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1 hour ago, Nivek said:

And the Klan, Manson Family, and American Nazi's.  That doesn't mean it is a conspiracy.

They absolutely conspired to take over the judiciary like they have successfully done. So, yes, it’s a conspiracy. Lets not conflate a regular conspiracy with a conspiracy theory such as comet’s pizza or whatever the fuck that was 

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20 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

What is that lapel pin he is wearing?  I'm sure it's some dotard grift, but specifically what

It says The Pentagon on it, and has a picture of The Pentagon. Surprisingly appropriate

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

Absofuckinglutely. Once the "real" adults get back into power -- if they ever do -- they need to 100% go scorched earth on tying up all the little carve-outs and what-nots that Trump/MAGA have exploited to do the horrific things that it's done. We have to rid our system of all the loopholes that a bad actor can exploit because we've finally learned after nearly 250 years that it is possible to elect a bad actor to POTUS. (Oh, and Steven Miller will be made the caboose on a lengthy MAGA human centipede.)

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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I love how dipshit can't help injecting himself into this, even though it makes it seem like he was involved in the leak ...

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18 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

It wont be obvious to some, but that statement quoted above is not a definition, it's some equally ignorant assclown asking about the usage of "to be reckoned with."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010_January_22

 

Kid's spending tons of time trying to justify it, when all he had to say was that he made a mistake. But just like the rest of em, he has to double down. 

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January 6 political prisoner and US Senate Candidate. I use to laugh at things like this but now I wonder how much he will win by and how many more J6ers will be in Congress by 2026. 

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1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

They absolutely conspired to take over the judiciary like they have successfully done. So, yes, it’s a conspiracy. Lets not conflate a regular conspiracy with a conspiracy theory such as comet’s pizza or whatever the fuck that was 

I'm not so certain I agree with your terminology.  Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and other tactics also could be lumped in with that power-grab and violation of the naive spirit of our constitution/declaration.  

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2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

I'm not so certain I agree with your terminology.  Voter Suppression, Gerrymandering, and other tactics also could be lumped in with that power-grab and violation of the naive spirit of our constitution/declaration.  

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33 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

This is happening in Frisco tomorrow.

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You are a fucking LIAR.  That is NOT happening in Frisco.

It is happening in FRISO.  GET IT RIGHT, LIBTARD!

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41 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

This is happening in Frisco tomorrow.

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Sweet Jesus. https://x.com/jakelangj6

ETA:  it appears that this is not an "organically" Frisco event, but something put together by a Florida rabble  rouser.

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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Sweet Jesus. https://x.com/jakelangj6

ETA:  it appears that this is not an "organically" Frisco event, but something put together by a Florida rabble  rouser.

A pardoned Jan 6th Congressional candidate rabble rouser.  The details are important to provide clarity as to how truly fucky a timeline we're in.

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Great.  A baby and spouse assaulting thief and fraudster officially representing one side, and a treasonous want to be politician associating (willingly or not, dont know) with the other side.   This weeks event led to subsequent swatting of the deceased's parents house, wonder if the other side will be able to top that.   ThisisAmerica.gif?

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3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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Thank God, America is respected around the world again.

Why can't we get any domestic people doing this shit. 

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2 minutes ago, immamac said:

Why can't we get any domestic people doing this shit. 

Two reasons:  fear of alienating the base and fear of retribution.

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38 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You are a fucking LIAR.  That is NOT happening in Frisco.

It is happening in FRISO.  GET IT RIGHT, LIBTARD!

Came in to say this.  Well, some of it, anyway.

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

And it is going to be so costly.  Part of me wants "the left" to go on a similar wEApoNiZation campaign before returning to normalcy, if it ever regains power.

And, it should be noted, it is probably possible for a real administration to bring a lot of Trumpers to justice under the rule of law without resorting to Trump tactics.

Even should we "normalize," I don't harbor a lot of hope for Congress getting its shit together sufficiently to close a lot of the loopholes that Trump found and exploited.

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4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Two reasons:  fear of alienating the base and fear of retribution.

We should boot up a thread for this. 

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5 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Wait!  I thought he said he would use the art of the deal and stop the war in the first day.   I guess the Deep State has invaded Russia too.

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6 hours ago, bolverk said:

Noted conservative David Brooks calling for a revolution (basically):

What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must.

But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life. These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short.

Trumpism is threatening all of that. It is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice.

So far, we have treated the various assaults of President Trump and the acolytes in his administration as a series of different attacks. In one lane they are going after law firms. In another they savaged U.S.A.I.D. In another they’re attacking our universities. On yet another front they’re undermining NATO and on another they’re upending global trade.

But that’s the wrong way to think about it. These are not separate battles. This is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump’s acquisition of power. And it will take a concerted response to beat it back.

So far, each sector Trump has assaulted has responded independently — the law firms seek to protect themselves, the universities, separately, try to do the same. Yes, a group of firms banded together in support of the firm Perkins Coie, but in other cases it’s individual law firms trying to secure their separate peace with Trump. Yes, Harvard eventually drew a line in the sand, but Columbia cut a deal. This is a disastrous strategy that ensures that Trump will trample on one victim after another. He divides and conquers.

Slowly, many of us are realizing that we need to band together. But even these efforts are insular and fragmented. Several members of the Big Ten conference are working on forming an alliance to defend academic freedom. Good. But that would be 18 schools out of roughly 4,000 degree-granting American colleges and universities.

So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this too is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans.

What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican.

It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.

Peoples throughout history have done exactly this when confronted by an authoritarian assault. In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan looked at hundreds of nonviolent uprisings. These movements used many different tools at their disposal — lawsuits, mass rallies, strikes, work slowdowns, boycotts and other forms of noncooperation and resistance.

These movements began small and built up. They developed clear messages that appealed to a variety of groups. They shifted the narrative so the authoritarians were no longer on permanent offense. Sometimes they used nonviolent means to provoke the regime into taking violent action, which shocks the nation, undercuts the regime’s authority and further strengthens the movement. (Think of the civil rights movement at Selma.) Right now, Trumpism is dividing civil society; if done right, the civic uprising can begin to divide the forces of Trumpism.

Chenoweth and Stephan emphasize that this takes coordination. There doesn’t always have to be one charismatic leader, but there does have to be one backbone organization, one coordinating body that does the work of coalition building.

In his book “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond looked at countries that endured crises and recovered. He points out that the nations that recover don’t catastrophize — they don’t say everything is screwed up and we need to burn it all down. They take a careful inventory of what is working well and what is working poorly. Leaders assume responsibility for their own share of society’s problems.

This struck me as essential advice for Americans today. We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place. They have to show that they are democratically seeking to reform their institutions. This is not just defending the establishment; it’s moving somewhere new. [NOTE: This is a point that Buttigieg has been making in the last couple of weeks. There's no rebuilding what will have been lost if/once this is all over. We're going to have to build something new to replace some of the shit that kinda didn't work anymore for everyone.]

Let’s take the universities. I’ve been privileged to teach at American universities off and on for nearly 30 years and I get to visit a dozen or two others every year. These are the crown jewels of American life. They are hubs of scientific and entrepreneurial innovation. In a million ways, the scholars at universities help us understand ourselves and our world.

I have seen it over and over: A kid comes on campus as a freshman, inquisitive but unformed. By senior year, there is something impressive about her. She is awakened, cultured, a critical thinker. The universities have performed their magic once again.

People flock from all over the world to admire our universities.

But like all institutions, they have their flaws. Many have allowed themselves to become shrouded in a stifling progressivism that tells half the country: Your voices don’t matter. Through admissions policies that favor rich kids, the elite universities have contributed to a diploma divide. If the same affluent families come out on top generation after generation, then no one should be surprised if the losers flip over the table.

In other words, a civic uprising has to have a short-term vision and a long-term vision. Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him. The second is a long-term vision of a fairer society that is not just hard on Trump, but hard on the causes of Trumpism — one that offers a positive vision. Whether it’s the universities, the immigration system or the global economy, we can’t go back to the status quo that prevailed when Trump first rode down the escalator.

I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Deport that Canadian 

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Fascism has had its place within the American conservative movement for damn near 100 years. It took them a few generations to fully take over the GOP, but Trump's rise put them over the top.
  1. 1930s: America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin, paleo-conservatives.
  2. 1950s: Red Scare, McCarthyism.
  3. 1960s-1980s: Realignment of the parties with Southern segregationists leaving the Party, with anti-abortion Evangelicals tagging along (often one in the same); Nixon's corruption and the start of the War on Drugs; pissed off Vietnam Vets forming the backbone of the modern gun movement, NRA, Soldier of Fortune magazine; conservative think tanks established; Ronnie Raygun.
  4. 1990s-2000s: Pat Buchanan's xenophobia (anti-immigrant, Islamophobia) and economic nationalism, 9-11 Freedumb Fries bullshit got added to the mix; Libaugh and FOX News.
  5. 2010-present: Trumpism (a true authoritarian, strong "business man" finally discovered to pick up the mantle); aided by social media.
It's certainly been a progression. Planned or not. This is my interpretation and summary of how we got to this point.
 
Edit: I should've started with the 1920s with its anti-immigrant movement and the rise of the KKK as a national movement. And, of course, a lot of that shit just goes back to the Civil War/Reconstruction and Jewish, Italian, and Eastern European immigration during the Gilded Age.
There's a singular ideological tent pole holding the whole thing up.

You also forgot that George Wallace got 15% of the vote in 1968.
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4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Fun to look up burner phones before going to Europe this summer. 🦅🇺🇸🗽

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the time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.

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On 4/16/2025 at 8:40 PM, Thatguy said:

 

 

Welcome to what it feels like to be black.

Being Latino doesn't feel much better either. Especially in Texas. 

People have always been either confused or upset that I've never been patriotic and since childhood have had a disdain for the US. I tell them try living a life where you're automatically looked at as a criminal or undesirable, an outsider, on the very land in which you were born. Then you'd understand what it's like to have no home. No place you truly belong. No place where the ruling establishment isn't against you from day 1. 

While they'll never know what that's like, many Americans are just now finding out what it's like to have the establishment against you at all. 

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Holy shit, I'm going to Buenos Aires in two weeks.

I hope they do search my phone and find all of my online words.  I'll tell that fat chunk of shit to his face if he'll grant me an audience.

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4 hours ago, C-Man said:

Absofuckinglutely. Once the "real" adults get back into power -- if they ever do -- they need to 100% go scorched earth on tying up all the little carve-outs and what-nots that Trump/MAGA have exploited to do the horrific things that it's done. We have to rid our system of all the loopholes that a bad actor can exploit because we've finally learned after nearly 250 years that it is possible to elect a bad actor to POTUS. (Oh, and Steven Miller will be made the caboose on a lengthy MAGA human centipede.)

It would take either a complete or partial scrapping of the Constitution, and definitely a scrapping of the "first past the post" system. The whole thing would need to be reworked to limit a political party having the ability to go rogue and tear down the system. 

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This is happening in Frisco tomorrow.
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Literally nobody gets confined to PRISON while waiting for their trial. They sometimes remain in jail, but not prison. Not that I give a shit, but people yelling with such an attitude while getting basic shit wrong just gets me. That and the whole idea of this group of course.
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

pretext to let the Orcs have their way with Ukraine…bc you damn well already know who he’s going to blame for  negotiating in bad faith. 

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1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Fun to look up burner phones before going to Europe this summer. 🦅🇺🇸🗽
 

 

 

I did this just this morning for my wife.

She's going out of the country in early May on a girls trip.   I took an old iPhone to ATT, got a new number and the international plan for a month, created her a new Apple ID just for this single phone, installed no social media apps, only put on the esssential contacts and only the apps necessary for the trip.   She's paranoid about having to hand over her phone when she re-enters the country, so I set up a phone she can just hand over and never look back.

 

 

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Just now, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I did this just this morning for my wife.

She's going out of the country in early May on a girls trip.   I took an old iPhone to ATT, got a new number and the international plan for a month, created her a new Apple ID just for this single phone, installed no social media apps, only put on the esssential contacts and only the apps necessary for the trip.   She's paranoid about having to hand over her phone when she re-enters the country, so I set up a phone she can just hand over and never look back.

 

 


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6 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I did this just this morning for my wife.

She's going out of the country in early May on a girls trip.   I took an old iPhone to ATT, got a new number and the international plan for a month, created her a new Apple ID just for this single phone, installed no social media apps, only put on the esssential contacts and only the apps necessary for the trip.   She's paranoid about having to hand over her phone when she re-enters the country, so I set up a phone she can just hand over and never look back.

 

 

I've always been prepared to do that.  I do not enable any biometrics.  I will not give my passcode, as doing so would allow access to my email and other portals through which I have client communications and materials.  If they say "if you don't allow us access, we'll just seize your phone," I'll say "cool, have it."  Because 1) I can go buy a new one for $1k, 2) unless they have REALLY good reason to access my phone (and they really won't), it's not worth the cost and time to try to break into it, and 3) I'll send a nice piece of correspondence to CBP and the DOJ before the day is out informing them that they seized a device that has attorney-client privileged material on it, and as the know, that requires them to take certain steps to insure that any access they obtain does not intrude on the privilege.

And then I'll go buy a new phone.

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20 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

I never understood the animosity between black folks and latinos. If you are a brown latino you are dealing with the same struggle as black folks, yet there is so much hatred between the two communities. My lawn guy is from Guatemala. Hard working dude just trying to make it. His truck has broken down in our neighborhood twice and I let him keep it here. I took him to the Guatemala Consulate and even sat in the car with his two kids while he went in with his wife. He then took me out to eat and even gave me a keychain that I still have on my keys. I throw him any work I can give him. He even built my fence after the last hurricane last year.

I want to put a positive memory with a black face. That way when he is in his community and someone says something out of pocket about black people he will chime and talk about how he knows a guy that is nothing like those stereotypes. Our two communities need to band together, both immigrants black and brown, and people born here black and brown. It seems that latinos are constantly aspiring to be accepted by white people and need to understand what we already know. No matter how many oxford shirts and grey slacks you buy you will still be brown.

Unfortunately, in this accurate statement, "white" and "colored" are interchangeable with variations of brown, black and yellow, and probably some other immutable characteristics, and ethnic labels.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

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21 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Unfortunately, in this accurate statement, "white" and "colored" are interchangeable with variations of brown, black and yellow, and probably some other immutable characteristics, and ethnic labels.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

LBJ was right about a lot of shit.

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

I did this just this morning for my wife.

She's going out of the country in early May on a girls trip.   I took an old iPhone to ATT, got a new number and the international plan for a month, created her a new Apple ID just for this single phone, installed no social media apps, only put on the esssential contacts and only the apps necessary for the trip.   She's paranoid about having to hand over her phone when she re-enters the country, so I set up a phone she can just hand over and never look back.

 

 

Small government at work.

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