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15 Jan, 6 tweets, 4 min read
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth You know what is most observable about your obsessions?

You have made no comment, that I can find, taking a stand about the Jan6 insurrection.
My suspicion is you think it is perfectly fine. That it was exactly what was needed, and Trump was just the fellow to finally do the
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 2/ work he was called to do, and that he "promised" to do.

What he said was "drain the swamp" that you so appreciate about Trump, has turned out to be just filling the swamp with his creatures. And in the meantime denigrating any chance of addressing any of the many challenges
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 3/ that beset the country. Many of them Trump's own making. Including, most vividly, his unconscionable incompetence regarding his handling of COVID from the beginning. (or was it intentional? There's a theory for you).

More could & will be said about this incompetence.
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 4/ For now it is sufficient to note how, at every step, Trump has interjected his idiot self into the process to impeed research, science, facts, and solutions.
In the process, he has spawned a group of ignorant 'MAGA'S" who are equally unmoved by facts, science, and reason..
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 5/ Who think it is their patriotic duty to refuse even the most basic of compliance with the recommends of the CDC & other authorities.

Just on COVID and now Jan6 Trump has proven that what matters to Trump is himself. First and last.

You, and all the maga's, are simply
@tommy_pane @bethesdabeth 6/ fodder for his fantasies. Deadly fantasies.
Which, seem to be yours.

I leave off with this, a "topic sentence" thought re the abject consequences of Trump & his malignant narcissism.

Call out the Kleptocracy!
It makes you appear subservient to a fool
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
16 Jan
The assertion & question of unity, unifying the country, wondering what the hell the problem is, and why is all this happening is taking center stage. Dramatically.
As is the corollary question being tossed about, "How to heal the Nation?".

There is a #systems principle
that is a powerful insight into these, & related, questions.

"You cannot solve a problem at the same level it was created."

If the problem we were solving for were some detail, 'where to place a road; what $ to allocate to this or that project' sort of thing, then the way to
think about the problem, the impasse, is to appeal first to the functions of prior planning, history - meaning what did we do the last time, maybe pragmatics...Eventually, if the organization (whether business, community, or governance) may make a decision and that becomes the
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
15 Jan
Just for his (mis)handling of COVID Trump deserves to be removed from office, like you would a CEO who failed so miserably.
In Trump's case, it seems clear he had no intention of being a leader.

washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01…
What comes across as Trump's incomprehensibel incompetence may just be another outbreak of his malignant narcissism. Nothing in it for him. So couldn’t care less. Just fuck up the system with his eternal, infernal nonsense.
Lie about everything. Stop anybody from acknowledging
any fact or condition that would make his "look bad".

The key factor that we have learned from a Trump is that when a man is so devoted to himself, & so reluctant to learn, to actually be a public servant and do the peoples business he can and does inflict great harm.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
11 Jan
When (if) the full story of Jan6 ever comes out I predict it will have multiple levels of intention and complicity.
Broadly
1/The "base" level of the mob reacting out of what they believe & has been taught & insinuated into them for years.
I think this chaos is the cover for
other levels that seem to have a much more clear, "calm" mission.
These are the people who are now utterly confused that what they were told turns out to not be true.
These people being disbarred from flying, or taken into custody, thinking they were just returning home, are
bearing the brunt of the response by the law enforcement system. They are the easiest to see, find, and catch.
They are the pawns. They are the Orcs in the Trumpian system...expendable. Useful. Necessary. But Expendable as the strategy & tactics require.

Who knows if these
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
11 Jan
@tommy_pane @kenobrea @Laces20288055 @bigrigsusa @tedlieu @GOP 1/ Don’t need teachers to see the principles of violence on full display.
This isn’t even sophisticated. It’s simply today’s version of the #brownshirts. A necessary function in an authoritarian takeover attempt.
@tommy_pane @kenobrea @Laces20288055 @bigrigsusa @tedlieu @GOP 2/ For years I have been noticing this propensity towards violence implicit in the Trump/ism.
What happened Jan6 was just the first major breaking out of this underlying principle.

Whether you accept the assessment, the fact is violence was unleashed.
@tommy_pane @kenobrea @Laces20288055 @bigrigsusa @tedlieu @GOP 3/ In your worldview that fact is OK. Violence is acceptable.
In this you are a good Trump soldier. Trump also thinks violence is acceptable to obtain his objectives.

This does not require any deep theory. Just simple observation and a willingness to see what you’re looking at.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
10 Jan
The conclusive word on this Jan6 moment.

A clear understanding statement of what happened, how it was enabled to happen, and what happens next depending on what happens next.

This is the seminal article that must be read and comprehended to make the next move.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
10 Jan
Interesting how the shift in the 'pubs message is now "hey, lets get unified". And do that by trying, yet again, to elude consequences...and investigation, into what happened.
We have tried that path multiple times already.
It does not work.

Rep. Jordan does not see!..
(thread)
Of course not. It is imperative that he not see.

Here is how it works...The way you and your team always put up a concrete wall when it comes to the relatively petty crimes some people do. They need to learn the lesson by suffering the consequences of their choices.
Consequences you absolve those who actually do deep and structural damage to the country from. At least until it cannot be ignored any longer, and you need a "sacrificial lamb".

Looking forward to seeing which 'lambs' will be offered up for this monumental moment.

Eventually
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