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   Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:16 JST Laffy

   Via Jeff Sharlet, who provides excerpts, but I’m just posting his comments: 🧵 1/…

   MSM weirdly slow out of the gate on openly fascist anti-vax Pete Hegseth as Trump Secretary of Defense, considering he just published a book on his views of the military, War on Warriors…he attacks "diverse" soldiers and seems to be calling for civil war.

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     Mycotropic (mycotropic@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:11 JST Mycotropic

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     @adhdeanasl @GottaLaff

     A friend of mine works for NSA and says that the existing structures are already slowing down the pace and preparing to do exactly what they did the last time; stall every aspect of implementation. It's not good for the intelligence community but it IS a community and can and will protect themselves and use as much as possible.

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     ADHDean (adhdeanasl@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:12 JST ADHDean

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     @GottaLaff I keep hoping that this batch, like the batches before them, will be so underqualified and overwhelmed that they’ll eventually just flame out. Or will be unwilling or unable to polish the Dope In Chief’s shoes to an adequate shine and get canned in one or two Scaramuccis.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:13 JST Laffy

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     4/ Sharlet:

     I wanna emphasize that tho I'm a journalist, reading chap. 1 of Hegseth's new book on the military isn't any kind of special reporting. I'm just reading. Why aren't journalists on the beat digging in? Habit of assuming that powerful fascists don't really mean what they say

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:15 JST Laffy

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     3/ Sharlet:

     Pete Hegseth, soon to be the second only to Trump in command of the most powerful military in U.S., declares liberals, leftists, Democrats, even Presidents of the U.S. "domestic enemies." He doesn't mean it as a figure of speech.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:38:16 JST Laffy

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     2/ Sharlet:

     Not a good time to be a woman in the military under new Sec Def Pete Hegseth (formerly a stalled major), who repeatedly speaks of it as a place for "normal men." Black women will face even more trouble. And here is a Pentagon leader openly attacking US troops..

     New Sec Def Hegseth describes as the twin enemies of US "radical Islam" and... former commander in chief Obama. This is civil war talk

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     mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 02:27:02 JST mark

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     @GottaLaff cool. Another version of enemy has been assigned to me.