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Lunatic.
I know, what was that ? More like unpopular discarded codswallop.
December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Tariffs killed the farm economy (and the economy in general).

This will kill the tourism economy.

ICE and National Guard are killing the local economies of LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, Trump is doing all he can to supercharge China's economy.

America first!
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body." SCOTUS selected regularly by an independent judicial committee is much better. That's how it's done in the UK, where their SC is far less political and functions like a SC, not a legislative body as SCOTUS does..
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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As an outsider, may I make a few suggestions to mull over:

- Forbid the election of a POTUS with a criminal record.
- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body. Set a maximum term of 10 years.
- Give the new SCOTUS the power of Presidential impeachment.
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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You mean our panel of unelected lifetime serving religious fundamentalist clerics (oh wait we call them judges) who get to decide what problems we are allowed to solve, is anti democratic? Color me shocked.
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"secretly"
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Obviously YES to all the above.
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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All of this is supported and encouraged by a corrupt SCOTUS.
They take bribes, they are partisan to the max. They have flipped Stare Decisis upside down and inside out to support #Felon47's unlawful agenda. This is a coup.
www.afge.org/article/proj...
Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers
Here are the highlights – or rather lowlights – of Project 2025 to help you understand how these plans would undermine national security, destroy democracy, and take away our rights.
www.afge.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The dismantling of the government and replacing it with MAGA, #ChristianNationalism, corporate power and #whitesupremacy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeq...
Project 2025 wants to transform the Federal Trade Commission into the anti-’woke’ police
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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There are many ways of fighting propaganda but a big one is enforcing antitrust law. Media corporations are too big and too consolidated and too incentivized to traffic in lies. They must be broken up into little pieces, like Ma Bell back in the day.
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM