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Nov 7, 2024
Overheard
Sometimes, when people say "I love you",
it comes out sounding like this:
Do you need a little help with that?
Here, I thought you should have this.
Come on over and I'll fix you a sandwich.
Text me when you get home.
Are you OK?
Nov 6, 2024
Today's Leeja
Hegelian Dialectics, as applied to American politics.
If you create enough of a problem to evoke a fear reaction, people will listen to (and are likely to favor) your proposed "solution", even if they know they'll suffer from it. Make them afraid enough, and they'll demand hardship in the name of relief.
Understandable
I'm tired of the fight. But I don't know what else to do.
I will not lay me down - I have to stay and fight until there's nothing left of me.
Goodbye I love you all pic.twitter.com/39ADbx0JGf
— Bob south florida water man 🇺🇸 (@WaterDean) November 6, 2024
I make this promise - paraphrasing Gandhi:
They can harass me.
They can steal from me.
They can arrest me.
They can imprison me.
They can torture me.
They can beat me to death.
They can have my dead broken body.
But they will never have my obedience.
Ever.
Today's TweeXt
Countless Americans are endangered now on a scale and intensity almost unheard of in modern America. Our first responsibility is to protect these people and resist these forces. pic.twitter.com/so7YgQ1F09
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 6, 2024
Well That Sucks 2 - The Sequel
All things Russian = Trump. And Elon Musk.
76 days from today, the American dictator takes power.
Because that's how we do things here:
The worst possible outcome flowing from the best possible system of government.
It's premature to say it's all over, but I'm holding out scant hope for anything better.
I can see a slow (at first), but then accelerating slide into autocracy and the implementation of Trump's vengeance-driven personal agenda, followed by "a time of adjustment" that will look like - and will be sold to us as - "a sensible solution to the terrible problems wrought by that poor unfortunate sick man, who BTW just suddenly went a little nutty - nobody could've seen it coming".
And then we'll be onto whatever the plan is for the removal of the dastardly Trump and the installation of kindly President Vance, who will continue to dismantle the federal government, and sell off the pieces to the friends of his billionaire benefactors, and eventually rewrite the US Constitution according to Project 2025.
And what're we betting that they'll enlist the willing help of Democrats in the House and Senate to impeach and remove? That should give them all the leverage they need against Trump, but more importantly, it gives them some nice political cover because they can say that whatever horrible thing they've turned the US into, they had help from the Dems.
Welcome to the plutocracy
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