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“Good Government” Democrat. Proud FDR-LBJ liberal. Former Hill staffer, writer, public affairs pro, JD. Francophile. Dog lover. History buff (WW I, medieval, France, US). Deeply, madly in love.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

The Founders feared the rise of someone who lacked good character. What it didn’t count on was the two other branches led by people without good character.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 12h

You are right.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 21h

What exactly do you do all day to earn your $223,500 salary?

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

That Russian tzar sensibility. Or Pittsburgh Embassy Suites

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Communist Party?!! It fully endorsed the partial nationalization of Intel Corporation.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

And all for this.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

I found the inspiration for Trump’s abomination of a ballroom.

The Pittsburgh Embassy Suites

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

The Founders feared the rise of someone who lacked good character. What it didn’t count on was the two other branches led by people without good character.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

The only check-and-balance that actually matters

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Start paying attention, WaPo. Trump 2.0 is about Viewpoint Homogeneity.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

The fact is Trump does not need to file suit. He might have the money already and we’ll never know until someone leaks it.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know, George, I think Trump is aiming for that Russian tzar sensibility.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

My understanding is those laws are not clear cut.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

What pisses me off is Congressional GOP could have stopped this with one call. Appropriators could have stopped the salaries of every fed employee with their fingers on this. Someone on the federal payroll is involved.

Believe me, Thune and Johnson are wiping their brows and saying “phew.”

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect putting a Nazi tattoo permanently on one’s body counts for Nazi sympathy.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

After Trump moves the president’s home to the Capitol because it has a better view and a dome and he runs the building anyway, the WH will house the Heritage Foundation.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

How about a bill to stop the desecration of the White House?! JFC

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

The Departmental Auditorium is big enough for state dinners.

Trump is preparing the ground for not leaving.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

I bagged an eltist on my last hunting trip.

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is aiming for that Russian tsar look and feel. But with modern Courtyard by Marriott sensibility

Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Grotesque desecration and abomination.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

From the @newyorker.com "Daily" today.

The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.

Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

Screenshot, reading: How normal is this sort of White House renovation?

“The White House wants you to believe this is totally normal, citing all the renovations, big and small, made by past Presidents. They are right that changes were made. But they are dead wrong about how this is being done. With the exception of F.D.R. secretly building a bunker under the East Wing during the Second World War, past renovations of this size were debated, funded by Congress, and done only after the need was manifest. None were rushed and done at the whim of a President.”

— George E. Condon, Jr., the White House correspondent for National Journal and a past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson is not very good at this.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by John Darkow.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

JHC, CONGRESS COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS. One call from Thune, Johnson, Grassley.

“Mr. President, with all due respect, don’t even fuckin’ think about it.”

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Can anyone stop Trump’s teardown of the East Wing?

Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Defund the ballroom.

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Upstate Dem @upstatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe. But they don’t know that for certain.