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      Don’t underestimate him and assume it’s just a distraction. He’s willing to do far more than this.

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        I really don’t like the “it’s a distraction” argument. If everything today is a distraction for yesterday and tomorrow will have more distractions for today, then they are no longer distractions. It’s a figurative shotgun blast of bullshit on a daily basis and hoping most of it sticks.

        Like the gish gallop of authoritarian power. Pretty sure the Nazis did the same.

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          Yes. There is no Merlin in a tower exacting immaculate designs through an orb on a table here — it’s just a bunch of people who were raised on the dark liquor of grievance culture who were given power. They’re all taking out their grievances. That’s gonna be the entire story of the next however long. Measure your place in that paradigm and plan accordingly.

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      I’m guessing both. He’d do it, might still even try, but this and the tarrifs are to distract everyone from the Epstein debacle.

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      Well, they massively expanded jail space everywhere, as well as funding for ICE. Of course they’re going after much more people than just “illegal immigrants”. That’s just the low-hanging fruit for them (still anti-constitutional). Fascists will always move on to other groups of people because they constantly need to find new enemies, not realizing that they themselves are the only ones causing actual harm. They will also turn on each other if someone blames another one of “treason” or “aiding the enemy” or whatever. It’s a purely destructive cult-like force and if you can’t stop it it will cost millions of lives over a couple of years.

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    Well, well, well. Isn’t that the racist raping bankrupt fraudster conman pot calling the kettle black.

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    Isn’t it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless? For that matter is there literally any legal mechanism in the US to strip citizenship from someone once it has been granted?

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    For what its worth, not mentioned in the article:

    In early 2025, shortly after Trump was inaugurated for a second term, O’Donnell moved to Ireland, where she is in the process of securing Irish citizenship through descent