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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 15h

Your scare-quotes on "strong" are an admission you know they were too weak! lol

Too weak to gate-keep someone like him out, & also too weak to constrain him!

Internal strength, to manage the party, stop an insurgency, enforce norms; not external strength, to law-break, steamroll opposition, etc.

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh segregation?

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Ppl are looking at this the wrong way. Point is to get furloughed workers to voluntarily quit, to avoid legal battles over judicially-reversible mass-firings.

It's not about whether anyone is bound to give back pay, it's about manipulating workers by making them think foregone pay is a sunk cost.

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

That's why he's got the popemobile!

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Live video of Trump to Rust Belters:

some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights

Alt: Animated gif from Shrek: Some of you may die but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make

media.tenor.com

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

People have lost their minds.

Skeet screenshot showing my reply to someone who invoked Nixon and Watergate as evidence of Reagan's willingness to do bad things, I asked what they thought Reagan's involvement in Watergate was, they admitted there was no involvement, and then blocked me for the following response:

Ok, so what does invoking Watergate prove about Reagan's willingness to do anything, given your admission Reagan had no part in Watergate?

Reagan & Nixon have actual records as presidents we can examine, & they did not, in fact, do what Trump is doing. That's not speculation!

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, so what does invoking Watergate prove about Reagan's willingness to do anything, given your admission Reagan had no part in Watergate?

Reagan & Nixon have actual records as presidents we can examine, & they did not, in fact, do what Trump is doing. That's not speculation!

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Ppl are looking at this the wrong way. Point is to get furloughed workers to voluntarily quit, to avoid legal battles over judicially-reversible mass-firings.

It's not about whether anyone is bound to give back pay, it's about manipulating workers by making them think foregone pay is a sunk cost.

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

What part of, "it doesn't have to be the . . . GOP" confused you?

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

But the point is to get furloughed workers to quit bc they believe they'll never be made whole, that it's a sunk cost, bc getting a court to undo voluntarily quitting is going to be a much heavier lift than undoing illegal mass firings, if it's even possible at all.

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

That's generally true, but not when you hate gov't, want it to fail, & want ppl to quit so you don't have to go to court over illegal mass-firings.

The point of openly talking about not giving back pay is to get furloughed workers to move on & find new jobs bc you're worried you'll lose in court.

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

But Scalia *did* have a majority! It was a 5-4 Court before his death, & the significance of a GOP Senate blocking Obama from appointing Scalia's successor was that it was the first opportunity in half a century to have a liberal majority, to put justices like Scalia in the minority.

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

What do you believe was Reagan's involvement in Watergate?

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 1d

I assume the point of saying this is to encourage furloughed workers to quit in anticipation of not getting back pay, bc while mass-firings are subject to judicial review & being reversed, voluntary quitting isn't.

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

In a two-party system such as ours, you *do* need two parties strong enough to keep the extremists & sociopaths out of power.

It doesn't have to be the Dems & GOP, but Trump is what happened when the GOP was too weak to keep a sociopathic demagogue out. bsky.app/profile/hamm...

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 2d

It’s boilerplate Ziblatt (and many others). The point is a strong party keeps extremists out and down.
She makes the correct observation in the next line that they’re not it.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think this has aged badly at all given that the utter collapse of the Republican Party and its model of governance in the face of Trump's nihilistic death cult has been catastrophic for this country.

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Even if he's not, it's still stupid to let Trump take credit for a partial bailout for a problem he's directly & personally responsible for!

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

@KrangTNelson tweet:

no no no you misunderstood. I said "fuck YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

So you agree that the mental toll of financial uncertainty, and/or moonlighting to make ends meet, DOES affect ATC safety?

And your problem is that, even though the money will run out on Sunday, ATC won't directly feel the effects of that budgetary shortfall until the first missed payday?

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Sellout!

Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

"Some of them are saying . . . 'I work six days a week in the tower, & I might have to pick up some Uber jobs,' so they come into work tired, exhausted, bc they're trying to make that extra money to make ends meet, all the while, working six days a week to keep you safe in the airspace."

That's ATC

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Did you not listen to what he said? Sounds like it.

"The [air traffic] controllers . . . they're part of our critical infrastructure. . . . They're gonna do the work, they're not gonna get the check. . . . So now they're thinking about that at the same time that they're controlling the airspace[.]"

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Is it your position that the mental toll of financial uncertainty, and/or moonlighting to make ends meet, somehow *doesn't* affect ATC safety?

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Pick your poison:

Image of Freddie Mercury on stage, shirtless, giving a peace sign with one arm up in the air

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 2d

They can't really refuse to go, but they can do malicious compliance.

Eg, you can order them to be in a place, but you can't force them to run fast enough to catch someone.

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Adrian @adrianwashere.bsky.social · 3d

Cool. And a judge has already issued another TRO. Has he violated that? bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Immergut states for the record that she is basing new TRO on all of the reasons that were in my prior opinion granting first motion and the same reasons and apply...The deployment of the federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, she says.