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"When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them The First Time" - Maya Angelou | Perfect as the Enemy of Good Quickly Leaves You With Neither
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The only similarity in situation is that it was an intentional assassination. That's literally the only commonality. With the Abe assassination, there were details about the church he was involved in coming to light post-mortem. There was no such sordid details after the UHC that changed perceptions
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No one got better healthcare because he shot that guy. The meeting the guy was going to wasn’t even delayed.
There is no possible way to murder our way to a better healthcare system.
“I was mad, though” doesn’t become a better argument for murder if you were justifiably mad.
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Sorry, I think “maybe a guy murdering a random healthcare ceo is a stepping stone to eventually getting better healthcare” is…not an idea I find tremendously plausible.
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The good news is that Big Brother helped lower the price of your Doordash deliveries, in all his wisdom! Now you only pay $8.50 for your water! Praise Big Brother!
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I’m frankly a little surprised at the number of people incapable of admitting that it’s *just* bloodlust. They keep trying to twist it into a necessary step toward improving our system but it never makes sense because it’s *just* bloodlust.
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It still baffles me that folks literally treated a 50-50 split senate as a total carte blanche by which Dems should have instituted utopia
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It's also like...how did killing this guy make UHC or the health system better? Pretending insurance industry CEOs are loadbearing figures by which you collapse the entire industry by killing rather than cogs in a complex machine isn't a plan. It's an excuse for violent catharsis.
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This deserves to be a motto somewhere
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The fact that others have created a bad path does not obligate me to walk it. It obligates me to create a better one.
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This also ignores that Garland was not only seated several months later b/c of Trump obstructionism, there were still several holdovers in the DOJ slowing things down b/c the Biden admin were denied any sort of actual transition. Every step the DoJ too after was in support of a case against Trump.
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Smith laid out pretty clearly too: it was a novel case that if they rushed it and bungled it to where it got an acquittal, the precedent it would set would be a disaster. Yes, the courts deciding to slow walk it was a disaster too, but it was a disaster *of the courts own making*, not lack of will.
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There ARE protests. Damn near every day.
The 4th estate refuses to cover them.
People think they are alone. Seeing others protesting gives people courage and motivation to join. The lack of coverage (except when cops are cracking down) is an intentional choice.
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The *American* press will pretend not to notice. The international press, particularly of our historic allies, will be appropriately agog.
(You know, the historic allies that Trump has done his damnedest to antagonize and drive away even before our new Defense Sec can show his ass)
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The infuriating thing about both Sinema and Manchin is that, as often as they were genuine poison pills, their votes were so often used to damn the entirety of the Dem party BUT them because 'rotating villain theory'
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and authority aside, your law breaking leaves the things you are doing vulnerable to legal challenge.
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if you want to impose new duties on government officials, you need actual statutory authority. if you want to create new benefits, you need statutory authority.
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"It's Goro Majima" isn't an explanation?
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The stunts that people are demanding of them literally cost money to do, for logistics more than anything
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The deal there is there are people who absolutely know and recognize the messaging disconnect, but rather than help correct it, they reinforce it by leveling their venom mostly at Dems for "failing" rather than at the actual sources of that disconnect
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So many folks are demonstrating that they not only prefer performance w/o policy over policy w/o performance, they prefer it even to policy w/performance. They just want people being loud and gesticulating b/c that's the only measure of "doing something" they see, and where'd that idea come from?
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Elected Democrats: "We need the public to organize and mobilize because it will make much more of an impact than what we are doing with the powers we have."
Many People: "The Democrats aren't doing enough! I'm just going to sit this out until it feels like they're fighting hard enough."
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Something something power, something something critique power
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Also, again, the mythology of the Tea Party as some genuine grassroots uprising from the bottom up rather than a concerted astroturf campaign by none other than Fox News itself to hijack the party is...well, proof of the power of propaganda
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If you're wondering why the pace of legal action has increased lately, Jeffries' working group is a big reason why.
Instead of being blindsided, agencies are fighting back, often before Trump has a chance to officially attack them:
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Folks treated Biden like he was the great authoritarian threat of history, b/c he *suggested folks stay home & wear masks* (things that states had to issue mandates on b/c the fed wasn't able to!). And THEN treated him as a cruel dictator for "taking assistance" the SCOTUS refused to let him extend!
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Also, if I remember, Trump eventually WAS jailed....and released on bond pending the actual trials. So it's not like arresting him would put him into a deep hole where no one would hear from him until the trial.
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"Well Biden should've just Packed The Court"
WITH WHAT FUCKIN' SENATE
Do y'all think that Manchin/Sinema, who weren't even for ending the filibuster, would have been totes cool with unilateral executive expansion of SCOTUS?
Christ, some of y'all don't live in the real world!
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There's a reason why the similar theory before it was called the Green Lantern Theory.
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Don't forget them knocking down states trying to leave Trump off the ballot because of convictions and court proceedings because they decided "only the specific charge of 'insurrection' counts for that"
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This exact strategy of only screaming and raging at imperfect allies rather than the actual culprits has only seeded in the minds of the media and the electorate "only Dems must be the problem". You don't protest the culprits to change their minds, you do it to get the wider public mad at them too
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It's like folks memory holed how many times Dems actually did try to do things only for this SCOTUS, which the foundation was laid for in 2016, to kick Biden in the face and say "lol no, Trump is special, he gets to win no matter what"