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Trump's Second Term

Segnosaur said:
Had Biden made that sort of gaff, you would hear people on Fox, Newsmax, and other right wing sources talk endlessly about how it is evidence that "Biden has dementia".

For some strange reason we aren't hearing the same sort of response when Trump made that mistake. I wonder why.
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It wasn't just right wing outlets.
 
newyorkguy said:
A reactionary bully like Nayib Bukele is treated like a guest-of-honor in the Oval Office. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fighting off a Russian invasion of his land, is treated like garbage in the Oval Office.

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What a total disgrace and shame to the United States. Absolutely despicable.

What has happened?!? We've fallen so far so fast. :(

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Essentially the USA has been marching towards the cliff edge for years, maybe decades, now they've stepped off it all seems to be so sudden.
 
Garrison said:
Essentially the USA has been marching towards the cliff edge for years, maybe decades, now they've stepped off it all seems to be so sudden.
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I remember the Ken Burns documentary about the Viet Nam war, and they had a metaphor where America was driving a car through multiple signs saying BRIDGE IS OUT AHEAD, STOP!, "and suddenly you're airborne and you're like, "how did we get here?".
 
Not a cult

Homan: "I work for the greatest president of my lifetime -- Donald Trump. He proves it every day. He proves every day that he is the greatest president in the history of this nation."
 
jimbob said:
The Legal Eagle YouTube channel has just pointed out a consequence of Trump designating vandalism of Teslas as domestic terrorism.

Vandalism is usually covered by car insurance but terrorism is usually specifically excluded.
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Well, good thing that these incidents are totally *not* instances of people damaging their own property and blaming it on vandalism to colelct on insurance for a rapidly depreciating car.
 
Tero said:
howroute
BREAKING: Trump is going after Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram (Threads could be next) in a so-called “antitrust” trial that could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram with a real possibility of Elon Musk acquiring the platform.
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Howroute (@howroute) on Threads

BREAKING: Trump is going after Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram (Threads could be next) in a so-called “antitrust” trial that could force Zuckerberg to sell Instagram with a real possibility of Elon Musk acquiring the platform.
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donaldjturncoat
Hahahaha. All that ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ groveling and sucking up and this is what he gets. I dont give a ◊◊◊◊. I hope he puts
@zuck
and his entire family in a 3rd world jail.
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Just wait til Trump finds out about Bezos's DEI hires.
www.theguardian.com

Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King: all-female crew to helm next space flight on Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket

Activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa scientist Aisha Bowe will also be on flight
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With respect to Harvard University, FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) stated, "However, as FIRE's statement today explains, the government's actions are fundamentally at odds with the First Amendment. And in this special breaking news webinar, we dig deeper into that statement by examining the questions in the case, the law at hand, and why all of us who care about rule of law and principles of liberty should set animus aside and instead defend the constitutional standards that protect free expression for all."
 
FIRE is non-partisan. I heard Greg Lukianoff speak some years ago, and he indicated that the majority of the cases on which they work are cases in which there is a conservative institution which is impinging on free expression.
 
Chris_Halkides said:
FIRE is non-partisan.
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Yes, centrists carrying water for right-wingers always say that. That's the point.
Chris_Halkides said:
I heard Greg Lukianoff speak some years ago, and he indicated that the majority of the cases on which they work are cases in which there is a conservative institution which is impinging on free expression.
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You know you can actually view their statements yourself, right? Thewy do the age old "both sides are bad" routine. They equate students not wanting their school to host the likes of Milo Yiannopolis or Donald Rumsfeld with people being black bagged off the street.
 
China won't take aircraft from Boeing so Trump will protect the farmers that Crooked Joe abandoned because China didn't buy enough stuff off them... or something

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Our farmers are GREAT, but because of their GREATNESS, they are always put on the Front Line with our adversaries, such as China, whenever there is a Trade negotiation or, in this case, a Trade War. The same thing happened in my First Term. China was brutal to our Farmers, I these Patriots to just hold on, and a great trade deal was made. I rewarded our farmers with a payment of $28 Billion Dollars, all through the China deal. It was a great transaction for the USA, until Crooked Joe Biden came in and didn't enforce it. China largely reneged on the deal (although they behaved during the Trump Administration), only buying a portion of what they agreed to buy. They had ZERO respect for the Crooked Biden Administration, and who can blame them for that? Interestingly, they just reneged on the big Boeing deal, saying that they will "not take possession" of fully committed to aircraft. The USA will PROTECT OUR FARMERS!!!
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Andy_Ross said:
China won't take aircraft from Boeing so Trump will protect the farmers that Crooked Joe abandoned because China didn't buy enough stuff off them... or something
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The New Republic (@newrepublic.com)

For decades, American farmers were incentivized to grow commodity crops like soybeans and corn for export—even cattle ranchers sold $1.6B worth of beef to China last year. Now, the export markets may be no more. Trump’s words of advice? "Just hold on."...
bsky.app bsky.app

Stand back and stand by!

◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ idiot.
 
Donal said:
Yes, centrists carrying water for right-wingers always say that. That's the point.
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From Source Watch - Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
FIRE has received millions of dollars in contributions from politically-active conservative nonprofits, including over $3.4 million from the Charles G. Koch Foundation, over $3.4 million from Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust, over $1.8 million from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, over $1.3 million from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, over $1 million from the Searle Freedom Trust, and over $1 million from the Stand Together Trust.

Progressive watchdog organization Media Matters included FIRE in a 2017 piece describing how groups funded by right-wing billionaires and dark money organizations influence college campuses. Media Matters says "FIRE has partnered with anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom for some of these cases. It has also frequently weighed in on sexual misconduct cases, arguing that the definition of sexual harassment should not include 'large amounts of constitutionally protected expression, such as any unwanted "sexual comments, gestures, jokes, or looks,"' and defended campus organizations that use hateful rhetoric or seek to exclude potential group members based on sexual orientation. Recently, FIRE took up the cause of defending student groups that did not want to pay extra security costs for hosting serial harasser Milo Yiannopoulos on his campus speaking tour, during which he engaged in targeted public harassment of individual students."
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Also of particular note -
FIRE is a former member of the State Policy Network, a group of right-wing think tanks and other politically-active nonprofits.
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What's that in a bit more detail?

SPN describes itself as a network and service organization for the "state-based free market think tank movement," and its stated mission is "to provide strategic assistance to independent research organizations devoted to discovering and developing market-oriented solutions to state and local public policy issues."[1] It was founded in November 1991[2] and incorporated in March of 1992.[3]

SPN groups operate as the policy, communications, and litigation arm of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), giving the cookie-cutter ALEC agenda a sheen of academic legitimacy and state-based support.

Many SPN groups are and often write ALEC "model bills."

In the states, SPN groups increasingly peddle cookie-cutter "studies" to back the cookie-cutter ALEC agenda, spinning that agenda as indigenous to the state and giving it the aura of academic legitimacy. Many SPN groups, such as the Mackinac Center in Michigan, have been accused of lobbying in their states, in violation of IRS rules for non-profit "charitable" organizations.

Some SPN groups, like the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, also contain litigation centers funded by national foundations to defend or pursue the SPN/ALEC agenda.

SPN shares many of same sources of funding as ALEC, including Koch institutions.

The Kochs' Americans for Prosperity provides the "grassroots" boots on the ground for this agenda.

Although many SPN groups claim to be independent and non-partisan, they promote a policy agenda -- including union-busting, attacks on the tort bar, and voter suppression -- that is highly-partisan and electoral in nature. SPN President Tracie Sharp told the Wall Street Journal that she had always felt Wisconsin and Michigan were only "thinly blue," and that the GOP has been put on better footing by the unions' slide. "When you chip away at one of the power sources that also does a lot of get-out-the-vote," she says, "I think that helps -- for sure."
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FIRE might claim to be non-partisan, but those claims should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, given roots, associations, activities, and funding. That's not to say that one should necessarily agree or disagree with whatever position they happen to be arguing for in whatever case, of course, but that's a different matter that should be a matter of course.
 
jimbob said:
I'd love to disagree
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I think a peaceful outcome is still possible, but it all depends on what happens in the next election. If the electiion is stolen or corrupted by the GOP, then a lot of people will think 'The Appeal To Arms" is the only path to take. I already , from personal experince, know a lot of liberals are rethinking their oppostion to gun ownership.
 
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