Former President Donald Trump ramped up his threats to prosecute President Joe Biden if he wins another term in the White House.An appeals court rejected Trump’s claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case in the District of Columbia, although he intends to press the same argument in …

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    9 months ago

    Your boss, Sleepy Joe, is a man with considerable means and connections, and if he’s what you say he is, a communist with the power to imprison you, your plan is to blackmail this person?

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      9 months ago

      The dichotomy of the GOP and specifically trump: they’re both strong and weak at the same time.

      Actually, that’s a play right out of the fascism handbook.

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      9 months ago

      If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.