Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.

• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.

• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."

• The order came more than a year after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and just months after he signed the Voting Rights Act following violent attacks on voting rights advocates in Selma, Alabama.

• Segregationists during Johnson's time opposed the executive order.

• Conservatives (i.e. Angry Poor White Trash) since have voiced opposition to it, over claims it forced federal contractors to adopt an anti-white "quota system" for employees.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Trump’s order revokes one President Johnson signed on September 24, 1965.

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Oh yeah. Is that what one of your "Constitutional Scholars" told you? The same ones that told you the 14th Amendment was going to save you from a 2nd Trump term, one would suppose.

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• LBJ's order gave the Secretary of Labor the authority to ensure equal opportunity for people of color and women in federal contractors’ recruitment, hiring, training, and other employment practices.

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And now they will.

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• It required federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination and take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity "based on race, color, religion, and national origin."

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Affirmative Action is a Democrat dog whistle used to obfuscate their racism. It always has been since day one, but most folk just didn't really notice it until recently.

It doesn't work anymore because it's blatant. Not only has it been out in the open for years now.... Not only has it been celebrated out in the open for years now... but until recently, you could have your life ruined online if you said anything about it. And on top of all this, now we know that the results of such practices have been devastating in both the public and private sectors.

Before, these things could be explained away because they were low key and moved at a snail's pace. But you went absolutely bonkers with it after George Floyd died and you woke everybody up.

Whoops.


You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.


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You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

You want to keep going down that rabbit hole and see what other prizes await you, be my guest.

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You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50. Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live, because the state is overloaded with Angry Poor White Trash who "know" deep inside themselves that they can't get ahead, through no fault in themselves, because of anti-white racism. They truly can't get ahead because they are inadequate workers with mental illnesses, but that is too painful for them to acknowledge. Trump tells them it is not their fault and he can fix it for them. Ha! Ha! These Trumptards are suckers and stupid, not just mentally ill.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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You already got the 2nd Trump term that you were convinced was never going to happen out of it.

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You seem to have forgotten that I said the election was 50/50.

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I haven't forgotten that you've said that. What you say doesn't mean shit. We've already established this hundreds of times over by now.

I haven't forgotten that you've been wrong about that every time you've said that, since the vote was more than 2 Million + for Trump.

I haven't forgotten all of the context involved that makes Trump's win look much, much, much worse for Democrats than you're pretending right now that it is. You've seen all that math. I was laying it out for you every day in the elections thread.

One big one that you always need to keep in mind is that in order for Democrats to actually win a Presidential election not only do they need to take back those 2 Million votes, but they're going to need to grab about 5 Million more additional ones above and beyond that like they have historically needed in order to win the Electoral College.



So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.

Figure it out dude.

I'm really tired of your propaganda and bastardized statistics every day.

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Also, I was certain Trump would win in Texas, where I live,

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Oh. You were, were ya? Wow.

I called that Trump would win every swing state and the Popular vote by at least 1 Million votes.



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So either you are dumb, or you think that I'm dumb, which makes you the dumb one.

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You are not only dumb but crazy. Same as Trump. The Europeans keep operating as if Trump is sane and smart but they would be wiser to tell him to eat shit and die, you fat insane motherfucker:

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe

What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

By Anne Applebaum | January 18, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/trump-greenl
and-crisis-denmark-europe/681371/

What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don’t know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact. I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call—the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland, which Denmark owns and which Trump wants—and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled. Amid Frederiksen’s emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister’s emergency meeting with party leaders, and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything, all of a sudden, was in complete flux.

The result: Mid-morning, I found myself standing on the Knippel Bridge between the Danish foreign ministry and the Danish Parliament, holding a phone, waiting to be told which direction to walk. Denmark in January is not warm; I went to the Parliament and waited there. The meeting was canceled anyway. After that, nobody wanted to say anything on the record at all. Thus have Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.

In private discussions, the adjective that was most frequently used to describe the Trump phone call was rough. The verb most frequently used was threaten. The reaction most frequently expressed was confusion. Trump made it clear to Frederiksen that he is serious about Greenland: He sees it, apparently, as a real-estate deal. But Greenland is not a beachfront property. The world’s largest island is an autonomous territory of Denmark, inhabited by people who are Danish citizens, vote in Danish elections, and have representatives in the Danish Parliament. Denmark also has politics, and a Danish prime minister cannot sell Greenland any more than an American president can sell Florida.

At the same time, Denmark is also a country whose global companies—among them Lego, the shipping giant Maersk, and Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic—do billions of dollars worth of trade with the United States, and have major American investments too. They thought these were positive aspects of the Danish-American relationship. Denmark and the United States are also founding members of NATO, and Danish leaders would be forgiven for believing that this matters in Washington too. Instead, these links turn out to be a vulnerability. On Thursday afternoon Frederiksen emerged and, flanked by her foreign minister and her defense minister, made a statement. “It has been suggested from the American side,” she said, “that unfortunately a situation may arise where we work less together than we do today in the economic area.”

Still, the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity. In truth, Trump’s demands are illogical. Anything that the U.S. theoretically might want to do in Greenland is already possible, right now. Denmark has never stopped the U.S. military from building bases, searching for minerals, or stationing troops in Greenland, or from patrolling sea lanes nearby. In the past, the Danes have even let Americans defy Danish policy in Greenland. Over lunch, one former Danish diplomat told me a Cold War story, which unfolded not long after Denmark had formally declared itself to be a nuclear-free country. In 1957, th

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