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With apologies to Lionel Ritchie.
You’re once, twice, 34 times a felon.
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And isn’t a felon prohibited from holding public office in the U.S.? But of course an exception will be made.
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Currently, no laws disqualify a candidate for President of the United States based on a previous felony conviction. There are barriers to a felon owning a gun, traveling around the world, or voting in an election – but nothing for running for office.
Ain’t America wonderful?
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He shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun in Florida anyone. But I doubt they’ll enforce that on him.
I think NYC already revoked his concealed carry permit.
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Booo hisss
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He actually is going to shoot somebody on 5th Avenue now, isn’t he.
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There should be a blanket ban on watering golf courses in a desert. Throw Arizona in there, too, since they are siphoning off Colorado River water upstream from SoCal.
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Why not? SCOTUS was literally asked if that was ok and answered “yes”.
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boo yah!
that right there!
living in mesa, az all those years, i had a good friend studying to be a professional groundskeeping manager for golf courses. (this being arizona, there were many unscrupulous “trade academies” that promised high-paying jobs to suck up VA benefits. turns out, groudskeeping school was bullshit.) i would absolutely rant and rail at the ridiculous notion of lush, green fairways and greens in a fucking desert!
yeah. turn their water off first.
as for my pal, he went back to the Ozarks and was golf pro dude at some lake resort. and turned MAGAt (last we spoke).
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There should be, but it’s a relatively minor usage for California, very little of which is actual desert. (I think local golf courses have a much bigger impact on water sources in Arizona and Utah.) Most of the water is getting sucked up by farmers* who insist on growing particularly thirsty crops for export (because the profits are higher than more appropriate crops), thereby effectively, and rather perversely, exporting water from California. All based on water usage rights that were set early in the 20th century, at the end of an especially wet period in Western US history (which is now over, even before we consider the drying effect of climate change), and they’re legally entitled to amounts of water that don’t exist anymore. While contributing relatively little to the California economy, especially compared to urban industries that use relatively little water. We’re the number one state for agricultural exports, but it’s fueled by that subsidized water, so…
*Who overwhelmingly support Trump, so he reflexively takes their side, without any knowledge or care about what the basic facts are.
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I hope Dems finally grow a spine and fucking ROAST all of these insanely inept nominees during confirmation hearings. While also continuously referring throughout the process to Tromp as “that orange moron.” (Okay, the last ain’t gonna happen, but it wouldn’t be much less polite than Republicans constantly saying “the Democrat Party.”)
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Californians, I am so sorry.
I stand with you and with all sane, reality-based humans who insist on remaining human.
Please don’t let 
tear your state apart. He and his accomplices will be inserting every wedge in every crack of your society at an accelerated pace. Y’all [California] are the fifth largest economy in the world and per capita, the largest. What a prize for the greediest, boldest grifters to capture wholly.
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Donald Trump has talked at length about his revenge.It has begun. It is underway. It is happening. Right now. It’s not in my head, and not in my imagination.
During the greatest crisis in the history of California en route to becoming the costliest natural disaster in American history, Donald Trump has offered snarling insults, veiled threats, misinformation and unrestrained malice.
He has used the disaster to attack the California governor, and has said nothing that matters of any consequence to the multitudes who are terrified and have lost everything.
Instead, like always, he has debased, inflamed and manipulated when he should have done the exact opposite. He seeks to gain from suffering, and incredibly, he doesn’t even bother to hide it anymore. More than anything else, it is this revelation from his chaotic transition that is most bone-chilling.
Our president is Arthur Fleck deep down.
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Part 5 introduces the “Disaster Capitalism Complex”, a complex series of networks and influence employed by private companies that allows them to profit from disasters. She mirrors this new Disaster Capitalism Complex with the Military Industrial Complex and explains that both employ the blurring of the line between private and public, through tactics like the revolving door.Part 6 discusses the use of “shock and awe” in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation of Iraq, which Klein describes as the most comprehensive and full-scale implementation of the shock doctrine ever attempted, with mass privatization of Iraqi state-owned enterprises (including thousands of men being laid off) which is argued as contributing to the insurgency, since many of the unemployed became embittered toward the US as a result and joined insurgent groups afterward.
Part 7 is about winners and losers of economic shock therapy – how small groups will often do very well by moving into luxurious gated communities while large sections of the population are left with decaying public infrastructure, declining incomes and increased unemployment. Klein describes economic policy after Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Sri Lanka Tsunami, and the apartheid-style policy of the Israeli government toward Palestinians.
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Disaster capitalism, according to Klein, occurs when private interests descend on a particular region in the wake of major destabilizing events, such as war, government upheaval, and natural disaster. “It’s really an extension of the military industrial complex, but it isn’t just warfare; it’s responses to disasters,” Klein explains. “It’s the reconstruction afterwards."
The new Trump team believes government needs to be an accelerant, not a deterrent. — Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
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The dick didn’t fall fall from the Donald.
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