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[Pete F.]

Apparently FElon has spent millions for a propaganda add about USAID during the superbowl
Here’s a little video to get out in front of his lies
https://vimeo.com/1052680025
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[wdmso]

Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”


That’s funny not one of Trump nominees. Would answer hypothetical questions,


More loyalty less competency. What could go wrong

[wdmso]

I did not write this but it makes an earlier comment I made .. better

I. believe our current administration is fascist. Not because I dislike them or because I can’t get over an election, but because I've spent too many years reading and learning about the Third Reich to miss the similarities. Not because any administration I dislike must be Nazis, but because things are actually mirroring authoritarian and fascist regimes of the past.

[Pete F.]

I think either his good friends are paying him or he’s just a moron. Both have the same result.

Trump: "I'm gonna tell Elon very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the Department of Education. He's gonna find the same thing. Then I'm gonna go to the military. Let's check the military. We're gonna find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse."
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[Pete F.]

Mark Cuban moments ago:
"If you have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Elon Musk, why not invite some democrats to work side by side with your Doge teams and report on what exactly is going on?"

He’s right, there’s no proprietary software or information involved.
Shouldn’t need anymore clearance than the people already involved
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[wdmso]

Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal judge's decision early Saturday that blocks Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records, but have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.

But they’re not fascist
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Originally Posted by wdmso

Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal judge's decision early Saturday that blocks Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records, but have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.

But they’re not fascist
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Odds are looking more and more like they just ignore the courts, hell, even Nixon had a sense of shame.

Our republic is on life support.

[Pete F.]

We will see if they ignore the Courts.
Some of what they are doing assumes future evil plans.
You wouldn't dismantle the agency (CFPB) that has and would protect consumers from corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.
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[Nebe]

Well worth a watch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/missouri/s/k0d7NrzP0j
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Well worth a watch.

https://www.reddit.com/r/missouri/s/k0d7NrzP0j
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Very informative, simple to the point historical basis. But it comes down to will Trump supporters be willing to admit they’ve been lied to.. like the man asked .

Honestly, I doubt it. They will just label this Trump derangement syndrome. Which is actually a Trump supporter affliction.
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[Nebe]

I agree. As I often say, “Its a cult”. Just like jonestown everyone was willing to die before they could grasp it was all a ridiculous stack of lies.


I think that the average trump voter will just blame joe biden and obama for the pain that Trump and Co are going to put on them or say its just a natural market correction. Real pain is coming down the pipe for the not so well off.
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[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Nebe

I think that the average trump voter will just blame joe biden and obama for the pain that Trump and Co are going to put on them or say its just a natural market correction. Real pain is coming down the pipe for the not so well off.
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Of course. None of this will be Trumpy's fault. It will be blamed on Biden or the Derp State.

Read The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, by Steve Hassan (he is also on the StandUp! with Pete Dominick Podcast today, worth a listen)

[Pete F.]

Well the FFOTUS is threatening everyone that he’ll invoke tariffs again. He’s doing this by using emergency powers that were foolishly given to the Presidency by Congress.

Section 8: Powers of Congress

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,

He’s playing a dangerous game where the United States holds at best 30% of the chips and threatening the holders of the other 70%.
He’s counting on BRICS who hold 36% of the chips to not be able to get any of the remaining third of the world economies to join them.
Unless he succeeds in his current coup, he will likely only hold the house and senate thru the midterms.
They all realize that and are waiting to see what happens in the short term.
Any combination of players can buy Canadian oil and LNG to make up the Canadian shortfall, this in turn will drive energy prices up in the USA by half.
China has banned the export of a number of rare minerals to the United States and we cannot easily replace them, Canada has some of them but do you think they trust FFOTUS?
These are interesting and scary times we are living in
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[Pete F.]

This is from an article in The Atlantic
It’s gifted on Bluesky in the link

"The US is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but incumbent abuse of power systematically tilts the playing field against the opposition...retreat to the sidelines could be fatal for democracy."
https://bsky.app/profile/pt007.bsky..../3lhtgmpdtp22v
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[Got Stripers]

If we make it to the mid terms and there are actually elections, I suspect our democracy might survive. If Trump and his billionaire buddies have their way, it will be over before then and it might take drastic action to reverse it, I wouldn't want to bet my kids future on which way it goes.

[Pete F.]

A view from a European
https://youtu.be/8lvUwrmMtFA?si=vna5g3ej08xbZ_rp
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[Pete F.]

Nothing to worry about

We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear: The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law.
We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.
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[wdmso]

Just saw google maps. Changed Gulf of Mexico to gulf of America.. it’s amazing how cowardly these private companies are. Bending the knee to Herr Trump
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Originally Posted by wdmso

Just saw google maps. Changed Gulf of Mexico to gulf of America.. it’s amazing how cowardly these private companies are. Bending the knee to Herr Trump
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It’s only for US users, will likely be changed back in just under four years. I wouldn’t order new encyclopedias just yet.

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by spence

It’s only for US users, will likely be changed back in just under four years. I wouldn’t order new encyclopedias just yet.

It’s all a dog and pony show. Like renaming fort Bragg. After some random guy named Bragg from world war 2. Hint hit wink wink. Telling maga we outsmarted the left
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[Got Stripers]

What's next, Trump might be thinking of wiping out the borders of Great England, Scotland and Wales and renaming it the UK. Then there is Trump's favorite city Belgium, not sure what he will do with that gem of geography stupidity.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by wdmso

It’s all a dog and pony show. Like renaming fort Bragg. After some random guy named Bragg from world war 2. Hint hit wink wink. Telling maga we outsmarted the left
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Trump isn’t kidding. When he insists that the 2020 election was stolen, that USAID is a complete fraud…that Arab states will help him empty & gentrify Gaza, that tariffs will lower prices, he’s not saying things he knows are false or preposterous. He just really believes this lunacy. He’s deranged.
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[Nebe]

Hes not kidding. Hes just flat out lying. 2 plus 2 is 5
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[Pete F.]

Trump's DEI policies are going just swell.

Dismantling Excellence with Idocracy
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[PaulS]

Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

A Trump State Department official has, on a number of occasions, called for the sterilization of “low-IQ trash,” a new report has revealed.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has appointed Darren Beattie to be the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, a senior role that represents American foreign policy to the world.

In May 2024, Beattie wrote on X: “Population control? If only!”

“Higher quality humans are subsidizing the fertility of lower quality humans,” he added, calling it the “Foundational reality of social and political life in the post-war West.”

NOTUS initially reported on Beattie’s comments.

In January 2023, he wrote: “The hierarchy of taboos is interesting. The horrific practice of 2nd trimester abortion is legal in some places and well within Overton window of public discourse. But idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.”

In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying: “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”

He again questioned abortion rights in March 2021.

“Interesting moral universe we live in where abortion is celebrated, but the notion of giving smart people incentives or cash to start families is so far out of Overton window no sitting politician of either party would dare advocate it,” he said.

Beattie made a similar suggestion in May last year, writing: “Pay smart people to have more kids, disincentivize stupid people from having kids. So simple but molds destiny on deep intergenerational level.”

“Where do these population reduction conspiracies come from? All I see is trash multiplying,” he wrote in January 2023.

Beattie previously served as a speechwriter for Trump, but he was fired in 2018 after he spoke at a conference attended by white nationalists. He has backed repressive crime policies and often spoken in support of the Chinese government, according to NOTUS.

Meanwhile, Rubio has in the past spoken out against such population control policies advocated by Beattie, including calling China’s previous one-child policy a “grotesque violation of basic human rights.”

Following his senate confirmation last month, Rubio told State Department employees that “All men are created equal because our rights come from God our Creator” — comments at odds with Beattie’s statements about some people being “trash.”

Beattie’s posts often focus on race, and he has derided different groups.

He responded in September 2023 to news regarding African migrants rioting in Israel by saying that the Israeli government “could literally just round them up and drop them in the ocean. Let the ‘human rights groups’ whine... drop them in the ocean too!”

In May of that year, Beattie wrote on X that “It's not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties---they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society. Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for the dumb and violent, and Sweden for the more elevated.”

In January 2023, Beattie also slammed the “prevalence of fight videos.”

“Third world low iq sucker punch fights over nothing, with dumb animal spectators jumping up and down in excitement,” said Beattie. “The same low-IQ trash who watch the fast and furious franchise. Beginning to wish the whole population reduction conspiracy were true.”

Last week, Rubio told reporters that Beattie was chosen for the post by the Trump transition team. He added that Beattie would be focusing on fighting censorship.

[Pete F.]

Elon Musk: "If the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?"

That’s the question, Elon fits the definition.


A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can compose the administration of any organization of any size, although the term usually connotes someone within an institution of government.

The bureaucrat Elon Musk is asked about peddling a false claim about the $50 million in condoms to Gaza,

He says that there will be "things I say will be incorrect and should be corrected" and that "nobody is going to about 100%”

Truly sad and humiliating to see Donald Trump, the President, just sit there weak and quiet as Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire, acts like the President and talks to the media in the Oval Office. Wild scene.

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[Pete F.]

Now we’re going to have political officers to make sure the government follows the plan.
I’ve seen this before, I think they were called commissars and they ensured adherence to the Party.

MAGA’s so afraid of a communist dictatorship that they elected a communist dictatorship.

January 20, 2025 (Reforming the Federal Hiring Process and Restoring Merit to
Government Service).
(b) Hiring Approval. Each Agency Head shall develop a data-driven plan, in consultation with its DOGE Team Lead, to ensure new career appointment hires are in highest-need areas.
(i) This hiring plan shall include that new career appointment hiring decisions shall be made in consultation with the agency's DOGE Team Lead, consistent with applicable law.
(ii) The agency shall not fill any vacancies for career appointments that the
DOGE Team Lead assesses should not be filled, unless the Agency Head determines the positions should be filled.
(iii) Each DOGE Team Lead shall provide the United States DOGE Service
(USDS) Administrator with a monthly hiring report for the agency.
(c) Reductions in Force. Agency Heads shall promptly undertake preparations to
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Originally Posted by Pete F.

Now we’re going to have political officers to make sure the government follows the plan.
I’ve seen this before, I think they were called commissars and they ensured adherence to the Party.

[Rmarsh]

More crying from the sackless hypocrites. Fifteen pages of butthurt stupidity.
So ....what action will you take to stop this great president's agenda? Nothing....that is what you will do. Absolutely nothing.
That is what this support group is for....safe space for wounded libs to vent. This thread may ease your angst and keep me mildly entertained....with a few good laughs mixed in.
Four more years...losers.

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Originally Posted by Rmarsh

More crying from the sackless hypocrites. Fifteen pages of butthurt stupidity.
So ....what action will you take to stop this great president's agenda? Nothing....that is what you will do. Absolutely nothing.
That is what this support group is for....safe space for wounded libs to vent. This thread may ease your angst and keep me mildly entertained....with a few good laughs mixed in.
Four more years...losers.

You need some new material Marsh. Looks like the courts are slowing this illegal power grab considerably.

It’s been asked several time but you keep dodging the question so I’ll ask it again. Do you believe in the Constitution?