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Day: July 28, 2010

WIKILEAKS, PART II: L'ETAT C'EST MOI

Posted on July 28, 2010 | by Ed | 22 Comments on WIKILEAKS, PART II: L'ETAT C'EST MOI
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1 day ago

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A long one today.

The stranglehold the far right has achieved over the federal courts is the product of a strategy very different than (diametrically opposite of, in fact!) the one many prominent liberals insist is the key to getting them back.
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Litmus Tests are good, actually, and "Do you support court reform" is an example of a particularly good one.

"Keep voting Blue and eventually we will get the courts back, best case scenario, could be as soon as 30-40 years from now" is not a plan. The people who said it was lied to you.
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2 weeks ago

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The photos of the "crowds" at the tank parade remind me of when Bill Hicks would come on stage in an almost-empty club, scan the room slowly, and announce "I've had more people in bed than this" ...

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When the president sends a cabinet member on TV to announce "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.

This is from 2022 but it was absolutely right. The practiced buffoonery of Trump 1, all the "just kiddings" and "seriously but not literallys" absolutely succeeded in desensitizing people who are hardly paying any attention to the harder stuff they always intended to do next.
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RIP Frederick Forsyth, who I will never tire of reminding people based "The Dogs of War" on his real-life experience trying to personally fund and execute a coup in Equatorial Guinea. ...

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