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Tax payer money is never “wasted”, it’s always kickbacks.

I assure everyone here, some of Abbott’s friends are making bank off this.

“They talked about being hungry. And they talked about the summer USDA program and, depending upon access, when they’d get a sack of food,” Pillen said at a press conference this week. “And from my seat, what I saw there, we have to do better in Nebraska.”

Alright, give him credit at least. He actually went outside the four walls of the Governor's Mansion to actually see some of the children. And when he saw that they were indeed very hungry and impoverished by no fault of their own, he understood that he was initially mistaken.

This is how isolated a lot of State political actors are though. They have no clue as to the actual suffering that goes on within their State and don't actively seek out further information. For this Governor to do such is actually commendable, because it rarely happens more often than I believe folks like to admit.

I mean still feel free to hurl stones for other things, but let's at least give him credit for going out and actually seeing what was really going on. AND admitting that he was wrong. That's not a common Governor attribute and absolutely a rare occurrence with Republicans to admit being wrong. We should do our best to encourage more of that elsewhere.

But still feel free to be critical to all the other bullshit this Governor continues to remain blind to.

Man it's going to blow your mind to know that petro companies are using oil money to buy up lithium and silicon mines as fast as they can.

The largest oil companies in the world are on track to becoming the largest suppliers of raw materials for solar panels and batteries. Oil companies have figured out that they can play both games at the same time. Sell as much oil and solar panel/lithium material and make hand over fist in cash.

I’m not going to read any responses.

This is likely the wisest part of any comment that's going to be on this thread. 🤞hopefully I'm wrong.

1. Van Buren

That’s a lot higher than I’d put the guy who so “skillfully” handled the panic of 1837.

Franklin Pierce at 42

Pierce and Buchanan are always bottom tier. One laid groundwork for the Civil War and the other lit the match ensuring Lincoln would, if elected President, increase hostilities.

Pierce at 42 should in my mind be 44 if not 43. Trump coming in at 45 seems about right, maybe 44 if I’m being generous.

But Trump literally tried overthrowing the US government. There’s just no way history is going to be kind to him. There’s nothing that can be done, no one can go back and undo the past.

Dude’s lasting legacy is going to be defined by pretty much, “Oh yeah, he attempted to overthrow the US government. And he was so powerful and charismatic, he got nominated to run for President again to get a second swipe at overthrowing the Government.”

💁🏽‍♂️🦀 Is this a Rust developer?

The Empire we broke from had this "feature" they seem to want so badly. And the thing is, these folks want this not realizing that there's a "losing team" built into this kind of function. See they forget the whole Act of Supremacy 1534 and how then when the other team got in, we had the Act of Supremacy 1558, and guess what happened to the losing team? Ireland remembers.

This isn't a one off thing. in the middle 1700s it wasn't uncommon for mayors to not get to hold office, even after being duly elected, because they were the wrong flavor of Trinity. There's the idea it's a single person and just three "personas" so to say, or it's actually three different people. That it's grape juice and crackers standing in and transubstantiation, you are actually fucking eating flesh and drinking blood.

And this all sounds like small details shit. But I wouldn't put it to chance on the smallness of those details to people who are worried if you look like you might go in the wrong bathroom. It's all fun and games till someone is trying to deny your right to vote because you think instruments don't belong in the church and that praise should only come from within.

See all the flavors of Christian are playing nicely at the moment because it's the enemy of my enemy kind of thing with the secular state. But once's that gone, we're partying like it's 1559. See that's what they all keep getting wrong, they all think they're going to end up on the winning team until someone starts saying "He ain't hurting the people he's supposed to hurt."

That's why they founders wanted a nation based in the people. See the King, his power come from God. And because of that, there's all this technical crap that basically makes it impossible to question him. But a Government of the people, that's the difference, the power of the nations isn't derived from God or whatever, it comes from basically all the vibes from all of the citizens in the nation.

And Founders they were religious, no doubt. And they believed God gave them power and what not, etc, etc, etc. But the nation they created, that derives from the people. The people can be all kinds of religious if they want to be, but our nation is consecrated by the will of the people. What guides that will of the people, that's for the people to pick. God, cool. Flying Spaghetti Monster, awesome. Reason and logic, amazing. Different strokes for different folks. Anyone who has read any of the people who created this nation's works will quickly understand there is a difference between what drives man and whence the power of this nation derives.

But within that is a smaller, hardcore group who also check other boxes in surveys — such as that the U.S. Constitution was inspired by God and that the federal government should declare the U.S. a Christian nation, advocate Christian values or stop enforcing the separation of church and state.

These people have no idea what they are asking for. They think that they'll somehow come out on top or that all the Christians will play nicely with each other or something. And they're just fooling themselves. We've got a lot of history that tells how "amazing" the various sects of Christianity play with each other.

He blamed “activists” on both the left and right for “hijacking” the process of banning books, accusing them of submitting book challenges solely to create a media narrative.

Even if that's true, he created the process.

Rule one of government: Don't create something that you aren't ready for it being abused.

All kinds of walks of life exist in a nation. There's conservative folks who abuse shit, there's liberal folks who abuse shit, there's socialist who abuse shit, there's libertarians that abuse shit, and I think we get the point.

Now the interesting thing is DeSantis is trying to apply more government mandate to fix government mandate. Which I don't think anyone needs to remind him how that'll play out. This is exactly the genesis for the mountains of red tape that so many people come to bemoan. This is exactly how it starts. If you have ever wondered how some Byzantine system of government got started, this is it.

Now DeSantis might not be around by the time this program goes full apeshit, but boy oh boy has he given it the fuel needed to get there. That's the thing about these kinds of odd ass programs that have ill defined goals, ill defined structure, and ill defined enforcement they get out of hand at fairly rapid pace. And that's the lamentation DeSantis is speaking to. He's seeing how something he started is quickly turning into a wildfire and he's hoping to not be on the hook for the conflagration.

AND THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T DO THESE THINGS TO BEGIN WITH. It's pretty straightforward governance and fairly obvious shit for anyone who spent longer than ten seconds studying history of governance. You don't invent some random ass broad sweeping bullshit and think, "Oh this couldn't possibly blow up in my face!"

Fucking shit, dude couldn't govern his ass out of a wet paper sack. And he actually thought he could run for President? Man likely couldn't run a Rotary club effectively.

One, the kids are also barred for a period of time.

Two, the big kicker is:

He also continued "the appointment of an Independent Monitor" and ordered "the installation of an Independent Director of Compliance" for the company

There is going to be eyes and ears on everything Trump attempts to do to weasel money around, especially given how often Trump shifts funds illegally to maintain his grift. That monitor is absolutely going to be dragging Trump back into court sooner or later. The man knows no restraint, he's absolutely going to FAFO.