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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 7h

Yah, trying to look competent while you're sprawling on the pavement UNDER the folks you're detaining, maybe keep your mask up... not a great look.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 12h

He didn't just DO rallies. He PLANNED them.
#StoptheSteal was invented in 2016 BEFORE elections.
Drumpf boasted to Koch that it would be great for ratings.
The whole "would have won the popular vote too, if not for cheating" was improvised.
It was never about becoming president. That's the joke.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 13h

See, Drumpf gets a pass on the infection of his own appointments. I hire only the best, you know, but I wasn't well served by the people closest to me, who recommended and kept some very bad people. I confirmed them, of course, but they were not really my hires. Because they were bad. Because...

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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 13h

My guess is he believes that war will raise his approval rating, as well as intimidate his domestic opponents over how he's going to "monitor" upcoming ballot boxes.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 13h

Sure, but kind of like putting the Frog in front of ICE, we need to create conditions where nothing they challenge makes them look good.

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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 15h

I would also have to offer Heller, because buying a gun is nothing like joining the well-regulated militia.
And Heller is getting people killed.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 15h

We need to be looking at how the plan increasingly looks like keeping the House out of session until at least the mid-terms.
If those even happen.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 15h

Those federal monitors better be noticing massive peaceful turnout and a very cold welcome from everyone involved.
Now we're going to see if the mean is for once bigger than the stupid. I'm hopeful.

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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 1d

My guess- they could see that giving the textbook answer would not get them hired. So they were stuck.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 1d

Look at their activities, how is that disqualifying (except of course for the law thing)?

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 1d

I don't. The hiring they've done is clearly dopes who wouldn't know how to operate this military gear.
I think missiles to ICE is about somebody three levels below Drumpf just grifting.

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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 1d

The point about the mediocrity and skill-deficit of secret police, combined with the news that Drumpf is evidently stockpiling things like chemical warheads with ICE et al, is a bit of a balm actually.
Anyone smart enough to use this stuff is probably good enough to refuse to use it on citizens.

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Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 2d

This DOES remove the puke-inducing scenario where he runs for his old seat with Mango Mussolini's imprimatur. I was cringing in anticipation of that.

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 2d

And those drawings too, really ugly!

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 2d

It's a race between the approaching mid-terms and his deteriorating competence. He can't forbid elections with a hand up his back, and it's getting harder and harder to pretend he's making decisions (other than the revenge moves- the puppeteers let him have that sandbox).

Will Hahn @childofhope.bsky.social · 2d

There's been analysis that Putin/Russia gives Drumpf little signals to control his behavior. Maybe now the GoP in Senate is figuring out the same tactic. He'll actually do what they want just to keep them from acting. (Of course, "he" means his puppeteers here).
Keep cracking the whip Thune!

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