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October 9, 2025

Stephen Miller blurted out the words "plenary authority" and now

the Supreme Court can't use the word, or anything of the same meaning, or it will look like they are in communication with the White House and taking direction from them.

Stephen Miller accidentally blurted out that Trump had "plenary authority" on TV today.

They're going for full-scale dictatorship.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T23:08:04.666Z


IMHO
October 4, 2025

The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. I had recently figured out that I had been

stalked. I didn't know how bad it was. That would take years. I didn't know what the movie was about. I lasted less than 10 minutes until i got the concept and I told my friend I had to go.

October 4, 2025

How did those people vanquish the authoritarians? They believed.

That is how large groups of people have always built or re-built things. Have a vision. Share it and believe it and share it again. It will take all manner of fighting (Churchill: " We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender &quot . We fight everywhere. Not just marches.

25 recs is not bad in the middle of the night when the discussion forums are quiet.

October 4, 2025

In other words if you are feeling anxiety because your American world

is going to hell - go with them (MAGA/God) and feel peace. All your troubles will go away.

What bullshit. Trump/MAGA/GOP know they are bleeding Americans.

October 2, 2025

Just the fact they are relying on Wimpy Dandy Russell Vought means

Trump and Miller have run out of gun powder.

October 2, 2025

Thune Warns Democrats Over Russ Vought

Thune Warns Democrats Over Russ Vought

October 2, 2025 at 12:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 153 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/10/02/thune-warns-democrats-over-russ-vought/


“Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t endorsing the slash-and-burn campaign White House budget director Russ Vought has planned for the federal government during the pending shutdown,” Politico reports.

“But he says Democrats have no one to blame for it but themselves.”

Said Thune: “This is the risk of shutting down the government and handing the keys to Russ Vought… we don’t control what he’s going to do.”

CNN: Russ Vought’s plan to deconstruct the government was years in the making.


Applegrove:

MAGA is trying to roll out the 'fresh face' Russ Vought to establish dominance and instill fear since Stephan Miller or Trump himself are not instilling enough fear. I say we call Vought "that wimpy dandy Russell Vought" from here on in.
October 1, 2025

Here's an idea. Sell abroad. No tariffs. No bailout. Farmer's incomes remain.

In a plot twist no one saw coming … President Trump now has a plan to help farmers hurt by … his own trade policies. His genius idea? Take the money we made from tariffs … and give some of it back. Suspicious, right?

Full story here 👇

www.dailykos.com/story/2025/9...

Daily Kos (@dailykos.com) 2025-10-01T01:01:24.468Z
September 30, 2025

Also a strong democratic socialist movement may convince

oligarchs and the GOP to temper their policy platform. That is what happened to Canada and the US in the 1930s. Socialism was a threat so the capitalists, kick and screaming, had to move to the center. That is why Trump is going so strongly after Mamdani.

September 30, 2025

Politics Girl: Trump says funding healthcare is "unserious and ridiculous" re government shut down.

Politics Girl also says Trump wants to stop a vote on the Epstein files in congress because pro release the Epstein Files congresspeoplewill have the 218 votes when the newest democratic congresswoman is certifyed and shutting down the Government will stop that.

Applegrove:

I bet they will take the whole country hostage and refuse to re-open government unless Democrats promise to stop all release the Epstein File votes. IMHO

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