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Trump's Second Term
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This describes him a lot. Dude projects more than a film festival.
It symbolizes the five Dept of War ideals: White, Christian, Straight, Subservient, Male.
a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
Why Sen. Thom Tillis Says He Regrets Pivotal Vote For Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth https://share.google/NkwThWgjXXoAD7ZNM
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Chris_Halkides
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Michael Lewis is the author of the new book Blockers, which is about the civil servants who tried to slow down DOGE etc. There is an excerpt of his book at the Wall Street Journal about the US Institute of Peace. "Once they had control of the building, Nate and the other guys went rooting around in the institute’s computers. Elon Musk was given a crack at the fresh material. Then the DOGE account on X posted a list of their findings. The list was both interesting and true.
"But as it turned out, the bits that were interesting weren’t true, and the bits that were true weren’t interesting. For instance, the law that had created the institute required it to move any unused funds into its endowment—and so by law, for the past 40 years, that’s what they’d done. The institute was also required by law to hire an accountant to audit its books every year, so that it might report its spending to Congress. For those services it paid roughly $380,000 a year. The amount that DOGE accused the institute of spending on its accountants corresponded not to their accountants’ bill but to a six-year contract for legal services."
"But as it turned out, the bits that were interesting weren’t true, and the bits that were true weren’t interesting. For instance, the law that had created the institute required it to move any unused funds into its endowment—and so by law, for the past 40 years, that’s what they’d done. The institute was also required by law to hire an accountant to audit its books every year, so that it might report its spending to Congress. For those services it paid roughly $380,000 a year. The amount that DOGE accused the institute of spending on its accountants corresponded not to their accountants’ bill but to a six-year contract for legal services."
Stacyhs
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Stacyhs
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I don't think a lot of the people at his rallies do know that. They probably think he invented it.
I meant to do that.I find it amusing when theres a typo in a callout post.
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Norman Alexander
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Indeed, Trumpublicans! You guys are doing massive numbers!
Armitage72
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Trump's staff is now claiming that he was saying that Iran could have destroyed those cities if Trump hadn't stopped them, and the media and California politicians are overreacting.
So, they're saying he's babbling incoherently and nobody knows what he's actually saying?
"According to the White House, however, Trump was saying that American cities would have been threatened by Iran had he not launched a war there earlier this year."
"In a post on X, White House Communications Director Stephen Cheung described the "media freakout" over Trump's comments as "not rooted in reality"."
"A separate X post, from the official White House rapid response account, described journalists from the Los Angeles Times reporting on the comments as "buffoons" and again pushed back on the characterisation of the comments by Newsom and others.
"He was saying the US is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance," the account added."
White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego
Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.
www.bbc.com
Norman Alexander
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Sweeping up Trump's fecal leavings again... Is being Donny's public ass-wipe the best you can be, Steve?Trump's staff is now claiming that he was saying that Iran could have destroyed those cities if Trump hadn't stopped them, and the media and California politicians are overreacting.
So, they're saying he's babbling incoherently and nobody knows what he's actually saying?
"According to the White House, however, Trump was saying that American cities would have been threatened by Iran had he not launched a war there earlier this year."
"In a post on X, White House Communications Director Stephen Cheung described the "media freakout" over Trump's comments as "not rooted in reality"."
"A separate X post, from the official White House rapid response account, described journalists from the Los Angeles Times reporting on the comments as "buffoons" and again pushed back on the characterisation of the comments by Newsom and others.
"He was saying the US is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance," the account added."
White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego
Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.
Umm, bull ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊.Trump's staff is now claiming that he was saying that Iran could have destroyed those cities if Trump hadn't stopped them, and the media and California politicians are overreacting.
So, they're saying he's babbling incoherently and nobody knows what he's actually saying?
"According to the White House, however, Trump was saying that American cities would have been threatened by Iran had he not launched a war there earlier this year."
"In a post on X, White House Communications Director Stephen Cheung described the "media freakout" over Trump's comments as "not rooted in reality"."
"A separate X post, from the official White House rapid response account, described journalists from the Los Angeles Times reporting on the comments as "buffoons" and again pushed back on the characterisation of the comments by Newsom and others.
"He was saying the US is fighting to STOP Iran from having the ability to take out LA and San Diego with a nuclear weapon — which they would if they had the chance," the account added."
White House defends Trump comment to let Iran 'take out' LA and San Diego
Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.
I am being facetious, in case anyone is wondering.
a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
No judge will take senators' case against Jack Smith in Tennessee. They all recuse themselves.
bruto
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So Trump tells the ranchers to eat ◊◊◊◊. I'd like to think it makes a difference, but I'm betting most of them will be asking to pass the ketchup.
If only there were indications that Hegseth was a bad pick beforehand. Apart from being grossly underqualifiedWhy Sen. Thom Tillis Says He Regrets Pivotal Vote For Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth https://share.google/NkwThWgjXXoAD7ZNM
Gulliver Foyle
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The Democratic party keeping corporatist type republicans in all but name doesn't help their cause either.
Gulliver Foyle
Philosopher
All allowing agri-diesel to be used for non agricultural purposes will do is raise the price of agri-diesel to be more line with normal stuff. It does not alter the amount of diesel in the supply chain, so it won't change the base price at all.
The only effect this will have is to lower the tax take for the government from diesel sales.