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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Trump's Cabinet Picks
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:16:24 +1100
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On 19/11/2024 2:26 pm, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:40:52 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/18/2024 7:38 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>>> It's not any secret the kind of Federal government the modern right
>>>> wants, it's the "night watchman" state. Nobody left in government but
>>>> jackbooted tough guys stomping around shouting at people and demanding
>>>> everyone's papers.
>>>
>>> The Left lost big on the election because they make no sense.
>>>
>>> Hint hint.
>>>
>>
>> A Democrat named Kamala Harris who was a former prosecutor and said
>> she'd do "nothing different" lost, are you calling me a Democrat? that's
>> not very nice!
> 
> Are you afraid of the jackbooted tough guys, or do you want to be one?

If anybody posts here, they can be accused of shouting at people though 
you have to post in full caps to make it official. Jack-booted thugs are 
invoked as negative examples, so bitrex clearly doesn't want to be one.

> What's a jack boot anyhow? Something like an Ugg?

A knee-high leather boot - part of the German SS uniform. It had a shiny 
polished surface, nothing like an Ugg boot (which offers warmth, and 
seems to be intended to look cuddly).

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney