Washington DC traffics in favors. In 2025, the people able to dispense favors will be the same people who tried to seize power by violence in 2021. That fact makes it difficult for anyone in DC to keep moral bearings straight. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... - ThreadSky

davidfrum.bsky.social • 133 days ago

Washington DC traffics in favors. In 2025, the people able to dispense favors will be the same people who tried to seize power by violence in 2021. That fact makes it difficult for anyone in DC to keep moral bearings straight. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/january-6-memory-trump/681216/

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northcarolinats.bsky.social•133 days ago

As one of the principal boosters of the Iraq War, this shouldn’t surprise you

thanatosredux.bsky.social•133 days ago

Never forgetting that day and the cowardice from Republicans after the event

https://bsky.app/profile/thanatosredux.bsky.social/post/3lf3d5zrmos2d

beth-in-wisconsin.bsky.social•133 days ago

Outstanding final line in this piece.

areader55.bsky.social•133 days ago

Today is January 6. Republicans will be smiling to the cameras, the media will be covering everything as normal. This is what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil" in her book about Eichmann. He was a nazi who didn't think he was a fanatic or sociopath, but just a normal person doing his job.

docpolitx.bsky.social•133 days ago

Exactly right, and I'd like to hear you think through the implications of your last sentence. People will soon need guidance and reinforcement, because their employer, the Federal Government, will be asking them to act contrary to the shared moral principles of truth and fairness.

unawarewolf.bsky.social•133 days ago

There should be events commemorating this all day. This should not be allowed to fade from memory. WHERE ARE THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS!!!

scarletfirebear.bsky.social•133 days ago

We should be laying a wreath on the Capitol steps. Something. Anything.

Where is MSM? Where are the TV specials running film footage?

unawarewolf.bsky.social•133 days ago

Yep. Where are the Democrats? They're too busy trying to court the same people who are responsible for this. It's about power and influence. They need donor cash for that. That is who they serve. We have no representation. It's on us to organize, protest, and fight.

dirtyfingers.bsky.social•133 days ago

We must loudly remind them every day that:
1. The incoming administration is a crime family.
2. Their putative leader is a convicted felon.
3. This is still a democracy ruled by laws.
4. We'll hold their feet to the fire every single second.
5. Karma has a LONG todo list.

victor-laszlo.bsky.social•133 days ago

davidfrum.bsky.social•133 days ago

After the civil war, the national Democratic party confined ex-Confederates to federal backbenches. Democratic presidential nominees were always Union-loyal. When Democrats won the US House in 1874, they excluded ex-Confederates from committee chairs.

davidfrum.bsky.social•133 days ago

In its long history, the United States has never before suffered the rapid, complete, federal-level rehabilitation of violent insurgents against lawful authority that is about to happen in 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/january-6-memory-trump/681216/

victor-laszlo.bsky.social•133 days ago

readingwarrior.bsky.social•133 days ago

Remind the voters of why Jeff Davis never ran for POTUS.

ariabehbuh.bsky.social•133 days ago

Because they have learned from previous "mistakes" as they may have considered them. This is the current strategy building up on top of previous experiences. The masses are always easily duped. This is, I believe, why a free and proper press is so important, and why the 1st amendment is the 1st.

trini-manc.bsky.social•133 days ago

All tue.
Also hilarious to talk about the "long history" of the United States.😉

god-of-abf.bsky.social•133 days ago

It's June 1865, except that the Confederacy has won.

ajaxatax.bsky.social•133 days ago

Good thing DC isn't known for being morally flexible and full of play to pay lobbyists!

calizaybak.bsky.social•133 days ago

Hey, remember when you lied about Iraq's WMD and helped get over a million people killed and kept on lying even when it was obvious then declared you were wrong... somehow... but still right to have been wrong... or something?

You really think you can opine on "moral bearings"?