How deep does Project 2025 go?

The federal Civil Service System was rproposed in 1881 and established by law in 1883 by Chester A. Arthur in the wake of William A. Garfield's assassination to establish a merit based system for federal hiring.👇🏿 It was proposed by a frustrated individual who couldn't get a federal job, and the legislation was introduced by a senator who supported slavery.👇🏿

Just 4 weeks ago, it was the GOP that was coming apart at the seems. But like clockwork, the Democratic Party - NOT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS - said hold my beer. Whenever repubicans are in chaos, the Democratic Party finds a way to try to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.👇🏿 While the circumstances are different, the theme for democratic self-defeat in 2024 is shaping up in much the same way in 2016. Hillary lost as much because if the Democratic Party's implosion, lack of support, and chaos as she did from FBI mendacity and Russian interference. 👇🏿

There's baby, and there's bathwater. I suspect that most responsible adults can tell the difference. Some people simply don't care, especially if it matches what they already want to believe. After all, confirmation bias is a helluva drug. But for right now, folks should probably calm down and breathe. So, let's consider calmly and rationally for a moment:

- Were there problems with the Afghanistan withdrawal regardless of who cause them? Sure.

It shouldn't be necesary, but periodically it must be stated aloud: I love women. Do you?

I'm not talking about objectifying, sexualizing, patronizing, condescending, or minimizing women. I'm talking about society and the essentials for our very existence.👇🏿 They are everything that we men are not. Call it nature. Call it design. Call it coincidence. But whatever you call it, call it truth and fact. XX is XX because XY is XY.👇🏿

White "cultural insecurity" always, always, always means racist. Once again, the media indulges the basest behaviors of people with equivocation to avoid calling a thing a thing.
msn.com/en-us/news/pol… But this is a large part of what is causing their so-called insecurity. In some states, especially key swing states, the number of potential immigrants to become naturalized citizens (and thus voters) exceeds the margin of victory in those states.
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Despite their tenacity, commitment, and hunger for success, black female entrepeneurs are the most underfunded group of people in business because they find more impediments to access for venture capital than other groups. This case is a prime example.👇🏿
msn.com/en-us/news/us/… Consequently, it's patently ridiculous to pretend that a funding source which increases their odds for funding, thus their odds for success, is somehow "racist" when the system in which they have to compete is racist and exclusionary from the start.👇🏿

Although criminal justice activity appears to be ongoing, the heart of the problem concerning the overthrow of democrcy appears untouced. The root of the problem exists in congress adn in the states.👇🏿 In order to break the back of the ongoing insurgency by insurrectionists and seditionista at the state and federal levels, two things probably ought to happen and soon:👇🏿

It's possible for more than one thing to exist and be true at the same time. Those things can be complementary, congruent, or in conflict depending on the factors and conditions that establish and define their relationship.👇🏿 For instance, the recalcitrance, anti-authoritarianism, and lawlessness of Trump's red tie supporters outside of court is in direct relation and proportion to his contumaciousness, contempt, and utter disregard for law, authority and order in court.👇🏿

People don't know what they don't know

Depending on the circumstances and conditions under which their ignorance exists, they may be insulated, isolated, permanently blinded, and completely resistant to being enlightened.👇🏿 Under those conditions, people who do not know may be manipulated, controlled or oppressed by those who do know if the intellectual curiosity and the sheer force of will don't exist for the pursuit of knowledge, learning and understanding of their condition.👇🏿

When you looks across the cultural spectrum in this country, it's notable that when it comes to iconography, there are almost no conservatives to be found. Who is the conservative Beyonce, Taylor, Jay-Z, Springstein, Tyler Perry, Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel... ...Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Lebron? What is their version of Saturday Night Live, Hamilton, The Met Gala, Global Citizens Festival? Who or what are their great painters, sculptors, photographers, dancers and dance companies? Who are the great conservative jazz artists?

1. Housing prices are kept artifiially high by private equities and other investors buying up housing stock and reselling at astronomically jacked-up prices thus making home buying and renting unaffordabe and virtually impossible.👇🏿 2. Supermarket chains and grocery goods producers have raised prices not based on supply and demand or the availability of resources and supply chain issues, but just because they can. So they engage in profit taking to please shareholders making groceries unaffordable.👇🏿

What good is a job, good credit, or even having your student loans forgiven if you can't afford a home anyway? Housing prices are as high as they are largely due to private equities and other investors (i.e. - REIGs) buy up housing stock, then sell it at astronomical prices.👇🏿 Why? Because they can.

That drives housing comps through the roof EVERYWHERE, and it keeps housing and rental prices artifically high. It locks regular, hardworking people out of the housing market or saddles them with debts so high wherein only the banks benefit. 👇🏿

When new nations are born, they adopt flags before they even adopt constitutions or charters. That's because the flag is the symbol of the embodiment of all the hopes, dreams and aspirations to come of that nation that are codified by their constitution and bound by their laws. So, when the flag is desecrated by flying it in support of sedition and rebellion, how's that not literally and figuratively taking a sh!t on the constitution and on all that the nation actually is in character and in spirit? That's what insurrectionist and seditionist have done.

Generally, when someone steps out of a marriage, it's almost never the fault or responsibility of the third party. The third party made no commitments, nor did they agree to bear any responsibility for the marriage. But for the person who steps out, the grass is always greener. Thus, they're willing to destroy what they committed to build for the ability to escape. Obviously, this doesn't apply to situations where there is abuse, harm, subjugation, and humiliation. Under those circumstances remaining is an existential consideration.

Rightwingers have always wanted the culture wars, and the left has always shied away. No for fear, but because we have other things to do. But while the rightwing relies on their religion, their values and their beliefs, culture is WAY bigger and more expansive than that.👇🏿 Culture is art, history, iconography, education, and more. It's all of the other things they fear and hate. And yes, it's religion. But even when it comes to religion, it's not just theirs as there are hundreds of other beliefs that their singular belief will never supplant.👇🏿

If you've ever taken a tour bus while on vacation you know that the guide is the expert explaining where you are and what you see. It the guide wasn't there, sure you'd see some of the same stuff, but you may not understand what you're seeing. You may miss important details.👇🏿 But most of all, the guide helps to make the tour real, relevant, and memorable. Now the guide may not have been a nice person in their previous life. They could've been nasty. They could've been a criminal, perhaps even dangerous. They may still be unrepentant about the past.👇🏿

Good Riddance: an Epitaph.

FreedomWorks pretended that it was libertarian and "freedom-seeking" when it was no more than a gaggle of loud, screaming, racist, anti-government, pro-gun, tri-corner tinfoil hat-wearing mobocratic populists.👇🏿

msn.com/en-us/news/pol… As an astroturf organization funded by deep-pocketed billionaires but pretending to represent serve Joe the Plumber and other average Joes, their initial claim to fame was that they hated that the first black president lent support to folks in the midst of losing their homes.👇🏿

Maybe I'm wrong, but if someone doesn't tell you no but they don't tell you yes yet you have sex with them anyway, that sounds an awlful lot like sexual assault - or rape - whether or not the victim ever outright accuses you. It sounds awful. It sounds monstrous, because it is.👇🏿 Rape was never alleged or charged. Some sexual assault victims take decades to recognize or acknowledge that they were assaulted, let alone come forward. Some never do. Some deny it that it ever happened. But it still happened. That event is real no matter how it's labled.👇🏿

I don't understand what's so prejudicial about what Stormy said that would justify a mistrial. She never claimed she was raped, but she was in the room, and she's the only one who can describe what happened to her. You don't have to like her. It makes it no less real. If the details of what happened were so egregious, then it stands to reason why he wanted it suppressed before the election. It's not just fact that the event happened but the salacious and barbaric nature of what happened that made it a problem then, and makes it a problem now.

Part of the soft bigotry of low expectations appears to be the audacious, hubristic assumption that other folks are stupider than you not because of what they've said or done, but because of your overrated self opinion with no proof of life it's true and no facts to back it up.👇🏿 However, it seems to give you license to tell others what and how to think without providing any substance for why. It appears the goal is to avoid accountability or defend what you say while pretending to be the smartest person in the room with mocking paternalism.👇🏿

Culture wars are largely being fought out on-line. Much of the bases for rightwing culture war artillery against the left are predicated on half-truths, whole lies, mythology, and conspiracies with the promotion of threats and violence all promoted as "truth."👇🏿 We know better, and so to the internet companies that permit it. Much, if not all of it, is easily, verifiably provable as false.👇🏿