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  1. Bradley is going to be in front of Congress next week, so get some popcorn between now and then.
  2. Not that anybody cares what Loomer says any more, but I enjoy any infighting.
  3. I'm assuming the US and Hungary won't have access
  4. Silver Serpents were a much better band, but they went downhill for a good decade before merging with the Silver Jews to become the Jewish Serpents. Being that they are a prog-rock band based out of St. Paul, they are frequently confused with the Jewish Servants, the prog-rock band from Minneapolis.
  5. When your boss goes on social media and says you're an American hero and says he stands by the decisions you made, not the decisions he made and ordered you to carry out, but the decisions you made, well, we know where this ends...
  6. Sen. Mark Kelly just OBLITERATED Pete Hegseth - and by extension Trump himself - with one of the most brutal takedowns yet. Kelly says Trump put a man in charge of the Pentagon who “runs around on a stage like he’s a 12-year-old playing army.” A guy so unserious, so reckless, Kelly literally can’t imagine what our allies think watching this clown pretend to lead the world’s greatest military. Hegseth should’ve been fired after SignalGate. He should’ve been fired every single day after that.
  7. This administration is nothing but children with vast inferiority complexes Publisher condemns 'violent' use of Franklin the Turtle after Pete Hegseth's boat strike post The publisher of Franklin the Turtle released a statement Monday condemning the "violent" use of the children’s book character after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted an image with the title “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.” “Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” the publishing house Kids Can Press wrote in a statement on X. “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values,” the statement read. Chief Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell responded to the publisher in a statement, saying: “We doubt Franklin the Turtle wants to be inclusive of drug cartels… or laud the kindness and empathy of narco-terrorists.”
  8. Fox News is out there defending it, so they've got their orders and it's probably worse than we thought. White House confirms second strike against Caribbean drug smugglers | Fox News And the headline makes it clear who the scapegoat is: Spec ops chief ordered deadly Caribbean strike ‘in self-defense’ with Hegseth’s sign-off, with this nugget: That's got to make both Hegseth and Bradley paranoid. And Bradley is making an appearance in front of Congress next week about the double strike. Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander who issued second boat strike order
  9. The wild card is that most of these people will not go down for each other. Hegseth is paranoid and insecure on two levels. First, he and Trump lost their absolute shit when Kelly and the others put out that video. Called for their execution or prosecution. That is somebody getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now we know the cookie jar is Venezuela. Both Trump and Hegseth radiated guilt and Trump put it out there that Hegseth told him whatever he told him, so Trump has put it squarely on Hegseth's head. Hegseth knows MAGA will turn on anybody Trump says to turn on. Hegseth very clearly fears that some officer will go up in front of Congress and testify and that video scared him, and now he's couched the language he's using in reference to these strikes that he and Trump thought were popular. He thought that Franklin Turtle thing was cute, now he realizes it wasn't well-received. The second level of insecurity is that Hegseth is still, at heart, an Army major. Him threatening to do a uniform inspection of Kelly was, as others have said, the most POG thing somebody in Hegseth's position could ever do. That was an Army major who has never held a major command and felt like he was disrespected and by gawd he's going to make the person pay. Combine all of this with the fact that every day, Hegseth is surrounded by people who had far superior careers to him and that has to wear on him. Think about it - he makes major and is pushed into the Individual Ready Reserve, which is weird as fuck to me. He managed to get into the D.C. National Guard but wasn't allowed to participate in Biden's inauguration because of a dumbass tattoo. He only had about 10 years or actual military service, and part of that was National Guard, which great, kudos to him for joining, but at the end of the day, he had a very scattershot career with multiple gaps in service. And you can bet plenty of Navy, Marine, Air Force, and probably even some Army senior officers all look down upon for him because his military career seems to have went nowhere, and they will all still think of him as a major that never held a large command and that was jumped up to Secretary of Defense.
  10. She can pull an MTG and hope she outlasts all of the shit that seems to keep coming out.
  11. Even if he wasn't a decent dude, he probably saw where things were headed and wasn't going to take the fall. It was only a matter of time.
  12. And doesn't know that he pardoned the President of Honduras who tried to help smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the US. And who was told by Hegseth that the two guys weren't killed, but if they were killed in a second strike, he wouldn't have done the second strike. And a surprising number of people don't want war with Venezuela, and this is an off-ramp of sorts for Congress to stop it.
  13. It's crazy much of this was predicted by Tom Clancy in Clear and Present Danger.
  14. None of these people can ultimately trust one another - they'll all burn everybody else before they are caught without a chair when the music stops. And I would be willing to bet that they absolutely believed they are right in their actions - I really doubt they spoke with "the best" civilian and military lawyers up and down the chain of command before all of this started. I want to know why that first admiral resigned.
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