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applegrove's JournalIs that the goal of MAGA? To close down paths to
investment and wealth for others not yet in power so the hedge funds and private equity and the wealthy don't have to compete with these people for growing or creating wealth?
He is transparent unlike the Movement Conservatives.
so that is good. People will learn. He will be the poster child.
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters From An American
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/"SNIP..........
In the early 1800s, van Buren recognized that creating a closed system in the state of New York would preserve the power of his own political machine and that from there he could command the heavy weight of New York’s 36 electoral votes—the next closest state, Pennsylvania, had 28, after which electoral vote counts fell rapidly—to swing national politics in the direction he wanted. Van Buren’s focus was less on reinforcing enslavement for racial dominance—although he came from a family that enslaved its Black neighbors—but on money and power.
Van Buren set up a political machine known as the Albany Regency, building his power by taking over all the state offices and judgeships and by insisting on party unity. He opposed federal funding of internal improvements in the state, recognizing that such improvements would disrupt the existing power structure by opening up new avenues for wealth. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1820, he used his machine to elect Andrew Jackson to the White House on a platform promising “reform” of the federal government calling for economic development, a government the Democrats claimed had fallen into the hands of the elite. Once in power, Jackson used the federal government to benefit the enslavers who dominated the southern states.
That focus on preserving power in the states to keep political and economic power in the hands of a minority is a key element of our current moment. After the 1950s, as federal courts upheld the power of the federal government to regulate business and promote infrastructure projects that took open bids for contracts, they threatened to disrupt the economic power of traditional leaders. While state power reinforces social dominance as a few white men make laws for the majority of women and racial, gender, and religious minorities, it also concentrates economic power in the states, which in turn affects the nation.
When a Republican in charge of state redistricting constructs a map based on his idea that “electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats,” and when a Republican candidate calls for throwing out the votes of 60,000 voters to declare victory in an election he lost, they have abandoned the principles of democracy in favor of a one-party state that will operate in their favor alone.
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Here is a meme for the next 4 years:
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Some of the replies to this post I would want to alert on as I'm not into violence but I had my alerting privileges revoked because my last alert was completely rejected 0-7. So I am in the dog house for a day. See below:
"SNIP...............
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You are temporarily unable to send new alerts because recently you submitted an alert which was voted down on a unanimous vote of 0-7. This is a temporary loss of alert privileges which lasts for 24 hours from the time of your last alert.
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Right and General George Washington led the US airforce to victory over the British.
I've noticed on the internet that AI is starting to state the wrong dates and the wrong places on posts. That is the degradation of space and time. Maybe Fox is into it too. People will not be able to fact check history at all if they have no sense of year or place.
Someone said a few months ago nude calendar girls
in mechanics garages have been replaced by Trump photos. He is their ultimate fantasy.
Trump Claims Biden Is Making Transition 'Difficult'
Trump Claims Biden Is Making Transition ‘Difficult’
January 6, 2025 at 6:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/06/trump-claims-biden-is-making-transition-difficult/
"SNIP..........
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday accused President Biden of making the presidential transition difficult, citing recent executive orders on climate and other official acts Biden has taken in his last weeks as president, The Hill reports.
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Applegrove:
Like Trump made it so easy for the Biden transition in 2020 with an insurrection.
The MAGA oligarchs are being called sociopaths
these days so they find a target to redirect the sense of being manipulated danger in their base and George Soros is it (even though he is in no way a sociopath or evil, they have built him up to be considered so by the GOP/MAGA base by the GOP and now MAGA).
Went to visit my grandmother's family in the old villages
in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. My grandmother was in her late 80s. She had been a farmer, a country doctor's wife and a nurse. People put on at 'At Home' for her where everyone in the community came to say hi. It was like a tea we thought. So my sister and I put on our best cocktail/tea dresses with flowers on them. We had on fancy "flats" shoes. There was some time before the event so my sister and I decided to go for a walk along the rural highway..... like a couple of urban idiots from a yuppie family. One of my grandmother's nieces recognized it must be us on the highway and got us to come into their house to meet 2nd cousins. They were lovely. Interested if we were in university. We tried to figure out the four generations in their family. Then we went to the 'At Home'. We were so overdressed. People were lovely and adored my grandmother. Most of them were delivered by my grandfather, a country doctor. Basically fashion and formal dress is a con meant to sell new clothes every year. There is something called the colour lobby that changes the colour of cars and household appliances every year, just like the designers in fashion. It is a way to make money. The people we met that day looked great without any of the high tea fashion my sister and I indulged in. They were better than all our nonsense.
That being said I love fashion. I loved watching Sex and The City and fashion runway shows. Some fashion truly is art.
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