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I live among them, well disguised — Leonard Cohen
Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)
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lawtig02
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Whatever they think about it, they sure as hell don’t want to talk about it.This is who they support and cover for:
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
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.
lawtig02
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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.
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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?
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.
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Romney is votign for people like Hegseth and Tulsi. There is no cavalry coming.
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Romney isn’t voting for any of them. He didn’t run for reelection.
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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.
lawtig02
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That REALLY makes me want to avoid flying as much as possible for a while.
Mulberry Heel
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I actually think this might have some effect. I don't think Elon is nearly as popular as Dear Leader with the country at large and the Democrats might make some headway here if they play their cards right. Whether they will is anybody's guess. I do think it's inevitable that Elon is going to fuck something up to the point that there is an obvious disaster or crisis, and that Trump will likely drop him rather than share any of the blame. Until that happens, though, Elon is just going to continue recklessly crashing through the federal government like a bull in a china shop.