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I believe these heinous cabinet nominations serve a larger purpose. Each are the antithesis of the department they are dubbed to “serve”. MAGA wants to destroy the “administrative state.” The simplest way to do that is to plant saboteurs on the inside to pillage and plunder and bleed the federal government dry. If R senators actually do stand up to trump (though I am doubtful enough will) Trump will probably nominate a Heritage Foundation/P2025 operative to do the same thing, perhaps with more competence and efficiency than even the current nutjobs. (He has already nominated some from the P2025 group.) Either way, the American people will suffer.

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The billionaires can survive the dismantling of government, but few others can unless they suck up to the dictators. Nevertheless, there will be a lot of literal or metaphorical mysterious falling out of windows (as just happened again in Russia).

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11/18 Yahoo News: "Russian ballet star VLADIMIR SHKYLOV critical of Putin "fell" to his death". Author: Amethyst Martinez.

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Nothing to see or hear here. Just the death throes of Democracy as we know it.

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Yes, I'm concerned the goofy caricatures are downplaying how serious this is.

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The Natl. Journal article on low-engagement voters' "whimsy" choice of tRump says all one needs to know about his "overwhelming mandate", and that millions of tRump voters will in time be saying, "Wha' hoppen'?" as the shitshow moves into high gear, and promises made are promises kept.

Didn't know your man's promises, tRump voters? Well, put on your flak helmets and have foxholes dug, because bad things WILL happen, he told you explicitly, but you just couldn't be bothered listening.

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Testimony under oath from at least 2 witnesses is widely available on GAETZ' conduct since 2017.

If any court OR congressional hearing needs more ... modus operand evidence (MO) is admissible.

There are no "Off Ramps".

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A lot of sex offenders in the cabinet. A curious thing after Dems have long been accused of running pedophilia sex rings, given the level (very high) of projection and hypocrisy by the GOP. What's the deal with Elon? Has he paid tRumps legal bills (or more) in a quid pro quo of some kind? There is so much stench and I'm concerened we're not looking at the "deep state" (another projection) carefully enough.

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Birds of a feather...and all that. Oh, and "only the best people".

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In short, Sex rings running human trafficking & Sexual assaults of many types do NOT have a statute of limitations barrier to prosecution now. Once reported generally that starts the clock ticking.

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Oh, look, it's Beavis and Butthole

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All of this is actually the real

Deep State of fascism. They

just buried it deeper after the

30s.

A lot of noise from the MAGA

side of our government and

so far, crickets from the

democrats.

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Jean

Reading his picks for anything and everything administrative sounds like something one would read in The Onion. Honestly, I laughed before I cried!

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Questions…

Re the Kayfabe Kabinet Kraziness: Does the Party of Trump look like a group where anyone has any interest in crossing the Fuhrer? If who he’s announced is who he wants, who’s going to do anything about it? Maybe Donny will accept one sacrificial lamb to chill everyone out. Maybe. (Mandatory reminder: the trouble isn’t with these appointees so much as the ones just beneath them.)

Re Kash Patel at the FBI: what exactly is the problem? A return to the days of J Edgar? Odds are that’s going to happen under Donny regardless who the director is.

I guess the DNC’s post-Clinton tolerance (or worse) of the GOP hasn’t worked out well long term-wise?

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If Pete Hegseth is a Problem, What is Lloyd J. Austin III?

https://shorturl.at/wOvjX

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AN OPEN LETTER TO PETE HEGSETH

Re: Your Nomination for Secretary of Defense — A Blatant Spectacle of Opportunism, Recklessness, and the Sinister Nexus of White Nationalism and Sex Crimes

https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/an-open-letter-to-pete-hegseth?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Why are we burning up precious time and energy reacting to each new nominee put forth by him. Can we just stipulate once and for all that this will be the kind of characters he picks because that is the only kind he can attract. It is meant to distract and take up print space and bandwidth over what should be loud and insistent demands for a hand recount across all swing states. Why? We endured their baseless allegations over the 2020 election of Biden and now it is our duty to find out about that “mandate” of Trump’s, which seems to be actually only Elon Musk, who may be in league with Putin, and is being given total access to sensitive information.

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These appointments are meant to send a message, and the message starts with an F: https://chris88.substack.com/p/trumps-biggest-fu-yet

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There still weren't enough goddamned Confederate traitors killed back then, as witness their moron defendants today.

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All the discussions about “how Trump won” are getting exhaustive in themselves. I worked in IT, getting a network up and running for five offices which were located miles apart. The United States electronic voting is hackable. Our 2024 election should not be certified until Kamala Harris asks for a hand count in swing states. Especially where bomb threats from Russia occurred. They were a ruse done to inhibit the validity of hand counting ballots. Everyone should listen and somebody, close to Kamala Harris, has to get her attention.

Stephen Spoonamore is a lifelong Republican, successful serial entrepreneur, and top-level cyber-security sleuth for major credit card companies and U.S. Federal defense and security agencies. This is a piece he has published Nov. 16, 2024, and an interview by Thom Hartman. https://www.opednews.com/populum/page.php?p=2&f=Computer-Expert-Spotlights-2024-Election_2024-Presidential-Election_Computer-Forensics_Computer-Hacking-241116-521.html

If you want a description, in flowchart format, of how elections can be hacked watch this 2008 video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRW3Bh8HQic

It is possible that the 2024 election was hacked. Starlink may have been involved. Somebody should look in to this - - - - before the certification of election occurs!

Note: Anyone who knows of my writing knows I am not an advocate of conspiracy theories, but the numbers do not add up in swing states, and someone should prove Mr. Spoonamore wrong.

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