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NDVirginia19 said:
They’re certainly going to have to let people go if the taxpayer teet is taken away from them
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Not sure that's going to happen. I'm sure they'll be able to get some funds from a lobbying group.

Hard to take any of this seriously when the largest recipient of government hand outs has the keys to the kingdom, and the twitter propaganda accounts want everyone to be very bigly mad at $8M? Ok take away the $8M?
 
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I can't recommend The Free Press enough to anybody. Well worth the $80 yearly subscription.

From today's weekly "TGIF" roundup of the news -

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→ Riviera of the Middle East: Trump this week announced the new American plan for Gaza, and it’s wild even for him. It’s out of the box. It feels like the first idea in the brainstorm—just jamming on a whiteboard. It is for the U.S. to take over and do real estate development in the Gaza Strip. The current residents will be magically gone. And the Trump Team will go in and, what else, build some big-ass hotels:

The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We’ll own it. . . . Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know. . . . And I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy. But the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something that could be so. . . magnificent.
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He elaborated on Truth Social:

The Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. . . . The U.S., working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.
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Ignoring the Schumer jab, but noting it for later, it sounds like Trump is angling to remake Rick Caruso’s The Grove but in Gaza. Rick Caruso’s The Gaza? Or would it be Gaza, Brought to You by Rick Caruso? Trump is looking at those hostage release videos, the ones where the Red Cross sits at a special signing table with Hamas to make it look sterile and legitimate, and all he sees is white sand and blue Mediterranean. It’s great how Trump is now self-aware enough to get ahead of the most obvious critiques: that he is being cute and a wise guy. Just one more block quote from our commander-in-chief:

If we could build them through massive amounts of money—supplied by other people, very rich nations, and they’re willing to supply it—if we can build something for them in one of the countries—and it could be Jordan, and it could be Egypt, it could be other countries—and you could build four or five or six areas. . . you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like someplace where they can live and not die.
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Inspirational. And aspirational. Someplace where they can live and not die does seem like a low bar. Trump thinks a nice cookie-cutter development in Egypt, with marble kitchen islands and attached garages will do the trick, and I say, why not? Just plop a McDonald’s in there, throw up some clapboard siding, and boom: peace in the Middle East.

If you think this is all a joke, here’s Italy’s top diplomat seeming to embrace this Mar-a-Gaza scheme: “Today, it is important to listen carefully to new ideas that have been proposed and to think outside the box.” (So did Michael Oren, in these very pages.)

Sure, Iraq didn’t work, no. Afghanistan also didn’t work. But hear me out, Dick Cheney says, emerging from behind a sofa, wearing a giant cowboy hat: Gaza can be different. Imagine it, boys. America can finally do colonialism right. And what that means is what Americans did to America: Take it over completely, oust all original inhabitants, and then in three generations little Tilly Barrington can do her Khan Yunis land acknowledgment and grab brunch. To be clear: If Israelis think this will be their land and they’re coming to New New York with all their spices and religious people—no, no, silly natives, this is real colonialism."
 
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Elons twitter is so great, thank god Jack is gone. Really quality stuff making it through the filters. Can’t suppress conservatives anymore!
 
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You know what industry is going to explode in production here soon? The chair industry. The libs are squirming in their chairs so much, they're going to wear out their cushions much faster than usual.

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NDVirginia19 said:
I think whoever the republicans would have put up (my guess is probably RDS) if Crooks had hit would have blown Kamala out of the water as well
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I agree. But imagine had we seen the court go to activists in 2017 and a left-wing takeover. Speech would be governed. Kamala mentioned this in her campaign.
 
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I'm sure me saying this is heartless, but getting laid off/fired is not some new revelation that has never happened before. I got caught up in two of these. One at Sallie Mae after being there 13 years and receiving the Presidents Award and another when the company I was at for 12 years got bought out. In both instances I immediately went to work looking for a new job. The wife and I figured out a way to pay the bills and feed the kids while I looked. Given many companies have WFH policies, it actually opens up far more opportunities than what I had. It's not fun, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.

 
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If you work for the EXECUTIVE branch of government, especially in a role where you act politically, you should have no surprise when you get fired with a new administration. You work for the American people, you are not entitled to that job.
 
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NDVirginia19 said:
If you work for the EXECUTIVE branch of government, especially in a role where you act politically, you should have no surprise when you get fired with a new administration. You work for the American people, you are not entitled to that job.
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Not only that, I read that Drye is actually a contractor and not an employee. If true, she should know that her job could be eliminated at anytime.
 
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