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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This from a thread about the NLRB board firing yesterday is sticking out to me today. A lot of things in our government were broken on purpose. We need a "Move fast, fix things." attitude.
"But if we fire people from typically non-political positions just because they're doing the opposite of what the position is for, Republicans will come into power and fire people to put those people back in."

Good point.

Counterpoint: Carthago delenda est.
If we have a Democratic Party that is not afraid to govern, that does not let itself be fearmongered and headfaked out of passing the popular, good policies that people turn out for, there's no reason to assume Republicans will take power again.
The famous prophecy of Lindsey Graham that they would destroy themselves if they embraced Trump seems to be on the cusp of coming true. Let their party founder and split. The Democratic Party can win by doing good things and doing them well. Doing what is necessary.

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22 Jan
I have let the water out of the bath but I cannot yet summon the energy to get out of it and go to bed.
Okay, I made it out of the bathtub but I had to go to my office to get my night pills and I made the mistake of sitting down so I am once again forced to gather my energy before I actually go to bed.
Two people have responded to the original tweet to ask, in a perplexed way, if I wasn't cold in the bathtub and the thing is, I know that's not advice, but this is why I keep saying don't offer strangers advice: you don't have the context necessary.
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22 Jan
So in Batman & Robin, there's a dinosaur statue in the museum.

Okay, but it's in the antiquities wing.

Of what is specifically an art museum.

So it's not there because it's a dinosaur, but because it's a statue.

An ancient Mesopotamian dinosaur statue, I guess.
I know dunking on this movie is old and boring, but everybody dunks on the "ice age killed the dinosaurs" line and I've never heard anyone question the dinosaur's presence, I guess because museum. I had never thought about it.
Having recently watched both Batman Returns and Batman & Robin, I think among the reasons the Tim Burton movies are more fondly remembered than the Schumacher ones is that we the target audience were younger, more trusting, and less too cool for school when Burton had his run.
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21 Jan
Still looking for the impeachment button.
Because the presidency is such a singular thing and a president is supported by people who are effectively wielding the president's own delegated power, Trump was able to get a a surprising amount of stuff done just by fiat declaration (or tweet).
Marjorie Taylor Greene, having followed Trump's example in going into government, probably assumed that being a legislator worked about the same way. If you wanted to do something, just say you were, and someone would figure it out for you.
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21 Jan
One thing the Little Red Button made me think of was the story about how Trump would order a diet coke in his own private business office by just speaking the desire out loud, which demonstrated that he had his own office wired for sound at all times.
I imagine he had a fight with his aides when he moved into the oval office about getting a similar set up, with the arguments against being a mix of national security issues and "That's how they got Nixon, sir." and the Little Red Button was the compromise.
I don't remember who the story was from or where I read it, but it was somebody doing a meeting or interview in his office and at what point, Trump asked them if they wanted a diet coke and then just said, without touching anything, "Okay, 2 diet cokes." and they came in.
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21 Jan
Still re-watching Better Call Saul and seeing Mike sit in a diner is making me wish I could go to a diner and sit there.

(This is not an open call for ideas on how to "compromise" or "substitute" for that experience.)
Mike's comeback when Jimmy asks him if he's reading the annotated rules for parking validation ("No, the rules for parking validation are quite simple. Most people get them right on the first try.") is a solid burn.
It seems like one of Mike's longer non-expositional lines but it's very precisely formulated and targeted.
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21 Jan
This week I am focusing on child reunification. I am contacting the White House and my congressfolk about this to let them know it is a priority for me, and should be for them.
I know that President Biden has that on his schedule; I also know it has slipped from "day one priority" to January 29th and it's the kind of thorny problem that could very easily be perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good'd into oblivion.
Donald Trump's regime deliberately made sure the simple and obvious solution of just getting the kids back with their families is not on the table. They didn't bother capturing or preserving the information that would let us do that.
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