• @Xanthobilly
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    He’s following Project 2025 to a T. It’s a shame most of the electorate can’t read.

    • @[email protected]
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      Do not confuse their bigotry for illiteracy.

      They want to control and punish “the other”. They don’t care that Project 2025 wrote this out. They don’t care that it makes them racists or Nazis. They want to punish those different from them.

      They want this.

      • sp3ctr4l
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        He’s not … that literally incorrect.

        The average American has the literacy ability of a 5th or 6th grader.

        MAGAs are of course bigots as well, but the American electorate is also largely, functionally illiterate.

  • karashta
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    Amazing how the party of small government, who said Obama ruled by fiat like a despot, is immediately acting how they claimed Obama did.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      What’s amazing is that - once again - we’ve got a Republican President stepping in to drive out every moderate and liberal holding a position of authority in the administration. And Democrats are just shaking their heads saying “Well, but you can’t do that” for the fourth time in as many decades, when you quite obviously can.

      “Haha! Now we’ll get Trump on being a hypocrite!” is the mating cry of a bunch of fucking losers.

      • @jordanlundOPM
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        And the next Democratic president will keep 75% of the partisan hacks Trump installs “because we don’t want to be divisive”.

        See Louis DeJoy, who is still fucking there!

        • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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          Not as easy as simply in firing DeJoy, but at this point we need an army of Luigis to turn the screws where the law won’t allow it.

          Also, ignore the fucking law because the President is King!

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          “Oh but I couldn’t do anything about it!” is the modern Democratic battle cry.

          Just look at the fucking Gaza Genocide. Biden dithers for 13 months on a deal that’s nearly identical to the one Trump inevitably prompted. Trump immediately gets what he wants by putting the slightest pressure on Netanyahu, because he recognizes that this conflict is holding up initiatives his party wants (namely Saudi recognition of Israel into the Middle Eastern trading cartels).

          All those people screaming about how “Trump Will Be Worse! You stupid Palestinian Midwesterners deserve the genocide your families will get for not supporting Haris!” and the bombs stop the day Trump takes office. How are these people going to respond to the next Democrat who runs for office, I wonder?

      • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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        If Democrats don’t pull the same shit in reverse (unless the GOP pulls their usual bullshit of changing the rules on their way out the door) then they literally don’t give a fuck and are officially a pretend opposition party.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          They won’t because they’re controlled opposition. A release valve for people to flock to when the GOP grows too difficult to render palatable to the public at-large. Dem Leadership simply waits to absorb discontent. They don’t function as an organized party.

          The only role they do fill is to cast dispersion on any kind of third-party coalition building.

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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      Tyranny = Gender is a spectrum

      Freedom = You’re male or female and that can never be changed!

    • @snekerpimp
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      It’s called projection, it’s all they know.

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        They also know gaslight and obstruct.

  • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
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    a new memo obtained by CNN Wednesday told public health agencies to have all documents and communications — including regulations, guidance, notices, social media, websites and press releases — approved by a presidential appointee.

    Very on brand for republicans to have lawmakers stand between health officials and those they are serving.

  • @chakan2
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    Project 2025 is a lot of work.

    • @jordanlundOPM
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      I don’t even think we’ve hit the Project 2025 stuff yet…

      • Jesus
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        This is exactly what they defined for phase 1 of project 2025. Clear out the experts heading the regulatory departments, then start micromanaging the IC workers.

        Next will be firing the ICs that aren’t producing stuff that’s good for Trump donors or isn’t good for republican propaganda.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    This is what people voted him in for and people who didn’t vote figured Harris would be the same.

    America’s got to work on its education system and fix this problem but of course conservatives want to gut that too.

    • Chainweasel
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      People figured Harris would be the same because that’s how the media played it.
      They really pushed the “both sides” bullshit to keep the race close and ratings up. Now they’re about to lose their editorial freedom for it. There’s gonna be some fat leopards soon.

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        But quarterly profits will be great.

        The line went up.

        And boards will just hire new CEOs to suck up to Trump and get by.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        The media sells what we as the population want to buy.

        It doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

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      I think you mean, conservatives have already gutted education. They’re currently attempting to make the final killing blow (defund public education to pay for christo-fascist private education).

  • @knightmare1147
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    So how long before something like a no confidence action or something can be taken to stop this? He’s speedrunning turning the US into a madhouse and I know the VP would be next in line but… Something? Anything more legitimate than just fighting fire with fire by various groups being uncooperative?

    • @jordanlundOPM
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      The US doesn’t have a mechanism for a no confidence vote, the only thing we have is impeachment, and that won’t happen while the Republicans own the House and Senate.

      You need a 218 vote majority to impeach in the House, Republicans hold a 220 vote majority there.

      Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate to convict and remove him, Republicans hold 53/100 seats there.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m more and more convinced by the day that this isn’t going to end without at least some level of political violence

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        It could happen if republican members of the house and senate weren’t such cowards/ ghouls/ shills that would rather help a fascist stay in power than admit their party is wrong.

    • @smokin_shinobi
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      General strike. All the money flows because we make it flow.

    • @[email protected]
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      You’re asking this as if the majority of congress isn’t fully behind the Trumpist authoritarian agenda.

  • @TokenBoomer
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    Power and the money, money and the power 
    Minute after minute, hour after hour 
    Everybody’s runnin’, but half of them ain’t lookin’ 
    It’s goin’ on in the kitchen, but I don’t know what’s cookin’