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A Dem POTUS will be able to use the same authoritarian tools Trump used to roll back presidential decrees, admin changes and such, but issues that require Congressional votes will be watered down to get by filibusters and SCOTUS overturns ... The struggle continues into the foreseeable future.

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So a Dem POTUS's DOJ could indict him in 2029, and maybe convict him of crimes, does that take a year or more? His puts us into 2030, with appeals, another year? 2031? he'll be 84-85? He won't live to see the inside of a jail cell. Others, like Hegseth, much more likely.

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So, to override a veto will require GOP buy on. The Dems won't get anything _new_ passed - like expanding the SCOTUS, until a Dem POTUS, defeats him in the 2028 presidential election & takes power in Jan 2029. But there's still a filibuster available to the GOP in the Senate ...

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.. the impeachment process requires a 2/3s vote in the Senate for conviction and removal. So, he serves his full term, unless the GOP dumps him, not likely. So, his last year in office, best likely case, is he's the Veto King. To override a Veto, you need 2/3s in BOTH the House & Senate ...

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Don Johnson @djohnson53.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Assuming he doesn't die in office. He won't resign. While it's arithmetically possible that Dems get a 2/3s majority in the Senate this Nov, they'd have to sweep basically ALL Senate seats that up for a vote, highly unlikely. So a majority, a possibility, but ...

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This all started, in this age, with Richard Nixon and his speech writer, Pat Buchanan, and their racist dog whistle pitches to working class whites. Lots of Southern Dems switched to the Republican Party in the 60's. The 'Silent Majority', the 'welfare queen'.

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Don Johnson @djohnson53.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know what its like to fuck up royally. This guy fucked up royally & keeps fucking up royally. He should just play his remaining gigs, all by himself if he has to. Don't talk, just play. Then, when the tour is over, go home, don't talk to anybody, then wait. Maybe in awhile, things will blow over.

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Don Johnson @djohnson53.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He could've dropped the show at Kraft's venue, pay the people that would've worked that night & still made a bundle on the tour. He wouldn't have even had to publicly say why. Just go on to the next city. Everybody in the business would've known why. He could've been a hero.

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No 5g. No cellular if you get too far away from the interstate. They're being left behind and they know it. Its the fly over phenomena applied to infrastructure.

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That's not it. Main reason: they know that whatever its for, its not gonna help them. There are high speed fiber optic cables running across the country. Along the freeway and rail lines. They don't come up in Rocky Springs, Wyoming. No high speed internet there, even if its right under there feet.

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I worked in Signals Intelligence from 1971-1975, the only folks we didn't spy on & routinely shared intelligence were the UK, Australia, Canada. Those are the only countries we didn't spy on. We monitored every telex/telegram/cable coming into or out of the US. And that's just the part I knew about.

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Check with a human. For health questions especially, check with a doc or NP, or PA, or Nurse. There's a lot of MAHA out there that could be in the AI's Model. Or, use an AI that explicitly notates the sources it used. Then you can evaluate them.

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We have to be real here. The struggle we're in will continue at least until the end of Trump's term. It'll get better if the Dems can control Congress with a 50+% in both bodies, the best we can realistically hope for, but it won't be over by a long shot.

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Trump vetoes a bill passed by a majority in both houses. That bill goes back to the House and Senate, and if they bring it up again, it will need a 2/3 vote in BOTH the House and Senate to override the Veto. So ...

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The GOP will lose the House, and _may_ loose the Senate, but no Dem 2/3's majority in either is likely. So, unless you get a dozen and a half GOP Senators on your side, no 2/3 needed to remove him thru impeachment. Do he becomes the "Veto King", veto process:

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Don Johnson @djohnson53.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everybody, please, remember, Trump isn't going anywhere until January, 2029, unless he resigns or dies. And, if if does die, they might wheel him around for awhile to see if anybody notices, like Mitch. It takes 2/3 of the Senators in attendance to convict and remove in the impeachment process.

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Putin sees NATO and the EU as brittle. The more desperate he gets, the more likely and attack on NATO to try and break the alliance. Trump will go along or not care one way or another.

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We all might like this 'associate member of the EU' trip. But Canadians don't want to be the 51st of the US, and they're wary of being the nth state of the EU. It's all symbolic, and it gets under Trumps skin, but I wonder ....

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allow Russia to lose the war. They don't want an unstable Russia on thier northern border.

Probably not. Both North Korea and China are committed to keeping Russia from losing. N. Korea has thousands of troops in support roles, freeing up Russian soldiers for frontline deployment. thousands of workers on 'student visas' assembling drones. China said flat out that they would not ...

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Messi (@Messia367558) on X

I wouldn't normally post a link into the evil X, but this is just too funny. I like that the dog and ram are working together. x.com/Messia367558...

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The high-tech robot dog thought it was the future, but one hit from the local ram sent it straight back to the past! 😂🐏💥🤖

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I wonder how many folks, trying to keep it all together, wind up supporting genocide. I ask myself, "What would Dolly Parton do?"

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I've seen the spot. The least of us are hurt the most by gambling.

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They want regulation to lock out competition & limit their liability when damage occurs. The hype about it is hokum. Not at this point and not with this architecture. You can't build a wood building taller than 18 stories, you need steel and concrete. This Ai is fast approaching its 18 story limit

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Next, Chinese military advisors along the Mexican Border.

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Carney's gonna blow Trump's mind joining the EU. Then Trump's gonna shit his pants - oh - Trump does that already.

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MAGA should remember that the 1st folks to confront Al Qaeda Mano v Mano were the 'fly-over libs' that brought down the plane in Pennsylvania. They knew they were going to die that day. I'm sure nobody asked what party affiliation they were when they were storming the cockpit.

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Macklemore says that he's been friends with Sheeran for 13 years and that this 'disagreement' doesn't change that. Love doesn't demand perfection. I'll follow Macklemore's lead here.

The "continuing Criminal Enterprise" RICO laws will apply to all of these folks, as well as to Trump's extended family, Trump might worm his way out of it, but these others won't, if the Dems have the balls. Take it all. Victor Orban in Hungary is a good model.

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I live in Portland, Oregon. So we figured we would visit Portland, Maine. There I learned about a new conspiracy, which now my favorite one. I would love to convince MAGA of this:

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I learned to deter pedos as a kid in the 1960's. I didn't know exactly why, but my dad taught me to use a loud and 'mean' voice, to say NO, if anybody, in a public bathroom, asked if I needed 'help' in the stall, when I related such an event to him. It happened more than once and his advise worked.

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Duh? Any lawless regions, there are lots of them now around the world, are violent. Road blocks at night, neighborhoods where Police won't go due to sniping - things we haven't seen yet in the US ... But over 50% gun deaths in the US are suicides, that IS violence too, but not what most think of.

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Yes, Thiel is on my radar. Lot's of tech CEOs are Ayn Rand types. I almost got fired, without forethought, remarking to a CEO in a meeting that he was impressed by Rand, that "I too was impressed by 'Atlas Shrugged'" pause for dramatic effect "when I was fourteen."

- with agnosticism being the only reasonable opinion to have. But that's not as interesting as you being a botanist.

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@adk-sparky.bsky.social I actually knew a Botanist before. He was a commute buddy. He told me about Polyploidy in plants. Especially how the flowers we love are a result. We cold argue about atheism. I believe that atheism and theism are both based on faith, you have faith there is/isn't a god ...

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I would like to give Sheeran a chance to do better, having budgetary and profitabilty pressure, with venues threatening to cancel, & now, hopefully, having second thoughts. I don't know what other history he might have. Waters is no saint, and Sheeran could very well deserve the shit he's getting.

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So Trump become Veto King. To override a veto needs both a 2/3 majority on a 2nd vote in both the House and Senate. So, this struggle isn't over in November not by a long shot.

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If everything goes our way the Dems will at hair over 50% needed for a majority. But they won't get a 2/3 majority. To convict in the Senate they will need a dozen and a half Republicans to vote for conviction. Figure the odds of that happening?

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Everybody. Trump isn't going anywhere unless he resigns, dies or is killed. Even if the Dems win majorities in the House and Senate. An impeachment is an indictment. It leads to a trial in the Senate. It takes a 2/3 majority of Senators present to convict and remove.

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Don Johnson @djohnson53.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Both Trump and Musk are liars. They both brag about shit that never happened. He spent a bunch of money.

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It's ironic. Rich white gets a warning then winds up crashing and killing himself and his new girl. If he's been black, the cops would've arrested him and he would still be alive.