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@meiselasb.bsky.social You're not doing Hakeem Jeffries any favors by bringing him on your podcast. He looks more impotent every time he opens his mouth.

In the CIVIL DEMOCRACY citizens invest 2 years in public service programs administered through the civil bureaucracy in exchange for universal healthcare and higher education. It won't be an entitlement because it will have been earned.

If Trump were to drop dead tomorrow there is no telling what will happen. There is no reason to believe the chain of command will be followed. The instruments of power will be seized by the strongest. That's how it works in authoritarian states.

@schumer.senate.gov You are as guilty of normalizing fascism as the fascists themselves because you do nothing. Step aside.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are as guilty of normalizing fascism as the fascists themselves because you do nothing. Step aside.

"These are the times that try men's souls." -Thomas Paine

What would generals Washington, Grant, Sherman, Pershing, Eisenhower, Patton, and MacArthur do?

Any court that aspires to be the guardian of democracy must have its verdicts comport with a transcendent realm in compliance with reason. The content of these reasonable verdicts were laid down by the philosophers of the enlightenment during the 17th and 18th century.

The Ethics Zone Humankind emerges from a condition of necessity into that of contingency. Time takes on a rectilinear trajectory; a purely human creation, bringing with it the enigma of the infinite.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Act like a bumbling fool and get treated like a bumbling fool.

@schumer.senate.gov Act like a bumbling fool and you get treated like a bumbling fool.

@thebulwark.com If Trump were to drop dead tomorrow there is no telling what will happen. There is no reason to believe the chain of command will be followed. The instruments of power will be seized by the strongest. That's how it works in authoritarian states.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Trump has made it clear. Political violence on his behalf will be rewarded.

A president is the vestigial member of absolutism. Instead of deriving power from providence, a president is delivered power from an equally problematic source; the general will- a philosophical fallacy. Co-existence and absolute independence are incompatible concepts.

The political divide will not be healed until we are able to govern without a president. A president is not a flagpole around which to rally, but the emblem for which one pledges allegiance to one side or the other of an equivocal ideology. The president is division personified.

If Trump were to drop dead tomorrow there is no telling what will happen. There is no reason to believe the chain of command will be followed. The instruments of power will be seized by the strongest. That's how it works in authoritarian states.

Anyone with half a brain would understand that it's more likely that a fanatic right-wing nut job would write "anti ICE" on a cartridge to deflect attention away from the right, than a left-winger doing so and incriminating the left. Fake clues

Extinction Event

All judgments are equivocal. Whether our judgments are good or bad depend on the norms and standards with which we choose to comply. Unity and plurality without contradiction is an ideal abstraction observed in the breach. A contingent existence is granted no reprieve.

American Idols American culture is a cinematic nightmare. Examine the aesthetic artifacts it produces. Americans are the unenviable prisoners of a market driven industry that exploits the psychological tinder box suppressed beneath the modern landscape.

All judgments are equivocal. Whether our judgments are good or bad depend on the norms and standards with which we choose to comply. Unity and plurality without contradiction is an ideal abstraction observed in the breach. A contingent existence is granted no reprieve.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

Regret is usually associated with what one has either done or left undone. With the unlimited accumulation of wealth regret undergoes a monstrous conversion. Regret attaches to what one doesn't have.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDUk... Brookfield CT 9/20

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@kenlburns.bsky.social The British and Americans were members of the same class society. They subscribed to the principles of the Enlightenment as articulated by the British empiricists. Locke makes it clear that liberty was equated with property not civil liberties in the modern sense.

The Predication of Opinion Every act has its intentional object. We don’t just work. We work on something. We don’t just walk. We walk somewhere. We don’t just choose. We choose among alternatives.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social All judgments are equivocal. Whether our judgments are good or bad depend on the norms and standards with which we choose to comply. Unity and plurality without contradiction is an ideal abstraction observed in the breach. A contingent existence is granted no reprieve.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

In the Soviet Union you had to be careful what you said against the government. Informers were everywhere. If you weren't informing it meant you were hiding something. Neighbors informed on each other. Then the "milk truck" would arrive at 3:30 AM and you would disappear to a camp in Siberia.

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com Why would you think that King Charles has any intelligence or morality? He lords over a line of drunkards, imbeciles, and harlots, that date back to George III.

Surface Antigen

The Ethics Zone Humankind emerges from a condition of necessity into that of contingency. Time takes on a rectilinear trajectory; a purely human creation, bringing with it the enigma of the infinite.

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social CIVIL DEMOCRACY No presidential pardons No executive privilege No executive orders NO PRESIDENT

CIVIL DEMOCRACY No presidential pardons No executive privilege No executive orders NO PRESIDENT

"That human life has differential exchange value in the marketplace of death when it comes to "civilized" and "uncivilized" peoples is not only quite common in liberal democratic countries, it is necessary to a hierarchical global order." Talal Asad 2007

@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Your conversation with Joe Manchin about bipartisanship ignores the fact that Trump lied his way into the white house with the intention of never relinquishing power. Things get worse every day. Manchin is no example of "common sense"

CIVIL DEMOCRACY No presidential pardons No executive privilege No executive orders NO PRESIDENT

@kenlburns.bsky.social Checks & balances must be vertical, not horizontal among an upper echelon of power. Our government is a reflection of the class society of the men who created it.

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