Editing Church and Pike Commissions (section)

=== 2024 ===

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|content=Donald Trump is poised to actually overturn the order in Washington DC. Most importantly for the SuperTicket, this includes the intelligence services and covert operations groups for the first time since the '''Church and Pike committees of 1975-1976'''.

This move by McConnell is sabatoge that is at least parliamentary in nature. Quite honestly I am surprised that this is in any way surprising.

Whether it ends there or not I don’t know, but I would be shocked if it did. I believe that the American people have given Donald Trump and JD Vance a mandate to overhaul Washington DC, and that this is not acceptable to many who will watch their life’s investment dismantled. Mandate or no mandate, I fully expect the sandbagging and sabatoge to continue. 

Not to beat the same dead horse as on @PiersUncensored, but I also can’t shake concern for even the physical safety of the incoming president and vice president. It feels crazy to say it, but the two shooters (particularly the second) weigh heavily in my mind. Two shooters is a lot, but there are still those who feel that any such concern is *always* a fever dream. Ignore them.

The SuperTicket is playing with fire. I would highly recommend that someone in the transition team get Gary Hart on board, who is one of the last living links to the Church Committee, and could thus advise as to what it is actually like to frontally engage the covert and intelligence operations groups in a hostile fashion.

Washington hasn’t been overhauled at this level since the 1970s.  I was just a kid, but I remember it as being *very* tense the last time it happened. I remember it being so crazy that we just couldn’t fully process it and kinda even had to forget what we learned as a result. It was wild.

If McConnell’s move is surprising, it can get a lot worse even without any violence at all; it might pay to go back to these tumultuous hearings, as it is our only such data point in the modern era. The presidental election was likely just the beginning of “stop at nothing” opposition to the groundswell. I remember being shocked as a kid at the pressure to prevent the public revelations of planned political killings by the Church committee. I think America has forgotten what this was like. 

Hope I am wrong. Apologies if so in advance. 🙏
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|content=What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s. The election is Wednesday, it’s by secret ballot, and it will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds. Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump. Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott. Don’t let McConnell get away with it again.
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