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lowqualityfacts , 5 months ago to random

Obviously.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts "of mouse and men" is a book about moose lust.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

"In the Mar-a-Lago case, Judge Cannon has just refused to enforce a routine deadline & it's entirely clear she has no intention of letting this case go to trial before the election or possibly ever."

~ Joyce Vance as quoted by Natalie Venegas

Aileen Cannon continues to be a disgrace to the Florida bar and the national judiciary.

#Trump #AileenCannon #LawandOrder #Republicans

https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-sparked-backlash-after-she-refused-jack-smiths-request-1860499

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy no doubt she sees herself a future supreme court trump nominee. Maybe she will get to take over Uncle Thomas's seat some day... I imagine, like Nick Haley, she can say she's black, too.

lowqualityfacts , 6 months ago to random

Harsh.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts the status of liberty was also originally supposed to be doing a handstand...

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

Madeleine Jane and Ayodeji Rotinwa report that, despite allegations by more than 2 dozen followers of rape, forced abortions, and torture the Pentecostal megachurch ministry founded by Nigerian TB Joshua, The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), is now being replicated across continents.

Joshua claimed to be a prophet who raised the dead, cured HIV, and fixed the "demon" of homosexuality.

#churches #megachurch #abuse #Pentecostal #Nigeria
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/tb-joshua-legacy-john-chi-ark-of-god-covenant-ministry-scoan/

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy these types seized control of local charities like food banks that are given state funding, and then declared they have the religious right to refuse charity to some.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

"Christie was the last high-profile GOP contender who was fighting for whatever remains of the soul of a Republican Party that, for all intents and purposes, has evolved into an authoritarian cult of personality with Trump as its center—posing what the former governor described as a real and present threat to democracy and national security."

~ John Nichols

#Republicans #Trump #Christie #AuthoritarianCult #democracy

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/chris-christie-exit-trump-soul-republican-party/

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy Gov fatass was not a choice either, but yes, I agree, he was the best of the lot that are the other candidates in today's GOP.

lowqualityfacts , 6 months ago to random

Those were the good old days.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts it was actually was until 1961. It still is possible to fly with your gun depending on the state and if it is in a locked firearm case declared at check-in as checked baggage.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

"The original Constitution was written when democracy meant something radically different than it does today. Over time, Americans have amended the Constitution to make it more democratic, but shortcomings remain."

~ Larry Schwarzol and Justin Florence

#Constitution #democracy #ElectoralCollege #Senate
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/01/we-need-talk-about-amending-constitution/677065/

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy curiously, gerrymandering is so severe that despite this the Senate is now (slightly) more democratically representative than the house.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

Jason Linkins asks why the self-anointed grave arbiters of everything in our mainstream media have been so quick to go to very strange lengths to discount "the one part of the Constitution that was designed to prevent the crisis we now face" with Trump running for the presidency.

These are the same media gurus who told us when he was president that he'd "grow into" gravity and presidential behavior.

#Trump #Constitution #insurrection #MediaFail
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https://mailchi.mp/tnr/uiuqd1cgdc?e=3b92356f5b

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy qualification clauses exist for a reason. It's not the people deciding thru "election" if somebody less than 35 can be president, if someone not native born can be president, etc. Nor, as made clear in the 14th amendment, is it up to election whether someone who had been an insurrectionist during while holding or having held a public office can be elected to one again.

wdlindsy , 5 months ago to random

"Snow [i.e., the rapid loss of snowpack due to rising temperatures] is a reminder that, actually, a lot of the changes we’re dealing with aren’t that incremental. We may not be able to see rising temperatures in quite the same way. But in many cases, those changes are just as sudden and dramatic and are happening faster than people thought they were."

~ Zoë Schlanger

#environment #ClimateChange #EcologicalCrisis #EcologicalDisaster #GlobalWarming
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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/01/the-feeling-of-losing-snow/677107/

gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@wdlindsy crisis in "civilized" societies tend to produce reactionary leaders. This is because people want "strong leadership", and to often now mistake narcissist personality traits for such things, the kind who probably will make the situation even worse, thereby creating greater desire for even ore of "strong leadership" in a viscous feedback loop to oblivion.

lowqualityfacts , 5 months ago to random

I remember learning this in geometry class.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts he also proved the golden rectangle was just iron pyrite, but the history books don't talk about that.

lowqualityfacts , 5 months ago to random

That's crazy.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts this may not be a joke, as the imperial grant wizard of the coast would love to make it so for marriage again...

lowqualityfacts , 6 months ago to random

Wow, I never would have guessed.
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gnutelephony , 5 months ago

@lowqualityfacts but a football field is a "standard" unit of English measure. The use of this unit began when Henry V successfully measured out all of France in terms of Agincourt fields...