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btaf45

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  • Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential 'revenge' by Trump

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  • That was the entire point of the pardon. To spare them the cost of wasting their money on lawyers. None of them were in danger of going to jail because none of them did anything illegal.

  • Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential 'revenge' by Trump

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  • None of those people committed any crimes. None of them could have been convicted of any crimes and probably couldn't have been charged with any crimes that wouldn't have resulted in the lawyers getting disbarred for misconduct. But they likely all would have had to waste their money on their own lawyers. Biden spared them from the nonsense.

  • Biden pardons Fauci and Milley in an effort to guard against potential 'revenge' by Trump

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  • I still don’t know what Fauci did to have so much anger for him for this long lol.

    Conservatives hate science and scientists. Think about how much anger conservatives had towards Galileo and Darwin.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • If people didn’t vote that’s the fault of politics and politicians not the people regardless of the reason they didn’t vote.

    Nobody is voted for Dems in order to do them any personal favors. We are voting to do ourselves and the country a favor. If people don't vote they are screwing themselves. The politicians are going to be fine either way. If people do not understand that THEY are the losers, not politicians, when they don't vote, then yes that is their own fault.

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  • The Democrat politicians are rich and will be fine. It’s all us non-rich who will be fucked.

    This 100%. Way too many people are thinking we are voting Dem in order to do politicians a f*cking personal favor. No, we vote Dem to do OURSELVES a favor and the country a favor.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • Demoralized voters don’t vote because they don’t feel their vote matters and they’re not wrong. Like 50% of votes are in states where they’re meaningless.

    Nope. If just an additional 1 out of every 15 people in Texas had voted for Harris, then Trump would have lost even Texas. The number of people in Texas who could have voted but did not vote far exceeds that number. The number of people in Texas who didn't vote because they probably thought it wouldn't matter was big enough to easily make the difference in who won the state. So even the state of Texas could have voted against Trump, if only enough people who could have voted actually did vote for Harris. And Texas is one of your "meaningless" states. Other states could have done this even more easily.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • You're right. There was no payment for Puerto Rico. The payment to Spain was for the Phillipines

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • Since 99% of Greenland is uninhabited, he could just claim those parts and let the few towns choose whether they wanted to join or not. It actually is a little weird that just 50,000 people can "own" a gigantic 99% uninhabited island the size of Greenland.

    But I think the claim is that he wants to purchase Greenland from Denmark. There is actually a historical precedent for exactly that. The USA purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. We also purchased Puerto Rico from Spain, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma etc from France, and Alaska from Russia.

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  • and fixing housing by offering first time home buyer credits.

    And building low income housing.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • They can claim any part of Greenland. Although they would likely be violating international law. But be aware that Traitorapist Trump has already gotten away with committing many domestic crimes.

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  • The democrats have settled on a strategy of slowly shuffling right and being yesteryear Republicans on many fronts

    No. That was their strategy 20-30 years ago. They are actually trying to make progress now, but I agree they need to become much more aggressive in doing that.

    when they do get the occasional small W.

    You are forgetting that these "small wins" are HUGE WINS to somebody. I had ACA health insurance for several years. Dems did that. Would I have rather had medicare for all? Of course. But I would have had NO health insurance for YEARS without Dems creating the ACA. That was huge for me. And before the ACA people on the internet were always telling me there was no chance at all that health care would ever be reformed.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • Greenland houses an important NATO base

    Then just claim the base. No need to take over the handful of towns.

    that would be needed in a fight against Russia. This os why Trump wants Greenland

    Trump is on the same side as Putin. Trump "wants Greenland" for no other reason than to get attention. He's a narcissist. Everything he does can be explain by Trump's hunger for your attention. He's not actually worth people's attention.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • We know how stupid Traitorapist Trump sounds. We know he is a notorious liar and we know the rest of the world knows that Trump is a notorious liar.

  • Fox News sends reporter to find MAGA in Greenland and it majorly backfires

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  • Trump is a notorious bullshit artist. Nobody with common sense believes any of his bullshit anyway, so he should just come out and say "I want to invade and annex Greenland for the same reason Putin invaded Ukraine. Pure imperialism".

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  • the DNC campaign brought on Liz Cheney and said nothing will fundamentally change.

    (1) It was the Harris campaign, not "the DNC". Why would Harris give a shit what "the DNC" thinks about anything? Harris was giving money to the DNC, NOT the other way around. You know that the DNC is not a person right?

    (2) There were many proposed significant changes. A $3000 per child tax credit isn't a huge thing? The billionaire owned media didn't want you to learn about them so that Trump would give them gigantic GOP tax cuts. So the media buried it. You could and should have made the effort to learn what they were but you didn't. You could have read her 82 page PDF of policy proposals.

    (3) As long Harris didn't change any of her positions to get Liz Cheney's endorsement, why would she NOT want a free endorsement from a Republican? Especially since everyone knew that Cheney only endorsed Harris to highlight that Traitorapist Trump committed treason against our country.

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  • . There’s all kinds of people that don’t vote because they’ve accurately assessed that the system resists changing to reflect their needs.

    That makes no sense. The system can only "reflect their needs" as a result of voting. By not voting you are setting yourself up to being a lifetime loser in political affairs. In the long term the system will always reflect what the majority of the VOTERS want, and not necessarily what he majority of the CITIZENS want. If Dems were routinely getting large victories, then politicians would be routinely competing against each other to demonstrate who is going the farthest and the fastest in achieving progress.

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  • and bear in mind that when I say fix, I mean fix, not take a few small token steps towards addressing it (maybe)-

    Your position amounts to saying "We cannot move left until we have moved much farther left".

    not “fix the housing crisis”, not “fix the student debt crisis”-

    Biden and/or Harris pretty much tried to do everything that was politically possible on both of those things. If you were holding out because you thought it would be possible to immediately do MORE than what they tried/proposed, you were merely setting yourself up to be a lifetime loser in politics.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • So tbh it was indeed a flop imo

    Not a flop at all. I used ACA for several years and was extremely glad to have it.

  • FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court

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  • Before the ACA, I didn’t have medical coverage at ALL.

    The health care insurance companies literally created a shared database of blacklist victims who they denied health care to. It was at mib.com, which is now a completely different site.