akatzel.bsky.social
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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.
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While this is, of course, true of all attempts to assert authoritarian powers, we should not dismiss the ability of Trump to successfully overturn our constitutional system of government, based on the ineptitude of his administration and his decking abilities. Hitler’s inner circle hardly comprised
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….its well past time for elected representatives in the Senate and House to say now is not the time for a military assembly in DC by the current administration, which has shown an ongoing disrespect for rule of law, constitutional protections and civil rights, and its desire for authoritarian power
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…troops to DC for as long as four days looks more like preparation for an authoritarian power grab than a parade, especially in light of Trump’s actions on January 6. This is a break glass moment for US democracy and Constitutional order, folks. @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Couldn’t find Izzy?
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We’re all gonna be taking ivermectin and homeopathic remedies to ward off the next pandemic aren’t we?
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Yes - Slash and Morello should definitely show up. That would be awesome. 14 minute long dueling guitar solos would either inspire and / or put the Nat Guard to sleep.
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For someone who leads the least productive Congress of the past 120 years, this guy sure does find a way to occupy a lot of time.
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To be fair, that’s probably been true since Pet Sounds.
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Well, it could be a group of Beach Boy impersonators if they’re easier to assemble. I suspect very few people would notice the difference at this point. As long as they have decent singing voices and know the songs.
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Another good way to effectively oppose the illegal deployment of the Nat Guard and marines to LA would be to mobilize thousands of abuelas & grandmothers between the ages of 60 and 75 to simply march silently and peacefully to the facility ICE is using, and distribute cold water and popsicles
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Attention pro-democracy honeypots! Time to mobilize. Your assignment - deploy to LA ICE headquarters, recently relocated from Pasadena.
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Why would this be any different from what they did during BLM?
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Now if only we could get the Chili Peppers, Beach Boys, the ghost of Tupac and a Mariachi band out there in a group jam session, maybe we’d be able to peel off some Nat Guard members into joining a dance party.
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ICE picked a hotel in Pasadena to be their headquarters.
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RFK would be so ashamed of what his son has become. The polar opposite of everything he stood for.
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There is no way Trump wrote this - compare the text to his recent posts and it looks far too coherent and contains too few grammatical errors relative to how he speaks and writes.
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One potential response worth considering - patriotic Marine veterans (including if possible high profile Marine officers) should consider assembling in LA in area of Marine deployment in silent protest of this blatant abuse of presidential authority and sullying of the Marine legacy.