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One of Oregon's coastal destinations: stay the fuck home.
He successfully became an organized crime boss. He successfully became POTUS. He has successfully dismantled checks and balances between branches and made the executive supreme. He is within an inch of consolidating power and remaining POTUS for the rest of his life.
Trump is not an idiot. He is not incompetent. His skillset just isn’t what we traditionally expect in a POTUS.
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🤔Sooo, he blocked a vote on an intended peace-making ceasefire truce that would help folks concentrate on Health & eradicating a Pandemic... because he can't make peace with another country. Umm...am I missing something here? Wouldn't that be the whole point of allowing the vote?🤷
US blocks UN vote on coronavirus pandemic
https://m.dw.com/en/us-blocks-un-vote-on-coronavirus-pandemic/a-53377782?maca=en-Twitter-sharing
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I never really noticed how much he actually resembles Karl Dönitz before.
Okay.
That's a lie. I totally noticed.
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Devastating indictment of Kushner from an ex-employee: “When I knew him, he seemed constitutionally incapable of considering the humanity of other people as a starting point.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/08/jared-kushner-coronavirus-failure/
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A mental exercise, if you will..
Nine men gathered at the gate to Oakwood Cemetery near downtown Raleigh Friday morning, most of them in paramilitary garb and carrying guns. Can you imagine these men in your mind?
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LEO: You’re welcome to open carry, that’s totally fine, we’re an open carry state. But you just can’t open carry while you’re protesting.
Protestor 1: We’re just using the first and the second [amendment] simultaneously.
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America. Where we let food root rather than help our people.
USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/26/food-banks-coronavirus-agriculture-usda-207215
Stonekettle and Waltshaub
Those two I think I’d be sad if I couldn’t read anymore. Not too partisan, sober and realistic with actual experience to back up what they’re saying.
I feel like snopes might have gotten too caught up on the 480 ft rails detail. I don’t find it at all hard to believe that Trump and any given Russian oligarch are two or less degrees of separation apart or that the playing field for contracts was not level. The specifications of the steel product seems relevant only to the extremely specific claim the article was refuting, not whether a Russian is getting paid to build the wall.
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NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
@barrett they don’t change his batteries often enough.
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Fred Guttenberg was the person ejected from the SOTU after yelling something along the lines of "what about my daughter!" when Trump talked about the 2nd Amendment being "under siege." According to CNN, he was Pelosi's guest.
@jaunty I wish we’d have it limited to like one month. No ads or campaigning allowed until then. Fundraising limited to a fixed budget allotted by the government. Spend a couple weeks advertising and knocking on doors, everybody votes and it’s done. The way we do it now is exhausting.
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Administration officials will resist any and all efforts at such oversight. But Democrats must try and, if necessary, go to court. Protecting the country demands no less.
Hence the court packing strategy...
Election sanctity about the only thing left...see Iowa Caucus