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4 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

It’s fucking insane he was approved by the Senate. There won’t be any consequences but he should be impeached and removed for this

Kennedy promised not to interfere with the work of this committee or its members in order to secure the support of Louisiana senator, Dr. Cassidy. This group advises the government and insurance companies on what vaccines to cover.

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57 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

Remember when all of the right wing folks were crying about how their freedom of speech was being infringed because Facebook and Twitter were editing their posts?  

I do.

And how ebil Joe Biden was actively seeking to curb lies on social media.  But without getting anyone fired?  That was  . . .  concerning.

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2 minutes ago, Bojack said:

The early returns on the military resisting unlawful orders aren't looking good at all.

This is correct.

And expected.

People keep thinking "well....sure, THAT institution totally failed, but THIS institution will save us!"  And every time, they are wrong.

I told y'all how this sort of thing ends.  Always.  100% of the time.  That's where we're headed.  It's stupid, it's awful, and we the American people will be the ones who pay the ultimate price....but it's where we're going, at breakneck speed.

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6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Trump trying to start a civil war only reminds me of how Obama was the most divisive president ever.

Sadly, Obama is why we have Trump as President. Obama brought the fear. 

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8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Trump trying to start a civil war only reminds me of how Obama was the most divisive president ever.

But at least Trump doesn't wear tan suits, right?  And his wife doesn't bare her shoulders in public.  Her fake tits, yeah, but not her shoulders like some cheap whore.

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2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I mean, there was video evidence that she didn’t do shit. But ok. 

That doesn't mean they saw it.  Or saw unedited video.  Defendants have no right to present evidence to a GJ, it's not a trial.  Sometimes, a defendant's attorney is permitted, by the US Attorney in order to be fair, to make some form of presentation to the GJ.  But you know that shit didn't happen here.

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3 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Sadly, Obama is why we have Trump as President. Obama brought the fear. 

No. He was just the pretext.
Remember back in 2008 when @TahoeHorn was spouting that bullshit about Obama being a secret revolutionary black nationalist? He didn’t actually believe it, however, he was a locally advice partisan towing his party line. But what he hadn’t fully internalized at that time* was that his party had become an insurgent outlier working against the constitutional order.


 

 

*he has since, which is a big reason why he no longer posts here or anywhere. 

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1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

No. He was just the pretext.
Remember back in 2008 when @TahoeHorn was spouting that bullshit about Obama being a secret revolutionary black nationalist? He didn’t actually believe it, however, he was a locally advice partisan towing his party line. But what he hadn’t fully internalized at that time* was that his party had become an insurgent outlier working against the constitutional order.

And then he won... And the fear/racism came straight to the front... And this dude decided he'd use it to his advantage. 

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10 minutes ago, Slacks said:

And then he won... And the fear/racism came straight to the front... And this dude decided he'd use it to his advantage. 

Yep. I mean I think for a lot of those people, ie, the ones who know better  then and now, they convince themselves this is politics and usual- the way to get lower marginal tax rates and deregulation and so forth. They still haven’t fully grappled with the reality of the dark forces they have released. And they won’t until it either impacts them personally or Republicans lose a lot of elections, and then they’ll be either crying or tut-tutting, respectively. 

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5 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Yep. I mean I think for a lot of those people, ie, the ones who know better  then and now, they convince themselves this is politics and usual- the way to get lower marginal tax rates and deregulation and so forth. They still haven’t fully grappled with the reality of the dark forces they have released. And they won’t until it either impacts them personally or Republicans lose a lot of elections, and then they’ll be either crying or tut-tutting, respectively. 

I don't thinj the Republicans will lose a lot of elections. There are way too many people who are OK with hate, and enough who prefer it. 

Hate is normalized again. 

Dems better figure out something for the apathetic to hate... Being inclusive is noble and honorable, but won't beat the hate machine. The hate machine learned how to make the best traits in humankind, inclusion and tolerance, into a negative "DEI" to vote against. Think about how crazy that is.

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Right, because if the federal government spent its time and money helping communities rebuild after natural disasters, then who would make sure people didn't gather in public with signs and chanting?

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31 minutes ago, bolverk said:

 

 

50 states with redundant infrastructures of varying levels of capability to handle events that happen randomly and inconsistently but have to be addressed the moment they do happen is VERY efficient 🙄

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2 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

50 states with redundant infrastructures of varying levels of capability to handle events that happen randomly and inconsistently but have to be addressed the moment they do happen is VERY efficient 🙄

The gutting of the SBA is already killing us as we try to rebuild after the wildfires. 

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The early returns on the military resisting unlawful orders aren't looking good at all.

Hegseth and Trump purged all the leaders in the Pentagon that would’ve been an impediment in this shit-show.
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11 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

I can understand their rationale, since Russian-friendly Serbia doesn’t recognize their independence and they feel the need to be on the dickhead’s good side. They’re placing a bet that Il Dookie won’t eventually stab them in the back. We'll see how that goes for them.

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For those who use Penzey's spices, they're running a 50% off special on their taco seasonings, all sizes.  I believe it's today only.  I love their stance on Republicans in general and this administration in particular.

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More hints that FEMA will be done away with in its entirety.  When the feds do contribute money to an area it in the future it will be done differently:

“We’re going to give it out directly. It’ll be from the president’s office. We’ll have somebody here, could be Homeland Security.”

Wanna bet which set of states (red versus blue) will get the lion's share of the money?

 

 

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a man is sitting at a table in a restaurant with the words quelle fuckin ' surprise written on the bottom

 

Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names
The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.

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President Trump, during a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., said on Tuesday that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first administration.

His move skirts the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military through the same maneuver used to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. In a statement, the Army said it would “take immediate action” to restore the old names of the bases originally honoring Confederates, but the base names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials.

For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower — who led the D-Day landings during World War II — would revert to the name Fort Gordon, once honoring John Brown Gordon, the Confederate slave owner and suspected Ku Klux Klan member. This time around, however, the Army said the base would instead honor Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

Mr. Trump, however, contradicted that explanation in his announcement, at one point saying that the Army would be “restoring” the name of one Army base in Virginia — Fort Gregg-Adams — to “Fort Robert E. Lee,” previously named for the commander of the Confederate army. The Army said in its statement that the base would be renamed to honor Pvt. Fitz Lee, a member of the all-Black Buffalo Soldiers who was awarded a Medal of Honor after serving in the Spanish-American War.

Mr. Trump made the announcement as he took a victory lap for the renaming of the Army installation at Fort Bragg, N.C., which had been originally named for Braxton Bragg, the Confederate general. Fort Bragg was renamed to Fort Liberty after Congress moved to strip the base of its Confederate name in 2020, mandating a new one.

“Can you believe they changed that name in the last administration for a little bit?” Mr. Trump asked, as soldiers in the crowd loudly booed. “Fort Bragg is in. That’s the name. And Fort Bragg it shall always remain. That’s never going to be happening again.”

Delivering a campaign-style speech surrounded by hundreds of Army troops, Mr. Trump sought to turn the page on what was an embarrassing political defeat late in his first term. An overwhelming majority of Congress — Democrats and Republicans — overrrode his veto amid the fallout of protests after the murder of George Floyd to pass a bill that included a provision to rename the nine Army bases honoring Confederate generals.

Those bases were ultimately renamed for people who “embody the best of the United States Army,” according to the naming commission that recommended the initial changes. They included decorated officers, enlisted troops who survived harrowing trials in battle, and one civilian: Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War surgeon and the only woman ever awarded a Medal of Honor.

One of the officers, Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley, was honored by Congress earlier this year, with Speaker Mike Johnson presenting an award for the Six Triple Eight — the only all-Black, all-female Army battalion to serve in Europe during World War II — to her descendants.

If Mr. Trump’s effort to again rename the bases is successful, all of their names will be struck.

The original naming of the nine Army bases was part of a movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the Lost Cause myth that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights and not slavery.

Mr. Trump and other conservatives had raged against the name changes, which were finalized under the Biden administration, arguing that “wokeness” was softening the military and wiping away important elements of American tradition and heritage. Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly defended monuments honoring Confederates, vowed during the 2024 campaign to revert the name of Fort Bragg to honor Braxton Bragg, who was widely considered by his fellow Confederates and many historians to have been a poor commander.

Mr. Trump’s pledge was brought to fruition in March, but with a twist that seemed both a rewriting of history and an internet troll. Fort Liberty again became Fort Bragg, not in honor of the Confederate general but in memory of Pvt. Roland L. Bragg, a previously obscure infantryman who had served at Fort Bragg and fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, announced a similar name change shortly after that appeared intended to sidestep the law banning the honoring of Confederates: Fort Moore — renamed in 2023 for Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and his wife, Julia — would again be called Fort Benning. Instead of honoring Henry L. Benning, a Confederate and white supremacist, the base would be named for Cpl. Fred G. Benning, who served during World War I.

Another name change by the Army on Tuesday appeared particularly tortured to fit the old name while still ostensibly honoring different soldiers: Fort Walker, named for the Civil War surgeon, would be renamed again to Fort A.P. Hill. That base was originally named to honor Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate officer who was killed late in the war. The Army said on Tuesday that the base would be renamed “Fort Anderson-Pinn-Hill” to honor Lt. Col. Edward Hill, First Sgt. Robert A. Pinn and Pvt. Bruce Anderson who fought for the United States during the Civil War.

 

 

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