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LFpete

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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 ,
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Yes, is .
is fascism. is fascism.

atheistengineer , to random
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’s own campaign shared videos with many clear references comparing Trump’s plans for MAGA America to Hitler’s plans Germany.

They’re celebrating a new “Unified Reich.”

is dead.

https://youtu.be/qFdaVxntdTE?si=vQVuaWYaOHPPtV5J

LFpete ,
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"We need to keep this guy as far away from the White House as possible."

https://youtu.be/SjShjhPxvuc?si=8M_0o9KIiqmCdlZZ

rbreich , to random
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Pepsi replaced its 32oz Gatorade bottle with a 28oz for the same price.

Nabisco shrank the family size box of Wheat Thins by 12%.

General Mills shrank the family size box of Cocoa Puffs by 6%.

Frito-Lay shrank the size of a bag of Doritos by 5%.

Shrinkflation is everywhere.

LFpete ,
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@rbreich
I don't know if this happens with other grocery shoppers. Once I let go of a name-brand product, that brand doesn't exist anymore. Like the name brands listed in the post -- I don't even go down those aisles. I'm guessing the corporations are doing "IBGYBG" (I'll be gone you'll be gone) with name brands.

randahl , to random
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Picture 1: Welcome to MAGA the ultimate meltdown — Marjorie Taylor Greene announces, she will attempt to remove her own speaker of the House Mike Johnson next week.

Picture 2: Also — and this is real — today she presented a MUGA hat and claimed it was for all the Make Ukraine Great Again politicians. Frankly, I hope someone copies this design, and we can all get our own MUGA hat — I would wear it.

LFpete ,
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Moscow Marjorie promoting victory for zips her over to the right side of history for a minute. 😎

randahl , to random
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If someone had told me 10 years ago, US politics would fall apart because a spray tanned criminal, who swears, rapes, and engages in extramarital sex, would manage to convince religious voters, he was chosen by God…

… I would have thought they were insane.

LFpete ,
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@randahl
Ten years ago, it was clear that the US had not yet hit bottom. The big lie for invading Iraq was successful and George W. Bush was re-elected. So, the next creature was on its way. Trump's one term in office was as low as we could go, and still be the United States of America.

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#WompWomp #BillionaireMyAss 1/…

#Trump has been unable to get bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say

In a filing to an appeals court, Trump's attorneys said getting the bond needed to halt proceedings while they appeal is a "practical impossibility." #legal https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-unable-get-bond-464-million-judgment-lawyers-say-rcna143860

LFpete ,
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The GoFundMe account is close to 1.4 million now.

flexghost , to random
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What the hell is this?

I made it 3 minutes into Katie Britt’s astonishingly bad SotU rebuttal

Drop on the comments how far you can make it into this clip before turning it off

Video of Katie Britt turning in her audition for Mr. Johnson’s junior class presentation of Our Town

LFpete ,
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@flexghost
I went ahead and listened to the Alabama senator's entire breathy, whispery, near-tears response to Biden's speech. It might have been a little bit enlightening if she had given a minute to explaining why she voted against the border bill, which she helped to draft in the first place. Nope.

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"The Alabama decision is a direct result of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided thanks to the three religious extremists former president Trump nominated to the Supreme Court. That decision referred to fetuses as 'unborn human being[s]' when it overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion."

~ Heather Cox Richardson


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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2024

LFpete ,
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From passing video clips, I assumed CPAC speaker Jack Posobiec was making an attempt at humor (because Bannon did a stage laugh about overthrowing democracy). I took another look. They weren't kidding.
https://youtu.be/oVfA4pkJ8rw?si=J4X208uxaUAu-GL4

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I don’t usually post screen grabs from the hellsite, but this was too long to simply quote.

Via Lawrence Tribe.

Laurence Tribe: A brilliant retired lawyer, Albert T. Goins, has given me permission to quote excerpt from observations about Trump’s willingness to to give aid & support to those who would attack our allies: “Perhaps, Mr. Trump forgot (if he ever knew) that our internat obligations & treaties—such as those we undertook as members of NATO—are themselves supreme law of the land as recog at Article VI of our Constit. As so-called supremacy clause states in relevant part: “This Constitution, & the laws of US which shall be made in pursuance thereof; & all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of US, shall be supreme law of the land...” Article VI, Clause 2 of the Constit. Now Trump’s inane remarks are likely well w zone of protected polit speech under our 1A rights, but his S Carolina statement evinces Trump’s fundamental unfitness to serve as Pres—& reveals his willingness to turn our treaty obligations into a seamy political ‘protection racket. &, Trump’s claims that he would encourage an adversary to attack an ally based on his personal view that they were ‘delinquent’ in making financial contributions to that alliance raise more serious concerns. Trump’s statements in S Carolina may not themselves rise to the level of an insurrection, but they clearly reveal the fact that if he regains office Trump is poised to unravel the binding obligations which the Constitution has imposed upon every president from Washington to Biden.”
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    @GottaLaff
    "The wheels of justice turn slowly" and teeth grind in the meantime.

    rbreich , to random
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    Ginni Thomas was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Her consulting firm also stands to gain if Trump is re-elected. Yet Clarence Thomas refuses to recuse himself from the Colorado ballot case. This should be a scandal of epic proportions.

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    Ginni Thomas! wild woman and wife of Supreme Court justice. She does seem to have disappeared. Denver Post says, "...Under its Code of Ethics, Justice Thomas should recuse himself."

    https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/30/clarence-thomas-recuse-himself-colorado-trump-case-ballot-14th-amendment/

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