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Dump Term 2, Part 2: "A third term would be a big shattering."

I did not think John Oliver was as good as Stephen or Stewart. South Park is next. Cartman has been cosplaying as he who shall not be named for a while now.
 
rufus said:
All these people are worth more money than I will ever be in my lifetime, have resumes and experience to easily land another job elsewhere, and they can't be bothered to make a stand?

Sorry, stop making excuses for the gutless cowards.
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If you are talking about corporate execs who bend to the pressure, I agree. They are wealthy, safe, and insulated.

If you are talking about career public servants, you don't know what you are talking about. They mostly aren't wealthy (we are, but we're not most people). Their experience is prescribed to the arcana of policy, which is almost meaningless outside government. They're typically with a partner tied in the same way so they can't move easily. They're in a bind.

When Dr. Mrs & I both got DOGED we were wildly fortunate. (1) It was near enough to my anticipated retirement it made sense to just do that, thus alleviating any pressure from me on where to live. (2) We already had another house! We could flee DC without having to burn it all down and start over someplace brand new. Our daughter and her whole family were already here, so the family separation equation was inverted. (3) Dr. Mrs has sufficiently plausible (by a hair) local contacts here that she caught on with AZ state government. (4) Most importantly, we have been planning for something like this ever since 2016. Her doctorate is in History and I rolled out of the womb knowing the score. We always knew this was a possibility and we planned for it for a decade. (5) We are adventuresome. We will actually jump off a cliff to see what that's all about. Most people just aren't built that way.

But we're a unicorn. For others it is gut-wrenching and terrifying. (Even for us, with all our advantages and prescience, it was still horrible and we were both in shock.) So please don't be callous. This isn't Betsy DeVos being fed grapes by her gimp, these are dedicated people who have careers in public service, already reeling from the PTSD of this takeover, seen right up close every second and not from afar on TV, and they come from idealistic academic backgrounds which taught them people for the most part are good and trying to do their best. They were absolutely not up for going over the top at Ypres.
 
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These are people with, if you say, two incomes making six figures each probably.

Forgive me for not understanding the difficulties of their existence, you Ivy League elitist snob.
 
rufus said:
These are people with, if you say, two incomes making six figures each probably.

Forgive me for not understanding the difficulties of their existence, you Ivy League elitist snob.
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There is no bravery in ordering others into live fire.

And if you can only manage empathy for the Common Clay of the New West, you would be blown away how many of these people are from those roots. A lot of them have given their entire adult lives trying to help the Poors, not out of theory but because that's where they came from. You are confusing my snobbery with their caring. Sure, I want to end poverty because I maintain poverty turns humans into animals. I own that. But they want to end poverty because they came from it.

You've swallowed a narrative as much full of bullshit as your GOP brethren who want to punish all them gol' durned elites. It's a fantasy deliberately created by people who want you to hate government workers so they can loosen the binds on their greed.

Hate me all you want. "More weight!" But you owe those fuckers. They were smart enough to go off to law school and a white shoe firm and spend their lives screwing you with the other corporate goons. Instead, they took a massive cut and take the continual ignorant abuse of rubes like you. They worked to help you and yours.

You owe them, asshole. Your life would be 100x worse without them. So eat that.
 
The reporting this morning is that if you cover the Pentagon you are not allowed to publish ANYTHING unless it is approved by the Pentagon ahead of time. That used to be reserved only for classified information. Now it extends to all information.

This is censorship. It is wrong. And it is Unconstitutional. It's also directly out of the Authoritarian handbook AKA Project 2025.

Remember how we were all hysterical for talking about Project 2025. How Trump didn't even know what is was? LOL. America is dumb.
 
Yeah that announcement kinda flew under the radar what with all the rest of the circus. It's serious, assuming a five alarm fire during a fire storm is serious.

Further, there is no legal basis for it. Needing authorization before reporting on information with classification impacts made perfect sense. The very definition of the classifications is:
  • Confidential: unauthorized disclosure would cause "damage" to national security
  • Secret: unauthorized disclosure would cause "serious damage" to national security
  • Top Secret: unauthorized disclosure would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security

There is no basis for requiring authorization of unclassified information. Indeed, THAT'S WHY IT IS FUCKING UNCLASSIFIED!

This is pure authoritarian censorship and should be treated as an attack on our lives as free citizens.
 
Tom Homan accepted a 50,000 dollar bribe and the Trump administration shut the investigation down.

But, hey, there's no censorship in America.
 
Given how lazy the Trump administration is I am going to guess that today's Autism announcement will be that taking Tylenol during pregnancy causes it.

Of course there is absolutely NO evidence to support that finding at this time. But during a speech he indicated that it matters not whether it is right or wrong, just that they have an answer.
 
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