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|content=@elonmusk Been using '''#BackToChurch''' for years to call for this. | |content=@elonmusk Been using '''#BackToChurch''' for years to call for this. | ||
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=== 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 donât 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 lifeâs 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 canât 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 hasnât 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 couldnât fully process it and kinda even had to forget what we learned as a result. It was wild. | |||
If McConnellâs 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 âstop at nothingâ 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. đ | |||
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|content=@edfrenkel @coreyum Itâs hard for people to hear it. We havenât seen this in earnest since like Iran-Contra or thereabouts. Or maybe Abu Ghraib. Dunno. | |||
'''Church committee''' was too long ago. | |||
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