Could Donald J. Trump hate our troops any more than he already does? No. No, he couldn’t. Apparently it wasn’t enough for Trump to ignore bounties placed on the heads of our soldiers in Afghanistan (yeah, remember that one?) simply because he has a dictator-man-crush on Vladimir Putin. Now Trump has caved (again) to the NRA and firearms industry…
Category: Military
Lt. Col. Vindman announces he's retiring in wake of 'retaliation' and 'bullying'
This is what happens to patriots in Donald J. Trump’s America. They’re browbeaten into surrender. The Washington Post: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served as a national security aide at the White House until earlier this year and was up for promotion to colonel, will leave the military instead, his lawyer, David Pressman, said in…
4 important paragraphs from Lucian K Truscott IV
who is a graduate of West Point, a long-time journalist, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson who was key in getting the Jefferson descendants to recognize as kin those descended from Sally Hemings. They are the last four paragraphs of a piece in Salon titled r the arrest of the police who killed George Floyd….
Trump Loses PAT ROBERTSON
LBJ once said that when he lost Walter Cronkite, he lost America. Well, Trump is no LBJ and Robertson is certainly no Uncle Walter. But today, at least for moment, Trump lost Robertson. ‘It isn’t cool’: Televangelist Pat Robertson blasts Trump for his protest response Televangelist Pat Robertson criticized President Trump on Tuesday for his…
NY-11: Max Rose (D) Deploys With National Guard To Battle Coronavirus. Let's Show Him Our Support.
Received this e-mail today from VoteVets in support of Rep. Max Rose’s (D. NY-11) re-election campaign: Today, Afghanistan veteran and freshman congressman Max Rose (D-NY) is shipping out with the National Guard to assist some of the hard-hit cities with their coronavirus response efforts in his state. Leaders lead. When they’re called they hop to and don’t dither…
NC-Sen: VoteVets Refuses To Let Moscow Mitch's Super PAC Defeat Cal Cunningham (D)
I received this e-mail from VoteVets in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: When you make a contribution to VoteVets, you know that every dollar is going towards representing the lives and needs of veterans and military families. Because of this team, we’ve already spent millions across the country supporting progressive veterans…
The actual president of the United States is jealous of a dog's positive press
How insecure do you have to be to get jealous of a dog’s news clippings? Well, exactly this insecure (second tweet): x Trump whines about Conan the dog getting more positive press than him following the al-Baghdadi raid pic.twitter.com/QTk56O3kF1— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> “Remember the dog, great dog Conan? When…
Get Rid of the worst of the GOP..
I could rant and rant about how Florida went from a lovely sub tropical state that was more purple than red but we have had some real lazy people not doing all they could in the State party and the folks with money like the billionaires running for president, not helping with money matters in…
Military leaders requested new force to fight cyberwar, but got Space Force instead
Right now, Texas is under siege, and there’s not too much our military can do about it. On Jan. 7, Gov. Greg Abbott told the Domestic Terrorism Task Force that the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) measured, over a 48-hour period, a colossal increase of cyberattacks from Iran on their state agencies “at a…
Pranksters paste Trump Jr. recruitment posters on Armed Forces Career Center
This is the pick-me-up you need today: Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler, a comedy duo known as The Good Liars, pasted that poster to the front of the Armed Forces Career Center in Brooklyn in the wake of Trump Sr.’s Iran saber-rattling. In an Instagram caption, the two wrote, “We put up some #honestsigns at the Army Recruitment…
Selling Troops and a veteran's legs repossessed. How great can we get?
There is a lot to this story but it boils down to one thing, disrespect and unpatriotic. The legs were returned…unadjusted and unuseable. I know and many vets know there are hoops to jump through but many get tired of waiting for permission to do things like walk without falling. Little things like, eating…
At White House event, Trump suggests he served in the military. Narrator: He didn't
Yesterday at a White House Hanukkah party, Donald Trump appeared to suggest he had served in the military. x “Like we used to say in the military, make a path,†@realDonaldTrump (who did not serve in the military) says at a White House reception.— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) December 12, 2019 < p class=”is-empty-p”> x x…
Defense officials concerned about growing support for Vladimir Putin by US Troops.
“People’s beliefs and perceptions are shaped more by whatever the leaders of their own political tribe say than by ideology, history, or even their own self-interest,” Paul Pillar, former senior CIA analyst. Putin can take over the world and Donald Trump will help him spread his propaganda wow ! I love to no what Trump…
Top Pentagon Brass Discussing Resignation
Politico is reporting that Trump's strain with Pentagon inspires talk of more departures: Even before Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s forced ouster this weekend, a handful of the Pentagon's highest-ranking officials have been debating just when they would feel compelled to resign over what they see as Trump's disregard for the chain of command, two current…
The White House is apparently done even attempting to explain Trump's gibberish
Hey, I’d be tired, too. Wait, I am tired. The past two and a half years have felt like trying to harvest semen from a violently ill marlin on a Tilt-A-Whirl. In other words, exhausting. But now, apparently, White House officials are so fucking tired they’re not even attempting to align Donald Trump’s Hieronymus Bosch-like brainscapes…
Pentagon is afraid of climate crisis yet does next to nothing to stop their significant contribution
“The Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who have to regard not only present troubles, but also future ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because, when foreseen, it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in…
Trump sits down for a crazy-as-fudge interview with Piers Morgan
Had I known Donald Trump was sitting down for an interview with Piers Morgan I would have been frightened out of my mind knowing they might spontaneously collapse into a douchebag singularity and swallow up the solar system and, eventually, the outer spiral arm of our galaxy. But that didn’t happen. Instead we witnessed a supernova of spittle and…
Trump escalates the GOP war on government workers
As the New Year begins, imagine that this is how your 2018 ended: You work at a company where the CEO and the management team are notoriously corrupt. They began the year by taking on $150 million in new debt for the purpose of rewarding themselves and their shareholders with a massive stock buyback. But as the…
Trump lies to the troops about their own salaries
After forcing hundreds of thousands of federal employees to go without pay for the holidays so he can make the vertiginous syphilis fever dream he once had about a giant wall worth it somehow, Donald Trump told another whopper while visiting the troops in Iraq today. From The Washington Post: The president also told a number of…
US appears to be preparing airstrikes on Syria due to chemical attack on Douma [Updated x2]
With all of this time that had past, I was convinced, sure, somebody was going to write about the fact that the US looks to be preparing for a new round of missile strikes on Syria. After all, it was such big news on this site the last time; does nobody care anymore? x Many dead,…
