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Steve Herman

Donald Trump announces, if he returns to the White House, every current and new federal worker will have to pass a test his administration will create. rumble.com/v2i82f8-agenda47-li

Rumble.comAgenda47: Liberating America from Biden’s Regulatory OnslaughtBy Donald J. Trump
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Elizabeth Loves DEI

@w7voa , if it happens it would be a loyalty test to Trump.

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Nicole Parsons

@Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa

The Federalist Society grooms the careers of lawyers starting in law school

Somewhat like how mafiosos become "made men"

This sounds very similar to the evaluations Communist Party members were required to pass before promotion. Nomenklatura

cambridge.org/core/journals/ca

loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intn

Republicans just thwarted a Biden nominee Saule Omarova, for being a former member of this mandatory system of Soviet patronage during her early education

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Cambridge CoreNomenklatura: The Soviet Communist Party's Leadership Recruitment System | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge CoreNomenklatura: The Soviet Communist Party's Leadership Recruitment System - Volume 2 Issue 4
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Token Sane Person

@Npars01 @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa

@VolokhC@liberdon.com This compares the with the Soviet Communist Party practice of identifying promising civil servants to ensure the Nomenklatura were politically correct. Any comments?

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Nicole Parsons

@tokensane @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa @VolokhC

Trump wants to establish the federal government as a system of patronage for the GOP. The Federalist Society is already well along in this process.

For example, you can't be a Republican nominee for the Supreme Court without being a member of the Federalist Society.

Several red states have similar requirements for working in state government. You must be a member of the Federalist Society to be an Attorney General in Texas.

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@Npars01 @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa @VolokhC@liberdon.com There are two wings to the Republicans: culture warriors and libertarians. The is on the side, broadly favouring immigration, gay rights, end of drug war, reduced military spending and police reform. They are also ambivalent on abortion. These are all issues where they disagree strongly with the Trumpist culture warriors. (And this is an overly brief summary of a complex picture)

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Nicole Parsons

@tokensane @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa @VolokhC

The Federalist Society is a fascist organization funded by Koch. As Maddow says, watch what they do, not what they say.

The Federalist Society is the Birchers in disguise.

The Koch Agenda is as follows:
It hasn't changed since David Koch wrote it for his 1980 run for office.

It is every bit the horror now, as it was then.
desmog.com/2019/08/07/document

lpedia.org/wiki/Document:Natio

m.dailykos.com/stories/2014/4/

sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch

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DeSmogDocuments Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of EnergyA scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch’s powerful network of influence — as documents from a newly published archive show. The documents in the new KochDocs.org archive include a relatively little-noticed column penned […]
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Koch Docs1983-1984 David Koch: the "Most Radical and Extreme Positions" Viable Are from the Clark/Koch 1980 Platform - Koch DocsThis document is a collection of correspondence between David Koch and individuals within the libertarian party between 1983 and 1984. In one particular exchange with David Bergland, the libertarian party’s presidential candidate in 1984, David Koch expresses his concern over the presentation of libertarian ideas to the public stating:"The effect of the hard core Libertarian approach in my opinion will result in a tremendous reduction in financial support, a great fall-off in media coverage and publicity, and a major loss of support by many responsible people...."
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Token Sane Person

@Npars01 @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa @VolokhC@liberdon.com

Oh quite: extremist libertarian, but *not* culture war. I'm just saying, don't conflate the two merely because Trump (culture warrior) outsourced judge-picking to the FedSoc (which he'd probably never heard of before).

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Nicole Parsons

@tokensane @Dr_Elizabeth97 @w7voa @VolokhC

This is hair splitting.

Trump, #KochNetwork, and the Federalist Society are all facets of the same anti-democracy movement funded by the oil industry.

Libertarianism just uses culture wars to achieve fascist ends.

Just, an FYI, I don't participate in dissemination of Russian talking points or Republican disinformation.

I will be blocking you.

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