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Mysterian

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5. What the American people really don't know

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2025, 04:59 PM

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is what it's like to live in a dictatorship with no Bill of Rights, no constitution, no due process, no courts with any real power. Republican voters seem to think it would be really great for them ------ and only bad for "the others" they don't like. What a nasty surprise they will get when they see what it's really like to be a resident of a country that considers them nothing more than a slave.

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Justice Sotomayor concerned Americans cannot distinguish between presidents and kings [View all] BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP

Dictator would be a better term. King implies royal, not royal asshole. twodogsbarking Tuesday #1

What percentage of the US markodochartaigh Tuesday #2

Maybe she means her 6 Republican colleagues. /nt bucolic_frolic Tuesday #3

Scary. greatauntoftriplets Tuesday #4

Oh, teachers still teach the difference. Elessar Zappa Tuesday #10

What the American people really don't know Mysterian Tuesday #5

I would suggest that before 1776, nobody knew what a "President" was FakeNoose Tuesday #6

There were no fake partisan color teevee Faux-like right-wing propaganda Justice matters. Tuesday #13

Justice Sotomayor J_William_Ryan Tuesday #7

Or let's not be so kind and say they do understand the difference... ananda Tuesday #8

Some of her fellow Supreme Court Justices prefer Kings. thought crime Tuesday #9

Just four? Polybius Tuesday #11

Roberts, once in a while. thought crime Wednesday #17

Americans can't distinguish shit from Shinola. harumph Tuesday #12

Whaddya expect from a country where 44% of the population didn't read ONE book last year? LudwigPastorius Tuesday #14

I read almost every single day of my life. lark Wednesday #16

Sotomayor better be excruciatingly careful with her health. lark Wednesday #15