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There will be a time, probably in just a few years, when the GOP starts moaning about the debt and spending again and I think it will be useful to have printouts of this story to pass around.

Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian government roles. They include Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Tom Anderson, better known as Cynical Publius. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Bet they're all on that list of 600+ Russian paid media that Garland refused to release after he caught Pool and Johnson getting paid by them. Also believed they "didn't know" they were being paid by Russia. Where is he? Why no books or interviews?

It's somewhat funny that Republicans constantly claim liberals hire people to protest, only for Trump's administration to back a secret influencer squad made of conservatives whose assignments are unknown, lol. Holy astroturfing, Batman >:)

It won't matter, because the opposition party will, inexplicably, be held to a different standard than the GOP is. Because American journalism is, in large part, a fucking joke.

One of the reasons to resist blaming Trump for everything -- it's the GOP. Don't let them forget. It's the Republican party that's sh*tting all over America.

It won't matter. They only care about the debt when they aren't in power bc they have no actual ideas. They just want to keep their base feral and pissed off.

I'm of the mind which thinks that after the end of his term, Trump, his family, & many of his appointees will find exceptionally lucrative ventures due to who they have helped. They will be enjoying their dinners while the DNC & community groups role up their sleeves and begin to repair everything.😢

It won't matter. This dance has been going on forever. Republicans drive the deficit up and destroy the economy, then Democrats reverse everything and get us back in the black. Then Republicans trash everything again, repeat ad nauseam

So here’s a thing I noticed but couldn’t find enough examples to call it out with certainty like the “No panic!” Russian copypasta—but when Kegs first started gunning for @starsandstripes.bsky.social months ago & some of us posted about it, I noticed a weird set of replies that pinged my trolldar…

Randos showing up to say basically the same thing — “when I was in the military, nobody ever read Stars and Stripes” — not addressing the issue of journalistic integrity or any of the content under discussion, just a facsimile “argument from authority” minimizing it all, like the “Yawn” trolls.

But they didn’t *seem* to be obvious Disguised Ivans LARPing as Americans— and I’ve gotten very experienced at detecting Russians cosplaying Westerners since 2022, I have catalogs of diagnostic traits— so I wondered if they were some of Stone & Flynn’s cronies, running interference…

If a Democrat won the presidential election, Rs would revert to demanding that any spending bills proposed by Congress would have to be offset by spending cuts to avoid increasing the deficit

Few years??? They will start the minute they lose control of congress. Spending/debt only matters when they are not in charge. Just look how silent they have been over the past 1.5 years. F them. F them all.

And it won't matter one bit because MAGA will know that's just what you do when you're in the minority and the Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump-Dem To Be Named voters will magically become MAGA voters again once should Dems fail to deliver on making our lives appreciably better.

And they will only do so because the Democrats will be running the House and Senate. They will purposely ignore their passage of the Big Bloated Bill and MAGA letting Trump get away with his illegal tariffs to blame the Democrats on the debt. Happens every time.

What can surprise me about this era and about the actions of the government? Not much. I do not even bother thinking that they have surpassed a new low. As soon as I think that, they continue to surpass that newer one, too. Sigh.