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Mar 23 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ The GOP's performance in the #KetanjiBrownJacksonHearings is just that: performance.

A. Drama queen moments designed to get Fox News clips and to run the hamster wheel cycle. (Be a dick, get called on it, go on Fox to whinge about being cancelled, send email for $, repeat.)
2/ B. Tubthumping desire to get Presidential Primary video library for the inevitable "I showed that uppity liberal her place...did you notice she had the audacity to be black?" ads for the MAGA set.

C. Culture war is all they are now. It often works...
3/ ...an no matter how terrible, predictable, and phony it is, the culture war is central. That's why all the bits about child porn and crime and sentencing are blown like foghorns to the QAnon/MAGA/crazy shit.
4/ D. It's also about the MAGA rebellion against McConnell. Mitch decided this fight wasn't one he was willing to really have. He's got a lot of weird Senate races and doesn't want to lead the charge against an African American women.
5/ E. The Kabuki dance is Peak Cringe. Most of them voted for her before. Cruz's anger and outrage is the fake orgasm of politics.

Miss Pittypat Graham's swooning is as fake as Victorian vapors.

It's all -- and I mean ALL -- a contrived drama for their base.

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Mar 25
1/ In the Before Times, there were boundaries. There were spoken and unspoken rules of behavior. I'm not the first to observe that the Ginny Thomas story is being greeted by utter silence -- if not outright approval -- on the right.

"So what?" is the reaction.
2/ And others have posed the counterfactual I will add below, but it's important to think this one through given the New Rules.

Imagine for a moment what the Republicans would say if the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice nominated by a Democrat joined in a conspiracy.
3/ ...to overthrow a free and fair American election. Imagine she or he was part of a conspiracy to launch a violent, shock-and-awe attack on the Capitol in its furtherance.

An attack that led to lives lost, our Capitol desecrated.
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Mar 19
1/ History doesn't rhyme, but it does have a beat you can dance to:

On Dec 21, 1989 Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu demanded a massive rally in Bucharest in response to unrest.

bit.ly/3qjWUd3
2/ For Bucharest at the time, 100,000 was a massive rally by any standard.

It didn't go well.

After 25 years of dictatorship under NC and his wife Melania, communism's end was coming.

Shots (possible fireworks) rang out, and Ceaușescu desperately tried to regain control.
3/ The day before, NC and his wife held the country in an iron grip. He had declared martial law a few days before. His security service was feared by all.

But as rally became protest, they fled.

The country was inflamed. Ready for change.
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Feb 27
1/ Why is Putin rattling the Last Saber and putting Russian nuclear forces on alert?

First, it's because he is losing. He's losing in Ukraine. He's losing as the world unifies against him. He's losing in the mysterious noumenon the Russian political power. He's losing money.
2/ Putin is in the mouth now of the crocodile, if I may slightly modernize Victor Rezun's formulation of how Soviet-era power worked.

He has to win and keep winning to survive.
3/ The Russian nuclear capacity is real-ish (control for Russian systems being, well, Russian), and could make millions of Americans or so have a really bad day requiring the proverbial SPF 25 million sunscreen.

But the klept has been dreading this moment.
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Feb 26
1/ I have a modest proposal in which the US and allies (or hell, some smart private company) at low cost and risk.

Identify Russian armor and aircraft positions in real-time (or near real time) and pipe the information to Telegram, Twitter, and other platforms.
2/ Several benefits: first, it will give UA defense forces better awareness than the Russians have of their own positions.

Second, it will give civilian defenders both warning and targeting.

Third, it's a record for the war crimes tribunals later.
3/ It will also get out to the Russian forces that those UA fuckers with Javelins and TOWs and Stingers know where they are, when they're coming and will whack them.

Objections will come from State (you're escalating) and IC (our secret sauce is too secret).
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Feb 21
1/ Putin's show today -- all the dog and pony, dog-whistle, golden-oldies from K-Tel's Greatest Hits of the Soviet Era -- is an invitation to the West to stand up, take action, and crush his global klept in a sweeping asymmetric tide of lawfare and financial actions.
2/ Putin and his cronies care about hard power and hard cash. Chaos and division here at home (looking at the vast right-wing media apparatus) are Putin strengths.

The same instinct that led the Russian klept to move their assets overseas...
3/ …to nations with the rule of law, economic stability, and better schools, shopping, restaurants, housing, and quality of life is also a massive strategic weakness for Putin now.

The West can and should make this hurt.
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Feb 17
1/ We launched a new ad campaign this week that means a lot as Russia provokes a needless war and challenges the Ukraine, NATO, and the international order.

bit.ly/3GT0Y9D

Here's why we want to push it far and wide...
2/ Democracy will be challenged in Ukraine on the battlefield. Here, so far at least, it's being challenged in elections and state legislatures.

The steady erosion of democratic norms across the world and at home aren't disparate events. They're part of a plan and a pattern.
3/ Sometimes, you have to point to the way it can and should be to block out the static and noise and agitprop.

American Presidents from Truman to Ike to JFK to Nixon to Reagan to George HW Bush shared a commitment opposing Soviet oppression.

Full stop.
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