Ernie Els was an excellent golfer...
Maybe their unabashed racist history gave them a leg up in our allegedly more subtle racist future?
I saw your update on this, but can't find it again.All the stories I have found on this so far point to the same source. But I also found stories in 2023 about Republicans criticizing the Biden Administration auctioning off left over wall materials (which they were doing supposedly in accordance with federal excess property disposition regulations).
Joe Biden sold off border wall materials weeks before approving new wall
The government has been auctioning lots of tubing since at least July, with the most recent sales ending just a day before it announced fresh construction.www.newsweek.com
Exclusive | Biden quietly sells off border wall parts to thwart GOP push to use them
President Biden is quietly selling off millions of dollars’ worth of unused parts from former President Trump’s border wall for peanuts – apparently to stymie pending legislation in Congress…nypost.com
Biden also had to apply some remaining border wall funds to build more wall in 2023:
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So, no clear answer whether the last few auctions are some devious rush before Trump takes office or continuing a process that has been underway for over a year.
Your naivete is very endearing.
JFCLoading…
www.politico.com
Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.
Agencies are weighing in-person requirement for sensitive data.
"... The private emails have agency employees considering insisting on in-person meetings and document exchanges that they otherwise would have conducted electronically, according to two federal officials granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. Their anxiety is particularly high in light of recent hacking attempts from China and Iran that targeted Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and other top officials.
... Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition that communicates from an array of @transition47.com, @trumpvancetransition.com and @djtfp24.com accounts rather than anything ending in .gov, and uses private servers, laptops and cell phones instead of government-issued devices.
This break with tradition stems from the Trump team forgoing federal funding and the ethics and transparency requirements that come with it.
While it’s unclear how the decision is impacting a transition that is already behind, with fewer than five weeks remaining until Inauguration Day, one person familiar with the collaboration between the Biden administration and the Trump transition team, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive discussions, said it is further hampering the process. ..."
We'll see. Trump couldn't get Congress to do what he wanted other than that big tax cut for rich donors which the Democrats suspiciously acquiesced to.
Because it would be political suicide for many Republican Senators and Representatives to support a bill re-federalizing abortion, especially such a restrictive bill.
Or publicly wondered why nobody has attempted to assassinate Kamala Harris.
He also has no authority to cut any department, defund any program, fire a single person, etc.
But he has the financial wherewithal to remove any elected official who opposes him at the next election.
