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Prediction: Tomorrow "he only *tried* to fire him" will be the new "it's just a tweet"
Unreal.
Trump: Nuke North Korea.
Generals: No.
Trump: (distracted by cable news)
GOP: Everything is fine! The system works!
Also: what about that picture from 13 years ago?
Right on time
Hannity’s talking points are no longer operative
😂- it’s like a hack detector test in real time. The stumbling, the cut to the random high speed chase...
Hannity at 9:15 versus Hannity at 9:55
Painfully predictable
Hannity pulled an OJ!
As expected
Ongoing, hacktacular struggle among conservative pundits to coordinate on the right talking point:
-Trump didn’t try to Mueller
-Trump didn’t actually fire him so it doesn’t matter
-Trump should be able to fire him
-Who really cares, anyway?
Now Senate Rs dismissing as just another one of those crazy Trump ideas. So why did McGahn threaten to resign?
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The situation in WI is straight out of Levitsky & @dziblatt's How Democracies Die. We rely on norms of mutual toleration and forbearance to ensure the peaceful transfer of power. Violating that compact undermines democracy.
As with Trump, most elite Rs nationwide aren't speaking up in favor of these dangerous norm violations, but they're not willing to break from their party to condemn them either. And so we get a kind of tacit acceptance.
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The peaceful transfer of power is the core of democracy. The losing side stripping powers from the winning side undermines that compact.
States are serving as laboratories of democratic erosion. Extremely worrisome.
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I bought a bird feeder. I hung it
on my back porch and filled it
with seed. What a beauty of
a bird feeder it was, as I filled it
lovingly with seed.
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taking advantage of the
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