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"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as villains." ~ Russell Vought, Trump pick as director of Office of Management and Budget, on civil servants
And therefore the trauma to the rest of the population will be inadvertent? Collateral trauma? For four years?
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"Donald Trump has never been about retribution." ~ Rep. Jim Jordan, yesterday
"If you put me back in the White House...America will be a free nation once again...And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state." ~ Trump, March 2023
Looking at Trump's comments over the years .....
"If you put me back in the White House...America will be a free nation once again...And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution. I will totally obliterate the deep state." ~ Trump, March 2023
Looking at Trump's comments over the years .....
Jordan contradicts Trump.
They can't both be right.
Free to pollute fragile ecosystems?
What freedom will Trump impart that Biden hadn't already been protecting?
qui vult decipi, decipiatur: let him who wishes to be deceived, be deceived.
Problem is, when the ancients coined this Latin legal maxim they applied it to individuals.
In this case Trump voter indiscretion threatens the globe.
"Retribution" may appeal to MAGA voters in the abstract, an amorphous desire for justice for undefined injustice.
Are we to believe a full 1% of Trump voters suffered a wrong committed against them, which Trump will avenge?
ref:
ret·ri·bu·tion (rĕt′rə-byshən)
n.
1. Punishment administered in return for a wrong committed.
[Middle English retribucion, repayment, reward, from Old French retribution, from Late Latin retribūtiō, retribūtiōn-, from Latin retribūtus, past participle of retribuere, to pay back : re-, re- + tribuere, to grant; see TRIBE.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
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"Joe Biden is a criminal and he's been a criminal for a long time. And you're a criminal, and the media, for not reporting it." ~ Trump to Reuters' Jeff Mason
"Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government." ~ House Speaker Mike Johnson
"If the FBI doesn't need to be cleaned out, what does?" ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham
"Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government." ~ House Speaker Mike Johnson
"If the FBI doesn't need to be cleaned out, what does?" ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham
Calling any sitting U.S. president a criminal is cause for alarm, attention.
Voters in this democratic republic are obliged to take notice, thanks for the heads-up Mr Trump.
You've not only undermined the credibility of your Biden accusation.
You've verified your silly demeanor by suggesting it's illegal, "criminal" to not report such crime.
DJ,
You're MAGA hat, no cattle.
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"We're the only country that has it." ~ Trump on birthright citizenship, which over 30 other countries, including Canada and Mexico, also have
Does Trump not know? Or does he know, but not care?
note: U.S. citizenship accorded at birth is Constitutionally enumerated law.
Statute cannot legally reverse that. For Trump to succeed in removing this from U.S. law, the Constitution would have to be amended. - meanwhile -
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"Everybody on [the J6] committee... for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail." ~ Trump, in interview
a) That's a steaming pooh-pile taller than D.J.T.
b) "Honestly" ?! D.J., do you know what that word means?
- God is dead - - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead - God
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Re #1151 - you can't say that he hasn't made his intentions clear.
BUT !
I do deduce Trump is no math wiz.
Methodology may influence outcome. But it appears if Trump makes good on his mass deportation threats, it'll be a severe economic blow, substantially detrimental to those that voted Trump into office again.
Deporting / expelling those currently U.S. citizens will reduce the tax base. Diversity is a strength. And population is a strength. Trump seems determined to diminish both.
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His followers don't believe that - seem to assume that those jobs will be taken over by US citizens who will received decent pay and prices won't increase "that much".
Now they're claiming that he only wants to deport criminals - of course that's not what he said.
We shall see.
Or more accurately
they shall see.
Please pardon my cynicism.
My impression is, unlike most public officials, the literal meaning of Trump's words are not the primary indicator.
For Trump, it may be more useful, more reliable to canvass Trump on the subject over time, and estimate (guess) not based on any one Trump statement, but on the spectrum Trump defines by the variations of his statements.
I don't have enough time or patience for much of that.
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#1,154What?
a) What is this crop?
b) What are they doing to it? Looks as likely they're practicing the 3 shell game, as conducting an agricultural operation.
Wheelbarrow. I get that.
And?
Are they scientists doing a field study? The seem both well-dressed, and over-dressed to harvest a crop.
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If only this made any sense
"Disdain, despise, detest, distrust -- pick your d-words." ~ Pete Hegseth on the media, "almost all" politicians, and credentialed experts, in 2020 book
"Disdain, despise, detest, distrust -- pick your d-words." ~ Pete Hegseth on the media, "almost all" politicians, and credentialed experts, in 2020 book
Context might help make a little less nonsense of it.
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"They went through a year and a half of testimony [and] deleted and destroyed all evidence that they found." ~ Trump, lying about the House J6 committee, whose work is publicly available
U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves says that Jan. 6 has "probably the most recorded crimes in all of our history"
September 15, 2024 / 7:33 PM EDT / CBS News
U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves says that Jan. 6 has "probably the most recorded crimes in all of our history"
The crimes of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot are some of the most recorded in history, top prosecutor Matthew Graves says. He explains what went into the more than 1,000 convictions.
www.cbsnews.com
Thanks Matt, & CBS.
Trump's insurrection has also been called the most extensively investigated crime in U.S. history. The abundant evidence is vivid, and unmistakable.
You wish.
and ...
We were warned.
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And Trump's Supreme Court just confirmed that's the case.