REFLECTION AND PERSPECTIVE:

Republicans do not want to rule. They don't know how, nor do they have any interest in it. They desire to be ruled, to be ordered, and to obey.
They insist on subservience in the service to their superiors, and the subjugation of all others whom they consider inferior due to race, ethnicity, nationality and gender. Every statement, position, action and choice they've made makes that crystal clear.
It's been said that republicans fear democracy because they fear mob rule. So it's ironic that the only mobs apparent and the only ones for them to fear are racist, violent mobs of their own republicans acting under the fake guise of smaller government, populism and antistatism.
The reality is not only do republicans want to end democracy, they have no interest in government or governing - representative or otherwise. Their goal is racist, nationalistic autocracy. They desire to end the republic and the American experiment in the process.

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14 Feb
RECALIBRATION AND PERSECTIVE:

I needed a few hours away from it all to regain some perspective and readjust my thinking. I have been so close to the proceedings this week that I felt the need to completely disconnect once it ended.

Nonetheless, I still have to be honest.
I am as completely unsurprised as I am extremely disgusted that there was no conviction today. I'm positive many of us are. But as @repdonnaedwards said, the democrats had no responsibility to convict Trump all by ourselves. The democrats didn't fail. The republicans did.
That does not change the reality of our situation. America and American democracy is in a far more precarious position tonight than it has ever been because of the fear and cowardice of republicans. Republican failure places us in jeopardy from now on.
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If journalism and the press are "the first draft of history," as many reporters and media like to say, then many more of them and their organizations need to have the temerity, intellectual honesty, and integrity to call out what happened in Washington, DC and simultaneously...
...in other places across the country on January 6, 2021, exactly what it was, coordinated domestic terrorist attack, insurrection, and rebellion. There is a constitutional break down in progress, and in some ways it seems that journalism is part of the constitutional crisis.
With all of the reportation around the Black Lives Matters marches and the violence and vandalism that was attempted to be seeded, the news media had absolutely no hesitation in reporting out the incidences while leaving plenty of space for doubt...
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Dear white conservatives Americans, particularly those from small red states:

Stop saying that you're disenfranchised. YOU ARE NOT.

DISENFRANCHISEMENT is when you are not permitted to register to vote, not permitted to vote, and not have a legally casted vote count at all.
You on the other hand simply lost. Your votes weren't denied. You weren't prevented from registering. You did not have your early voting locations moved or eliminated. You don't have broken and inoperable voting machines delivered to your voting locations as standard practice.
You did not experience out of state people attempting to intimidate you in voter lines because of your color and political affiliation. You never have people threatening to come into your neighborhoods armed in an attempt to keep you home or change your vote.
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Why are the 13 senators and several dozen republican house reps called the Jim Crow Caucus? Because their act of insurrection in attempting to overthrow the Electoral College is specifically intended to disfranchise black votes and voters that defeated Trump black and brown...
...voters in places like Atlanta, Philadelphia, Detroit, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Milwaukee.

But while there is a specifically racist goal and intent behind their actions, they are also willing to defraud and disfranchise millions of white voters to achieve their objective.
The treacherous actions of these people are patently and completely anti-democratic and anti-republican.

This violates the constitution in practically every way imaginable starting from Article 1 (including their oath of office), as well as the 14th and 15th amendments.
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We caught you.

Former Def. Sec'y William Cohen's reference to and comparison of Malcolm X to the current republicans' insistence on retaining power "by any means necessary" on @mitchellreports show was offensive. She is apparently OKAY with trafficking in not too subtle racism.
Malcolm talked about achieving power for self-protection from those in power who would abuse their power on the oppressed. Cohen's reference was a racist trope.

The current republican power grab is strictly about tyranny of the minority and ensuring the longevity of...
...race-based hate for strictly political and economic purposes. Cohen's conflations makes him intellectually lazy at best.

If you are going to spread misinformation unrelated to the current situation in a time of misinformation predicated on racialized politics, then STFU.
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I know that there's talk about war with Iran, and incitement of insurrection going around. I read Bill Kristol's earlier thread on it. I don't know if we're getting ahead of ourselves. But there still seem to be unanswered questions about this speculation.
(Keep in mind that Kristol is originally from the camp of rightwing hawks for whom any war is a good war and, for much or the 1990s and early 2000s, war with Iran was their raison d'etre. So, anything he says about Iran must be taken with a grain of salt.)

But can we start here:
Never lose sight of the fact that for as stupid as Trump is, his prime motivator is greed. Even if he embarks on war with Iran with simultaneous incitement of insurrection at home, he still owes Putin.

Trump's overt positions are one thing, his underlying interests are another.
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