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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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Trump plans to claim sweeping powers to cancel federal spending: In a second term, allies said the former president would look at funding cuts for the World Health Organization and green energy (wapo.st)

Classically, Congress held the power of the purse, able to both bar and require spending. This imposed a significant limit on Presidential power. With a bought court supporting him, Trump would have significant ability to essentially chart power as a king.

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Biden should buy some courts…

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“Congratulations peasants! Here are a quarter million open positions to have your labor value stolen and probably also your wages. Exploitation is freedom!”

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That “we” is doing a lot of heavy lifting

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I think you’ll have to explain to most of the audience what a clutch is

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Opinion | Mitch McConnell: An Asshole Whose Grave I Will Piss On

Several PA House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 | Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to PA’s House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and walked out (wapo.st)

“I heard some hissing and I saw about eight to 10 of my Republican colleagues walk out angrily as they were announced as police officers from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,” state Rep. Arvind Venkat (D) said in a phone interview Thursday. “I was shocked and appalled,” he added. According to Venkat, the commotion lasted...

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Pennsylvania is really America in a microcosm. Mainly in that I’m ashamed by it.

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“What are progressives going to do? Vote Republican?! HAHAHAHA!” - The DNC

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More evidence the US is not a progressive country and anyone who thinks it is will be disappointed by election results for their entire lives.

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The real travesty is that this is a close election.

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I’m a progressive who’s voted in every single election for the last 24 years.

I am not taken seriously.

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while not alienating (too many) people on your flank.

You don’t have to worry about that if you consistently blame that flank for your losses. They won’t have a choice.

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There are still blue-collar Democrats in Western PA? I thought they went extinct in the early aughts

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Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not a political scientist!

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And if all the progressives in CA and NY and MA and WY and MT and UT vote for Biden and Trump still wins in the Electoral College all the liberals will blame them for the loss.

Democrats don’t appeal to progressives because we all live in high density areas and low-density areas define the government. It’s just like PotatoMcWhiskey exploiting the Diplomatic Favor trade hack in Civ; they’re at least attempting to play the actual game that we’re playing.

Also, I love the subtext of “Everyone should vote! [Democrat].” None of you would know that I just leave the ballot blank every year. Or if I did stupid write ins. But I voted, and that’s what’s important.

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I was one of those Nader voters you all hate so much. They very much blame progressives for Republican wins.

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Cool. I’ll just keep leaving my ballot blank.

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You won’t know either way

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Which if you think about it, really works to the advantage of the rural people the most, to have a slave low-wage-earning population forced to live inside the city, so that whenever the rural people deign to grace them with their presence, their fast-food burgers are at maximum cheapiness.

There’s plenty of people earning slave wages in rural areas.

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I just wanted to counter the notion that people in rural areas (a) are all wealthy landowners and (b) want to go into a city at all. Some of the poorest people in America live in rural areas, and there’s not many of them that regularly travel multiple hours to get to a city.

If you had said it was suburban people I’d definitely agree. They’re the ones who are going into cities a lot more than rural folks, and they’re generally better off as it’s all single-family homes there. If the rural people are behind preventing a minimum wage increase it’s because they want to stem the depopulation from people moving to the city for better paying jobs.

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You guys can watch TNG when I’m done with it

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AKA “the only reason you have a job is because they sell what you make for a lot more”

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As someone who’s done a ton of work getting companies to be SOX compliant I have a fresh new hatred for our system of government. I get a new one just about every day at this point.

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Must be another one of those checks and balances I keep hearing about

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Instructions unclear. Went to my polling place to vote and they said come back in five months.

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I’ve been voting for 24 years and have never seen this happen. They double down and that gets their voters even more fired up to vote.

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As someone with decades of experience in the tech industry we should stay as far away from electronic voting as possible. I know the sort of people who work on government systems and do not trust them or their code.

It’s less than 200 million votes, being counted and recounted in parallel by people all over the country. The problem of scale isn’t big enough to justify the security risks. I’m willing to wait a week to make sure the count is accurate and true with paper ballots.

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It really doesn’t matter how many square miles turn red, it’s the people who do the voting.

Inside of states for popular elections this is true. However, that giant area of red is over-represented at just about every level of government, from the electoral college to Congress to state legislatures.

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Good news is a lot of them were in bad health in 2020 and refused to wear masks

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Please don’t disparage trombonists by implying Trump is one of us

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I’m not getting my hopes up

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I never expected Devin Nunes to teach me a new word, but here we are.

A new poll shows trouble for Biden with young voters, especially among voters of color (www.npr.org)

It found that just one-third of all young Americans said they would back Biden if the election was held at the time the survey was conducted. The poll also reflects a virtual tie in the race. Biden leads former President Donald Trump by just two points, and 34% of respondents are currently backing a third-party candidate or said...

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The fact that people block ozma when this is a perfectly valid political post about a very concerning topic would be hilarious if the consequences weren’t so dire.

They’ll ignore the canary in the coalmine and then wake up after Election Day and wonder what the fuck happened. Again.

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Why is it ozma’s responsibility to figure out how the Biden campaign should stop this? Aren’t they the adults in the room?

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I’ve seen a few people complain about how “everything is anti-Biden, so I blocked them.” Which is a bit like “That canary is too loud so I’m just gonna crank my airpods.” Also, neither of those links have any posts about ozma’s behavior.

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“Why are you interfering with the government of another country? Who taught you this?”

“You alright! I learned it by watching you!”

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Yeah, if you’re gonna use your political office for monetary advantage you should do it the right way. With insider trading and luxury trips from lobbyists. Not cartoonish bags of money and gold bars.

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You’re assuming they’re not going to vote for him, and you’re wrong

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My interests are served by feeding people and preventing violence, which is not what our government does.

But every election makes me feel less and less American so maybe I don’t count anymore.

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Oh no! We might think about scheduling a meeting to convene a council to possibly select a grand jury in five years!

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That’s not an opposite snake, this is an opposite snake

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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As someone who’s a registered Democrat who doesn’t want to vote for Biden but will still vote for him, I feel their pain.

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Yeah they didn’t give us free energy and cops still shoot people without consequence so it must be the Democrats fault for sucking.

I’ve stopped believing it’s the Democrat’s fault for sucking and started believing that it’s America’s fault for sucking.

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If we’re going to be proposing things that will never happen: Total public funding of elections, so everybody can run a national campaign if they get enough signatures.

That or we get a watery tart to lob a scimitar at someone.

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It’s the best kind.

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The domain name is echoing my sentiment: “WHYY”

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I was in a poly relationship with a sex educator so I’ve not only seen but also used dental dams, as well as all different kinds of condoms.

Biden campaign launches Pride Month push as allies work to shore up LGBTQ support (www.nbcnews.com)

The campaign plans to have a presence this month at more than 200 Pride events in 23 states, including all of the battleground states, and to launch a paid media blitz aimed at mobilizing LGBTQ voters, two campaign officials said in details first shared with NBC News....

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It’s the American Way

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