraz
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 03:09 PM PST
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This is frickin’ scary!! And you can’t change the movie, so we’re all stuck with facing this! A long-time friend/colleague of mine said if our democracy falls, she’s leaving the country. I pointed out that the other so-called safe countries, like...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:09 PM PST
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I know I’m simply cross-posting, and do not want to steal the original author’s thunder, but I felt this HAD to be shared so we can amplify how horrible this is. Please follow the original links to read further so folks get credit for their posts. An...
by itwasniceknowingyouamerica
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 02:21 PM PST
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I am not a pot smoker but it does not agree with me along with lots of things that I tend to be allergic to. Pot is not dangerous. I know lots and lots of folks on marijuana and much rather them smoke than drink or take pills for relaxation.. I...
by Vetwife
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on Mon Feb 19, 2024 at 04:36 PM PST
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www.theguardian.com/… After reading this article, please read Timothy Egan’s seering “Fire in the Heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the Woman who stopped them.” It’s the tale of America’s home grown Nazi-ism in the 1920s-50s...
by 4thcorner
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 09:53 AM PST
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When Donald Trump and his campaign registered for the Illinois state primary this year, they refused to sign a voluntary loyalty oath stating that Trump wouldn't advocate for overthrowing the government. The Biden campaign pounced on the news, which...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 12:31 PM PST
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From our local weekly.
by zman1527
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 08:46 AM PST
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In a great and terrible day for the world, a horrendous villain has received a tremendous blow: Trump has been rejected as a suitable candidate by the Colorado Supreme Court because he tried to overthrow our government. The decision has been "paused"...
by Rusticana
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 11:33 AM PST
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Donald Trump isn't being subtle. At a New Hampshire event on Saturday, he claimed that immigrants (in a nation of immigrants, no less) are "poisoning the blood of our country.” Yet it wasn't the first time his rhetoric parroted Adolf Hitler's genocidal...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 02:21 PM PST
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I read where the convict in waiting, equal justice for all being tested to its core, has announced great plans for his one day as dictator. Per his recent pronouncements, he will build a wall, thereby continuing to band-aid the effect, rather than...
by OutsideTheBoxToo
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 12:36 PM PST
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This will be short but never the less a warning to those who think that they are indispensable to someone who gains all the power in a country and who wields unlimited power. Dictators do not share power. They don’t need a supreme court or any other...
by myoungatheart5
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on Tue Dec 12, 2023 at 04:18 PM PST
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Okay, DJT didn’t say those exact words however… (Quotes from the Messenger) At a Fox News townhall with Sean Hannity, the former president said he'd be a dictator for just one day so he could finish the border wall and drill for oil. After strong...
by Al Dorado
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 09:32 PM PST
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Markos on the Republican debate, Kevin McCarthy and Hunter Biden on the latest episode of Thursday Kos. Hear the full episode on Make It Plain.
by Make It Plain
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 11:49 PM PST
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When some person, former president or not stands in front of the American people saying he will be a dictator which is declaring himself King and goes against the constitution and brags about being indicted , that person needs to be locked up. WHY...
by Vetwife
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 12:22 PM PST
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During the first Republican presidential debate in August, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley arguably took the strongest stance against GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump. "We have to face the fact that Trump is the most disliked politician in America,"...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 12:52 PM PST
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During an interview on Tuesday evening, Fox News’ Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump whether he would abuse power if he was returned to office and noted that Trump has been using the line “I am your retribution” in his campaign. Trump responded by...
by Mark Sumner
187 comments
on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 08:20 AM PST
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