Chairslinger
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I guess it makes sense.
We all know they will do anything to glorify his behavior. And there have been some pretty convincing photos in the past where he sure looked like he was wearing an adult diaper.
I just missed the part where it became so well known on the right that they felt the need to create merch to justify it....
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5 hours ago, Kamusha said:
Are there any examples in history where a fascist movement got dangerously close to taking over but was defeated and went away for good? Not a rhetorical question because I genuinely don’t know. Like, is there any precedent for a country to walk this close to fascism and narrowly avoid it for good?
Maybe I will think of an example later, but it's a bit tough to think of something that didn't happen. Like, we've even had brushes with Fascism in America before(like during WWII) but in hindsight they maybe look less dangerous than they actually were because they didn't happen and we like to tell ourselves it could never happen here.
I will say this, if we can just beat Trump this year we have a built in advantage. Most Facist demagogues don't start their ascent in their 70's.
I have given up on the "the fever will break" idea for the Republican Party but I also have long believed that the "Next Trump, but smarter" worries were overblown.
If we can beat Trump this year, even this morally and intellectually bankrupt party will not run an 83 year old Trump again in 2028. And far from having an even more dominant Facist take his place I believe the party will be in absolute shambles the day after if Trump loses. Look at DeSantis. Trump's unique celebrity is the secret sauce here.
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8 hours ago, SuperSpreader said:
Yeah I don't believe these polls at all
I don't know how often this has happened, but I remember some of these polls show Trump nearly even with the Hispanic vote and like 25% of the black vote.
Granted we shouldn't do the Trump thing of screaming "fake polls" but a lot of these numbers simply do not pass the sniff test.
And most of the polling misses have been in our favor since 2016 and even more so since SCOTUS made reproductive freedom into one of the biggest political issues.
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3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:
I mean, remember especially early on in Trump's first term there was incident after incident where Trump took advantage of the "norms" thing and just did this, that, and the other thing where people were like, "Wait, that was never illegal? That was just something everyone assumed a President would never do?"
This is basically that, on steroids. Trump saying, "I am going to do this? Whatcha gonna do about it?"
He had already ran roughshod over the norms, and now he wants judicial sanction to basically turn everything into norms. Everything is, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
Under this conception SCOTUS is basically saying, "We'll make our ruling, but if the president does it anyway our hands are tied."
I know I am stating a lot of the obvious here, but I wanted to point it out because what they are doing is basically Andrew Jackson'ing themselves into irrelevance.
"We have made our ruling. Now let us try to enforce it."
I still think they will just kick the can on this and delay it until after the election but I have heard more than one legal expert that is absolutely astounded by just how receptive at least 4 of this doofuses are to these arguments.
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6 minutes ago, finaljedi said:
Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy She ‘Hated’ in New Book
WWW.ROLLINGSTONE.COM
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem describes executing an unruly puppy in an excerpt of her upcoming book obtained by The Guardian.I guess Kristi Noem killed a puppy and a goat she didn't care for.
The GOP has long been the party of racists and misogynists, but I feel like bullies, grifters, and sociopaths have made serious inroads during the Trump years.
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17 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:
This remains a hilarious farce due to the fact that they're raising these "concerns" while a President who opposes them is currently in power. "Hmm, should Biden be able to have the entire Supreme Court and Congress executed and replaced with puppets? Hmmmm... It's a real head scratcher!"
Of course, this only applies to a universe where Biden is fuckin' rad as hell, not ours.
It really is frustrating and an inherent example of how Trump, just walking in the door, has already beat the system(both judicial and media) that we all are apparently expected to stroke our chins and say, "Mmmhmmm, yes yes. This is a very fascinating legal conundrum that requires weighty thought and adjudication from the highest court in the land. Who knows, could go either way. Perhaps the Justices in their austere wisdom will pave an understated path through a middle ground that can really unify the country."
He wants to attempt coups and get a fucking Get Out of Jail free card because he can't even do Dictatoring without declaring figurative bankruptcy!!!!!!
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2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
This is the most likely outcome, unfortunately:
From CNN:
This is where it was always going.
It's thier way of making Trump de facto immune without having to make the asinine ruling.
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2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:
Tough row to hoe on this argument since everyone assumed Nixon could/would be prosecuted.
That's why Ford pardoned him and Nixon accepted it. Why do that if he was already immune?
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I am pretty sure if we accepted Trump's conception of absolute immunity that he would actually be more powerful than King George was.....
As if their argument wasn't ridiculous enough, with their whole escape hatch being that he could be impeached, has anyone pointed out that no Senate would vote to impeach a man if he could simply send troops onto the floor of the Senate to execute them all?
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10 hours ago, MarSolo said:
They won’t sue, but it’s funny that shit like this is even POSSIBLE now:
Tristan Snell (@tristansnell) on Threads
WWW.THREADS.NET
Hillary Clinton. Ben Carson. Ted Cruz. All could have defamation claims against Trump and the Enquirer now How? Weren’t the defamatory statements 7-9 yrs ago? The...Is conspiracy to defame already a law or are these fuckers just creating new crimes as they go along?
I do enjoy that even after nearly a decade "Vote Your Conscience" Cruz is still finding a way to be emasculated by Trump.
"Who helped kill JFK, bitch?!?!"
"My daddy, sir."
Oh, sorry, I meant....
....you know what....either one is good.
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5 hours ago, Jason said:
Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial
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Donald Trump is accused of falsifying business records involving the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election."Conservatives angered over Donald Trump's trial say "Wait, that's how the legal system actually works?!" after decades of complaining criminals have it way too easy.".
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8 minutes ago, Reputator said:
Imagine going outside and finding a dick in the grass.
Actually..... nevermind.
If this event had happened a few years later or the show debued a few seasons earlier this would have definitely been an episode of South Park where the boys found a new toy, fought over it, Cartman inevitably did something horrible to "win" the competition of who gets it, and then starts playing it like a flute or something right as everyone finds out what it really is.....
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I feel like the news that Trump was dozing off at his trial was the perfect moment for Dems to stick him with the moniker of "Donald Slump".
It works for so many things. Whether he is dozing off in court, his polls start sagging, he has little Don energy at his rallies, or when he inevitably bombs at the debates.....
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33 minutes ago, MarSolo said:
I did my due diligence: NOT FAKE or AI.
I went to his Truth Social page itself, which means I’m on an FBI watch list now probably:
Jesus fucking Christ can you buy a fucking punctuation, Pat?
Did he ever get to the point? I am genuinely trying to figure out what his point was.
He started out by doing the academy thing as an aside.....but then never seemed to get to what he was actually trying to say about Kimmel....
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18 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:
Boy Meets World started as a family sitcom and turned into a weird soap opera.
I just got done watching it for the first time since I was a kid and man, around season 5 MASH goes from being Patch Adams to Saving Private Ryan
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5 minutes ago, Biggie said:
So does he have a penis?
Of course
It's in a jar on his shelf.
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3 hours ago, Jason said:
Momentum builds to oust Johnson from House speakership
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7 hours ago, Hellhound said:
He looks like a hand puppet.
It's impressive that he can have no chins and yet multiple chins at the same time.
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I wouldn't say Lower Decks was the best show, but it was certainly the most consistent.
You weren't going to get the next Inner Light or Pale Moonlight with Lower Decks, but you could tune in every week and know you were going to get a good, entertaining episode.
Didn't have to worry about canon shattering plot devices or overambitious season long arcs that only live up to about to 50-75% of their potential. Kind of ironic for what it was, but it was the workhorse of New Trek.
I have been more patient than most with New Trek. I always tried to find the positive. But between this, their baffling refusal to greenlight Legacy, and a Star Trek movie that may literally be the least interested I have ever been in a property that bears the Star Trek name.... it's wearing thin on me.
Season 3 of Picard proved that New Trek doesn't need to be graded on a curve, or made excuses for. It can be as good as any Trek ever made. But, while it doesn't guarentee a good show, step 1 of making a good Trek show is probably for the creators to really understand why Star Trek fans are Star Trek fans and not Star Wars or other generic Sci-fi show fans.
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3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:
Newsmax Host Makes Geography Goof-Up For The Ages: 'Very Embarrassing Stuff'
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Rob Finnerty tried to list a number of President Joe Biden's gaffes before making a blunder of his own.
Breaking the rule because I don’t know where else to get the video:It's Biff's party, now....
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Cancer has denied any involvement, but they are releasing a book this Fall called, "If I Did It".
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33 minutes ago, Jason said:
McCarthy says Gaetz ousted him to stop ethics complaint over sex scandal | Republicans | The Guardian
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Former House speaker says Matt Gaetz led charge to remove him to quash allegations Florida representative ‘slept with a 17-year-old’That seems like a pretty significant charge considering that Matt Gaetz didn't fire McCarthy the House GOP fired McCarthy.
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3 hours ago, TUFKAK said:
I recently matched with this girl on an app who told me she’s into gun play.
Our country is fucking insane.
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I am so checked out on current wrestling. Funny story, I saw this thread earlier today and realized WM was today and kind of shrugged it off. Then I saw Wrestling with Wregret put up a review of WM30 and I clicked on it and it was making me mildly interested in WM40 and I was thinking "hmmm, I wonder if there is some kind of week trial I could exploit to get WM for free". Then he mentioned that WM30 was right when the Network debuted and how different it is now because the Network doesn't exist anymore because it's a part of Peacock.
That's when I realized I already have access to WM because I have a Peacock subscription. That's how checked out of current wrestling I am.....not only do I not watch the shows I flat out forgot I have access to their PPV every month
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Official "Look How Insane and Shitty ALL GOP Officials Are" Thread
in The Political Re-Education Camp
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Noem is speed running the full conservative gaff circuit.
That second one is basically "I can see North Korea from South Dakota"
Next she'll be assuring everyone she's not a witch and claiming that the female body has a way to reject the sperm if a woman is raped....