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What a frivolous waste of congressional speaking time. I thought these guys had real problems to solve? I thought Trump was gonna fix it all this time around? You’re telling me not even 1 week into his new term and he’s already thinking about how the job won’t be done in time?

Conservatives are pathetic.

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That’s basically what I’ve been posting on Social Media anytime shit like this happens.

“How does this lower grocery prices?”

Ask whenever the Right or Center is listening, keep the message on “Trump is distracting you from what he isn’t doing, but should.”

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Thank you for saying grocery instead of egg. So many people say eggs and it is going to age like milk when the bird flu recedes even though groceries will generally still be expensive otherwise.

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If this fails, you can expect them to redefine what a “term” means. And if that fails they can simply cancel elections under “emergency” conditions and keep him in office for longer.

… and if that fails, they can just say “too bad” and do whatever they want anyway because who’s going to stop them?

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And if everything they try fails then “see it wasn’t so bad”

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I just want to point out that this is just one of the many many campaign promises he is trying to fulfill. Sure, it’s a big deal. But simply saying “conservatives are pathetic” is not only reactionary, it is wrong. Look at what is happening to immigrants. You might not see them as a problem, but conservatives do, and they are “solving” it.

Just saying, this shit is way scarier this time around. They’re fuckin’ moving.

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On the other hand, better they do nothing than actuality successfully fucking everything up.

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The worry is that perhaps Trump is smarter than he appears, and all he’s doing is showing his followers that he’s still all about setting up a autocratic government which they’ll get to be the muscle for, ready to do a violent takeover the moment elections stop working (just like last time, but this time better armed and better organised)

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Trump, if anything, is much less smart than he appears. The guy managed to bankrupt a casino. That takes a special kind of stupid.

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“It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary to correct the disastrous course set by the Biden administration,” Ogles said in a statement

so Biden created a bad situation for him in 4 years, yet he thinks Trump needs 8 years to undo it. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

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79 points

Good job guys, you saved Palestine!

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Why are y’all still fighting about this? Your farce of an election is over, what purpose does this ceaseless bickering serve?

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Fuck you, that wasn’t why Trump won. It was because Dems offer nothing but the avoidance of something worse.

I’m outraged at the genocide and voted for Biden anyway. People can be mad at Dems and demand better without being responsible for their failure.

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43 points

The American people failed.

This was fucking advertised. This was chosen. This was voted for.

Stupidest populous on earth.

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I’m with you until the last sentence. Fewer than 50% of American voters voted for Trump.

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How is any of this “chosen” when everything is gerrymandered and rigged?

Our biggest fault was being the frog who stayed in the water while it was heating up. We have just slowly been giving up freedoms with a little fuss but not enough to matter. We need to learn to say no firmly and with conviction.

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The avoidance of all of this is probably the single most motivating thing in existence. Implying otherwise is strange.

You don’t sleep in your actively burning home because none of the local hotels tickle your fancy.

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Which is why I voted for the lady who refused to condemn genocide. What are you arguing?

Dems are center right. They have been for a long time because of cold war propaganda and brainwashing. That doesn’t mean I won’t vote against fascism. It means we need better alternatives.

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From the article:

Ogles’ resolution is tailored specifically to permit Trump to serve a third term, but not to allow three out of the four living former presidents to serve third terms.

It’s a Trump only privilege which, given the track record, could have been assumed, unfortunately.

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I don’t think they want Obama running again… He whooped their ass twice.

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It’s Grover Cleveland’s time to shine

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