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They fear him. They are dominated.

@tracybaton.bsky.social

Petard (Age of Empires II) The Petard is a siege unit in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors that can be trained at the Castle. Petards are faster than most siege units and explode upon impact with their target, capable of dealin...

Those guys are in Age of Empires games 😂 ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Petard_...

Try Rogue Trader?

I'm sure he is going to use it. What will matter is the response to it. It's good No Kings is already mobilizing people. @tracybaton.bsky.social

the military leadership has been at least partially purged. And this SCOTUS already gave Trump legal immunity & the Insurrection Act goes along nicely with their Unitary Executive theory.

doesn't apply to it once it's invoked. Trump wanted to use it last time on the George Floyd protestors but was talked out of it by the more sane people around him & he wanted to use it again in 2021 to stop Congress from certifying the election of Biden. But now the opposition from within is gone &

workers/labor movement. Only a few times was it used for good against the KKK & against white supremacists (Ole Miss/Little Rock/Selma). There's no Judicial or Congressional review on it. No time limit or geographic restriction. Congress can't override w/o veto proof majority. Posse Comitatus Act

deploy not just the militias but the standing army. The SCOTUS gave their blessing on it 20yrs later. Jefferson used it on Americans defying his embargo a yr later in 1808. The local militias refused to obey so he used Federal troops. Has been used dozens of times since then on, often on striking

Insurrection Act was passed a Federal judge had to certify that normal law enforcement couldn't hand the situation. Like in the case of the Militia Acts/Calling Forth Act & the Whiskey Rebellion in Western PA. After the Insurrection Act was passed it can be done w/o a judge. And with it they can

It is like a cheat code for a wannabe tyrant. It's really a monarch type power. Really bad law that should never have been passed & should have been undone. Was passed to suppress a supposed insurrection by Aaron Burr carving out his own nation which he was later acquitted of. Before the 1807

can't change it. "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" by Robert Morstein-Marx. @mikeduncan.bsky.social

Republic Rome. It's already broken our politics for years now. That's why I think Dems should prioritize it over anything else. It's already a catastrophic, possibly fatal problem that we simply cannot pass amendments anymore. The Constitution as written isn't working in the modern world and we

like Cato was. Filibuster was basically an invention of his. There's a myth/cult around Cato but he was an oligarchic villain imo. We lost the "Anticato" to history which was written by Caesar. The Senate has become extremely ineffective & the place where legislation goes to die like in Late

I see a lot of similarities between Late Republic Rome and the U.S. now. I have thought for a long time now that if the silent filibuster isn't destroyed it might destroy the country or at least our democracy. It did severe damage to the Roman Senate/Republic a couple thousand yrs ago. McConnell is

Shadow Senator @seankitchen.bsky.social

If the Insurrection Act is invoked we might need a general strike. The Insurrection Act can prevent you from gathering. It can prevent you from standing on a picket line. It cannot prevent you from not working. It cannot prevent a national strike.

Caesar to succeed and needed reforms. Sound familiar? They were the ancient superpower republic. We are the modern superpower republic. Our filibuster is much worse than theirs was.

(McConnell) who hated Caesar and did everything to undermine him including inventing the filibuster and wrecking the Roman Senate. Caesar's actions were often in reaction to his reactionary conservative extremism. The Cato faction chose civil war and to destroy the republic rather than allow

Filibuster is going to destroy the Republic. Caesar's charisma/popularity/success (similar to Obama?) created a determined opposition (Tea Party > Trump/MAGA?) that discarded precedent/rules & this led to increasing escalation and rule/norm/tradition breaking. The person leading this was Cato

Frogs Together Strong

too much monitoring the situation 😂

We should also study the Athenian civil war and their overthrow of the oligarchic Thirty Tyrants.

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Out next spring from @steerforthpress.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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audible?

If Dems win full control in next several years no more half measures. We need bold aggressive action, eliminate the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, pass campaign finance reform, pass universal programs like Medicare for all.

it's impressive actually lol

Looks like a Groyper. The extremely militant, extremely online Fuentes sections of the far right hated CK and could easily have been the ones responsible.