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Davis Bates
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This part is crazy... because he truly lacks any form of empathy and self awareness
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This, I think, holds up pretty well! www.findinggravity.net/you-would-no...
It's deeply weird how absent that story is from the national conversation about the Trump/GOP assault on American democracy - both media coverage of it and political responses to it. For a long time it was pretty widely believed in America that American democracy was a far better system of government than, say, Eastern European autocratic regimes not merely because of abstract notions of the fairness of representative democracy but because of quality of life outcomes too. The soul-crushing austerity of life under an autocratic regime in which a handful of favored party loyalists lived lavishly while everyone else stood in bread lines and worried about who was listening in on conversations in their own homes — these images of bleak and punishing everyday life in the kinds of regimes Donald Trump is trying to emulate were once a fixture in American culture, ever-present in our consciousness. Not that long ago, either.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM