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      Republicans like this right now because it benefits Donald. It’s going to come back and bite them in the ass when it helps their opponents.

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        But they are the disenfranchised and the poor. They have the right to vote for someone who will gut regulations for corporations that will happily increase to looting and pillaging in the quest for profit.

        The fact these people reason that it would be better for them with less regulations and oversight is beyond comprehension.

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          Republicans have learned that there are millions of votes on one particular issue that will allow them to do whatever on all other issues. Abortion.

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          Most voters who suffered from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment and the subsequent “controlled explosion” that poisoned the shit out of that area voted to deregulate everything. Trump even went there after the poisoning and did a rally.

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        You’re assuming a lot: elections, peaceful transfer of power, Congress composition, even the unity of the states is an assumption at this point. If King Trump gets in, many states will refuse to cooperate (if you think this is too wild, many locales and at least one state already refuse to cooperate with ICE, Texas was at one point not cooperating with the Feds on their Southern border). What happens after that is anyone’s guess.

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        The Democrats love it because is lucrative for donations. It’s a terrible storm of pure evil and ineptitude.

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      I know it’s been said as a joke a million times. But it feels like the current POTUS using his immunity for official duties to unilaterally correct this SCOTUS problem that is a flaw overlooked by the founding fathers would be a legitimate, official act that is done with the interest of the country and not for personal gain.

      Straight up killing the ones taking bribes and inserting left leaning judges would cause a civil war, and I’m not sure how you can use this immunity situation to correct this problem through policy. Either by creating some sort if oversight, term limits, maybe, since Supreme Court judges are so important they should be elected by the people, not congress, idk. But If immunity to crimes is the hot topic right now, water board them all.

      If Biden ordered their assassination he would have my vote and donations to his campaign.

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        If Biden assassinates, pardon me, official acts out of existence at least Thomas and Roberts, or better yet all 6 of the servative judges, I promise I will forget for 4 more years that Tim Walz, Marianne Williamson, and Jill Stein even exist. I won’t even mention their names. I will be a Biden-stan for the next 4 years.

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            Love Tim Walz, he’s the best.

            But if Biden does the deed above, I can be an exclusive Biden-stan for 4 years. IF!

            4 years. Not forever.

            And only with regard to presidency.

            Outside of the context of the presidential election I can (and probably will, unless something important changes) still be a Tim Walz stan even if Biden does the deed.

            As long as Biden refuses to exercise ruthlessness in my name and with my approval I will be bringing up Tim Walz as a vastly superior presidential candidate to Harris, Newsom, Whitmer, and the typical gaggle of the establishment picks.

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    I’m gonna start growing veggies. I need to get all the gravel out of my back yard first. I need to spend money to practice at the range, ballistic tubes is the most expensive hobby. Today I’m organizing and helping John Brown breakfast club. What other actionable goals should I focus on to dismantle our newly founded monarchy, comrades?

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      If you have close friends with similar views make sure they get armed. Make sure they still vote and don’t head down the path of extremism either. Go to your jobs. Make sure you family is still taken care of…

      But remember that feeling in the back of your head saying get prepared, and do it.

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      I recommend highly conscious and aware physical fitness, which is to say doing the exercises with full internal awareness of all that’s going on subjectively in your world while performing the exercises.

      If you can only do one thing, let it be running. Land on the bowls of your feet while wearing zero offset running shoes (web search “zero offset running shoes”), heels ever so slightly off the ground. Never heel-stomp during running. Relax deeply. Let the belly drop naturally. Consciously slow down your breathing and try to breathe as slowly as possible while running. While running attempt to enter a state similar to sleeping without actually losing awareness. So this here is work for both the body and the mind. Adjust your pace to make running pleasurable and slightly challenging in order to habituate your relationship to running as something you enjoy doing and something you look forward to. Get plenty of recuperation time, don’t run non-stop, take breaks and let the body and mind recover. If you’re older the breaks have to be longer too.

      Then if you have more time and energy I recommend body weight exercises including pullups.

      If you still have energy left, run with the kettlebells.

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        This is “born to run” by Christopher McDougall running theory right? My knees are kinda bad now so I get most of my aerobic exercise from bicycles now. I should probably find some grass or dirt to run in.

        I need to set up a pull bar.

        I usually clean and press kettlebells when I’m watching YouTube trash.

        Are battle maces worth it? I kinda think just beating a sledgehammer hammer into the ground would be an equivalent range of motion.

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          This is “born to run” by Christopher McDougall running theory right?

          First I hear of this McDougall. I learned everything I typed on my own, painfully, by running in all the wrong ways first. That’s why I was about 42 when I learned how to run.

          That said, if McDougall says the same things I say, great! No one should suffer injuries from heel stomping like I had. No one should go through the same hell as I. No one should have to cough up blood from their lungs due to overly rapid breathing, like I had. No one should believe the rate of breathing is a fixed and inborn quality. Instead everyone should know that the rate of breathing is a trainable quality. And the rate of breathing depends on the calmness of one’s deep mind. The calmer the mind, the slower the breathing can be. Hence why I advised to enter a sleep-like state.

          I also combined running with meditation and psychoenergetic training (I learned psychoenergetics from Nanci Trivellato and Robert Bruce). That’s basically it in a nutshell.

          Are battle maces worth it? I kinda think just beating a sledgehammer hammer into the ground would be an equivalent range of motion.

          Don’t know about that, boss.

          It probably depends on your goals?

          I suggested running first because that one exercise just does waaaaaaay too much benefit in waaaaaay too many areas.

          But there are lots of highly specific exercises like partial lifts, finger strength, static exertions, dynamic tension a la Charles Atlas, etc. All depends on your goals and time/energy availability.

          What I described will make one tough and resilient like a solder with an endless gas tank.

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        Saying the USA has been a democracy for 248 years is a bit of a stretch. when:

        White men who didn’t own land didn’t get to vote everywhere in the USA until 1868.
        Main-land Native American males who left their tribes and lived like white people could start to vote in 1887.
        The above but for Alaska in 1915. In 1925, they needed to also be able to pass an English literacy test to vote.
        Women were allowed to vote in the 1920’s.
        Black people were allowed to vote in the 1960’s.
        The act that prohibits racial discrimination for voting rights was passed in 1965.
        Alaska Natives were able to vote without taking an English literacy test, a language which they may not speak, in 1970.

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    “We” didn’t do shit. People in 1776 did, today’s Americans wouldn’t reject it out of fear for consequence to personal comfort.

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      The logic follows that the people who should be doing something are the ones that we elect. While it’s true that they aren’t doing anything either, the shit won’t really hit the fan until a republican gets the white house and actually starts abusing that power.

      We still have time to resolve this without bloodshed and destruction. Most people see that and aren’t going to jump the gun on what could very well be the end of their lives in the most heavily armed per capita country on earth.

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    Say “death to amerikkka” to your boss and then tell me we don’t live under a fascist dictatorship. It’s been like this since 1492.

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    How do you guys not see this is obvious propaganda? Seriously, please tell me when any president has been held accountable for the things they did in office that were not directly person?

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        Yes because it was a person thing. And so was Nixon.

        Are you really pretending like trump is not being gone after by the justice system?

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          The justice system exists to go after people who commit crimes. And Trump, a convicted felon, commits all sorts of crimes.

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            The previous guy seemed to think differently. The issue is that the trump cases are almost all complete bullshit but we have to pretend they are real because we dont like trump. Its not justice.