There are plenty of micro-explanations and micro-excuses for what happened in the election.

What deserves the lion’s share of our attention are the facts that a major political party could have even considered nominating Trump despite his manifest criminality, moral depravity, psychological derangement, and cognitive deficiencies and deterioration—and that nearly half the country would have voted for him no matter what he did or said and no matter whom he had run against.

~ George Conway

#SaturdaySage

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Sucks that usually when someone is speaking into a microphone and says, "It says in the bible..." that it's going to be their interpretation of some excuse to hurt other people.

Just because your father found your mother in Korea during his deployment there; just because your husband is Mexican; just because you have LGBTQIA+ friends and family you adore...

No. You do not get to ignore the evil that Trump and MAGA represent. #politics

EFF, along with ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices, an argument EFF has been making in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-second-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active-duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers,” CNN reports.

#News #Pentagon #NationalSecurity #Politics

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/08/pentagon-officials-discuss-possible-trump-orders/

"Your body, my choice" is the most disgusting thing I've ever heard.

I'm still here. This isn't my first rodeo
They took my home. My religion, my culture, but not my god. Not my flag not my spirit. y'all are all my people. Stay alive. Stay as safe as you can. And know that your not alone.
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These bastards win when we let them turn us against each other.
Turn off the media. Go talk to your neighbors, check up on your friends.
If you're privileged, use it. They don't speak for us. I love you.