@earthling1

But I'm inclined to say a nuclear conflagration would be worse than Bush the Lessor.
Democracy? Democracy? (searches pockets) haven't seen any.
We can all stop looking for that around here.
Try looking in China. I think they stole Democracy from us.

@snoopydawg

From Jan 8, 2021 by Caitlin.

The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast

Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

"Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them," Wall Street Journal reports.

“Months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of ‘terrorism’ that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode ‘constitutional and statutory due process protections’ and would ‘authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.’

The post 9/11 era is over. The single greatest national security threat right now is our internal division. The threat of domestic terrorism. The polarization that threatens our democracy. If we don't reconnect our two Americas, the threats will not have to come from the outside. pic.twitter.com/ADgGcf7qEo

— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) January 8, 2021

Maybe to be fair you ought to include Obama and Biden in your who’s worse list since Obama decided to look forward on torture and he too decided that due process wasn’t something that he thought should be the law of the land since it happened to actually be the law of the land.

Biden’s actions against the pro Palestinians protesters set up what Trump is doing with the consent of his voters.

The never ending wars and the assault on our liberties has been a bipartisan effort and Americans need to wake up and see that both parties see us as their enemy.

Caitlin’s article is a great read.

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Started war against Afghanistan because they would not give up the guy alleged to be 100% responsible for the suicide plane crashes

Didn’t the Taliban offer to turn Osama over to America?

And if you listen to Jeffrey Sachs it was Netanyahu who got us into the wars because Iraq, Libya, Syria and Lebanon were against Israel’s plans to genocide the Palestinians. There’s a video of him with the judge talking about in last night’s blues. I’m relistening to it now.

On the Patriot Act I understand that Biden wrote it up after the Oklahoma bombing and just needed a time to put it into effect.

@snoopydawg The Taliban (!!!) contacted the Bush administration with a message that they knew Osama bin Laden's location and would deliver him to a neutral 3rd country to stand trial for his crimes. The Bush admin was not interested.

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Started war against Afghanistan because they would not give up the guy alleged to be 100% responsible for the suicide plane crashes

Didn’t the Taliban offer to turn Osama over to America?

And if you listen to Jeffrey Sachs it was Netanyahu who got us into the wars because Iraq, Libya, Syria and Lebanon were against Israel’s plans to genocide the Palestinians. There’s a video of him with the judge talking about in last night’s blues. I’m relistening to it now.

On the Patriot Act I understand that Biden wrote it up after the Oklahoma bombing and just needed a time to put it into effect.

@fire with fire Trump tells Musk, do what you want

Musk destroys the American economy through DOGE

Oh sure, there will be outlay for all sorts of things. But no staff! when fire season starts, Trump will be like, we kept the firefighters. But the people who would train and pay the firefighters will have been fired.

Most of the TDS story line is predictive -- arguing from Blowhard's many absurd proclamations to what they portend. And scaring oneself to death.

Democracy has been undermined for many years now, and I don't "blame" any President any more than the rest of the motley crew of TV performers who have resided in the White House this century. They are all prisoners of The System and I believe the main reason why the Powers That Be put him back in office is that Trump is the perfect lightning rod taking the blame for catastrophe as we are pushed into the Global State.

I do not believe that either Shrub or Biden really made the decisions that have brought the USA down from Triumphant Winner of the Cold War to our present moribund social order.