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Although she didn't quite achieve the heights of the trust buster Teddy Roosevelt, don't forget Lina Khan of Biden's SEC, who made great strides in pursuing anti-trust actions, including blocking the Kroger merger with the parent company of Safeway. Too bad T**** won't keep her around.

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I think the use of the term "INC." is incorrect. An incorporated entity agrees to follow specific rules and laws related to the operation of a business. The BROLIGARCHY is not bound by any regulations or moral codes; it is best described as a mobster gang .

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Wajahat,

Thank you for this, these asshats haven’t needed any supposed legal cover to accomplish what Musk has done over the past weekend. They haven’t even used a ruse like Hitler’s Enabling Act of 23 March 1933 to accomplish their takeover.in under 72 hours they seized control of OPM, the mechanisms by which all of the country’s financial payments are made and began to dismantle a complete Federal Agency without the approval of Congress, all without any legal authority. It will get worse, far worse.

Be safe and watch your six.

Steve Dundas

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Well Wajahat, that was a good rundown of the situation. Yes, these people are bad. But, this isn’t anything new. America has a very long history of such types. They were here before FDR and after he passed. I do not like saying this about the USA. But I believe it is true, Americans became pacified after WWII. Not the men & women who won the war! The following generations forgot the work and struggles endured. They expected things to be a certain way. And they were for a long period. Now they are not. Now comes the test of all of us. Can we meet the moment as the Greatest Generation did? I pray that we can. As news showed today, Resistance & Opposition is expanding quickly. But these evil forces attacking us are not going to voluntarily stop. We are going to have to battle every day for America. It can be done. We must pass our test,

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The price of eggs rules. Because of that we will cut off your retirement checks. Makes perfect sense if you are delusional. I look for a way to extract the country from the mass psychosis. Few stop to think about the root cause of this dilemma, but Carl Jung understood it well. Mass psychosis is the advent of deluded people. You see those questioned at a Trump rally and you say “How can they be that deluded?” And then you forget about that delusional interview you just watched with YOUR OWN EYES. You do not do the next step: add it all up. It adds up to Mass Psychosis. You are led by a psychopathic neo-fascist that has deluded masses of people. https://open.substack.com/pub/hotbuttons/p/comes-a-time?r=3m1bs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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EFF THE NAZI MUSKRAT!!!

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Every day, in every way, it gets worser and worser.**

**yes, I know the word is worse, But Couéism. calls louder than grammar.

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Hmmm? Welcome to Trumpistan 😱 it's only going to get Worse 💥

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Your assessment is excellent, as always, and really depressing… however I’m not giving up or giving up… I’m here for the fight to save our country from this decent into fascism and authoritarianism.

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The Anti trust legislation Teddy Roosevelt used to reckon with The Gilded Age is STILL there and ready to be used.

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I am frustrated by the widespread references to the price of eggs. The adult students at the community college where I have taught are struggling to pay their rent and provide even basic food for their families. Homelessness in the US increased by 18% in 2024; one in 8 public school students in NY experienced homelessness at some point in 2024; one in 6 American children are food insecure. It seems so condescending and misleading to dismiss the concerns of struggling familles as merely worry about the price of eggs. Of course the Trumpian oligarch regime is not the answer-quite the opposite. But why ridicule desperate families.

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Great article. Sharing.

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Bravo Waj!

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Not when I i bring it down!

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