Dirk Hardscrabble

Dirk Hardscrabble

@auntbeast83.bsky.social

43 Followers 44 Following 2 Posts Joined Jan 2025
4 months ago
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Think ICE Is Bad Now? Today the Border Patrol Is Taking It Over How Gregory Bovino Proudly Became Trump’s #1 Immigration Stormtrooper

Since January there have been two distinct masked, armed gangs terrorizing America’s streets: ICE & the Border Patrol.

Last night, the Border Patrol’s most aggressive commander effectively seized control of ICE. ICE, it turns out, wasn’t aggressive *enough*. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/think-ice-...

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Every time that Democrats win, Republicans pay attention. After Barack Obama won big in 2012, Republican elites devoured Sasha Issenberg’s The Victory Lab, which chronicled how Obama did it. As part of its 2020 strategy, the Republican National Committee required organizers to read and pass a 22-question exam about Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han’s Groundbreakers, which profiled the Obama campaign’s ground game successes.

Republicans read the other side’s playbooks and operationalize them; Democrats rarely do the same. Instead of learning after losing, far too often, left-of-center leaders tend to blame opposing factions, electoral maps, external circumstances, and gerrymandering.

Republicans understand politics better because they learn from Democratic victories. The opposite does not happen.

After Obama's 2012 win, Republicans devoured Sasha Issenberg’s The Victory Lab. In 2020, the RNC made staffers pass a test on a book about Obama's campaign.

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If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.

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This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

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Reuters: DEMOCRATIC-LED STATES FILE LAWSUIT TO BLOCK TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM SUSPENDING SNAP BENEFITS DURING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

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I also got a warning that my healthcare premiums for my employer provided insurance are about to jump “in the double digits” which is fun for the stupid lack of coverage I have.

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Refugees and Asylum Seekers Generate Billions of Dollars More Than They Cost the U.S. Government - American Immigration Council Refugees and asylees have generated more in tax revenues over the last 15 years than they have cost in direct government services.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/refugee...

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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

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Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee Alnur Mussayev claims the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov

They couldn't pull it from the UK 😁

www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

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One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

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Behind every great man is a great woman. Behind every great woman is that same man back to back. Around them is a pack of wolves. The woman grips a knife, the first wolf attacks

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