“Hydraulic Despotism,” is the use of a critical resource to maintain control.
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Few things are more political than water. Soon wars will be fought over it.
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Ah the old days, when America was great, and John Wayne starred in movies that mocked and pilloried greedy fascist-friendly rich guys.
Reflecting for a second on how universal and normative such mockery once was really brings into relief just how far we’ve fallen.
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I think we’ll be hearing this refrain a lot more in the coming weeks and months:
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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Oh, he is just mad that we call it "water’.
Not “Trump Water” ™
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“Trump disregarded some of the legal protections to insulate inspectors general from political retaliation like this. He failed, for instance, to provide the required 30-days written notice to Congress with a basis for the firings.”
If you’re a dictator they let you do it.
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Firing en mass of IG’s without a 30 day notification to Congress of the specific reasons in each case violates federal law.
Time to IMPEACH TSF.
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Dream on.
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Um, you keep forgetting, Trump is not subject to U.S. laws.
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You don’t and the 32% of voters that voted for Trump don’t care and the 36% of eligible voters who didn’t vote at all are oblivious. Sixty-eight percent of eligible voters don’t give a flying fuck about the health of our democracy.
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As luck would have it, I’ve already celebrated…
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Follow the money; it’s all about the grift.
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We’re back to 2017, like Groundhog Day.
The old Trumpian “what’cha gonna do about it” challenge.
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Well somebody needs to show some spine even if mine is broken at the moment
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Since he HATES his real first name – ELMER – we should call him that.
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Hamas really needs to get on the ball and offer TrumpCo some sweet beachfront property rights in Gaza! This could lead to future
- right to access from the sea
- right to access, period
- permission to have an airport
- money coming into the Strip
- jobs for the residents
- reasons for the US (aka “Donald Trump, confidence man and sentenced criminal”) to oppose Israel’s constant grass mowing.
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Well shit… at least I’m consistent
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Once again proving the old adage of conservobots – they’re all for “States Rights” until they aren’t.
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Impeachment requires high crimes or misdemeanors, and it isn’t a high crime, or any crime at all, if it’s part of his “official duties.”
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