End of the American Republic?

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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,716
    battle1 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Bah, bah, bah Hillary’s emails! Yip, everything is completely normal. Happy days are here again with extra brilliance of brilliant brilliancy. From Letter From An American:

    In a shocking attack on the intelligence personnel who collect information around the world to keep Americans safe, today the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent a list of all employees the agency hired in the past two years to the White House, sending the list by unclassified email. Hugo Lowell of The Guardian reported that a former CIA agent called the reporting of the names “a counterintelligence disaster.” Lowell also reported that Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the list coming through unclassified email. 

    Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, posted: “Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China. A disastrous national security development.”
    Heather Richardson Cox ‘28
    LOL. I trust you'll be here to dunk on everyone when Donald Trump Jr wins.
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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    OnWis97 said:
    battle1 said:
    Halifax2TheMax said:
    Bah, bah, bah Hillary’s emails! Yip, everything is completely normal. Happy days are here again with extra brilliance of brilliant brilliancy. From Letter From An American:

    In a shocking attack on the intelligence personnel who collect information around the world to keep Americans safe, today the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sent a list of all employees the agency hired in the past two years to the White House, sending the list by unclassified email. Hugo Lowell of The Guardian reported that a former CIA agent called the reporting of the names “a counterintelligence disaster.” Lowell also reported that Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the list coming through unclassified email. 

    Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, posted: “Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China. A disastrous national security development.”
    Heather Richardson Cox ‘28
    LOL. I trust you'll be here to dunk on everyone when Donald Trump Jr wins.
    If/when that happens, I may just become radicalized with the rest of AMT. For now, I’ll live. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,813
    Great interview here with Chris Hedges.  Highly recommended!

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  • gotthebottle
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  • DE4173
    DE4173 Posts: 3,341
    Hope our leaders have a plan:

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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    Good morning, America. 🇺🇸 Still standing at the top as always. 
  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    DE4173 said:
    Hope our leaders have a plan:

    https://x.com/RepMeijer/status/1887509481673650383?t=4D8R5zxEIvJIsmZBzmvgcQ&s=19
    Good grief, right? How pathetic can one party become? I’m embarrassed to say I vote with those people in your link. Sad and embarrassing. Democrats need to stop worrying about mean orange guy bad, and look in the mirror or they may never win another election. 
  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    edited February 7
    gotthebottle said:

    Out of respect for our great Nation, can we keep the fake news propaganda in the many other unnecessary threads and out of The Great American Republic thread? Conspiracy theory thread, I suppose? Just a polite suggestion. Be well, my fellow Americans. 
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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,716
    Fake news got us here.

    And yeah, it's a coup attempt. Elon's doing it in plain sight. Why you (or anyone) would believe he has the nation's interest in mind is beyond me.
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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    OnWis97 said:
    Fake news got us here.

    And yeah, it's a coup attempt. Elon's doing it in plain sight. Why you (or anyone) would believe he has the nation's interest in mind is beyond me.
    Exactly. So lets be better than that and not spread false information ourselves. 

    I don’t think elon musk has the nations best interest in mind, I don’t think anything about him honestly. Hes always been a total piece of shit in my eyes. Having said that,  Im not afraid of him taking over our government because some radicals say he is. Thats the nonsense I can’t subscribe to. And the nonsense fearmongering needs to stop. 
  • Halifax2TheMax
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    Normalization has occurred.
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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    OnWis97 said:
    Fake news got us here.

    And yeah, it's a coup attempt. Elon's doing it in plain sight. Why you (or anyone) would believe he has the nation's interest in mind is beyond me.
    Judge Paul Engelmayer has the nations best interest in mind though. All the rage for nothing. 

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  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,716
    You really think that ended the coup?  That’s kind adorable.
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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    OnWis97 said:
    You really think that ended the coup?  That’s kind adorable.
    The coup… hahahahah
  • battle1
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,355
    battle1 said:
    OnWis97 said:
    Fake news got us here.

    And yeah, it's a coup attempt. Elon's doing it in plain sight. Why you (or anyone) would believe he has the nation's interest in mind is beyond me.
     Im not afraid of him taking over our government because some radicals say he is. Thats the nonsense I can’t subscribe to. And the nonsense fearmongering needs to stop. 
    So to be clear, you think what he is doing is normal and fine?
  • battle1
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    Tim Simmons said:
    battle1 said:
    OnWis97 said:
    Fake news got us here.

    And yeah, it's a coup attempt. Elon's doing it in plain sight. Why you (or anyone) would believe he has the nation's interest in mind is beyond me.
     Im not afraid of him taking over our government because some radicals say he is. Thats the nonsense I can’t subscribe to. And the nonsense fearmongering needs to stop. 
    So to be clear, you think what he is doing is normal and fine?
    Is that what you clearly gather from my stance? Give me a break Tim Simmons. I dont care what hes doing because its all a bunch of bullshit. As stated in the post you quoted, all you radicals cried about something that is nonsense and I don’t subscribe to. You drank the Liberal Kool Aid. Again. Hail Judge Paul Engelmayer. 

    Checks and balances folks. Put down the Kool Aid and figure it out. 

  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 10,355
    I guess you have a lot more faith in the system. And hopefully everything he is doing is bullshit and it doesn't affect the country in any meaningful way. 

    I hope you are right. I am just more pessimistic about this.


    But yes, thats what I gather from your stance. You believe people here are handwringing (and you would be right) and you think there is nothing to handwring about. 
     

  • battle1
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    Tim Simmons said:
    I guess you have a lot more faith in the system. And hopefully everything he is doing is bullshit and it doesn't affect the country in any meaningful way. 

    I hope you are right. I am just more pessimistic about this.


    But yes, thats what I gather from your stance. You believe people here are handwringing (and you would be right) and you think there is nothing to handwring about. 
     

    I believe our system will prevail as always. Is that so hard to understand. By all means be pessimistic, thats your choice, along with the rest of the A Moving Trainwreck posse. Fear yourselves to death for all I care. And I will continue try to remind you all that America will always prevail through checks and balances. Now go back to the regularly scheduled mean orange bad guy coup rhetoric. 
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,448
    Tim Simmons said:
    I guess you have a lot more faith in the system. And hopefully everything he is doing is bullshit and it doesn't affect the country in any meaningful way. 

    I hope you are right. I am just more pessimistic about this.


    But yes, thats what I gather from your stance. You believe people here are handwringing (and you would be right) and you think there is nothing to handwring about. 
     

    There's an astonishing amount of smoke around for some people to declare that there's no fire. There's been an astonishing amount of devaluing or ignoring norms. Also an astonishing amount of devaluing or ignoring the law. 

    Even if one doesn't believe the above, a functional democracy must have an informed (and educated) population to make it better (or at least survive). Anyone who criticizes speaking up, should shove it and remind themselves what democracy actually means. 
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