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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 08:57:08 JST Laffy

   🚨 #Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a "deferred resignation" with a severance package of roughly eight months of pay and benefits.
   https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-offer-federal-workers-buyouts-resign-rcna189661

   • Steve's Place and HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 08:57:06 JST Laffy

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     Via Joyce Vance:

     This is a blatant effort to get career people to leave so #Trump can replace them with loyalists. And, given his track record in his own business dealings, it’s not hard to imagine him looking for a way to renege once people are out.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:13:38 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     #USpol #TrumpCoup

     This was so obvious after the "Mandate for Leadership" of #Project2025 was published.--I really hate that I seem to be right:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113442308447890947

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:40:06 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol Well, to be fair, a bunch of us were all right about that.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:41:12 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     #USpol #TrumpCoup

     Very true, and even though I had expected most of this, it is something else to see the ("separately") expected speed with which #Project2025 progresses, all in parallel...

     I can give kudos to the #OrangePeril for one thing only: his stamina at his age.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:52:40 JST Laffy

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol I fully expected this speed and intensity. It's why we moved.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:53:21 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     Same, I just thought, I't take him more weeks...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 09:54:12 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @GottaLaff

     Same, I just thought, I't take him more weeks...

     I did not see the reclaiming of the #PanamaCanal, #Canada as the 51st US state (;)), and the #GreenlandPurchase (or else) coming, though, I have to admit.

     Next-level insanity.

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:04:04 JST Philip Cardella

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @GottaLaff fascists have to violently expand or they just turn on their own people to the point of extinction.

     The far right has dreamed of war with Mexico and Canada for decades. Reagan campaigned on Panama.

     The thing about these jackasses is they have no capacity for novel ideas.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:14:16 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Philip Cardella

     @philip_cardella

     True, however the carrying-out is breathtaking. Granted, #Hitler was similary swift in 1993, even without #SocialMedia, the internet, and global communications. Today, there are so many more people involved.

     PS:
     For those of you for whom #AmericaFirst does not ring an alarm bell:

     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112894479993007709

     #USHistory #Fascism #Isolationism

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     @GottaLaff

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:17:58 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Philip Cardella

     @philip_cardella

     #PanamaCanal #RonaldReagan #TrumpCoup

     I guess, I was too young, but yes, #Reagan did talk a lot about the canal.

     However, it was a pipedream even back then in 1977:

     "It is possible that the canal could be defended against a hostile Panamanian population, backed by guerrillas from other Latin American countries, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff say it would take over 100,000 men, ..."

     https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/28/archives/reagan-on-panama.html

     @GottaLaff

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 10:22:14 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Philip Cardella

     @philip_cardella

     #TrumpCould #MexicanBorder

     Oh, and yes, the idea of closing the Mexican border even predates #Reagan:

     "#Nixon [#OperationIntercept] and #Reagan [#OperationInterceptII]tried closing the border to pressure Mexico – here’s what happened..."

     "Although the border was reopened within a matter of days, once again, the shutdown severely hurt the border economy – as well as relations between the two countries."

     https://theconversation.com/nixon-and-reagan-tried-closing-the-border-to-pressure-mexico-heres-what-happened-114956

     @GottaLaff

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     Philip Cardella (philip_cardella@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:43:56 JST Philip Cardella

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol @GottaLaff he just wanted an issue to get a headline on. But Trump doesn't know this but he seems stuck in the seventies in many ways.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 11:45:22 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Philip Cardella

     @philip_cardella

     I only wished it were final-stage dementia... 😜

     @GottaLaff