• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Come on, man. Use the last of your life force to release Dark Brandon one more time. The shows over after this no matter what.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      ‘…preserve, protect and defend the Constitution…’

      duty-bound to take donvict and all his comrades out, or at least round 'em up and ship 'em off to gitmo for a little island vaca. cruz would love that, winter’s coming.

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        125 months ago

        …But he won’t do anything and we all know it. Their inaction is proof that all the cries of “democracy is in peril!” was a cynical tactic to drum up votes. If they were sincere about any of that, they would have had plans in place for these last couple months. Trump led an armed insurrection four years ago, but the democrats are more concerned with maintaining decorum and “reaching across the aisle” than they are with chasing even a vague semblance of justice.

        Hell, they’re not even interested in going after Gaetz with any real sense of urgency or vigor. Nixon was pardoned and this is the law of the land. Remember, Democrats and Republicans though they may be, they still all work for the same organization.

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    I heard the FBI has a file on Tulsi Gabbard and her activities with Russia et al. Biden could declassify that report to tank her becoming DNI. Mentioned on the “Hacks on Tap” podcast from yesterday, so this isn’t just some social media conspiracy theory, it comes from plugged in politicos. Biden won’t, but he could.

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        135 months ago

        That would be awesome. Publish what the FBI found about Trump taking 10 million in cash from Egypt, Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, and all the other bullshit we don’t even know about.

        I wish we lived in a timeline where he’d consider doing something so great.

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      I heard the FBI has a file on Tulsi Gabbard and her activities with Russia et al. Biden could declassify that report to tank her becoming DNI.

      What so far leads you to believe that a Republican-controlled senate is going to reject a Trump appointment no matter what is released? Sure, it would be great if Biden did this, but at this point I’m convinced this would be the effect:

      Anyone not a Trump supporter: Yeah! Score one for the good guys! She’ll never be confirmed now!

      Republican Senate: Appointment confirmed!

      Trump Supporters: Cool, now on to Dr. Oz!

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    405 months ago

    As an official act:

    Oops the records on student loans got misplaced, all paper backups are somehow gone too. Welp, I guess they don’t have loans anymore.

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      -25 months ago

      Do you not know how deeply entrenched Biden is in student loans? He is directly the reason they cannot be expunged in bankruptcy.

      One of the few things his administration did during his Presidency was to dig up old loans (like 20 YEARS old) that have already been written off by the schools as bad debt, and SENT THEM BACK TO COLLECTIONS, which are masquerading as the Dept of Education. He made a point to spend time finding vulnerable, overeducated, underpaid young people and threw them under the bus for debt that already went through 7 years of hitting credit reports. And, again, which the schools themselves have already written off.

      So yeah, he’s not that guy.

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          05 months ago

          The pandemic “HEROES” act (extreme fucking irony) in 2022 brought all defaulted student loans to “current.” And because they’re Federal loans, the government can still attempt to collect. And they tack on 20+ years’ interest. So for a 3k Perkins loan from 2001, they want an additional $2,750 in interest. And if you MADE PAYMENTS in the past, quelle surprise, they have no record of that.

          And instead of being able to talk to the actual Dept of Education, they’ve placed collection agencies like ECSI as their front of house. ECSI will say, only the school can dismiss these charges. So you contact your school, the school expresses incredulity, reaches out to ECSI and to tell them the debt has been written off, and then ECSI (aka DoEd) says, nuh-uh.

          It’s a system designed to resolve nothing while putting people over a cheese grater from loans they didn’t even need from 2 decades ago.

          • WrenM
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            25 months ago

            That’s not proof. That’s just further explaining what you said. I’d like to see actual evidence of what you’re suggesting.

            • Prehensile_cloaca
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              -15 months ago

              Well fucking look it up yourself. If you haven’t clued in, I’m describing my own experience. You think I’m posting the ECSI letter and correspondence from my undergrad in the early 2000s here for you?

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                15 months ago

                That wouldn’t be a particularly good proof even if you did. That would just demonstrate something happened once. A sample size of one is, in most cases, not really all that useful. I would say all, but I’m not completely sure there are no exceptions.

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    245 months ago

    I think…and I could be wrong… that the Supreme Court has to agree with said official act.

    When they’re all corrupt, they won’t agree unless you’re their sugar daddy.

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      125 months ago

      He should fire them as an official act, hire new supreme court justices who on his last day in office declare presidents can no longer do whatever the hell they want and kneecap Trump from undoing shit as soon as he gets into office.

      Would he do something so cool? Of course fucking not.

      • chingadera
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        15 months ago

        Honestly I’ll just take literally kneecapping Trump and call it a day, is that really a big ask?

    • @[email protected]
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      35 months ago

      I thought the same. It seems clear that the Supreme Court intended that ruling for use by their political side, if a Democrat tries to use it that’s the instant they’ll overturn it.

      Which would be one way to get rid of it i suppose

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        25 months ago

        They’ll just rule that it couldn’t be a valid presidential act because it’s not constitutional for some batshit crazy made up reason. Meanwhile armed insurrection against the US government is FINE because 'MURCA.

    • TunaCowboy
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      The judicial relies on the executive for enforcement. Dems don’t have the balls.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      This is correct. The ruling leaves it completely open to interpretation by the Supreme Court, regarding what constitutes an official act. The ruling was never a power gift to the presidency, it was a power grab by by the Supreme Court.

  • @[email protected]
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    He won’t do any of it… but,

    1. Order the immediate publication of all government climate research data
    2. Lease all climate monitoring satellites to the EU for 5 years.
    3. Order the complete destruction of all records of US secret agents, foreign assets, etc. operating outside the US.
    4. Pardon everyone convicted of federal drug crimes for possession of cannibis
    5. Order the complete destruction of all records of immigrants who entered the country under executive order but without any other legal protection
    6. Order the complete destruction of all heath records of government employees, especially those regarding gender affirming care and pregnancy.
    7. Share as much espionage data as possible on Russia, Saudia Arabia, etc. with trusted foreign nations.
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      Warning on 3 and 5. The UK destroyed records of immigrants who were invited over to help rebuild Britain postwar and their children. Then a racist Conservative government deported a bunch of them who were children in the 1940s and didn’t have proof of legal immigration status - the only legal documentation had been destroyed. These now old people were dumped back in the Caribbean having lived in the UK for almost their entire lives. It was brutal.

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        05 months ago

        I’d be worried about the ones charged with driving under the influence. It could easily be a way of profiling, given that there isn’t any objective way to prove someone’s high and not just having consumed within a couple days. The only current way that I know of is a field sobriety test, which can be a bit subjective.

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          given that there isn’t any objective way to prove someone’s high and not just having consumed within a couple days

          You can do blood tests for THC, which are a reliable measure.

          You are probably thinking of THC-COOH urine or saliva tests, which indeed will show positive for days or even weeks after you are already sober again, since THC-COOH is a metabolite of THC that takes very long to break down and does not have psychoactive properties

          Just do it how Canada does it, they have a very reasonable cut-off value for THC blood concentration that even regular consumers with a tolerance for THC won’t surpass while sober again

  • @[email protected]
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    65 months ago

    status quo joe is not going to do anything besides shore up the american empire’s designs as best he can against trump.

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    He may trip and fall, in which case they’ll have to squeegee him into a dustbin and pour him back into his clothes due to his complete lack of a spinal cord.

  • 2ugly2live
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    Pfft, I wish.

    Ask for a ceasefire, get rid of some loans, start filling empty judge positions, slap Trump in the face, something, anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    Kidnap trump as an official act.

    I’m not even really joking. This should’ve been announced and executed right after the Supreme Court decision on the immunity stuff.