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mollyjongfast.bsky.social • 86 days ago

Protect norms and institutions

Protect norms and institutions

Protect norms and institutions

Protect norms and institutions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/12/02/trump-justice-department-merrick-garland/

Comments

chelittle.bsky.social•85 days ago

Stay the course you will have those jobs available to you after your service to the Constitution.

beckya.bsky.social•86 days ago

Real conflict here between protecting the country and protecting oneself. I won’t judge anyone who decides on the latter, since the former will put the official and their family at considerable risk.

jagsman.bsky.social•86 days ago

Stay! Fight for Right!

terpsichorecmlos.bsky.social•86 days ago

👍🏽👍👍🏾👍🏼👍🏻👍🏿

sissydonhadit.bsky.social•86 days ago

With a corrupt SCOTUS it’s understandable.

eridani24.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not just justice dept. Intelligence professionals and other government workers are also worried about their jobs and putting out resumes. You can't put a cost on the loss of years, sometimes decades, of experience and expertise on the problem sets if they leave.

theamc.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wouldn't it be better if we wrote the norms into law?

rahab16.bsky.social•86 days ago

You write columns for the Washington post, but they block average people from participating in comments, so I dropped them. MSNBC is too expensive for mediocre reporting, and zero follow up questions, so if you write on blue sky, I’ll read.

oeishik.bsky.social•86 days ago

Will become difficult to do if Donald implements Project 2025. Something he is seriously considering. https://youtube.com/live/PJSAcWtonSU?feature=share

cjsteeler.bsky.social•86 days ago

Trump has 0 to do with 2025. . but there are some great ideas in it

loribornstein.bsky.social•86 days ago

Do not quit. Do not make it easy. Make the fire you!

thecarebear.bsky.social•86 days ago

Now Trump will pardon every J6 domestic terrorist.

Garland’s refusal to immediately arrest & prosecute Donald Trump for dereliction of duty alone has set a dangerous precedent that will be incredibly difficult to reverse.

The next 4 years under Trump will accelerate America’s descent even faster.

cornpopu812.bsky.social•85 days ago

Consider them pardoned. All of them should declare they do not want to commit suicide.

I was there they caught me🤣🤣🥲

kyleruggles.bsky.social•85 days ago

Facts!

Thanks Biden for getting him that job and thanks Garland for doing jack squat.

4 years, nothing.

brambling2.bsky.social•86 days ago

Thanks for LITERALLY NOTHING #gutlessgarland
You complicit pos😡

wtfppl.bsky.social•86 days ago

But the WP is a former institution I’ve chosen NOT to support.

nobody-you-know.bsky.social•86 days ago

Why should they stay? Very few members of the Legislative Branch have indicated with any assuredness they will provide topcover to those who do. And MSM seems more interested in continuing their ambivalence towards providing counterpoints to the extreme right's narratives.

djtroops.bsky.social•86 days ago

💙

juneclever.bsky.social•86 days ago

That’s lesson #2

feral-mel.bsky.social•86 days ago

If they were to stay and do what he wants, wouldn’t we condemn them for being brown shirts?

thebiggiewall.bsky.social•86 days ago

If you're able to, please don't abandon ship.

You doing so creates more vacancies for him to install loyalists, which could continue to do damage long after his 4 years are over.

Resistance 2025 counts on everyone not giving in to his fascist whims.

abe8311.bsky.social•86 days ago

💯

coffeechats.bsky.social•86 days ago

Article is behind a paywall. Part of the problem with msm, ad revenue isn’t enough they have to charge us for the information we need and should have access too

radicalnana777.bsky.social•86 days ago

As opposed to most right wing junk which is almost always free

sidhar.bsky.social•86 days ago

Let it burn.

Maybe the third of Americans who were so amoral that they didn't vote will wake up in the ashes.

fakekraid.bsky.social•86 days ago

No, don't do that actually, *especially* in times like these because they will never protect you from fascism

bingmanc.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's a conundrum. Leave and Trump is more unfettered. Stay and suffer the stain of complicity. I'm not shaming anybody for self-protection.

stevie-z.bsky.social•86 days ago

You're still looking for that pony that surely is somewhere under that pile of horse poop. Unless the Electoral College does what the Founders intended and elect Harris president, January 20 2025 12:01pm will be the time of death for America.

stevie-z.bsky.social•86 days ago

I should have added "which they won't"...

hectorolly4612.bsky.social•86 days ago

That won’t happen.

stevie-z.bsky.social•86 days ago

Correct.

queeney63.bsky.social•86 days ago

Can't she take office if Joe is too ill to continue?

dietotaku.bsky.social•86 days ago

for, what, a few weeks? part of the reason for the EC was the founders' accurate assessment of voters as dumb panicky animals vulnerable to demagogues. it was the EC's job to overrule the electorate when they chose poorly. you can't just let a bunch of idiots vote for dictatorship.

hectorolly4612.bsky.social•86 days ago

Did they do that in 2016?

They won’t do that here.

As they say on a plane before an emergency landing: Brace! Brace! Brace!

zenny1.bsky.social•86 days ago

Joe is not ill

queeney63.bsky.social•86 days ago

I know.

suekearney.bsky.social•86 days ago

Molly, it’s too late. For good or ill the norms & institutions are being majorly fucked with. I probably won’t live to see what arises from the ashes, but something always does. For my granddaughter’s sake I hope human rights and care for the planet make a comeback.

nojthecynic.bsky.social•86 days ago

These people should do a shitty job in even shittier circumstances when they could be off earning three times as much in the private sector because it's 'the right thing to do'?

I'm sorry, elections have consequences. The voters chose chaos.

charlesotaylor.bsky.social•86 days ago

I hope lots of people stay, and slow walk, leak, and obstruct the admin's lawless agenda.

scorpion233.bsky.social•86 days ago

You can do that without staying.

sparklekpa.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yea, someone has to be the sane and qualified head in the room.

suncityprincess.bsky.social•86 days ago

HA! We stopped that the last ride with Orange Mussolini

fuginugly.bsky.social•86 days ago

Some people may not like how their gov works but it can easily be much worse .

projectfactz.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://suno.com/song/8d4da95d-1ea7-4068-9da8-a8a64e50aaed

lapoodella.bsky.social•86 days ago

If they don’t stay we are in very big trouble indeed.

drpeppert83.bsky.social•86 days ago

Protect AND REFORM norms and institutions

Protect AND REFORM norms and institutions

Protect AND REFORM norms and institutions

Protect AND REFORM norms and institutions

annedf.bsky.social•86 days ago

I think we're past that now. That's not going to happen. Hair on fire reporting didn't happen around Trump from 2015 till now. So, here we are.

sissy70.bsky.social•86 days ago

Fire Merrick Garland! He has been useless and did nothing for 2 years! Biden should have fired him!

djrams80.bsky.social•86 days ago

captnsobvious.bsky.social•86 days ago

Norms don’t work anymore…burn it all down.

purplevh80.bsky.social•86 days ago

Molly, I don't blame them for leaving. Though I hate the reason for it, I do understand.

edwells.bsky.social•86 days ago

Cowards, all of them. Instead of staying and defending our constitution they run away with their tails between their legs. This also go for all the Republicans who left the senate and the house and letting maga Republicans take over the Capitol.

pervenireadastra.bsky.social•86 days ago

Agree. No Atticus Finches there.

houndsofgeorge.bsky.social•86 days ago

spideymac.bsky.social•86 days ago

Protect norms and institutions

Isn't that what Democrats said they were doing in this past election ... protecting democracy and the rule of law? Not to mention, protecting the neo-liberal order, you know like deregulating the economy and making it safe for corporate America. Harsh? We lost, bigly!

ecoprairiepainter.bsky.social•86 days ago

I imagine they are fleeing like rats from a sinking ship right about now. If I were an attorney working for the IS justice department right now, I’d be looking for a new gig. Perhaps the ACLU??

serenakyle.bsky.social•86 days ago

I worked under a toxic leadership for five years. Every move by that person was horrifically engineered to break me. It physically did, but I stayed. The heart goes on. There is such a cost. Please know that in your ask.

gznork26.bsky.social•86 days ago

Bullies operate by using fear to induce capitulation. Obeying in advance saves them the work of actually carrying out their threats. If you have that choice, force the bully to do that work, and shine a light on it. Cockroaches fear the light; it reveals their vulnerability.

julievictor.bsky.social•86 days ago

This explanation gives me a new sense, cockroaches are afraid of light is it true that there is science to confirm this I haven't heard it explained this way or are you sharing more details?

gznork26.bsky.social•86 days ago

Metaphorical cockroaches, those that seek to harm but don't want to be seen doing it, shun the light. Bullies operate from the shadows, at a distance, but to keep their hands clean, they can't be observed doing it. That humanizes them, and being seen as human makes them vulnerable.

julievictor.bsky.social•86 days ago

It sounds like this logic, because a lot of people say this, we always know that pests need to be cleaned up so that we can have a happy future, and not have any stress in life, so that we can aspire to live

handonthetiller.bsky.social•86 days ago

Sounds like they’re committing the error of obeying in advance.

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•86 days ago

trump needs antilawyers

buddyspell.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm a criminal defense attorney. The AUSAs I've worked with over the last three decades are really straight shooters. They suffered thru the last Trump administration, but I don't see many sticking around for this next circus.

DOJ is about to undergo a sad transition.

Rule of law is dying.

specialzero.bsky.social•85 days ago

It has always been a farce anyway. Now the suffering by injustice will just be spread over a much larger number of people.

agateboy.bsky.social•86 days ago

why risk imprisonment for Trump? He is obviously going to ask Justice and the military to break the law.

tim-doin-tim-stuff.bsky.social•86 days ago

Sometimes I wonder why Norm gets all the institutions

(Sorry, I do that sometimes...)

bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social•86 days ago

STAY, sue for your jobs. Keep Trump tied up in civil court. I think that's going to be a key to checking them. Lawsuits.

barbiewithatude.bsky.social•86 days ago

Maybe it's time to make these "norms"(transition paperwork, security clearances, etc.) a legal requirement for holding office?

erickabad.com•86 days ago

Stay and fight corruption.

clearspies.bsky.social•86 days ago

Stay and be ordered to become corruption.

beverlybluewave.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yes, search for your inner hero. We need justice heroes.

thomaseverroad.bsky.social•86 days ago

Smart people are able to see the writing on the wall and bail before they end up with their foot nailed to the floor.

saltymoonshots.bsky.social•86 days ago

Love how Merrick Barrland's love for "norms & institutions" brought us the second coming of the anti-Christ.

jtfdenver.bsky.social•86 days ago

The American people did that. The American people saw January 6, knew about the other cases, the dishonesty, corruption, his felony conviction, his racism, bigotry and misogyny and didn't care.

saltymoonshots.bsky.social•86 days ago

The deranged Americans who voted for that GOPig wouldn't have had the option of choosing an adjudicated rapist & convicted felon-insurrectionist if Merrick Barrland did his job.

jtfdenver.bsky.social•86 days ago

There were lots of failures- Merrick should have been more aggressive, but when you're going after an ex-POTUS, you need to have the ducks perfectly aligned.Trump's cronies challenged every subpoena. Judges, especially SCOTUS, are also responsible. Americans knew about the cases. They didn't care

saltymoonshots.bsky.social•86 days ago

I don't disagree, however, just because it would be difficult, doesn't mean "give up." I remember when Nancy Pelosi reasoned, "He's not worth it!" as her excuse for not impeaching the pervert for conspiring w/Russia in 2016.
That attitude is unforgivable. To me, anyway.
Our democracy was worth it.

eldenring88.bsky.social•86 days ago

What if chaos is the point? What if the appointments are a way to dismantle the country?

mskohut.bsky.social•86 days ago

That ship has sailed, Molly!

mskohut.bsky.social•86 days ago

How??

howardbeale.bsky.social•86 days ago

boomersinthehouse.bsky.social•86 days ago

Pay wall.

boomersinthehouse.bsky.social•86 days ago

What would you have them do when they’re threatened and their families are threatened?

kielbasadude.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Norms and institutions" = the status quo. Voters just rejected that.

gorubenruben.bsky.social•86 days ago

Oralè Resisters
🎵. Here’s the story of ugly man named Donnie
Who was busy with nine insurrectionist of his own
They were ten men and women betraying our country together!
Yet they were not alone
The Donnie Pardon Family
The Donnie Pardon Family🎵
#TheDonniePardonFamily
#HunterBiden #Pardons

toxteth1.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'll betcha it's everywhere. Tough sledding...

alexianortonjones.bsky.social•86 days ago

The smell of Roy Cohen-like justice may only be the beginning….
#StopTheMadness #JusticeForAll #CivilRights #HumanRights #Decency #TheConstitution #Democracy #TheRepublic #America #Civility #Integrity #Honor #LadyJustice
#Diligence
#Inclusivity
#FairAndEqual
#Humanity
#Sanity
#DeptOfJustice

crankebastard.bsky.social•86 days ago

It’s gone great so far… 🤪

chakakhan.bsky.social•86 days ago

It’s happening all over…government workers who can do better will leave federal service. We aren’t paid enough for this crazy shit and we are going to have a brain drain 😞

karinstorm.bsky.social•86 days ago

Talking about norms? Listen to @marcelias.bsky.social
https://youtu.be/a4O6OMHrCcs?si=e0sftkrNGd50rTG8&t=637

lexximagic.bsky.social•86 days ago

On the run, shows weakness

nedmack.bsky.social•86 days ago

Sure, since that’s worked so well thus far.

ehajarizadeh.bsky.social•86 days ago

Will there be USDOJ career staff who stay on to quietly slow or obstruct the unraveling of American democracy? Yes, and at the risk of their livelihood. So job searching in the meantime is also prudent. Either way, I applaud those who will not sacrifice their bar or morals for the autocrat.

californiarefugee.bsky.social•86 days ago

People didn't vote for Trump to "protect norms and institutions". Just the opposite. Americans want those "norms" to go back to being actual "normal" and those "institutions" to be reminded about who really signs their checks.

wavycloud.bsky.social•86 days ago

If "normal" is a bunch of criminals, grifters, family members assigned to positions, incompetents and destructive chaos agents that threaten our security and wellbeing. Only about 30% of Americans actively voted for that. You don't speak for the rest of us.

californiarefugee.bsky.social•86 days ago

Sounds like you're talking about the folks who vote Democrat and are good with protecting the Biden Crime Family. A really tortured post.

mommatl.bsky.social•86 days ago

Protect them by never backing down. Garland failed us and so did SCOTUS.

john55345.bsky.social•86 days ago

@normornstein.bsky.social looks like Molly has your back.

handbastet.bsky.social•86 days ago

One norm is transparent confirmations.

TAKE ACTION

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS

DEMAND BACKGROUND CHECKS & PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR APPOINTMENTS

https://www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
https://www.senate.gov

stallfortime.bsky.social•86 days ago

The government we've had from 1869 to 2024 is over. We must understand an authoritarian one party system to beat it. The norms are over. We need new ones.

mythrasnola.bsky.social•86 days ago

I don't know what I'd do in this situation, honestly. Staying in the DOJ would be a minefield that could prove career-ending.

Why should I potentially wreck my life for a country that just voted to flush itself down the shitter?

petetoemmes.bsky.social•86 days ago

With apologies to the Navy...it isn't easy to steer an aircraft carrier much less a fleet. The US Govt is a fleet on roids.

So if a critical mass of skilled staff leave (or are fired) it may be that nothing Trump "wants" will get done.

On the other hand...it's gonna be scary either way.

dali-llama.bsky.social•86 days ago

Our norms and institutions were already white supremacist garbage, as they've been since they were designed and implemented by white supremacist oligarchs. The system that gave us this situation will never fix it.

hegelian1.bsky.social•86 days ago

This will happen in every federal agency. The best and brightest will get out and make more money in the private sector.

We’re doomed.

rucereus.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm sorry, Molly, but the norm is "corruption" & it should have been dealt with much sooner because now it has become the pillars of too many of our institutions. Systemic change must happen but unfortunately we waited too long & now Trump.

theraccoonplatoon.bsky.social•86 days ago

I saw that video with Mr. Lincoln and his project, you really know a lot of words...
Lf a job?

biglou2.bsky.social•86 days ago

I would run too,

changeisneeded.bsky.social•85 days ago

There is no staying. They either get out or wait to be thrown out. Only workers shown to have been devoted to Trump will be allowed to stay. It's over; the fascist soft coup succeeded. Trump will rule like a ruthless dictator, which he's always wanted to do.

westphillyguy.bsky.social•86 days ago

I’d be looking for a new job far from this sh1t show

philjaurigue.bsky.social•86 days ago

Time for the heretofore fictitious deep state to become the real deep state

wendyvotesblue.bsky.social•86 days ago

How.

jafkettani.bsky.social•86 days ago

The Biden admin and Eu need to conduct extremely serious stress tests on the institutions and key data to help avoid access to sensitive and personal data for the coming techno-fascist US state.

jafkettani.bsky.social•86 days ago

It is the right time to ask various tech moguls (Google / meta / Apple / MS) to sign a charter to protect data / encrypt everything they have on us and resist actively any intrusion by the deep fascist state coming.

cherime.bsky.social•86 days ago

Zuckerberg already went down and kissed ring. Ain't happening sad to say.

jafkettani.bsky.social•86 days ago

We should not let BlueSky become a BS playground. The sane need to organize SERIOUSLY and fast to avoid annihilation Russia 1995 style by the techno-fascist Reich.

spencercorbyn1.bsky.social•86 days ago

Muh norms, like 11-year-long blanket pardons. 👍

jasoncampbell617.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is getting really dangerous really fast.

blazeon34.bsky.social•86 days ago

Can’t really blame them. No one wants to work in the nut house. God bless this country.

sonofadutch.bsky.social•86 days ago

Norms and institutions are gone and will not save us.

We have to do it ourselves. Come to grips with that.

grumpcharles.bsky.social•86 days ago

Fire them all.

stoshm.bsky.social•86 days ago

it's always been disconcerting to me that people w/ integrity quit an agency when a bad choice is appointed,
& then their positions are filled w/ people w/ no integrity

jtfdenver.bsky.social•86 days ago

If they stay, they will be told to compromise their integrity...

stoshm.bsky.social•86 days ago

yeeahh..itsa conundrum, aint it?

dontcallmemargaret.bsky.social•86 days ago

Or they will be the ones that get the blame for everything when it goes wrong…

dogmomgigi.bsky.social•86 days ago

I would be plead the actual laws had teeth & consequence for 🍊

thisamericanwoman.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not without pardons for all members of the FBI and the DOJ!

maalman.bsky.social•86 days ago

People are not obligated to stay at a job they hate, to protect institutions and norms. All institutions and norms went out the door in 2016.

devanescence78.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's not a matter of obligation. It's a matter of morality. I don't think there's a clear answer to whether one decision holds moral superiority over the other, but I imagine what's going through their minds is: will they be directed to do things they can't stomach? And, will they have a choice?

wokeineurope.bsky.social•86 days ago

Good morning Blueskyers! And especially @markhamillofficial.bsky.social !!
Let's gooooooooooooooo!!
#memes #satire #starwars

vanzwilder.bsky.social•86 days ago

Expecting people to stay in jobs they will hate, to protect our democracy, when the country overwhelmingly voted for Trump and his policies seems sort of shitty to me. They shouldn't be faced with this choice, it's our fault for not communicating our message clearly.

drexina.bsky.social•86 days ago

Can we make calls for a full on new election? Asking for a friend (several millions of them lol)

middlerage.bsky.social•86 days ago

Again for the folks in the back Every headline “Our institutions will try their best but this guy doesn’t work well with others.” No shit. Why is he even there.

geraldcollings.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is going to be so bad. But, we need to move forward and do our best.

antichristgov.bsky.social•86 days ago

Except the Democratic Party.
Ooo, and the Republican Party.

Failed institutions.
They must go.

hectorolly4612.bsky.social•86 days ago

Too late.

robinatthehouse.bsky.social•86 days ago

i will never work under incompetence again. they just use you for their own wins and blame you for their loses. no, they should leave en masse. empty.

democracydmv.bsky.social•86 days ago

Come on folks know when you’re being set up by Trump, stay at DOJ at your own risk, Trump will come after you, put you on display via congressional hearings, conducted by his rabid followers—GET OUT NOW!

timrote.bsky.social•86 days ago

If I was an AUSA I would not last long before running afoul of the new administration's agenda and getting terminated or run out anyway. Given that reality for most of them, who can blame them for looking for an exit?

macpohl.bsky.social•86 days ago

Understandable.

cornpopu812.bsky.social•85 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

cndla4st.bsky.social•86 days ago

What Molly said.

bamboozer2112.bsky.social•86 days ago

Trump and his fellow Fascists in the Republican party love to talk of "Freedom" and "liberty" but want to destroy both. Trump is the American version of Putin, just much dumber and pathetic.

april164.bsky.social•86 days ago

That would be noble if they would get paid their salary after they are summarily fired. They need to eat.

hectorolly4612.bsky.social•86 days ago

Probably heard what happened to the former Shitter employees.

scr1966.bsky.social•86 days ago

That’s how we got into this mess.

outofmanyone.bsky.social•86 days ago

On Tierney lesson one do not surrender in advance

mccraephilosophies.bsky.social•86 days ago

Too late. The norms and Institution breakers are already inside the building. Knawing their ways through walls and ceilings.

Nothing will stop them before they have devoured everything digestible or whole structure comes crashing down.

mlamb.bsky.social•86 days ago

Its a lofty idea but in reality if they stay they’ll eventually be replaced with Trump loyalists anyway.

ji89789.bsky.social•86 days ago

It's too late for that. We are way past worrying

sooskavee.bsky.social•86 days ago

That’s easy when you don’t have a family, or both parents aren’t federal employees. It’s all going sideways and if you loose health insurance you are in a bad bad place. With thousands upon thousands of employees’ and contractors’ jobs threatened with no recourse it is a terrifying time for them

diotimaellen.bsky.social•86 days ago

PROTECT NORMS AND INSTITUTIONS while remembering that they cannot exist without our continued devotion to democracy and our insistence on being persons of integrity and decency. Notice I did not say "perfection": DECENCY. Some decency and some kindness go a long way--as does some COURAGE. Stand up!

jtfdenver.bsky.social•86 days ago

I know career lawyers who stayed last time. Cases they had worked on for years were dismissed or settled for pennies. It was a very long 4 years for them.

donellstiers.bsky.social•86 days ago

Lol. That's old hat. Trump 1 killed it. Biden screwed up by not pushing the limits to prosecute trump & co and the insurrectionists in Congress. Now our country is cooked. Smh!

power2thepeople.bsky.social•86 days ago

NOW WaPo wants to ring the alarm. 🚨 GTFOH!

feral-mel.bsky.social•86 days ago

My thoughts exactly

birdie56.bsky.social•86 days ago

Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen.
Teach the girls how to fight dirty. (YBMC)
Teach boys to respect/protect women.
There is no time to lose! Start NOW.

memento1972.bsky.social•86 days ago

We need to codify norms into law and we need to fix the institutions and polices that suck, are broken, and don’t work for people.

We don’t need to defend everything just because it’s there. Dems are just as frustrated by the issues we all encounter too.

Get busy with ideas, or accept the loss

steelpaladin.ca•86 days ago

Sadly even if the norms are codified into law, those laws can be changed or repealed. Once sanity prevails again, explicit constitutional amendments are necessary to make sure what's about to happen never happens again.

memento1972.bsky.social•86 days ago

Absolutely. The Constitution, though, isn’t the only place to codify these things. For the most part. A lot can be done though simply by passing federal laws governing the actions required by individuals assuming office. Like turning over tax returns or medical information, etc., and faster.

duenorth1.bsky.social•86 days ago

The true soldiers will stay. They deserve any and all support. Anticipate the worst and move to protect them.

clearspies.bsky.social•86 days ago

Why would they stay? Would you take orders from a Nazi to harm someone?

bulbousperson.bsky.social•86 days ago

...from elected politicians?

drhello.bsky.social•86 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ndrew.bsky.social/post/3lcdb6kgao22o

jenniferargue.bsky.social•86 days ago

As a 🇨🇦 I never understood why 🇺🇸 resign. Stay.

blue-honey-pot.bsky.social•86 days ago

Maybe the norms is what got us here. I feel like we need to take what we’ve learned & fight to save our country. If Hunter gets one day of peace from all of this it was worth it! Sorry not sorry.

tlrgosu.bsky.social•86 days ago

The mantra for the next 4 years- and beyond

ihatemaga.bsky.social•86 days ago

Nah. Waiting for Biden to stop following the norms and refuse to hand over power to #theFascist.

nanjde.bsky.social•86 days ago

The only person weaponizing the government is Trump.

dannyashby.bsky.social•86 days ago

Make laws that are enforceable. Expecting criminals to adhere to norms is laughable

gtrogue.bsky.social•86 days ago

Hard won institutional knowledge is going to be lost if these key institutions are filled with incompetent loyalists and the competent professionals all leave.

cjsteeler.bsky.social•86 days ago

dems know nothing of norms and belong in institutions. .
do you have a response to joe pardoning hunter yet or is your feeble mind still buffering?

beshannonphotos.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not sure how they could do that? I worked for the government during his last crime spree. It was difficult when those above you are also criminals

patpwm.bsky.social•86 days ago

2 countries

gr82bus.bsky.social•86 days ago

Give these people a break. #Dems in power did nothing to stop #trumptard. Billionaires who hate him backed him out of fear. No one can ask a regular citizen to risk being fired, lose their pension & possible prison when those who could have stopped him did nothing.

brooklynamerican.bsky.social•86 days ago

I completely agree. It's outrageously unfair to ask or expect these people to backstop the democracy when so many others have failed them, and they should expect to be abused in their roles if they stay. DoJ employees didn't sign up to receive hazardous duty pay

marian-steffen.bsky.social•86 days ago

I can. I do.

waifudepot.bsky.social•86 days ago

I don't ask others to do it, though I do ask if they won't to start supporting those who do

We absolutely need to first hold those with the power & money to have done something, yet didn't, responsible

It's part of the greater social contract. That's why we allow their privilege

kyleruggles.bsky.social•86 days ago

LOL!!!

Norms and institutions lead Trump to the white house.

whytetara.bsky.social•86 days ago

Or and hear us out
Use the “new norms” they’ve attempted to implement for human and civil rights purposes

https://bsky.app/profile/whytetara.bsky.social/post/3lcd7vokhtc2j

martindev4.bsky.social•85 days ago

No, they should leave and let the new people learn.

smarta-pants.bsky.social•86 days ago

Norm and trump on one sentence!

milacj.bsky.social•86 days ago

I am not at all interested in the @washingtonpost.com attempts to suddenly *now* start talking about the dangers of Trump’s attempt to destroy the institution

ronraygun1776.bsky.social•86 days ago

We dont want established DC. Thats America overwhelmingly voted for Trump

elisaantoniea.bsky.social•86 days ago

It wasn’t overwhelming by any stretch. He won by 1.5% margin, with much of the country sitting out the election. Just take your depraved win and shut up. You’ll be feeling the pain very soon

ronraygun1776.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not one blue state left just a few counties populated by the dumbest smart people on earth. House Senate and the White House. A mandate is exactly what took place

01renee01.bsky.social•86 days ago

We need to start with protecting women and kids from the trolls !

cjtoronto.bsky.social•86 days ago

The time to do that was November 5th, 2024.

Game over.

feeshkeeng.bsky.social•86 days ago

joedavis72.bsky.social•86 days ago

That doesn’t fit on a hat. Half the population won’t understand.

mamaleeza.bsky.social•86 days ago

I hope they all leave. Let Tiny Hands clean up his own messes.

akjakalope.bsky.social•86 days ago

As infuriating as it is to see Democrats play ball and not push back against anything since Nov 5th, protecting norms and institutions is really the only things that’s preserved our democracy (sorry, Constitutional Republic) for 200+ yrs. As evidenced by their blatant, daily attempts to destroy them

whytetara.bsky.social•86 days ago

How many times have you updated your phone in just this lifetime? Don’t think an upgrade would help(maybe inclusion of founding mothers input this time perhaps;) Non European American Males likely won’t survive another reign of domestic terror like the last. Tired to finish erasure IRL #Rematriate

seemefeelme.bsky.social•86 days ago

Knowing full well they wouldn’t make the cut as loyalists.

alexfilonov.bsky.social•86 days ago

Too late.

tobyrose.bsky.social•86 days ago

The pandemic of gop crime

outofduckstogive.bsky.social•85 days ago

They norms blew up and we're headed for war, there is no putting the Djinn back in the bottle. One side can't live with the other and now fear is taking hold. Trump will erase lawyers if given a chance. The famous "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" from Shakespeare will become real.

palazzo214.bsky.social•86 days ago

American institutions should be prepared for the Trump storm and do everything now to Trump-proof in all areas that Trump would try to demolish when he gets in.

Trump-proofing should be Dem's version of Project 2025.

plopseven.bsky.social•86 days ago

I mean, if 80% of the federal government quit or got fired by DOGE, there would literally be “more government” outside the government than left within it.

Trump would, by definition, become a domestic president in exile. Government’s power comes from its people.

This reminds me of a Getty quote

ford427stroker.bsky.social•86 days ago

Question is....HOW..

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