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    As a born and raised New Mexican, fuck this absolute piece of garbage, and fuck anyone who has voted or is continuing to vote for the convicted rapist and pedophile party. New Mexico is a culturally rich and diverse state, full of traditions going back hundreds, in some cases thousands, of years.

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        The french are protesting against education funding. And americans wont get off the couch to rescue their own country.

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          Mobs are easier to form when your entire country is the size of a single US state and everyone who wants to participate in the country is within a day of driving to the same location. Your people aren’t less willing to be fucked over by the government. It’s just easier for the small percentage of you who will riot to meet up.

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            And most countries don’t have a police force more heavily armed than a small country’s military.

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              Decades of no accountability and poor hiring practices have made the police thugs against their citizen peers. Funded by the have nots, while protecting the haves and themselves.

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          Eh. Honestly, I think it’s pretty likely both incidents in which someone got “close” were probably false-flags. Orangeboi is a complete coward. I genuinely think he’d piss his pants and run away screaming if it was a real attempt on his life. There are a number of very suspicious points to the rally event in particular.

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            Yeah, i am extremely suspicious that the two incidents where people got the closest were completely fabricated false flags. The rally one in particular was so, so sketchy, and so many details simply do not make sense at all.

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            With no charisma or leverage to get anything extreme done. It isn’t their daughter in law that controls the GOP and is able to fund primary challengers.

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              You think they’d impeach the younger smarter asshole who wants to hurt their enemies?

              No fucking way. The Republicans want this. Trump is only useful for his distraction otherwise they would have stopped musk.

              Plus it gives them an incumbent to run in 2028 (if they aren’t already planning to run Trumps corpse again).

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                I didn’t say anything about impeachment. What would matter if they did anyway? A presidential impeachment has never ended in consequences. No, they just want have the ability to jam through controversial bills or wars. Congress won’t just go along with them.

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      The ultraconservative cabal behind his back who wants their schemes signed and greenlit. They have to keep their puppet alive.

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      He only has room in his head for like 10 words at a time. That’s why he thinks remembering 5 in cognitive tests is a huge victory. It takes half his brain! And the other half is “America” “golf” “China” and “besty Putin.”

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      Well to be honest he probably wants to name after Himself but even his most loyalists followers refuse to do that. They probably told him that when he wins they will do just that. I mean he did complained that he had to build all these moments after himself because noone will do it after he dies.

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    Comically, New Mexico acquired its name long before “New Spain” became Mexico. Apparently New Mexico predates Mexico. (By a decent while too).

    Edit ended up reading the article, it is listed in the article further down as well “New Mexico’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century”

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    I legitimately saw this news floating around earlier and just assumed it was a parody article…

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    Remember when we dismissed one of, if not the most, progressive president in our lifetime because he was old and “senile”?

    And traded him out for whatever the rapist fuck this is.

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      Yall chose the most hated woman politician, and put her against Trump. Look at Bernie he still out there freash and fighting good fight. Had a other chance and again chose the fucking neo liberal who spent 4 years accomplishing nothing. Or he did just got overturn. What really pisses me off is the asshole knew, KNEW, he had incurable cancer and still ran again. When it was clear he could not beat Trump instead of having a primary they chose to stick Harris on us that no one wanted. Yet I still voted for her. But millions just didn’t vote.

      Now only way out of this is the one thing the majority of Americans refuse to do. And we need millions to do this thing we are to have snowball chance in hell of fixing this problem.

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        Add in the “minor update” for the swing state voting machines, which was provided by Leon Hitler.

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      progressive president in our lifetime

      Glazing the bar in hell isn’t gonna make it raise any higher lol.

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        Sorry, I don’t take your feelings as gospel. I’ve done my homework. Biden was notably progressive. He passed significant progressive legislation.

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          Progressive like Palestine? That was probably one of the top 5 most progressive things in the 22nd century. I definitely never saw someone holding the separated parts of their baby before then or the bodies of prisoners being returned so mutilated you couldn’t even tell if they had skin.

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      Joe Biden has stage 4 prostate cancer that spread and is in extreme pain and was doing radiation. I’m not saying by any means Trump was better but Joe Biden absolutely should not have or be president in that condition. He has months to live now.

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    Calling it already, all Spanish names of towns and states will be forcefully translated to English. Prepare for Snowy, Tiles, Flowery, Aridzone and Caliphornia to be really peeved about this

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      What about Michigan? I grew up in Detroit. I loved visiting Mackinac Island and Kalamazoo, places whose names carry traces of the Indigenous languages and cultures that existed here long before European settlement. Kalamazoo is often translated as “boiling water,” although its precise meaning is uncertain, while Mackinac is traditionally associated with “great turtle.”

      Then you have Ypsilanti, named after a Greek military commander who fought in the Greek War of Independence, and Detroit, whose name comes from the French word détroit, meaning “strait” or “narrow passage.”

      And that’s just one state in the Midwest.

      Does this guy understand that America is not simply a country of wealthy white people? This country has always been a complicated mixture of Indigenous nations, European colonial powers, immigrants, and countless cultures that helped shape what we now call America.

      The French established settlements throughout North America, including Detroit and New Orleans. Spanish-speaking communities existed in what is now the United States long before the country even became independent. Indigenous peoples had their own languages, cultures, governments, and civilizations for thousands of years before European colonization. And those influences haven’t simply disappeared. They’re embedded in our geography, our language, our food, our music, and our institutions.

      And here’s an important correction to a common misconception: until March 2025, the United States had no federally designated official language. English has now been designated the official language by executive order, but that doesn’t erase the country’s multilingual history or the many languages spoken here today.

      America’s history is far more complicated than a simplistic narrative about one ethnic or cultural group. You can see that history just by looking at a map of Michigan.

      Honestly, I can’t tell whether this guy fundamentally misunderstands the country he’s governing or whether he’s employing a political strategy so calculated that I’m struggling to comprehend it. Is this genuine ignorance, deliberate messaging, or some combination of the two?

      Because I find it difficult to understand how anyone can look at the actual history of this country and conclude that America’s identity belongs exclusively to one group of people.