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Jean in Florida's avatar

Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times.

Me: No thanks.

*****

Actually not really Chinese, but attributed to the British. My response is still the same.

I want my old life back, when I could get up in the morning and not dread opening the newspaper to see what new hell greets my day.

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Clair's avatar

Clair here💕 The American voters have elected Trump twice… even with all that’s going on his approval rating is still 40%..

We can play the “ blame game “ however we, the voters are responsible not only once but twice..

Trump has said there with be no further elections..

A Supreme Court justice has already said that the Constitution Amendment that gave us presidential term limits is not settled law…

So, here we go … I think you know the answer.. and just think we brought all of this on ourselves…

Clair☹️

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Melanie Kieffer's avatar

I am beginning to believe the election was actually stolen through Elon Musk and his starling system. I do not believe that the majority of voters cast ballots only for Donald Trump, ignoring the down ballot races.

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Ollie Lukianov's avatar

Clair, the only reason Trump won the first time was because the electoral college gave it to him. Hillary won the popular vote. So, Trump has only prevailed one time. Having said that,I am inclined to agree with you that Musk's Starlink may have had something to do with that.

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Clair's avatar

Hi Melanie..I share your concerns.. fair and honest is an artifact from the past..

However the “ system “ we have is the one that rules..

Trump, life thugs from the past will set the tone for years to come..

I don’t know what the “ final solution “ is going to be.. I just hope it isn’t a repeat of the Nazi Regime .. however there are early similarities.

Take care and remain watchful..ML💕Clair here

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Rain Robinson's avatar

The photo does not look like these guys are patrolling "crime ridden streets". They are sauntering like tourists. The point is just to keep people used to the military who will never leave. A police state, beholden only to felonpotus.

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Chuck May's avatar

Has there ever been a time, in human history, that any group with “homeland” in its title has been a force for good? I can’t think of one.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

The DC Guard's legally-limited deployment is over unless Congress extends it -- which so far they've been disinclined to do.

Their command needs to end this charade and let them return to their daily lives, their families, their jobs.

As for the red-state Guard carpetbaggers, Trump's rationale for sending the Guard to LA has already been repudiated by the courts. This is no different. They too should leave.

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Robin F's avatar

Keep in mind that there’s a lot of evidence that vote suppression of racialized people was what resulted in the election going the way it did. It wasn’t election theft per se, since they didn’t do anything strictly illegal, but it was a result of laws put into place in red states specifically to disenfranchise people and disqualify their votes en masse. While it may have been (strictly speaking) legal, it was still ethically wrong and resulted in many USian voters unfairly losing their votes for being Black, Indigenous, etc.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f

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defineandredefine's avatar

It took 24 years, but the terrorists won.

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CJ Ormand (he/him)'s avatar

God I wonder how long it'll be until they finally go home

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Shannyn Frank's avatar

Fascist fuckers. And bloody Rethugs in Congress are utterly spineless, giving up their power to the tyrant in chief

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Frances Sterling's avatar

They will stay untill every American bends bends a knee to the fundamentalist (christians) orange Jesus . Seems they have forgotten what christian is supposed to mean. Christ like does not mean hate all that do not believe or look like them.

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