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Yeah, but they were 919 of OUR people.
You know how this goes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Once you see the amount of government money steered by Democrats, it all makes sense.
$400 million to one diocese! That’s just stunning.
wasn’t there some controversy about using churches or funding churches back during gwb? I think I may have evolved on the matter.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When you spend that much money on anything, it isn’t going away.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Reducing almost any government spending is recessionary. It’s a big reason it’s so hard to do.
as to BTD: there will be some good / some bad (the Gaza comments sound bad to me), but there’s more transparency in the first two weeks than we had for the last 4 years. The comparisons to fascists are overdone: Trump has pretty consistently acted out in the open and has if anything worked against entrenched interests. Fascists capture them.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Indeed.
Trump accomplishes in a day what other politicians accomplish in a year of back and forth.
None of this stuff is as complicated as the people who get paid to prolong and delay it would have you believe.
I agree with you on the J6 pardons. He went too far when pardoning the folks who were convicted of assaulting officers. I don’t know how many there were, and they did serve time, but it’s a bad decision.
If there is anything project 2025 stated that has been proven true over the past week, it’s that a Republican president can’t get much done with a vast Democrat civil service. I fully believe that the Medicaid portal was shut down last week in an act of malicious compliance with the funding pause mandate.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t think options in the private sector are superior, and if the administration prevents hiring former employees as contractors, I don’t see many taking the deal.
hopefully I’m wrong.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)There is a gulf of difference between a leader saying they made decisions consistent with the situation, policy, and recent history; and a leader saying decisions that possibly allowed the fire to get out of control were the “right” decisions when resources were in reserve.
I agree that Monday morning quarterbacking is distasteful but then so is arrogance.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t like language like “retribution” at all. If the best improvement is to look forward and stop the politicization of the FBI, then we should hope for that.
retribution implies turnabout is fair play. That’s childish. The FBI has been abusive.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)One is a hideous puppet. The other one is a Star Trek character.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)People forget that this little board exists because the freedom fighters over at a different board just shut down all off topic discourse.
I think these fires are a perfect storm scenario. Wind, fire, drought. And incompetent preparation.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)PJP2 had a really high profile during the Cold War. He did transcend Catholicism in my view.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s longevity.
The one that sticks out to me is HW Bush. He led the CIA and had a relatively inauspicious presidency, followed by a quiet post presidency (meaning he didn’t launch the Bush global initiative and seek celebrity…just like his son). I wouldn’t have thought that would score most admired points (and yes, I admired him at times though have revised my view of neocon republicans in recent years.).
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Who really cares? It has become a mockery of the notion of honor.
Just rewatched the video of hillary asking the Chinese to find Trump’s tax returns. What a joke.
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