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2 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This seems to be true.

Trump reminds me of Saddam Hussain, he has the same underlying character... a man, who in defeat & in retreat, bombs & destroys everything he can.

There will be no peaceful xfer of power. There may be an enforced peaceful xfer, when the institutions
he is counting on refuse to follow his now empty orders. But he will still have his brownshirts.

The incident with the campaign bus being run off the road. The bridges and main roads blocked by Trump supporters, hindering the vote.
A governor of a

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state being threatened with kidnapping... These are the actions that have spawned by the believers who believe what Trump has been teaching them.
It seems likely there will be more as Trump fails to concede, the violence will get ramped up.
It will be met. And it will create
a great deal of havoc. The Dark before dawn.

People will die. Institutions will be harmed. The country will be infected w a corruption that will take a long time to heal, if it will heal at all.

And none of it matters a fig to Tr, who will accept nothing but victory as the
legitimate outcome of the election he has so assiduously worked to steal.
Expect Trump to set fires in the interregnum between the election & the appointed day of transfer.
Perhaps the threat of incarceration will temper his outrage. Who knows. Its going to be a rough ride.

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Listening w interest to @NoahRFeldman podcast Deep Background on the Federalist Society.

The argument thus far concerning originalism seems nothing so much as a religious one. Is the Bible Gods word, or do we learn principles fr it.

Originalists seek to find shelter in the
safety of "This is what the Founders meant" and thus excuse themselves, in their mind, from any culpability of having to make a decision based on principles.

Judges are supposed to be wise. Not legalists.

Just like even the most fundamentalists of Jewish sects today do not
practice the sacrifices and live according to all the laws of laid out in the Bible. Same with fundamentalists Christians who lay claim to some ancient heritage for current beliefs. So the Federalist Society member's claim to be governed only by the original text and meaning
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13 Oct
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
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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
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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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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
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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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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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