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@tishjames1.bsky.social Apply Martin Act to Jared Kushner

Charlie Kirk, David Duke, any difference? Kirk's 'Prove Me Wrong' mantra is the same as Duke's from his days heading the KKK. They both asked America to prove them wrong that White Supremacy is self evident as the only way any country should go. Would Duke be prayed for?

@mattgeorgesac.bsky.social Whoever ends up with the most wins or a playoff entry between Mike Bibby and Doug Christy should be the next Kings coach. Bibby won 5 state rings coaching his son and now is challenged at the D1 level. The Kings are a D1 team.

Go Sam, Go!!!

So now its X v Blue Sky. Right wing v left wing. Autocracy v Republic. It's 1859 all over again.

@ringostarrmusic.bsky.social A suggestion as I can't find Paul on here. have you ever considered writing new material with Paul and Zack and James as a new band? Call it Generations. Or collaborating with Mick and Keith on new material and call it Bones for Beatles + Stones?

That is called RESPECT for the Grand Dame, The US Constitution!!

Maybe it's time for Dems to ask out loud if it matters to Maga whether they live or die as long as DT is in the Oval? My guess is that it doesn't, and that may be how Dems need to approach races.

Flip Congress next year and Dem prez rescinds this bill with an EO same way DT did to Biden.

So tell me, why hasn't a single Dem challenger for office used this bill as a launching point for their own candidacy when so much of the country is against the bill? A perfect launching point for a new way forward and nit a single Dem challenger has the courage to take it.

@anakasparian.bsky.social You are a bright, college educated woman so this should not be hard for you. HAMAS is breast cancer. How do doctors remove it? By removing the entire breast. Gaza is the breast. Gaza will be rebuilt cleanly. That isn't genocide. It's cleaning house.

This is why WOKE is the correct frame of mind. Recognizing as an adult that your entire childhood education was heavily slanted toward nationalism is a good thing. It's designed to keep debates and riots down, aka social control. Parents and businesses like that. youtube.com/shorts/U6Tyt...

If libraries function as govt speech, then we will have 100s of different county versions of the truth. Libraries are now complicit in govt censorship. Libraries are funded by property taxes, so do we need to build private, community libraries to attain true, free speech?

@davidhogg.bsky.social the issue with incumbent leadership isn't a fault of that leadership, it's a fault of younger leaders unable to curry votes with a far left ideology. That doesn't win in Congress. So, find a young center left candidate. Teens are progressive, adults are center left.

@mattgeorgesac.bsky.social a better defense starts with the players, mot the coaches. The players have to want to play better defense. The kings should look at SGA et al for lessons. See how okc reacts to made baskets, and how they enjoy turning defense into offense. Starts with LaVine.

@mattgeorgesac.bsky.social Ask DC if he remembers BC, Billy Cunningham? And what BC did after the '82 loss to Magic. BC called up Doc and asked Doc if he would get the team to focus on defense. DC needs to ask the same of LaVine, DeRozan, and Monk. Has to come from the stars, not DC.

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What just happened in FL can't happen anywhere else. ICE cannot become the GESTAPO.

What just happened in FL can't happen anywhere else. ICE cannot become the GESTAPO.

SCOTUS GROWS A PAIR! Well how do ya like dem apples? It's decision time for Trump. Please MAGA and force a contempt charge followed by marshals heading to the Oval, or cave to thr Court, Constitution and Country. Cue Dragnet theme!!

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social @tnbrando.bsky.social. Careening toward judgment day. SCOTUS finally grows a pair and joins the federal judge to stop DJT from sending Americans abroad to prison w/o due process. It is Watergate tape time. Will Trump side with MAGA or the Court, Constitution & Country?

A couple of notes: 1) Biden may be old, but he is still sharp as a tack. Dismissing him as old guard is stupid. 2)Seeing Bernie/AOC draw huge crowds does not mean Republicans are there. Only decision that matters is what that audience does in a voting booth alone, not in a crowd or a poll.

Putin declares Easter truce just as the foes in WW1 did during Christmas break. They played soccer between the trenches. They returned to shooting at each other the next day.

@tnbrando.bsky.social Finally, a decision! SCOTUS draws the line on trafficking. Now the ball is in Trumps Court.Who will be his guide post: MAGA or the Constitution? If he defies the Court, will they have the balls to declare him in Contempt? Will they have the balls to send out the Marshalls?

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social @tnbrando.bsky.social @meidastouch.com the deportations to El Salvador and imprisonment we are paying for are reminiscent of freed slaves arrested in the south on false charges and put on chain gangs. Southern governors demanded DC pay them for the work. History repeats.

ICE has morphed into a reinventing of Nazi Brown Shirts using racial profiling to try turning America back to White America. By illegally shipping Americsn citizens to foreign prisons, he is repeating Adolphs idea of eliminating undesirables by trafficking them out of sight. History illuminated.

@tnbrando.bsky.social we have seen President's defy Court orders before. Jackson defied them over the Creek Indian issue and got away with it. Nixon defied the Court over the tapes but eventually caved and secured his downfall. What will Trump do? What will the Natl Guard do?

Our country could be decided by how our own Army reacts. If the Court sends marshals to arrest Trump for contempt, and Trump tells them to stand down, the next step would be Natl Guard. How they react will determine what type of govt we have going forward. Markets would crash all over the world.

If Trump refuses to follow the Court, MAGA will cheer him loudly. Megan Kelly and Sean Hannity know full well the effect that would have on our Democracy. Would they support or reject that? The Court could order him jailed for contempt. Then, it comes down to the Army/Natl Guard.

Trump's refusal to follow the Court is not without precedent. Andrew Jackson did the same concerning the Seminole Indians. Nixon did the same with the Wategate tapes. The entire country went on edge for a week until Nixon relented. What will Trump do? He knows if he caves, he loses MAGA.

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The second Trump presidency is having a similar effect on Anerican psyche and culture that our own Civil War had 160 years ago. It is redefining what we thought were sacrosanct rules and relationships. Without a shot fired, we have a better understanding of what reconstruction felt like.

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social read up on Senator Margaret Chase Smith for a path to victory. Get one of your old Rep colleagues to learn about her. How she stopped McCarthy.

We now know how intellectual Germany felt in 1936. We never understood before because everyone learns history in the abstract rather then the real. Our reaction is normal because we are all in shock. We laughed at countries with autotocratic regimes before. Now we know how they became one.

@adamkinzinger.bsky.social you may be too young to remember but Nixon threatened Katherine Graham, the then owner of the Washington Post, with pulling her sole source of income, TV licenses, over her publishing of the Pentagon Papers. So, what Trump is doing to 60 mins is not new.

When presented with what is in the actual budget proposal, where the 99% are heavily taxed while the 1% are given tax breaks, MAGA's response is 'they deserve the break for the hard work of tearing down the govt.' Perhaps, they should all reread Orwell's Animal Farm.

MAGA insists that DT is doing exactly what they voted for. They want the US govt turn down and rebuilt but have no idea what that looks like in reality. They also don't care. It is a classic childlike view of govt and the world where the world appears very easy to fix. Childlike.

Since we now have a digital civil war going on, maybe it's time for a national debate between AOC and MTG and Crocket v Jordan for a half hour. Then switch the pairings for the second half hour. Would a be ratings boost. Naturally, MAGA would refuse because they fear losing. Also expected.

For those old enough, Elon Musk reminds me a great deal of Bob MacNamara. He was the Ford Executive JFK asked to run the Pentagon because of his efficiency success at Ford. He produced charts on this and that never doubting his results. The Pentagon papers proved him wrong on every one.

To all MAGA, I give you Matthew 7:15 and Roman's 16:18. That is what you have in your hero, a false messiah. Perhaps, your pastors should know this from 2020. Maybe it's time to stop listening to them.

When did the word 'lose' become 'loose'? They are two different words with two different meanings, so why is the second being used in place of the first? I see this ALL the time. It is akin to the phrase 'Where are they at? There is no need for the word 'at'. Basic English.

And here we go. Just like 90 years ago in Germany. Bezos converting a major paper, Wash Post, into a right wing rag for using on libertarian issues rather than nonpartisan. It will now be the NYT v WaPo in full battle mode.

The more @elonmusk speaks, the more he sounds like Holden Caulfield, a teenager stuck being 14 and angry at the world because he doesn't understand it yet. Mark Twain at 17 before reaching maturity at 21.

I read reporter William L Shirer's Pulitzer winning The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich 40 years ago. It was a list of what happened nearly day by day. The question he never answered was how they did not know? What DT's election has done is made me understand that how, and why. It's clear now.

Who will end up being our next Boothe or von Stauffenberg?

Frankly, shuttling deportees into camps to be deported back home countries they spent their life savings leaving to find better lives in the US is not only immoral, but equivalent to death camps. DT didn't pull the trigger or turn on the furnace as AH did, but the result will likely be the same.

@mattgeorgesac.bsky.social The team is a better fantasy team than NBA team right now. But so was D'Antoni's Suns with Nash and Stoudamire.