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

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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

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Michael Beaton

@mhbx

17 Oct

@NoahRFeldman

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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Michael Beaton

@mhbx

13 Oct

https://twitter.com/GrassleyPress/status/1316038473011335171

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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Michael Beaton

@mhbx

13 Oct

@GrassleyPress

@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

@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

@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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Michael Beaton

@mhbx

13 Oct

https://twitter.com/JournalistJG/status/1315991888692834304

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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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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