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4 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If only the word Hypocrite still had some moral power.
So many others capture the sharp and necessary retort.

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Michael Beaton Profile picture
7 Mar
@AblueUs The Republicans have weaponized “morality”.
Interesting reading the comments on this post.
I think it would take an essay if not a book to disentangle this mess.
The very short form is to look at inputs &outputs.
Meaning
what was actually done
to whom
with what actual harm
@AblueUs 2/ then look at the black box function that is how these events get processed in the public square.
There is a definite pattern.

Hyperbolically, but historically for all that, you have Trump on one side who can literally rape and molest women without consequence (Of course it
@AblueUs 3/ A great deal of shamelessness to pull it off. This being one of the “parameters” of the black box). On the other side you end up with @SenFranken & now Cuomo. Because this is not a true, pure, morality play, one of the primary parameters is political party.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
3 Mar
@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett This would be an excellent line to explore. I think you are spot-on.

One of my aphorisms is
"You cannot see what you are not looking at"
W. the implication that if your axiomatic framework does not allow you to see a thing, you simply - not only will not - but cannot.
@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 2/ The "wisdom level" ponder to this point is to wonder about the quality of the "Guardians" who are charged with being wise for the country/system - it is at root their only job. If you are constitutionally incapacitated from not only understanding, but even acknowledging
@wfrolik @Mikel_Jollett 3/ reality....What kind of "Guardian" are you?.
We have our answer shoved in our face daily. Today's idiocy is this diversion nonsense around Dr Suess. Tomorrow it will be something else.

It occurs, having come this far, that there is some group psychosis in play. I don't
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
1 Mar
What to make of this moment?
This is the woman who made bank on bilking the Tr faithful, who so desperately want something, they do not know quite what it is, so they call it god & god's calling.

But she is a false prophetess, her 'prophesies' & were lies. She is to be shunned.
What is sad is it works.
Not the 'angels released from Africa' (and why would they be released on her word? And why did they need to come from Africa?) But upon the desperate & trembling congregation.

Her 'prayers' are the SOMA of the faithful.

yahoo.com/entertainment/…
What is remarkable in this new religion is how paltry is its object of worship. More strange: he cares nothing for them, not one moment longer than they are useful.

Yet this amorphous dread they feel, he congeals into tangible forms upon which they can unleash their 2min hate.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
28 Feb
To the degree this is true, and it certainly is for this crowd, it bodes well, w some major potential problems:
1. Tr is weak, fragile. No longer a darling, he has some strong headwinds. An egoist is not a sufficient base for a long-term movement.
2. Others have written well on
potential of the GOP splitting. That would be good for the country. IMO we need a true two party system. But one devoted fundamentally to the core values & foundational propositions of the country. As it is it is anything but. It is not an exaggeration to think a deep
unreconcilable split is in the offing if certain trajectories do not change. One of the concise statements of the syndrome is Molly Ivans identifying one of the core goals of Bush, but by extension the GOP:
They do not wish to govern, but to rule.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
24 Feb
Interesting. Telling.
So much for principles.

We really need to get past the point were we are governed by the personal experiences of our [so called] leaders. Whether good or bad outcomes.

We cant depend on personal experience for Rep's to do the right thing. Or the wrong.
We cannot wait for some relative of one of our "guardians" to have a personal crisis before they see how Health Care needs to be addressed. And how flawed the GOP anti-solutions are.

Or, like Cheney, to recognize the inanity/flaw of GOP stance on gays, because of his daughter.
We are governed by fiat, & personal proclivities & as opposed to wisdom & insight into real problems, with real ideas, that address not politician's need [lust] for power but the country's need for systemic solutions.

&etc
It is so obvious, yet so hard, because of this failure.
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Michael Beaton Profile picture
18 Feb
So much unbearable suffering.

So much of that so utterly unnecessary.
More than just the normal sorrows of life, the suffering inflicted on the country (& world) due to such illicit use of power, implementing policies & programs that incubate this suffering.

The Tr/GOP legacy.
Have we had enough of the endless catalog of "Trickle Down" failures?

Enough of having policies targeted to accumulating wealth (not just money) toward the top? Violating a basic principle of letting people live?

Enough of this foolish idea that "I alone can fix this"
Enough of this idea that "everyone else are just lazy people trying to take my money".

A troupe that shows up in various forms throughout our history. And is showing up again now in a time of COVID.

Blame the citizens who are trying to navigate the endless new rules...each
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