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  1. Consider that speech the launch point of his Crusade for Neo-Nazi Dignity. My valve is acting up.
  2. I was mostly talking about the people at MSC, who for decades have gotten our private assurances that we don’t mean the batshit things we tweet.
  3. Every GOP politician in America is fully capable of giving a speech that boils down to “they say we need to worry about Russia and China, but the real enemy is Woke.” I will concede that even now most of the GOP that is worldy enough to travel abroad resist giving that speech to a room full of the CHODs and Defense Ministers we hope might help us fight Russia or China if needed.
  4. No one in that hall was stunned by Vance’s brilliance or eloquence. They were stupefied at one of the most insane and counter-productive speeches ever delivered by an American elected leader overseas. Despite what Americans may believe, Europeans are actually rather less alarmist about America and more inclined to think we will ultimately be normal and it is shocking to see a representative of the superpower behave like Viktor Orban because deep down they still think we are a serious country. The speech wasn’t for them, it was entirely performance art for the base back home. MSC is always partly a showcase for Americans to do that— but the genius of Trump is his ability to make all the implicit scuzzines of politics extremely explicit.
  5. Just to be clear, there are no federal workers being laid off. No one has implemented the federal version of that yet, a RIF. All these probationary employees are being told they’re released for unsatisfactory performance. That’s because even in a probationary role, indiscriminate mass firings are illegal. But it is easy to release a “poor performer” in that period with less documentation and no appeal rights. So they just lie and say everyone was a poor performer. It’s a super shitty thing to do.
  6. Who could have seen that libertarians would end up being the biggest cringe bootlickers of all?
  7. Hannity is going to get a “joint” interview with Musk and Trump from the White House. Has a sitting POTUS EVER done a “joint” interview with another American? I am struggling with my historical analogy. Am I watching Diocletian create the tetrarchy? Am I a Russian titular councillor trying to understand why Rasputin is speaking for the Tsar? Regardless, I think any historian will have to write that in 2025 the U.S. experimented with a dual executive system. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5146248-trump-elon-musk-hannity-fox-news-doge/amp/
  8. The lawyers are the first to show the most courage. Thank you SDNY Assistant Attorney General.
  9. There is not one. That’s really true, it doesn’t exist beyond what the Oval burps up from day to day.
  10. Russia won, yall. Not the it’s war on Ukraine. Russia captured a U.S. political party and its supporters and won. It’s over except for the formalities. Good work all around everyone.
  11. The Yasen M is a problem for our (and Allies) surface fleet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not popping off like Hesgeth. It’s not existential. But it’s a problem. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-defence-systems/yasen-m-and-future-russian-submarine-forces
  12. The Yasen-M class is a very capable boat and the Improved Kilo II is as well. The latter is a diesel-electric but it is astoundingly quiet and well-armed. The Russian military has pockets of competence and investment and the submarine service is one of them. The Chinese would very much like to have boats as capable as the Russians.
  13. Russia has some submarines that are a serious fucking problem for us.
  14. On the other hand, there is this.
  15. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/top-federal-prosecutor-ny-resigns-told-drop-adams-charges-rcna192030 In a stunning rebuke, all the officials with a sense of ethics and morals have left the justice department while the ones who do crimes are staying and facing no consequences. It’s unclear how Trump will weather this storm.
  16. Mitch McConnell is now living out his twilight years in a hell completely of his own making.
  17. lol. “You can’t quit, I’m firing you.”
  18. Look, healthy multiparty proportional representation is my goal but if I can’t have that then I’ll just have to support the next best thing— the authoritarian party that is destroying constitutional checks and balances and handing state capacity to tech oligarchs. Stop debating the cowards and enemies.
  19. Look, I’m ready to accept getting doped up and having orgy-porgy at the feelies every Friday. Sign me up and I’ll quit the resistance.
  20. These are all going to be ambassadorial representational vehicles that are not used for anything more than driving between the official residence and the embassy and then receptions. They will maintain a fleet of up-armored SUVs and older sedans for long-haul trips and each mission will have an ICE backup or two. It’s absolutely waste in that putting these things in places with no charging infrastructure other than the residence and embassy means that you can’t use them for emergency evacuations and longer trips. What this is really about is Tesla getting to have its cars festooned with flags and in motorcades.
  21. Honestly they should give every Trump political ambo a Cybertruck and make him use it.
  22. Didn’t see it, mea culpa. LOL, enjoy everyone. The VIP car with flags flying and the police escort in every country is gonna be a fucking Tesla. The new “standard of the world.”
  23. They sent this out on a big blast and so it also went to plenty of non employees who had .gov email addresses. Contractors, uniformed service on detail, others. It’s all so dumb.
  24. This is just the procurement forecast and so other cost centers won’t be here. INL aviation isn’t a procurement. That many armored Teslas, I have to think the plan is to make Tesla the new default Ambo car instead of the existing Caddys.
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