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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2m

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 6m

Max right on!🤨

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 9m

Fox News response to the current moment is to show video of Katie Porter being blunt. They should show video of Trump on January 6th, 2021, throwing the plate that had ketchup on it. It speaks to just how shameless and pathetic these people are. It speaks to how stupid they think Americans are.

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1h

to come to her senses and lead the world to "a more perfect union", a more perfect world.🌎☮️ That the Nobel Peace Prize is about a world at peace with itself.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1h

because the baby won't stop crying. I've never heard of María Corina Machado before today, but this is someone who clearly has the humility and compassion to have earned the Nobel Peace Price. It gives me hope that there is a rational world out there who is paying attention and looking for America

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1h

The next thought that comes to mind was that last two part episode of MASH. Where Hawkeye has finally cracked up and is facing the demon that cause him to lose it. Sitting in the bus in terror that the enemy is about to descend upon them and a mother smothers her baby to death,

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 1h

Every morning, the first thing I do is listen to the theme from Billy Jack "One Tin Soldier". I sense the emotion in this man's voice and the first thing that came to mind was this moment when Rachel saw the first notice of Trump's deliberate separation of children from their parents.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

Trump pardoned everybody. McConnell abused his authority to avoid one SCOTUS nominee and pushed through another. Johnson is doing what he has been trained to do. Cheat, lie, abuse his authority and avoid the constitutional crisis he and his ilk are pursuing to destroy our Democracy.

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 18h

This needs to be looked at from where it started. Ford abused his authority under the Constitution to pardon Nixon. The US Congress allowed Nixon to resign to avoid an impeachment. Records were destroyed under Reagan to protect him from impeachment and indictment. Bush pardoned Weinberger.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2d

The indifference she displayed yesterday speaks to her indifference to her duty in 2013 not to abuse her authority for personal gain. The question is what exactly is her relationship to Trump over the years, and does that relationship include Epstein and/or Maxwell?

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 2d

Another question that demands an answer goes back to 2013. Bondi convinced the Governor of Florida (current) Senator Rick Scott to reschedule the execution of Marshall Lee Gore, so she could attend her own fundraiser.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

Corporations should not be allowed to buy their way out from under any measure of accountability. It also means that public services such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, and all public services are rights of citizenship. We the People are the sovereign authority. Corporations service us.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

Using religion as a vehicle to sow divisive division to pit Americans against each other to maintain control of how they make their profits. The idea for me is to demand a leveling of the playing field between corporations and average citizens pursuant to civil law.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

delays. They can buy their way out from under any real measure of accountability. They have the means to out spend their opponents. They have successfully hidden behind privatization to out maneuver and undermine public services to promote and protect their profits at the expense of the people.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

What appears to me, to be the least addressed concern is civil law as it relates to corporate law. Corporations have a distinct advantage in the realm of civil law. Where civil law requires a lesser standard of accountability to be viable, a corporation can devote millions of dollars to promote

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

It's about controlling the debate in an effort to control the outcome. The billionaire class and their millionaire minions devote their time and energy to establishing some mythical enemy to justify these Trumpian abuses of power. Up to and including anti-communist/anti-socialist nonsense.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

This is Biblical Misogyny at it's most un-repenting, un-redeeming, and irrational. The idea that a 21st Century version of Jesus Christ would approve such an abuse of power speaks to the "them and us" "them v us" mentality that is the mainstay of conservative political reasoning.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 3d

This is how the billionaire class and their millionaire minions have decided to deal with the release of the Epstein Files. Civil commitment laws pursuant to sexual predators makes it possible to undermine criminal prosecutions. NDAs makes it possible to pretend these abuses never happened.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

What did the New Deal do that the billionaire class and their millionaire minions resent the most? It helped put people to work. It taxed those most responsible for the policies that brought about the Great Depression. It challenged the idea that the war machine could be a profit making adventure.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed.

Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

It appears that Johnson has that responsibility. He swore in GOP members recently, but didn't here. We must wait and see.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

I think in discussion about privatization Justice Marshall has effectively outlined one of the many reasons it should be declared unconstitutional. "We the People" are now regarded as consumers. What we really are, are economic slaves.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

Slaves could be imported, if the commercial interests of the North were protected. To make the compromise even more palatable, customs duties would be imposed at up to ten dollars per slave as a means of raising public revenues…"
This is the man whom Clarence Thomas replaced on the SCOTUS.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

to continue importing slaves was extended, officially, at least until 1808. We know that it actually lasted a good deal longer, as the Framers possessed no monopoly on the ability to trade moral principles for self-interests. But they nevertheless set an unfortunate example.

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Arthur A Bundy @arthurbundy.bsky.social · 4d

And so again at the Constitutional Convention eloquent objections to the institution of slavery went unheeded, and its opponents eventually consented to a document which laid the foundation for the tragic events that were to follow…As a result of compromise, the right of the southern States

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