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Bush's DHS has morphed into another Orwellian entity that is simply preying on US citizens. As the Congress changes from career parasites to true patriots over the next few general elections, the DHS should be completely defunded and disbanded, along with just about every other captured federal agency. These clowns are the greatest source of insecurity for the average American citizen.

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The other problem is that these overeducated useless people in these departments literally have nothing to do, but ensure their job security. We could probably fire 60% of the federal workforce and not one person outside of Washington DC would notice.

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More like 75-80%

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I had an ex who worked for EPA. She freely admitted that many of the people employed full time were only needed for their expertise a couple of times a year. The rest of the year they went on backpacking trips and did stuff like run for mayor in their town.

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didn't epa wreck a couple rivers in colo a few years back & no 1 got fired?

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How about a 90% REDUCTION?

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Aren’t most of them “still working from home”?

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And this is nothing new. The federal bureaucracies have been full of loafing, time serving idiots since at least Roosevelt's day. The 60s and 70s saw a big boom in that department. And civil servants have career tenure if they survive the probationary period, which used to be three years. Only in the first year can they be canned for any reason at all.

Trying to fire an egregious goof off is truly a "federal case". But this is nothing new. It's just a giant ball of crud that grows by the year.

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If everyone in our fed gov was fired for goofing off there would be no one left. Unfortunately, no one can cast that stone, except the voters, and we only hire the bosses of the ‘goof-offs’.

We did have a President who worked tirelessly, for free, because he loved this country. We may never see another like DJT. 😢

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You're 100% correct. The msm never, NEVER grasped that Mr Trump donated his salary to worthy causes. Like VETERANS.

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Don't give up hope. If he doesn't run - DeSantis would be a wonderful choice.

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Far, far more people could be fired and not one person would notice. Remember the government "shutdowns" during Trump's years in office? Did anyone notice anything different day to day? No, you didn't because most government workers don't do diddly squat.

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Yep. Been goin on a long time. The wide halls of the Dept of Interior building were packed for hours in the morning and afternoon with Interior employees doing nothing but chatting up each other. That was in the summer of 1970!!

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My first and only experience working for the government (Highway Dept, MT) was tough, I was 19 and couldn't believe how little actual work we did. Only funny thing, I hadn't yet discovered coffee, so when our crew of 21 started our (too) leisurely day at a local diner, our table ordered 20 cups of coffee and 1 vanilla milkshake.

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That's cute!

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I read (somewhere) that the government employs 1/3 of our entire population

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Incredible

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Ron Paul warned us

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RON PAUL 2024!!!!!!!

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I supported Ron in 2008 and many ran for local offices and won under Ron's platform. He demolished Rudy in the debates and every GOP running. I walked the streets in support of Ron and later Trump. I'm proud of Ron and highly disappointed in Trumps vaccine push and claiming they are safe. I would love to see Ron run but I don't see it happening due to his age.

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Yes it's more a throwback to the old days where you'd see RON PAUL 2008!!!! plastered across internet comment boards :)

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and he still is warning us. God Bless Ron Paul!

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Brought to by the party of small government. Same beast, different head. I don’t share your optimism unfortunately. Nothing captured gets uncaptured without the kind of change I don’t want to consider. Any new ruling class will eventually seek its own perpetuation.

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"Nothing captured gets uncaptured without the kind of change I don’t want to consider." Agreed, but it is about the only way to make things right; nobody is being held accountable for anything anymore. They have used their shock troops(Antifa, BLM) since Jan 20, 2017 to intimidate normal Americans... Let's face it, the ruling class is in late-stage addiction where they do not see anything clearly except self preservation.... at all costs.

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Agree. Complete with a show trial tonight over a protest that they’re trying to make into an coup attempt. If they don’t succeed, not a lot of arrows left in the quiver. I can’t see this going on indefinitely but I have no idea whether sane decent people will prevail in the end. I can only imagine there’s a whole lot at stake and we don’t know the half of it. I’ll make one prediction: shit gets real when the economy goes off the cliff.

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"shit gets real when the economy goes off the cliff" Man, I just don't know... They could benefit from it by taking over the 'economy' further. How many decent people are in D.C.? I am an optimistic guy overall, but we need good people to stand up to these corrupt cretins who are no doubt threatening all opposition with violence or further corruption; "Say there Mr. congressman or journalist, you comply or we will make sure child porn shows up on your devices." This has happened often(see Sharyl Attkisson).

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Yes I am worried that economic disaster is part of the plan to get everyone onto UBI with digital ID

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Yeah that’s the ticket! Full state control. Yeah, they will do anything. But I believe they will not be able to control the financial damage coming, partially from the way they’ve decided to fight Russia. Blowback won’t be pretty and this time a lot of us will feel the wind.

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Respectfully, NBC and Medium are partisan organizations. Republicans or their orgs didnt burn anything down in 2020 or 2021. We work for a living.

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Apparently, you don’t have the intellectual prowess to discern the truth; therefore, it is an act of futility to have discourse with you; please do enjoy your life under the rock where you live.

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Best of luck

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I wouldn’t trust anything written by Ben Collins or his partner Brandy Zadrozny. In fact, in her bio on Wiki it says she specializes in political radicalization. Not someone I would trust to write a factual article ever. They are both nasty, far left leaning activists who have been called out before for their bottom feeding tactics on Twitter. She freely admitted (gleeful even) going after Twitter posters she did not like, finding out their identity, looking up their personal info via her NBC contacts and attacking them where they work and live. Ruining lives and livelihoods. Tucker called her out specifically over a year ago and I was curious so I looked her up. People like that, in my opinion, operate from a place of extreme mental illness.

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CinnamonGirl, I’m holding back my contempt on the possibility you may be naïve or ignorant about what you’re commenting on! Where is the evidence for your assertions?

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Bush the younger spearheaded the charge of government surveillance, and taking away due process. At the time liberals warned us that the patriot act and the DHS were a direct threat to liberty. Conservatives, including myself poo pooed it, because terrorism. Now liberals have joined in, and are silent about the government surveillance state. They are all in on it. So as citizens were basically fucked, both parties want to be able to do whatever they want, the hell with the constitution, when it’s something they think is just. Just happens that in this current cycle the dems are worse than the republicans, but that will change again. Until these agencies are disbanded, the surveillance state will continue to grow and our freedoms will continue to erode, no matter whose in charge.

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Privacy invasion act is what I called it ftom day one!

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Correct genealogy. These extra-governmental powers all began with W Bush and John Yoo. Everyone on the hawkish right ridiculed predictions they would come back to haunt us. And now they have. Hawks go home.

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Hegelian Dialectic

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The Patriot Act was the beginning of the end. A far more evil bill is waiting in the wings, and is a single Senate vote from passage into law. Look up HR-350, the "Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022".

Then wonder why all the mass shootings in the past few weeks.

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I did just read the definition of domestic terrorism in US code 2331 title 18

The federal government coercing the injections quite perfectly lines up with one of the definitions.

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Along with nearly all media

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Are you talking about the true patriots of January 6 who believe in the fascist-loving ex-president?

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No, I was referring to individuals who will uphold their oath to uphold the US Constitution vs. bankrupting the country with endless spying, grifting, conning, stealing, murdering, maimimg and ever-creeping fascism. You may wish to study what fascism is. You can call Trump a lot of things, but a fascist is not one of them. Fascism occurs when there is an alliance between corporate interests, politicians and the media. You know ... the current Democrat machine that is destroying the country.

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I didn’t say Donny was a fascist; I said he loves them! “…endless spying, grifting, conning, stealing, murdering, maimimg…”: Is just a stupid statement. The patriot act is synonymous with Republicans.

Who gives the most taxes? Who eliminates the most regulations? Does business benefit the most from the Republican or Democrat party?

You need a reality check!!

Record debt and inequality gap? It’s almost like 40 years of Republican tax cuts failed.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/10/03/republican-tax-cuts-fail-record-debt-and-inequality-gap-column/3833546002/

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Very obviously, it would be a huge mistake for dumb old me to debate someone who is deep enough to rely on the USA Today for meaningful insights. I’ll leave you with this: there is no meaningful difference between the democrats & republicans of the last 50 years - they are both parties of big government. It’s time to honor our Constitution end big government so that the days of them passing massive tax bills, creating bloated federal agencies who do nothing and then convincing morons like yourself that “tax cuts failed”, while they and their corporate cronies steal you blind.

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Joseph, you’re right; both parties have been bought off. You know that old saying, it takes a moron to recognize a moron? Well, this moron recognizes you are full of bullshit!

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Yeah throw up a partisan smokescreen. This mess has little to do with party politics. But leave it to a Dem to make it all about party.

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Zade, are you talking to me?

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I was.

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Do you know what "fascist" means?

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Most of the people like Just Me use that term as a pejorative without any understanding of what it means...

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"So if we lie to the government, it's a felony, but if they lie to us it's politics."

-Bill Murray

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Politics really does need to be re-named as corruplitics. What these criminals get away with simply saying "oh it's just politics" is a disgrace, but who here doesn't know this too. Just sayin...

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Biden Wants to Jail His Political Opponents.

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Again the puppet makes zero decisions. He is simply following orders

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Biden said he wants to replace oil and natural gas with ice cream 🍦

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People need to go to jail for this. This type of behavior by our government is illegal. They can't collude with private companies and decide what info can and cannot be censored. This is absolutely insane.

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Not insane Charles, Facism.

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It constantly astounds me that the US government apparatchiks so blatantly disregard the Constitution. We truly need fear government overreach. Government has no role is deciding what is "misinformation" or any other Orwellian double speak definition. They also have to compete in the market place of ideas. Sadly, every organ of the government today has proven itself to be made up of liars, thieves and charlatans of the worst order, particularly the very institutions created to defend us, the DOJ and the FBI. Democrats have weaponized every Executive department, DHS, DOD, Treasury, Energy, on down the list to persecute Americans who disagree with the Biden narrative. And now they clutch at the straw of January 6, which will no doubt be shown to be a farce, as bad as the Russia collusion hoax. God help us. The current administration is actively working against us. It is not incompetence, or poor judgment, it is intentional. Destroy Middle America's ability to make a living without government largess, disarm the populace, silence critics as Biden and his cronies pack in the millions of tax dollars through green new deal scams, that are little more than science fiction solutions. It always comes down to power and money. Taking our power and money and giving it to the elites. Sure hope the country is awake to this and makes the changes necessary, beginning in November. God help us, help ourselves.

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Joe Biden believes the Constitution is not absolute. Translation : I can do anything I want and you can't stop me. Only a few pesky court decisions have stopped his juggernaut, Title 42 and OSHA mask mandates. This guy is in effect a dictator. One justice system for me, another for thee. I don't see how we can do anything to really stop his destruction of America. How would a Republican Congress stop him? The Federal agencies are completely under his control. And now Biden and leading Dems have declared Supreme Court justices legitimate targets. God help us, indeed.

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A Republican Congress needs to run two back to back impeachment trials and then the Republican Speaker becomes President and maybe there is a chance to undo this mess. Maybe...

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The GOP is too feckless

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Honestly had forgotten about that idea. I doubt the likely Speaker would support this idea, but one can hope....

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My hope is that the new Republican congress can begin impeaching all the secretaries, start with DHS, then do Energy, then DOJ, then DOD, on down the list. keep the dems busy with that until we get rid of Biden. Keep joe and kamala in the WH basement eating ice cream.

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Why is government in the vaccine business? Any government? Any vaccine? Government should collect data on illness and death. Vaccine companies should make vaccines. And our doctors should let us know they’re available and discuss if they’re right for us. Government should never be involved in the minutiae of our lives.

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Welcome to Communist Amerika, Comrade !

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USSA!

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You better not settle and instead see this thing through to the end. Discovery is too important.

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At least they didn’t just censor a few. They censored an entire country full of questioning skeptics. I was suspended from Nextdoor, local neighborhood app. I had repeated a study from Pandemia. It wasn’t the first time. I hope this opens the door and lets some light in. This is by far, the biggest scandal of our lifetime. And it keeps evolving & looking worse for us as a nation. Keep questioning everything! Don’t give in to the fear. ( or wear Monkeypox masks!)🙈

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Alex,

I've found that when I copy a quote from your page that summarizes the story better, and use that as a headline I get a better response. I just posted this four minutes ago and have five likes and five retweets.

"A senior Department of Homeland Security official planned to meet Twitter executives in April to discuss potential censorship “partnerships” between the federal government and Twitter, a leaked government memo reveals."

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If the federal government has its knickers in a twist over 'misinformation', it might start by examining federally-approved statements that "this will only take fifteen days" and that the public could expect "a lifetime of immunity" from these "vaccines" - which, by the way, weren't even vaccines according to the definition of the word as commonly understood.

The acrid smell invading my nostrils is the stench of federal knickers on fire. Those who inhabit glass house shouldn't throw stones. Get your own house in order, federal nannies... THEN we'll talk.

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Check your State Department of Health websites for meetings & minutes. Ours in Wa. changed wording in documents pertaining to AIDS camps that had been set up years ago. Yes, like mandatory concentration camps for people unwilling to adhere to medication protocol or social distancing. The department claimed it was long overdue to rewrite this document & omit certain criteria & wordings that don’t apply anymore. They basically omitted “AIDS” from the papers and made it relevant for any pandemic.

The Department of Health has LEGAL AUTHORITY to basically imprison individuals that they see as a threat, when a pandemic is declared. Police & national guard, etc. may be used & DOH has authority to use them to accomplish this. I had NO IDEA this could happen. This is Wa. State, but I’m sure it’s nationally.

Again, they played down the timing of the change in wording , etc. Thankfully, we still have a few paying attention to secret shenanigans brought forth by our governmental departments. We were all watching the meetings for the upcoming vote on adding Covid vaccines to the school list of vaccines. That’s how this info. was found initially.

Thankfully, our DOH ( after creating a special “ focus group” 😂), came to the conclusion that there wasn’t enough positive data to support mandatory Covid vaccines for school children.

( that, and a few thousand emails and protestors outside their office windows)

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Nick pickles. I can’t get past that.

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🤣 noticed it right away.

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Better yet "Twitter's Nick Pickles". Almost a tongue twister.

Nicholas Pickles? Seriously, Mom and Dad, that's child abuse.

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On a similar topic. I recently met with a Border Patrol agent in south texas who was always able to talk to press before 2021 and one day 1 of Biden Admin. DHS ordered border patrol agents they are not allowed to talk to press. The admin does not want the American people to know how much of a crisis the border is. A crisis it is. Drugs, violence, trafficked children, deaths, and loads and loads of people coming illegally. Censorship all around and the policies are destroying our country. Must hold them accountable and stop them before it is too late.

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So, in other words, democrats from DHS met with democrats at Twitter and decided to dump our constitutional right to free speech.

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Remedy Formula. Get off of Twitter, Facebook/Meta and Google. Never watch NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN or listen to NPR. Don't vote for any Democrat in the upcoming elections. Financially support organizations like Judicial Watch who are trying to clean up elections. Say a prayer often.

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did so long ago

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The one place they can't censor you is the voting booth. Show up and vote in November against the party in power in Washington.

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[electronic laughter from Dominion voting machine]

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