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In the 2016 and 2020 United States elections, there was opposition party shutdowns and mass voter polling places closed. Where was The New York Times then?

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Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders

https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

but apparently "it's cool y'all", cause it was blessed by the judge:

"a political party’s determination of the structure which best allows it to pursue its political goals is protected by the Constitution. the choice——and attendant

consequences——between “impartiality and evenhandedness” and Tammany

Hall politics lies in the province of the DNC, not the judiciary.

Grave questions regarding the DNC’s

right of association would undoubtedly arise if this Court were to

enjoin the DNC to a particular manner of governance. "

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You should thank those bedbugs when you come roaring back with fire like this. Yes, America, please just shut the fuck up about practically everything. There's really nothing else to say.

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"The US empire—by which I also mean the client states around the world who support its agendas of planetary domination..."

Might be nice to list a few: Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Canada...

9,592 troops of 36 countries serving in Afghanistan: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/9-592-troops-of-36-countries-serving-in-afghanistan/2212251

Japan and South Korea aren't in Afghanistan, but they surely are participating in the US aggression against North Korea and the "defense" of Taiwan.

The list of nations that aren't under US control would be much shorter.

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So true, Caitlin! I have been particularly horrified not so much by the corporate media pro imperial chorus on Nicaragua, which is par for the course, but by the burgeoning number of leftwing sources that echo it. What's up with that? What do they gain by cheering for, and repeating, imperialist interventionist propaganda, when they often maintain decently critical positions in other areas?

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Trump in 2024: at least he mocks these people. It’s fun to watch and yes he’s a pig and greatly degrades public discourse but it is such a comeuppance for their highfaluting self congratulatory exultation. Trump properly understood the source of his success, he gamed the system beating both the R’s and the D’s. The source of that success: mocking. Caitlin helps us see it clearly but I think we all intuit the manipulation that’s foisted on us. So along comes the Trump monster and he says it right out load - the elite, politicos are lying idiots. That’s what he said coming down that escalator on day one.

Don’t be confused, in power Trump was standard R, fully of and for the empire; he’s no different except for the mocking and of course his enormous incompetence.

America deserves Trump, he is your personification, resistance is futile.

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still no mention about Australia's Orwellian lockdowns...vaxxine mandates...or the obvious scamdemic? Eve Bartlett called you out about your lies by omission....pretty pathetic...now ban me

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US democracy = replacing one clown with another, preferrably with a convenient-at-the-moment skin color and reproductive organ

the upside is, fewer people really care what corporate presstitutes bladder.

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Ouch Jackie: your stinging rebuke .

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I get real tired of the hate America traces on here, because pretty much all elections we now know are or have been rigged. It's coming out, and only Americans will and have made it come out! The Socialist European Union States and vassals like Australia and Canada, wouldn't even believe it could be rigged. Hilarious. We care here and we are doing something about it, no matter the endless fake news 'chatter' otherwise. The good gripers in Australia and elsewhere, are learning a hard lesson with the Covid jab, elections and their own corrupt 'leaders' and how the 'police' are rounding up any 'dissenters'. That didn't come from America pals. Got your jab(s...and counting) yet Caitlin? God, how I love America because the people do still have their guns and The They know it. The rest of you can go quietly into that Socialist good night. The jabs are just the start. When you bash America you bash US. We know there is corruption and at least we are trying to undo it...and have the means. Governments are the problem when they get 'to big to fail' (they think). The Founders warned US and we went to the Socialist trough and slippery slope of handouts, buyouts and redistribution of wealth, so here we are...finally, finally some are really waking up. We, the United States are the only ones who can undo it. Freedom isn't Free, We Will Take It Back.

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