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Roybeast
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Will our American experiment survive?
The Steps of the Butterfly Revolution 1. Delegitimize Institutions - Undermine public trust in the courts, the press, Congress, and any system that can challenge executive power. Convince supporters that these institutions are corrupt, biased, or controlled by enemies. We've already seen this with attacks on the "Deep State," the "Fake News Media," and the idea that courts are "weaponized" against conservatives. 2. Ignore Constraints - Once people no longer trust institutions, start disregarding them. Court rulings become optional, laws only apply when convenient, and legal norms are treated as obstacles to be worked around rather than followed. This is where we are now, with figures like J.D. Vance floating the idea of ignoring court rulings and Trump's allies preparing to defy legal limits on power. 3. Crush Opposition - When protests and resistance emerge, use force to suppress them. Invoke emergency powers like the Insurrection Act to justify mass arrests, detain dissidents, and deploy law enforcement or military units to control unrest. Project 2025 lays the groundwork for this, calling for the detention of protesters in the same sites as undocumented immigrants. 4. Establish Autocratic Rule - With opposition neutralized and institutions sidelined, consolidate power into a single executive authority. Elections may still exist, but they'll be hollow formalities. The new system will be framed as "restoring order" or "returning to the true Constitution," even as real democracy ceases to function.
February 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Soon™
Frostpunk picture we need all available hands to work if we're to survive. We'll allow children to be employed wherever they can help, no matter the risk. SIGN
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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February 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Looks like that Mississippi Certified Bounty Hunter Program bill died in committee 🎉
Mississippi HB1484 MS Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunter Program; create. Actions (2) On February 4, 2025 in the House: Died In Committee
February 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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america2.news/content/file... 👀
Anonymous researchers just dropped a well- sourced memo exposing Musk and the neoreactionary movement. The threat is bigger than most realize. Read the one-page summary and share it—people need to see this. It sounds impossible, but it's real. This is happening.
February 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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US these days:
Mark Twain quote It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
February 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Your toaster has been removed because it was considered a DEI hire.

Also, this:
U.S. Department of Justice Edward R. Martin, Jr. United States Attorney District of Columbia P Henry Building 601 D Streel, N W. Washington, DC. 20330 February 3, 2025 Mr. Elon Musk DOGE United States Government SENT VIA X: @elonmusk Dear Elon, It was good to work with the DOGE team this weekend. We must keep all our American government employees safe and we must protect the American people's property. Anyone imperiling others violating our laws. I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly. At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws. Let me assure you of this: we will pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people. We will not act like the previous administration who looked the other way as the Antifa and BLM rioters as well as thugs with guns trashed our capital city. We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what. One last warning for you: late last week, we indicted an economist who worked at the Fed for economic espionage for the Communist Chinese. Please be very aware that there are those who are acting against our American people in every way. Refer to us any questionable conduct or details that you find or notice. Please keep in touch. All the best. Sincerely, Edward R. Martin, Jr. United States Attorney
February 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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2/2
And as the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the one who helps write our government funding bills, it's important you know that, right now, the federal government is only funded through March 14, 2025. At this point, there is no funding allocated to agencies to pay staff for this offer. Finally, I want to express a real gratitude for the federal workers who power so many essential services provided by our government. The American government is not Twitter—people rely on our federal workers and sometimes their work can be the difference between life and death. Federal workers help inspect meat processing facilities, they make sure baby formula is safe, they approve lifesaving drugs and treatments, they manage air traffic, help ensure clean drinking water, and so much else. Where this administration continues to show outright hostility toward many of our federal workers, I will continue to fight for federal workers everyone from Hanford workers to the people who are making sure you get your Social Security check. Thank you, Pay manay Patty Murray United States Senator for Washington state * Contact my office • Visit my website @PattyMurray @senpattymurray Click here to signup to receive future newsletters. To unsubscribe, click here. PREPARED, PUBLISHED, AND MAILED AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Sen Murray (D-WA) 1/2 🧵
U.S. SENATOR Patty Murray WORKING FOR WASHINGTON STATE Friend, I wanted to reach out with some information about the Trump administration's "Fork in the Road" offer, which claims to give federal workers the option of a "deferred resignation" that would allegedly allow workers to "retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30." First, there is no guarantee workers who accept this offer will get paid through September 30 as promised. Not only is there no funding for that time frame right now, but I personally am deeply skeptical of any offer from a President like Donald Trump who has so consistently shown he will try to stiff workers if it furthers his personal goals and ambitions. Being given only 9 days decide is a short amount of time to consider all of the financial impacts of potentially accepting the offer-including if and where you'd be able to find a new job, how this would impact benefits like Thrift Savings Plans, and more. And we know scammers often pressure people to act immediately. Additionally, the information being provided includes a lot of caveats. It claims you can rescind your resignation if you change your mind— but that your job may no longer exist. It claims that you aren't expected to work if you accept the offer— expect in rare cases determined by each individual agency. It claims that you can stay in your current role-but there's no guarantee your position will be needed. The lack of clear information and resources about exactly what will be allowed is rightfully creating confusion for the more than 56,000 federal workers across Washington state. To me, this leaves far too many questions unanswered.
February 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Clown of the White House
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Trump has the same weakness politically. For every winner there must be a loser. And that's just not how politics works, not over the long run. For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101, definitions you learn before you even start talking about styles and tactics. And here's another huge problem for us. Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it. From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn't even bringing checkers to a chess match. He's bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld." - David Honig
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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One of the risks of distributive bargaining is bad will. In a one-time distributive bargain, e.g. negotiating with the cabinet maker in your casino about whether you're going to pay his whole bill or demand a discount, you don't have to worry about your ongoing credibility or the next deal. If you do that to the cabinet maker, you can bet he won't agree to do the cabinets in your next casino, and you're going to have to find another cabinet maker. There isn't another Canada. So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible. And we see that already. Trump has raised tariffs on China. China responded, in addition to raising tariffs on US goods, by dropping all its soybean orders from the US and buying them from Russia. The effect is not only to cause tremendous harm to US farmers, but also to increase Russian revenue, making Russia less susceptible to sanctions and boycotts, increasing its economic and political power in the world, and reducing ours. Trump saw steel and aluminum and thought it would be an easy win, BECAUSE HE SAW ONLY STEEL AND ALUMINUM - HE SEES EVERY NEGOTIATION AS DISTRIBUTIVE. China saw it as integrative, and integrated Russia and its soybean purchase orders into a far more complex negotiation ecosystem.
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Distributive bargaining always has a winner and a loser. It happens when there is a fixed quantity of something and two sides are fighting over how it gets distributed. Think of it as a pie and you're fighting over who gets how many pieces. In Trump's world, the bargaining was for a building, or for construction work, or subcontractors. He perceives a successful bargain as one in which there is a winner and a loser, so if he pays less than the seller wants, he wins. The more he saves the more he wins. The other type of bargaining is called integrative bargaining. In integrative bargaining the two sides don't have a complete conflict of interest, and it is possible to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Think of it, not a single pie to be divided by two hungry people, but as a baker and a caterer negotiating over how many pies will be baked at what prices, and the nature of their ongoing relationship after this one gig is over. The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can't demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. There are always more pies to be baked. Further, negotiations aren't binary. China's choices aren't (a) buy soybeans from US farmers, or (b) don't buy soybeans. They can also (c) buy soybeans from Russia, or Argentina, or Brazil, or Canada, etc. That completely strips the distributive bargainer of his power to win or lose, to control the negotiation.
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Corran Addison Jul 9, 2018 • 0 The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. Everybody I know should read this accurate and enlightening piece... "I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes. Trump, as most of us know, is the credited author of "The Art of the Deal," a book that was actually ghost written by a man named Tony Schwartz, who was given access to Trump and wrote based upon his observations. If you've read The Art of the Deal, or if you've followed Trump lately, you'll know, even if you didn't know the label, that he sees all dealmaking as what we call "distributive bargaining."
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Memorandum for the pentagon press association, second page.
February 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Memorandum for the pentagon press association, first page. Vacates four news outlets and brings in four other ones.
February 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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I have a friendly stray cat:
Friendly stray cat up close
February 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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The flow chart the current administration is using.
Birds sitting on a post. The ones below are covered in crap.
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Friendly reminder to not mix up baby x-ray with an actual blender. 🙏
baby getting an xray (not a blender, I repeat, not a blender)
January 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Soon™️
People building a pyramid
January 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Does this crop make it look better?
The three Tsketeers
January 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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He's a political puppet. Here's a picture of what he's like when he isn't having his strings pulled:
Trump, a deranged dunderheaded dickweasel, at one of his rallies.
January 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I would also sit with patriot Bernie @sanders.senate.gov. What’s your poison? I like whiskey on the rocks.
Bernie Sanders with his arms crossed sitting down while everyone else is applauding Trump
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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January 7, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot - Mark Twain
January 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM