The idea that Pres Biden should fire AG Garland for not (yet) indicting Trump is the worst thought since suggesting Schumer should fire the Parliamentarian for not doing his bidding.
Trollfarms want to convince you it's acceptable to fire public servants for doing their jobs.
Yes, dammit, Republican fascists worked hard to break American democratic institutions--to convince you the DOJ "works for" the President (OHMYFUCKING GOD that would be a bad thing) and that the rules our Congressional Houses agreed to should be undone for partisan convenance.
THAT IS WHAT FASCISTS WANT YOU TO DO. That's how democracies die.
And yes, fascists work hard to break things so badly that you think the only way to stop them is to break things worse.
Which then justifies tearing =everything= down.
The whole idea of America is to have a nation that operates by rules. The alternative is not chaos. The alternative is authoritarianism--rule by the whims of a dictator.
Trollfarms are now normalizing that idea.
Please, for the love of doG, don't help them.
PS Let me be clear on the Parliamentarian thing--if the Senate wants to change the rules and the laws by which Reconciliation happens, they can do so, and there are procedures for that.
Firing the Parliamentarian for following the existing law is fascist authoritarianism.
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We are roughly doubling the number of new cases every week. We're now at a half-million / day. In a week (1/6), we'll be at a million/day, then 2 million on 1/13, 4 million on 1/20, and and 8 million on 1/27.
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That means for the next 28 days, we could have an average of ( 8 / 2 = ) 4 million new cases per day.
4 million per day times 28 days = 112 million new cases (almost half the country) by Jan 20.
Do I expect it will really be that many? Probably not.
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Lots of Twits seem to think there's some relationship between prosecutions and the midterms--as if prosecutions must happen NOW because somehow the midterm results could stop them.
I'm amazed so many Americans don't understand elections.
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Neither the Executive Branch (where prosecutors live) nor the Judicial Branch (where trials happen) are up for reelection in the midterms.
Additionally, many cases being tried or considered are on the state level. The midterms won't affect them either.
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Some of Trump's delay tactics may push some matters past the midterms. That won't stop anything, since the prosecutors don't work for Congress. The midterm results will have no affect on those cases.
I don't want to alarm you (well yes, I do) but a glacier in Antarctica the size of Florida is about to collapse. This is a hinge-pin for the entire West Antarctic ice sheet. In a very few years, this will lead to sea level rise of about ten feet.
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Everything within at least 20 miles of ocean coastline--everywhere in the world--would be gone.
That's not counting the changes to world climate this would cause: more serious storms and wildfires, more severe draughts and floods and the end of the Texas power grid. Etc.
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My advice to anyone in New York, the east Coast, England, or, well, anywhere else:
Move inland.
(And if we don't end carbon emissions, it'll get worse.)
Yes, we must prosecute all the insurrectionists, and EVERYONE in and out of government who told the lies, egged them on and helped them.
DO NOT IMAGINE this will end Trumpist fascism. It will instead create a class of martyrs whom the RepubliKKKlan party will rally 'round.
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We must prosecute them all. Doing so won't repair our nation or alter our politics. Indeed, it might make some problems worse, by making the rightist fascists still more frightened and desperate.
The Rule of Law demands accountability, but it won't fix the problem.
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Yes, we have to prosecute and punish everyone involved with 1/6, from the supportive patsies to the Hair Furor and all the Jordans and Nuneses. But even when Garland does that, it won't fix America.
I told y'all the Senate would raise the debt ceiling.
Turtle McTraitor blinked. Just the threat of ending the filibuster forced him into an agreement to create a single-use un-filibuster carve-out for the debt ceiling increase.
This technique can be used again--to, for instance, pass a voting rights bill.
Without ending the filibuster.
It's a way to create a one-time single-use carve-out to prevent a filibuster on a single bill.
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For the 34 or so Democratic Senators who don't want to end the filibuster (no, it's NOT just Manchin and Sinema), this may be a way to enact needed legislation and keep the filibuster.
Ending the filibuster is one technique to achieve some goals. It's not a goal itself.
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For anyone not planning to vote in 2022, or planning to vote for a minor party candidate (who cannot possibly win)--and, therefore, possibly help fascists gain control of the House and/or the Senate:
Tell me exactly what good you think that would do.
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I'll respond to your arguments favoring helping fascists.
(Any tweet with the message "My vote doesn't count anyway" or "Democrats are no better" will earn you an immediate block without comment. Stupidity in the face of an existential threat doesn't merit a platform.)
Go.
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Let me be clear. The accounts saying your vote doesn't change anything, or tHe TwO pArTiEs ArE jUsT aS bAd! are all telling you to give up and let fascism win. When you see those messages, just block without engaging. Arguing with them spreads the psyop hopelessness.
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