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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
That we'll survive is likely, who has the keys to the nukes notwithstanding. The Sun will still rise and the Earth will continue to rotate. Stars will shine on barren rocks all over space.
It's how we'll live that's at issue. 2130 years separate the fall of Athenian Democracy from the establishment of the French First Republic and that particular king didn't have students of history on staff advising him exactly on how to prevent revolution or automated factories that made the peasants increasingly obsolete. The classic weakness of past oligarchies was their dependence upon the labor of the peasantry for work and war. That was the past.
In the news:
- A bit of irony: Pence at March for Life: Society Judged ‘By How We Care for Our Most Vulnerable
(For a context clue he's at a "March for Life")
edited 27th Jan '17 12:49:48 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesHey, I just realized that I've yet to hear anything about Kissinger. Didn't he get hired as an adviser for Trump?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.edited 27th Jan '17 12:07:59 PM by sgamer82
About the hands story...Melania Trump Defamation Suit Against Political Blogger Can Move Forward
I think the libel laws are opening up...
(Slightly related) Did anyone ever sue over "pizzagate?"
The latest on Texan and National voter suppression laws: (Unjumbled this from earlier)
- DOJ Delay in Texas Voter ID Case Sparks Concern Amid Trump’s Debunked Fraud Claims
The Texas law requires voters to show one of several forms of photo ID issued by the state or federal government. A handgun license is deemed acceptable, but not a student ID, even from a state-run university. An estimated 600,000 registered Texas voters, disproportionately black and Hispanic, lack the required ID.
Just hours after Trump was sworn in as president last Friday, Justice Department lawyers challenging Texas' voter ID law asked a federal appeals court to delay a hearing in the case. The hearing had been scheduled to consider whether the law intended to discriminate against racial minorities, or whether it merely did so incidentally.
The Texas law was passed in 2011 after a concerted campaign to generate concern over illegal voting much like the one that Trump has launched. In 2006, Greg Abbott — then the state's attorney general, today its governor — announced a $1.5 million effort to root out voter fraud, which Abbott called "an epidemic" that was happening "on a large scale." Lawyers for the state were later able to produce just two cases of in-person voter impersonation — the only kind of fraud that might be stopped by the ID law — out of millions of votes cast. - Who Is Gregg Phillips, the Man Trump Name-Checked to Prove Voter Fraud?
who is Phillips? He's a vocal conservative who founded a health-care-data company. And he's unwilling to share his illegal-vote findings to the public - at least for now...[yet] less than a week after Trump's presidential win - Phillips tweeted, "We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens. We are joining .@True The Vote to initiate legal action."
Phillips, who worked for the Alabama and Mississippi Republican parties in the 1980s and 1990s according to his Linked In profile, also has been a vocal conservative on Twitter. Some examples: "No matter what Obama or anyone else says, the only entity that hacked election systems was Obama's Department of Homeland Security."
A guy who normally would only be taken seriously on Info Wars now has influence on the fate of American democracy.
Goddamnit.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Remember how Nikki Haley was supposed to be one of the "sane" Trump picks?
She just made a complete ass out of herself
"Our goal with the admin is to show value at the UN and the way that we will do that is to show strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well," Haley said. "For those who don't have our backs, we're taking names."

Is this rogue WH staffer legit?
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison