garrow
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The MAGA Syndrome. Today, only a handful of people know what it really means. And they're scared. Soon....you will know. The MAGA Syndrome.
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President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread
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Jesus_Muscatel
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Marco Rubio, you're a forking coward, shut the fork up.
Twice.
Twice.
garrow
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By order of Hegseth: "Kristen Geist, the first woman to graduate from the Army's grueling Ranger School, has been erased from some of the service's social media and its publicly accessible media database, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS."
Army Deleting Online Content Related to Women, Minorities Using Key Words Like 'Respect' and 'Dignity'
Army Deleting Online Content Related to Women, Minorities Using Key Words Like 'Respect' and 'Dignity'
Inky_Wretch
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Project 2025? Never heard of it! Don't know anything about it!
<Enacts Project 2025>
"He's doing exactly what he campaigned on!!!"
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Board favorite Charles Pierce wrote this in 2018. And now more than ever, etc. ...
In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States.
Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious?
Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now.
This Vicious Buffoon Is a Vessel for All the Worst Elements of the American Condition
In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States.
Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious?
Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now.
This Vicious Buffoon Is a Vessel for All the Worst Elements of the American Condition
garrow
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Trump traded being the leader of the free world to be third string behind Xi and Putin--David Remnick
Baron Scicluna
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They'll say they look good because they put America first, are no longer the world's policeman and don't give a fork about anyone who except for white, Christian heterosexual men.
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Except Ukraine is a white Christian country with the usual proportion of heterosexual persons of both sexes.
garrow
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FCC chair opens probe into diversity practices at Verizon
https://www.reuters.com/business/me...-into-diversity-practices-verizon-2025-02-27/
https://www.reuters.com/business/me...-into-diversity-practices-verizon-2025-02-27/
Brooklyn Bridge
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According to Trump, shes a sucker and a loser.
Neutral Corner
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The print version of the Belle video one page back, for those who don't watch them.
Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/poli...ruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html
"Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said.
A document produced by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said the intelligence community assessed with "high confidence" that foreign adversaries were trying to recruit federal employees and "capitalize" on the Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs, according to a partly redacted copy reviewed by CNN.
It added that foreign intelligence officers were being directed to look for potential sources on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote and Reddit.
At least one foreign intelligence officer directed an asset to create a company profile on Linkedin and post a job advertisement, and to actively pursue federal employees who indicate they are "open to work," the NCIS document says.
The adversaries think the employees "are at their most vulnerable right now," another of the sources said. "Out of a job, bitter about being fired, etc."
"It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see that these cast aside federal workers with a wealth of institutional knowledge represent staggeringly attractive targets to the intelligence services of our competitors and adversaries," a third source familiar with the recent US assessments told CNN."
Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/poli...ruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html
"Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said.
A document produced by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said the intelligence community assessed with "high confidence" that foreign adversaries were trying to recruit federal employees and "capitalize" on the Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs, according to a partly redacted copy reviewed by CNN.
It added that foreign intelligence officers were being directed to look for potential sources on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote and Reddit.
At least one foreign intelligence officer directed an asset to create a company profile on Linkedin and post a job advertisement, and to actively pursue federal employees who indicate they are "open to work," the NCIS document says.
The adversaries think the employees "are at their most vulnerable right now," another of the sources said. "Out of a job, bitter about being fired, etc."
"It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see that these cast aside federal workers with a wealth of institutional knowledge represent staggeringly attractive targets to the intelligence services of our competitors and adversaries," a third source familiar with the recent US assessments told CNN."
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