“In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law,” warned Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

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It’s over. We didn’t even make 250 years

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The average empire only lasts for about 250 years, or 10 generations.

We’re tragically average.

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the rotting corpse of america just caught fire

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The Supreme Court is munting it.

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I could’ve lived my whole life ignorant of what munting was. Now I have a word to describe something I can only think, never say outloud to another living soul.

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So the new Hitler is handed the means… This is the rhyming history of the Reich. Populists are what kills civilizations and lead to the death of millions. They are the worst of subsentient human behavior.

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Demagogues. All demagogues are populists, but not the other way around. And the former are the death of civilization. But they get their power from a demagogic society.

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Any chance Biden can just create an “ultimate supreme court” that has final say over anything the supreme court looks at and fill the court with rational people instead of traitorous corrupt idiots?

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As long as it’s an official Presidential act- yes.

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the two party system being propped up for so long did not help either

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