Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday, giving his first detailed, public remarks after reporting emerged that he may have stepped outside the chain of command during the dangerous final months of the Trump administration.
Desperate measures to counteract a desperately deranged lunatic loser.
Chain of Command? They should have chained up T*****, accompanied by a MAGA gag.
Now ask yourself if there is any doubt TFG would have done just that if he believed he could lose the election otherwise.
This sets a bad precedent that can and will be exploited by the other side someday but so did what they did to Caesar on the floor of the Roman senate. Genie’s out of the bottle, not much to be done about that. But, he did the right thing, I think.
Over a MAGA sock
Chain chain chain, chain of fools…
You mean a slightly used condom?
Ewww
I really hate to go OT (yeah, right), but this story…
On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said she would oppose Powell getting a second term as chair, calling him a “dangerous man” and raising the political stakes of the White House’s nomination decisions. On Monday, two of the Fed’s regional bank presidents — Eric Rosengren and Robert Kaplan — retired amid scrutiny over their stock trading during the covid crisis, actions that spurred an unusual Fed review of trading rules for officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/28/warren-powell-fed-chair/
What does Warren know that we don’t?
The fiery testimony today was at the senate banking committee. Janet Yellen cold-cocked Richard Shelby after he asked about “stepped-up basis”, the part of the tax code that assures vast unimpeded intergenerational wealth transfers. This has been a safe pose of Republicans for decades as they are fighting to save “family farms”, which of course is not the real motivation.
She’s all for eliminating it.
It’s not clear why Beijing may have believed that an an attack might be forthcoming. But Milley provided the panel with a timeline of his interactions with the Chinese military that included the relevant context for the Department of Defense.
Part of that included August 2020 intelligence that Chinese scholars and officials were concerned that “the Trump administration would provoke a conflict with [China] to win the November election.”
That led to the Chinese military going on alert — a status that did not end until Jan. 30, 2021.
Now how many times from Jan 2020 through to the 2020 election did Trump use Chyna as the boogey man?
Part of that included August 2020 intelligence that Chinese scholars and officials were concerned that “the Trump administration would provoke a conflict with [China] to win the November election.”
That led to the Chinese military going on alert — a status that did not end until Jan. 30, 2021.
One of the reasons that we have brass-to-brass contacts like that between GEN Milley and his P.L.A. counterpart is that there have been some pretty scary misunderstandings in the past.
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Where Things Stand: Petty To The Point Of Pain
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Oh please let this trend on Twitter for weeks on end. Trump likes it in the ass. To the point that he’ll take the colonoscopy sans anesthesia. The implication that he’s a bottom will drive him out of his fucking mind.
I haven’t read much of Peril yet, and avoided all the “bombshell takeaways” as they were coming out, but I get the impression, reading Woodward & Costa, that the Chinese (to speak of them generally) were afraid that Trump was easily - beyond just - crazy enough to launch a nuclear (not “nucular”) strike against either them or Iran (not “eye-ran”), for reasons unknown to all but, and in fact including, Trump.
I’ve also been reading Michael Wolff, he of the variegated asides, but I digress.
And if anyone wants to see the media in action, read this account of the Fed guy in Boston. He’s a saint, I tell ya!
Wow.
Where things stand: pretty much to the point of pain.
How about a spanking with Forbes?
He might have been so pleased that all international concern would have dissipated.
Oh, I hardly think it’s that interesting. It’s only the president of the United States insisting on staying awake for no plausible reason as a giant rod is pushed up his ass. That’s hardly the kind of thing to provoke literally millions of buttsechs jokes to go flying into the Twitterverse like a horde of demon bats from the gates of Hell. That wouldn’t be likely to happen. Not with such a respected and generally well-liked figure.
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