šŸ–• šŸŠ 🤔 A Continuing Round-Up of Trumpian Events šŸ–• šŸŠ 🤔

This! MFers need to be denatured.

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As was ever the case. The SC declaration of independence specifically cited the fact that RI allowed black men to vote as a reason for secession. ā€œStates’ Rightsā€ my ass.

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The only silver lining to that cloud that I can see is if it’s still in place on January 20th, 2021, we can get rid of Melania and by extension, her parents. There doesn’t seem to be anyone parenting the kid anyway, and they don’t mind doing it to others with ā€œanchor babiesā€, so what’s sauce for the gander is going to be sauce for the goose as well.

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Oh definitely. I’m just struck that in the limited space they allotted to themselves, Twitter surfaced two ā€œthis is fascistā€ replies and that one, out of the 400+ that were available to pick from. Like there’s some kind of sentiment-analysis balance bot at work, because people have to know that some folks are down with deporting a sitting member of Congress because she’s brown.

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DMCA abuse now weaponised for political censorship:

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Freeze peach.

Looking forward to the imminent sacking of all of the journalists who identify as capitalists. Gotta stay neutral, right?

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Who wants to bet this bill will get killed in the senate?

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they might pass it if they think they can use it against antifa

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Probably so, but this is really great to see, that only 4 people voted against it in the house. That means almost all of the republics voted in support of this bill.

This should have happened years ago, though.

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I just wanna know who the 4 NAYs were, but the House’s website hasn’t been updated with the vote yet.

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It will eventually. The people that voted against will inevitably claim it’s because of ā€œstate’s rightsā€ or some other such code for racist bullshit. But we all know why they voted against it… because they are racist assholes.

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Going out on a limb here and guess that one of them is:
Steve King (R - IA)

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Nobody posted this one yet?

Trump campaign sues New York Times for libel over 2019 op-ed

Confirmed by the Gray Lady herself (usual paywall warning applies): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/business/media/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit.html

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Mostly because

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4 people voted no? I’d love to hear the kind of ridiculous justification for that…

I wouldn’t be surprised to see this breeze through the Senate though – such a nakedly obvious way for Trump to claim some sort of high ground in his supposed fight for equality.

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http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll071.xml

Amash, Gohmert, Massie & Yoho.

16 not voting.

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Ah, Well if the editors can re-Boing, why shouldn’t we readers?

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Huh. Gohmert is no surprise. Amash is a big surprise.

King is a surprise Yea. Kinda off-brand, dontcha think?

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Didn’t say you couldn’t. Just pointing out why we didn’t.

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I guess the truest way to remain a Newly-forged Principled Independent Who Hates What Your Party Has Become is to… buck the system that almost universally votes to make lynching a federal felony?

Sure.

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