romancaturday.bsky.social
Hat-wearer, ponderer, gardener, mostly of this earth. Radical liberal and Reconstruction Dem. Not a fan of the way things are going.
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From @smsaideman.bsky.social
saideman.blogspot.com/2025/02/why-...
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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Not unrelated, but with the military purges, Patel, Gabbard etc. people here should really start assuming that those advocating violence are informants or narcs.
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Yeah I really dislike conflating “he has the right to” with “deserves.” Civil control over the military is essential under law, but we should not pretend there’s no risk here when the executive clearly wants to shred the Constitution.
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Why has no Republican Congress ever made overstaying your visa a crime, like entering illegally already is?
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Trump administration is firing black people all over the place and replacing them with exceptionally mediocre white men: “the White House is acting against DEI”
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While I agree the principle is essential, the word “deserves”
there is going to come back to haunt you, and us.
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Maybe but “deserves” is a real poor choice of word there
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This is exactly why the Dems must be pressured into a Reconstruction mentality now, through primaries if need be. It’s not just about the next elections, it’s about the policy that follows.
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He already did this once to prevent Ukraine from inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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2/The US has all the leverage because it can weaponized interdependence as @himself.bsky.social and I explain in this piece. Ukraine depends on Starlink for its military operations and there is no substitute.
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...