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  • Democrats are already preparing Trump investigations if they retake the House

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  • Trump is 100% going to pardon himself. And I have little confidence that the courts will stop him. They will talk about history and tradition when it suits them, but I can totally see them making an exception for yet another unprecedented action.

  • Why don't they get this?

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  • Exactly, and those take resources to grow. Water, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, oil, farm equipment, and so on.

  • Movies

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  • Sure, not a fascimile. Who Framed Roger Rabbit had characters from competing studios. Apparently Steven Spielberg had enough clout that he was able to get cross licensing deals made.

  • Why don't they get this?

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  • Yup, like, what is it replacing? If it's food that goes directly to humans, let's not do that. If it's corn for ethanol, that has little worth. Covering it with solar panels isn't terrible by any means.

  • Movies

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  • Need more Who Framed Roger Rabbit type work.

  • Fetterman called a ‘traitor’ after key Iran vote backing Trump

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  • Nah, timeline's off. He had a stroke before being elected.

    US Senators have no recall mechanism. Fetterman is up for reelection in 2028. We will see what happens then.

  • TIL Amtrak will let you attach your own private car to one of their trains and they charge you per a mile

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  • From some searching, they're also available for charter. Still not something for a person of average means to do on their own, but maybe a group of upper-middle class people. Some Amtrak routes go through some incredibly scenic areas. The one that comes to mind in my neck of the woods is the Empire Builder. It would be a luxury experience for sure.

  • Ocasio-Cortez says if you feel burnt out by the news lately, that’s ‘exactly’ what Trump wants

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  • I'm usually pretty good at being able to follow multiple threads of events at once, and even I'm getting overwhelmed. I've had to step away from the news somewhat, simply because I know there's only so much I can do at this point. Trump, Elon, and their minions are going on their romp around the federal government and the best anyone else can do is throw a few lawsuits at them.

  • Did you know the world was protesting against Trump on inauguration day? Or was this news hidden from you?

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  • The violent protests didn't do shit either, they just pissed off the rest of the citizenship. When protests turn to violence, all too often it's against the businesses that the peasants frequent.

  • Did you know the world was protesting against Trump on inauguration day? Or was this news hidden from you?

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  • I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I've heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It's hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.

  • Literally carrying us on their backs

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  • K-9 from Doctor Who

  • Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government

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  • I used to be on the ml server until I got fed up with the arbitrary moderation, so I try not to generalize.

  • Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government

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  • The CFPB and the DEA are a wee bit different, though. You can be angry at the latter and still want the protections of the former.

  • Trump picks Dr. Oz to be CMS administrator

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  • Even Reddit's /r/conservative was trashing this one. Trump may have actually managed to have gone too far.

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • I'd like to see Idiocracy cited a lot less often, given that a good chunk of the plot boils down to eugenics from wealth (poor people had lots of kids, rich people stopped having kids).

  • No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children. Interest grows in 4B movement to swear off men

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  • Sex strikes have been used more recently as well to end gang conflicts, wars, and other violence.

  • Trump warns voters that his second term would get ‘nasty’ at times | According to Donald Trump and his allies, his second term would be "nasty," "bloody," and filled with "hardships" for many

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  • The inflation will be yuge!

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

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  • A lot of what you're listing off is more a symptom of Harris entering the race so late. She's barely had the time to put together a campaign, let alone flesh out a real policy platform. That usually takes a long time, especially given that she has to show some level of independence from Biden while also

    no healthcare reform mostly just give aways to insurance companies through tax credits.

    What type of healthcare reform are you referring to? I don't think that anything terribly drastic is really going to happen within the foreseeable future. The Democrats burned a 60-40 majority in the Senate just to get the ACA, a relatively modest reform, through Congress. Something like single payer does poll well... until you remind people that there's no free lunch.

    no minimum wage increase

    She supports an increase to $15/hour, but that was pretty recent.

    wont commit to keeping kahn the most effective FTC chair in more than 4 decades.

    I won't defend her here, she should have the courage to tell her tech allies that she's not going to topple Kahn.

    wont commit to supporting striking workers.

    I'm not exactly sure what this means. The Biden administration has strengthened labor's hand on the NLRB, which marked a significant difference from the Trump administration. Are you referring to the railroad strike of 2022?

    no mandated PTO/Sick leave for workers.

    What left wing people are really telling you:

    I would be fine if that was what everyone was actually saying, but I hear a lot of people encouraging not voting or voting third party this cycle.

    let your reps know that your vote is at risk if the genocide continues post election. and then follow through in the next cycle.

    Politicians are trying to paste together a winning coalition. That's why you'll see Kamala's platform roughly representing the center-left, that is a winning platform for a general election. The problem with having a hard line non-mainstream view on something like the Israel-Palestine conflict is that playing hard to get will only get you so far. If your opinion isn't supported by the majority, it's very, very hard to get a politician's support.

  • Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’

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  • There are also some great ways to get written off by the Democratic Party. Frequently not voting or voting third party makes for an unreliable constituency. No politician is going to pay a group that plays hard to get much heed. But for a constituency that turns out and works to turn out others, they're going to be all ears. There's a reason causes championed by Black women always feature fairly heavily in the Democratic Party platform. They really punch above their weight.