johndettling.bsky.social
Arlington, VA
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....And then never see them again after kid graduates from X grade or leaves X sports team.
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Perhaps the election of Trump indicates without doubt our citizens are now unfit to enjoy the benefits of being a superpower.
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Yep that will drive a wedge in MAGA for sure.
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they are doing a good job of not talking over each other.
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For example, on Morning Joe, discussion on how DOGE staff could be "targeted." What does this even mean? Good example of media willingly moving the Overton window, which inadvertently helps Trump normalize targeting. Same with discussion of Trump removing Musk contracts.
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I suggest a good analysis would be review how much of the media on all the networks is now normalizing targeting, without any admonition it is improper. This is what a slide into illiberalism looks like. The media should defend norms.
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Trump must be under siege from all sides. You can't do it with CNN interviews, lawsuits and Schumer/Jeffries. It must be much more creative that what we are seeing from the Dems.
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Let's also remember: how did we as a nation get to this point: we have to be burdened with a toxic public fight between these two autocratic dysfunctional men. Their mutual threats reveal the crony capitalistic regime Trump has sunk our nation. This is what our public life has become under Trump.
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Your followup article should be an assessment of the creative tactics Dems should do that Jeffries and Schumer are not or don't seem capable of doing. Otherwise, this analysis falls a little short to me. One thing to consider: ask unconventional people--not the same Dem consultants.
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That will be an offer Trump cannot refuse.
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and think he can own you if he supports your party.
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Impeachment for what exactly I wonder?
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You mean ... dark schadenfreude?
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The larger corporate issue here is no competent, rational, mentally healthy CEO would engage in this kind of fight with Trump, knowing how Trump is eager to attack anyone opponent's business interests. This should really call into question with the Tesla board his fitness to continue as CEO.
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If this was a dystopian dark comedy Trump would indict Musk for campaign irregularities, not realizing he would be indicted for them next.
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And both will surely commit illegalities and criminal acts trying to destroy each other.
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Not to be a wise ass, but since when would Trump care about what the USG needs or can do? Retribution is always sweeter for him than anything except money.
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Betting markets on how soon Musk announces a Chinese or Russian investment in his firms and moves headquarters overseas?
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Musk in one year?
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Every Bond villain probably got deported at least once so no big deal.
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Then he gets Space X and other contracts cancelled by Trump. Let's hope he is stupid enough to push it.
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This was an awful interview. Why can't DOJ sue Harvard to prove in court it has violated federal laws if laws have been actually broken? Where is the evidence?
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So WP will be Forbes now? How'd that work out?
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I'll give @therickwilson.bsky.social credit, he said 6 months ago this relationship would blow up big time ASAP and we might be on our way to that.
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I'd like to see a series of good faith actions by Musk that cost him more than money before I'd ever welcome him back.
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Who would we Dems hire to do Trump opposition: Jeffries and Schumer or Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team? Obviously, the latter because they would do it with imagination, gusto and fire. These two Dem leaders are out of their league.
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Question for you to ask George: Could Biden's pardons of Cheney, Adam, etc be challenged on constitutional grounds and, if so, would someone have standing to do it? If they could, why not do it to obviate Trump from pardoning his family and a 1000 admin people when he leaves office to protect them?
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And a taco food truck
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Good example of what makes Cuban a superior presidential candidate to lots of current professional politician Dems and they should take note: he has deep expertise and passion on a fundamental issue affecting voters, can communicate it effectively and has practical solutions to improve their lives.
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Love to see your take, but Trump knows it will be difficult to prove it is a bribe and it will be difficult to hold him accountable to receive the plane post-presidency because he can gift it to himself the last day in office--unless Congress makes it felonious to do so.
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Perhaps a non sequitor. My point was no matter the politics, Dems need a new kind of leader who is more skilled in confronting authoritarian politics and communicating to people. So the "old normal" leader is no more. Even PM Carney, who seems old normal, was actually skilled in new kind of politics
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My point is you can humbly do a good job but if no one really knows what you did then the leader is not that effective of a leader. Biden was a poor communicator and lots of the public had no idea what he actually accomplished.
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So this means both: what are the ideals of democracy we need to guide us and what is the type of leader of substance who also possesses the comms skills and talent at political theater who can capture attention with voters. Biden was sorely lacking in these skills. It was not just an age thing.
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It isn't just that Biden was too old. He was too old-school and lacked the alacrity to know how to operate the presidency in an attention-based social media world in which you are constantly fighting to frame and retain control of narratives and make impressions on voters.
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It was a moral coverup.
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To paraphrase Trump, shouldn't we putting a hold on crypto "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
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Because Trump could grant the plane to himself on his last day in office. A law might make it clear that would theft of government property and a felony. So he could be indicted if he took the plane.
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A law might be useful if it anticipates every way Trump might try to weasel around it to ensure he eventually gets the plane. For example, a law that forbids any POTUS gift over $X dollars to ever be granted to an individual, foundation, etc, might be useful.
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This is why it will be difficult to make it an impeachable act; he'll be leaving office when he will transfer the plane to his library. Solution: Congress pass act to make it illegal for any POTUS gift over X amount to ever be transferred to a foundation or individual and to do so would be theft.
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This is very reasonable speculation by Tom, but would like to see actual evidence that Trump's people made these demands as a shakedown.
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It would be helpful to identify the exact point in the transaction that it official becomes "corrupt" and impeachable. Trump may try to stall this transaction as much as possible into the final days of his term to take possession of the aircraft.
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There is a connection between this story, the lack of a firm penalty for the Astros for cheating and the moral corruption and decline of the moral standards of our nation's elites.
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Can an idiot really have a useful idiot?
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The biggest distinction between Democrats and Republicans is Democrats earnestly think they gain cred/score points with their base and independents with bipartisan gestures while GOP think they gain cred/score points with their base and independents with obnoxious partisan gestures.
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and a $5 million Gold Apple Card.
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I'm fine with the Biden book hoopla. We Dems deserve it. And we are again making the same mistake tolerating an old and ineffectual Senate leadership. We need to go through the fire of this process with Biden's decline so a generation of Dems never allow it to happen again.
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Max is such a user design mess right now. Lower quality. Excess average content. What Zaslav doesn't get is some of us want curated, not all we can eat, on-demand TV and films. That is what HBO offered.
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Putin has a Trans-Siberian train for Trump. Orban has a steamer ship gift for him. Germany will be gifting the Graf Zeppelin. China gifts a People's Liberation aircraft from the 1980s ....
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There is a little drama queen-ness to this story. And I'm a big fan of and follower of Snyder's writings.
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Elaborate in thread