Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.

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    Bukele has already blinked.

    I am not worried for Booker. The tide is slowing down, and may turn soon if the pressure continues from all sides. Trump has played his hand badly.

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    Lets not conflate Van hollen and Booker.
    Van Hollen actually does good with his position and I dont see skeletons in his closet.

    Booker is a centrist zionist bullshitter trying to ride van hollens coattails. Booker has done some good things, but when the chips are down and his vote is needed, he doesnt show up. A DNC democrat that needs to be removed along with the rest of the so called “liberals”. Lets make these people wear their voting history and not adore them for their purely performative BS or empty words.

    Tired of empty cult of personality democrats.

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      Donald and his many goons has many skeletons in his cabinet. The only difference is, he’s showing it in real time.

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      If you hate liberals so much, why even vote for them? Just support a 3rd party or force all the liberals out and make them vote Republican.

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        Your comment makes no sense and jumps to conclusions. Maybe dont bother doing that.

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      Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.

      Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.

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        so would I, but why is our yardstick always “is he better than a republican”. Thats exactly how we lose campaigns.

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          It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.

          Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.

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      This is a ballsy move on Booker’s part, and shit like this is exactly why nobody likes the left. Make better use of your time.

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        The left doesnt like centrists either. But neither of us can win without the other. So now what. The centrists would be in charge of the presidency right now if they could have held off sucking off AIPAC for 5 minutes but you lot couldnt even give a little bit on that-- you would rather lose to trump than give up on the genocide and bring the left and a critical portion of your base on side. That election was very winnable but you lot always seem to hate the left more than you hate trump. So what does the left owe you besides the back of our hand?

        One of these days you ethics-free troglodyte centrists will have to admit you are in a coalition with the left. Neither of us has to like it-- and we absolutely dont like it-- or you, but we have to do it. And you need to ditch the zionists or get used to trump and losing every election till you do. You think the left will back down, we wont. We will never ever back your dirty genocide.

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    The bottom line is that man will never be safe in this country again. This fascist regime has made sure of that. He will have a massive target on his back if he ever returns.

    American fascism is here.

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    He’s definitely gonna run for president again and is trying to position himself as relevant. He’ll never win.

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    The Legislative and Judicial branches need their own armed forces in order to help provide a real counter to unconstitutional executive overreach.

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      His wife and child are American citizens. His life, job and friends are in the US.

      It’s not easy for people to give up the people and places they love.

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    Who’s been spiking Corey’s drinks? His testosterone is getting too high to measure!

    I think I’m starting to love him.

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    How about the legislatures stay home and legislate and you can send a fucking staffer or emissary for the photo op. FFS.

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        Apparently lmao -7 downvotes from people claiming the fascists are taking over. Fighting fascism is when take photos, and no one criticizes the photo op.

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        Many stated it’s dead bodies-if you use Google Maps satellite. If you use Apple Maps-it’s very clean. But it seems like Google Maps is more updated than Apple…

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          Well one thing we can know: if during the next round of satellite imaging from apple/google maps in 2025 sometime, if a building or tent appears over the place, then it was definitely bodies.

          El Salvador gets internet too, they have definitely seen the controversy and would move it or cover it up in the future against satellite imagery.

          If nothing at all happens and the next round of imaging shows the exact same dimensions and no clearer imagery emerges from a world regime with higher zoom spy satellites, then it is likely nothing.

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      We can get satellite imagery that has a resolution of 30cm (1 foot? Fucked if I know) I put in a request to get some of the site but they want $500 because I need to buy 25sq km of imagery. So I’m still looking for another vendor

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        You probably should ask the Covert Cabal channel on Youtube about this. They specialize in counting Russian armored assets - how many are still in storage, the rate tanks vanish, and so forth. They ought to know specialists and how to get the most cost-effective footage.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if CC someday covers concentration camps, seeing as how the Trump Regime is an Russian organ.