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    This is everything wrong with the Democratic Party in a nutshell.

    The correct move: Use the “Anything the President does is an official act” powers to stop a madman who under the 14th Amendment isn’t even eligible to be President.

    What Democrats do: Kiss his ass as hard as they can even though it’s blatantly obvious via the January 6th riots that this would not be happening were the roles reverse.

    The Dems are as spineless as the Reps are heartless.

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    Big Paul von Hindenburg energy.

    The former German President who instated Hitler as chancellor, and officially signed his “Reichstag Fire Decree” and “Enabling Act” into law, which abolished democracy.
    All in the name of an orderly transition during difficult times.
    Hindenburg died in August 1934, after which Hitler became President, as well.

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    Biden is the new von Hindenburg now? Doesn’t Biden have still unlimited political power thanks to Supreme Court?

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      Remember the letter trump left when biden won?

      The one that has never been made public.

      Biden’s only comment in it was that it was ‘generous’

      I’ve wondered if that letter told biden he would be spared if he cooperated

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        Maybe he thought resistance would mean death or torture for him and his loved ones. He’s already seen one son die, I doubt he’d want to see another one laid to rest.

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    Elections have consequences. Americans knew what they voted for. They fucked around and they are going to find out.

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      Biden/Harris knew they’d lose the left if they continued to ship weapons and they shipped them anyway. So here we are.

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        Nobody is spending millions on an election campaign when they knew they were going to lose my dude.

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          They raised over a billion dollars after Harris got the nomination.

          They spent a quarter of that on sending door knockers to the same people’s houses 2-3 times.

          And they donate money to Republican outsider campaigns to try to siphon votes off the Republican incumbent (who they usually still lose to anyway).

          They would absolutely spend millions of dollars thinking they were going to lose. It’s not their money, and their lives will not change whether it’s spent or not.

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        Europeans seem like they constantly need reminding of this. You people are also fucked for a myriad of reasons

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          yeah, I don’t understand why people think that it will not change anything here, first with the war next door, and we’re living on the same earth so the climate will be impacted everywhere not just locally in the US

          [edit] also: what do you mean, YOU people?!

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            So you actively want to be invaded by Russia? You want to be part of their imperial fascist regime?

            NATO is the only thing preventing that, and Putin knows.

            Why else do you think Putin spend so much of the Russian Propaganda machine actively making Europe more xenophobic and get so many extremist right-wing governments in play?

            Do you think the ones trying to revive the USSR are going to stop at Ukraine?

            I’d love for NATO to not exist. But as long as countries are afraid of being invaded by their neighbors, NATO is necessary. Russia is therefore the reason for NATO’s existence.

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    costing us the election and then rolling out the red, black and white carpet