Davis X. Machina

I'm working on getting the credit union to take my psychic wage for being straight, white, male and Christian and applying it to the loan on the truck and the ride-along.

I'm sure they'll work with me .

Czecho in '68 was 220,000. Five big cities, only 1 million-plus.

Area about that of New England ex Maine. 11 million pop give or take.

Sure, you won't have to iron-boot Idaho. But even red states have blue cities. How many top-20 cities in Texas?

Boston cotton Whig Amos Adams Lawrence. The occasion was the rendition of fugitive slave Anthony Burns and the massive show of federal force in Boston it took to do it.

Poasters lining up benind one of their own...

Have given it as an answer when asked "Favorite horror movie?"

We took a meeting, Comrade Baezhnev.

He's a billionaire. He's Copmala now.

(Lord Palmerston, surely.)

Somebody came back from Alaska with their marching orders.

We're dying of 'edgy'.

Irony will kill your Republic just as dead as tyranny.

What if wallowing in fear of it was my brand, though?

(It's peripheral but I wonder how long it would have taken the gunman to get off 500 rounds with a bolt-action rifle.)

Stop! You're taking my frisson away!

He has strong views on Gavin Newsom. That's it n

We have the new Copmala.

No Kant because reading Kant is like jogging in oatmeal.

The 'those who would have you commit atrocities need you to believe absurdities' treadmill depends on a constant supply of absurdities.

The problem with 'Sure he's an asshole, but he's our asshole" is, he's an asshole.

Unless you like assholes, that is.

What does it get them? Seize the power ministries? GOP controlled? Seize parliament? Majorities, both houses? We don't have a national broadcaster and whatever commercial there is is already captured.

What's in DC they need?

They're going to have to do a much more convincing job.

What's the 'it'?

Why do they need to? The secretaries of the various departments are all GOP... The computers have all been back-doored by DOGE

It ain't Horst Wesel, whatever it is.

The Supreme Court is waiting for the Tsar to die. Or the donkey to die. Or the donkey to talk. Everything is "stayed pending something or other".

The August 1968 squashing of Czechoslovakia took 200,000 troops to start with, 500,000 total eventually rotated through.

For half a dozen big cities, only one of a mllion or more. Area the size of new England ex Maine.

Not remotely enough.

I'm encouraged by our national collective decision to yawn, or go "WTF was that lame shit" in response to the Great Birthday Parade.

What's to seize? Why would he need to?

Usually it's 'seize the broadcasting station' -- the broadcasters, or what's left of them are in the tank. 'Seize the power ministries' -- they already report to him. (By 'him' I mean Stephen Miller'.) 'Seize parliament' -- he has a majority in both Houses.

Committees of public safety, as it were.

A pretty important question to ask is "...and then what?"

They haven't.

Something's caused them to speed up.

Looking at Trump's red carpet stroll, I'm thinking 'health'.

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