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Why Won’t Republicans Say Melissa Hortman’s Name?

Political violence is never acceptable. Mike Nellis Sep 11, 2025 https://endlessurgency.com/p/why-wont-republicans-say-melissa   The conservative propaganda machine is in overdrive right now, blaming the left for Charlie Kirk’s murder yesterday in Utah despite knowing very little about the shooter. Let me be clear: what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrible. However you or I may feel about the man, political violence is unacceptable—full stop. He didn’t deserve that. His kids didn’t deserve to lose their father. No one should have to suffer that kind of loss. But there’s a name Republicans are terrified to say right now:  Melissa Hortman . Melissa Hortman was a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, brutally murdered—alongside her husband and her dog—by a conservative activist just 12 weeks ago. Her name deserves to be said in this moment. Charlie Kirk’s murder is an attack on all Americans. So was Melissa Hortman’s. Every time this kind of political violence su...

It is past time

It is far past time to begin the practice of shunning the orange idiot, everyone in his administration, every one of their family members, and everyone of their sympathizers, and every republican in Congress. We can no longer afford to allow these people to run around enjoying the fruits of OUR labor, without paying the same costs they are imposing on the American people, and the people of the world. Protests, marches, placards, and banners are no longer working. These people have no shame, and they don't give a flying fuck about you or the United States. The only thing that they care about is their own comfort, and their own power. They are laughing at our feeble attempts to force them to abide by the laws, the traditions, the social norms, or even the tenets of their religion. They really don’t care that they are taking food, and health care, and proper education and housing from children and their families just to have more money and power. And damn, many of them have more m...
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July1, 2025 a rant Now. This make this may piss some people off. As the politicians themselves are open to humiliation, so are their wives are. When they go to church they should be humiliated. People should move off the pew that they sit in. Don't shake their hands. If your church service has hugs, refuse. Turn your back. Leave their bridge clubs. Don't go to their little cocktail parties. Put them into social exile. They wish to be cruel. Then they're going to have to expect cruelty in return. If they're not going to show respect, Then they're not gonna be able to expect respect in return. We cannot continue to treat these people as good people, but misguided. We can't continue to treat these people as emotionally stunted. These people are Nazis. There is no other way to put it. If you take the period from 1933 to 1939, in Germany. You can bring those six years right on over here to the United States and just change the names and the dates and that's what ...

2025.07.01 Alligator Alcatraz

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Nothing more really needs to be said
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what's really fascinating is this shithead dumbfuck says the people can handle the truth or whatever. Well.... President Joe Biden has been saying that he's keeping his hand off the DOJ, and Merrick Garland is keeping his hand off the Special Counsel Jack Smith. So, I ask him, what the hell different does he think he's gonna learn. Fucking republicans need to start thinking about governing, and fixing the problems this country has, instead of looking foe revenge because their false idol is crashing down on them.
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it does seem as if too many people have a problem with reading comprehension. So as a public service... A reading comprehension test.    SANIBEL, Fla.— People are taking full advantage of visiting Sanibel with no causeway tolls, and business owners said they are loving this idea. Clare Harris at Billy’s Rentals said, “We’ve definitely seen an uptake in customers today; it’s wonderful.” Harris said the toll fee being waived has helped her get more customers on bikes. “It’s just great to see the families come out,” Harris smiled. The Brandl family being one of them. Liz Brandl is visiting Sanibel with her family. She said, “We’re going to go on a bike ride and go see the lighthouse with the kids and then we wanted to go out and explore some beaches today.” Liz said not having to pay the toll fee made her visit to Sanibel even better. “It was wonderful! It was really easy to enter; we appreciate saving the money coming over here,” smiled Liz. Plus, the rest of the Brandl family w...

The child

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On this Electoral College day...I like to reflect on 'the serious answer'... 12-14-2020 https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214709776 'An anguished question from a Trump supporter: "Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?"   The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't...   That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine." That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem." That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an iss...
How VP Harris Can Sideline Moscow Mitch  NOV 14, 2020 https://newsflector.com/how-vp-harris-can-sideline-moscow-mitch/ Even if the Democrats don’t win control of the Senate, there is a way to strip Mitch McConnell of his power for good: priority recognition. According to Article I, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Constitution, the Vice President is also the President of the Senate. The Majority Leader is not a position that exists anywhere in the Constitution. The reason that the Majority Leader has near-dictatorial powers to control floor votes  is because of a tradition that dates back to 1937.  The tradition is that the Vice President gives the floor leaders priority recognition. Most notably,  this is not a rule in the Senate. As President of the Senate, Vice President Harris could give any senator priority recognition. That senator could then decide on all legislation that is brought before the entire Senate. Even with a minority in the Senate, Vice Preside...
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The case against war. Support and defend. I have always insisted that my employers observed this with regard to employee rights. The armed services ask, at the outset, that the employee relinquish those rights. This seems contradictory to me. That’s not a citizen’s army. It’s a hit squad. In any fight you need a defense as well. Agility, training and strength may also be a factor. The best a soldier can do is take no action that violates that contract. Such are truly patriots. A modest draft, with an exemption for other projects in the national interest, seems like a reasonable option. To be clear, the armed forces are for the national defense in the world that is or will be in a short time. Moving on, what size military do we require? The question is best answered by an accurate assessment of our enemies. I would submit that they are fewer than we would expect, given the devastation we have caused. In any rational assessment, it is time to stand down from our current posture a...

get outa jail

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.                                 Change of Circumstance Some union huh? The United States was born out of revolution. The crazy king was treating his own people as second-class citizens. The French and Spanish kings were not doing this. Where is the justice in that? This ill treatment came about in the lifetime of most of the original patriots. The king and many of his island subjects were paying a dear price for the Seven Years War with France. The declaration of independence is replete with examples of the injustices. At this very time in history a revolution of ideas was occurring, the enlightenment. Mix the two and you have something that even the authors of the constitution could not fully grasp, nor did they pretend to. They simply tried their best. The preamble to the constitution, which legal scholars agree, has no force in law, States: ”We the people (herein after known as property holders)...

your and you're. knowing the difference

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The White House

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regime change

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Collusion

COLLUSION. Is an agreement between two or more persons to defraud a person of his rights by the forms of law, or to obtain an object forbidden by law. It implies the existence of fraud of some kind, the employment of fraudulent means, or of lawful means for the accomplishment of an unlawful purpose. May Hosiery Mills v. United States District Court in and for Dist. of Montana, C.C.A. Mont., 64 F.2d 450, 454. A secret combination, conspiracy, or concert of action between two or more persons for fraudulent or deceitful purpose. W. E. Bowen Improvement Co. v. Van Half ten, 209 Mo.App. 629, 238 S.W. 147, 149; Daly v. Haight, 156 N.Y.S. 538, 541, 170 App.Div. 469. BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY REVISED FOURTH EDITION

This one’s for Florida residents.

The Supreme Court ruled in U.S. TERM LIMITS, INC. v. THORNTON, (1995), that neither Congress, nor the States have the power to impose term limits, or any other requirement beyond that which is enumerated in Article One of the U.S. constitution. To assist dick scott, the skeletor of Florida, here is how to amend the constitution. Please read it carefully, and stop embarrassing us and yourself with your lead off ad to replace Bill Nelson in the Senate. Article V The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed...
Tough Guys in the Senate So, they voted to continue funding the abomination in Yemen. Each party struggles to take the strongest stance in the fight with our many enemies. *The neo-liberals and most of the Republicans think it is a good idea to contribute to the continued destruction of one of the poorest countries on earth. The Saudis’ want it to be their breadbasket when they make the move to desalinate with nuclear power--very forward thinking of them. We want to keep Arabia as a partner in order to keep the price of energy low, thereby harming the emerging oil rich countries of Venezuela, Brazil, Iran and, of course Russia. I suppose the politicians feel that the voters are to ignorant to understand the geo-political maze of the modern global economy; that the economic benefits of slaughtering a million starving people has to be understood in all of its rich complexities; that those who oppose the atrocity are weak, stupid, do-gooders with a kind heart but no sense. Well to them...
The State of the Union We are now in the process of taxing the persons of the United States to develop a Military and security system that is beyond belief. At he same time that we are gutting all regulatory agencies, diminishing social programs and down sizing the State Department. Democracy is dying or dead in most states and civil liberties are being eroded faster than ever before. The media holds on to the quaint notion that it is still possible to change our circumstance or, in the case of state controlled media, that this is normal. Some believe that a Democratic wave in this years elections could reverse the power grab. For the most part it will only change the name of the oppressors. Democrats have no intention, beyond lip service, of lessening the security state, of reestablishing the 4 th or 8 th amendments, restoring regular order, building up the State Department or increasing social programs. They can’t even agree on “Medicare for all”. Division is the word o...