Still Musin' After All These Years

#LeaveParty—Since 1996, JC Adamson has reflected online about politics, spirituality & esoterica: 2-party tyranny—National debt—Color vision—Twelve Steps—More

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

@thenation @ElieNYC [Dems] spend their emotional and moral energy on defending the institutions Trump attacks instead of the human people he threatens.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

@benwikler @thenation Fine. Supporting unions is quintessentially Dem Party. But with only 10% of workers in unions, it won't win elections. And building significant union participation is a pipe dream. Dems have to LISTEN to ALL workers and go to work FOR them.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

Just want to clarify a couple of things. Last round with T, at least 100,000 died unnecessarily w/Covid. The capitol was assaulted. Much more.
Kamala is proven as competent, and decent, and has 3+ years OJT. Much more.
Just vote FOR our country.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

This is one of the foulest most bigoted tropes of all time, and hardly new. I didn't think my regard for Trump could fall lower, but it plummeted to a new bottom when he went there. He is irredeemable.

[Crooked News @RealCrookedNews]

“They’re eating the dogs! The people that came in. They’re eating the cats! They’re eating, they’re eating the pets.” —Fmr. President Donald Trump

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Here is what I love about Tim Walz: He is not only funny, lovable, joyful, and a truly decent human being, but he is also teaching men across the nation what it looks like to be a REAL man—that we don’t put women down. We support & lift women up.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Tim Walz shows American men, especially white men, that a better vision of manhood and masculinity exists which is far more loving, successful, decent and appealing than the toxic bravado and cruelty of Trump and MAGA.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

According to the Supreme Court:
Biden couldn’t be prosecuted if he ordered Army Rangers to take out Trump.
And we alreadyknow impeachment is impossible.
Trump’s gone, Biden’s immune.
Where am I wrong?

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

Help me out here:
Do I correctly understand the Supreme Court decision?
The Constitution requires Joe Biden to be “commander in chief of the Army...”
And to “...defend the Constitution of the United States.”
So—

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

This may be good news. Sounds like Republicans of old, who were too busy worrying about how other people dressed to get involved with destroying democracy.

The Senate's dress code just got more relaxed. Some insist on staying buttoned-up
https://t.co/uISch6Bv1k

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

If you or I were booked on such serious charges, we'd probably look frightened and humiliated.

I wonder how many hours he spent in front of a mirror, practicing this expression.

Meanwhile, AP and all the media are unpaid promoters of his vile product.

[The Associated Press @AP]

The booking photo of Donald Trump captured for the first time a former president of the United States under arrest. The trappings of power gone, for that split second.

Left behind: an enduring image for the history books. https://t.co/MoBaAdGXYN

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

More than 115 people per day die in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the US. Surely, self-driving cars can improve on that.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

California regulators voted Thursday to allow self-driving car companies Waymo and Cruise to offer 24/7 paid taxi service in San Francisco, a major win for the industry that could pave the way for more widespread adoption of the technology. https://t.co/6DPdEmkbgG

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

As others have noted, this is really about how young is our nation. It's 224 years since Geo. Washington's 1799 death. So it would be easily possibly for someone alive today (born c. 1933), to:
have known someone (born c. 1858)
who knew someone (born c. 1783)
who knew Washington.

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

One TikToker user commenting on the discovery said it was "proof enough that he has no business with that job." https://t.co/iZxTsNWkry

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

We set that precedent in 1974, when Ford pardoned Nixon. We're paying the price today. A president, above anyone else, must be held to account for criminal acts. And the most indefensible criminal acts are those that endanger democracy.
Both men did that.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Question for those who say prosecuting a former president sets a dangerous precedent: Isn’t it more dangerous to set a precedent that a former president will never face accountability if they broke the law?

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

Belafonte.
No words are adequate or necessary.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

We could smell the rot in 2016. We just couldn't identify the source.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

This is very beary.
https://t.co/3hb82PdM0r

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

The tight restraints on C-SPAN have always been damaging. Many Americans don't know that the impassioned speech they see their Rep deliver on the evening news was actually given to an empty chamber. If C-SPAN could roam, politics would be different.
https://t.co/TiDBrO5Nq4

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

@iamgavinjames @GOP @realDonaldTrump @laurenboebert @mattgaetz Crazy idea: a bi-NON-partisan solution.
6 or more Repubs, who hate all of this & want to move forward, resign as Repubs & become Indy. They do it hand-in-hand with a few Dems going indy. No majority. ALL the rules have to change. Everything changes. Think it through. Could work.

[Fernand R. Amandi @AmandiOnAir]

Brutal.

[Still Musin' After All These Years @TheMuserGR]

If there are 6 Repubs in districts that have significant Dem or indy voters who would support them in '24, it would be possible. One of my contacts with actual knowledge thinks it has less than a 15% probability. Dems should probably just sit and watch. It's profitable and fun.

[Dan Ancona @DanAncona]

Pitiful that there aren’t even six Republicans who would put country over party and do this.