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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.

[spence]

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?

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by spence

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?

Ive asked questions....several. Only one answered. Of course I believe in the Constitution. See how easy. As far as debates...i will pass.....waste of time with TDS patients.
Will you hypocrites be taking the fight to the streets ...as your elite democrat leaders....Maxine Waters and Chuck Shummer have suggested? I doubt it....sackless.

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Ive asked questions....several. Only one answered. Of course I believe in the Constitution. See how easy. As far as debates...i will pass.....waste of time with TDS patients.
Will you hypocrites be taking the fight to the streets ...as your elite democrat leaders....Maxine Waters and Chuck Shummer have suggested? I doubt it....sackless.

Thanks, I guess you’re either a hypocrite or just don’t understand what the Constitution is, Trump certainly doesn’t. At least we’ve found the problem.

As for the streets, expect protests to grow if this insanity continues.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by spence

Thanks, I guess you’re either a hypocrite or just don’t understand what the Constitution is, Trump certainly doesn’t. At least we’ve found the problem.

As for the streets, expect protests to grow if this insanity continues.

Keep guessing....you are clueless. If democrats protest....the midterms will complete their total ass whooping. I here there is going to be a protest in Fairhaven on president's day. Can we count on a few of you dimwits to show up?

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by spence

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?

His response to your question is right out of the mini me play book with the classic deflection, followed by the usual venom and Trump favorite lines. It’s not that he can’t debate, it’s because he won’t knowing it would expose his inability to defend Trump, project 25 and Musk’s moves as constitutional and abiding by the rule of law.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

His response to your question is right out of the mini me play book with the classic deflection, followed by the usual venom and Trump favorite lines. It’s not that he can’t debate, it’s because he won’t knowing it would expose his inability to defend Trump, project 25 and Musk’s moves as constitutional and abiding by the rule of law.

Knowingly debating with TDS idiots is not productive. Nudging you clowns to expose youre hypocrisy is.

[wdmso]

Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

Claiming DEI https://www.military.com/daily-news/...rds-event.html

The number of Black recruits in the Army -- the largest military service by far -- has risen over the years. In 2022, Black applicants made up 24% of the Army's new enlistments, according to internal data reviewed by Military.com, while Black Americans are just 14% of the general population.


Thats going to change ..


I hear there is going to be a protest in Fairhaven on president's day. But you don’t have TDS …. It odd how much you hear.. and how little you know..

So much white. Sorry I mean winning. From Trump

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Keep guessing....you are clueless. If democrats protest....the midterms will complete their total ass whooping. I here there is going to be a protest in Fairhaven on president's day. Can we count on a few of you dimwits to show up?

Trump voters will be protesting, you still don’t get it.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Knowingly debating with TDS idiots is not productive. Nudging you clowns to expose youre hypocrisy is.

You prove our points about you with every post, must be hard on you wanting to engage, but knowing exposure is the inevitable outcome.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

You prove our points about you with every post, must be hard on you wanting to engage, but knowing exposure is the inevitable outcome.

You have no points....and this is too freaking easy.
Pace yourselves...its going to be a long time before you feel well again. Im heading off for work....dont want you fools to think im hiding. Ill be back to see who #^&#^&#^&#^& themselves later.

[Got Stripers]

Talk about easy, reading you is like reading a children's book for ages 1-3, but thanks again for the well thought out and predictable response.

[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Talk about easy, reading you is like reading a children's book for ages 1-3, but thanks again for the well thought out and predictable response.

Cry some more....then respond again and again. Precious

[wdmso]

The Associated Press says reporter was barred from White House event
The wire service said the decision stemmed from a style guidance to continue using the name Gulf of Mexico instead of Gulf of America.

Sounds like something RMARSH would do. It petty it’s childish. And Authoritarian

But the behavior is from the POTUS …. And yet many like RMARSH cheer thinking Trumps showing strength… .. by renaming the Gulf. And banning the AP and not bending the knee ������

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Rmarsh

Cry some more....then respond again and again. Precious

You do realize you represent all the signs of being a fascist, right?
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[Pete F.]

Actually banning the reporter is a flat out, clear cut violation of the first amendment.
Last night in the Oval Office, President Harry Bolz and Trump claimed to have knowledge of vast waste, fraud or maybe just things that don’t fit their agenda.
To date they have provided no evidence of anything.
One of them claimed that a female government employee’s net worth increased by 20 million during her tenure and claimed that was some kind of evidence of something.
Since the election both Presidents, who are employed by the government, net worths have increased by multiples of that.
One of them gained most of his net worth through government contracts and assistance (from both the USA and the CCP), the other one consistently violates the Emolument clause of the Constitution.
There’s evidence of both of those.
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[Pete F.]

This is interesting for two reasons, the substance of the OpEd and the fact that it’s in Bezo’s WAPO which since the election has been silent about the administration’s actions.

From the WAPO

Why DOGE is unconstitutional
Trump is acting extra-constitutionally. Only Congress or the Supreme Court can stop him.

By Alan Charles Raul
Alan Charles Raul served as associate White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan and as general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget under Reagan and President George H.W. Bush. He currently serves as board secretary of the Society for the Rule of Law and is a lecturer at Harvard Law School.

President Donald Trump, his appointees, acting officials and quasi-official outsiders are in the midst of a radical restructuring or termination of government employees, agencies and programs. Whether this is in all, many or some regards desirable is debatable. Also debatable is whether the 49.8 percent of the electorate who elected Trump want all of this, and whether the 50.2 percent who voted for Kamala Harris or a third-party candidate want any of it.
What is not debatable, however, is that Congress has not authorized this radical overhaul, and the protocols of the Constitution do not permit statutorily mandated agencies and programs to be transformed — or reorganized out of existence — without congressional authorization.

The Constitution is well known to interpose meaningful checks and balances and a separation of powers among the responsibilities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. It is also well understood that the respective branch’s powers and duties will intersect and overlap. Fundamentally, however, all legislative power belongs to Congress, and executive power to the president. The judiciary steps in when the parameters of shared authority get complicated or confusing and constitutional lines are crossed.
The radical reorganization now underway is not just footfaulting over procedural lines; it is shattering the fundamental checks and balances of our constitutional order. The DOGE process, if that is what it is, mocks two basic tenets of our government: that we are nation of laws, not men and that it is Congress which controls spending and passes legislation. The president must faithfully execute Congress’s laws and manage the executive agencies consistent with the Constitution and lawmakers’ appropriations — not by any divine right or absolute power.
Where the president identifies policy areas that need reform or spending that needs to be supplemented, reduced or eliminated, the Constitution empowers him to recommend such measures as he finds “necessary or expedient” to Congress for it to dispose one way or the other, or alternatively ignore.
Yes, the president may advance his own policy agenda — including, of course, the ability to recommend reforms to Congress that he believes necessary or expedient. But there is no reading of the Constitution that allows any president to claim that a political mandate, or a political promise made, obviates or supersedes the role for Congress. It is the House and Senate that “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for … the Government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof.”
Even under the most aggressive view of the president’s “unitary executive” control over the entire executive branch and independent agencies, it is Congress’s sole authority to appropriate and legislate for our entire government. The president basically directs the executive branch within the contours prescribed by Congress, subject to constitutional checks and balances. To be sure, the president and Congress share policy responsibility because the president recommends budgets and necessary and expedient measures to Congress, whose bills the president can sign into law or veto. But in the end, the president is constitutionally stuck with the policies for the federal government that Congress enacts and appropriates. No one man in America is the law — not even a Trump or an Elon Musk.
So, how can the radical overhaul Trump and Musk are undertaking be reconciled with our constitutional order? Quite simply, it cannot be. Congress must step in to enact this radical transformation — or the Supreme Court must stop it.
In the past several years, the court has provided unmistakable direction that Congress, and not the executive, determines the scope and policy for the country. The court even narrowed the president’s previously long-held entitlement to deference when interpreting ambiguous laws and policies.
Specifically, the Trump-Musk quest for government efficiency is led by a “department” that Congress did not establish, by unelected operatives who exercise overwhelming authority without appointment under the appointments clause, who are not subject apparently to any checks and balances, who are not faithfully executing the laws Congress has appropriated and legislated, and who are in the process of eliminating whole agencies, programs and millions of employees without any congressional authorization whatsoever. And they are doing so without explaining and recommending such measures to Congress (or to the public, for that matter).

If all this is not a “major question” for Congress to decide with respect to the impact and consequence for America, then nothing is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...rts-doge-musk/
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[Pete F.]

Since it’s Lincoln’s birthday today

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathe...utm_medium=ios

On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
Abraham Lincoln grew up to become the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the country through the Civil War, preserving the concept of American democracy. It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as “the last, best hope of earth” to prove that people could govern themselves.
Lincoln grew up in rural poverty as wealthy enslavers took over prime land in his family's home state of Kentucky and pushed them across the Ohio River to Indiana, where Nancy Lincoln died. From there, they moved on to the frontier state of Illinois, where Abraham sowed seed, hoed fields, grubbed roots, cut trees, made fences, and harvested crops both at home and for farmers to whom his father hired him out for wages, for the elder Lincoln never managed to get his feet under him after leaving Kentucky.
In 1831, finally an adult, Abraham set out to make his mark in the world, as did thousands of other young men in his dynamic era. But making it on his own wasn’t much easier for the young Lincoln than it had been for his father. He settled in the town of New Salem, a village of about a hundred people on a bluff above the Sangamon River, where he failed as a storekeeper, then cobbled together various jobs, eking out a living splitting rails and making deliveries. Government appointments, first as a postmaster and then as a surveyor, kept him afloat and made him well enough known that in 1834, voters elected him to the state legislature, and he was on his way to prominence.
Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no role to play in the country except in protecting property, a concept of government that permitted them to amass fortunes thanks to the labor of their Black neighbors. But Lincoln had watched his town of New Salem die because its settlers—hard workers, eager to make the town succeed—could not dredge the Sangamon River to promote trade by themselves.
Lincoln later mused, “The legitimate object of government is ‘to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they can not, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves,’… as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.”
Once elected to the presidency, Lincoln joined with members of his new Republican Party to make the government work for the American people. They created national money and the income tax. They took land from speculators and gave it to men willing to farm it. They established public colleges to enable poor men to get an education, the Department of Agriculture to make sure poor men had access to good seeds, and transcontinental railroads so poor men could both get to western lands and get their products back to eastern markets. And they used the power of the federal government to end human enslavement in the United States except as punishment for crime.
A generation later, under Republican president Theodore Roosevelt, progressives at the turn of the twentieth century expanded on Lincoln's understanding of the role of government in supporting the American people. In that era, corrupt industrialists increased their profits by abusing their workers, adulterating milk with formaldehyde and painting candies with lead paint, dumping toxic waste into neighborhoods, and paying legislators to let them do whatever they wished.
Those concerned about the survival of democracy worried that individuals were not actually free when their lives were controlled by the corporations that poisoned their food and water while making it impossible for individuals to get an education or make enough money ever to become independent.
To restore the rights of individuals, progressives of both parties argued that individuals needed a strong, active government to protect them from the excesses and powerful industrialists of the modern world. Under the new governmental system that Theodore Roosevelt pioneered, the government cleaned up the sewage systems and tenements in cities, protected public lands, invested in public health and education, raised taxes, and called for universal health insurance, all to protect the ability of individuals to live freely without being crushed by outside influences.
Reformers sought, as Roosevelt said, to return to “an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show the best that there is in him.”
In the 1920s, the idea that the government should be run as a business eclipsed Roosevelt’s progressive government, but after the Great Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s offered a “new deal for the American people.” That New Deal meant that the government would no longer work simply to promote business, but would also regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure. World War II accelerated the construction of that active government, and by the time it was over, Americans quite liked the new system.
After the war, Republican Dwight Eisenhower embraced the active government. He explained that in the modern world, the government must protect people from disasters created by forces outside their control, and it must provide social services that would protect people from unemployment, old age, illness, accidents, unsafe food and drugs, homelessness, and disease.
He called his version of the New Deal “a middle way between untrammeled freedom of the individual and the demands of the welfare of the whole Nation.” One of his supporters echoed Lincoln when he explained, “If a job has to be done to meet the needs of the people, and no one else can do it, then it is the proper function of the federal government.” Both Republicans and Democrats embraced this idea, which became known as the “liberal consensus.” In the second half of the twentieth century, they expanded the role of government to protect civil rights, the environment, access to healthcare and education, equal opportunity in employment, and so on.
But those who objected to the liberal consensus rejected the idea that the government had any role to play in the economy or in social welfare and made no distinction between the liberal consensus and international communism. They insisted that the country was made up of “liberals,” who were pushing the nation toward socialism, and “conservatives” like themselves, who were standing alone against the Democrats and Republicans who made up a majority of the country and liked the new business regulations, safety net, infrastructure, and protection of civil rights.
That reactionary mindset came to dominate the Republican Party after Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980. Republicans began to insist that anyone who embraced the liberal consensus of the past several decades was un-American and had no right to govern, no matter how many Americans supported that ideology. And now, forty-five years later, we are watching as a group of reactionaries dismantle the government that serves the needs of ordinary Americans and work, once again, to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of an elite.
The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, Lincoln warned in his era, is “the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent.”
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[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Nebe

You do realize you represent all the signs of being a fascist, right?
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It doesn’t matter, as long as Trump is owning the Libs.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

It doesn’t matter, as long as Trump is owning the Libs.
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Inflation ticking up and we haven’t even seen the trade war yet.

[Pete F.]

A historic amount of corruption.

The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies.
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[Rmarsh]

Originally Posted by Nebe

You do realize you represent all the signs of being a fascist, right?
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Nice part of getting older....not giving a rats sperm what others think. Don't need anyone's approval and say what I want ..when I want to.
You going to the massive protest in Fairhaven on president's day? It's going to be epic.