Why should they care about regulatory power? Put some stooge in charge of a Potemkin agency, make sure the plutocrats get their vig (especially tfg, who’s pissed Putin is the world’s richest man), and let Congress ban abortion. Putin, if he’s still in power, will look on with envy.
I can’t tell is s/he’s being snarky OR if s/he is a Susan Sarandon Democrat.
Let’s hear it for the dialectic, Susan.
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I am glad you clarified. I feared you were a Susan Sarandon devotee; she said Trump and HRC were equal. Don’t vote because IF Trump were elected it would clear out the sclerotic veins of democracy.
I have not watched another movie of hers since.
Funny that.
In the future, /s is helpful to those of us who lack the irony gene.
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So, it’s time for a second reconstruction.
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HAS Susan Sarandon made any political statements since the 2016 election?
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We have three chainsaws, all Stihl, ever hear of the Sahara forest?
That one is a great joke!
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I agree that we have them. But we haven’t used them for decades, so I’m not sure anyone is quaking in their boots at the prospect.
I think it means California can secede.
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This ^^^
I have always wondered, and often said, that I can’t believe how we as a nation time and again allow the states which enact policies leading to the absolute worst outcomes on nearly any issue set the agenda for federal policy.
The answer is Republicans, of course, but it still stuns me.
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You know, this propensity for extra-legal manipulation of elections by republicans started, in a big way, in the successful attempt by republican operatives to derail the Florida recount in 2000. That gave us George W. Bush - a disaster as a president. It has only gotten worse since then. Now this kind of manipulation has become the core electoral strategy of the republican party. I suppose cheating is the only way to win when your platform is full of hate and positions that are fundamentally in opposition to the best interests of the American people.
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Demcracy is on life support because the Dems don’t have a clue how to reign this thing in. In this day and age, how is it that we don’t have the ability to track down these low lifes that are threatening our election officials? I would appreciate an explanation. The perps need to be discovered, charged, revealed, arrested, tried. And I’m also wondering, has free speech become a liability to democracies around the world? Discussion of this would be useful…and let’s ratify the ERA.
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We’re up here in the PNW where Dems still hold sway.
I so feel for my old friends back in Texas.
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It is terrible that good people feel threatened to the point of quitting. This will pretty quickly undermine the system- which is the goal of those who threaten.
When law enforcement and prosecutors don’t put a stop to these threats then, yep, democracy is not in good shape. There needs to be arrests and prosecutions and criminal convictions to stop the continued degradation of our Republic’s democratic institutions and the flight of folks who are frightened by the lawlessness that is obviously threatening to ruin all.
Something wicked this way comes … and we’re careening right towards it. The Democratic Party has been astonishingly impotent at stopping any of it. We have some serious flaws in our system for it to have gotten this bad. Unless some cataclysmic event happens to shake free the national consciousness the future looks pretty bleak.
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Mussolini’s Black Shirts started their campaigns of murder and terror at the local level.
(Just a reminder…)
But Italy survived, and Il Duce met a just demise, even though it was 20 years later.
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The Darrs live in Arizona… Mrs darr did a temp job in the 2020 election working in the actual count of the ballots. after hearing her I know for a fact there were no election shenanigans here in Pima county. I will be very good money it was the same story in Maricopa county too nevertheless the Goobers in our state Senate had to call in amateurs (the Cyber Ninjas) to do the Fraudit" recount. After weeks of chasing Qanon conspiracy after conspiracy they could not find a trace of fraud at all. But trump continued to spew his lies and people believe him rather than the actual evidence.
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I will say it again…trump is a malignancy in the body of America. Everything he touches becomes tainted, ill, a lie, dishonest, dead. He should be disowned by us. Nothing he says or does can be trusted to be true or honest. He lies as often as he breathes. He has a megaphone and for that reason he is very very dangerous.
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Anything to make a buck
People talk about “Replacement Theory”… seems the real replacement is not Brown people vs White but rather decent nonpartisan honest election officials running fair and open elections being replaced by hyper-partisan neophytes with no knowledge of how to run an election except that they know who they want to win (and who thy have been ordered must win). And they’re more than willing, in fact eager to throw out ballots they do not agree with. No reason needed other than that vote was not for their chosen candidate. That’s the real “Replacement Theory”.
Innit funny how republicans run their mouths about “intrusive government” and how they are all for personal freedom and small government that could eventually be drowned in a bathtub… yet in practice they are as intrusive as is possible in such basic things as from a woman’s control of her own body to demanding that large companies be allowed to pollute at will. Also “lets keep Title 42 cuz we don’t want them brown folk here cuz they might vote for democrats”. No matter that non-citizens cannot vote.