mantan20.bsky.social
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While they literally have all the leverage they could want if they do their job. There's a reason senators have 6-year terms.
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*President Musk and his crony Donald Trump
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In other words, justice won’t happen.
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The fragility of democracy has always hinged on the willingness to enforce laws.
With the DOJ compromised, the scary reality is laws and rulings no longer matter.
And to Garry’s point, both federal law enforcement and the military (if we want to go dark) are run by this administration.
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I really wish that chick would’ve dated him.
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And it’s often white males who get the benefit of ‘youthful indiscretion’.
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Leopards and faces or something seems to apply…..
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Hiring high schoolers for critical staffing roles in the government. Tell me again how DEI is the attack on meritocracy?
The idea that these people think government is just a play thing they can plug anybody into and function is amazing. But if your goal is to destroy it….
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Brian treating this all like it’s a game or entertainment make me truly hope he’s one of the journalists targeted by this regime.
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My frustration is that rather than fight/highlight the damage being done now, the approach is ‘let it burn’ and people will see where a better alternative.
I’m going to let your ex smack you around for awhile and watch- then tell you I’m a better option, pins hopes on ppl forgetting u just watched
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It’s about signals. If it’s ok for the federal government to discriminate, you are giving the green light for everyone to discriminate.
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And I’m sure they’ll do a great job of transcribing rather than just recording and providing context and analysis.
The guy has zero respect press and their freedoms, but yeah, they are looking forward to it.
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America’s greatness was always more aspirational than actual. It was only in the last 40 years, where we just scratched the ‘all men (people) are created equal’ and could pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We are about to crash back into a lot of what we were for the first 210 yrs
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Trump is weaker than Orban. But dems ceding ground like he’s just as strong. Pols and voters.
This admin is going to do things wildly unpopular- but no one is ready to capitalize.
Agree next year is critical.
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Or Zuckerberg. Whoever gives him the sweetest back end. (Pause)
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Selling it to Meta. But go on and breathlessly cover this Kabuki dance….
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Ahh the steady drumbeat of ‘this is all the dems fault’ we will hear on this the next week.
Authoritarians are pistol whipping democracy and people will say ‘what the Dems did to cause pistol whipping’
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Is it? Or will he just push a sale to a Trump friendly billionaire?
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We are at the point where counting on Father Time being undefeated is our best hope.
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Trump is going to sell this to a billionaire buddy. Like Jack Dorsey or Dominion- when the number gets big enough, someone will take the money and let someone deal with the repercussions.
It won’t be the same.
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The flipside, the dems tepid response post election makes reinforces the view that nobody really cares. 75+M people voted against the president elect. Most largely on the threat that he poses. To see them all be ‘business as usual’ makes it feel like their concerns about the stakes was kayfabe.
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But those egg prices…..
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I’m conflicted. Everybody just giving up is going to let a narrow win and narrow governing majority roll like a mandate. But I get where people feel drained at even thinking about another 4 years. And the realization that he actually got away with everything because of 78M fellow citizens.
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I thought a few people posted that this wasn’t accurate and that several of those companies have donated, additionally Amazon offered logistical assistance?
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Like when some companies rebranded their ESG reports something else. They released the exact same content and nobody batted an eye.
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I fully expect Smartmatic to settle on the courthouse steps for 1B.
Fox learned from the Dominion settlement that it didn’t impact their viewers a bit.
It would’ve been nice if part of the settlement with Fox was an on air admission. But both companies just care about their bottom line.
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I still don’t understand why Biden allows this to be blared in every military hospital waiting room.
England had it right when they banned it and declared (correctly) it wasn’t a news channel.
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In the end it was always up to the ballot box. And we failed. We can blame, point fingers, soul search. But that narrow majority of voters knew exactly what we had before and voted to give America cancer again. They believe it will only hurt those they don’t like and their lives will improve.
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And the sad part is, it is like nobody has ever read a history book. They truly think that insulate them from the damage of an authoritarian regime.
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Gave up alcohol almost 4 years ago. But Diet Coke intake went up significantly.
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‘Nice country you have there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it….’
I fear it’ll be a mob boss presidency in all aspects. 😕
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I always thought Mitch wanted him gone, but didn’t want blood on his hands.
I don’t think he thought Trump would escape all this, come back as POTUS and bring his beloved Senate to heel.
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100%. He’ll lock up some brown people to keep them happy this spring. That’ll distract them for a bit that they are long longer of use to him
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Agree. Now that he’s elected, the rube base is useless to him. And the high from having CEO’s and the truly rich kiss the ring is MUCH better than a random crowd of deplorables in some airplane hanger in North Carolina.
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This is gonna be fascinating. One one hand the MAGA base gave Trump his power. But now that he’s in office, he no longer needs them. He knows they will be slow to turn on him and it doesn’t matter if they do. It’s about money and power now.
But he also hates sharing the stage so…..
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Always saw Hoover as a guy who wanted his own fiefdom. And ran the bureau accordingly. As opposed to being a lapdog for someone else. Both bad. But different type of bad. 🤷🏾♂️
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And add insult to the whole thing, the Supreme Court essentially said not only are you potentially immune from crimes you committed as president, but feel free to commit all the crimes you want if you’re reelected.
Putting a career criminal above the law intentionally was peak John Roberts.
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Need the SNL skit, stat
Wasn’t the skit with Bannon at the Resolute Desk and Trump at the ‘kiddie’ desk aired right before Bannon got the boot?
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Agree, 100%. I wholeheartedly supported Harris and felt she would be a wonderful president. But I literally have not heard 10 words from her since November.
Trump lost an election and would not get out of our faces during the the lame duck period 2020. Instead, she has ghosted all of her voters.
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Amen! It makes me genuinely angry that they are treating a very narrow defeat like a Reagan – Mondale mandate.
49+ percent of voters do not want what is coming.
They need to channel some Mitch McConnell, and learn how to be an opposition party. Not a doormat.
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I’d go further and don’t take it lightly. It’s like America had cancer, we found out during remission that test revealed. The cancer was even worse than we originally thought. Then the country voted to give her cancer again.
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Citizens, Shelby and the Immunity decisions are the 3-headed monster that will be responsible for the death of democracy.
While the first two were brazen, the last one was worse. Indefensible considering it and waiting until the 11th hour to make the exec branch a monarchy and Trump unaccountable
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Great article. We keep acting like he’s Palpatine running some ruthless empire with strategy and cunning. He won an incredibly close election, has a chaotic management style, razor thin (dysfunctional) house majority and all the machinations of actually governing (the hard boring part) to manage
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Mitch coulda ended this in January 21 but wanted to have his cake and eat it to.
There was a period when Trump was flailing. Even when he announced he was considered dead in the water.
Garland slow playing this was the mistake. He burned almost 2 years wanting to build slowly.
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For a country that draped itself in being a beacon of democracy, it’s shocking how quickly so many people and institutions folded without a hint of a fight.
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And we don’t want to deal with the reality that racism in plays a big role in all social services we refuse to provide embrace as a country. Too many people are fine with publicly provided services as long as “others” don’t get something free with ‘their’ tax dollars.
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IMO, he should still use his platform to advocate for what is best for America. And that means pushing back on the elements that he sees are a risk, even if America voted for them. He still has an obligation to the 49+ percent of Americans who voted against it.
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And people often don’t wanna talk about the role race has in a lot of these social policies. We could have things like universal healthcare, universal pre-K, better schools, better access to cheaper higher ed- but there will always be a backlash about it being available for “everybody. “