Timothy Taubes

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October 12
Wildcard🃏: Any song, your choice.
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Happy Birthday!!

You are a ray of sunshine in a Bluesky!

"Papa Doc" Duvalier had the Tonton Macoute.

Trump has ICE.

A large swathe of those who voted for Trump were not ultra MAGA. They believed he would fix the economy, not grift a billion dollars a month. They never agreed to suspend due process and install a police state. Those were the decisive voters.

Geraldo is a disingenuous rat. Always has been. My uncle worked with him at ABC News in New York in the 70's. Promoting himself and self-preservation are the only things he cares about.

Good Morning

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One would think that building a Qatari air force facility on US soil would be a bridge too far for America first MAGA.

Nope

I agree with everything you said. Ultra MAGA are irredeemable. But there was a whole swathe of voters who believed that Trump would fix the economy instead of grifting a billion dollars a month. Who never agreed to suspend due process and install a police state. Those were the decisive voters.

Trump lied. If he had said-

I'll implement project 2025 on day one
Gut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits
Won't fix the economy
Suspend due process
Give Musk your personal info
Abandon our allies and join the axis of evil
I raped little girls

He wouldn't be president today

With the magnitude of the violence escalating Stephen Miller's night of the long knives is just a matter of time. EVERYONE has a target on their back, especially those MAGA republicans who think they deserve to be next in the chain of command.

These motherfuckers are deliberately trying to provoke the crowd so they can shoot someone.

Humans could solve the riddle of the universe. We now treat that transcendent realm as a mental construction always in need of re-evaluation as conditions evolve. The product of a defunct Cartesian theory of correspondence.

They are codified as the principles of liberal democracy; sovereignty, the social contract, liberty, property, and the general will. Their validity was vouchsafed by humankind’s ability to construct universally valid mathematical puzzles- the foundation of logic.

Any court that aspires to be the guardian of democracy must have its verdicts comport with a transcendent realm in compliance with reason. The content of these reasonable verdicts were laid down by the philosophers of the enlightenment during the 17th and 18th century.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT

Who wants to bet that Trump will blow-up a few more Venezuelan fishermen for spite just because the Nobel prize was given to a Venezuelan woman.

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic I'll Get You (Remastered 2009)

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October 10
Song that was written or co-written by a deceased artist.

John Lennon
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YouTube video by Mongo Santamaria - Topic Amanecer

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The services provided by the civil bureaucracy;
Crisis response
Maintenance of infrastructure
Localization of food production
Reclamation of potable water

This does not replace or compete with private enterprise. The benefits accrued by a continuously replenished labor source are self-generating.

In the CIVIL DEMOCRACY citizens invest 2 years in public service programs administered through the civil bureaucracy in exchange for universal healthcare and higher education. It won't be an entitlement because it will have been earned.

The federally administered civil bureaucracy is coordinated through the office of the ward manager.
All government positions are administered through the civil bureaucracy regulated by civil code.

The CIVIL DEMOCRACY has 3 elected officials
Federal rep/limit 10 two-year terms
District rep/limit 10 two-year terms
Ward manager/ no term limit. The ward manager is the local representative of the government. Their responsibilities are far more sweeping than those of a mayor.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY
Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power
1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections
Executive council with rotating chair
Independent department of judication
No party role in national politics
Public Oversight
Civil bureaucracy
NO PRESIDENT

I painted this in June 2020 when Trump cleared Lafayette Square with tear gas. Never forget that McConnell is the architect of this whole stinking mess.

And, asking what these phrases mean, we are forced to perceive that both truth and reality go beyond the perceived facts. The given facts are in other words not the whole of reality, while truth cannot be understood except in reference to this whole.”

-FH Bradley

Our truths in short can all of them in some sense be verified in fact, but, if you ask if they all are copied from fact, the answer must be different. And we are driven to admit that, at least when we pass from individual truths, our truth no longer represents fact but merely “holds” or “is valid”.