[FRIAM] The lies of Trump and ecDNA

[Steve Smith]

> Focus on getting the majority in Congress so he can be impeached.

If Trump's base manages to bully their way into putting him back in 
office, I think we will be experiencing precisely the canonical "tyranny 
of the majority over the minority" in the worst way, which of course, is 
what many of those insurrection-supporting folks are feeling 
(righteously or not) about the current scene.

In 2000 I wasn't happy to see Bush-II take the reins (or have them 
handed over by the Supreme court over hanging chad nuances?) but I felt 
it was an inevitable swing of the political pendulum and besides "how 
bad could it be?", then came 9/11 (encouraged/forced by the hyper-hawk 
agendas of the right-wing "mandate"?) and the Rummy/Wolfey/Cheney 
thuggery (with Bush as their puppet front man?).

I was fed up with Clinton for more reasons than his mis-handling of his 
young intern (my own daughters roughly the same age) and felt Gore had 
some of his cooties by association.  I still voted for him (first vote 
since I helped Reagan knock Carter out of the park against my ultimate 
best interests) but my morbid fascination watching all of Florida and 
the rest of the country watching the coin-toss land on-edge and blowing 
it as hard as they could to knock it over (right or left) to their 
preference.

I was not happy with the way it turned out in the Supreme Court but by 
that time might not have been that happy if the coin had blown over the 
other way...  However come the 9/11 response, Iraq Invasion, I was 
embarrassed by my complacency/fatalism.  Today feels vaguely similar.

>
>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 7:08 AM, glen<gepropella at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> This is exactly why Trump needs to stay on the ballot(s) and be defeated by a "normal" election. Every cry of Martyr is more fuel for the much smarter younger traitors waiting in the wings. Or, if he is elected again, those of us in a position to bolster whatever Rule of Law we have left will need support.
>>
>>> On 2/28/24 20:11, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>>> I went looking for depressing news in 1924, you know, lying politicians and cancerous social movements:
>>> April 1<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1>
>>>   * Adolf Hitler<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler>  is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg_Prison>  in Germany for his participation in the 1923<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923>  Beer Hall Putsch<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch>  (he serves less than 9 months).
>>
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>> ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ
>>
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