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Dennis Hanks

@wasatchu.bsky.social

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Retired engineer, now writer. A radical progressive. Notice: I'm a hermit in training, a practicing Introvert. I'm not likely to chat. #communitytheatre, #romancebooks

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Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 3h

2. you couldn't claim to be an American. What if all repugs became resident aliens? What if they lost the right to vote? And we built a country around those principles. What if we turned our backs on fear and hatred? No more racism, homophobia, misogyny, intolerance. What if?

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 3h

What if the repug party didn't exist? What if we could no longer tolerate its anti-American policies and practices of hate and fear? What if we said any registered repug was not an American? If you can't accept that All Men are Created Equal and Liberty and Justice for All were guiding principles

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

Harder to organize, but not that difficult. The money is still there. The anger is still there. Easy enough to re-brand. The fascist still own the media. Their lust for power has not been slaked. Until we do something about money and politics, it will happen again.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

That would certainly help. With ICE there is enough documentation to convict most, if not all, of kidnapping, assault, false arrest, false imprisonment, and even murder. What about the others? What are they guilty of? What's to stop the fascist from doing it again?

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

7. constitution and other hoops to jump through. They forgot what it means to be an American. If they want to be Americans, they must show they know what it means. I suspect some (the racists, xenophobes, homophobes, Christian nationalists, and others) may never accept Liberty and Justice for All.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

6. that must be much more difficult: no money in politics, no professional politicians (term limits), recall, referendums, nationalism instead of federalism (same populations for districts/states). Yes, there will be a way back for the resident aliens (ex-repugs) to become citizens but after the new

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

5. monthly, but at the end there should be no semi-automatics in private hands. Bolt, lever, and revolvers only. And only 4 guns per person. All others will be confiscated with onerous fines. Yes, we must still fear fascists should they take over the government. We must design a government where

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

4. We write a new constitution. The Second Amendment disappears (as do all amendments. It's a new constitution). We keep the good (free speech) but get rid of things which didn't work, like the Senate. We now start a buy-back campaign. We have 4 years to surrender our guns. Fair price reduced

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

3. safety). Next, all registered repugs lose their political voice. They can no longer vote or protest. Their party is dissolved. They have no place on any ballot. This should provide a way forward for Kamala to undo all which the repugs have done, back to 1980, but specifically since 01Jan25.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

2. on our streets forever, we must find a way to neutralize them without killing them. Afterall, they are our neighbors and our relatives. The first step is to isolate them politically. Cut off the head. All DC pols are immediately arrested (part of martial law) and sequestered (for their and our

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 1d

Identification might be a problem. They won't all be wearing red hats. I'm assuming martial law and the military has disarmed ICE and other paramilitaries. Now, what do we do about the 400 million guns out there? Many are unregistered (gun shows, inherited, illegal purchase). Unless we want troops

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 4d

As I see things, once ICE is disarmed and governance given to Kamala, the repug party will no longer exist: domestic enemies. There will be no one to help the ICE thugs. They will face kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault, false arrest, and in some cases murder. We may use the internment camps.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 5d

3. accountable. They must pay, literally and figuratively, for the damage they caused. Not sure how we bring them to justice, but we will. I hope we (military) can do it as painless as possible, but there will be some pain (blood). Time to water the tree of liberty?

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 5d

2. must die, be dissolved. All registered repugs lose the right to vote. All DC pols should be arrested and tried. Some for treason, others for corruption, and others for incompetence. They violated their oath. They made this happen. They were not alone. The fascist billionaires must be held

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 5d

I think it is essential we split the blanket between ourselves and the repugs. They have morphed into anti-Americans, nazis, if you will. They are no longer Americans, if slavers ever were. Time to acknowledge this and act accordingly. They can no longer be part of our political system. The repug

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, that the repugs in the House and Senate and 6 of the Supremes. Of course, ICE and the other paramilitaries have been disarmed. The war is over.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 6d

2. registered repugs, arrest all repug pols, and major donors. Bozo and 12 of his trusted synchophants should be sequestered at Camp David awaiting trial for the treason, corruption, and sabotage (destruction of our government). All DC pols will be held incommunicado in the old Trump Tower.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 6d

Might I suggest we brand the repugs as anti-Americans. By their works so shall you know them. There is not one element of their policies, practices, or beliefs. Racism is not ours It is theirs. Same for xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and other hatreds. Disband the party, disenfranchise all

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 7d

Anti-American.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 7d

3. All will serve the same single 10-year term. Similar for president and judges. No states, 100 districts of equal populations. Yes, we will have a new Constitution. Saving that which works, replacing that which didn't. No private money, open to anyone who has a plan to fix things.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 7d

2. candidates answering the occasional question. No advertising, no PACs, no parties. Public financing, public sponsorship, public oversight. RCV, mail-in ballots, national standards, national rules. Note: There will be no Senate. All committee assignments will be random. No majority or seniority.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 7d

We've known this forever. What if we took money and parties out of the process. Instead of parties telling us who we can vote for, we open it to anyone who will take an IQ test and pass the Immigration and Naturalization test. Sit for a 15-30 minute PBS interview. Then share a website with other

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 9d

I would expand the circle of guilt to include any registered repug. Call it complicity, enabling, or validation. They have made racism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, intolerance possible, made it 'normal'. Banning books, attacks on trans kids, Charlie Kirk, they are anti-American.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 9d

I hope you are right, but I'm not optimistic the files will ever see the light of day. We have yet to see an unredacted version of the Mueller Report. If we see anything. it will only have low-level dems in it. Pedos stick together.

Dennis Hanks @wasatchu.bsky.social · 9d

You're right, they aren't but others are. SMART Elections has filed suit for Rockland County NY. The NY Supreme Court said in May of this year the allegations are "serious enough for discovery to proceed". Are establishment dems fighting? No, but then they never do. So far, it is only statistical.