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Farmer-Rick

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18. They think they own the world

Reply to dlk (Reply #13)

Wed Jun 3, 2026, 11:14 AM

17 hrs ago

And you and I living in it is just a useless inconvenience to them.

Capitalism does this. It allows money to own everything.

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America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance - Jamelle Bouie @ NYT [View all] In It to Win It 19 hrs ago OP

The Trump toxin must be purged from our government dalton99a 19 hrs ago #1

If we can get Trump out of power, we should try a complete rollback nuxvomica 18 hrs ago #7

Expand the USSC UpInArms 19 hrs ago #2

Impeaching the Supreme Court feels like a fool's errand ITAL 19 hrs ago #3

I'm for both. You may be right or you may not be Joinfortmill 18 hrs ago #6

It's just math ITAL 17 hrs ago #12

What about the next democratic president using this unlimited executive power and give the fascist 6 a week to resign. LT Barclay 15 hrs ago #28

I wouldn't joke about that ITAL 13 hrs ago #30

With a new court and congress better guardrails could be established. Right now, we are in a post-constitutional state LT Barclay 9 hrs ago #33

I'm not saying many haven't broken already ITAL 8 hrs ago #34

Definitely not a "restoration of what was". Biophilic 19 hrs ago #4

And I'll go to my grave believing he/they cheated. Joinfortmill 18 hrs ago #5

As will I. All the swing states going for Trump by very narrow margins... 3catwoman3 17 hrs ago #14

Narrow, but just enough YodaMom2 17 hrs ago #20

Precisely. 3catwoman3 15 hrs ago #26

I'm with you Farmer-Rick 17 hrs ago #17

Musk has admitted to cheating Botany 17 hrs ago #22

Read: The Conyers Report. Chemical Bill 1 hr ago #37

America broke itself. CaptainTruth 18 hrs ago #8

Yes. Martin68 18 hrs ago #9

Isn't it funny that the NYT never said a word about this in 2024 during Chump's campaign FakeNoose 18 hrs ago #10

Jamelle Bouie did. In It to Win It 17 hrs ago #19

How you know the NYT "never said a word"? Do you have a subscription? A print subscription? maxsolomon 17 hrs ago #21

Not just the New York Times, Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #25

Their "radical constitutionalism" is the destruction of constitutional checks & balances Martin Eden 18 hrs ago #11

The entitlement and arrogance of the Heritage Foundation is off the charts dlk 17 hrs ago #13

They think they own the world Farmer-Rick 17 hrs ago #18

Indeed dlk 14 hrs ago #29

Restoration of what was is the sure way to death o the country. intheflow 17 hrs ago #15

The arrogance and entitlement of the Heritage Foundation is off the charts dlk 17 hrs ago #16

We have the chance to improve it bigtime!! justaprogressive 16 hrs ago #23

American Broke Something when it gave Trump the FIRST chance. hamsterjill 16 hrs ago #24

Hopefully, it broke the republican party Mysterian 15 hrs ago #27

You have a lot of people who have been stabbed in the back by repukes sakabatou 11 hrs ago #32

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handing the entire fucking government over to repukes Skittles 4 hrs ago #35

Biophiliac...I respectfully partly disagree w you.... electric_blue68 1 hr ago #36