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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Well, you left out the billionaires who knew trump was going to slash taxes for the weahthy and open up the government to be pay-to-play. Oh, and there are the odd-jobs in the black community who vote Republicans because they feel like Dems pander toward minorities without every actually helping them, and at least Republicans are honest about being racist assholes. There were also people who wanted the war in Ukraine to end, and Trump said he would end that on day one. I also remember people talking about getting to the truth of the 2020 election. And there were people who wanted to secure the Dobbs SC ruling and go even further to ban abortion and birth control at a federal level. Oh, and crypto bros who wanted their shit to be unregulated…

    These are just scratching the surface, I’m looking forward to your full comment where you pick apart the nuances within each of those groups and add in a few thousand more. Really hate to see politics “boiled down” to just a few things.











  • But was there ever any proof these weren’t just actual fishing boats?

    The proof would have been capturing a boat full of cocaine. Hard to do that when it’s blown to bits and scattered across the bottom of the ocean.

    Even if we knew the boats were full of cocaine, the penalty for smuggling drugs into the US is not death. And even if the penalty was death, it would (or rather, should) not be a summary execution without a trial.

    These are clearly illegal orders, and everyone participating in these strikes needs to be removed and tried for their crimes, starting with Hegseth, and going all the way down to the man who pushed the button to fire the missile.



  • The idea behind the SC being lifetime appointments was to insulate it from political pressure, unlike the president and Congress which are suceptible to removal. The SC is (supposed to be) a rather apolitical body that determines if the laws passed are unconstitutional, in order to preserve basic rights.

    Right now, it’s rife with partisan hacks, and it need to be removed and rebuilt from the ground up. Absolutely none of the current Republican justices meet the qualifications nor strength of character to be SC jucsticies.