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      I am equally shocked and completely unsurprised this wooden amalgamation of a parody of a human actually used the “I was just following orders” line. Not a dumb guard or a patrol agent or a desk clerk, but an actual Secretary of Homeland Security. (for whatever prestige or value is held in a position that was invented in 2003 because white people suddenly got scared of Muslims.)

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        Well that’s the wonderful thing about being a cult leader. You’re the only one who can solve the problem. So you get whatever you want, you get all the credit when things go well, and when everything goes wrong… you become everyone’s scapegoat. It’s not a valid excuse, but it is human psychology.

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        Yes, in a blaze of glory mexican stand type scenario would be great.
        The Puppy killer, Ghouly Goebbels, and the child rapist all blasting each other. No survivors!

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      I wish too but that website has AI generated investment scams all over the bottom of it. I’m hesitating to believe this.

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    If you’re an adult who has been put in charge of an entire government department, you should take responsibility for your actions

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    Kristi’s braincell: don’t say you were just following orders, don’t say you were just following orders…

    “It was Stephen!”

    Kristi’s braincell: nice 😎

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    Welp, we won’t be seeing her much longer.

    Guess she’ll have to fall back on her hobby of shooting puppies in the face.

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    Isla, She Wolf of the SS, is going to find out the hard way the bimbos are the first to get thrown under the bus in that party.

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      I bet the fights, screaming matches, broken lamps, slammed doors and broken phones in the white house over the last week has been fucking glorious. I would pay thousands to be a fly on a wall there just to watch these unhinged freaks become unhinged freaks at each other when everything starts going off course.

      They thought it would be different by now. They expected more legal victories (it’s not covered but they’ve lost a LOT of ground in courts) and they thought they would have a stronger public mandate, they thought liberal, middle-class America would be looking at them like saviors and heroes by now, they thought their WWE fireworks and spectacle would win over more than the same, steady 28% - 30% of the country.

      But here we are, Trump is becoming unmanageable and may literally just DIE at any moment, they’ve made reverse progress getting JD Vance ready to take the reigns, and everyone is just staring at Miller, this egg-headed wormtongue that keeps feeding Trump schizoid lines because he’s basically just Elliot Rogers reincarnated. And now there are waves of rolling strikes going around, and the conservatives broadly are absolutely enraged about threats to their guns. Even the liberal nightly news is on network TV is outright saying Trump and his admin are making shit up. The tide is turning sharply.

      There is some satisfaction in all this.

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        Oh it’s absolutely beautiful. For the first time in a year and a half, I’m not fucking ashamed of my tribe; and I look forward to feeling similar about my government.

        Yoo. Ess. Ay.

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    This isn’t her trying to excuse or justify her actions because she senses some looming consequence, this is her reiterating her loyalty to trump and the cause in the face of outside criticism.

    edit: Also maybe push Miller under the bus, the reporting on this is kinda weird. Axios says there’s calls for her resignation, MSN says there’s calls for Miller to face censure… not actually sure what’s true with this one

    edit 2: much better article that explains the situation from Atlanta Black Star

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    Hey all, I really want this to be true but let’s keep it above board. that site you just listed has a lot of scam sites linked at the bottom with AI slop trying to prey on vulnerable people to invest in vymnex/linkbait scams.

    I hate what the right are doing too but we can remain to strive better than this. Don’t dive to this level.

    Fight better.

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      that site you just listed has a lot of scam sites linked at the bottom with AI slop trying to prey on vulnerable people to invest in vymnex/linkbait scams.

      It does?

      disables ublock origin

      Oh, there they are! Yuck!

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        So these news sites you have been visiting; you admit you haven’t stopped even for a beat to question it or at least cross check your news before swallowing and sharing the slop?

        Bad human. Bad.