Paying back pay for sitting at home seems like great fiscal policy. Where’s DOGE when you need them? Billions of pay for absolutely nothing in return seems wasteful.
Trump to nominate fox news host as secretary of defense
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In September 1620, a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Normally, the Mayflower’s cargo was wine and dry goods, but on this trip the ship carried passengers: 102 of them, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists—they called themselves “Saints”—who hoped to establish a new church in the so-called New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”
It carried my 11th great grandfather, the 22nd signer of the Mayflower Compact, who died during the first winter.
Why do so many religions have more or less the same views on what’s right and or wrong despite believing in very different things spiritually?
There are social reasons for understanding that theft, lying, murder, etc are wrong that have nothing to do with religion.
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I’m actually surprised that there’s been no call to rename our Fort Bragg out here. It’s also named for Braxton Bragg. 🤔
Do Magas really consider pulling out of NATO a good thing? Serious question. Pretty alarming if you ask me.
What's important here is that NATO thinks that we might. European countries have to be forced to have the hard internal conversations and make the hard decisions on what nice to have shit will go bye bye in order to make or buy enough shit to defend themselves and each other in a meaningful way. The working people in America can't be solely responsible for paying for the defense of everybody else.
Link below is to the full text of the SecDef's remarks.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/
https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/
This is another one of those things that I don't get why Trump doesn't receive bipartisan support on. Like leveraging tariffs to negotiate more equitable trade deals and foreign support for curtailment of human and drug trafficking, this would be so much more effective if we had a unified front.
Some people seem not to want problems solved. Instead, they want problems they can campaign on in perpetuity.
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Because Trump hurts people in the feels. A unified front on America First foreign policy would go a long way. As long as foreign governments see some daylight they will hold out hope that they can get through the opening and/or wait things out. Frustrating.
Milley is going to get some with or without an investigation into Afghanistan, IMHO. At a minimum, his public comments about Trump while he was still on active duty and Trump was POTUS will do it. Definitely if he talked to China about Trump and said what it's reported that he said. Up thread somewhere I listed all the various UCMJ articles that could possibly apply. The longer you don't hear anything about it the more likely that it's going to happen, IMHO. That's based upon my experience being an interested spectator to senior officers getting discipline. That sh*t is kept nuclear level secret with no-one willing to even speculate or give any info (that's the indicator that something is going to go down).
I think maybe heads should have rolled at the time for screwing things up, but if the POTUS gives the order and says do it now then that's what has to happen. But i do believe that we need a full accounting of how we spent decades, and $billions and killed and maimed Americans (and afghans) only to end back at the same place that we all started. A screwed up Afghan withdrawal doesn't necessarily mean that Milley as CJCS did anything wrong. BUT I would hope that at least he went to the mat and made sure the POTUS knew the possibility (likelihood) of a really really bad outcome if done lickety-split in a hurry without holding the Taliban to the letter and spirit of whatever agreement was made so as to give the Afghan Gov't a fighting chance.
PS We also should have kept Bagram Air Base as insurance for a while.
They are much closer to all countries being at 2% due to Ukraine funding but I feel like we've already lost them after telling them they now need to spend 5%, they shouldn't count on us and they also need to give Nazis more air-time. They feel abandoned and so does Canada. Bottom line, they all indicate they will never trust us again so they may not be there for us either if we need their cooperation in the future. This has not been a good couple weeks for our relationships with our friends while we treat Putin like our best buddy.
