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Greg A
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Teacher in SW VA
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December 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Schmitt’s argument is unintentionally revealing.

The “color revolutions” were non-violent, pro-democracy political movements aimed at ending autocratic regimes in former Soviet bloc nations.

If the Democrats are leading a “color revolution,” then Trump is an autocrat & Schmitt is pro-autocrat.
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I feel like my house is missing a coat bath.
Oh shit waddup
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Then somebody needs to come in and remove Donald Trump from office because he is no good for the Western Hemisphere, or for the rest of the world.
Rep. Greg Murphy on Maduro: "There is precedent for America going in and removing dictators ... this man is no good for the Western Hemisphere and needs to be removed."
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump."

On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
Trump’s Fury at NYT Explodes amid Fresh Concerns about Mental Decline
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength ...
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I basically said as much and got an appropriate chuckle.
Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Cupid Stunt should bejoining Secretary Hogsbreath as a defedant at the Hague.
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?

LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Yeah, that's not how it works ever since the Hague Convention of 1899. That is some John Yoo-level horrifying shit from the White House.
FOX: You said the follow up strike was lawful. What law is it that allows no survivors?

LEAVITT: The strike was conducted in self defense to protect Americans
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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DOJ says immigration judges, as "inferior officers," may be fired on the basis of sex, religion, race, or national origin. Leaving aside the law, it's *politically* remarkable they're taking this position.
washingtonlitigationgroup.org/news/former-...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Trump 2.0, above all else, is characterized by a syndrome in which the regime's leaders are compelled by their own character defects and/or crazed ideological beliefs to commit crimes that leave even deeply jaded, cynical partisans for their side aghast and concerned for their own wellbeing.
Shift from “there may be some classified or legal framework that could potentially be a viable excuse for the use of force if it won in court” to “oh this is the Ur war crime, like so clearly a war crime that there is no legal cover for this specific order”.
December 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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People say they want to manufacture real things in America again BUT they complain that it’s “inappropriate” and “not productive” to talk about how we need lots of guillotines. Like make up your minds!
December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels

www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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All Trump and his cronies know how to do is steal then lie about it.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Reposting because anyone interested in what's happening needs to follow every good legal reporter out there. Geidner's first rate. I subscribe. There are others worth following/subscribing to, as well. Starting with Geidner is an excellent way to get into this.
Seriously, subscribe to Law Dork. I can't do everything the big publications can do, but at least I'll never do this.

(And, this weekend, you can get a paid subscription for 15% off for a year: $51 for the year or $5.10 a month!) www.lawdork.com/blackfriday
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Talentless frauds close to the White House are making billions by crashing the American economy and selling out America’s allies. Here’s why democratic socialism is unthinkable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos”

Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
"Mussolini once said that he didn’t create fascism – he extracted it from the Italians’ unconscious. And I think it’s the same thing with Bolsonarismo. Bolsonaro dies, but these radical ideas and ideology are here to stay." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term
Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prison
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.

The hypocrisy is stunning.
Habba: There were individuals that were saying that this should be a safe harbor, a safe haven. Why? America is America because we protect our own.
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Trump working hard to bring down grocery prices
November 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Yes, that is Wayne Gretzky golfing with Trump
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"

Mark Kelly: "It seems to."

Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"

Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM