Not to put too fine a point on it, but when an underling fucks up really badly (for instance, multiple dead bodies are involved), and a person in a position of responsibility (for example, a cabinet secretary) has failed to prevent that outcome, said person of responsibility should fall on his sword.
Hegseth can’t pass the buck here. In any case, he’s a fucking lying sack of shit.
Picking the example literally in the manual about what not to do kinda mighta been ill-advised.
Like one of very few black-and-white clear-line things where there is no ambiguity and fog of war excuses possible.
Assuming the WaPo story to be accurate, the implication of their position is that service members on the ground exceeded their orders or otherwise failed to follow the rules of engagement.
Sure Don, go ahead and throw those special forces troops under your big ol’ bus! What’s the worst that could possibly happen?
When he heard there were survivors he grabbed his crotch with his left hand raised his right hand in a fist and hollered hoorah. No one survives my viciousness and lives to tell about it.
Yes, part of me wants to see what happens when they pick a Black or female scapegoat. I suspect Pete will learn - vividly - how much he is despised.
After Dump gets his ballroom completed, I want the next president to come in with a wrecking crew and smash it to pieces. Either that or turn it into a homeless shelter.
Well, hey – they were all “official acts,” so…
Steve Jordan on drums. He’s currently the Rolling Stone’s drummer after Charlie died. He has a long list of accompaniments behind multiple stars.
I would prefer it be turned into a CECOT for the current administration.
Lay ‘em close and stack ‘em high.
- Trump targeted the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota for an especially virulent social media post.
From the linked Politico article:
In a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” Klobuchar accused the president of trying to “stoke division and make people hate each other.”
If it is true that Seal Team Six is the outfit that is carrying out the shit in the Pacific and Caribbean we have a group that should know the rules of engagement. They are just as guilty as the shitheads above them.
Better yet, a detention center for all Trump administration employees where they can be vetted before being released back into society. Re-education will be required for some of them and long term detention to protect society will be required for others. Kristi Noem will not be allowed anywhere near the comfort animals that will be provided.
If you’re sitting in prison you can stroke a check to anyone in Trump’s close circle and get pardoned. We all know for a damned fact many of these pardons are bought and paid for. People like Roger Stone get a finder’s fee, and Trump gets the rest. It’s legal to take money to lobby a Prez to issue a pardon. Once that’s out of the way, you just launder Trump’s share to him through some byzantine accounting grift. Better still, openly send his share to some political PAC that he uses for any need he deems fit. It’s not as if the FEC or DOJ will scrutinize it.
I’d like to see it used for the fine tradition of presidential giant cheeses:
"After a national tour that included New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, the cheese arrived at Jackson’s White House, where he kept it on display for a year. Then, during the final party he threw as president in 1837, he allowed anyone and everyone to get their fill of the open-air-aged New York cheese. That party produced, perhaps, one of the greatest descriptions of cheese eating on record, again from Poore:
“‘For hours did a crowd of men, women and boys hack at the cheese, many taking large hunks of it away with them. When they commenced, the cheese weighed one thousand four hundred pounds, and only a small piece was saved for the President’s use. The air was redolent with cheese, the carpet was slippery with cheese, and nothing else was talked about at Washington that day. Even the scandal about the wife of the President’s Secretary of War was forgotten in the tumultuous jubilation of that great occasion.’”
“By the time we returned from the holiday, the script had completely flipped, and Hill Republicans were struggling to defend the administration’s lawless conduct in the strikes.”
Sorry, no. Republicans did not “flip their script”. They were always defending lawless conduct by their chosen maladministration.
And of course Trump knew nothing about the lawless order. Nor did Kegseth. We should believe both men, because when have they ever lied to cover their own arses?
So will it be Waterworld or Snowpiercer? I can’t hardly take the suspense!
‘The gastric distress lasted weeks’
A note in passing – one wonders if the new 20,000 person arena will even have bathroom facilities?
““But Jesus washed peoples’ feet” is not an excuse. You will take your feet off my armrest or I will break them with the Holy Bat of Antioch.”
