On topic after topic, President Trump made clear that he would be the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.

Its not like the American Revolution and Constitution are total rejections of this view or anything.

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    This timeline sucks. Fuck all the Christian adults who raised me on their high moral standards and then voted for this piece of absolute human trash twice.

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      They thought they had Christ in their grasp. They thought they could do with Him as they pleased. Thus did they mutilate Him and nail Him to the cross. They laughed as He promised His vengeance would fall upon them. But He stayed true to His words. The earth they trod upon ran red with blood. The cities they resided in were engulfed by flames. Having witnessed their defeat, they hid amidst the faithful. They thought they would be safe. They were mistaken.

      -The Inquisitor, 2024

      The Christian adults you mention follow the Jacek Piekara variant of Christianity.

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    Its past time to become ungovernable. The democrats are fucking spineless but they should already be paying for bus loads of angry people to head to washington. Every lib is shitting their pants instead of organizing.

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        We had a sort of General Strike going when we shut the government down. We didn’t shut down our own jobs, but we shut down the government, which was the most pressing problem. We were willing to wait out the hunger and lack of government assistance for as long as it took, all the way to the Midterm elections if necessary. The entire Midterm campaign could have been a massive nationwide food and medical drive to help the people that MAGA abandoned.

        But as soon as it started to affect the airports, and corporations couldn’t move their operatives around, the cowardly DINO leadership voluntarily surrendered within 48 hours, and got less than nothing in return, just deserved humiliation and the righteous indignation of their base.

        We could be a lot more effective if the people we hired had our backs. We have theirs, but they don’t seem to care, they’ve got Insider Trading on their minds.

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          What do you mean “we”?? The government shut down the government. The American people had no part in that.

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              Sure… but supporting something and actually doing something are two different things. What if we still wanted the government shutdown but democrats didn’t? Who do you think would get their way? Us or the politicians? You make it seem like we the people went to D.C. and shut it down ourselves.

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                I will agree that overall, they don’t care about us much, but if they didn’t care about us at all, as you assert, the government would never have shut down in the first place. It’s not so much that they care about us personally, but they care very much about our votes, so they have to pretend. They were trying to preserve Obamacare for the PEOPLE, not because they care, but because they knew that just letting it go without a fight would hurt them later at the polls.

                The potential outrage from voters influenced them to pursue the shutdown in the first place. Unfortunately, they eventually folded, because ultimately, the DINO Bosses are weak, cowardly, insipid, wormy little bitches.

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      Democratic lawmakers aren’t going to save us. That party has also been taken over by corpo fascist billionaires.

      No I’m not saying both sides are the same. Just that what’s happening right now is class warfare, the elite control the democratic party too. They aren’t going to save us from themselves.

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        I like to compare it to a workplace. Some managers are cool to work for, and some are total assholes who terrorize every moment at work.

        We all want to work for the cool boss, but make no mistake, BOTH bosses have the same ultimate agenda, which is to force us to toe the company line. One manipulates us, and one forces us, but the result is the same.

        We can try to get our managers to represent us to the top, but they are always going to be more interested in protecting their own interests than ours. Eventually, we’ll have to just go around them, and “appeal” to the top ourselves.

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          Yep. As long as all the money is flowing up the system will be corrupt, and the managers aren’t willingly going to interrupt that flow. So we will have to have a “meeting” with them and “parley”.

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        I’m just saying, thats why J6 was possible. Unfortunately, revolutions cost money along with the organizing.

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          If they’d sprung for catering on Jan6, they would have won the day, but all those Dumb Apes got hungry for dinner and headed back to the Motel 6 to celebrate and drink to their “Victory.”

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      I would be expecting Jill Stein and Anonymous Anarchist Guy to be doing this - but, nothing.