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      Is that Zelenskyy there? Imagine having to meet with this pompous asshole in the WH and be forced to stand there and “admire” his fucking stupid old man hat collection.

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        It’s not a collection. It’s a grift shop. There are multiples of each item. Look at the shelves on the right too. There are stacks of books to be sold.

        It’s not a collection. It’s merch.

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      That’s a merch store and trump isn’t running again his entire purpose was to bring JD Vance on to subvert MAGA culture.

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    A constitutional fight is just what he’s after. No doubt scotus will find the constitution does in fact grant this power to the president, no take backs, neener neener

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    Does he care about constitutionality?

    There have been many things he’s done already that are unconstitutional, and the only response from the Dems are “Well, wait for the election gais, I swear!!”

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      He owns the Supreme Court and owns enough judges in the circuit that he can basically do whatever he wants right now. The only thing holding him back is he doesn’t have the conviction of the nazis at this point, he is still moving slow and pretending to care about America enough for show that he hasn’t started arresting governors and senators. Yet.

      He knows he’s old and won’t see his glorious fourth reich or whatever bullshit tarded out vision of America he has in his addled head, but there are a lot of people waiting in the wings of power to swoop in and reshape America into some kind of moronic holocaust of white nationalism, day-drinking housewife medicine, bureau-of-flat-earthism, crystals and essential oils and warplanes banana republic with too much money where everything is a corporation and everything is a product and we all live in shanties.

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      That’s because it’s no longer a political party, it’s a cult and you’re either with their child rapist, insurrectionist, white supremacist ignorant bigotry or against them.

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    The man’s very existence is unconstitutional. He cares not a whit for constitutionality and neither do his enablers

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    For the 679th time.

    What are you going to do about it, Keep bleating that its illegal, while they laugh , do it, and secure more power?

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    Yeah, well, an absolute shit-ton of what that dipshit has done has been blasted as unconstitutional and very little of has managed to be stopped, so you’ll forgive me if I just don’t give a shit how “blasted” his actions get if there’s no actual meaningful impact to them seeing fruition that comes from it.

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      I think online voting is not available in most states. Without looking it up, I think Oregon or Utah is the only state that allows it.

      Edit : Most states have it for overseas or for people on military deployment. A handful of states have it for people with disabilities.

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    He knows the GOP can’t win if people actually turn out to vote, so making it very hard to vote is the name of the game for the Repugnants.

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      Except voting days are during the work week and the majority of the voting population can’t afford to miss work to “bloody well queue up”. Restricting mail in voting is voter suppression in this country.

      Why the fuck do you care if someone stood in line to vote anyways?

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        Dont forget gerrymandering as well, where they put the ballot 50 miles away from your location, so that is convenient for republicans, but almost unaccessible for Democrats

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          If you don’t live here, why would you comment about how we vote? Voicing your opinion on a topic that you “don’t really care” about is meaningless at best and harmful at worst. If we were anything alike you’d recognize that, and you’d be advocating for more access and methods for voting, not less.

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            If you don’t live here, why would you comment about how we vote?

            Because America has stuck its fingers in the business of every other country.

            How you Americans vote impacts the rest of the world.

            And in the case of your current federal government, we are being impacted especially negatively. (As are you guys, but shooting yourselves in the foot is less of a concern to me than the fact that the stray bullets are flying past my head)

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              Sure but when I comment about Canadian politics, I do a some preliminary research to understand the baseline facts and context before commenting, something this user clearly did not before making a flippant and asinine remark backed up by nothing.

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              Then more people from all over the world should be encouraging Americans to push for more mail-in voting (and other expanded voting options). Not telling people to “bloody well queue up”.

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      Well if this isn’t a dumb ass comment but hell, go ahead and provide your reasoning for standing in line for hours.

      I can list off all of the reasons why the majority of states, including dumb as red states, have no excuse mail in voting.

      • Proven increase in voter participation
      • Reduction in fraud due to multiple layers of checks and additional time for reviews
      • Reduces the cost of having polling stations and workers
      • Produces a more informed voting base.

      Also, my favorite little tidbit about mail in voting:

      The conservative Heritage Foundation, which has warned of the risks of mail voting, found 14 cases of attempted mail fraud out of roughly 15.5 million ballots cast in Oregon since that state started conducting elections by mail in 1998.

      But no, really, go ahead and provide your, I’m sure, well reasoned and researched stance on requiring “bloody well queue up”.

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      Guys, we’re not getting him on the Epstein thing.

      I mean, don’t stop pushing it, it still is turning centrists and people on the right, but we have to understand that removing voting methods is one of the major steps in fascist takeover and there will be NO cases against Trump that will remove him from power or make his dedicated cultists stop worshiping him.

      We beat this thing with grassroots restructuring of our states. Make some effort to get involved and get social with the people who are running your local elections. Hold some yard-sales and get to know your neighbors, do some volunteer work and inspire others to care about community. Most of all, STOP SPENDING MONEY. Stop feeding the corporate machine that is feeding the fascist dictatorship rising, stop paying for Doordash, data plans, new phones, new games and game systems, vape pens and everything else that you can live without. Shift priorities and change your habits. If someone wheels a guillotine down your main street I guess you can get involved in that too.

      “Whaaaa life is miserable and my drugs and games are all I have.”

      Skill issue. We survived for millions of years in harder conditions without these things, and if you don’t shift priorities you will lose ALL OF IT. Starve the monster and it will weaken and we will have our nation back.

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        I think you underestimate how much damage this regime is creating. All the programs gutted and shuttered (so far) might not even come back, it’s not as simple as turning something off and on again. Some crucial programs we’ve got taken away are already lost. And the damage being done in just the first year is still only the start. Everything from Projeckt 2025 is still being actively done. Remember when P2025 was mentioned everywhere? Now it’s crickets, because it’s nearly game over for at least a generation. It’s good to remain hopeful in difficult times, but be very wary that it’s going to get a lot darker when this regime feels the walls closing in. There will be bloodshed and it will be an ugly mark on our history.

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          I think you underestimate how much damage this regime is creating.

          Where? How?

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        Apologies, I’m usually better at adding descriptions. I’ve edited it, and it says: Damn, that’s crazy. Where are the Epstein Files

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        There is a picture of stars, overlaid with a purple tone and retro-futuristic geometries including some overlapping triangles in the upper middle of the image, with the bottom third composed of a wireframe ground as if to simulate an old vector videogame.

        Over this image, in an aggressive sans serif font reads:

        “DAMN, THAT’S CRAZY! WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?”

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      If Trump was the only one in them; we’d have them by now. I agree with the pressure on Trump because obviously he’s the fucking president. But I really wish this pressure existed prior to this pedophile being president. I really think until the recent media coverage about Trump anyone on the left was treated as a Qanon nutjob if they said their was more to it. (At least treated that way by mainstream media). I’m glad we are here. But I’m also sad it took so long.

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      Sure but it’s also a deliberate attempt at subverting democracy.

      You don’t need to worry about rule of law and popular public sentiment if you’re “Dictator For life” and if you think only silly countries with brown people have those, we’re all about to get a really rude awakening.

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      It’s not a distraction, it’s just more attempts at eroding democracy so that Trump’s term and Republican’s control doesn’t end. The Epstein files is only worth something if Trump could be successfully prosecuted or impeached, which we seen won’t fucking happen. Yeah they matter, but this is not a distraction, they’ve effectively moved on. It’s done, they’ve gotten the prosecutor fired, and their star witness is on “”“work release”“” probably resuming human trafficking

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        She’s not on work release; she has been made eligible for it.

        Otherwise, yes.