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Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
8. Trump holdovers, left in their jobs.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 04:07 PM
Jul 2022

I seem to remember GW Bush signing papers on the reviewing stand on the day of his inauguration and NBC explained that he was ending jobs for appointees of Clinton. Dumping them. Cleaning house.

This time, more than ever, it should have been done. Knowing that Trump was a MOBSTER -- a MOB BOSS -- with all that means.

Irish_Dem

(47,337 posts)
9. Yes the GOP is not a political party, it is a crime syndicate.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 05:23 PM
Jul 2022

With members at high levels of government.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
10. I wonder how many of them considered Trump "the boss"?
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 05:27 PM
Jul 2022

As Matt Gaetz called him in his recording with Roger Stone.

Irish_Dem

(47,337 posts)
11. They did consider him the boss. But they will switch their loyalties once the boss is toppled.
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 05:32 PM
Jul 2022

The other major GOP power brokers are jockeying for power as we speak.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
3. You do know, don't you, that without the Black Caucus raising hell about BLM vs J6, most of
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 12:40 PM
Jul 2022

these investigations would be squashed like others...like the Mueller Report. Most everything blacks fought for since the inception of this nation rests upon the democratic Republic of and maintaining the freedoms and anti-discrimination legislation passed in the last 150 years. This includes access to public education (started by slaves in woodshed cabins and supported by abolishinist whites, access to healthcare, voting rights, employment non-discrimination, and now gun control). There never has been a perfect solution or resolution of these issues but there has been legislation that puts us further along to the good. Blacks will not go lightly into the abyss again. Nor should they. If you are mixed race, you are black to the majority. If you are not "straight" you are not human to the majority. Deal with it, live like it like you matter, and fight to keep your freedoms and protections.

Baitball Blogger

(46,757 posts)
4. Well, a whole lot went wrong on J6 so a whole lot of institutions are
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 12:47 PM
Jul 2022

to blame. Every one of them deserves a well needed enema-size investigation.

barbtries

(28,810 posts)
5. On 05Jan2021,
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 01:10 PM
Jul 2022

I said to my son that there will be violence tomorrow. I'm just a regular everyday person who tends to pay attention.

No one can tell me that these people who WERE LIVING IT did not also know. I can only conclude that there was a significant minority of these people who supported the overthrow of the US government. These were failures, but willful failures.

I'm not terribly hopeful about the future of democracy here in the USA.

Vinca

(50,303 posts)
7. According to Carol Leonnig's book, the FBI is infested with a bunch of Trumphumpers who
Sun Jul 31, 2022, 03:10 PM
Jul 2022

even posted online after January 6 supporting the "patriots." I'm sure they would have whisked Pence away to a remote location for the next 6 months to keep that vote from being counted.

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