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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 4:04:42 GMT
Ann Coulter .. ”No she didn't. Tulsi is a SENATOR, meaning she's in the SENATE and doesn't vote on HOUSE resolutions.” Do these people not know they are so very uneducated (I do dislike the word stupid, but surely is better here!)
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 4:32:31 GMT
GOP lawmaker invokes possibility of 'civil war' after House votes on Trump impeachment proceduresBY ARIS FOLLEY - 10/31/19 05:48 PM EDT Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said on Thursday that House Democrats’ ongoing inquiry into the president's dealings in the Ukraine is “about to push this country to a civil war if they were to get their wishes.”Gohmert, speaking after the House voted along party lines to approve a measure establishing procedures for the impeachment process, added, “And if there’s one thing I don’t want to see in my lifetime, I don’t want to ever have participation in, it’s a civil war. Some historian, I don’t remember who, said, guns are only involved in the last phase of a civil war
During his address on the House floor Thursday afternoon, Gohmert said that while some say the vote “was very important,” he believes it “didn’t do so much.” The Texas Republican further contended that he is still of the opinion that the House will “not end up having a vote in this chamber on whether or not to actually impeach President Trump because if that happens, it goes to the Senate,” where he predicted it would get a “slam dunk down” on the basis of “massive failure of due process, as well as no evidence, no direct evidence of any wrongdoing.” He went on to call the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump a “sham” and echoed concerns from other Republicans about the Democratic-led House closing hearings and depositions for the ongoing inquiry off to just members serving on select committees, of which Gohmert is not a member. Gohmert also complained that there were “armed guards outside of the sensitive, compartmented information facility, the SCIF,” where depositions from witnesses testifying as part of the inquiry took place. "Never in the history of this country have we had such gross unfairness that one party would put armed guards with guns to prevent the duly authorized people from being able to hear the witnesses and see them for themselves," he continued.** thehill.com/homenews/house/468419-gop-lawmaker-invokes-civil-war-after-house-votes-on-trump-impeachmentThese fools are trying to implant/encourage the talk of civil war.
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Post by lucyg on Nov 1, 2019 5:37:31 GMT
trump on why he is leaving NewcYork for Florida... ”1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of.....” ”New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make....” ”this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!” New York’s response. “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out”. Does this dickwad have any concept of all citizens (hopefully) being treated equally, whether they pay millions in taxes or nothing in taxes? I am so disgusted that he thinks he deserves special treatment for paying his damn taxes. Every day he becomes more contemptible. And he has no idea just how contemptible he actually is. grrrrr
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Post by TheOtherMeg on Nov 1, 2019 6:43:58 GMT
I think in the next edition of the or thesaurus, the very first entry for the word 'Hypocrite' should be "Republican" what do you think? who do I call or e-mail?? Merriam-Webster might be willing to run with that, I’ve enjoyed some of their SM postings of hilariously appropriate, timely definitions. And once in a while, Crime A Day tweets a coordinating crime. It's all so delightfully covert.
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Post by Merge on Nov 1, 2019 13:03:43 GMT
trump on why he is leaving NewcYork for Florida... ”1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of.....” ”New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make....” ”this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!” New York’s response. “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out”. Does this dickwad have any concept of all citizens (hopefully) being treated equally, whether they pay millions in taxes or nothing in taxes? I am so disgusted that he thinks he deserves special treatment for paying his damn taxes. Every day he becomes more contemptible. And he has no idea just how contemptible he actually is. grrrrr Basically he's mad that people protest him in NY and that it's a blue city in a blue state. How dare those people not bow down and kiss his feet? Maybe he'll move to the Villages in Florida? Someone here would be ecstatic.
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Post by Merge on Nov 1, 2019 14:49:55 GMT
I'm going to be honest, it looks like they're praying TO him. Gross.
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Post by andreasmom on Nov 1, 2019 14:55:27 GMT
And these are the people who complain “Catholics pray to Saints”... Don’t like this pic at all. Adoration of false idols and all. (For the record, Catholics ask saints to pray with us/pray for us, but that’s a whole other thread)
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Post by artgirl1 on Nov 1, 2019 15:25:29 GMT
Maybe he'll move to the Villages in Florida? Someone here would be ecstatic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 17:35:29 GMT
Christopher Zullo
“Looking at jobs and annual deficits Context is everything
Reagan: 15M jobs $79B to $159B
Bush: 2M jobs $153B to $255B
Clinton: 23M jobs $255B to $128B surplus
Bush 1.5M jobs $128B surplus to $1T debt
Obama 12M jobs 1.16T to $585B
Trump 5M jobs $585B to $1.1T”
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Post by hop2 on Nov 1, 2019 17:43:18 GMT
Christopher Zullo “Looking at jobs and annual deficits Context is everything Reagan: 15M jobs $79B to $159B Bush: 2M jobs $153B to $255B Clinton: 23M jobs $255B to $128B surplus Bush 1.5M jobs $128B surplus to $1T debt Obama 12M jobs 1.16T to $585B
Trump 5M jobs $585B to $1.1T”
. Yeah They also need to define ‘jobs’ because that’s a wide category - a somewhat vague term. Like are they sustainable jobs, seasonal jobs, jobs that can pay the bills, is each person working 3 of those jobs?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 18:00:19 GMT
And these are the people who complain “Catholics pray to Saints”... Don’t like this pic at all. Adoration of false idols and all. Remember they think God put him in office, that he has a calling. Like are they sustainable jobs, seasonal jobs, jobs that can pay the bills, is each person working 3 of those jobs? Many people have more than one job. Today's numbers I would think include seasonal, it is that time of year. This administration has been know to skew information, particularly numbers.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 1, 2019 18:02:17 GMT
And these are the people who complain “Catholics pray to Saints”... Don’t like this pic at all. Adoration of false idols and all. Remember think God put him in office, that he has a calling. Like are they sustainable jobs, seasonal jobs, jobs that can pay the bills, is each person working 3 of those jobs? Many people have more than on job. Today's numbers I would think include seasonal, it is that time of year. That’s what I’m saying. Just counting ‘jobs’ no matter the type doesn’t give an accurate picture of very much.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 18:31:06 GMT
Well here you go, new job numbers!! President Trump spurred confusion Friday after he tweeted about a "blowout" 303,000 jobs figure — minutes after an official government report said the economy added 128,000 jobs in October.The estimate by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was good news for the administration, as its report on last month's job gains was far greater than the gain of roughly 85,000 jobs projected by economists. But it’s unclear how Trump calculated the vastly larger jobs gain, or where he obtained that analysis. In the Friday tweet hailing the report, Trump claimed the “blowout JOBS number” was actually a gain of 303,000 jobs if accounting for revisions and the temporary loss of jobs tied to the General Motors strike. “Wow, a blowout JOBS number just out, adjusted for revisions and the General Motors strike, 303,000. This is far greater than expectations. USA ROCKS!” Trump tweeted. ** White House spokesman Judd Deere told The Hill in an email that Trump’s figure also included an additional 18,000 GM workers not reflected in the BLS report, and 20,000 temporary Census workers who completed their work in October. Economists say Trump’s calculations do not paint an accurate picture of an already-strong labor market. “Those were wildly inaccurate,” said Joseph Brusuelas, chief U.S. economist at audit and accounting firm RSM. “This is what we’d call ‘fake data.’” Economists would not typically consider revisions to past jobs reports or the future return of striking workers to be part of a different month’s job gain. Accounting for the loss of 20,000 Census workers would double-count the initial addition of those workers to past jobs reports, as well. Trump’s tweet about the jobs report also raised eyebrows because it violated the one-hour ban on White House commentary on sensitive economic data. Trump tweeted his praise for the report at 8:52 a.m., just more than 20 minutes after the jobs report was released. ** thehill.com/policy/finance/468491-trump-confuses-with-inflated-october-jobs-claimClass act he is!!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 19:24:15 GMT
This is a long piece. Included are a few paragraphs from the beginning and a few from the end. Reading it is enlightening. The 5 People Who Could Have Stopped TrumpGambling regulators once contemplated yanking Trump’s casino licenses. Why they didn’t holds a lesson for lawmakers today.By MICHAEL KRUSE November 01, 2019 Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for POLITICO. In the spring and summer of 1991, a handful of state watchdogs in Atlantic City, New Jersey, considered whether to put an end to Donald Trump.The members of the Casino Control Commission, in a series of hearings in the Arcade Building on the corner of Tennessee Avenue and Boardwalk, had to determine whether Trump was sufficiently “financially stable” to merit renewals of his licenses to own and operate his three casinos in the perpetually ground-down regional gaming capital. The stakes hardly could have been higher. Trump was in his mid-40s and only four years earlier had published the pure brand boost of The Art of the Deal, but now he was in trouble. He needed the licenses to keep his casinos open to have any shot at staving off personal bankruptcy and a potentially permanent reputational stain. No licenses would have meant no casinos would have meant less collateral for the banks as Trump tried to dig out from under billions of dollars of debt. And the regulators had overwhelming reason to question his financial stature and overall fitness to continue. In addition to Trump’s dismal individual straits, the cash flow at his debt-riddled casinos wasn’t enough to make them profitable as the industry sagged in the throes of a recession. Trump’s “financial viability,” Steven P. Perskie, the chairman of the commission, stated at a meeting in May, “is in serious peril.” He and his fellow commissioners had a choice to make: renew Trump’s licenses and hope his bottom line improved—or strip him of them and risk delivering a debilitating blow to Atlantic City’s wheezing economy. Today, more than a generation later and a year out from the 2020 election, Trump in the White House is staring at a fundamentally similar scenario—the growing probability that his fate will be decided by a group of regulators, albeit of a different, more high-profile ilk but nonetheless obligated to determine whether he can remain in office long enough for voters to decide whether he deserves a second term. Just as there are people who are empowered to stop him now—members of Congress, in particular Republicans—there were people who could have stopped him then. And didn’t.**** **** It has come up less during his presidency. There have been more immediate crises to worry about than his history in Atlantic City. At this juncture, though, as Trump attacks power-checking Democrats and angles to maintain sufficient acquiescence from the members of his own party who matter the most, it’s imperative to consider anew the calculations that allowed him to skirt accountability in the spring and summer of 1991. They pack fresh relevance now. “They should have taken his license, given it to a trustee, and today we wouldn’t be dealing with Donald Trump in the White House,” David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered Atlantic City and the hearings of ‘91 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, told me. But “they could not bring themselves to go back and acknowledge that they got it completely wrong. They had to protect their position.” “Jesus, fast-forward to today,” added Sciarra, the public advocate from the ‘80s. “It’s exactly the same core modus operandi, with the way he operates and the way people in authority, people who have a responsibility to make sure laws are properly carried out, whether it be taxing authorities, regulatory authorities, Congress, whatever it might be, you know—just unwilling, or unable, or just fail to properly hold him to account.”Christine Todd Whitman, the former governor of New Jersey, told me Republicans in Congress—especially in the Senate, if and when Trump’s fate comes down to their votes in an impeachment trial—need to do what the casino commissioners in Atlantic City did not. “They need to stand up to him,” she said. “He needs to be held accountable for his actions.” Perskie argued against the premise of so clean an analogy. “There are significant differences because we had options that the Congress doesn’t have,” he told me. “My perspective from a great distance is that the regulators today have a more black-and-white situation. They have to decide whether conduct does or does not constitute an impeachable standard. They’re going to say yes or they’re going to say no. They can’t say maybe.” Even so, the broad-brush parallels being what they are, I asked people who know Trump and know Atlantic City if they had any advice for Republicans currently in Congress. “What they should be thinking about, in my opinion, is that if they think they’ve seen the worst, they’re wrong,” O’Donnell said. “This behavior, so to speak, this outrageousness, whatever you want to call it, this lack of loyalty, is going to escalate.” “What you could say is, and which is true in Atlantic City, is you gave him a break,” said Simon. “And all he cared about was himself. And in the end, you could give him a break, if you’re a Republican, but he will do you in.”“Anyone who thinks that Donald Trump is important to their long-term viability is either not very bright or kidding themselves,” O’Brien said. “He never shows any gratitude for the people who cut him slack. He just blames things on them.”The lesson, then, from 1991?“That if they tether their future to Donald Trump in the belief that without him they won’t have a bright or successful future,” he said, “they might as well just step right off the cliff with him.”** www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/01/the-five-people-who-could-have-stopped-trump-229894
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 1, 2019 21:01:04 GMT
Ad launched on FOX. We now want to go state by state and target senators who we think we can get to vote for Trump's removal from office - senators like Maine's Susan Collins. Scott Dworkin (scott@democraticcoalition.org)
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Post by dewryce on Nov 1, 2019 21:44:55 GMT
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat...
“What do 2020 Democrats say about California fires? Not much”
“SACRAMENTO — California Democrats hoped they would finally bask in the attention of presidential candidates when they moved their primary to the front of the calendar. But as the state battles the twin disasters of wildfires and mass power outages, White House hopefuls are nowhere to be found.
In a field of nearly 20 candidates, no one has traveled to California to visit residents displaced from their homes or commend first responders who have worked around the clock. That includes California Sen. Kamala Harris, who is trying to revive her flagging campaign with an all-in focus on Iowa, the state that ushers in the presidential primary season.
California is the nation's most populous state and its biggest economic powerhouse. It's also home to more than 400 delegates who will be awarded on Super Tuesday to help decide the next Democratic presidential nominee. But the response to the wildfires has been mostly limited to tweets expressing a need to fight climate change and urging people to heed emergency warnings. That's a reminder that the state is still a relatively low priority for most candidates.
The path to the nomination, for most White House hopefuls, still runs through the traditional early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.
Harris may be missing an opportunity, said Rob Stutzman, deputy chief of staff to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had a knack for the public-facing side of dealing with disaster.
"It's a chance to look presidential, like a commander," he said. "A great narrative for (Harris) in Iowa right now would be her leading her state during the fires."
Most presidential candidates are spending the weekend in Iowa, where a marquee party fundraiser on Friday night is expected to attract 13,000 people and kick off the final three-month stretch until the caucuses. But some have visited disaster sites in other early voting states.
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, unveiled a disaster-relief plan in September in Conway, South Carolina, which was hit last year by a hurricane and will hold its primary three days before California. Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar toured flooded sections of Hamburg, Iowa, last spring.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the legislation moving up the primary and is a prominent climate crusader, said candidates are being short sighted by not doing more to address the wildfires.
"People are not running for president for 15 minutes or five days. Presumably they want to get elected for four years," he said. "In the next eight years, we're going to have worse fires. On many levels, there's plenty to talk about."
He said candidates should talk in detail about forest management and upgrading the nation's utility infrastructure as climate change worsens. So far, he said, the White House hopefuls have spent too much time arguing about other issues, such as the future of the health insurance market.
"The worst is yet to come, but California gives an early warning of the devastation that is in store for us," Brown warned. "The amount of time they spend on the difference between Obamacare and Medicare for All, those are rather fine distinctions."
"The stability of the climate," he said, "has far more to do with health over the next quarter century."
Millions of Californians have lost power since Oct. 9, most of them customers of Pacific Gas & Electric but some of Southern California Edison.
About 180,000 people were forced to evacuate from their homes earlier this week as a fire raged near Northern California's wine country. Some communities had been devastated by a deadly fire just two years earlier. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday as winds topped 100 mph in some places and more fires started. The utilities kept shutting off the power.
Overall, it's a milder fire season for California than in recent years. But the mass blackouts create a fresh layer of anger and fear.
Bernie Sanders has made the wildfires a key part of his push for a climate change package, which he rolled out in California this summer after touring a Northern California town where a fire sparked by PG&E equipment killed 85 people last year.
Days after millions of Californians lost power, his campaign sent an email railing against PG&E and sharing the addresses for evacuation centers in dozens of California counties. Earlier this week, he said it's time to consider public ownership of utilities. PG&E and California's other two large utilities are investor-owned.
Sanders' plan calls for investing more than $500 billion to upgrade the electrical grid with actions like burying power lines to prevent fires.
His moves reflect the unique emphasis he's placed on California, putting more staff members on the ground here than any other campaign and talking with ease about local issues. But he has not traveled to California amid the recent round of fires.
For her part, Harris introduced legislation in Congress to provide more money for communities to guard against wildfire, though a dollar amount is not yet attached. She's also called for fresh investments from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in microgrid technology that could limit the scope of blackouts, and she's encouraged her supporters to donate to a wildfire relief fund.
In her role as senator, she's spoken regularly with local and state officials on the phone, her Senate office said.
But she has not returned to California for any public events, even as her Los Angeles neighborhood was evacuated due to wildfire risk. She attended a Hollywood fundraiser with Newsom last week. Harris's campaign did not respond to repeated questions about whether she planned to publicly appear in her home state.
Joe Biden tweeted about the fires on Thursday, more than a week after they began.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren shared on social media a message about the economic and safety consequences of shutting off power.
Warren, like Sanders, has addressed fire prevention in her climate plan. She's called for investing in forest restoration and upgrading the energy grid to make it easier to avoid widespread power shutoffs.
While utility regulation is primarily the job of the state, the federal government owns much of California's forest land. The solutions to better manage forests, including prescribed burns, are often publicly unpopular.
"It's complicated, but it's a very important matter for the whole West," Brown said. "When they come out for these Western primaries, it's something they ought to talk about."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2019 22:31:38 GMT
Wanna watch blatant GOP corrupt gamesmanship in real time?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 2, 2019 1:59:15 GMT
Wanna watch blatant GOP corrupt gamesmanship in real time? Is this the same NC GOP persons who told the media and Democrats there would no vote on 9/11 during the memorial that the Democrats went to, but the lady walked in and called them out and a few others protected her while she spoke! The GOP had already passed it I think, not sure though.
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Post by Just T on Nov 2, 2019 16:40:14 GMT
What a f*ing strange world we live in when a certain segment of our population is not bothered at all by this:
"Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller investigators. The US president has called on the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison for assistance, while the attorney general has been on similar missions to the UK and Italy.
And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services."
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 2, 2019 18:45:18 GMT
RANDOM paragraphs from article on start:Note the date ( me: if correct) Before the election!! And the Republicans were in charge of the House until Jan 2019 with NUNES!
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Post by huskergal on Nov 2, 2019 18:55:15 GMT
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 23:14:34 GMT
MSNBC...
”This is not the kind of thing that will be recovered just because a new president comes in... literally hundreds, thousands of years of experience have walked out the door." - Ben Rhodes on the hollowing out of the foreign service during Trump admin.”
This one thing could be the most destructive thing trump and his stooges have done to the country. And it’s not just the State Department, but the EPA, the DOJ and the FBI.
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Post by moodyblue on Nov 3, 2019 0:09:29 GMT
MSNBC... ”This is not the kind of thing that will be recovered just because a new president comes in... literally hundreds, thousands of years of experience have walked out the door." - Ben Rhodes on the hollowing out of the foreign service during Trump admin.” This one thing could be the most destructive thing trump and his stooges have done to the country. And it’s not just the State Department, but the EPA, the DOJ and the FBI. This concerns me a great deal. So many government agencies have been decimated by the loss of experienced people and the move away from science-based regulations and protections.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 3, 2019 0:45:35 GMT
MSNBC... ”This is not the kind of thing that will be recovered just because a new president comes in... literally hundreds, thousands of years of experience have walked out the door." - Ben Rhodes on the hollowing out of the foreign service during Trump admin.” This one thing could be the most destructive thing trump and his stooges have done to the country. And it’s not just the State Department, but the EPA, the DOJ and the FBI. This concerns me a great deal. So many government agencies have been decimated by the loss of experienced people and the move away from science-based regulations and protections. Same here. It’s going to take a long time to get back to where we were no matter who gets elected next.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Nov 3, 2019 1:48:48 GMT
This one thing could be the most destructive thing trump and his stooges have done to the country. And it’s not just the State Department, but the EPA, the DOJ and the FBI. Gone for good. They will not come back. It will be hard to get new hires because they will not trust the system.
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