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The guy who will be cleaning out all the qualifying people from federal service cannot get a security clearance 

so, we are about to get to position player pitching

I remember saying at the time when Jim Clyburn endorsed Joe Biden that the most conservative force in the country were middle-class African Americans (especially, women).  They know the stakes.  I just hope they continue to know the stakes.

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Southern culture in general rules America, whether it’s veneration of the military, or the ubiquity of country music, or the spread of evangelical religion, or the watching of Hallmark Channel movies.

Also, practicing and/or wishing cruelty on those who don’t share their nativist culture, because we respect toughness projected proactively by those of modest means—which is another way of saying everyday bullying.

Just another example of how the North won the war, but the South won the peace.

Being a baptist kid in the Detroit suburbs was weird.   I always felt like I was at a disadvantage talking to all the kids who had "communions" and "cattykism" and all the kids at my church were from down south.   Even so, being a northern Baptist was suspect to those folks when i went and visited my in-laws in North Carolina.   I made my dog tags in the military say "Protestant No Pref" just so I could maintain my distance with all the in-crowd catholics of my youth and those doctrinaire weirdo snake handlers and megachurchers in the protestant churches i'd encountered.  The single best sermon of my life was the Black chaplain whose service i attended in basic training who friggin knocked it out of the park because he spoke to what to me at the time felt like being "oppressed" as a kid in that basic training life cauldron and gave great inspiration when I was ready to have that.   I don't think I've ever listened to a sermon since that had that effect on me.  So, yeah, white evangelical culture: not a fan.  Black evangelical culture: I get why it has great value. 

38 minutes ago, oblong said:

They don’t know what the word means.  It can also be a byproduct of the forced patriotism shoved down our throats post 9/11.  “What’s wrong with these fine military boys in charge?  They are nice kids. Support our troops Commie!”  

Southern military culture holds a lot of power over many.

Can't wait to have these conversations with people after all this stuff is fully reported to the American public.  How many of our racist uncles will sheepishly apologize to us that they didn't know that mafia curious, pro-Russia failed casino owners who employed Roy Cohn and whose father was arrested at a KKK rally, and whose favorite book is the picture version of Mein Kampf. might be dictator wannabe.

Taxes, not just for the middle class

These people need an education 

29 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

His sheeple have no idea what is happening. 

True, and the people who want to accumulate all that power are tech bros and oligarchs who have accumulated wealth and are used to getting their way.

Right here is the key point

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The plan aims to reinstate Schedule F, a Trump-era executive order that makes federal employees fireable at-will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil service protections. Both Trump and others in the conservative movement have said they will clear out the federal government if he is reelected. The project has even set up online trainings and loyalty tests to narrow down potential hires to those who will commit to follow Trump without question. As Project 2025 senior adviser John McEntee has said, “The number one thing you're looking for is people that are aligned with the agenda.”

Eliminating the merit-based bureaucracy in favor of loyalty to the person of Trump.  No longer a nation of laws but a nation of single person rule.   NO THANKS!  Particularly when he starts ordering those newly enfranchised government goons to go out and punish Trump's enemies. 

Here is some eye opening stuff about it

https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

These are the people involved

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Project 2025's advisory board consists of "a broad coalition of over 80 conservative organizations"—mainly conservative think tanks, as well as several universities and the magazine The American Conservative.^[22] As of February 2024, the project has over 100 partner organizations.^[23]

Notable authors of the project's Mandate for Leadership include many officials and advisors from the Trump administration, including Jonathan Berry, Ben Carson, Ken Cuccinelli, Rick Dearborn, Thomas Gilman, Mandy Gunasekara, Gene Hamilton, Christopher Miller, Bernard McNamee, Stephen Moore, Mora Namdar, Peter Navarro, William Perry Pendley, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Kiron Skinner, Roger Severino, Hans von Spakovsky, Brooks Tucker, Russell Vought, and Paul Winfree.^[24]

Right there are the people who need to answer for all this. 

No way

Yes way

We need a thread on Project Autocracy 

4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

This is solid red, 90% white SW Va. they might as well be Kentucky or Tennessee

A Virginia school board voted early Friday to reinstate the original Confederate names of two public schools.

Why it matters: The Shenandoah County School Board's 5-1 vote in favor of the move appears to be the first such action since authorities began removing Confederate symbols from U.S. institutions and public spaces in 2020 following racial justice protests that erupted after the murder of George Floyd.

State of play: The vote reverses the board's decision in 2020 to remove the local elementary and high schools' association with Civil War-era Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby.

Consequently, Mountain View High School will revert to being called Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary School will again be called Ashby-Lee Elementary School.

 

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/10/virginia-school-board-vote-restore-confederate-names?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

Apparently there were plenty of people at the public meetings registering their opposition to the moves.  I keep chiding the people at work about the schools in Loudon County who had all their school named after principles or properties (e.g. Liberty, Freedom, Heritage): because they couldn't agree on names since the big bad woke crowd took away their ability to name Eva Hitler (nee Braun) Elementary or Charles Manson Middle School.

She’s a feminist 

a good development

Steve Bannon is heading to JAIL as appeals court upholds his conviction for defying the January 6 committee subpoena | Daily Mail Online

Yes, good point

One thing about big trials is that the "legal faces" all come out and have opinions about the tactics, techniques and procedures that make grist for television.   Lost is the importance of Trump being held to account for these various crimes and not able to beat the wrap like some anti-Christ that his craven follower believe in their hearts that he is.

Stormy Daniels walked all over that cross examination...holy crap. 

DA is not bringing Karen McDougal in to confirm that Trump is having affairs.  They must feel they have enough at this point to prove Trump's team felt they needed to do catch and kill and then the illegal financing.

Westerhout says Trump typically liked to read things before signing them

She doesn't want an Indian president

good luck with that