Frank McPhillips

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal

Concentration Camp Labor
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Trump's Constitutional Trump Card Article II has a pretty big loophole, at least if you read it the way MAGA (and most of the Supreme Court) does.

Trump's Constitutional Trump Card
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I’m confused by all the headline references to a “shouting match.” I saw one side shouting and the other side getting shouted over when he tried to talk.

"Recoup the costs" The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

"Recoup the costs"
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Opinion | Physician Senators, What Have You Done? They have betrayed the Hippocratic Oath in voting to confirm RFK Jr.

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Call it by its name: A coup. February 1, 2025

From Robert Hubbell. Frightening.

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

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If true, so much for only pardoning non-violent offenders. Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy & sentenced to 22 years in prison.

This is the way to defeat tyrants: "We shall fight with growing confidence ... whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Winston Churchill.

Why did she and Walz stop calling them "weird" and "I know his type"? They made Trump look weak. Instead, using language like "fascist" and "threat to democracy" made him look strong, even if threatening. That increased his appeal to low-info voters, esp. males. That was a mistake in close election.

Along came Kamala, who ran a great campaign. Out of the gate, it was: "I know his type ..." and "I'm a career prosecutor who took on fraudsters" and "Trump & Vance are weird". She had great momentum. She demolished Trump in the debate, And he knew it. But then, her "experts" told her to pivot.

Biden believed his legislative success would speak for itself. His comms team was terrible at communicating success. As a career con man, Trump understood that evidence-free symbols are effective with low-info voters: "I am strong and Biden is weak". Continuous repetition of that message trumped all

Trump won b/c he ran on symbols, not policies. He won b/c he attracted low-info voters who don't care about policy. Like LBJ, Biden was a Senate veteran who knew how to get legislation passed. He did it with a 50-50 Senate and a virtual 50-50 House. In conventional terms, Biden was successful ...

It's heartening to see more truth tellers and indie journalists migrate to Blue Sky and other platforms.

I hope this trend continues and these places make it more palatable for folks to leave X.

X cannot continue to be the dominant platform.

It has become the epicenter of misinformation.

Donald Trump is now (1) below 50% popular vote and (2) has a margin of popular vote victory roughly HALF of Hillary's victory in 2016. They believe the left has to lay down and shut up because of this "landslide" victory.