Col. Daren K. Margolin, who retired from the Marine Corps, was fired from a command position as head of security at Marine Base Quantico in 2013 for negligently firing a gun into the floor of his office.

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    27 minutes ago

    Sounds perfect.

    I’m convinced that eventually MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.

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    His reluctance to devolve power, his lack of loyalty towards his most zealous followers, his readiness to chop and change policies, his preference for mediocrities and sycophants over men of natural ability, and, most of all, his increasing tendency to believe his own rhetoric about the state of the nation ensured that the new state was never going to be a meritocracy

    Nature of Fascism, R Griffin

    This is in reference to Mussolini, but it’s a valid description of Trump as well.

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      Trump grew up around gangsters, he seems himself as a boss, which is exactly how he operates. We are about 2/3’s into the mafia movie where the whole thing starts to wobble and unwind due to sloppiness and incompetence. It’s going to get messy.

      However, in true trump form, the asshole will probably just die of fat old age and leave the shitty mess for everyone else to clean up.

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      Wow, that really does sound remarkably like Trump.

      If only we knew what happened to Mussolini, but alas, that knowledge has been lost to history…

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    Reminder that immigration “courts” are under the DoJ, an executive agency. They are not part of the judicial branch of government.