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Well this is an unfortunate reminder that Dick Cheney is still alive.
Well this is an unfortunate reminder that Dick Cheney is still alive.
It’s funny because i went to a DoDD school and I never took it. I think only the ROTC kids did.
It definitely started with Reagan.
While he didn’t originate the expression he did go on TV to quip “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Which is such a deeply stupid thing to say, but it perfectly characterized Reagan’s animosity towards the bureaucracy that makes our country function. He did immense damage to that bureaucracy in his tenure, politicizing department heads that had previously been professionals, crippling useful programs like welfare and greenlighting wasteful ones like Star Wars. Conservatives are eager to make the government as ineffective as they claim it to be.
Project 2025 will be this and so much worse, but this trend really took off with Reagan.
Just add it to the pile of reasons why that man’s grave should be spit upon.
My dad has said since I was a kid that the secret to US political stability was the professional bureaucracy keeping everything running no matter who was in charge.
The really bad part is that once it’s fucked it is exceptionally hard to un-fuck it. The people who leave find other work or retire and there is no private sector equivalent so you just lose all the expertise. This plan will cripple our country for a generation if it’s allowed to come to fruition.
It’s unfortunate because I just want a place where I can ask where to find comfortable walking shoes that don’t have leather.
I have had a hell of a time trying to get Shadow Empire running. It’s the only title I have found that doesn’t have kernel-level anticheat that doesn’t work on Linux.
Conservatives typically call LGBT people much worse things than “weird”.
He doesn’t have trauma, he is watching because that was the moment everyone told him he won the election. It was his glory moment and he wants to relive it because he fears it slipping away. Spare me this disingenuous sympathy plea.
Shthufferrin’ Shthuccotash! It’s shtho shthmelly!
Fascists are fragile specifically because they require absolute strength to rule. As soon as they are shown to be weak they are eaten by their own.
It’s fair to ask.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-walz-military-record/
He filed his campaign paperwork in February 2005, which would have necessitated his retirement. In March the MN Guard announced a partial deployment but his unit wasn’t specifically told they were deploying, he retired in May, his unit received orders to deploy in July.
The coveted human thumb endorsement.
The deployment was announced months after he put in for retirement.
I had the 22 upgrade completely bomb out of the installer and got a kernel panic on reboot. I booted off of a live boot image, launched Timeshift and restored it. Within 20 minutes my broken install was back to where it was before the upgrade. It was really invaluable.
He probably killed that bear cub.
You’d still have Peggy Flanagan!
I think it’s missing the point. It’s not effective for being name-calling. It’s just saying what everyone is already thinking. Like in the 2020 debate when Biden said “Will you just shut up, man?” It was relatable because Trump runs his fucking mouth all the time.
This is the same. It’s a relatable feeling - Trump is deeply weird and out of touch. Vance is so creepy people didn’t even bother to check if he really wrote about fucking a couch.
Drew demonstrated pretty remarkable patience there.
They’re saying Vance was…
In it for the chaise.
A lot is riding on this, given the unprecedented impact of the last debate i expect a lot of people will be watching.