With an advanced public announcement, they’re certainly facilitating any decapitation strike any of this country’s enemies might want to carry out.
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“None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this.”
A statement based on a false premise that the article later clarified. We no longer have a defense secretary, we have a War Secretary. I don’t accept @zenicetus’s best case scenario as a plausible option. I take this as Hegseth flexing his power to advocate for a war position as suggested in the article:
“Top administration officials also have preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern.” As many commenters at TPM and elsewhere have noted, the occupation of DC was a training exercise for domestic “peace keeping,” and the baseless attacks on fishing boats off Venezuela was the first step in creating public support for military action against a foreign enemy.
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Don’t forget the racism. He (and plenty of other guys I knew when I was in) is obsessed with the idea that black soldiers pretend to suffer from ingrown hairs to get out of shaving every day. That was always an early warning sign for white supremacists in uniform.
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George Washington should never forced his troops to be inoculated for smallpox! It was their choice! Nature’s way of weeding out the weak!
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Could this meeting have been an email?
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August home sales down as well. This is something I’ve been watching on my neighborhood walks. Homes on the market for months and then taken off the market. A developer bought two properties next door to us. In March he told me that he expected to begin in June. He needs to demo the existing house and garage and so far both still stand. Could be he has money trouble but living next to a vacant building going on a year is strange.
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No matter what happens, the sick fuck loses – (1) the grand jury no bills, and the sick fuck once again looks like a raging lunatic; and (2) the grand jury indicts, but all sorts of interoffice emails are subpoenaed by the defense and it’s all exposed as a vindictive prosecution.
Let’s hope for civil suits after the dust clears.
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I believe there’s only ONE Marine base in Virginia, and that’s Quantico.
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Some countries get drones others…
He was given the red carpet treatment, a military flyover and a rare ride in the presidential limousine.
But nearly six weeks after Vladimir Putin was invited to an historic summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, the U.S. intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets that flew near the state this week in an apparent test of America’s defense systems.
Two Russian Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers and two Su-35 fighter jets were seen flying in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on Wednesday, which is international airspace that abuts U.S. and Canadian sovereign airspace.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) responded by sending four F-16 fighter jets, a surveillance aircraft, and KC-135 tanker planes, “to positively identify and intercept” the Russian aircraft.
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I’d start with NPR and PBS. They’re no longer dependent upon the federal government in any way (other than “broadcast licenses”, but they’re also available on Satellite and Cable.) Plus, they don’t have the profit-making necessity nor high priced executives to support, not to mention big unrelated business empires tied to a tiny news outlet.
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We might end up calling Trump II the Weird Hair Care Era.
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AI is quickly becoming a synonym shorthand for bullshit or false among many in the younger set.
“Come on! Your dad never fought the Russians! That’s so AI!”
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Good. Starbucks is a union busting shitshow. I hope we can make it go bankrupt.
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She could be disbarred by the Florida state bar association.
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Reposting
It’s a choice. They run the govt. when things …
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The only reason Bambi may have “reservations” is that she’s afraid she’ll get swamped in the blowback. Her name must be all over the internal DOJ emails.
No tots, no pears.
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