doug-ie.bsky.social
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Hegseth’s advocacy for US war criminals is one of the main reasons Trump picked him. Trump doesn’t want the rule of law to stop him from anything he wants to do. Getting rid of JAGs is consistent with getting rid of IGs, saying he won’t prosecute corruption laws, etc.
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It’s strange he’s inviting people to save the country by getting rid of him with no legal consequences. But don’t take him up on it.
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That’s exactly what we can do if they won’t respect the courts. No violence. Just stop everything.
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He didn’t “decide” anything. They aren’t looking at details to understand the consequences and optimize results. Musk’s objective is to get rid of agencies that regulate his businesses. Trump’s objective is retribution. The rest they will burn just to watch it die. Sociopaths.
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Exactly!
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This was always about defunding the white collar crime police.
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I’m so sorry you ended up in the line of fire of these idiots, carelessly ruining people’s lives.
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Thanks for saying this. Few people realize transparent economic data, trust in the professionalism of the government and the rule of law are a major reason for our economic success. If we lose that reputation we risk the $ status as reserve currency and the US as a safe haven for capital.
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He knows. But he’s learned from Trump that if you keep repeating a lie eventually lots of people will believe.
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How is Bad Company not already in?!
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What people say and what the do are different. If they ignore courts there are lots of ways to stop them short of violence. If you start with violence you give them an excuse to use it and people will think it’s justified. Don’t give it to them the moral high ground.
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Don’t play their game. There are plenty of non-violent, but also non-passive options, starting with courts through shutting everything down, physically stopping all economic activity. The increased sympathy Trump got from the assassination attempt is probably why he won. Don’t let them play victims.
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No it wasn’t. Going down that path makes you are no better than them.
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It isn’t Musk who should be held accountable. It’s Trump! Musk wouldn’t be doing anything if Trump weren’t letting and encouraging him.
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So everyone stop talking like it is real and stop talking like this is about Musk! Focus on Trump! Everything Musk or “DOGE” is doing is being done by Trump. And if Trump doesn’t have the authority to do it then it isn’t real. The only thing that can make it real is if people accept it.
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This is exactly right! They will loot the place, shut down/destroy anything they don’t understand, and leave a debt ridden shell. Kind of like any time barbarians take over throughout history.
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Like the Jan. 6 pardons it was apparently too much work to think through the consequences of this action in advance, so they just stopped everything. In their defense thinking and understanding can be hard…
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The idea that just because the cost to produce something goes down it’s price would also go down is a fallacy. Producers try to reduce costs to increase profits and only reduce prices in response to reduced demand.
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Those used to be conservative values too…
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I feel like we are in that Twilight Zone episode where the kid wishes people into the cornfield.
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What has any Republican President done Post-presidency? Look at Carter, Clinton, and Obama. They have all tried to do good in the world with their capital built up as POTUS. George HW Bush did ok, but what did W, Reagan, or Trump do?
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Nice message, so impossible that Trump wrote or even saw it.
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When will they figure that out about Trump?
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Good list, especially including Reagan, who is the root cause of income inequality and our debt. His free trade policies in addition to corporate raiders funded by Reagan’s tax cuts for the top destroyed many small and medium sized companies and consequently the communities that depended on them.
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W was the root of all the bad things we have today. After 9/11 he overreacts, invades Iraq, destabilizes the Middle East, resulting in a migration crisis, his policies enabled the housing bubble causing the Great Recession, the bank bailout, a loss of faith in institutions, Brexit, Trump.
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And now what they did deliver Trump will take credit for. finance.yahoo.com/news/the-tru...