Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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lawtig02 said:
The utter silence of the board’s Republicans today on every topic other than the irrelevant EO attacking trans athletes is quite telling. And pathetic.
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Yep. We did have a few posters who popped up several days ago saying that they hadn't been posting because they were "taking a break" from the board. I'd love to hear them defend things like NASA taking down "everything about women" in leadership roles from its websites. Of course they probably agree with it, and they'll never publicly admit it because they know how it sounds.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Yep. We did have a few posters who popped up several days ago saying that they hadn't been posting because they were "taking a break" from the board. I'd love to hear them defend things like NASA taking down "everything about women" in leadership roles from its websites. Of course they probably agree with it, and they'll never publicly admit it because they know how it sounds.
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This is who they support and cover for:

www.msnbc.com

Senior State Department official haunted by his scandalous record

In theory, revelations about Darren Beattie's recent past should end his State Department tenure. In practice, it might not be that simple.
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In 2018, officials in the Trump White House started receiving media calls about a speechwriter and policy aide named Darren Beattie. Journalists wanted to know whether Beattie’s colleagues were aware of his role at a conference regularly attended by well-known white nationalists, and soon after, he was fired.

Eight years later, Beattie is back, serving under Rubio as an acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. NBC News reported:

Beattie has a history of making inflammatory remarks, including a post on X in October that said: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” Beattie’s site promoted a baseless theory that the attack on the Capitol was the handiwork of the FBI, or has he put it, a “Fedsurrection.”
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On a related note, Beattie also spent part of Jan. 6, 2021, telling various Black people — including Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA”



The logical modern extension of 1860 plantation owners and foremen have been voted, and hired, to run the most powerful country on the planet.
 
Healing said:
This is who they support and cover for:

www.msnbc.com

Senior State Department official haunted by his scandalous record

In theory, revelations about Darren Beattie's recent past should end his State Department tenure. In practice, it might not be that simple.
www.msnbc.com www.msnbc.com

In 2018, officials in the Trump White House started receiving media calls about a speechwriter and policy aide named Darren Beattie. Journalists wanted to know whether Beattie’s colleagues were aware of his role at a conference regularly attended by well-known white nationalists, and soon after, he was fired.

Eight years later, Beattie is back, serving under Rubio as an acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. NBC News reported:


On a related note, Beattie also spent part of Jan. 6, 2021, telling various Black people — including Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA”



The logical modern extension of 1860 plantation owners and foremen have been voted, and hired, to run the most powerful country on the planet.
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Whatever they think about it, they sure as hell don’t want to talk about it.
 


So they probably pass 53-47 instead of 54-46. I honestly cannot believe those two, Hegseth and Patel will be confirmed.
 
nycfan said:


So they probably pass 53-47 instead of 54-46. I honestly cannot believe those two, Hegseth and Patel will be confirmed.
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I can’t think of a single high ground the GOP maintains. Not moral. Not economic. Not national security. Not foreign relations. Not states rights. Not representative democracy. Not the rule of law. The GOP has descended to the gutter on every single important metric, except maintaining power. That speaks poorly of the country as a whole, but god damn is it an indictment of a once proud party. Just a bunch of crooks, foreign agents and compulsive liars now.
 


Elon may be a bit misguided by how easy it was to take down USAID — a valuable but heretofore obscure program without a large domestic constituency to rally to the defense of cultural support of democracy and helping the poor and displaced across the globe via a series of relatively small local interventions.

He may find much more organized and powerful resistance if he goes after the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. Will Hegseth be willing to give Musk access to the national security mainframe and spending apparatus? Will the GOP still defer then?
 


Musk is claiming that identifying temporary DOGE hires being given access to government computers and info is doxxing them.
 
nycfan said:


Elon may be a bit misguided by how easy it was to take down USAID — a valuable but heretofore obscure program without a large domestic constituency to rally to the defense of cultural support of democracy and helping the poor and displaced across the globe via a series of relatively small local interventions.

He may find much more organized and powerful resistance if he goes after the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. Will Hegseth be willing to give Musk access to the national security mainframe and spending apparatus? Will the GOP still defer then?
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Probably not. Defense spending is one of the major ways senators pay off their donors. That's the reason we have such out of control defense spending now. It's not about what we need but about who's profiting. Maybe if they can show the senators a better grift, they might get somewhere.
 
altmin said:
I forgot.

All I know is he didn't vote against and now I remember why.

I remain a moron.
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At some point I’d forgotten as well. Or rather I was indulging in self delusion. I was clinging to the small hope that there were a half dozen Republicans in the Senate that might show some spine when it counted.
 
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