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"'Will you walk into my parlour?' said the Spider to the Fly."

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Yes. And the fly is none other than Donald Trump. See my comment in the main thread.

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Had a talk with a neighbor who said that the insurrection of Jan 6 was worse than Vietnam. And said that five capitol police were killed in that insurrection.

I said what about Ashley Babbitt. My neighbor did not know that name. Said I watch that lying Fox News.

Why are so many feminists so frigging dumb. This one has an MBA.

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MBA? Mindless and Braindumb Association?

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I am constantly astounded by the number of college educated associates of mine who keep their TVs tuned to the mainstream media and seem to believe that whatever is said there is truth. They also believe that any other source providing contradicting info must be unreliable. They are naive beyond my comprehension - dumb as rocks. My whole concept of the college-educated class has changed radically. I see that they are, at best, no smarter than anyone else, but they possess this infuriating idea that they are superior, simply because they were able to complete a college degree.

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Yes, I began to notice that over a decade ago: brainwashed by Big Media and a strong sense of superiority. AND, many of them are so self-centered as to be almost sociopaths.

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Trump has a bachelor's in something at Penn. No MBA.

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What feminist would waste time talking to you?

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Diane showcases just how low humanity can go. Meritocracy, common sense, integrity, and just plain class is a thing of the past. Work ethic and the traditional quest for education has been traded for dishonesty and laziness. Buying votes by bankrupting America has become common place. The real shame is just how easy it is to be bought. It’s political and unionized prostitution.

What’s the fix for this? It will be painful. Four more years of Biden and Chuck Schumer will be the death of America.

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So glad I am old and may be gone before America collapses into tyranny.

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Tyranny? How? Where?

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My problem with Donald Trump is that he is an idiot. He handed "January 6" to the Democrats on a platter. He couldn't have made a bigger mess of things for his supporters or for himself if he'd been in with Pelosi on planning this whole thing. If Trump had any brains at all, he'd realize that he cannot reform anything by being president again. Trump could have been the “Soros of the Right”, but he isn’t: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/trump-could-have-been-the-soros-of

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He also could have pardoned every participant, known or unknown at the time. And he didn’t.

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How he could he have provided a blanket pardon to people whose identities were unknown at the time?

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I don’t know the legalities. I assume - but could be wrong - that he could issue a pardon for any crimes that were or may have been committed by anyone within some radius of the Capitol on 6 Jan.

Right now we’ve got air marshals running around tracking every person who flew in to the District of Corruption that weekend, even if for a job interview, to visit family, a business trip. We’ve got a kid - who was an infant on 6 Jan - on no-fly lists. True insanity and an out of control authoritarian illegitimate government unbounded by the Constitution that created it. But I don’t know if a blanket pardon for undefined and uncharged crimes can be issued...

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I don't know about blankets pardons, either. But, Trump's AG could certainly shut down the witch hunt for J6ers.

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Why Republicans and conservatives should avoid staging protests: All the cards are stacked against you: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/why-republicans-and-conservatives

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Trump wouldn't be spending his own money, for sure. Trump is both stupid and uneducated. Dad bought his way into good schools, but Trump seldom showed up.

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We keep hearing from various congressdopes & other sources, that “evidence will be released...” but nothing ever is. Seems to be becoming our side’s version of “the walls are closing in...”

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Yes, Republicans have let me down FOR DECADES.

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We don’t need a third party; we need a second.

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It’s a party of quislings badly in need of being replaced.

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Two sides. Same coin

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I view the Republicans in the same way as so many others: I scratch my head and conclude that they must be either unfathomably stupid or unfathomably corrupt. In the former case: Republicans don't seem to realize that we're already in a civil war against a lawless enemy, and that they cannot just go on managing their little states independently; Republicans must form a CONGRESS OF REPUBLICAN STATES. If we don’t start using our dwindling power soon, it will all be gone: https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/republicans-must-form-a-congress

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That would violate the Compact Clause …. I’d just like to return to constitutional limits on the Feds, something the GOP actually could accomplish if they weren’t quislings ..

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The Democrats are already relentlessly violating the Compact Clause. Example: https://ballotpedia.org/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

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Yeah, I’ve read that; the problem with applying the compact clause to NPV is that it’s not a written compact, just a verbal understanding each participating state passes on its own. IMO you’re absolutely correct. But I doubt SCOTUS would agree. I also don’t want to find out.

OTOH, if enough states pass it for it to go into effect, it certainly could result in secession, so there’s an upside...

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Agreed. There's nothing in my proposal that says that Republican states should create a written "compact" or even formally declare themselves to be an organization. All they need do is verbally and regularly agree on policy, go back to their states, and separately implement that unified policy. Republicans just cannot seem to figure out that the Democrats' subversion of our republic is working, and that the only practical response is to emulate them.

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I have come to accept that most Republican politicians are really Democrats Lite. I truly believe America is in its dying days. If Trump wins, he will only slow down the Marxist takeover.

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Which Constitutional limits are missing?

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