# A Reminder of where America is heading **URL:** \ **Category:** Political Topics\ **Created:** [July 11, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440 "2021-07-11T05:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/262 "2025-02-06T00:00:07Z")
Another example of why basic competence would be nice: > _[The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/cia-names-list.html)_ is reporting that the Central Intelligence Agency, complying with Trump’s attempts to purge the federal government, sent his administration an unclassified email containing a list of every single person the CIA had hired over the past two years. Security experts everywhere are alarmed at the news, as many of those named closely monitor U.S. adversaries like Russia and China—and could soon become targets because of it. > **[CIA Sets Off Security Crisis With One Email to Trump’s White House](https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-sets-off-security-crisis-204618974.html)** > > In an effort to comply with Trump’s orders, the CIA just opened itself up to foreign attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/263 "2025-02-06T00:32:15Z")
> [@now\_samantha](#): > > ![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/0/f0eb69d8b08eeecf8d2813fd32f99858d47964bf.jpeg) If this is in fact related to Trump’s attendance it is beyond shameful. What part of the telecast are they likely to announce his attendance so I can miss it and the accompanying cheers? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/264 "2025-02-06T12:35:09Z")
From a Canadian friend of mine: > [@](#): > > Once again, because Meta prevents Canadians from sharing news articles, I have copied and pasted this article from today’s New York Times. _This is an edited transcript of an audio essay on “The Ezra Klein Show.”_ This is an outstanding analysis, well worth your time. > > Opinion | Don’t Believe Him > Ezra Klein, Feb. 2, 2025 > > Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see. > > If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019: > > ``` > Steve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. … > > All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to — > > Michael Kirk: What was the word? > > Bannon: Muzzle velocity. > > ``` > > Muzzle velocity. Bannon’s insight here is real. Focus is the fundamental substance of democracy. It is particularly the substance of opposition. People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently. > > Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over. > > Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him. > > Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true. Trump clawed his way back to great wealth by playing a fearsome billionaire on TV; he remade himself as a winner by refusing to admit he had ever lost. The American presidency is a limited office. But Trump has never wanted to be president, at least not as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to first play king on TV. If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king. > > Don’t believe him. Trump has real powers — but they are the powers of the presidency. The pardon power is vast and unrestricted, and so he could pardon the Jan. 6 rioters. Federal security protection is under the discretion of the executive branch, and so he could remove it from Anthony Fauci and Mike Pompeo and John Bolton and Mark Milley and even Brian Hook, a largely unknown former State Department official under threat from Iran who donated time to Trump’s transition team. It was an act of astonishing cruelty and callousness from a man who nearly died by an assassin’s bullet — as much as anything ever has been, this, to me, was an X-ray of the smallness of Trump’s soul — but it was an act that was within his power. > > But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.” A judge froze the spending freeze before it was even scheduled to go into effect, and shortly thereafter, the Trump administration rescinded the order, in part to avoid the court case. > > What Bannon wanted — what the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity, remember. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him. > > You could see this a few ways: Is Trump playing a part, making a bet or triggering a crisis? Those are the options. I am not certain he knows the answer. Trump has always been an improviser. But if you take it as calculated, here is the calculation: Perhaps this Supreme Court, stocked with his appointees, gives him powers no peacetime president has ever possessed. Perhaps all of this becomes legal now that he has asserted its legality. It is not impossible to imagine that bet paying off. > > But Trump’s odds are bad. So what if the bet fails and his arrogations of power are soundly rejected by the courts? Then comes the question of constitutional crisis: Does he ignore the court’s ruling? To do that would be to attempt a coup. I wonder if they have the stomach for it. The withdrawal of the Office of Management and Budget’s order to freeze spending suggests they don’t. Bravado aside, Trump’s political capital is thin. Both in his first and second terms, he has entered office with approval ratings below that of any president in the modern era. Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent — about 10 points beneath Joe Biden’s in January 2021. > > There is a reason Trump is doing all of this through executive orders rather than submitting these same directives as legislation to pass through Congress. A more powerful executive could persuade Congress to eliminate the spending he opposes or reform the civil service to give himself the powers of hiring and firing that he seeks. To write these changes into legislation would make them more durable and allow him to argue their merits in a more strategic way. Even if Trump’s aim is to bring the civil service to heel — to rid it of his opponents and turn it to his own ends — he would be better off arguing that he is simply trying to bring the high-performance management culture of Silicon Valley to the federal government. You never want a power grab to look like a power grab. > > But Republicans have a three-seat edge in the House and a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Trump has done nothing to reach out to Democrats. If Trump tried to pass this agenda as legislation, it would most likely fail in the House, and it would certainly die before the filibuster in the Senate. And that would make Trump look weak. Trump does not want to look weak. He remembers John McCain humiliating him in his first term by casting the deciding vote against Obamacare repeal. > > That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him. > > The flurry of activity is meant to suggest the existence of a plan. The Trump team wants it known that they’re ready this time. They will control events rather than be controlled by them. The closer you look, the less true that seems. They are scrambling and flailing already. They are leaking against one another already. We’ve learned, already, that the O.M.B. directive was drafted, reportedly, without the input or oversight of key Trump officials — “it didn’t go through the proper approval process,” an administration official told The Washington Post. For this to be the process and product of a signature initiative in the second week of a president’s second term is embarrassing. > > But it’s not just the O.M.B. directive. The Trump administration is waging an immediate war on the bureaucracy, trying to replace the “deep state” it believes hampered it in the first term. A big part of this project seems to have been outsourced to Elon Musk, who is bringing the tactics he used at Twitter to the federal government. He has longtime aides at the Office of Personnel Management, and the email sent to nearly all federal employees even reused the subject line of the email he sent to Twitter employees: “Fork in the Road.” Musk wants you to know it was him. > > The email offers millions of civil servants a backdoor buyout: Agree to resign and in theory, at least, you can collect your paycheck and benefits until the end of September without doing any work. The Department of Government Efficiency account on X described it this way: “Take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.” The Washington Post reported that the email “blindsided” many in the Trump administration who would normally have consulted on a notice like that. > > I suspect Musk thinks of the federal work force as a huge mass of woke ideologues. But most federal workers have very little to do with politics. About 16 percent of the federal work force is in health care. These are, for instance, nurses and doctors who work for the Veterans Affairs department. How many of them does Musk want to lose? What plans does the V.A. have for attracting and training their replacements? How quickly can he do it? > > The Social Security Administration has more than 59,000 employees. Does Musk know which ones are essential to operations and unusually difficult to replace? One likely outcome of this scheme is that a lot of talented people who work in nonpolitical jobs and could make more elsewhere take the lengthy vacation and leave government services in tatters. Twitter worked poorly after Musk’s takeover, with more frequent outages and bugs, but its outages are not a national scandal. When V.A. health care degrades, it is. To have sprung this attack on the civil service so loudly and publicly and brazenly is to be assured of the blame if anything goes wrong. > > What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos. They do not have some secret reservoir of focus and attention the rest of us do not. They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them. > > I had a conversation a couple months ago with someone who knows how the federal government works about as well as anyone alive. I asked him what would worry him most if he saw Trump doing it. What he told me is that he would worry most if Trump went slowly. If he began his term by doing things that made him more popular and made his opposition weaker and more confused. If he tried to build strength for the midterms while slowly expanding his powers and chipping away at the deep state where it was weakest. > > But he didn’t. And so the opposition to Trump, which seemed so listless after the election, is beginning to rouse itself. > > There is a subreddit for federal employees where one of the top posts reads: “This non ‘buyout’ really seems to have backfired. I’ll be honest, before that email went out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell. But now I am fired up to make these goons as frustrated as possible.” As I write this, it’s been upvoted more than 39,000 times and civil servant after civil servant is echoing the initial sentiment. > > In Iowa this week, Democrats flipped a State Senate seat in a district that Trump won easily in 2024. The attempted spending freeze gave Democrats their voice back, as they zeroed in on the popular programs Trump had imperiled. Trump isn’t building support; he’s losing it. Trump isn’t fracturing his opposition; he’s uniting it. > > This is the weakness of the strategy that Bannon proposed and Trump is following. It is a strategy that forces you into overreach. To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear. You overwhelm yourself. And there’s only so much you can do through executive orders. Soon enough, you have to go beyond what you can actually do. And when you do that, you either trigger a constitutional crisis or you reveal your own weakness. > > Trump may not see his own fork in the road coming. He may believe he has the power he is claiming. That would be a mistake on his part — a self-deception that could doom his presidency. But the real threat is if he persuades the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have. > > The first two weeks of Trump’s presidency have not shown his strength. He is trying to overwhelm you. He is trying to keep you off-balance. He is trying to persuade you of something that isn’t true. Don’t believe him ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/265 "2025-02-06T12:36:08Z")
The pettiness of this is crazy. These are not adults running the country. > President Donald Trump’s administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident. > Coast Guard leaders had given Fagan a 60-day waiver to find new housing, according to one of the sources. But on Tuesday, Homeland Security officials told the acting commandant, Kevin Lunday, that he had to kick her out because “the president wants her out of quarters,” according to one of the people familiar with the incident. > > The DHS official was not able to immediately ascertain whether the directive had in fact come from Trump or whether his name had been invoked without his knowledge. > **[Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-evicts-former-coast-guard-linda-fagan-3-hours-rcna190820)** > > Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/266 "2025-02-06T13:38:06Z")
> [@Cooke](#): > > If this is in fact related to Trump’s attendance it is beyond shameful. I don’t have a link handy, but the NFL has told teams that they are not allowed to post on Bluesky. It certainly looks like they are in full suck up mode. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Fish_Actuary)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/267 "2025-02-06T13:45:26Z")
What an ass. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/268 "2025-02-06T14:07:04Z")
[https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286299/nsa-museum-dei-exhibit-women-people-of-color-trump](https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/nx-s1-5286299/nsa-museum-dei-exhibit-women-people-of-color-trump) ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/269 "2025-02-06T14:12:01Z")
Congressional oversight? We don’t need no Congressional oversight. > **[Republicans block Musk from congressional subponea as DOGE continues to...](https://abcnews.com/Politics/republicans-block-musk-congressional-subpoena-doge-continues-access/story?id=118487749)** > > Congressional Democrats are continuing their push for answers as Elon Musk continues to dismantle and disrupt government services. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/270 "2025-02-06T16:31:47Z")
Just switched to watching CNN for a few minutes. A Republican Congressman was being interviewed and he was talking about how certain Democrats did not have “American values”. Anything counter to his views was unAmerican. Where have I heard that before? I had to turn it off as HIS America didn’t seem to have room for anyone with different views from his own. America has had past periods where intolerance ruled. A certain type of Republican is emboldened these days and it is sounding more like the 1950s every day. ---
**Author:** ![knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/knoath/32/65607_2.png) [@knoath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/knoath)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/271 "2025-02-06T18:30:11Z")
When they were growing up, Footloose was a tragic film starring John Lithgow. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/272 "2025-02-07T17:39:49Z")
MAGA-loving Conservatives are not welcome in SF [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/san-francisco-powell-buell.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.vE4.8Tgx.58CGQ0oWHnR1&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/san-francisco-powell-buell.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE4.8Tgx.58CGQ0oWHnR1&smid=url-share) ---
**Author:** ![twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/twig93/32/527_2.png) [@twig93](https://community.goactuary.com/u/twig93)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/273 "2025-02-07T18:30:20Z")
Given that political leanings are not a protected class it sounds like the co-op board could just come right out and say “Trump supporters may not buy into this co-op” and be perfectly within their legal rights. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/274 "2025-02-08T21:49:29Z")
> **[Government commission halts investigations of LGBTQ+ workplace discrimination...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/equal-opportunity-employment-commission-eeoc-halts-trans-sexual-orientation-lgbtq-dicrimination-cases-donald-trump-andrea-lucas/)** > > Equal Employment Opportunity Commission staff have been told to "pause" their investigative work on new and existing cases. ---
**Author:** ![Indy](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@Indy](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Indy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/275 "2025-02-08T23:42:22Z")
I’m not sure which thread, I’ll put it here. It looks like Musk is going to fire all the 10,000 people who work for USAID. I expect they have various skill sets, but none of them are plumbers and hardly any are accountants. The specialized skills they’ve developed working for USAID probably translate to some NGOs, but it’s not like there are 10,000 jobs open in NGOs. Musk is also cutting research grants. Hard to say how deep they’ll go. Researchers also have specialized skills. Some of them will make it to private research jobs, but I doubt that the market is just waiting for thousands. After that, they are hitting the pavement (figuratively). This hits close because my daughter runs a one woman consulting firm as an architectural historian. (This is the person you call to get your building on the national register, to apply for rehab grants or for tax credits.) This entire concept seems foreign to any MAGA type. I can easily see the gov’t employees who review the application, and the money for grants and credits, all disappearing. Therefore, the private jobs disappear. There aren’t 10,000 architectural historians in the country, but those that exist have very specialized skills that aren’t going to be interesting to other employers. Beyond AH, I expect there are many of these little, specialized programs that seem like the business of government to “liberals” that employ specialists, that are going to get swept away with a big broom. All of them will leave unemployed, white collar specialists. At the same time, the number of 18 year-olds will drop a little, fewer of them are likely to pursue 4-year degrees. This could happen at the same time that universities are losing research funding. Looks like more colleges close or cut staff. Edit: I forgot to mention all the gov’t workers and consultants who work DEI jobs. Some story, specialized area, not a lot of private jobs if the gov’t is pushing to eliminate on the private side as well. My other daughter has a good friend who I think is in this category. Lots of knowlege workers losing jobs, but overwhelmingly they aren’t MAGA. Rs will think this is just fine. It doesn’t look good if you are in that jostling crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/cooke/32/15467_2.png) [@Cooke](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Cooke)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/276 "2025-02-09T00:14:57Z")
> [@Indy](#): > > Lots of knowlege workers losing jobs, but overwhelmingly they aren’t MAGA. Rs will think this is just fine. It doesn’t look good if you are in that jostling crowd. Sadly this is true. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Fish\_Actuary](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Fish_Actuary)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/277 "2025-02-09T04:53:33Z")
I think U.S. research universities are in for a world of hurt between reduced research funding, reduced grant overhead funding, attacks on what they teach or research, tighter immigration rules and just general antagonism. I’m a bit unclear what’s going to happen as a lot of politicians in Congress and the Senate really like bringing home funds for the state universities. Do they go along with the cuts the billionaires want or do they push the funding voters want? ---
**Author:** ![Macroman](https://community.goactuary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Macroman](https://community.goactuary.com/u/Macroman)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/278 "2025-02-09T19:51:53Z")
[Trump’s acting CFPB chief halts all supervision of companies](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trumps-acting-cfpb-chief-halts-all-supervision-of-companies/ar-AA1yHgtp?ocid=BingNewsVerp) In a similar move, the CFPB seems to be on the chopping block. This had to be #1 on the wish list for the big banks. ---
**Author:** ![now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/now_samantha/32/24815_2.png) [@now\_samantha](https://community.goactuary.com/u/now_samantha)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/279 "2025-02-10T00:14:36Z")
![image](https://community.goactuary.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/e/de41059974031da85ffef37c63505a421dd596c8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/the_polymath/32/83081_2.png) [@The\_Polymath](https://community.goactuary.com/u/The_Polymath)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/280 "2025-02-10T00:22:09Z")
If they start fooling around with T-bills, thats the one thing that will make investors run for the hills. ---
**Author:** ![SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/user_avatar/community.goactuary.com/srednivashtar/32/2894_2.png) [@SredniVashtar](https://community.goactuary.com/u/SredniVashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://community.goactuary.com/t/a-reminder-of-where-america-is-heading/3440/281 "2025-02-10T00:47:07Z")
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