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atomheartbevo

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  1. In fact, my gut says that those veterans in Congress would not have made that video unless they knew there were illegal orders being given. The timing of their video and the subsequent flip out by Trump and Hegseth speaks volumes. And I may have missed it, but I don’t recall Trump and Hegseth going out there saying the video is meaningless because they’re not giving illegal orders. Instead, they attacked the video and claimed they were telling service members not to obey legal orders. That means they probably thought they were lawful and now they realize they’re not or they believed that nobody outside of the Department of Defense knew what was going on. Or they were trying to project that they were only giving lawful orders.
  2. Kelly might have seen it in a briefing he would have received as the timing matches up. He couldn’t come out and talk about any specifics because it would’ve been classified, but he could’ve put out a generic video saying don’t follow any illegal orders. I think that’s why Trump and Hegseth flipped out so much over Kelly. I know there’s a story floating around earlier today that the Washington Post got it wrong, but they’ve had ample opportunity to spend a few minutes over the weekend or yesterday to look at the video, and if there had been no survivors, Trump and Hegseth would be out there saying that. Hegseth would’ve made sure to tell Trump. And Hegseth is pretty insecure, and he knows that decorated Navy admirals are not gonna go down for some two-bit Army major who had a spotty and short career and never held a major command. Hegseth and Trump are definitely acting like there’s a video out there and it’s out of their control.
  3. Some of it maybe market manipulation. I’ll see stuff like this pop up
  4. Trump stayed up tweeting hundreds of times in just a few hours last night. Is somebody nervous after a meeting? https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/trump-venezuela-meeting
  5. Bradley is going to be in front of Congress next week, so get some popcorn between now and then.
  6. Not that anybody cares what Loomer says any more, but I enjoy any infighting.
  7. I'm assuming the US and Hungary won't have access
  8. Silver Serpents were a much better band, but they went downhill for a good decade before merging with the Silver Jews to become the Jewish Serpents. Being that they are a prog-rock band based out of St. Paul, they are frequently confused with the Jewish Servants, the prog-rock band from Minneapolis.
  9. When your boss goes on social media and says you're an American hero and says he stands by the decisions you made, not the decisions he made and ordered you to carry out, but the decisions you made, well, we know where this ends...
  10. Sen. Mark Kelly just OBLITERATED Pete Hegseth - and by extension Trump himself - with one of the most brutal takedowns yet. Kelly says Trump put a man in charge of the Pentagon who “runs around on a stage like he’s a 12-year-old playing army.” A guy so unserious, so reckless, Kelly literally can’t imagine what our allies think watching this clown pretend to lead the world’s greatest military. Hegseth should’ve been fired after SignalGate. He should’ve been fired every single day after that.
  11. This administration is nothing but children with vast inferiority complexes Publisher condemns 'violent' use of Franklin the Turtle after Pete Hegseth's boat strike post The publisher of Franklin the Turtle released a statement Monday condemning the "violent" use of the children’s book character after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted an image with the title “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.” “Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” the publishing house Kids Can Press wrote in a statement on X. “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values,” the statement read. Chief Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell responded to the publisher in a statement, saying: “We doubt Franklin the Turtle wants to be inclusive of drug cartels… or laud the kindness and empathy of narco-terrorists.”
  12. Fox News is out there defending it, so they've got their orders and it's probably worse than we thought. White House confirms second strike against Caribbean drug smugglers | Fox News And the headline makes it clear who the scapegoat is: Spec ops chief ordered deadly Caribbean strike ‘in self-defense’ with Hegseth’s sign-off, with this nugget: That's got to make both Hegseth and Bradley paranoid. And Bradley is making an appearance in front of Congress next week about the double strike. Who is Adm. Frank Bradley, commander who issued second boat strike order
  13. The wild card is that most of these people will not go down for each other. Hegseth is paranoid and insecure on two levels. First, he and Trump lost their absolute shit when Kelly and the others put out that video. Called for their execution or prosecution. That is somebody getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now we know the cookie jar is Venezuela. Both Trump and Hegseth radiated guilt and Trump put it out there that Hegseth told him whatever he told him, so Trump has put it squarely on Hegseth's head. Hegseth knows MAGA will turn on anybody Trump says to turn on. Hegseth very clearly fears that some officer will go up in front of Congress and testify and that video scared him, and now he's couched the language he's using in reference to these strikes that he and Trump thought were popular. He thought that Franklin Turtle thing was cute, now he realizes it wasn't well-received. The second level of insecurity is that Hegseth is still, at heart, an Army major. Him threatening to do a uniform inspection of Kelly was, as others have said, the most POG thing somebody in Hegseth's position could ever do. That was an Army major who has never held a major command and felt like he was disrespected and by gawd he's going to make the person pay. Combine all of this with the fact that every day, Hegseth is surrounded by people who had far superior careers to him and that has to wear on him. Think about it - he makes major and is pushed into the Individual Ready Reserve, which is weird as fuck to me. He managed to get into the D.C. National Guard but wasn't allowed to participate in Biden's inauguration because of a dumbass tattoo. He only had about 10 years or actual military service, and part of that was National Guard, which great, kudos to him for joining, but at the end of the day, he had a very scattershot career with multiple gaps in service. And you can bet plenty of Navy, Marine, Air Force, and probably even some Army senior officers all look down upon for him because his military career seems to have went nowhere, and they will all still think of him as a major that never held a large command and that was jumped up to Secretary of Defense.
  14. She can pull an MTG and hope she outlasts all of the shit that seems to keep coming out.
  15. Even if he wasn't a decent dude, he probably saw where things were headed and wasn't going to take the fall. It was only a matter of time.
  16. And doesn't know that he pardoned the President of Honduras who tried to help smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the US. And who was told by Hegseth that the two guys weren't killed, but if they were killed in a second strike, he wouldn't have done the second strike. And a surprising number of people don't want war with Venezuela, and this is an off-ramp of sorts for Congress to stop it.
  17. It's crazy much of this was predicted by Tom Clancy in Clear and Present Danger.
  18. None of these people can ultimately trust one another - they'll all burn everybody else before they are caught without a chair when the music stops. And I would be willing to bet that they absolutely believed they are right in their actions - I really doubt they spoke with "the best" civilian and military lawyers up and down the chain of command before all of this started. I want to know why that first admiral resigned.
  19. Doubtful. This is shit that ends careers. Not a good market for former flag officers who lose their rank/end up with felonies on their record, because they are useless. The private sector hires flag officers because flag officers give them access to people or places they want access to. They wouldn't get that here. And Trump and Whiskey Pete will absolutely burn this guy. If you're a senior officer, and your boss, the Secretary of Defense, is on social media proclaiming you a hero and telling everybody he's got your back and that you did no wrong....
  20. "The combat decisions he made". The motherfucker was on a ship at sea surrounded by other ships, or back in Florida staring at television monitors. He wasn't in a doorway in Fallujah trying to figure out where sniper fire was coming from so he could save one of his guys who was pinned down.
  21. The White House and Hegseth have already selected Bradley to go down for this.
  22. This one is really good, given how carefully the White House Press Secretary was dancing around the issue and trying to push discussion to the Department of Defense today, and how Hegseth's comments today were very carefully worded (while allowing for the possibility of the admiral taking the fall if the heat is too high). I fully expected them to come out and say "fuck you, they are combatants who were a threat to Amerka and we had to kill them" but instead they are being extremely cautious with their language. The interesting thing is that Trump this weekend said Hegseth told him that it didn't happen (two guys being killed after the boat was blown up) and then the DOD/White House couched their statements in a generic/vanilla way today. If Hegseth lied to Trump, that's a cardinal sin - Trump can lie to anybody at any time, but if you lie to him and he's called out for it, you're in deep shit and out of the trust circle.
  23. It's extremely high there. I have been pestering a bunch of the Ukraine/Russia folks I follow to move to BlueSky, and some have, but the problem is that a lot of them have audiences that don't care about/know about BlueSky or don't care about Musk or bots. Ironic because that area keeps getting flooded with Russian and African bots/trolls given the topics at hand.
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