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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 10h

Or I just don't care much about conservatives who ran on something and lost?

The point is - they never enacted it.

And it doesn't reflect any on Obama care, which did get enacted.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 16h

Still not TDS when he's the president and in the news daily.

Hey, if it works, great!

Has progress been made and then instantly fallen apart multiple times now? Yeah.

So if he manages to keep it, great. Israel doesn't have a good track record of not killing gazans.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 16h

Yet you did end up reminding us. So you did feel the need.

a.) A voucher system is not an original idea - and if it's a -good idea- then they -should have used it-. Because originality is not the goal here. It's helping people.

b.) Did the voucher system get enacted by the right?

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

I'm guessing Patel's notes were similar.

This should carry some kind of 'contempt of congress'.

And if you do it three times you're fired.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

This in a nutshell.

I don't know if Trump really cares, either. If he could have ICE and the military without congress, of course he would.

Democrats are now demanding that, at the least, the Trump administration agree to stop freezing or rescinding more federal funds if they vote for a bill reopening the government. What reason, Democratic lawmakers ask, do they have to support a spending bill that in effect supports Trump’s lawlessness and puts no guardrails on the executive branch?

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

<shrug> insofar as Biden or Clinton or someone was on it and didn't want to make it public. Sure, I think that's plausible, maybe even likely at this point.

But I don't see what that has to do with it getting released now?

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

While I think 'bipartisan state op' is just one of a number of possible scenarios, I do agree that other administrations not following up on that investigation means it's either a little-to-nothing-burger, or something additional is going on.

I just think more likely simply protecting their own.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

I mean.... I'm basically agreeing with your implication that it's politically motivated, and stating additional facts.

So you can just say 'yeah, you're right'. It wouldn't kill you, I promise.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

Ah. My mistake.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think he's stupid. But he is definitely letting heavy bias cloud his logic.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

You throw 'uneducated' and 'stupid' around a lot. Notice how I haven't resorted to that when speaking to you.

Yes, obviously it wouldn't be political focus if he wasn't president.

But yes, Trump absolutely invited backlash and suspicion by flopping on releasing the documents he promised.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

And I wouldn't bother referring to that in a defense of what is and isn't TDS. Because it's obviously just bringing up another talking point when you can't back up your first.

Are you capable of replying to a point without resorting to whataboutism?

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

No - your misrepresentation of the facts is your fault.

It was -conservatives- -especially maga- who were promised the epstein list by Trump.

It's when he reneged on that when people took renewed interest. Because...ahem...

it -makes- him -look- -guilty-

This is entirely of his making.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 1d

When he's doing such heinous crap daily as the president of the united states - things that affect us whether we want to think of them or not - claims of 'TDS' is a feeble clapback.

-and- the guys -wants- to be seen and heard. He posts silly crap daily. It's TDS when it's shoved in our faces?

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ. These videos.

Weird how the enemy combatants in war torn portland politely stay behind waist high barriers.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Pro tip for a human.

When someone asks you if you mean x

You can just say 'no, I was talking about this'

You know. Like a normal person who has normal conversations and isn't desperate to jump on a mistake.

Try it. You'll make more friends.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

....

Yeah it's a real stretch to say people came to America in search of a better life.

None of them have ever said that themselves.

What's up with you, dude?

Paying people fairly is not irrational, nor is giving pople health care.

It's called empathy.

quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Who knows what you're trying to whatabout here.

We're not up on all the crazy conservative conspiracies and right-wing fantasies so you'll actually need to say what you're implying here.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

What?

Your premise is wild conjecture.

Maybe - and this is nutty so follow me - people with available evidence against them are being charged.

Because that also fits all the crap you just said is suspect.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Sigh.

Except right now they've been trying to get all the files released repeatedly.

And they mention it repeatedly.

No, bud.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

You have problems.

a.) no one said ny was beholden to trump. why would that be necessary for him, as pesident, to get epstein killed?
It's not a definite, but mr. conspiracy nut, it's as valid a theory as any.

b.) We don't care about the clintons, weirdo. If they're in the files, try them.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

Did you think that this is a zing against liberals?

No.... see we would like to see everyone that is in those files be addressed accordingly.

Saying 'well what about the -liberals- in the files oh no!' doesn't work when the liberals are trying to get them released.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

So you're arguing both that because x district didn't charge him that tells us something. But when they do charge him you argue it's not legit.

Yep, you're maga.

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quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social @quizzicalaxolotl.bsky.social · 2d

I really don't know who you're referring to here.

Biden? Trump? Me?

Best guess you think Biden was speaking for people he didn't have the right to speak for? When?

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