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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

6 days ago

🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
6 days ago

Harris lost in large part because she spent 4 years supporting Palestinian genocide... lets hope the democrats learn their lesson and might try to be decent humans next time we give them a chance...

#USPol #Harris #Palestine

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Linux Is Best

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Linux Is Best
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2026, if it is not progressive, it will be conservative.

Americans want fundamental change. Not the hope of change, not the promises of change, but actual real-world, live to see it and experience it, everyday type of change.

It is why many people were tricked and bought into the lie, Donald Trump was selling. And if we cannot match that, we will receive only more of the nonsense conservatives sell.

We'll go left or we'll go right.

#UsPol #UsPolitics #Politics #America #UnitedStates #Democrats

#politics #america #UnitedStates #uspol #democrats #uspolitics

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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#USpol #TrumpsCabinet

s/: ...so he is "in line" with his criminal master-to-be. Fitting.

That said, shouldn't #GymJordan" become #SecretaryOfEducation"? (Instead of abolishing the whole Department, as threatened.)/s

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Steve Herman

2024-11-15 23:45:41

Pete Hegseth, the Army veteran turned Fox News host selected by President-elect Trump to be defense secretary, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in 2017. kion546.com/national-politics/…

Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, was investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2017, the Monterey connection – KION546
Written by By James LaPorta on CBS News MONTEREY, Calif. (CBS NEWS) -- Pete Hegseth, the Army veteran turned Fox News host selected by President-elect Donald Trump to be defense secretary during his second term, was investigated for an alleged sexual…
^{KPIX (KION)}

#uspol #trumpscabinet #gymjordan #secretaryofeducation

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Lord Hurkle-Durkle

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Lord Hurkle-Durkle
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An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.

“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or

An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”

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#USpol #USpolitics

1955 book

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Benny B, Mała Foka 🦭

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Benny B, Mała Foka 🦭
1 week ago

"Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence...
These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer."
snyder.substack.com/p/decapita… #usPol

Decapitation Strike

Preserving America from Trump's Appointments

^{Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)}

#uspol

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Aure Free Press :verified:

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Aure Free Press :verified:
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Points to Ponder....

"Does Putin tell Trump over the phone or via email on which clowns Trump should choose to run the government"
- Aure

It’s Pretty Clear Why Trump Wants Total Crackpots to Run the Military and Intelligence Agencies

Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are bananas Cabinet picks. But don’t overlook the CIA nominee.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #Putin

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

The pending President of the United States Vladimir Putin

There Is Only One Reason Trump Would Put These Absolute Crackpots in Charge of Military and Intelligence Agencies

This is a national security disaster.

^{Fred Kaplan (Slate)}

#News #politics #press #Trump #putin #GOP #breaking #uspol #uspolitics #BreakingNews #aurefreepress #headline

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Democracy Matters :verified:

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Democracy Matters :verified:
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He should be in prison. No, wait! Better idea. Let’s make him Attorney General of the United States!

#MattGaetz #Florida #TrumpKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #USPol

Matt Gaetz US House hearing with his flipcharts reading “I RAPED YOUNG GIRLS.”

#uspol #florida #votebluetosaveeverything #mattgaetz #trumpkakistocracy

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LM Little

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LM Little
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"The destruction of the UN is the destruction of the world... #Israel is destroying the #UnitedNations, and with it, our only venue for an internationally coordinated project of #climatechange mitigation and adaptation." canadiandimension.com/articles…

#cdnpoli #uspol #europe #Palestine #genocide #justice

The destruction of the UN is the destruction of the world

The destruction of Palestine means the destruction of the UN, and the destruction of the UN carries with it a grave risk of the destruction of life on this planet.

^{canadiandimension.com}

#Europe #ClimateChange #Justice #israel #uspol #cdnpoli #palestine #genocide #unitednations

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DrALJONES

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DrALJONES
1 week ago

Analysis: Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to head Health, says he’ll fire & replace "600 people from the National Institutes of Health on day one of a second Trump term."

Kennedy has "been critical of the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control, & other federal agencies that are part of the basic infrastructure of public health."

motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

#Project2025 #RFKJr #TrumpTransition #USPol #USHealth .

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reveals plans to fire 600 federal health workers

The Trump ally and anti-vax conspiracist takes aim at the agencies he loathes.

^{Mother Jones}

#uspol #rfkjr #project2025 #trumptransition #ushealth

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Stable Genius Liberal

1 week ago

Stable Genius Liberal
1 week ago

People who think employees of the FDA are an unaccountable elite voted to have a billionaire government contractor who hangs out with the president select who gets to be elected to office based on his feelings.

#USPol #Trump

#Trump #uspol

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