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The people who aren't objecting to all this, who are supporting all this, who believe it's all a good thing, are people who by and large do not contribute or or serve or otherwise participate in American society. They will not care right up to the point they start to experience excruciating pain.

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How much more we need to call it what it is Let's not forget that Fox News and Laura Ingraham were the first to do openly this in public at the Republican National Convention in 2016

Anyone in Congress wants to find Medicare and Medicaid fraud just look down the hall to Senator Rick Scott of Florida. He led Columbia/HCA during the largest healthcare fraud in US history.

“Democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” — FDR

Mni wiconi. Stand with Greenpeace and Standing Rock. Fuck Energy Transfer.

This last confirmation is the final nail in the coffin. Goodbye to the United States we’ve all known and loved our entire lives. May we be a better and more just and more equitable place when we come out the other side.

Early days commercial Internet, my company was ready to make a large investment in a local startup. Junior member of our team had gone to high school with the founder: "He's a skinhead, hardcore Nazi. Father is too." Held ground for weeks, wouldn't shut up. We passed, and never thanked him enough.

In 1992 in Peru, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) terrorists shot down community leader and champion of the poor Maria Elena Moyano in a public square in Lima, and while she was bleeding out, dynamited her in front of her children. That’s what Trump, Musk and Putin are doing to the US government.

Honor, dignity, patriotism. "This is not the mission I came to serve."

Interesting moments in world history 30 January 1649, Banqueting House, London 29 April, 1945, Piazzale Loreto, Milan

The most dangerous company most have never heard of. These guys have the capabilities and the data to sort almost every American into actionable buckets. When I've said our time on this service may be short-lived, it's because this company is no doubt importing the firehose for analysis.