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Six Republicans just created a fascist state where Trump, if elected, will be your first dictator.

The USA - controlled by six Republican judges . . . for the moment., as the dictator won't want them.

Be afraid - very afraid.

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We' have the capacity to overwhelm them at the ballot box. Millions of unregistered folk trend heavily Democratic. Register them to save democracy. Gen Z can outnumber them.

https://www.fieldteam6.org/

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If it's a close election, the SC will have the last say.

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First I'd like to know what "gratuities" the 6 criminals are expecting to receive for violating the Constitution. Secondly I would like the newly empowered President Biden to send the DOJ & FBI to arrest the 6 for violating their Oaths of Office to Defend the Constitution. This is clearly within the scope of his official duties now to defend the Constitution from compromised individuals.

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You got it moon cat, now if only the newly empowered Biden and his staff has the guts to act.

I hold no hope that Biden will use his new powers for the good of the nation, time and bipartisan as he is by nature.

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Re-electing Biden has never been more critical. Our democracy is on life support. Register Democrats and GOTV!!!

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This is the Supreme Courts gift to Project 2025.

They are part of the attempt to overturn Democracy in this Country.

There last several

Weeks of rulings have advertised this openly and loudly.

The NYTimes, calling for Biden to step down is carrying out their part of Project 2025.

As well the Democrats calling for Biden to step down I believe are furthering this fascist agenda.

The part of the Court that is reasonable Justices Kagan, Brown Jackson, Sotomayor have denounced the Majority’s ruling as a direct violation of the Constitution.

They’re correct.

This is Project 2025 as it unfolds in front of our eyes.

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Hillary Clinton was clued into this "vast right wing conspiracy" at least by 2015, nobody wanted to believe her, "wonder if they'll listen now?" Stare, Stare Decisis Night

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They ignored her and removed her from the stage.Like they re trying to remove Biden.

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I don't think the shit lords on the Supreme Court or their sugar daddy's understand just how desperate we desperate masses have become. Desperation is a dangerous situation, more so in a country where guns outnumber the population. These Trump activists in executioner's cloaks are pushing the majority into a corner from which the only escape is violence. Putin smiles..

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Absolutely . This is Project 2025 in action. Fascism enters the court.

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If Tr*mp is immune so is Biden. That is, Biden is licensed to do whatever he must to defend the nation and the Constitution. Tr*mp may want to leave the country ASAP.

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I’d like that to be true . But I think that ruined Supreme Mess wrote it so it couldn’t be used by Biden . I hope I’m wrong . If so Biden needs to get savvy and find a way to wreak havoc .

Altruism is perfect to a point. But when you’re facing the Devil ……

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I think the Court cleverly wrote their opinion so that they are always the final POTUS immunity arbiter. So they'll be able to select who receives immunity (and who doesn't) in their typically, partisan way of making decisions. This is going to come down to either voters provide Congress with the majority power to rein them in, or this radical Court will destroy the nation by imposing their fundamentalist religious and fascist business beliefs. The addictive nature of extreme fundamentalism and corporate avarice trumps good sense and intelligence, every time, even among top Ivy League law school graduates.

Democrats not only must win the coming election, we have to start developing strategies to deprogram all of the poor souls, that this movement has captured, before they get serious about hunting down the rest of us.

Billionaire oligarchs and Vlad-the-terrorist couldn't be more pleased with their own subversive handiwork.

Following Britain's lead, who has a similar oligarch/commoner power struggle problem, we have to neuter the conservative fascist movement, by voting only for Democrats, for a long time to come.

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While two old men argued over their golf handicaps wolves surrounded the campfire, and laughed.

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They laughed because there is no

countervailing power to stop them from devouring us .

These wolves have apparently

surrounded camps in France &

the EU and the Washington Post

as well . Hope they get indigestion when they get to me .

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This right wing fascist movement is a worldwide phenomenon. The collective memory of what fascism is about, sadly, has left our nation and many other places. Ukraine understands.

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The Law in the Homeland was like a tree branch that was cracked on Jan 6th by a vile monster and his army of Igors.

Now, by letting 6 be-robed buffoons jump up and down on one side of said branch, said buffoons have actually "broken" said branch.

3 out of 5 White voters have twice craved a deeply disturbed clown who narcissistically enabled COVID to kill 850,000 White people. WTF ?!!

THINK

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Sir Okie, I don't understand your reference to Igor and his army of buffoons.

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I think he tries to paint a picture -- U.S. Federal Law (ie. Constitution) was a strong, sturdy branch in our "Constitutional Republic tree" of Laws that are the backbone, the heart & soul of our nation.

On Jan 6th, Trump & his goon squad (Igors) cracked that strong, thick branch -- a very loud crack was heard, but the branch held, did not break. It was hoped that in time the branch would heal over the crack & remain strong..if nothing else injured it, it would recover. But majority of SCOTUS -- the predictable bunch of ugly buffoons ((baboons?) got together & jumped hard on that injured branch, still strong, but cracked... until they broke it off & with a deafening noise, it fell to the ground below!

That All-American tree, standing so big & strong for well over a century, withstanding every storm that tried to topple it, has taken a major blow! The buffoons broke a strong & vital branch of of our tree -- no more can we climb it, nor sit on it, finding safety & security in the branches of our beloved tree! Those big, ugly buffoons in black robes chose to break that branch/tree ~ it cannot be fixed as before. The damage is done! We can only hope that it heals over that gaping wound - the branch they broke off - without infection or parasites getting in the tree limb. We must keep a close eye on it, protect it from rot & support it to create fresh growth below the break. It won't recover quickly. But if we want it to ever be the strong All-American tree we enjoyed, we must keep those nasty buffoons from getting near, or in it, ever again! For they will most assuredly do the same again, until they kill the tree & bring that whole tree down, in broken pieces on the ground!!

(Ok, maybe that's just my own

interpretation of what Okie was saying.)

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I like your interpolation Sunny.

Actually it would make a great children's book, just what the limited intellect of MAGAts need.

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Sunny , it’s a perfect story .

It’s honest and real . It has a moral and ethical message .

The only thing not included is the ending .

That , we’ll have to make up as we go along .

The only good ending is that which real Americans and the Wisdom of the Universe pray for .

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Easy:

The vile monster is DJT.

His army of Igors (that's IgorS - plural) are his treasonous, evil doers who couped on Jan 6th, maimed cops, and shat in the Capitol bldg.

Scum, the lot of them.

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Igor as in Frankstein's assistant?

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Yes, sir.

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It's time to stop writing books and making movies that only describe the water democracy is drowning in. Time to admit that the DARK MONEY BILLIONAIRES are funding the modern CONFEDERACY with SCOTUS judges firing legal shots at Fort Sumter declaring their war against our democracy.

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Exactly, Mr. Copeland! JESUS F**KING CHRIST!! When the last vestige of protection from out of control elements operating within the two opposing branches disappears into a haze of "defining what 'is' is", things have gone too far. We need to collectively act. And, in my opinion, this goes well beyond "voting", a necessary but not necessarily final step. Screw these assholes. It's time to start playing hardball!

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Agreed! And they have a helluva head start ~ no time to waste in removing the dark $$$$ & rewards! They will not easily give up what they now feel entitled to. Strip them of their extra billions & remove those who take the bribes & work to destroy us!

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Many of those right wing lawyers and judges were trained up (and indoctrinated) courtesy of the coercive, Koch industries funded foundations and endowments. This Koch/GOP contrived conspiracy to overthrow the US government is decades in the making. (Give a pig enough slop and he'll spread it all over the place.)

When the pitchforks finally do come out, train your attention on the GOP donor billionaires and millionaires, that made our fascist GOP descendsy all possible. All these MAGA Christofascists have one thing in common, none of them pay any deference to the Beatitudes in the Bible, or to the scripture that they CLAIM to hold so dear. In reality money is their God, and they have no claim to superiority over any other group of religious zealots and extremists, of any other ethnicity or persuasion. They are just as bad, and just as arrogant as their counterparts in Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon. They are so far down their delusional, respective rabbit holes that they have become incapable of thoughtful introspective.

Chief Justice Roberts, with help from Moscow Mitch, got on the ground floor of the GOP's fascist enterprise, by shepherding before the Court, the Citizens United 'unlimited bribery' decision. When the pitchforks finally do come out, among the formerly law abiding citizenry, indelibly remember who these architects of US fascism were, take a lesson from Holocaust survivors, never, ever, forget.

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Well, now Joe Biden is authorized to assassinate Donald Trump with impunity. Or safer yet, order the attorney general to do the job.

Problem solved.

What's wrong with that?

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Just in time for July Fourth the SCourt puts forward their plan for fascism.

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They are not subtle!

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I understand Democrats play nice and always respect tradition…but when does it become time to put down the pen and put on the gloves? Having now been anointed King, can’t King Biden order all of his political rivals, those who purpose to destroy our democracy, including all six Supreme Court Justices, to be arrested and shot on sight? Sounds very official to me? Or is this immunity only apply to Republican Presidents? “Long live King Biden!”

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Time for the DOJ to get creative. Except that if President Biden does anything much, watch how fast that SCOTUS “presumption” will magically disappear. Because, in fact, it does only apply to tfg and right-wing Presidents, so long as this SCOTUS is in place. Which means, of course, that President Biden should simply remove various SCOTUS “justices” on whatever pretexts he chooses to manufacture, creating, say, a five person court with a 3-2 liberal majority that won’t challenge his actions, because today’s decision says they shouldn’t. No more bizarre or dangerous a notion than the violence I see ahead for us as we, the majority, are put down again and again by the neo-Confederates. It has to stop, or this country isn’t worth having.

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Biden has a perfectly capable VP that has been under-utilized & I don't know why!? But she xan handle so much more than he's given her to do! President of USA is a big job, even on a good day. Part of leadership is knowing when & to whom, to delegate duties! You cannot do it all - no 1 person can, unless are merely a puppet. C'mon Biden! Take the really good help your VP can provide... & Please listen to her! We need you to put great people to work -- delegate -- so you can focus your energy on leading us out of this mess!!

((I'm still mad at you for covering Trump's butt when you got to WH --- after NO proper transition from old admin to your new admin --- & found all those documents GONE, things you needed to know to pick up where he left off. All those boxes he took with him, illegally -- he had you starting blind, deaf & mute!! Presidential transitions don't work that way! Big disaster mess! You had no right to keep it secret from us... What he did affected everyone, not just you. It was a crime against our nation & our people. He STILL has some, selling them, no doubt... & This could've been nipped in the bud, lives saved even. He did VERY bad things & you covered his butt...you are both wrong, but he's criminally wrong (we've executed people for less!) ..& you just used bad judgement covering up for him. A risk to all of us & now we will never know what docs he sold to whom? It didn't make him any nicer, did it?!! He will still lie about you -- count on that!))

Still, you have my vote. But I'm upset with you Mr. President. And we need you to carefully delegate work to VP & any other good hard workers -- you can't do it all yourself!! That's crazy! Listen to your wife ~ a very smart lady who Loves you so much! Perfect combo, so listen to what she tells you! Please! Got to be on your toes with that sleezy predecessor & his gang of goons! Strip billionaires of ability yo keep buying everyone! Please?!))

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Who is in a position to influence Sen. Durbin and persuade him that he has a duty to aggressively go on the offense against this profoundly corrupted Supreme Court? There has to be someone who can get him moving, at long last. Would he talk to Thom Hartmann if he showed up at his office in Washington or in IL? This is the real DEFCON moment that we've worried about.

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Durbin is likely hiding under a rock somewhere. He has a habit of hiding under rocks when eyes turn to him to for meaningful response. Or he may be found at the Dems With Two Faces Country Club. Many of old guard Dems belong. Membership is highly confidential.

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Dems With Two Faces, country club, I like that, and so, so true.

I last voted in 1964, because I saw, at age 25, that the two parties were two sides of the same coin, but when Trump came down the escalator and opened that mouth, I could not register fast enough, I saw at the moment that finally there was indeed a difference.

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Unless Durbin fractured his hip, he chose a bad time to have surgery. Or maybe it was just a good time for him to be out of commission.

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Absolutely. The Democratic Old Guard is just as culpable for this mess as are the Republicans, and have been for quite some time.

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Like Nancy Pelosi, I pray for T-Rump every day. Lord, take him now.

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And 6 justices while he's at it.

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I'm 82 and getting more radical every day. If T-Rump wins, people like us will be "re-educated." Vote as though your freedom depends on it.

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Amen!

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I think u have made it clear. We're fucked!

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There is a window of a couple of issues that may remain in the DC case. Chukan has to hold suppression hearings, but it is possible that the interference with the electoral college counts may remain.

IMHO Garland has made seral tactical miscalculations. IMHO charged Trump with the wrong statutes. I would have prosecuted the henchmen first and brought cases against Citizen Trump -- when immunity does not apply. He left the presidency Jan 21, 2021.

The statute of limitations has not run on insurrection. 18 USC §2383. Rebellion or insurrection. Probably 5 years.

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

To this day, Citizen Trump is giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists who have been convicted.

I don't know about anyone else, but this motivates me to do MORE, donate more of my time and money.

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Under this opinion, Biden should order Garland to immediately charge Trump under 18 USC section 2383 for "Rebellion or Insurrection". Biden has immunity!

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Garland didn't miscalculate anything. What he has done, and more importantly not done, has been on purpose.

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Yeah, I wonder too. But, he is awfully meek, like Biden, exprcts the best from people & gives benefit of the doubt to some that shouldn't get it! (I have been known to do that too! Finally learned the hard way ~ sucky lessons, but gotta' learn it!

Some people confuse kindness with weakness & ruin it all for everyone else too!!

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Worse than that Sunny.

Obama, wanted a win so badly, that he reached out to Orrin Hatch R UT and asked who he thought could pass muster with the right wingers in the Senate, and Hatch gave him Garlands name, that should set off the alarm bells,

Garland had worked for the Federalist Society as a moderator, That sets off alarm bells.

He did not even appoint a special counsel into shamed into it by his peers and the public. He drug his heels on that for almost two years, letting the statute of lmitations slip past.

Liz Cheney who is lionzed by the likes of Rachel Maddow, ran interference for the traitors in Congress by keeping the focus on Trump, Meanwhile Garland has done nothing about the traitors in congress be they Hawley, Jordan, Boebert, Biggs, and with the exception of the most obvious and egregious offenders the rest of the traitors got off with a slap on the wrist.

Then he couldn't wait to appoint a Trump appointee (recofirmed by Biden) , who jumped up and shouted "send me in coach" to prosecute Hunter Biden and change the bright shiny object from Trump and his crime family, to Joe and his family.

But I bleme Biden for his troubles (and ours) by bringing the Fox into the Hen house , he and his naive bipartisanship nonsense. That is the problem with the beltway, they are all out of touch with reailty.

Now we have a camera hog, Raskin, who has his own designs, there is no end to the ego of these clowns. Raskin wants Biden to step down, because the fool thinks that it will give him a chance to step up.

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I like it...!

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Cannot give up tho!

It's the good fight ~ don't let 'em take anymore from us! Boot their butts out while Biden still in Office! Don't give up! Punishment must be swift & sure... & We HAVE TO learn much from this!! Meantime throw the bad ones out... &/or lock 'em up. The billionaires need their billions used against us, this Country of ours, taken away & put to better use! Tax them to death! Don't let them hoard such vast amounts of money. Take it from them. (It's called "TAXES!") No one needs that much -- especially in a nation where so many are hungry... Homeless... & paid so little they can't survive on it! Having obscene amounts of extra money will always get greedy people into trouble! Take it & fund the needs of our nation --- its working & poor people, long gone without! (Charity is good for the heart & soul.) 🫂&♥️

💞 🪻💞🌹 💞 🫂❣️ 🇺🇲❣️

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