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Fucking hell. New World Order.

Just uninstalled it as my futile gesture for the day

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Yeah, because it would be such a relief if JD Vance was in charge instead.

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That works for me

You’ve got a point. Hopefully there is some real opposition in 4 years. If an election is allowed in 4 years.

If something like Insta gets controlled in such a way that you cannot express your opinion, this quickly then how are normal folk going to oppose? There are millions of people using insta to do business, they are more likely to put up and shut up to keep their thing going rather than vacating to some other platform. And are other platforms going to be allowed to be?
Mr Doomsday!!! ha eek

Kamala surprised all commentators by being really capable as opposition to Trump. unfortunately she was black and female.

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Well I just put something on insta comparing Elon to Father Ted and it didn’t get censored so we’re ok for now

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Visits Sheff to skate and hears about all the skaters mysteriously disappearing or being poisoned

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They are the system and the majority

He knows he only has one more term this time as prez then that’s it done forever. The Constitution sets a two-term limit for any president. I think we are seeing something much more scary the second time around with him, as he doesn’t not want to give up power this time. He has said as much. That might be some sort of take over, seizing full power in a coup or even starting WW3 to keep him in office.

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Kind of, but they have a slim majority so in many cases he still has to get the entire party on board any totally batshit ideas. There were apparently things he wanted to do last time but couldn’t for the same reason. I’m just trying to stay hopeful, the maxim that with politics things never usually turn out either as good as you hope or as bad as you fear is often reliable. But there are very obviously exceptions.

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And he’s grooming Elon Musk to step up when he’s done.

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Brilliant episode that - all Father Ted’s are tbf

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ā€œCan you imagine if we won Ted, we’d be famous! Like Nelson Mandela, and his mad wifeā€

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I think their angle will be to control media, at least corporations that are run by billionaires. Recruiting billionaires into their ideals, bullying and cornering the market of information. The ā€˜people’ aren’t that hard to turn if nearly all media is saying the same thing and the alternative means hiding and being controversial minority. The left will be underground.
The worrying thing is that Trump is just setting up the stall for all this, as you say, he’s not got long but plenty of others who will come up behind.

It’s worrying times. And yeah, we can say it’s so far away and not possible but we all felt that about covid ā€œit’ll never get here, it’s in some random place in Chinaā€.

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Worked for me, wonder why not for you ? What you been doing ?

All the executive orders are on the White House site.

Click the top one with the # and see what happens

Should have posted this at the same time

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Get me off this planet.

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