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11 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

I think we are thinking in terms of the world we live in. The world a soldier lives in is one entirely different from ours. Again they have a very clearly defined oath they adhere to. I trust that the people who can make the order to turn against the populace will not do so. I also think that people like McRaven still get updates from friends on what is going on. That would go for Milley as well. Those guys know exactly what is transpiring inside the branches of service. TFG is a paper tiger without the world’s most powerful military doing his bidding.
 

Dictators rely on the armed forces to carry out atrocities for them. I do not believe this will be how it goes. We may have a period of years of fascist morons running the government, but we’ll see I guess. I think in the end we survive, but the rebuild with the world will be going on long after we are all gone. We are not to be trusted, at all.

Then why, when you threw a rock on J6, did it bounce off 5 ex-military guys?

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1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

This might be my favorite thread title/OP in Surly history. I laugh every time I see it. 

Especially considering which poster is . . . gone.

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7 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

Oh the enlisted has plenty of magats, especially the younger guys in their 20’s 

I tend to think you're correct on this.  But, Mike Flynn makes me worry.

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On 4/21/2025 at 5:09 PM, Nivek said:

Just bribe the new administration. 

I think it's hard to overstate how much the existence of cryptocurrency has raised the payoffs for venal politicians.  

In Trump 1.0, we got all worked up about people staying in Trump hotels in order to win favor.  But those transactions were teeny little sums of money, and they were at least somewhat traceable and discoverable.  We're a couple orders of magnitude beyond that in 2.0.  We're looking at many, many millions of dollars that cannot be accounted for in any way... even if law enforcement had the willpower and/or courage to try.

Having gold bars in your closet is horse-and-buggy treason by comparison.  

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I think it's hard to overstate how much the existence of cryptocurrency has raised the payoffs for venal politicians.  
In Trump 1.0, we got all worked up about people staying in Trump hotels in order to win favor.  But those transactions were teeny little sums of money, and they were at least somewhat traceable and discoverable.  We're a couple orders of magnitude beyond that in 2.0.  We're looking at many, many millions of dollars that cannot be accounted for in any way... even if law enforcement had the willpower and/or courage to try.
Having gold bars in your closet is horse-and-buggy treason by comparison.  

It’s even easier when you close the office charged with ferreting out the crime.
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6 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I was told the children are gone.

 

 

 

Of course this admin has some overgrown child who's talking about his poop and intentionally insulting actual warriors by calling them lower ranks. Somehow I knew this was the case even before hearing about it. 

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40 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

Definitely has the look of a man who loves nothing more than telling coworkers about his bowel movements.

I would say it's an ethos, but really it seems like those feminists that used to say that some men couldn't deal with the fact that women could birth a human. This bothered this type of man so much that they somehow thought that producing a mammoth pile of shit should also be commemorated that it became a 'birthing' warrior story. I can't believe I wrote that but think about it...not for too long though cause it's rather sad.

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Thank God we have an "adult" around to issue pardons to fraudsters

President Donald Trump has issued a full and unconditional pardon for a former Las Vegas City Councilwoman just weeks before she was scheduled for sentencing on multiple federal fraud convictions.

Michele Fiore was convicted in October of last year of six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

A federal jury found that Fiore solicited donations she said would go toward a memorial statue honoring slain Las Vegas police officers but used the funds for, among other things, plastic surgery.

Fiore also used the donation funds to pay for her basic living expenses and to fund her daughter’s wedding, according to KLAS-TV.

The pardon, which was signed on Wednesday, was revealed in a court filing shortly after she announced it in a Facebook post on Thursday.

“Today, I stand before you — not just as a free woman, but as a vindicated soul,” Fiore wrote.

That post was later taken down, but it was archived by The Nevada Independent.

Fiore had been scheduled to be sentenced on May 14. Each count of wire fraud carried a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

The criminal case stemmed from Fiore’s fundraising efforts in 2019 and 2020 for a statue to honor Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, who were killed in the line of duty in 2014.

Federal prosecutors said Fiore told donors, including then-Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, Nevada’s current Republican governor, that the money would fund the statue.

Court records showed a private development firm actually paid for the statue. Prosecutors presented evidence that none of the donations Fiore raised went toward the project.

Jurors deliberated for less than two hours following an eight-day trial at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas.

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On 4/23/2025 at 1:19 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

I was told the children are gone.

 

 

 

I was able to obtain video of some of these meetings.  It's in the spoiler below, BUT you have to promise not to tell anyone what you've seen as it is CLASSIFIED. Burn eyes before reading.

Spoiler

 

 

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On 4/23/2025 at 11:40 AM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I can't wait for one of these officers to just kneecap someone once they get tired of their shit

Pray Holy Thursday GIF

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