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I'm a US Army veteran, political scientist, and nature lover, who is trying to make our world a better and kinder place. ☘️https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-vasquez-62a1b037/
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Yeah, I suspect so, too.
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If it had been released in 2025, I wonder if the NRA and others would come after Lynyrd Skynyrd for "Mr. Saturday Night Special," which supports gun control. 🤔 SMH!🤦♂️🙏
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bv-...
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They've awakened a sleeping giant, and their media echochamber will prevent them from recalibrating and moderating. These days and months may serve as a cauitionary tale for generations of Americans yet to come.
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American Exceptionalism???🤔
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Operational security posters will need to be updated from "Loose lips sink ships" to "Risky texts have pilots vexed."
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Instead of "Loose lips sink ships" posters, we need to have them updated to read "Risky texts leave pilots vexed!"
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Instead of Hegseth, we need a SeDef who will text less.
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And we will be paying off tons of money, appropriately enough but unfortunately, to lots of veterans who were severely disabled in that foolish war for many decades to come.
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No kidding, Jack!! 😎🍦
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Clemenceau would've appreciated our guys showing up sooner during WWI.
Ignorance is bliss.
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Excellent essay! When I taught at UCF, my students learned about climate change's security dimensions. I remember evacuating NAS Key West before Hurricane Andrew and the damage to Homestead AFB. Folks can see the damage to Tyndall with their own 👀 here. thefloridachannel.org/videos/cover...
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Or a fellow who helped derail the United States Football League from the inside back in the 1980s.
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DOGE-pierre & Co. should have thought about all this more carefully before wielding a chainsaw like a juvenile and embarking on their own Reign of T/Error cutting recklessly like they had a guillotine, and public servants were Marie Antoinette.
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It's not falling as fast as SpaceX debris recently, but it is definitely coming back down to earth. youtu.be/yV-bFdf6yu8?...
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I'm just relieved that it wasn't titled Over, Easy.
Having taught The Politics of Sports, maybe there is a possible class here; From Hobbies to Hobby Lobby: The Politics of Quilting & other Crafts. Students could assemble a portfolio of crafts suitable for displaying at protests. 🇺🇲
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He's also got to keep some his supporters by ripping the volume up to 11 on the culture war stuff, so they will stick with him while he abandons Ukraine. Rember how he went all in on honoring the National Anthem and demonizing Kaepernick's kneeling protest during the Mueller investigation RE Russia.
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It reminds me of the rhetoric used by a bad car or time-share salesman. I can understand not wanting to use a term like "sui generis" unless you were Howard Cosell or comedian Dennis Milller, but how about English words like "rare" or "unique," after all English is now the official language.
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Russia's peace plan is really just a plan to grab Ukraine piece by piece.
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The gulf of America is between Trump's oligarchy and greatness.
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The title of Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly seems like the administration's playbook now that we are in the month of March, we are emboldening Russia and other aggressors, and in a trade war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mar...
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All supporters of Ukraine should wear blue and yellow on Tuesday in solidarity with Ukraine and against Russian aggression.
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I think you might give them too much credit because DOGE-pierre's aim has been lousy repeatedly.
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I'm thinking about Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October. I wonder how POTUS would handle a defecting Russian submarine commander today. 🤔
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I wonder if Vance would've used the Civil War draft riots as an excuse to end that war early. Btw, didn't George Washington threaten to shoot deserters during the American Revolution? 🤔
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Any chance we see a skit where a US president is confronted by Jack Ryan, who's been busted down to a Jr CIA analyst job now, trying to persuade POTUS that a Russian sub captain is trying to defect instead of attack, POTUS realizes that, but still opts to sink it and sends Ryan away frustrated?✌️🇺🇸🇺🇦
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In light of today's events in the Oval Office, Democrats should wear either blue or yellow to the State of the Union in solidarity with Ukraine and AGAINST Russia.
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In light of today's events in the Oval Office, Democrats should wear either blue or yellow in solidarity with Ukraine and AGAINST Russia.
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I wonder if everyone who voted for Trump to protect female athletes from competing in athletic competitions against trans-male athletes is proud of how Ukraine is going to be further victimized by Russia because one of those issues was infinitely more important than the other. 🤔
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True, & Zelensky is bolstered by the difficulty of convincing the families whose loved ones died defending Ukraine to let Russia gain from their aggression.
BTW, a few yrs ago I had an online student ask me to reopen an exam b/c the Russians had knocked out her power grid earlier. She was in Kyiv
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DOGE-Pierre and the Reign of Error.
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Yes, especially since President Bill Clinton signed the Budapest Memorandum back in the day that encouraged Ukraine to willingly give up its nuclear stockpile, which might have deterred Putin, in return for Western protection.