Ed Black
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Trial lawyer, constitutionalist, economist, widower, not looking, but not dead either. No investments: I don’t even buy green bananas. Opinions my own. Resist.
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If I seem a bit more strident this weekend, it’s because something important happened Thursday. I had the opportunity to listen to a two-and-one-half hour academic circle-jerk performed by our so-called Supreme Court, ignoring (a) facts in the record of the case before it, and
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@maxberger
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
I will keep hammering on this until people understand the connection or until I’m dead, whichever occurs first. Thanks, Citizens United!
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@JonathanCrow22
@lawofruby
Hell, financial cases are the reason I left private practice to become a prosecutor. Now I get to do them all day, every day, instead of when a victim happens to call me. You know I am paying attention to the actions of Tish’s crew. 😁
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@davenewworld_2
1. The National Guard may only be “called up” by the Commander-in-Chief, (Acting) SecDef, or Secretary of the Army.
2. This “stand down” order was issued to DC National Guard two days before the insurrectionist riot. The “fix” was already in.
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@tribelaw
@larriandJ
I have nothing but contempt for the majority of this Court.
If I seem a bit more strident this weekend, it’s because something important happened Thursday. I had the opportunity to listen to a two-and-one-half hour academic circle-jerk performed by our so-called Supreme Court, ignoring (a) facts in the record of the case before it, and
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@irishrygirl
@laurenboebert
Wasn’t Jesus the guy who was thirty years old, single, never married, living with his parents, who had twelve really close male friends? 🤔 I’ll bet he would have loved musical theater. 🤣
Do the math!
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is a question that has not heretofore been sufficiently addressed. Justice Alito seriously posits that a sitting President should be immune from staging a coup because — wait for it — it might encourage future Presidents to stage coups? Are you f*cking kidding me?
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It is simply not credible that a Wharton graduate with three decades of experience in real estate development would be unfamiliar with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Junior is lying. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
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@rhonda_harbison
@mikepompeo
This you, Mike?
“Three separate reports released in recent weeks detail accounts of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violating federal law by using his office for political purposes . . . .”
Poor Harvard Law. 😢
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@LeeJohnson65
I am a senior man. This is but one example of why I turned in my Man Card years ago. No thank yous, no effort put forth, trying to treat it as some sort of singles club . . . .
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving! Turning down your hospitality is their loss. 🤦🏻♂️
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(b) the well-established law applicable to those facts. Instead, the Court wasted my time and yours debating a question that is unworthy of debate: should the laws of the United States apply equally to its citizens?
Worse, a majority of the Court appears to believe that this
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case will be one “for the ages.” The case is unworthy of the three conflicting law review articles that apparent the members of the Court intend to author. The answer to the question is unequivocally, “Yes: the laws of the U.S. should apply equally to all citizens.
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@PaulRieckhoff
@NoBSNoPolitics
He was there with his family. It also shows how little people know about the welcoming atmosphere in LGBTQ clubs. A show is a show, no matter the gender or identity of the performers or what costumes they wear. Performers love an audience, no matter the gender or orientation.
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@ClaudetteGGibs1
@westerndragon90
I’m still masking. I’m sixty-six. It has been five months since my booster. I pay attention. I am not a sheep.
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I now expect 100+ pages of apologia, mostly joined by the Court’s “Cock Bloc,” explaining why the question is much more nuanced. It isn’t. Democracy as we know it is even more clearly at stake now, and only we can save it by registering and voting in November.
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@JerasIkehorn
I will vote for the Democratic Party candidate for President in 2024 (assuming I am still alive) no matter who it is. I will also work for (and donate to) Democratic Party candidates for state and local offices, no matter who they are. I am an independent, but I have had enough.
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@RichieFed
@parscale
@BrendaLaGrone
@realDonaldTrump
@IlhanMN
I would rather live next door to her family in Mnnesota than next to Trump in New York or Florida. Good neighbors matter.
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@JoJoFromJerz
Younger son (then thirteen) excuses himself from the dinner table. He returns in about ten minutes, looks at his mother, and asks, “Have you ever taken a shit so satisfying that it made you wonder if you might actually ENJOY anal sex?”
Welcome to my life.
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This is now beyond politics. Our Supreme Court has abandoned its fundamental tenets of (a) deciding the cases before it ONLY on the facts in the record, while (b) basing its decision on the narrowest possible legal grounds.
One “Justice” claims that the ultimate opinion in this
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Coda: the Court’s Opinion only deserves to be six-to-ten pages, only to adequately describe the charges in the indictment and the procedural history of the case. The discussion of the applicable law needs only three pages. It’s easy to be brief when you know you’re right!
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@RyannMcEnany
@SpeakerPelosi
1. Speaker Pelosi didn’t deny Trump’s request that he never made.
2. Speaker Pelosi didn’t have the constitutional authority to summon the “well regulated militia” (a/k/a the National Guard), but Trump did.
3. Trump ordered DCNG to “stand down” two days before.
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@Immortalzen
In Clayton County, Georgia, the penalty for being a passenger in a vehicle with a broken tail light is apparently death in front of your family without due process, but only if you’re black. Did I get that right?
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I would be willing to allow the Senate to go forward using the same rules as were used for the Clinton impeachment, but only AFTER Trump allows members of his administration to testify under oath, as Clinton did.
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@lawindsor
@sylviasydny
In what alternate universe does a U.S. Senator for Wisconsin accept fake electoral ballots for Wisconsin and Michigan from a U.S. Representative from — *checks notes* — Pennsylvania, and still claim not to have been involved in a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government?
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@RyannMcEnany
@SpeakerPelosi
In the interest of rubbing your nose in your own poop, here are the “good” parts. All this has been public knowledge since late-Spring of 2021. Do try to keep
@up
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@BlackKnight10k
I’ll throw in one OG caveat: EVERY November has to be “Roevember” for the rest of your lives. I can’t believe that I lived long enough to go through this shit and voting rights TWICE, but here we are. We got complacent. We focused on unimportant shit. Don’t repeat our mistake.
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@ReportsDaNews
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” — Abraham Lincoln
As we all know, TFG has been spectacularly unsuccessful at every endeavor he has undertaken, including lying.
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@lavern_spicer
One of the three constitutionally enumerated purposes of the “militia” is to “suppress insurrections.” U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, Cl. 15
How do you propose to “support and defend” something you apparently haven’t even read?
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You are so fucking stupid that you make me ashamed to have been born in Kentucky, which (by the way) neither you nor Rand Paul can claim.
This pandemic originated in China. Its global spread was made worse by China’s unconscionable efforts to cover it up. Working closely with our allies and partners around the world, the U.S. will be asking tough questions about our relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.
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@joelmd70
@TropicaliJaye
This is Nashville. There will always be a market for Stetsons and Resistols as long as there are drug store cowboys and a Grand Ole Opry. It just won’t be her. Her suppliers will never miss a beat.
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@RamonaGrigg
I care that she actually speaks conversational French. I care that she understood the assignment to help restore ties between the French and the U.S. I care that she undertook (and accomplished) a mission beyond the reach of either Mike Pence or Dick Cheney. So no, I don’t care.
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@richsignorelli
@FPWellman
@libradunn
There is no need to guess. This information has been public for nearly a year, lost in the GQP Noise Machine.
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@RepMTG
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers with ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, convicted of Seditious Conspiracy in D.C. It’s happening.
Sleep well!
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@rogertansey
@RobSchneider
Not to mention the $742 BILLION in PPP loan forgiveness to people like (checks notes) Tom Brady?
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@dan_rambles_on
Flip side: a woman showed me a text exchange she had with her mother. Daughter was asking advice on getting gum out of her hair. Sadly, she didn’t realize she (or her phone) misspelled “gum.” Mom took it all in stride and offered some good ideas. 😳
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@aorgat
@Burrows4TX
@GregAbbott_TX
Uvalde parents aren’t there either because Abbott was afraid to face them as a live audience.
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@bluebear5922
@RonFilipkowski
She apparently cannot tell THC from fentanyl (which she calls “fentanol” — makes it sound like a fuel additive). It’s petty, but it reminds me of people who pronounce “nuclear” as ‘nucular.” It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
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@cooltxchick
For me, it was a conscious career choice, based on my belief in Justice and the Rule of Law. I dedicated my life to those concepts. My disappointment and disillusionment is immeasurable, and it doesn’t help that I had a front row seat for watching Mitch McConnell destroy both.
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@cooltxchick
“Republicans don’t want to spend federal money to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge.”
It’s part of the FEDERAL Interstate Highway System! The people who died were working on a largely-federally-funded “shovel-ready” infrastructure improvement project. 🤦🏻♂️
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@TomFitton
1. So you want to disenfranchise active duty military deployed overseas?
2. Federal law (in this case, the Constitution) dictates that states determine the manner in which they conduct elections, and the GQP has manipulated that to their supposed advantage in every way possible.
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@ooloooloooo
@DrGJackBrown
I knew something wasn’t’t right when TFG named Miller as Acting SecDef, and he named Kash Patel as his Chief of Staff. Patel knows dick about anything military. I just thought the conspiracy would be much more sophisticated and larger scale. I’m glad I overestimated them.
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@ShariDunawayMD
Botox used to be a big deal. Now people hardly raise an eyebrow.
I’ll show myself out . . . .
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@palmerLoni4
Right now, President Biden’s removal would make Nancy Pelosi President pro T empire until Vice President Harris recovers from Covid-19. You really haven’t thought this through very well, Pumpkin.
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@smc429
Cuban was wrong about the “entrepreneur” part. Musk has never undertaken anything that he didn’t buy from someone else, and his version of success is selling what he bought without losing his ass.
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@CrowMagnumMan3
@laurenboebert
The GQP always demand that the Democrats fix what the GQP screwed up. It’s one of the first pages in the GQP playbook, right after “Accuse Democrats of Every Illegal Act You or Yor Cronies Committed.”
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@DerrickEvans_WV
When your recent history and your campaign rhetoric both demonstrate that you’re incapable of fulfilling your Oath of Office, then maybe you’re applying for the wrong job.
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@KovaxxSandy
@DonLew87
They DID care! They cared so much that they put her on Primetime so she could disseminate her lies to a broader audience. That sounds like “actual malice.” 🤔
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I am not asking for thoughts or prayers. My wife and I were attending a wedding reception this evening. It appears that she had two strokes, neither in a good location (like there is one). I may be hard to find for a few days, but I will honor commitments I have made. Thanks.
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@laurenboebert
“I didn’t win my election to fight for the swamp.”
So tell us again about your pedo husband and his $1M income for “consulting” from Terra Energy Partners that you failed to disclose. What does he do? How is he qualified?
You are the Mayor of the Swamp.
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@EdwardMurrayIII
My ex and I divorced more than thirty-five years ago. Somehow, I am still responsible for ruining her life. She met another guy and became engaged. He died of cancer six months later. Somehow that was also my fault. 🙄
It isn’t you, nor is it your problem.
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@LeeJohnson65
Griswold v. Connecticut, which provides constitutional protection for the right of access to birth control by married couples, is based upon “substantive due process.” If unenumerated rights are no longer constitutionally protected, then neither is the right to birth control.
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@RealCormacE
@DavMicRot
@elonmusk
@Twitter
Just more than 70% of Elon’s followers are fake, according to an analysis (from Twitter) that I saw earlier today. I can’t vouch for the accuracy, but he clearly does nothing to “vet” his so-called followers. That’s why his b!tching about fake accounts on Twitter rings hollow.
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Has anyone noticed that the MAGA trolls are out tonight to talk about anything OTHER THAN the conviction of Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs on charges of Seditious Conspiracy . Rhodes and Meggs are already known to have strong ties to Roger Stone and Mike Flynn.
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There are five elements required to establish the tort of fraud. Every TFG grift included all five elements. The First Amendment is not a defense to fraud. 1A says government cannot keep you from speaking. It does not protect you from the consequences of saying what you said.
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@TrumpFailed1
@mikepompeo
And why did you (Pompeo) do nothing to plan for the transportation of materiel back here from Afghanistan? It took twenty years to get it there. You thought we could bring all of it back in three months? You failed to plan; therefore, you planned to fail.
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@JamesBradleyCA
Um, no. Democracy ends when the votes of certain citizens no longer count.
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@GinnyMcDonald8
@RobSchneider
$742 BILLION in forgiven PPP debt > $400 BILLION in Student Loan forgiveness. 🤦🏻♂️
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@Bill_from_PA
@sarah_graphix
1. I have six eggs (present tense).
2. I broke two (past tense).
3, I fried two (past tense).
4. I eat two (present tense, but made after
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Answer = 4, but not for the obvious reason. Answer = 6 only if
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@LeeJohnson65
To reach the holding in Dobbs, the majority of the Court has jettisoned the concept of “substantive due process” (even I unenumerated rights can be “fundamental,” and therefore subject to constitutional protection). The holding ignores the plain language of the 9th Amendment.
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@myroslavapetsa
Kharkiv is majority ethnic Russian, majority Russian-speaking, and thirty miles from the Russian border. It’s residents won’t capitulate, so Putin is indiscriminately murdering them too. It seems that ethnic Russians who experience democracy refuse to return to fascism.
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@scrowder
How many abortions have you had, Steven? You are speculating about HIPAA protected information. If you have the goods, you and some other folks are in trouble. If you don’t have the goods, you’re a liar. Your choice. Consult better counsel that Trump’s.
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@TheodoWolf
@LakotaMan1
It did. They quit, including the manager. The suit was just filed Wednesday, so it has a way to go, but I am fairly certain this has the attention of the EEOC, among others.
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@Out5p0ken
@embeessem
The better questions are (a) which AUSAs drafted the subpoenas that were placed before the grand jury for approval, (b) who approved them, and (c) on the basis of whose testimony before the grand jury?
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@TomFitton
1. This began as an FBI counterintelligence investigation predicated on solid information that Russia intended to interfere (and was interfering) with the 2016 election in order to boost Trump.
2. The FBI threw a proverbial party for Russian spies. Half of Trump’s team showed up.
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@IslandGirlPRV
@JulianCastro
I am genuinely curious why this was called in as a “felony traffic stop,” when the specified justification was an “improper lane change.” And why were guns immediately drawn? I have done exactly what this Lieutenant did, but then I’m white, so . . . .
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Yes, my avi is a picture of me, although not always a recent one. Yes, that’s my name. Yes, that’s what I do for a living. Yes, that’s where I live. I fear no one and nothing. Anyone who wants to find me can easily do so, although you may regret visiting without an invitation.
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@RonJohnsonWI
“But our nation is being torn apart.”
You tore it apart, and now you’re whining about it? You’re like the guy who killed his parents, then begged the court for mercy because he was now an orphan. 🙄
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@RonJohnsonWI
Aren’t you the guy who promised twelve years ago that you would only serve two terms, maximum? Why yes — you are that guy!
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@marcorubio
As I recall, Florida was Ground Zero for the “pill mills” that fueled the opioid epidemic. What did you do to stop that, Marco? Besides accepting campaign contributions from the manufacturers promoting illegal prescribing practices, I mean.
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@Laiebchbum
@westerndragon90
“You’re right! It’s really more than one million. Coroners were incorrectly listing causes of death as ‘pneumonia,’ ‘myocarditis,’ and ‘pulmonary thrombosis’ before they knew those were caused by Covid-19. I can’t get anything past you!”
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@jsolomonReports
Of course they are. So they belonged in the custody and control of the Archivist, not in Trump’s toilet. 44 U.S.C. § 2203(g)(1):
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@itsJeffTiedrich
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. But three times is enemy action.” — Ian Fleming
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@Mikethewander1
I wear one because: (1) vaccines are not 100% effective, as we have been told; (2) Covid-19 isn’t the only virus against which masks provide a layer of protection; (3) I don’t trust people in my environment to tell the truth about whether THEY are vaccinated; and (4) I can.
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@mikepompeo
I don’t see any record of you doing anything to roll back Republican tax cuts that accomplished none of the objectives advertised by their proponents. President Carter’s final budget year left us less that $1 trillion in debt. Reagan tripled it in three years. The GOP owns this.
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@JDefarge
@joshgerstein
If it was my case (at USDOJ), I would consider it a favor. In effect, she is telling the prosecution, “Show me why these issues I mentioned are irrelevant, and I will deny the motion.” Its Judicial GPS.
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@DashDobrofsky
Your professor bought the lame-assed attempt at deflection instead of the real story. Human rights are a helluva lot more important than the truth about a looming catastrophe becoming public ahead of schedule. She doubled-down with the “political gossip” comment. Well done!
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@lawofruby
Practical problem: with the “speedy trial” demand comes a forfeiture of robust pretrial motion practice. These folks are giving up more than they’re getting. There is a reason Willis waited so long after the special grand jury adjourned before seeking indictments. She’s ready.
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@JoyceWhiteVance
It wasn’t custom or history to have an Air Force either, and the Air Force certainly is not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, yet here we are. 🙄
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
Biden paid his federal income taxes for forty-seven years. That’s more than can be said for any member of your family, including your grandparents.
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@bizerbizerrides
Please renege on the second part. You earned that, and no amount of frustration changes the fact that you earned it. Please at least consult with counsel.
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