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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #175 on: November 27, 2024, 03:28:03 PM »
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #176 on: November 28, 2024, 07:11:45 AM »
Apparently Trump's cabinet nominees are getting tons and tons of death threats, bomb threats, all sorts of threats.

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #177 on: November 30, 2024, 07:40:58 AM »
Looks like the MSM is prepping for the left to go full Kavanaugh on Trump's picks. The NYT somehow got an old,  private email between Hegseth's mom and him regarding his "abuse of women". The writer even made a big deal about, "You can read this hitpiece article for free! No paywall!"

Still no stories about Emhoff actually beating on women.

https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2024/11/30/thats-low-new-york-times-runs-despicable-hit-piece-on-pete-hegseth-n2404441
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #178 on: November 30, 2024, 08:21:52 AM »
Looks like the MSM is prepping for the left to go full Kavanaugh on Trump's picks. The NYT somehow got an old,  private email between Hegseth's mom and him regarding his "abuse of women". The writer even made a big deal about, "You can read this hitpiece article for free! No paywall!"

Still no stories about Emhoff actually beating on women.

https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2024/11/30/thats-low-new-york-times-runs-despicable-hit-piece-on-pete-hegseth-n2404441

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #179 on: December 01, 2024, 08:01:38 AM »
Kash Patel for FBI Director. It's giving the left and some former and current FBI people quite an upset tummy. The left is really going after him for being "unqualified". Dude was Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Senior Counterterrorism Director at the NSC, and DOD Chief of Staff, among other things. Sounds more qualified than a lot of former FBI Directors, both R&D.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #180 on: December 01, 2024, 09:38:57 AM »
Kash Patel for FBI Director. It's giving the left and some former and current FBI people quite an upset tummy. The left is really going after him for being "unqualified". Dude was Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Senior Counterterrorism Director at the NSC, and DOD Chief of Staff, among other things. Sounds more qualified than a lot of former FBI Directors, both R&D.
I saw former FBI director Andrew McCabe bad-mouthing Kash Patel on TV. To me, that's pretty much a ringing endorsement of Patel.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #181 on: December 01, 2024, 11:05:21 AM »
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #182 on: December 01, 2024, 12:06:20 PM »
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Breaking: Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel calls for immediate declassification of Epstein client list! Also Today Trumps New Border Czar Announced That The DOJ And DHS Will Be Targeting The NGOs And Former Federal Agency Leaders Criminally For Running The Human Trafficking!

https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1863057944289444324

May explain the sudden uptick in Trump with Epstein photos being posted on X by libs.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #183 on: December 01, 2024, 02:43:48 PM »
Why do all these people hate Patel?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #184 on: December 01, 2024, 03:11:57 PM »
Why do all these people hate Patel?
I saw an interview with him that took place a while back where he said on Day 1 he'd shut down the main FBI headquarters, send the employees out across the country and re-task about 7000 paper-shufflers with catching real criminals instead of surveilling parents who spoke up at PTA meetings. 
Trump won in 2016. And again in 2024. Democrats haven't been so offended since Republicans came along and freed their slaves.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #185 on: December 01, 2024, 03:17:56 PM »
I saw an interview with him that took place a while back where he said on Day 1 he'd shut down the main FBI headquarters, send the employees out across the country and re-task about 7000 paper-shufflers with catching real criminals instead of surveilling parents who spoke up at PTA meetings.

So he's a fascist
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #186 on: December 01, 2024, 03:19:45 PM »
I saw an interview with him that took place a while back where he said on Day 1 he'd shut down the main FBI headquarters, send the employees out across the country and re-task about 7000 paper-shufflers with catching real criminals instead of surveilling parents who spoke up at PTA meetings.

That would do it, nothing as frightening to an entrenched federal worker as being told they were going to actually have to do their job and do it well. ;)


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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #187 on: December 01, 2024, 03:35:22 PM »
I saw an interview with him that took place a while back where he said on Day 1 he'd shut down the main FBI headquarters, send the employees out across the country and re-task about 7000 paper-shufflers with catching real criminals instead of surveilling parents who spoke up at PTA meetings.
There are probably a great many procedures that need to be written or removed as well.  Need to have a team of people working that issue. 

When Comey was at the FBI and Brennan was over the CIA, I remember hearing about a odd edicts and procedures that directed attention away from islamic terrorists and toward "domestic terror" or "people not on the left".  I really doubt those procedures have been removed. 
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #188 on: December 01, 2024, 06:05:22 PM »
Bolton compares Patal to Soviet secret police.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-bolton-compares-kash-patel-stalins-right-hand-man-after-trumps-fbi-nomination

So was I simply wrong about or fooled by Bolton 20 years ago? I thought he was okay back then, but man, he's an ahole.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #189 on: December 01, 2024, 06:06:13 PM »
It would be nice if our intel/LE/security types weren't pretending the mythical "far right" are the scariest threat we face.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #190 on: December 01, 2024, 06:08:24 PM »
It would be nice if our intel/LE/security types weren't pretending the mythical "far right" are the scariest threat we face.

Scariest threat THEY face
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #191 on: December 01, 2024, 08:55:58 PM »
Why do all these people hate Patel?

He's a brown person who won't stay in his place.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #192 on: December 02, 2024, 03:26:49 PM »
Well, it looks like outside of EOs and maybe a few other items, not much will be done the first 100 days. Tapping all those congresscritters for admin roles is going to leave congress with a +1 majority, only if an R in CA (where they are still counting votes) wins his race, until the vacant seats are filled. You know there are too many RINOs to push any Trump agenda with that slim of a majority.

I'm unclear why appointments to vacant seats can't be made in the first 100 days. Seems to me, those are some of the most important days in a new administration. You'd think they could set special elections immediately, for voting in FEB.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/single-house-race-stands-between-republicans-1-seat-majority
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #193 on: December 02, 2024, 07:50:36 PM »
I have no other confirmation besides the below S2 Underground Wire report, but maybe Dogmush can weigh in, as it appears it's in his AO. Trump's DEA pick sounds terrible. Sheriff Chad Chronister.

S2U says that this guy is a trans ideology proponent, a DEI proponent, and was apparently a nazi during covid, to include arresting a pastor for holding church services.

He is mentioned starting at 1:50

https://youtu.be/KMsX844yLGA
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #194 on: December 03, 2024, 08:09:37 AM »
More on Chronister:

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2024/12/02/concerns-raised-about-trumps-dea-pick-n2404547

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He cannot be trusted! Here are some of the reasons:

His office promotes transgendering teens by participating in the Tampa Pride event and created a liaison office for transgenders and other pride affiliates.

https://teamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/73a66208-1b05-41ae-ae29-8a1f6a6daf26/21-107

https://facebook.com/watch/?v=925517718290244

Chronister expanded his office's DEI programs and has been a major proponent of anti-white male discrimination by removing merit as a primary role of advancement, turning to race and gender-based hiring and promotion policies.

https://tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/hillsborough-sheriffs-office-recruitment-effort-focuses-on-diversity/2247981/

In March of 2020, he arrested a local pastor who kept his church open during Covid. The pastor spent $100k to upgrade his church's air and filtration system, making his church safe for those who wish to attend services. Nonetheless, Chronister arrested him and held a press conference touting the arrest.

https://teamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/bea53702-e647-4b0b-af34-38cbb31f6224/20-091

He is a big Democrat donor. He gave money to Democrats Barack Obama, Mayor Jane Castor, Congresswoman Kathy Castor, Congressman Charlie Crist and the DNC.

https://tampafp.com/ingram-eight-reasons-to-think-twice-about-voting-for-chad-chronister-for-sheriff/

Chronister is weak on crime. He released a criminal with 35 priors who then went out shortly after his release and murdered someone.

https://tampafp.com/ingram-eight-reasons-to-think-twice-about-voting-for-chad-chronister-for-sheriff/

He was weak during the BLM riots, having his deputies stand down as rioters destroyed property, including a gate at the county jail. His office was generally slow to respond during the BLM riots, when other sheriff's offices around the state were out in full force.

https://x.com/ByJoshSolomon/status/1277041420713549825

He supports Red Flag Gun Confiscation and has used the policy many times.

https://teamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/5df6be01-c30e-4e23-9139-a9310aaf8a99/20-070

https://casemine.com/judgement/us/6142161b372b700f1b4eb0af

https://unicourt.com/case/fl-hil-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office-vs-gonzalez-carlos-javier-jr-1128584
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #195 on: December 03, 2024, 09:15:46 AM »
I think most of us remember a bunch of talk a couple of years ago about how the Covid Nazis want to just forgive and forget all their excesses and abuse of power, but we were going to hold them to account. They can't get away with what they did, there has to be a reckoning, etc.

That's one reason why I backed DeSantis, and I thought he would do a lot better in the primary than he actually did. In electing Trump, we disavowed all those talking points. The Branch Covidians will not be punished.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #196 on: December 03, 2024, 02:17:36 PM »
I have no other confirmation besides the below S2 Underground Wire report, but maybe Dogmush can weigh in, as it appears it's in his AO. Trump's DEA pick sounds terrible. Sheriff Chad Chronister.

S2U says that this guy is a trans ideology proponent, a DEI proponent, and was apparently a nazi during covid, to include arresting a pastor for holding church services.

He is mentioned starting at 1:50

https://youtu.be/KMsX844yLGA

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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #197 on: December 03, 2024, 03:37:15 PM »
Is it possible that this Chronister could be another "red herring" like Gaetz?
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #198 on: December 03, 2024, 06:38:16 PM »
Mark my words: I predict Mr. Hegseth will be withdrawing his candidacy sooner or later.
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Re: Trump Administration
« Reply #199 on: December 03, 2024, 06:43:13 PM »
Is it possible that this Chronister could be another "red herring" like Gaetz?
Someone for the GOP senators to vote against so they'll have a response when accused of just rubber stamping Trump's picks?
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