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ForTheHoard said:
Gaetz as AG tells me that deep state heads are about to roll. Oranges for the orange God. Skulls for the skull throne.
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I half think Trump is nominated people he knows are gonna get denied (so he can flush out the rats) and/or so the second (real) choice doesn't get any pushback.

Or he is just getting loyalist from FL so he has a easier time controlling them. Or all three!
 
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Imperial Citizen said:
It says something that Trump has only been appointing loyalists (and primarily congressmen) to cabinet positions. I expect stories about mismanagement, lack of institutional knowledge, and ignorance about the powers of a secretary within a year.
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He mentioned something interesting in the Rogan interview. Its safe to pick positions for cabinet positions since they've been vetted for years. They know how the machine runs. While he has picked a few wild cards, he's picking mostly experienced congressmen that know how the system works and generally how to push through the bullshit.
 
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Fellen said:
We still got a lot of neo-cons in the Senate, unfortunately. But if Thune really tries to undermine Trump, Trump needs to make sure it's known.
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No idea about Thune, but he can't be as bad as that faggot Cornyn who I didn't even know was a Republican until recently. I thought he was a Dem all this time he's such a fudge puncher.
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First time I'll be able to say I've pounded off to the Director of National Intelligence!
 
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Mr.Bucket said:
Because they either don't know or flat out ignore the myriad of similarities that fascism and communism has.
And they follow the communist handbook guideline of "everyone that I don't like is fascist." It actually tells readers to do that.
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Because the modern education system has always been left-leaning since Woodrow Wilson

So we get massive exposure to how ebil the Nazis were

While the communists get glossed over

When I was in high school our AP history class literally played that The Democrat and The Dictator documentary about FDR and Hitler, and then we had a class discussion about their differences and their similarities in how they governed the USA and Germany. Stalin? Me and one other kid mentioned Stalin and our teacher (who was pretty based for a public school teacher) acted all nervous and basically told us to shut up and get back on topic. He was fine with us talking about the ways FDR took power away from private individuals and groups and gave it to the government, like Hitler did, to a lesser degree and with less violent oppression ofc, but bring up Lenin and Stalin already murdering millions before and while Hitler was still building his own murder machine, oh nooooooo no no no no no

Fascism and communism are literally two sides of the same coin - the individual is nothing, the Party is everything, the Party is the State, destruction of all meaningful individual and group relationships except with the Party-State (including individual and group relationships with God), there is no legitimate thinking except what the Party-State commands you to think, the mass murder and violent oppression at home and abroad - but the Western world has lied itself (with a lot of help from foreign communist agents over the decades until the USSR collapsed) into ignoring that
 
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FieldPiece said:
If I remember right a lot of the stuff he got popped for was shit he didn't actually do, mainly hiring hitmen to kill people. He thought he did it but the hitmen were just scammers. A good video on it.
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Thank you! I will listen to this. My understanding is that they never dinged him for the hitman charge legally, but considered it in sentencing.
Jimjamflimflam said:
Can waterboard and cbt me under national security protection.
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Some things are best kept to yourself.
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Ugh, I hope this isn't true. Matt Gaetz is such an annoying puke.
 
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One last "muh election interference"

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The FBI seized Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s phone and electronics early Wednesday morning — just a week after the election-betting platform successfully predicted President-elect Donald Trump’s win, The Post has learned.

The 26-year-old entrepreneur was woken up at 6:00 a.m. in his Soho home by law US enforcement officers who demanded his phone and electronics, a source close to the matter told The Post.
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It’s “grand political theater at its worst,” the source told The Post. “They could have asked his lawyer for any of these things. Instead, they staged a so-called raid so they can leak it to the media and use it for obvious political reasons.”

Coplan was not provided any reason for the incident, but the source said they expect it is political retribution since Polymarket accurately predicted Trump’s win – not traditional polls.
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behavioral swamp thang said:
My friend with a 7 year old says they dont read books anymore. Not even the teacher reading a picture book to the class. It's all on a tablet and tablets are given out in kindergarten. They take them home. I can't believe parents aren't up in arms about it. My friend asked if there was a way to not have the tablet and they flat out told her to homeschool.
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Yes. We thought one of ours, the most extroverted, might love public school. They forced that kid onto a tablet any time he was ahead of other kids in the class, all "reading" was on a screen, no books. His behavior went haywire and we asked if they would stop using the tablet, since all the misbehavior was happening around it. No dice. Homeschool was the only remaining option, even for a bright, easygoing kid who makes friends everywhere. It really soured me on the idea of paying these schools and teachers anything. They're using video lessons on YouTube and tablet apps. The hell of it is, they pretend it's better because it's "customized" to each kid's level of ability.

Honestly so much of education is now just a scam sucking up parental cash because everyone knows there's only so many good wage jobs and more people competing for them than there are jobs available. Every one of the "engineering team" types of competitions is a cash grab from someplace selling toys (Lego is the main culprit, the big robotics competitions require many hundreds of dollars of Lego brand blocks), all the "maker" stuff is about selling filament and making plastic trash for a landfill. Even physical exercise types of extracurriculars like sports and martial arts are all about fundraising for team uniforms and travel and tournament slots. A whole lot of kids are spending time raising funds for adults to profit when they were promised educational opportunities. The only schools that win academic competitions are no longer schools with particularly talented kids, but schools that have the right corporate connections to get a scientist to actually do the science fair entries. Year after year, the same "programs" headed up by the same teachers/coaches/local businessmen win, regardless of what raw material they're given. It's all a competition for the grownups, the kids are just there for free labor and to make it seem like public service instead of private ego-stroking.

And of course all of it props up the college admissions game, which is corrupt to the core and again only serves to enrich a bunch of parasites who are profiting on people's willingness to spend whatever it takes to give their kid a leg up.

The entire edifice needs to crumble. I wish our culture would decide that it's always inappropriate to exploit children in order to enrich and validate adults.
 
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Kamala Harris’s fears of a progressive backlash killed a plan for her to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast, a campaign official has said, shedding light on a decision that infuriated some Democrats who are reeling after Donald Trump’s election victory.

The Harris campaign and Rogan, whose audience is bigger than that of many television networks, had discussed an interview for his podcast — a move some Democrats hoped would help Harris reach young men who were gravitating towards Trump.

The talks faltered because of concerns at how the interview would be perceived within the Democratic party, said Jennifer Palmieri, a senior adviser to Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, during the campaign.

“There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,” Palmieri said on Wednesday.

Palmieri, who previously worked in the White House and for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, is among the first officials from the Harris campaign to go into detail over a decision that some Democrats fear may have contributed to their loss.

Just over a week after Harris’s heavy defeat the party is hunting for scapegoats, with some operatives blaming President Joe Biden. Others have said the campaign flubbed its media strategy and was too cautious with alternative media.
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