Of course he did… we know what these assholes are really like when push comes to shove…
Thanks so much Citizens United… It was bad before, but that decision just made things a thousand times worse.
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They don’t even have to be asked.
The Energy Discrimination Elimination Act is just one of the thousands of pieces of legislation ALEC has disseminated nationwide since its formation in 1973. According to a two-year investigation of “copycat” bills published in 2019 by USA Today, the Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity, state lawmakers introduced nearly 2,900 bills based on ALEC templates from 2010 through 2018. More than 600 of them became law.
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You nailed it. I’d add that most politicians don’t have the brains to draft laws or the guts to look inside the sausage.
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You’re not wrong.
Except that the former guy basically never stopped campaigning in his entire term, so that “season” was even longer. And for most of us here, felt even longer than that by a factor of ten. 
I find I can’t even listen to the radio news today because of all the speculation. I wish there were some kind of blackout on these kinds of projections for a certain window around Election Day. Maybe just the day of, I don’t know.
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My recollection is that he started the 2020 re-election campaign right after his 2017 inauguration. What I (less clearly) remember is that, as a candidate, he’s protected from (perceived) libel and/or had certain privileges that he wouldn’t otherwise have as an elected official (or as neither).
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well, he was a wealthy landowner who made his money by enslaving other people, so i can imagine he didn’t want the competition…
take the comparison for what it’s worth:
Jefferson’s peak net worth was $239.7 million in current dollars, [the] main source of wealth came from the land he inherited from his father [and] being the owner of two plantations with about 150 to 200 slaves… [he] was wealthy for most of his life, but he did die with a large sum of debt.
( ^ slight edits for clarity )
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My suspicion is that it’s because many of the capitalist folks who support a constant cycle of electioneering are the same folks who support Christmas sales in late October.
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Landowner tories vs. industrial whigs: the hierarchy wars.
I hate how they carefully don’t mention slave mortgages. Conservatives hate when it’s said that many founders owned slaves, but slavery capitalism is the great unmentionable.
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Jabba the Hutt says “fifth amendment” 800 times
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I just want to know whatever became of the woman who was alleged to be using onions to rub her eyes with and went viral on Jan. 6th.
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Given that the Dems were funding far right candidates on the gamble that they’d be so far right that voters would reject them, I sometimes wonder if Biden will do whatever he can to hold back indictments of trump. So he can beat him again.
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DeSantis should definitely sue him.
Or Murdoch.
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It’s a political question, not a fact.
I think he’s disqualified himself, but it seems on shaky legal ground. Perhaps we could compromise, and give him the option to run from prison?
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More stalling…
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