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@benFranklin2018

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@benFranklin2018
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Folks should come to grips with the likelihood that all of these proceedings were meant to go nowhere from the beginning and only served to maintain the illusion of rule of law as a pacification tactic while the fascism advanced
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Folks should come to grips with the likelihood that even if convicted Trump will almost certainly not be imprisoned prior to the election. That is, unless he does something else like violate a revised gag order.
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People are complaining about another 30 days of lockdown as if it it's not gonna be 90+ days
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@benFranklin2018
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The hero we've been waiting for.
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Protestors in Hong Kong are cutting down facial recognition towers.
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Why is everyone suddenly saying the word gay and r*tarded like it’s the 90s? Why is thin back in? Why can’t the pope stop saying f*ggottry? Why are the democrats border hawks now? Why are all the pop stars making country albums? It’s the global cultural shift to the right
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America is actually a deeply totalitarian country, it’s just entirely invisible as long as you stay inside the free speech zones. The students have exited the free speech zone and now all pretense of this being a democracy is dropped. We are only free to eat burger and go to work
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@benFranklin2018
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In almost any other country in the world people would be in the streets already.
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So now what do we do?
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@benFranklin2018
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so close
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As I've been saying since Feb, the government decided to just let this hit us. They knew since January it was a pandemic, they sold their stocks, we didn't find out until March. This crisis has laid bare how rotten our entire society is, and as soon as this is over we need change
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@benFranklin2018
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The joke is that the fascism is already being implemented in a thousand small ways like this - police raiding schools for banned books is pretty on the nose- in a blue state under a blue president. There’s no movie script takeover moment just a very slow creep over time
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A police officer searched a classroom at a Massachusetts middle school for the novel “Gender Queer,” after receiving an anonymous complaint The ACLU says they cannot recall any instances of police going to a school to search for a book
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@benFranklin2018
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Do you remember how I said there would be a moment when people finally realized how bad things are and that the most important thing to do is not let everyone slide into despair? Now is that moment.
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something broke tonight and reality is setting in. It’s not pretty.
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You are allowed to say, at any point, I can’t support this. Even if you did. Even if you were unsure. You can at any point say “this has gone too far.” And while the best time to say that was earlier, second best time is now.
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The attack on the postal service is the red line. If they'll destroy the post office, which is critical infrastructure, they'll destroy anything. Reply to this tweet with #USPSprotests if you agree
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@benFranklin2018
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If bird flu goes bad, which is very possible given the accelerating rate at which we are seeing concerning headlines, it will make the covid panic buying look like a walk in the park. Plan accordingly.
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did not count on lyft and uber and godaddy to have a stronger response to the texas law than our federal government
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People keep pointing out that trump flagrantly broke the law by pressuring Georgia. Don’t tell me what the laws are, show me who will enforce them #TrumpMeltdown
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@benFranklin2018
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The idea that you can’t criticize the president of the United States lest you undermine him is fundamentally authoritarian. The idea that you owe politicians loyalty regardless of their actions is fundamentally authoritarian. Leader worship is fundamentally authoritarian.
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remember, if this is what they did to the richest guy in the world, imagine what they've done to other people. it might explain the behavior of people like lindsay graham.
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Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
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@benFranklin2018
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Note how the entire country shifted on Israel all at once. There was no period of debate or deliberation. It was not the subject of many opinion pieces. It went from “Israel perfect it can kill anyone” to “this has gone too far.” Like a memo went out and everyone acted different
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@TeamCharleston @MCASBeaufortSC Log in to iCloud, go to “Find my F-35,” follow the loud ping sound
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Things the Republicans brought us: Qanon. Pizzagate. The Iraq War. 9/11. Mass shootings with AR-15s. Birtherism. Donald Trump. What'd I miss?
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A lot of major plot points we feared would happen under a second trump term have come to pass under Biden but with no fuss and resistance from democratic partisans.
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It's been six weeks. Why did the security cameras by Epstein break? Who were the guards that fell asleep? Why was Epstein taken off suicide watch? Why did Epstein sign a will transferring assets before dying? Why did Epstein order a cement mixer to the island before his arrest?
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@benFranklin2018
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PS: Please consider making a donation to your local food pantry, this is a support system that a lot of people need right now.
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this is what you have to do when you see saboteurs who are trying to undermine the movement. detain and them and toss them over to the police so the protest can remain as peaceful as possible and these types will stop showing up.
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@benFranklin2018
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John Fetterman and Eric Adams are great examples of “what the fuck is the point of voting if the democrats you elect act like republicans once they’re in office.” To say nothing of all the people explicitly flipping parties once elected.
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i'm not a scientist. i don't follow the climate beat. but the impression i'm getting is this is going to be hitting us much harder and sooner than we were led to believe and we should expect real system failures at anytime not in some far off decade.
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140 House Republicans and 11 Senate Republicans are trying to overturn the election result. This number will go up by the 6th. This is a coup attempt by the GOP and should be taken as a serious, imminent threat to our democracy.
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Maggie Haberman, who is personal friends with Roger Stone and whose mom does PR for the Kushner family and the Trump org, was never seen as too “unobjective” to be assigned the most important reporting position in the country. The New York Times had no issue with it.
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Donald Trump hired Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, who were both on Jeffrey Epstein's legal team, for his impeachment defense team. This should raise some questions. #EpsteinFiles
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The Epstein scandal is being handled in a way that lets everyone point fingers and say “no your side is the bigger pedophiles” which ultimately obscures the fact that all of us should be upset that pedophilia and human trafficking have been normalized at highest levels of society
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The problem is that if they can get away with Covid and Palestine, there is actually no limit to how many people they are willing to kill and what the public will accept and normalize and that is a terrifying realization to live under
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In fact, there should be an entire team of people dedicated to doing this once things get organized. In Hong Kong, for example, here were all the different roles people split into to help where they could.
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anyone else notice how the big media refers to Epstein in terms like "disgraced financier" instead of "pedophile mafia overlord with links to our elected leaders and hostile foreign powers?" It's like all the language is blunting the red hot emotional punch of what's going on
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Stage is being set to blame “the far left” for election loss instead of policies and behavior that has seriously alienated and demoralized entire parts of democratic base. They’ll blame you for not liking the unlimited bombs for kids program, but not the policy
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Trump supporter threatens peaceful protesters with a chainsaw in McAllen texas.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but the sudden death of the country’s most well connected pedophile linked to foreign powers and two presidents including the guy from the apprentice that Russia got elected got me acting strange #EpsteinFiles
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The national media, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is on Trump’s side.
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I don’t think there’s enough alarm that the federal government is propping up Erik Prince’s private global mercenary force. You know those troops aren’t loyal to the United States, right? We are building a parallel army that is not beholden to our interests.
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Why not start impeachment proceedings immediately? Why not pursue impeachment and the 25th in tandem?
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The #IowaCaucas are an early warning that our voting needs to be conducted entirely via hand-marked paper ballots if we want to have an actual legitimate election in November.
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Scenes from Brooklyn. The cops are out of control.
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Alan Dershowtiz left his first wife for a younger woman, sued for and won full custody of their kids, and she got sh*t for alimony. She killed herself by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. #CreepyDershowitz
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Trump isn’t trying to win the election, he’s trying to steal it. Anyone who is telling you we win by default is lying #YesWeCanAgain
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@benFranklin2018
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Google has destroyed your ability to use their product to get good information. Elon Musk has destroyed Twitter and your ability to get good information. Local news dying, big news paywalled while there’s more bullshit than ever before. Shutting down info as crises peak.
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The fact that Rush Limbaugh received the Presidential Medal of Freedom tells you a lot about the Trump administration.
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I honestly think people are underreacting given the circumstances
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Everyone is saying thank you twitter for permanently suspending Trump’s account but I feel like a lot of damage could have been prevented if they had done this when he had turned it into a firehouse of disinformation maybe about a decade ago.
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All those infrastructure weeks and this is the only thing that got built? #TrumpBurialPits
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@benFranklin2018
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The airplane is crashing and the pilots won’t even give us our oxygen masks because they don’t want to disturb the dining experience of the first class passengers.
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TLDR -Justice Kennedy retired for Brett Kavanaugh to come in -Kennedy’s son Justin signed off on Trump’s loans at Deutsche bank. -Deutsche bank has Trump’s tax info, loan applications with #RussianCosigners . The government has been taken over by our enemies,take to the streets
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Cool that everyone in charge of the country seems to either be a pedophile, a criminal, a traitor or blackmailed/threatened by a pedophile, criminal, or traitor. This is fine.
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@benFranklin2018
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@mrbromwich Don’t tell me what the laws are, show me who will enforce them
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The reason why Roger Stone is a ubiquitous figure in every American scandal is because it’s all one scandal, conducted by the same group of people over time, hidden as disparately seen events.
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@benFranklin2018
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(Not an organic cultural shift)
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Wearable face projector in HK to beat facial recognition technology. They are serious #HongKongProtests
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Who was in alive in the 70s and what would you tell people about that decade?
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download your twitter archive and make sure you can open it. i was pleasantly surprised by how navigable the archive was. your twitter archive is your diary of a country collapsing into fascism, hold onto it.
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Things the FBI can do under FBI director Christopher Wray: -cover up for Brett Kavanaugh Things the FBI can’t do under FBI director Christopher Wray: -detect or prevent an attack on the capitol that was being organized openly on the internet
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Who paid Kavanaugh’s debts? Why did Kennedy suddenly retire? #ImpeachKavanaugh
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Did the fall of Ancient Rome feel so slow and so stupid?
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Time to stop calling him president and start referring to him exclusively as a dictator or tyrant. Tyrant Trump! #VindictiveDictatorTrump
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Don't forget that Trump will cheat to win the election or reject the results if loses, be ready to protest on election night #ResistanceTaskForce
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The question isn't "why is facebook down?" it's "how do we keep it down?" #facebookdown
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Bob Mueller isn't going to speak up because he was very badly threatened into scuttling the probe, that's why he was always so nervous and shaky in public. The entire Mueller probe was an exercise in futility meant to keep us pacified waiting for a savior. It worked.
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The Buffalo PD knocked an old man over, causing heavy bleeding. They lied and said he fell. New York City suspending habeas corpus, packing people in jail cells during pandemic. We are not far from cops just murdering protesters and opposition figures.
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Weird that trump supporters can tie Deutsche Bank to Epstein but can't tie Deutsche Bank to trump.
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the climate stuff is way worse and way more imminent than we were ever led to believe and i think the political crisis we've been living through is, in part, the emergency response to what is starting to happen now (accelerating extreme weather, crop problems, migration)
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people will turn into monsters rather than admit that the disney land version of reality they fell in love with was a lie in the face of new evidence, you're seeing a lot of that going around
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It’s not normal for a faction to stage a coup attempt then walk away free from it, sabotage any investigation into the coup, and advocate for another coup. This being allowed is a sign that something is deeply wrong and that the government is incredibly weak or compromised.
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The idea that antifa is this ISIS or Boko Haram level terrorist org is not supported by the data - where are the dead bodies from all their attacks? There aren't any - they try to pin one shooting incident on antifa based off who the shooter followed on social media #EXPOSEANTIFA
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@benFranklin2018
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@LillyPad "sorry you thought we would ever give away our life saving elixir for free as was originally intended by its inventor"
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In the wake of the Ghislaine Maxwell arrest, watch which publications refer to Jeffrey Epstein as a disgraced financier instead of serial pedophile connected to the most powerful people whose life is still shrouded in unanswered questions.
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@benFranklin2018
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the fact that the last few decades have been spent turning every police department into a heavily armed, heavily armored, heavily equipped garrison says a lot about where the rulers think the situation is going
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taking covid seriously requires making personal sacrifices even when no one is watching or giving you credit and too much of american leftism is about appearances vs living your values (not all of it just a lot). Also you have to seriously distrust authority to get it right
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Why aren't more lefties concerned about covid? More than 2000 dead per week this year in the US, the third leading killer. Millions maimed by it. Young people suddenly dropping dead. Yet they buy into the capitalist bs that it's over, it's mild, etc. Where's the outrage?
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We had an election in 2020. We “won.” What followed was four years of effective criminal impunity for trump and his inner circle, who have suffered no meaningful consequences that would restrict their ability to do harm. Someone dropped the ball here and it wasn’t the voters.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Alan Dershowitz were all spies running a massive blackmail operation.
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accelerating trend of “blue” states adopting authoritarian measures that would‘ve been widely and rightfully condemned under trump admin. Now you have troops searching you, then they’re going to be checking your papers, then they’re in your house looking for people with no papers
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Fetterman is not going to be the last democrat to pull a “why i left the left” routine, I think you’re going to see a lot of it
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George Conway has managed to con the majority of the opposition to Trump that he’s on their side. Turns out the “enemy” of your enemy is not in fact your friend.
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Elections are meaningless when attempts to overthrow elections have been decriminalized.
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Someone has done something very brave at great personal risk and we owe them thanks for trying no matter what happens. #Whistleblower
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If someone tells you that the 2020 elections will solve this, ask them why Russians haven’t voted Putin out? Then, while they’re stunned, take their wallet.
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The fact that the FBI is doing nothing about the increasingly open calls for political violence by the GOP (Charlie Kirk event not an isolated incident), the fact that the FBI knew about capitol attack and let it move forward, the absent DOJ - clear that something is very wrong
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the reason I wail on the media is because there's no major media outlet saying that we're in the middle of global fascist takeover that has already incapacitated our country at its highest levels and that this is a deadly crisis. everything is business as normal in a dead reality
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Trump is holding mass rallies to mobilize his supporters against the election results. This is unprecedented. The media must not air this campaign or they are complicit in helping him cause chaos and sabotaging the peaceful transition of power. #TrumpConcede
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Oceangate got half a million dollars in PPP loans and you’re being told to start making usury payments again on your student loans - when you see that the point of our economic system is not to make a few people rich but keep the great many poor, you can’t unsee it
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Remember the entire Epstein incident where the guards fell asleep and the cameras broke and he transferred his assets to his brother days before he died and we were told he killed himself then it all went away and anyone who said "wait a second this isn't right" was called crazy?
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this whole sudden death narrative thing is one of those times when it would be great to have like, an agency, maybe some sort of center for public health, that would look at the data and tell us what's going on and what we should do to die less. maybe tell us what is true or not.
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So far it seems like Michael Flynn is one of those people who is allowed to do anything he wants with no repercussions.
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First in Germany and now Brazil we see bold, decisive action taken against coup plotters. Immediate arrests, and above the mere foot soldier level too. Is there something seriously wrong with the US justice system and security apparatus that stops it from happening here? (Yes)
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Jeffrey Epstein was not just a rich pervert. He was a national security threat, systematically collecting child rape videos on powerful people which were used to blackmail them. This compromised the neutrality of huge swathes of our ruling class. You see this tactic over and over
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Maybe letting the husband of Kelly Ann Conway and ex GOP operative Rick Wilson take a leading role in the opposition to Trump will be viewed in hindsight as a mistake.
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PPS:
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Elizabeth moved to Chicago
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@benFranklin2018 And if you can, your local homeless & domestic violence shelters. Donations drop dramatically in a crisis but we still house and help no matter what.
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1) People were losing their jobs, having their reputations slandered by attack groups and doxxing ops, in some cases getting physically attacked just because they said Israel was out of control and doing a genocide BEFORE it was ok to question it. And now here we are
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Breaking: 40 Democratic Representatives, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have called on President Biden to halt offensive arms transfers to Israel.
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Questions people have: -why won’t anyone criminally charge the people doing sedition? -why is the government letting us starve? -why is the government letting the coronavirus spread? -why won’t the media hold anyone accountable? All these questions have the same answer.
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Here’s a picture from the meeting when Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn introduced Rupert Murdoch to Ronald Reagan, a harbinger of the political crisis to come.
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Pence is not an improvement. He’s a rapture junkie who is much more stable and smooth than trump. And he’s still attached to the same power structure. #PresidentPence
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