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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:37:46 JST sj_zero
The whole point of the United States was that it wasn't supposed to be a country with this massive federal government looming over everyone. That's something that changed a bit during the civil war but really changed in the past century.

It was supposed to be that your local state was where all the action was, and the federal government was just common defense and regulating interstate trade. Unfortunately, the one ring is too attractive for most to leave alone, and so the powers of the government grew and now it matters a whole lot who the president is because they regulate so much of your life.

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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 19:37:45 JST iced depresso
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  @sj_zero @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @newt the side that wanted to obey the constitution lost the civil war, more or less. it's been downhill from there.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:10:41 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @sj_zero @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @newt Many many lies except it was written by his staff, it's online for all to read (I have) and starts out by saying not only do they expect him to accept their recommendations, he has a history of doing so.
  He will eat you alive. He lied repeatedly. Do you even know how often? How many signs of dementia he was showing?
  Do you not understand that his vice president expects to become Emperor of Rome when he dies?
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:10:41 JST iced depresso
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  @LostInCalifornia @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt wouldn't it be cool if the country was originally designed to contain such a situation
  
  surely congress didn't spend the last 20 years systematically dismantling the guard rails against presidents doing anything weird
  
  :neocat_thonk:
  
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  sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:10:42 JST sj_zero
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  Project 2025 is one of the many, many, many lies disseminated by the Democrats and their allies during this election, and I think it's the fact that they were so focused on the opponent they wish they were against instead of the opponent they were actually against that they seem to have lost.
  
  Does Donald Trump strike you as a sneaky ninja who sneaks around with a secret agenda? Because in my view he's an idiot, the sort of guy who screams out his move like an anime if he's in a fight.
  
  If that was what he planned to do, he'd be sitting there bragging about it like he brags about everything else.
  
  I. Personally. Am not ruled by Biden, Trump, or Harris. I already have a national sales tax (exceptionally high taxes overall in fact), and universal healthcare.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:10:43 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @sj_zero @newt @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy The whole point of Project 2025 is that billionaires want a new Gilded Age, unsafe working conditions and a national sales tax.
  You are so screwed. You. Personally. Are. Screwed. You think the Lord And Master won't bother his servant, but he will.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:27:28 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt The president does that himself. The only candidate who promised to roll back power was Hillary.
  No one will be there to stop him, FYI. The dudes who did last time endorsed Kamala.
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:27:28 JST iced depresso
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  @LostInCalifornia @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt you do know a president doesn't decide how much power he has right
  
  congress does this. and there is a congressional override if he doesn't sign such a limitation.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:33:01 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt No, it isn't.
  Checks and balances only works if you believe in checks and balances.
  PSST: Trump is one of the guys who doesn't.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:33:01 JST iced depresso
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  @LostInCalifornia @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt yes its literally the law that congress can override the president. it's deliberately hard to do it but they can do it.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:37:50 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt Did you miss what he said about the constitution?
  W called it a "piece of paper". Trump wants to get rid of the paper.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:37:50 JST iced depresso
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  @LostInCalifornia @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt yes he bothered to leave office per the law and go through the process to be re-elected because he has so much disrespect for rule of law and is gonna nuke san francisco because he's a power mad dictator who cannot be constrained in any fashion.
  
  other than the fact this line of reasoning is patently retarded its perfect.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:58:00 JST iced depresso
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  @LostInCalifornia @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt this statement requires you to admit that rule of law is actually being enforced.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 20:58:01 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt He left office because the military refused to support his coup.
  There you go. The bare facts that you like to dance around.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:21:20 JST iced depresso
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  @FourOh-LLC i'm fine with them doing it as long as its a valid criticism of objective reality.
  
  @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @LostInCalifornia @newt
  
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  FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:21:21 JST FourOh-LLC
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  There are only two types of strategies: closed as in poker, and open as in chess.
  
  Calling someone who's good at one of them an "idiot" defeats the purpose of your entire response. have you noticed that a lot of us are really tired of some people disparaging Trump.
  
  I am really FUCKING tired of it, actually.
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:24:29 JST iced depresso
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  @FourOh-LLC i mean if they are criticizing something that he actually did then i'm less bothered.
  
  though at this point the acid test is if they believe the easily falsified very fine people line or not. if they can't get past that being a lie then i don't care what they say, because even the fact checkers who hate the man admit that was a disingenuous edit job
  
  @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @LostInCalifornia @newt
  
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  FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:24:30 JST FourOh-LLC
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  Trump is a master of trolling, good at golf, very efficient in using open strategy. Give credit where credit is due.
  
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  LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:27:11 JST LostInCalifornia
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  @icedquinn @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt The "rule of law"? You mean the constitutional rule that the veep reads out the name of the winner of the election which Trump pretended was annointing anyone Pence wanted it to be?
  The pro forma boring part of the election honoring the will of the people, and not some made up jackassery the fake electors wanted to make up? The same made up jackassery his former chief of staff is being tried for, and for which the courts have refused to move to federal court because he could pardon any criminal he wants convicted under federal law?
  That rule of law? Or are you some guy who thinks the rule of law is written down in the sheriff's book of secrets?
  
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  iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 21:27:11 JST iced depresso
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  > rule of law doesn't exist because reasons
  > the military enforced it though
  
  you appear to be retarded. good day :blobcatderpy:
  
  @SuperDicq @kurimu @lucy @sj_zero @newt
  
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