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What does an America without democracy look like? We’re about to find out.
The Hill ^ | 1/2/25 | Max Burns

Posted on 01/10/2025 9:41:54 AM PST by DallasBiff

Whatever you think 2025 will bring, you’re most likely wrong.

If Donald Trump’s first term taught us anything, it was that even preparedness has its limits. Trump’s knack for stoking high-level uncertainty keeps his opponents off-balance while forcing the media into a constant state of catch-up. That puts the president-elect in a uniquely powerful position, even before considering his governing trifecta.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: barf; democracy; democracyvsrepublic; garymason; maxburns; tds; tdshysterics; thehill; trump
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To: DallasBiff

More blather from TheSteamingPile.


61 posted on 01/10/2025 11:08:42 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

Good!
Democracy was the last thing the Founding Fathers were trying to create...

They were designing a system that should have prevented a democracy...
A Constitutional Republic...


62 posted on 01/10/2025 11:11:22 AM PST by SuperLuminal
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To: fwdude

More like Demcommieocracy


63 posted on 01/10/2025 11:23:45 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: DallasBiff

What better proof that the word “democracy” has no logical meaning to these people.

They throw around a lot of other terms including that republicans want a “lawless presidency”.

And this from the article: “Democrats are quoting laws to people carrying swords.”

The left have always been a bunch of screwballs and most people used to know that.


64 posted on 01/10/2025 11:28:01 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: DallasBiff

I watched a video recently, explaining the collectivist definition of democracy.

Democracy, as they define it, is the power structures and organizations that advance world collectivism. You know, word crafting.


65 posted on 01/10/2025 11:32:31 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: DallasBiff

Should be called the shill.


66 posted on 01/10/2025 11:36:30 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

😄


67 posted on 01/10/2025 11:47:03 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: DallasBiff

Their definition of *democracy* and the real one are not the same.


68 posted on 01/10/2025 11:50:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

They probably ARE pedophiles.


69 posted on 01/10/2025 11:53:22 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: kaktuskid

Exactly.


70 posted on 01/10/2025 11:53:43 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

71 posted on 01/10/2025 12:38:51 PM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: ckilmer
Certainly his greatest song was Hallelujah was all about the death of trust.

High freedom requires high trust.

It is about King David lusting for Bathsheba and the sounds of their throes of ecstasy.   That is some greatest song.   /s

72 posted on 01/10/2025 12:43:16 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: DallasBiff

“Trump’s nine long years of decontextualized rants have played a leading role in destroying public trust in ideas and institutions most Americans once considered fundamental: Fact-based news”

The HillofBullshit continues its idiotic articles.


73 posted on 01/10/2025 12:49:46 PM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: DallasBiff

The Hill?

Double Bag BARF Alert!

“The sky is falling!”


74 posted on 01/10/2025 1:58:22 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: AndyJackson
"So this Orwellianist is going to lecture us on democracy."

Burns has a perspective on democracy that is unique in all of the galaxy.
75 posted on 01/10/2025 4:08:04 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: gundog

King David is famous for being a great king and a terrible father. In order to screw bathsheba —he had to have bathsheba’s husband killed. His child by bathsheba was solomon who was also a great king—but a man who took way too many wives. One of solomon’s children became the next king who was so weak and stupid that the Egyptians raided Jerusalem and removed everything of value from the temple. Then, the idiot king caused the break up of the kingdom into the northern kingdom Israel and southern Kingdom Judah.

Cohen never married. His biblical knowledge appears to be limited. imho People over spritualize the song—which I don’t think is wise because the taste of bitterness lays so heavy in the song.


76 posted on 01/11/2025 9:23:03 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer
“Peacocks and apes.”

Have you ever read Joseph Heller’s God Knows?

77 posted on 01/11/2025 9:51:59 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. the )
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

“ Why do all of these lefty “journalists” look like pedophiles?”

Because they are.


78 posted on 01/11/2025 9:59:14 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: DallasBiff

The Democracy was settled by the election. The country should function as a Republic, as originally intended.


79 posted on 01/11/2025 10:13:16 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: gundog

No. But I understand its a story about King David told from David’s point of view (as an old man) with an American Jewish sensibility. Heller uses it as platform to comment on all things historical.

King David despite all his flaws is generally thought of as a “man after God’s own heart.” His poetry is timeless.

When I was a teenager I read Heller’scatch-22 and thought it was funny.

I don’t think I read any of his subsequent books.


80 posted on 01/11/2025 11:05:21 AM PST by ckilmer
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