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ivwshane

Lifer
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Hmm…I didn’t see any of our resident “constitutionalists” complaining about trumps executive order that rewrites the 14th amendment. Did I miss their arguments condemning Trump for violating the constitution on day one?
 

VRAMdemon

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Muse

Lifer
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So when push comes to shove, the GOP still can't define male and female. It's going to be a looooong 4 years of ignorant, religious anti-science, rigid thinking bullshit.
To retain my sanity I'm not going to go down every goddamn rabbit hole the GOP are going to dig for us. Anti-science is anathema to me. Anyone who espouses it isn't worth my time, money, attention. I do not suffer fools gladly. Truly, I have better things to pay attention to and do.
 

trenchfoot

Lifer
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That one is really hard to take. Total trashing of the rule of law. Who knows how it will embolden the militant right.

What pisses me off the most about Trump's pardon fest of the J6 criminals is how the folks who were defending the Capitol have been attacked again, this time from the President of these here Un-united States of America.

The price they paid in life and limb defending Democracy against Trump's insurrectionists has been more than doubled, knowing that the suffering they endured that day was pissed away because Trump, with a stroke of a sharpie, deemed those rioters heroes worthy of praise because they tried to overturn the election results that gave Biden the win and handing it back to Trump based on his Big Fat Lie.
 

pmv

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Anyone familiar enough with Danish politics to know who this guy is?

Interesting that he's described as 'right wing'. Guess it's another example of the immense difficulty the right has with uniting across national borders - by their very nature they just can't do 'internationalism'. (I mean, the left finds it pretty difficult, the right constantly end up in full-on conflict with people who share pretty much the same ideology, just with a different nationalism)

 

IronWing

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Okay, this one:

The Republicans want us to focus on Trump's attack on civil rights and equal opportunity laws. However, there is something even more sinister in this EO.

This is the section that is the meat and potatoes for the Republican donor class:
Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked:
(i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);

Clinton's EO on Environmental Justice was a directive to federal agencies such as DOE, DOD, and EPA telling them to stop dumping their toxic shit or allowing regulated companies to dump their toxic shit in poor or minority neighborhoods. It tells all the federal agencies to determine if their conduct or decisions would disproportionately and negatively affect poor or minority populations. Rescinding the order tells oil and chemical companies that they are free to dump their crap in poor areas again. Until the Biden administration, the EO on Environmental Justice wasn't taken very seriously by the feds. The Biden administration implementing it more consistently has clearly pissed off polluters, costing them profits they would have realized had they been allowed to continue shitting on poor and minority populations.
 
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KMFJD

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more pardons for his brownshirts incoming alkso it looks like produce is about to get more expensive as the labor to pick it is in hidding

~75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency.

America’s rural and agricultural regions will be the hardest hit from Trump’s immigration policies. Food prices are going to skyrocket.

 
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repoman0

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I could give a shit about all the rest of the Trump bullshit, but Trump and his tard supporters deciding to purposely sabotage the renewable energy transition is the most shortsighted dumb shit I have ever seen. Humanity cashing in hundreds of millions of years worth of sequestered carbon while not even trying to move past it just shows that we don’t deserve to succeed as a species. Evolution failed when even 30% are dumb enough to be Trump voters.
 

MrSquished

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I hope that all Trump voters have a really fucking shitty day today. And rest of their week. And rest of their year.
 

Pens1566

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greenman said fauci was in big pharma back pocket

I am so confused

That confuses me. Wouldn't he have to be convicted of that before he's confident in making that kind of statement?

What, a double standard you say???
 
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That confuses me. Wouldn't he have to be convicted of that before he's confident in making that kind of statement?

What, a double standard you say???
Greenman has the thought consistency of the median voter and is generally full of shit. News at 11.
 

K1052

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more pardons for his brownshirts incoming alkso it looks like produce is about to get more expensive as the labor to pick it is in hidding

~75% of immigrant farm workers didn’t show up yesterday in Bakersfield because of fears of ICE raids under the new presidency.

America’s rural and agricultural regions will be the hardest hit from Trump’s immigration policies. Food prices are going to skyrocket.


I always thought the idea they would confine immigration raids to blue areas to be really really unlikely. Anyway fuck the Trump voting farmers whose crops will rot in the fields now.
 
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I always thought the idea they would confine immigration raids to blue areas to be really really unlikely. Anyway fuck the Trump voting farmers whose crops will rot in the fields now.
As it was once written in Catch-22, I figure they'll just rationalize it all away like Major Major's father:

"Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.""
 
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RalphTheCow

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I always thought the idea they would confine immigration raids to blue areas to be really really unlikely. Anyway fuck the Trump voting farmers whose crops will rot in the fields now.
Uh, what about us people who like to eat?
 

RalphTheCow

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It will cost more. Depending how far it goes there will be holes in what's even available to purchase.
Right. Then tariffs will take care of more of it. Glad trump voters and nonvoters thought this all through carefully. Otherwise it might be a disaster.
 

K1052

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Right. Then tariffs will take care of more of it. Glad trump voters and nonvoters thought this all through carefully. Otherwise it might be a disaster.

Yep. Mexico alone accounts for well over half of all US fruit and vegetable imports.
 

Muse

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Yep. Mexico alone accounts for well over half of all US fruit and vegetable imports.
Yup, I see this at The Berkeley Bowl.

If you're in Hawaii, locally grown avocados probably cover the market for them but in California, I don't remember seeing any. They're all grown in Mexico.