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Useful article on the DOGE Six:
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.www.wired.com
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Threatening and alienating the Panamanian government is an interesting strategy in that case.
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Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’
Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot
“… Marocco’s return to USAid has not been formally announced and the department website still lists a previous director for the office of foreign assistance. Many staff only learned that Marocco had been appointed from emails and cables drafted by him ordering them to stop work.
… A former marine and conservative activist from Dallas, Marocco served short stints of just a year each at the state department, commerce department, defense department and USAid during the first Trump presidency. In 2020, a 13-page complaint by USAid staffers was placed in its dissent channel – a framework for foreign service staff to express constructive criticism – accusing Marocco of undermining and micromanaging employees in a way that “rapidly degraded” a small department focused on political transitions. Critics say he is now applying the same playbook of laborious reviews and vague directives to all of USAid.
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Marocco was also allegedly photographed and filmed inside the Capitol building during the January 6 riots, according to volunteer activists who have posted a widely cited investigation. Marocco has not been charged with a crime. Asked about the allegation by D Magazine, Marocco did not address whether he had been at the Capitol, but described it as “petty smear tactics and desperate personal attacks”.
He joined Trump’s transition team in December as an adviser on national security personnel matters.
“Democrats and their allies in the media who think they are going to obstruct our ability to deliver on this mandate by going back to the same January 6 playbook of smears and faux outrage that was soundly rejected by the American people will be disappointed,” Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told Politico at the time. …”
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For the moment, China is like nah, fuck that, which is funny because Xi has always valued this sort of PR declaration of victory against China’s adversaries himself. But if Trump and Xi are running a similar playbook against each other, it makes a China tariff war appear to be more real or at least a tougher issue to resolve once engaged. And China is a lot stronger than Mexico and Canada …
ChileG
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I’m still paying about $600 more per month on my mortgage than I would without his stupid tariff talk, but I’m glad Trump saw the light yesterday.
How many businesses will lose trading partners (like our farmers did in Trump’s last administration) remains to be seen.
But don’t pretend there isn’t any costs to these pointless shenanigans, including wrecking relationships with our most important trading partners.
For example:
Trump is sowing the seeds of an anti-American alliance
By targeting allies and neighbours with tariffs, the US is playing into the hands of China
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You're humanizing them. That's unAmerican.And here's Herr Hegseth
Defense Secretary Vows to Use Thousands of Active-Duty Troops to Secure Border
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Thomas D. Homan, President Trump’s border czar, toured areas near Mexico.www.nytimes.com
Motioning to the Army troops gathered nearby, he [Pete Hegseth] added, “They’re motivated to be here because they’re defending their friends, their family, their communities, their church, their schools, their loved ones, from an invasion of people whose intentions we don’t know.”
Dimwit, they're coming here because they are fleeing awful situations in their home countries, and to find employment and safety.
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He's such a moron. Piss off an ally/neighbor over a meaningless amount of fentanyl.
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you dont really think that our govt wants to stop drugs from entering this country do you? its all for show the 'war' on drugs lmao
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Driving allies into the waiting hands of enemies.
Hey maga and Good Germans, ttump and your tech gods view the US as a distressed asset to be stripped for parts and sold. You are amongst the parts.
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Bluesky
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2023:
Ex-GOP student leader's links to Jan. 6 Capitol riot and a neo-Nazi web site
Asked if he crossed the Capitol threshold on Jan. 6, Oliver Krvaric, scion of a powerful GOP family, replied, \
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Ex-GOP student leader's links to Jan. 6 Capitol riot and a neo-Nazi web site
“… The security footage is among videos released during the trial of another Jan. 6 participant, a member of the Proud Boys prosecuted for seditious conspiracy. In it, and in other photos from the day, his face remains partly concealed behind the mask.
But all signs point to Oliver Krvaric, a young Republican star and scion of a powerful GOP family from San Diego. Krvaric is most notable for his job at the time of the riot.
A USA TODAY review of arrests concluded Krvaric would be the first full-time employee of the Trump administration identified entering the Capitol in the insurrection. On Jan. 6, 2021, Krvaric was working for the Office of Personnel Management on a short-lived Trump executive order that sought to rid federal agencies of certain diversity and inclusion training.
By then, the 22-year-old had built a public persona as an up-and-coming student GOP leader. Even earlier than that, his name had been used to create an identity on a site for white supremacists.
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As for the online persona, an email address in Krvaric’s first and middle names was used in 2016 to create a profile on a neo-Nazi website. That user praised Adolf Hitler, backed deportation of non-white people and expressed disgust of the LGBTQ+ population.
Kvaric said he did not recall the posts. He did not deny making them, and said he did “not particularly” recognize the email address behind them. …”
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why does this matter?
maga will believe anything that comes out of his mouth.
