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Mar 2Liked by Cindy Sheehan

Finally US democracy comes out of the closet, turns out it's fascism! 😐

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Feb 29Liked by Cindy Sheehan

Soy-based wiring sounded like a Reddit rumor, so I googled it. Sure enough, some cables are using a plastic insulation made from soy instead of oil, and squirrels love it. Green idiocy knows no limits.

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Feb 29Liked by Cindy Sheehan

What IS second best revenge? I love your podcasts!

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Aaron Bushnell, RIP. Did a brave thing even though any of us would have dissuaded him from the same action. Still, he persisted, and did something shocking to "normal folks." Hopefully his action makes a difference. I would not rule a positive result out...

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I would say again that Mr Bushnell misjudged the nature of his idea, owing to his youth. You know teen-agers, they think they know the World (hormones more than actual ideas that you've thought out). Mid-20s White Male, military, same deal. I think it's a case of "Absolute commitment" vs "No commitment," and young Aaron simply didn't have the wisdom, the experience, to see the shades of Gray between those "extremes," which are in fact artificial guardrails. Life is lived in the messy middle, and is a series of compromises unless you take the Absolute/No way. Aaron Bushnell would have benefited greatly from better mentorship in the American Military, and that's definitely a critique of the American Military.

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Mar 3·edited Mar 3

Ironically the "witchhunts" against Trump might be inciting actual insurrection, smh.

Trump actually DOES mean that Black People get indicted for nothing. This is his exact quote by Trump in context:

“I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told a black-tie event for Black conservatives in South Carolina ahead of Saturday's Republican primary. “And a lot of people said that’s why the Black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing but possibly, maybe, there’s something there." https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-his-criminal-indictments-boosted-his-appeal-to-black-voters/ar-BB1iNxSr

There is a long history of twisting Trump's words, and then when the context is established, what he says makes perfect sense. I was at his rally in 2015 when he joked around for everyone to make Boy Scout Pledge to vote for him during hurricanes, etc. The media said we did Nazi salutes! o_0

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