ncsteve.bsky.social
I am not okay. But I'm not on Twitter, either. So I've got that going for me, which is great.
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It's no different than being embedded inside the SiPo c. 1933.
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The insidiousness of Bormann in the Speaker. The ruthlessness of Himmler in a former beauty queen psychopath.
In every modern tyranny, the leader is surrounded by people who seem to have been generated by an RPG that reduces Hitler and Stalin's inner circles to a set character attributes.
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Oh, I think it very much on all of their minds. They just realized that if the people are sovereign, no constitution can save them from tyranny if they are determined to impose tyranny on their neighbors.
It's what the man meant by "a republic, if you can keep it."
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The obvious solution is to talk it over with Republicans between innings at a charity baseball game.
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Well hey, if it's for charity, that makes it okay to pal around with fascists who are in literally in the process of stamping out democracy as if what's happening well within the bounds of normal politics. Politico and Axios might think you're unserious.
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help.nytimes.com/360003499613...
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So say we all.
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We aren’t going to regain democracy playing by the rules of a functional democracy, because we aren’t one now. But if we don’t want to trade a Tsar for a Lenin, a Shah for Ayatollahs or a Batista for Castro, we can’t play by dictatorship rules either.
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It's a given that the states with Gauleiters instead of governors are going to handle the military assault on their cities at the state level. You can already hear DeSantis jumping up and down in his little platform booties yelling "Me Too! I'm mobilizing the Guard against the Radical Left too!!"
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It's never too late to look at someone's profile before deciding you know who they are.
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It's never too late to read a book.
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I'm not undermining valid criticism. I am, however hopefully undermining support for batshit insane responses to the criticism.
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He's more than a threat. But there is no scenario that can be envisioned without the aid of VOC's and a huff-rag where a military coup does anything but make it worse.
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Yeah, there a military coup against a dictatorship that led to democracy in Costa Rica also. That's two. If you scour the history books, you can probably find one or two other times that happened amid the hundreds and hundreds of times a tyranny that was as bad or worse as the one toppled followed.
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I guarantee you that a) that isn't going to happen until the order to use lethal force moment arrives and b) officers and noncoms are sternly squelching a lot of barracks and bar talk among the enlisted ranks about what they'll do if if that order comes even as they talk about it among themselves.
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Yes, a military coup. That's bound to make things better. They always do! It can't fail.
Christ, if only I had a dollar I read something like this about Obama.
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It sure as hell ain't the RCMP.
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Oh god give me strength.
Trump is sending regular troops to L.A. and is talking about sending them in to cities nationwide, and as a dog returneth to its vomit a Democrat defaults to Pocketbook Issues! framing.
FFS, the cost like maybe the seven or eighth thousandth most important thing here.
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Oh, there've been developments. He's explicitly announced the plan is to drop it all onto the states and that the White House would take direct control over giving them disaster assistance money.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fundi...
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Unless you are from a Red state and kiss his ring, of course.
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But they have to pay for it! Despite having already paid for it with their unjust taxes they have to get into grubby bidding wars for it! And worse, they're often outbid by the publicly traded corporations that are mostly owned by the moocher hoi polloi's retirement funds! It's all just so wrong!
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You know your constituents, I guess. I'm not one of them, but if you asked, I'd tell you that the last sentence was the only one that mattered, whether morally or politically. Oh, and fire anyone who thought you needed slather the glutinous platitudes of the first two sentences on top of it.
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"The biomedical research enterprise." That's what he called it.
What the galaxy-brain billionaire weirdos hate about academic scientific research is that it isn't an "enterprise." What they hate is that they are partly paying for it through taxes rather than collecting rents from it.
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Selective amnesia is so cute.
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Given that that's exactly what Orville Farbus and George Wallace said, I can see why a Democratic governor would not be wanting to do that. If there isn't a way out of this that doesn't entail Calhounism, we're already done as a nation.
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But muh eggz!
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Inshallah.
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I would be looking forward to the scathing orders granting the motions to dismiss with less trepidation if not for my belief that there will be at least four votes to give ICE the thumbs-up in the bag before the first cert petition is filed.
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So maybe Millennials responding to anyone older who tried to warn them about that by sneering "Okay, Boomer" was ill-advised?
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For god's sake please avoid Watership Down names.
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Hence the "anarchy" in the chyron...
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Sure doesn't seem to be obvious to the people and AI's in the stock markets.
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And debtor's prison.
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Well, TBF, many of them have taken this opportunity to don their tactical gear and pretend to be ICE or DHS agents.