i am worried that much of the political opposition is looking at a bombed out tea house and instead of planning a full rebuild, is planning a child’s tea party in the rubble, sipping from tiny empty cups and biting plastic cookies
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I would contend that we are past the point of no return on authoritarianism. The courts and Congress have been captured by a tyrannical executive. There is no constitutionally sound remedy at the federal level But that isn't a reason to be hopeless. The USA of our childhood was a nation tacically
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different than the one that emerged from under the tyranny of an overseas capitol. The interests that insisted on the freedom to profit from the slavery of others thrived and it took a civil war to settle the issue. Today there are many interests that oppose a free and progressive society. They
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will be defeated. Be it through civil disobedience, divine intervention (covid lol) or force of arms. The constitutional order is dead, long live the constitutional order! nypost.com/2025/08/31/u...
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But we invited the military to our tea party michael bsky.app/profile/warr...
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To them it will always be better to be king of the junkyard than just another schmo in an affluent suburb.
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Lmao exactly. We would be better off if 95% of democratic members of congress were replaced. There essentially is no opposition. There is the ruling party and the ruled party and a handful of dems trying to fight back who are being told by party leadership to stop
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"Republicans blew up the national debt and now we cant afford to rebuild the administrative state"
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As long as the cast of characters on the dem side remains mostly the same I don’t think reconstruction happens they would rather preside over ashes
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This metaphor is too accurate 😭 like when Buzz Lightyear went crazy
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i think many of them would rather be senators under fascism than voted out into some newsroom or think tank sinecure under democracy
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