StephenRamirez , to random
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Abe [Hamadeh] likes to say he's a "former prosecutor." HAHAHAHA Abe was the lowest, entry level prosecutor for a year. We can see his legal acumen in his ridiculously baseless election law cases in which he has NOT ONLY LOST EVERY SINGLE CASE, but also managed to SANCTIONED repeatedly for hundreds of thousands of dollars for bringing baseless claims. Abe, why don't you start your posts with, "As a guy who lives in my parents' basement in Scottsdale and hasn't had a job in over three years" — Barry Markson

rbreich , to random
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Trump's campaign claims to have received over $34 million on the day he was convicted of 34 felony charges.

Remember when Trump said he’s pay his supporters legal bills?

Looks like they’re paying his.

You’re being duped, folks.

ZhiZhu ,
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social avatar

@rbreich

"Quit your begging, ya mooch!"

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  • gimulnautti , to bookstodon group
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    How do we know beliefs are make-believe?

    Because factual beliefs respond to evidence, imaginings do not.


    @bookstodon
    Neil van Leeuwen
    Religion as make-believe: A theory of belief, imagination and group identity

    https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Make-Believe-Theory-Imagination-Identity/dp/067429033X

    wdlindsy , to random
    @wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

    "This week I thought it would be helpful to offer a refresher on Trump’s MAGA Republicans and what they want":

    • "MAGA Republicans don’t believe in laws or norms. Only using them to their advantage."

    • "MAGA Republicans gain power and immediately put it to use."

    • "MAGA Republicans understand the importance of media and cultural power."

    • "MAGA Republicans plan to win by any means necessary."

    ~ Melissa Ryan


    /1

    https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/five-things-you-need-to-know-about

    wdlindsy OP ,
    @wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

    • "MAGA Republicans thrive on our misery and use it strategically. …

    We need to be clear-eyed about what the true aims of MAGA Republicans are and how far they’re willing to go. Right now, I think it’s especially important to understand and internalize that they want us demoralized and why. It’s a helpful reminder, especially in a year of one brutal news cycle after another about the election."


    /2

    benroyce , to random
    @benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

    "More than half of supporters say main reason for backing is to oppose "

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4712618-over-half-of-joe-biden-supporters-say-main-reason-for-backing-is-to-oppose-donald-trump-cbs-poll/

    Some people think this is terrible

    I consider it ideal

    I don't like passion in . That gives us cults like . To me every should be a cold calculation. That's an ideal society, to me

    If enough people vote tactically, they can move a party in the direction they want, until they get a candidate worthy of love

    But even then I will never mix passion and politics

    jeffowski , to random
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    weltraumpirat , to random
    @weltraumpirat@mastodon.social avatar

    As a German with half-decent history knowledge, I am deeply ashamed of my fellow countrypeople.

    One sixth of voters have either no brain or no decency, or no conscience. Appalling.

    rameshgupta ,
    @rameshgupta@mastodon.social avatar

    ⬆️ @weltraumpirat

    >> As a German with half-decent history knowledge, I am deeply ashamed of my fellow countrypeople. One sixth of voters have either no brain or no decency, or no conscience.

    In , that ratio is at least double that in . So you are still better off than we are 🙂

    I hope US voters reject and in even more than voters in rejected and in

    rbreich , to random
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    Is Trumpism Fascism? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sAOud-qm38&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    LFpete ,
    @LFpete@mas.to avatar

    @rbreich

    Yes, is .
    is fascism. is fascism.

    jeffowski , to random
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    thehill Bot , to random
    @thehill@press.coop avatar

    Biden's IRS is using scare taxes to discourage legitimate tax strategies

    Don’t let the IRS website, the testimony of its director before Congress, or any other kind of press release or public pronouncement influence you unless you hear differently from your tax advisors.

    https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4701784-irs-is-using-scare-taxes-to-discourage-legitimate-tax-strategies/?utm_source=press.coop

    DemocracyMattersALot ,
    @DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social avatar

    @thehill

    publishes shit and thinks it can hide behind the disclaimer that “THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL.”

    The Hill is a bunch of cowards.

    TomSullivan , to random
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    Republicans hope to elect the convicted leader of a crime syndicate to the White House. He can't own a gun. They want to hand him the nuclear arsenal.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "The permission to be your worst self lay at the heart of Trump’s appeal in 2016. He didn’t use dog whistles or pretend to be a better person than he was; his bigotry, resentments and anger were right on the surface, and he encouraged his followers to be like him. Let your freak flag fly, stop being polite, grab ‘em by the pussy and tell those bastards what you think of them, right to their face."

    ~ Paul Waldman

    https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trumps-conviction-has-liberated-the

    Runyan50 ,
    @Runyan50@newsie.social avatar

    @wdlindsy The internet is turning Americans into monsters. 25 years ago it was a small minority and now the monsters make up 40% of the population. When will it grow to over 50%?

    Nonilex , to random
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    marks anniversary w/vote to defund

    's movement could lead… to seek weapons

    Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at , , where ~160k troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on was in charge of & it was the beginning of the end of

    dougiec3 , to random
    @dougiec3@libretooth.gr avatar

    “For millions of you, the European poll is the first election in your life. For many of us it could be the last...
    We couldn’t prevent [the rise of nazism] back then, but you can today.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/holocaust-survivors-young-europeans-vote-against-far-right-eu-election

    Nonilex , to random
    @Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

    JFC

    Several boo officers who defended Capitol on

    2 fmr law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, were jeered by state lawmakers as they visited PA’s House of Representatives on Wed, acc/to several Democratic lawmakers present.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/06/pennsylvania-house-republicans-capitol-walkout/

    jeffowski , to random
    @jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar

    Felons aren't welcome in the military. So why should we welcome one to be Commander In Chief?

    Nonilex , to random
    @Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

    Speaker raised eyebrows on Wednesday by naming 2 of the more controversial House members to the highly sensitive House Cmte.

    …Johnson “has named Reps PA) & (TX) to the House Intelligence Cmte. The Cmte oversees the entire intelligence community & gets some of the most sensitive intelligence about the & its allies.”


    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/speaker-johnson-skewered-for-putting-scandal-plagued-republicans-on-intelligence-committee/

    MoiraEve ,
    @MoiraEve@mastodon.world avatar

    @Nonilex As bad as anything that happened in the trump administration. The poison continues to ooze from the corrupt Congress. Every allegation is a confession.

    Nonilex , to random
    @Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

    ’s Guide to Subverting

    A 2nd admin could existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.

    This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against ,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.


    https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-democracy-fcc-fec/

    Nonilex OP ,
    @Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

    Instead of focusing on , the manipulation of processes by domestic & foreign agents, & other genuine threats to , Mandate for Leadership’s authors would have these agencies do the bidding of & his movement. That’s a formula for giving Trump the he seeks—not through an explicit crushing of electoral democracy, but by “reforming” it in precisely the way that the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy warns is most dangerous.

    randahl , (edited ) to random
    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar

    Wait… WHAT??!?!?!?

    Trump is now publicly fantasising about getting reelected and throwing the president's wife in jail, as revenge for 12 jurors in Manhattan finding Trump guilty of a crime.

    I am truly lost for words. As a political campaign message, this makes zero sense.

    Clearly, my field of political analysis does not suffice. If a psychologist or a doctor has an analysis of these ramblings of a madman, I am all ears.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyUsWoGclQ4

    Tonkey ,
    @Tonkey@universeodon.com avatar

    @otownKim @enoch @randahl Yeah, gotta get out more on my bike, but don't worry, Trump has aged me about 30 years, but I just need to get to November, so that when he loses, I can go to bed, and sleep peacefully for a week, and be as right as rain again. If he wins, that's a different story, because I'm going to down a bottle of whisky and jump out of the window, carrying a fruit-knife I bought specially, so if the fall doesn't kill me, I'll finish the job with the steel blade. 🙂

    StephenRamirez , to random
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    What kind of a party chooses a rapist and felon to be their candidate for president? — @bruce_steiner

    Nonilex , to random
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    Conservative attacks on could threaten
    are sowing that falsely characterizes IUDs, , even as “” — something used to cause .
    in ≥17 states have blocked largely Democratic-led attempts to pass assuring the right to birth control since 2022.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/

    bronakins ,
    @bronakins@sfba.social avatar

    @Nonilex

    PREACH‼️

    trump & his Republican handmaids putting out provably false statements isn’t a bug—it’s a feat. Just call it what it is — propaganda to brainwash America.

    Free_Press , to random
    @Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

    STOP MAGA IN NOVEMBER!

    Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York.
    #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Breaking #BreakingNews

    https://dnyuz.com/2024/06/05/the-g-o-p-push-for-post-verdict-payback-fight-fire-with-fire/

    rbreich , to random
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    Office Hours: Why is the world drifting toward authoritarianism and neofascism? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-why-is-the-world-drifting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    benroyce ,
    @benroyce@mastodon.social avatar

    @steviesyerda @PatrickoftheG @timgatewood @rbreich

    "They need to be governed by us."

    That's what voting is!

    Let's put it this way: John McCain was the 10-20 years ago. You couldn't get anyone more .

    Trump mocked him and smeared him and turned the GOP into a cult. Total whiplash.

    How is that possible?

    Because votes.

    Nothing else matters.

    Now imagine the if the left just fucking voted.

    All your feelings to not vote is a psyop you're a victim of.

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