akatzel.bsky.social
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Well, for Trump it was personal after all.
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“There’s never been a parade in history that cost so much with crowds so small. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”
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The Ishtar of parades, brought to you by the only guy in history who bankrupted a casino.
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New surgeon general enters the chat.
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If you don’t step up and do something about it, Senator, by the time it becomes the America you know, it will be too late. Well beyond time to caucus with the Democratic Party and work together to put an end to this madness.
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This was always going to be the result. Hasn’t Putin read the books or seen the movies? Paddington always overcomes impossible odds to defeat the forces of evil in the end.
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And in the process, created the most beautiful thing to emerge from Italy in the post war era.
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If they fear that, there’s an easy solution - don’t participate in this unnecessary propaganda effort for a lawless administration bent on assuming authoritarian power.
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Now that a member of his own Senate caucus has been illegally assaulted & detained by the FBI acting on behalf of the current admin, @schumer.senate.gov may have finally had a change of heart. It might, unfortunately, be a bit late to do much about it, with tanks being assembled in DC Saturday.
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The ICE raids will continue as a means of projecting authority / intimidation. They’ll simply be directed at people involved in work that doesn’t get Trump’s ear.
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@aoc.bsky.social is very very good in hearings.
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And, for some, countered by an unusually cheerful, seductive voice, tempting us with a confident proclamation that “You’ve got mail!”
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When you’ve lost Michael Hayden…
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The stadiums will be empty. Who in their right mind from the US, Mexico, Canada or other countries would want to risk their safety and liberty to attend?
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@teenvogue.com again doing better than most of the traditional media in meeting the moment. @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com take a look - you might learn something from them and @wired.com Thank you!
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He’s actually both IMO. I agree he’s lying here, but he failed as a hedge fund manager and is failing as Treasury Secretary.
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You say Robert E Lee, I say Pvt Fitz Lee….
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Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln lacked management experience, and they worked out ok.
Sometimes character, judgment gained through life experience, & the ability to recognize one’s own weaknesses, & overcome them by appointing people with more experience & deferring to them, makes up for it.
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Good follow up from Van Hollen. Bessent is either not acting in good faith, is grossly incompetent, or both.
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Oh - which ones specifically?
And, is there any other past or action you think may have gone “too far”? Because there’ve been a lot of them those of us without the full power of the presidential office behind us have been wondering about.
Just curious.
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It literally cannot. GenAI at bottom is simply complex pattern recognition and replication. This either shows he doesn’t understand his own tech, or he’s running out of things to sell, and has to conjure up magical abilities for his products out of thin air.
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If Trump and SecDef can cherry pick enough troops to ignore their oaths & Army protocol to publicly endorse a partisan political agenda on natl TV, they’ll be able to cherry pick enough troops to do so for the DC parade this weekend when there will be tanks and heavy equipment at their disposal.
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Thank Odin’s beard the baggy jeans were in the wash and the Jordans are at the weekend home.
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Though not at all surprising to those of us who know the history of right wing and white supremacist violence in the US. Whatever else it may be, the Second Amendment has long been a fig leaf for preservation of white hegemony in the US.
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This is exactly the right call @governor.ca.gov and @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov. Now one of you needs to get out on the streets where the guard is deployed and demonstrate with your presence that it is completely unnecessary and that the Administration’s assertions are not based on reality.
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….up the debris, and remains of irreplaceable historical artifacts that were left behind by the mobs Pres Trump incited to sack the Capitol.
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Mr Speaker, you know very well how much the Jan 6 insurrection cost us taxpayers in destroyed property at the Capitol - you are an embarrassment and history will regard you as the most inept and least accomplished Speaker, if not worse. I have images frozen in my mind of NJ Senator Andy Kim sweeping
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…knows if they will with tanks and troops in DC and Trump openly flouting courts and Congress.
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…unprecedented “parade” to seek to usurp control of the federal government. He has explicitly stated his desire to. The question is whether we are prepared to respond appropriately if he do so, not whether he is likely to try. The institutions have in large part (not completely) held so far. Who
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players having previously attempted to retain power illegally by inciting them to sack the Capitol on Jan 6 and ignoring calls for adequate protective presence, it is not at all hard to imagine at least that Trump will try to use the pretext of a significant military presence in DC for an
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…supportive or complicit. And most recently a clearly illegal usurpation of the CA governor’s authority over the CA national guard, and its deployment (along with close to 1000 marines) to LA at a time when the mayor and the governor have asserted they have control over civil order. With the same
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This is of course true. The US would not seem to be a typical candidate for the rise of authoritarian rule. And yet here we are, living with an administration that commits previously unthinkable violations of law and civil rights on a daily basis, with Republican majorities in Congress largely
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…and reassert the constitutional order. As a country, are we taking this moment seriously and preparing for this possibility? I sense that too many of us are not.
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…and DC with the deployment of significant military personnel and materiel that sets the foundation for the suspension of our constitutional order. Beginning as soon as this weekend, we could face a moment where we will need to count on loyal members of the armed forces to protect Congress (again)
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…Trump himself has overcome seeming impossible odds - an obvious failed coup attempt on Jan 6, breaking countless norms of presidential conduct, conviction of criminal and jury findings of civil liability for misconduct that would have disqualified anyone else. What’s important now is that in LA and
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…the best and the brightest, being in large part military, political or business failures (with a few exceptions) and were riven with infighting. China was able to maintain authoritarian rule notwithstanding the senescence of first Mao and then Deng. Franco held on to power well into his dotage.