What does the chart (purport to) show? What do the lines represent? Who knows, who cares. Trump doesn’t. There’s a line, it goes up. Amazing! (Only the newest numbers! Elevenington. Shinty-six. Filth-hundred and neeb.*)
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Line go up!
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Huh.
Meh, it’s probably nothing.
Carry on.
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This is easily the most nauseating sentence i have read in a while. Oh my lord…
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Alternatively he might just not count people who don’t make that much as Americans.
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That “X” in the middle is attached with velcro.
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The cheap fake gilding is new, but the fasces seems to have been there for… a while. Here it is during Truman:
(Not sure if this is the same door; possibly the opposite one.)
Might have been there since the 1933 remodel? I don’t see it in photos of the Taft office but I haven’t searched doggedly.
EDIT, from this pictorial evolution of the Oval Office, it looks like the fasces might have been introduced by Truman. It’s a bit unclear, though.
(IANAPresidential Historian.)
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Goes back further than that in US iconography:
https://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Beautiful-Authentic-Mussolini-Circulated/dp/B081JCSGNR
1916 -1945 Silver Mercury Dime.
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According to the wikipedipages, it was used as an early revolutionary symbol for the British Colonies. E pluribus unum, indeed.
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Yup. It used to be seen as a symbol of a classically perfect democracy. Along with the Bellamy Salute. Mussolini ruins everything.
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ICE goons are going to be the ones to perform the census. That’s how they’ll get the results they want. They’ll also ask for your political affiliations.
I wish I was being sarcastic.
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(and note, that’s Gertz, not Gaetz)
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It’s not just ‘the cruelty is the point’ any more, it’s the pure, naked, petty, joyful vindictiveness.
“We can fuck people’s lives up and we’re going to do it just because we can and because we enjoy it.”
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In general, the executive order inserts a layer of political control over both the announcement of new funding opportunities and the approval of individual grants. It orders the head of every agency that issues grants—meaning someone appointed by the president—to either make funding decisions themselves, or to designate another senior appointee to do it on their behalf. That individual will then exert control over whether any funding announcements or grants can move forward. Decisions will also require “continuation of existing coordination with OMB [Office of Management and Budget].” The head of OMB, Russell Vought, has been heavily involved in trying to cut science funding, including a recent attempt to block all grants made by the National Institutes of Health.
This just keeps getting better, man. “Science is woke” has become a mantra for these assholes.
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