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This is why they flip flop so much on opposing/ supporting trump and every other issue. They don’t actually have a position. They have a revenue stream, and being horrible keeps it flowing.
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The right, as far as their media presence, is entirely ideologically disingenuous. They don’t believe what they are saying, and admit as much in private. They continue to parrot these ideas because they believe:
1. This will make them money
2. They will be spared from the repercussions.
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There’s just no way to tell the ideology of this violent individual whose description, background, and actions match all the other violent individuals from the last decade. 🙃
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Soldiers are just people. The majority of whom go to the field rarely, march rarely, handle their weapon rarely, and endure hardship only when absolutely required. Their performance probably has little to do with their feelings about the president and more to do with the conditions around them.
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Then you have the rehearsals, the uniform inspections, heat, hunger, and size of the parade group.
All of which combines until one person gets off and steps wrong, then another and so on till the whole things a gaggle.
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This is the much more likely explanation than any kind of deliberate mass protest.
Soldiers don’t actually do much parading. Most mass celebrate so and so’s retirement or promotion type events are static and pass and review type marches are rare outside of training.
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This exactly. Looks at all the bases in Iraq that constantly eat the response to Israel’s actions.
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A reminder that continuing resolutions are not a passed budget and the very reason the Republicans have to keep begging for Dems to cross the aisle on this. Because the course of action guarantees that the budget ‘crisis’ will resurface every few months.
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Well you know what this means. Someone has to send him more.
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I don’t think the one contract tour guide knows what a legal review is…
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Mercenaries and their Masters- Michael Mallett
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I want to point out the obvious. No executive action has removed the Equal Opportunity program from being official policy. This is a violation of EO. Violating Army EO policy is punishable under UCMJ. Reports of EO violations can be made anonymously.
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I’m 90% sure this is a violation of the North Atlantic Free Trade Alliance now USMCA.
Tariffing two of our largest trade partners is insane.
Especially since violating this agreement undoes trump’s own renegotiation.
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I can agree that the proper action by congress is to file the articles. Every time. Mire the legislature. trump is uninterested in passing policy, only in unilateral proclamations. They have nothing better to do than make elected republicans look like idiots.
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The alternates lack the political grip and messianic status. People don’t care about Vance, or Johnson or any of the rest of them. They only have popularity in relationship to direct proximity to trump. No one cares about the apostle if there isn’t a messiah.
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Website is back up. Whitehouse is blaming an ‘outage’. 🙄
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Don’t you just hate when pesky world building gets in the way of the good bits?
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Standing corrected on the spelling. I did a quick google, as one does. I see a new executive order from 27 January 2025, offers what you previously described. A full restoration to rank and back pay. It remains to be seen who might take that offer.
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To my knowledge, reinstatements are not happening, or are not happening cart blanc and due to negative experience with the military would not represent significant numbers of people.
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Most of the personnel lost to refusals to take the vaccine were already eligible to reenlist and many of those who may become eligible do not wish to rejoin the military. The numbers rejoining won’t make up for the manpower losses that may come of the new administration’s policy.
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The cruelty is the point.
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And that has been a GOOD thing for America. Because it builds partnerships and economic growth for us.
The problem comes when you shit on your allies and prove yourself unreliable to do that job.
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The thing is America is already the world’s police. The US military is on bases across the globe protecting American interests abroad. Namely, keeping trade lanes open and discouraging aggression by state actors.
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I just had this thought. Like this is what gets him? He’s a bad drunk? That’s the standard apparently.
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I feel like this is the plot of a SAW movie…
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Georgia recently got rid of its panel that tracked these deaths.
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It is a shame I can’t like this absolutely excellent take more than once.
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There is this assumption they make that all of them will be granted exceptions. Because they are such ‘good’ and ‘deserving’ people.
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Absolutely correct take.
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Say it louder for the people in the back.👏
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Fair enough, fair enough.
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Yes absolutely. Here ‘efficient’ is being used to mean fast and cheap, but unreliable and prone to causing harm. Because they are treating it like the goal is to make money. When it’s not. The goal is to provide public good.
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We were repeatedly warned that elements of the incoming administration and their leadership don’t want the circus to end.
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Now come on. When has pursuing exclusively short turn profit with no regard to long term stability EVER turned out badly for everyone?
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The government is not a for profit business. It does not need to be ‘efficient’. It needs to be functional and resilient. 🤦♂️
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Taking bets on top contributors… *drum roll* will it be:
1. Russia
2. Saudia Arabia
3. A cabal of American Billionaires
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Just a quick run down on all the crossed red lines I saw on my nightly doom scroll.
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A life line like a demilitarized zone and a promise not to pursue membership with NATO. 🤦♂️
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Chaos is the point. Spot on.
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I find it curious that the same people saying these are just ‘normal ideas’ 1. Also haven’t read it. 2. Don’t want you to read it.
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We can add sanctions to the list of things MAGA doesn’t understand the function/mechanics of. Right along with tariffs.
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True. The third option does exist. Russia loses and ceases to have any international credibility to spend for decades.
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Russia will continue to drag the war out until they either:
a. Exhaust western support for Ukraine.
b. Reach a point where they can claim success to the Russian people.
Everything else is just in service to that delay, so saber rattling, escalating use of arms, asymmetric attacks to distract etc.
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The risk of nukes is basically zero.
Countries tend to want to keep being countries. Using nuclear warheads in Ukraine prompts an unsurvivable response from the rest of the world. As does using nukes against any NATO member.
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The implication here is that his ‘mandate’ was to appoint exactly these kind of unqualified, scandal ridden people.