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13 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read
My 2bits, adjusted for inflation, on this charade.
Not only this absurd moment in this tragicomic theatre performance but extended in general to the open air take over of the country being played out in one of its final acts.

If this coup succeeds

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some future "Gibbon" will look at this moment, not as the cause, but one of the final effects of the long deterioration of the Republican Party, how they cynically used fear & xenophobia to coalesce power.
As Steward Stevens says it: "It was always a lie".

Here the lie is being told again.
At this moment in time, it is still an open question, one that in a few months time will be answered one way or the other, whether these antiAmerican servants will win this battle & consummate
the lie. Or whether the public, in an astonishing act demonstrating the power of the people, reject, utterly & finally, this attempted take over.

The outcome is not obvious. Though it should be.
One of the major battles in this war is being played out now. Today. On this stage.
He calls it as it is: A puppet theatre.

My point exactly.
More on the hearings...

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Michael Beaton Profile picture
13 Oct
@GrassleyPress @ChuckGrassley You, Mr Grassley, are dim-witted, easily tricked, a stooge in the play, doing your part; or perhaps part of the cabal of people who, for as yet unknown reason [but will end up being something to do w power, money, fear & family] are willing to void your oath & subvert the country
@GrassleyPress @ChuckGrassley 2/ To pose such a question and accept such an answer when everything about this man, Trump, this administration, this nominee tell you exactly the opposite is to be willfully unwilling to look at the most basic of facts and truths in this moment.
@GrassleyPress @ChuckGrassley 3/ If you do not know that Trump demanded, and got, assurances of her loyalty is to not understand the basic contours of what is happening to the country these 4 years.
Thus, you must be either a participant in the farce or a mark and a useful idiot.
Maybe both.
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13 Oct
What is amazing is how certain Trump is of his cabal on the Supreme Court.
That he can so breezily count on the "justices" to do his bidding, to give him what he wants: that which will not be given to him, so must steal.
That the SC is one more institution seemingly willing to
give their last final measure of reputation & authority to such a man as this. How is this possible? The nation is more sick than was understood.

If this happens the last, & best, defense against tyranny will have been breached; there will be little left to defend the country.
It is a historical marker that when the Justice system is itself corrupted, not just anecdotally, but institutionally, there is little left of the country but a façade, tyranny, and a dark time of troubles coming.

We have been told, taught and given a working example of what
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
12 Oct
Thread on the ACA.

How is it that after all this time all the GOP can do is still wail about how they have to overturn the ACA. Yet, they are (lying) going to keep the essential provisions...And yet... still haven't even the outline of a working plan.

How is it that they are
so willing to cancel a program and the "promise" to replace it?

How is it possible that they do not have a replacement already perfectly & clearly laid out? They have had more than enough time to work out their plan?

But that is the plan... To have no plan.
Notice this move in action throughout the Trump era.
Things get canceled with the promise of making it better.

Instead of figuring out how to make it better and replace or update a program, it is canceled, and nothing happens.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
11 Oct
It is not a function of hate.
It is a function of caring about the country (& the world) & working clear eyed & w purpose to defend the country from its enemies.
The most obvious & virulent at the moment is Donald.
Next his supporting cast.
Next his hidden underlying support.
After he is defeated, this effort shifts into a different phase. To heal the country.

A major part of that healing will be to uncover and air the astonishing quantity & quality of lying, stealing, subordinating the needs of the country to foreign powers for Trumps own interest.
And to prosecute these violations firmly and honestly.

The system Trump has been secretly sworn to overcome, for who knows all the reasons and influences, has to reconstitute itself as a functioning system. Like a body when it finally recovers from its viral attacks...
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
11 Oct
This is essential thinking, and the way to think about the Constitution and justice, and the foundations of the society.
Core values/principles do not change. How they apply in contemporary circumstances do, as conditions change.

The childish inability to grasp grown up ideas.
The self-serving inability to make critical distinctions is the chief disqualifying quality of these so-called "originalists". Noting how their interpretations are often not rooted in principle, but an unfounded & dubious assertion that "this is how the Ffathers thought abt [x]"
This judicial philosophy takes on the aspect of religious dogma's more than reasoned, rational judgements.

How appropriate (it just occurs) that so many of the justices are Catholics.
Dogma befits them. It is how they think.
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5 Oct
Meanwhile...
this is beautiful and spot-on perfect.

It doesn’t seem so, perhaps, but this is the spirit and passion that I feel for the need to get rid of Trump & Trumpism, so that we can continue to journey on this road.

We have to tend to some problems first. Then move on...
This is what that seminal passage in the Declaration means..."Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".

The REASON for having a government is not for government's sake. That was the greatness of the American Experiment. It was to enable, to release the bound up potential
of the human spirit, in its best aspirations and possibilities.

It is easy to denigrate it by pointing at any of the many failures historically, and contemporary. And still, you'll not find a better "star" to set our course toward...
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