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@forevernever.bsky.social

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Dissent is patriotic. Disband the standing army. Stop using Google. [Posting from a bunker under siege in war-ravaged Portland. Send beer and prayers, but mostly beer.] [[No IPAs, thanks.]] [[[Actually, don't send beer, I don't trust your tastes.]]]

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1h

There's a shit-ton of American tourism, business and investment in Mexico, as well as millions of US citizens and Green Card holders who call the country home... so of course the Trump regime wants to drum up a war against "cartels" to endanger all of that.

Because they hate America and Americans.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 20h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sure he was displaying it "ironically"

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1h

"he votes with us, that's all I care about"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

Alt: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder, saying how do you do fellow kids

media.tenor.com

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

Some of the participants in the chat group in question were IN THEIR THIRTIES and had real jobs!

Young Republicans are for 18-40 year olds!

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 5h

“Banter”

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

I guess that's the major reason history rhymes.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

It really is amazing how many people read about objectively evil government actions in history and thought "fuck yeah, I want to do that"

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7d

Imagine the sadism necessary to be an armed federal agent, under no threat whatsoever, willing to shoot a priest in the head.

ICE is “a portrait of an authoritarian secret police that seems set to model itself on history’s worst fascist enforcers.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h

Include Canada and we almost have a contiguous country.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 5h

the ALLIANCE

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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 5h

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

Except for that one high-profile time when doing so would upset his god-king

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I don't know why he keeps on saying this.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

"Sending $20 billion of the American people's money to Argentina with no congressional approval or oversight is totally fine, though"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

THEY LITERALLY SENT NEARLY THIS MUCH TO ARGENTINA BECAUSE TRUMP LIKES ITS PRESIDENT!

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, a peaceful protest is the Hate America crowd and not the people cheering on the terrorizing of major US cities

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder: everybody at this lectern supports terrorizing major American cities with unaccountable federal gestapo agents.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Lisa McClain refers to No Kings as "the I Hate America rally"

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h

Whether the Voting Rights Act is needed anymore shouldn't be a question for the Supreme Court to answer, but under Roberts they've turned themselves into an uber-legislature.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Alito says that we can figure this out with math. Nelson agrees, gives Alito the math that defeats his point.

Alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh jumps in to essentially ask if Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act even still needs to be a thing.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure if you can get a worse omen

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

I went on a coffee farm tour earlier this year. The small farmers roast their beans with cast iron pans.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

that certainly seems like a large number of potential companies?

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

I've considered getting a bag of green beans and trying the roasting thing...

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

Sure, mass protests rarely do anything substantive in the short-term. But when a state is turning authoritarian, it is very important to know that you aren't alone!

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

You even get sticker shock when you see coffee prices at Trader Joe's these days!

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 6h

If someone told me a year ago that it'd be $15+ for a 12 oz bag of fair trade coffee, I would have laughed in their face.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 8h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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