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AOC: (Original Post) applegrove Dec 27 OP
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Dec 27 #1
De Rien: applegrove Dec 27 #2
... Uncle Joe Dec 27 #3
Imagine Traildogbob Dec 27 #4
Well, we can keep on sitting here watching... OR... OldBaldy1701E Dec 27 #5
I know this answer pfitz59 Dec 27 #11
What's even worse is that our taxpayer paid SCOTUS allows this. MLWR Dec 27 #9
K&R 2naSalit Dec 27 #6
Post removed Post removed Dec 27 #7
Welcome to du. Emile Dec 27 #8
Enjoy your UpInArms Dec 27 #10
This can not be repeated enough. Thanks, AOC, and thank you, applegrove, for the post. littlemissmartypants Dec 27 #12
Most welcome. applegrove Dec 27 #13
K&R x 1000 Evolve Dammit Dec 27 #14
Yes, Many of us know it, too. And "ballroom " shit. Cha Dec 27 #15
I won't in future give one single dollar to institutionalists, but I'm about to begin donating to AOC and other PatrickforB Dec 27 #16
"Institutionalists" Cirsium Dec 27 #17
Where are you?? lrucks1952 Dec 28 #18
Schumer is busy writing RVN VET71 Dec 28 #19
What I find hard to fathom is why oligarchs would want to give a president a secret police that only he controls. Martin68 Dec 28 #20

Traildogbob

(12,614 posts)
4. Imagine
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 03:52 PM
Dec 27

OUR TAX dollars paying to overthrow and destroy America and Democracy to fund those criminals, and it is illegal to even touch his brave soldiers, total immunity to terrorize. What level of evil villain could come up with such a sweet deal…. For the GQP.
How stupid is this damn country. Ya don’t need a degree and decades of debt to see this is freaking sickening.
And there is no money left, (ours) to pay for health care and feeding, not raping, children.
God Bless America. Not so much.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,351 posts)
5. Well, we can keep on sitting here watching... OR...
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:00 PM
Dec 27

That is the choice we face.

(If you will pardon the colloquialism... ain't no superhero comin' to save us.)

Response to applegrove (Original post)

Emile

(40,849 posts)
8. Welcome to du.
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:12 PM
Dec 27


The difference between Biden and Trump concerning the Epstein files was, Joe Biden didn't tell the DOJ what their job was.

PatrickforB

(15,355 posts)
16. I won't in future give one single dollar to institutionalists, but I'm about to begin donating to AOC and other
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 06:51 PM
Dec 27

progressive candidates. Why? Because in spite of being labled 'far left' and other crap by the mainstream corporate-owned talking heads, she and her progressive colleagues actually understand these greedheads are trying to pull of the biggest heist in human history. They get that trickle down doesn't work and want to use our tax dollars for programs that actually help us at the kitchen table.

Because right now I'm paying A LOT of federal tax and not getting a goddamned thing for my money.

Say...taxation without representation...that seems to ring a bell...

Cirsium

(3,429 posts)
17. "Institutionalists"
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 08:42 PM
Dec 27

I could do without ever hearing that word again. The institutions, and the institutionalists, failed.

lrucks1952

(24 posts)
18. Where are you??
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 02:58 AM
Dec 28

Where are our elected officials both Republican and Democratic both Senate and House? Why are you just sitting by and watching the destruction of our country.....Chuck Shumer? where are you John Thune, you a have shown to be useless and a suck up to Trump but at what point do you have shame and do your duty to the constitution? Impeach this orange man and now!!

RVN VET71

(3,135 posts)
19. Schumer is busy writing
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 10:01 AM
Dec 28

strongly worded letters.

And Thune is a fascist suck-up.

Both will be remembered as instrumental in ending democracy in America — unless the MAGA GOP falls apart after Trump dies and the Progressives seize the reins of power in the Democratic Party.

If the Progressives are stifled again — think Bernie Sanders in 2016 — then the Oligarchs will seize power in the resultant vacuum.

Martin68

(27,157 posts)
20. What I find hard to fathom is why oligarchs would want to give a president a secret police that only he controls.
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 03:32 PM
Dec 28

Putin has demonstrated how a president can handle disobedient oligarchs to bend them to his will or imprison and kill them. They must be very stupid.

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