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“Okay, sooooo…with no tax revenue or money, zero education, and no energy…that’s still a country somehow right? How does this work???”

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Doesn’t DoE like do nuclear shit?

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They also inform the nation’s energy policies, meaning taking responsibility for federally funded energy transportation and coordination.

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Those Texas price gouging electrical bills, they become nationwide under desantis.

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That and more. They have a mandate for nuclear nonproliferation, but it’s more accurate to think of them as America’s R&D lab. The National Labs are fucking incredible! They are so much more than the DoD’s innovation lab. They do a ton of research that isn’t possible for the private sector. They also own and make available equipment that is difficult for individuals to maintain for example: Fermilabs has a particular accelerator, Sandia has the Z machine and a MEMS foundry, and Oak Ridge has one of the most powerful supercomputers and several labs focusing on neutron and nuclear power. Fuck just look up the patents and Nobel Prizes for Lawrence Livermore, Argonne, and Los Alamos. Yes there is a ton of nuclear but they cover so much more. They’re amazing and a national treasure!

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The DoE issues security clearances just like the DoD.

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Yup. They oversee the nuclear weapon stockpile, as well as all the fissile materials- including weapons grade stuff- in the US.

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Yes.

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Feudalism. We already live in a system of neo digital feudalism where you own nothing. DeSatan master of the Dick Handle state is aiming to bridge our digital and analog feudal future faster than it is happening without him.

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Maybe he thinks that it’ll just work like an honesty box. That would level things out actually because it does act like an honesty box for the super rich already.

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You went wrong right off the bat there in your comment with “he thinks”. Obviously incorrect.

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We all buy guns and ammo and go mad max. DOJ exists but if there are enough crimes, it won’t be paid enough to handle them all. Also, people would just kill cops with ACAB mentality. They’ll run out eventually.

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Guaranteed he has no idea what the department of energy does.

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DeSantis is a Harvard law school grad and Navy lawyer, he absolutely has an idea what all of those governmental entities do, this is just him and the GOP trying to normalize the fascistic accumulation of power, step one of becoming a dictatorship.

Also this is the GOP’s plan to do exactly that:

Project 2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision

It’s just a step by step to purge the government, then whatever else, of undesirables while making an effort to destroy our government one piece at a time. Fascistic Libertarian hellscape here we come! (Also this is nothing new from them, just more open fascism)

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You can have an advanced degree and still be ignorant about totally relevant facts. It’s actually easier if you’re ignorant about those facts, because you’re more likely to believe the things you say that don’t make sense.

I think you’ve accurately listed a lot of correct information, especially about the well-known plan that the GOP has been pushing for decades, but we shouldn’t assume that the guy has knowledge about slightly obscure topics. I mean really, how many Americans actually looked into what the Department of Energy does?

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Former Texas Governor Rick Perry didn’t know what it was during a Primary debate.

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No idea what DoC does either, clearly. This is the problem with these people- no idea WTF they’re talking about and nobody holds them to account for that.

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Most people don’t and it makes me sad. Our National Labs are fucking treasures but so few people know how much of an impact they have on our technology and lives.

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Yeah… same exact thought when I read the article.

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Yeah, so what does he want to do with nuclear material along with all of the research around the country? I don’t think people know that Energy is responsible for our nuclear stockpile. Not Defense.

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Naw he’ll just make the military responsible for all the nuclear stuff. It’s the standard GOP response.

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Reaganomics was a horrendous failure for this country, and nearly 50 years later here we are with Republicans pushing those policies again on the American people.

What DeSatan is talking about is a continuation of Reagan’s terrible “Starve the Beast” policies.

Starve the Beast is a plan by conservatives to reduce funding for various government departments and programs to a level below which those entities can function properly. Salaries and equipment cost money. Below a certain level, you can’t do your job properly. And that’s what Republicans have been pushing for a few decades now. Cut funding for programs, and then claim those same programs aren’t doing their job properly, and use that as the excuse to kill off those programs altogether.

It is a self fulfilling prophecy all so big business and the ultra rich can pollute more, hide their real wealth from taxes, and make our children dumb enough that future generations willingly vote Republican.

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as president i promise to dismantle the whole government

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It’s more that he wants to destroy the regulatory systems that prevent companies from doing anything they want. This is a big step for fascism. Hitler and Mussolini both deregulated the markets and privatized everything they could. Fascism is simply Capitalism run rampant. After that they usually invade another country and create a slave labor force, which is why he wants to “go to war with the cartels.”

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As president I promise there to be no president.

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Finally, a president true to their word

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So no federal taxes; education; or commerce regulation?

Because that’s going to end well.

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