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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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Just now, Francisco 2.0 said:
Ask the Supremes to see if they want to intervene. Â If they choose not to, then that's it; the House gets his returns.
No, they don't.
He will just refuse to comply with the court's decision and orders. That's where we are.
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17 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
KUT just ran a series of Austin man on the street bits and most didn’t want anything to do with talking to reporter. A couple seemed reluctant about impeachment. A couple were ready to go. If that’s the temperature gonna be a long row to hoe.Â
Oh, it's going to be a long row to hoe indeed. We're collectively too stupid to deserve this freaking birdsnest on the ground we have been given* -- huge country, incredible natural resources, protected from foreign wars by oceans on each side.
Franklin framed the issue correctly -- what we created was "a Republic, if you can keep it."
We've answered that rather resoundingly -- we can't. We're entering the end-stage. And we're doing it with the passionate glee that only ignorance and stupidity can support.
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* given, taken from the original inhabitants, who we genocided the shit out of, why quibble?
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20 minutes ago, David Dennison said:
I wish the Democrats knew how to go for the jugular.
The GOP strategy of continuing to collaborate with foreign powers and destroying the rule of law works really, really well....until it doesn't. Then, there won't be any "Democrats" - it will just be people. And they'll go for more than the jugular.
Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. The GOP is not heeding the inherent warning of that adage. Their path ends in shit like the guillotine. It's stupid as hell. But they're hell-bent on pursuing it full-speed ahead.
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2 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
Your comparison breaks down along one important point: Black people were correct in that "the other side" had been getting away with it for decades, even centuries.
But the GOP thing that Tom brings up, "the other side" haven't been getting away with anything. EDIT: because they havent' been doing anything they need to get away with.
Oh, I thought I clarified it by referring to the GOP's beliefs as insane. You are correct, that's a big difference. But the psychology at the end of that is the same -- whether you're actually getting a shitty deal, or you've deluded yourself into thinking you got a shitty deal, the conclusion is the same -- "getting away with it" yourself is sweet, sweet revenge.
We're run by a band of deranged nutbars.
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Just now, David Dennison said:
I know Dems are going to take the L on impeachment and removal.
I just hope that L doesn't linger and result in another one next November. A re-elected Trump would be a nightmare.
We can only try.
If our country decides to self-immolate, we can't stop that.
If the GOP successfully follows the path of voter disenfranchisement, voter intimidation, and cooperation with foreign interference, then we will lose. That will also mean that we no longer live in a functioning republic under the rule of law. And if the rule of law no longer applies, it no longer applies. We the people will then have to decide what that means. Spoiler alert: it rarely means anything that doesn't end quite messily.
You know how I'm betting it goes.
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28 minutes ago, deech said:So?
I mean I completely agree with your analysis. 100%. But then what? Would you have them not make their case for impeachment? The President and his minions competed an impeachable act. You make the case in the House exactly like they are today. You have solid, credible witnesses tell their story for all of America to see.  You make the case as best you can as clearly as you can. Simple. Then the vote is whatever the vote is. Â
The alternative is to let slide an impeachable offense due to political calculation. Maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but you take the L if that is the end result for the system and hope that the public vote of R's and Trump's second term vindicates that L historically.
I agree with this. We have to run the play, because goddamit, it's the right thing to do.
You remember To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch tried one HELL of a case. He was right. Tom Robinson was innocent. He deserved acquittal, and justice.
But Atticus knew -- like we know now -- that the jury would never do justice. He knew the whole time. He knew from opening statement to closing argument. He knew that the facts and evidence didn't matter. The jury was going to do what it was going to do.
The reader knows that it's a great wrong. The reader wants Atticus to win, but knows all along that he surely won't. Â
Atticus offered some wisdom that fits the current circumstances:
QuoteThose are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn’t go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
QuoteI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
We the People are going to take the L on this one.....because the party in power has something between them and reason (power, greed, venality). And they couldn't be fair if they tried. We aren't going to win. But we're going to write the book. Because maybe someday, there will be people who read it and are as disgusted by wrongdoing as they should be. And shit, write the book for no other reason than that it's more wrong than to just go along and allow an unjust result without even putting up a fight.
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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:
I have a developing theory that where there is a massive, poverty-stricken and uneducated (literally no education) underclass, as in much of South America and Russia, for example, autocrats appeal and "moar autocrat" makes lots of sense to that underclass.
A sound hypothesis. Which rings quite true across the board......

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Did he bring his things in a Fjallraven backpack, too?
Know how I know you have a teen daughter?
Sigh. Mine carries it as her every day backpack. Her German and Norwegian friends were wearing them two years ago, so she jumped on that trend.-
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Just now, Eastwood said:
Mr. Chairman, I would like to submit for the record the January 1996 issues of Highlights magazine, in pertinent part the picture find.
I'd like to invoke the rule of optional completeness, and also submit Goofus and Gallant from that issue.
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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
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did @Brisketexan test it's dependability as a place to sit ?
Look, fucker, if you haven't spent hours of your life sittin' on a cooler drinking beer, I don't want to know you.
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Just now, DDD Dad said:
So, now we will hear testimony that Bolton, Pence, and others urged withholding from Ukraine until they became convinced he was committed to fighting corruption.
Sure, Gym.
What I want to hear is someone make the very important distinction:
The withholding of aid was not on the condition that Ukraine actually investigate Biden.
It was on the condition that Ukraine PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE that it was investigating Biden.
The action required was not "investigate" but rather "announce." That pretty much sinks the bullshit ship of "Trump wanted to fight corruption." I mean, nevermind that 1) Congress already found that Ukraine qualified for the aid, and 2) the Pentagon itself determined that Ukraine had cleared all necessary anti-corruption hurdles. Bust these fuckers on their baldfaced lie. Do it.
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What's your take on this as a whole? [mention=248]TwiceHorn[/mention]
Is Castor just running through a script loosely framed as questions?
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Did not take it as one. I don't need the hassle or harm to my career from diming out a judge.
This.
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But....but....Deans dips are the dean of dips!
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Some private/alternative options:
Sulphur springs camp near Colorado bend. Private campsites, should allow a campfire.
Tejas camp on lake Georgetown. Army corps lake, setup campsites near the parking lot, built in fire rings. The river is really cool there.-
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Cross posting from the fishing thread...
Aguachiles
And yellowfin sashimi with spicy ponzu
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Is that why you run screaming in to every thread about military coups to howl about how bad the democratically elected presidents are? Seems inconsistent. I don't like authoritarian anti-democratic regimes.
What leftist regimes have killed millions in South America?Murder of millions by leftist regimes (of which history has a rather impressive scorecard) -- A-OK.(When did I ever say any of it was OK?)
Why are you downplaying right-wing violence when the worst dictators in South America's history are all right-wing military dictatorships supported by the US to fight Communism? Seems either historically ignorant or purposefully misleading on some Ben Shapiro shit.Right wing violence and murder (history fills some pages with this shit, too) -- not just wrong, but actually proof that being to the right of center is evil.Pinochet, Batista, Somoza? No? Anyone?
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(Quoted the above, Tapa is odd)
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“Democratically elected” means jack shit when a leader controls the apparatus of the state. Which presidents for life do. Plenty of authoritarian leaders are “democratically elected.” A willingness to leave the office, and not monkey with the constitution repeatedly to favor your continued reign, are a good baseline.
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Leftist regimes in Latin America are no fucking angels. Cuba has killed and imprisoned a shitload of dissidents. The Mexican revolution saw significant wholesale murder of “counter revolutionaries” (they tried to get my family, we made it to Del Rio). Seriously, my own fucking family fled leftist death squads in Latin America.
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And of course, my criticism wasn’t limited to Latin America. If you aren’t willing to acknowledge the millions killed by China, the DPRK, the Soviet Union, Pol Pot, that’s your fucking problem.
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I won’t downplay right wing violence - I particularly wont downplay our own shameful fucking involvement in it (cough, Operation Condor). But I will maintain my position that wing ideology has little to do with being murderous shitbags. Instead, authoritarian, anti-democratic rule is the greatest common denominator.
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Sorry your idols are so disappointing.
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lol that’s a lie
Hell...let’s pretend it isn’t.
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29.5% of Americans have an arrest record (that percentage includes both convictions and felony arrests with no conviction).
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Presuming his number of around 54,000 is correct...there are 700,000 DACA recipients.
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So....7.7% have an arrest record. Thats about 1/4 the rate of Americans as a whole. DACA recipients are much more likely to be good citizens than a randomly selected American, including the Trump base.
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Thanks for making the argument for us, DOTUS. I’d much rather have a DACA recipient living next to me than a Trump supporter. They’re MUCH less likely to be a criminal. And they’re almost certainly much MORE likely to be gainfully employed and contributing to society.
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Statistics are a bitch, you fucking simpleton shitsmear.
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That's fucking tragic.Â
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And they have a TV reality star, who harbors no thoughts above a sixth grade level, to vote for and support. It's a match made in hell.
Oh, don’t skip over the fact that the GOP is doing all it can to ensure that minority rule by that 35% (psst...it’s really 40-45%) persists forever. -
In the Ray of Hope Department:
https://www.wacotrib.com/opinion/columns/board_of_contributors/blake-burleson-in-an-abyss-of-lies-i-must-finally/article_7636d664-7aa1-5eb6-91ff-b6b87795b438.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR1zhycuhWZl3WqwQQSd2QKE6DvdGa0O3IWltFTFGf5BGUG1Hwm5nVKKEPs
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SpoilerIN THE AGE OF TRUMP
Blake Burleson: In an abyss of lies, I must finally depart from enablers of madness among us
- BLAKE BURLESON Board of Contributors
- Nov 9, 2019
A few weeks ago as I was leaving church after the Sunday morning service, I spoke with one of my friends about the unraveling of our democracy. The conversation turned to his father — in his 90s and a Trump supporter. My friend told me that his father only watches Fox News to get information and has no tolerance for information factual or otherwise that counters the narrative he hears on Fox. When my friend confronts his father about blatant and deliberately misleading statements from what has essentially become Trump News, his father declares unequivocally that the mainstream media is the one putting out lies.
And so a family rift has developed between my friend and the father he loves.
Except for those in isolation, most Americans are experiencing such tensions in some of their closest relationships. Bonds are fraying in families, neighborhoods, businesses, civic organizations, schools and faith communities to a degree not witnessed since the Civil War. As we know, that horrific conflict pitted families against one another in national bloodshed. Slavery was ultimately crushed and our union was stitched back together, but not before brother fought against brother, father against son. Families went to pieces right along with the nation.
During the four-year Civil War, propagandists for slavery surfaced at every level of society, from statehouses to courthouses, from newspaper offices to college lecture halls, from bars to pulpits, from kitchen tables to bedrooms. And like Republican Party leadership today, these propagandists drank deeply from a well of maniacal, self-serving, us-against-them ideology: Slavery was God-ordained! While the propagandists then had no Fox News to indoctrinate the fold, the media of the mid-1800s in the South were dominated by voices of oppressors who had enslaved an entire population of Americans. Non-slave-owning whites were — with notable exceptions — the enablers of the slave owners. Voices of liberation were mostly silenced in the forests and cotton fields from South Carolina to Texas.
Unfortunately, many of my ancestors in Texas were part of this oppressive regime. Some Burlesons owned slaves; most Burlesons may not have owned slaves but nonetheless plowed blood and treasure into supporting the South’s fight to perpetuate slavery. In fact, Burlesons were willing to die to preserve a way of life propped up by one of the vilest evils in history. All benefited by oppression of African Americans both before and after the War Between the States.
While some members of my family such Gen. Edward Burleson, once vice president of the Republic of Texas, led in advocating white supremacy over African Americans and Native Americans, others such as Rev. Rufus Burleson, president of Baylor University, eventually became advocates for the rights of blacks. The change of heart did not happen overnight for this preacher-educator. When the Civil War began, Rufus Burleson was a chaplain on the side of the South, enabling their cause. Years later, after the North had won the war, he traveled all over Texas giving speeches to encourage towns to support free public education that included schooling the children of freed slaves. He also helped raise money for the establishment of Bishop College for African Americans.
Since Judge R.E.B. Baylor, for whom the university is named, was a slave owner, Rev. Burleson’s early advocacy for civil rights is remarkable, perhaps even singular among Burlesons at the time. Most of my ancestors (unlike Uncle Rufus) proudly bolstered the Jim Crow South once the war was over and Reconstruction collapsed. This legacy of discrimination lasted a long, long time. In fact, the Lost Cause narrative that gave rise to it defined several generations.
As a child growing up in Texas in the 1950s and ’60s, I found the racial prejudice in my extended family and neighborhoods was deep and pervasive. I was taught in school that the Civil War was not fought over slavery but over states’ rights — an example of revisionist history if it ever existed. The propaganda machinery went unchecked in the South for at least 100 years after the Civil War. In some quarters it continues today and has, in fact, been given new life through white supremacists emboldened by President Trump. Growing up, I learned from extended family members that slavery was not evil but rather a “peculiar institution” beneficial for African Americans and good for America. As a boy, I heard happy statements like, “Did you know that most slaves chose to stay with their slave owners after the Civil War ended?”
The message was clear: Slaves once in human bondage loved their masters so much they just wanted to remain in one big happy family. These sentiments were expressed at family gatherings and celebrations in willful ignorance of the depredation caused by an institution in which the recently freed had nowhere else to go, no way to survive except to stay with former slave owners who had treated them as their property, their chattel. These Southern myths were meant to assuage any collective societal guilt for enabling the political, religious and civic powers of oppression, past and present.
Myths can last for decades, even a century or more. When renowned Civil War historian Shelby Foote, resolutely Southern author of a three-volume history, “The Civil War: A Narrative,” spoke at the Beall Russell Lecture for the Humanities at Baylor University in 2002, he made the statement that slavery was ultimately “good” for African Americans because it took them out of primitive Africa. He said this “peculiar institution” allowed them to escape the Rwandan genocide! Many of us in the audience put our heads in our hands upon hearing this tired minimizing of America’s original sin.
The Southern Baptist Convention was formed in 1845 over the issue of slavery. Baptists in the South sold their souls by separating from their northern Baptist brothers and sisters in preference for that “peculiar institution.” It took 150 years for the SBC to publicly apologize for support of slavery, asking forgiveness from “all African Americans.” Yet today the SBC again stands on the wrong side of history as its leaders openly support a racist in the White House. First Baptist Church of Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have become the grand enablers of Trump as SBC congregations large and small across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and beyond voice adoration and awe for this president.
ÂA new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute indicates 98% of Republican white evangelical Protestants oppose impeachment — significantly more than any other religious group surveyed. In Waco, punch-drunk evangelicals have either kept silent or openly supported Trump and his actions. One evangelical pastor — a friend of mine — defends Trump’s inhumane border policy, writing in this very newspaper that it “offered compassion” and “that it is an honor to serve on the Board of Latinos for Trump.” This reminds me of some Lutheran pastors and Catholic priests’ tacit and not-so-tacit support of Hitler’s “compassion” camps for Jews in World War II that separated families.
Evangelicals and evil
Christians surely should ponder this much: The Trump administration deliberately inflicted trauma upon children as a deterrent, an action morally repugnant and contrary to international law and biblical tenets. This action is indefensible. Yet many evangelicals are OK with taking the evil with the good. I often hear evangelicals say they don’t like the Trump tweets but tolerate them because of Trump’s appointments to the Supreme Court, placing justices who stand ready to dutifully overturn Roe v. Wade. Like Esau who sold his birthright for a bowl of porridge in Genesis, these evangelicals claim mightily to be “pro-life,” even as they enable and endorse a government that separates vulnerable children from desperate parents at the border, that orders immigrant children in need of lifesaving health care to return to their country of origin where such care does not exist, that encourages and excuses white supremacists’ violence, that tries to dismantle health care for millions of Americans, that precipitously withdraws troops from Syria leaving Kurdish men, women and children to face potential genocide, that refuses to do anything about the epidemic of gun violence in America, that guts the Environmental Protection Agency’s role in conserving clean air, clean water and other natural resources, that ignores the climate change so obviously threatening all human and animal life on the planet. This is pro-death, not pro-life. Yet Republican support for Trump remains sky-high — at least among those still willing to identify themselves as Republican to inquiring pollsters.
While recent surveys suggest younger generations of Americans are fed up with Republicans and their right-wing misogyny, homophobia, racism, greed and xenophobia, millions of other Americans — from the Greatest Generation to the Baby Boomers — are entrenched in an ideological swamp that supports this president and his minions (some now under indictment or in prison). My church friend’s father, now in his 90s, will not be around many more years. He is likely to continue watching Fox News and its soul-snatching, mind-numbing, truth-bending embrace of Trump and his enablers till his last breath. And what of Trump disciples in their 50s, 60s and 70s who will live among us several more decades after Trump is removed from office, resigns or is defeated in 2020? Like the neo-Nazis in Europe and America, those voting for him and thus enabling him will likely continue to believe what they believe now — that he is a great president. They’re so caught up in a vortex of misinformation, mythology and falsehoods that they will remain in his axis till their dying days.
And the rest of us? When evil is called good, there can be no common ground on which to stand. At least, for now. Some relationships will be and must be broken. It’s not “just politics.” Lives are being lost — on our borders, in our schools, in our hospitals — because of Republican and evangelical enabling of Trump. Their endorsement is inexcusable and history will show little mercy. When the propagandist machine of Fox News, right-wing radio and evangelical pastors have twisted hard facts, surrendered constitutional principles and abandoned biblical tenets so that millions remain in an abyss of lies, a point eventually arrives when there can be no further conversation. One must walk away from the enablers and the sycophants and seek faith and renewal in the truth and the light.
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When you have lost a Baylor Department of Religion professor and minister...
Blah blah blah libtard RINO etc.
He’s one. There are few like him. We’re bound for bloodshed. There’s no stopping it. - BLAKE BURLESON Board of Contributors
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57 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:
uhhh what? lol
You were (still are?) a cheerleader for starvation-by-sanction in order to spark a revolution in Venezuela. Your foray into this thread is to rage about Morales, not the obvious racist, fascist, right-wing nationalist military coup. It's a consistent and obvious pattern.
"I'm mad about cancer and fingernail bruising, I just spend 99% of my time on the subjects talking about how terrible fingernail bruising is."
Well, it just so happens that in our hemisphere, the most authoritarian, least democratic government happens to be nominally "leftist." I don't like authoritarian anti-democratic regimes. Sorry that hurts your feelings. I mean, among the candidates for second-most authoritarian, least democratic governments is our own right-wing Trumpist state, which I think I've made clear I ain't a fan of. If we get a full-blown right wing version of Venezuela, I'll shit on that as much as I've shit on the Chavez-Maduro regime.
But we get it.
The world according to bad teammate:
Murder of millions by leftist regimes (of which history has a rather impressive scorecard) -- A-OK.
Right wing violence and murder (history fills some pages with this shit, too) -- not just wrong, but actually proof that being to the right of center is evil.
The world according to sane people:
"Authoritarian, anti-democratic regimes kill the fuck out of people, and they're a bad thing, and we shouldn't have them, regardless of which school of political thought they purportedly align with."
I'm good with where I stand.Â
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2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Why?
It's a joke, dude.
Trump will not resign.
Trump will be re-elected.
And he will be re-elected again, when his handpicked SCOTUS finds that the term-limit amendment is void or some shit.
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1 minute ago, Fozzz said:
I like Evo quite a lot, but I'm more worried about what will happen to the people of Bolivia now that the person chose to be their President has been forced to flee and insane Christian extremists have taken power. Â
You know how I have warned the Trumpkins over and over that once you void the rule of law, and make it the rule of one man, then that opens the door to rule of the fist/the gun? That's why the rule of law is so damned important. It allows for the people -- people who may change their beliefs over time, by the way -- to be heard, and to believe in legitimacy. Once that's gone, then the people (or at least a good portion of them) begin to think "fuck it, just take power however you can."
Evo made a grave mistake when he had the court void the constitutional term limits. He sent a message that the law was actually whatever he wanted it to be, not something that was bigger and more permanent than any one man. And when you send the message that the law as written doesn't matter, all that matters is your power to change it or overcome it, then that sets the stage for this shit.
I favor the rule of law and self-determination. If that means the people elect a leftist, so be it. If that means they elect a right winger, so be it. So long as both leaders are constrained by the constitution, and leave office when constitutionally required.
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