"there are a whole lot of people out there who really believe that the United States of America should get to go around doing whatever it wants to other countries without ever expecting any retaliation" They are the same guys who really believe that they, as individuals, should get to go around doing whatever they want to other people without anyone else fighting back, resisting, or even complaining
The Trump administration will keep the $70m jet Kristi Noem leased during her time as homeland security secretary, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a department spokesperson and other officials. Select cabinet secretaries and first lady Melania Trump willl have access to the luxury jet, a Boeing 737-Max equipped with a queen-size bed, showers, a kitchen, four flat-screen TVs and a bar.
While leading the Department of Homeland Security, Noem said the agency had leased the plane for deportation flights. The $70m jet was among three luxury planes that Noem faced criticism for obtaining with taxpayer dollars: she also spent $200m on two private Gulfstream jets for herself and deputy DHS secretary Troy Edgar.
Trump announced he was replacing Noem as head of DHS last month, after a series of highly publicized ICE killings in Minnesota.
And we'll just rinse and repeat and continue this long, slow descent into oblivion instead of getting it all the fuck over with and maybe have a chance of changing our system.
Oh, sweet fluffy lord, the man is actually going with "we'll be greeted as liberators".
Son, who in the ever-loving FUCK do you think will EVER assist US forces overseas? MULTPLE TIMES now we've just abandoned people who helped us, leaving them to be murdered by everyone who knows they helped us. Oh sure, we promised we'd get them and their families out. But we lied to them. Or, more recently, we brought them here and then ICE snatched them up and sent them back.
NOONE believes the US is going to help them out. And with how we've been indiscriminately bombing shit and how Trump has been blathering about how we're going to just wipe the entire country out, you think anyone is going to trust our soldiers over there?
If anything, Trump and Hegseth are doing more to drive up recruitment for terror organizations than anyone else ever has.
If the US had a decent system of regulation, we'd have far fewer of these animated dildoes "manning" the anchor desks of right wing tv. Wasn't Frothy (Santorum, for the forgetful) trying to outlaw sex toys some years ago?
"And Trump was in the Situation Room with no sleep for 48 hours"
This Higbie guy is a bald-faced liar. I suspect even his" "..I got hit by an Iranian built IED that killed three of my friends right next to me...." is even more bullshit, if not outright stolen valor. I guess he was a SEAL in Iraq - but he left his commitment before the end of term of duty, originally given an "honorable discharge" which was later changed to a "general" discharge, a not so honorable status ( he later appealed and got the "honorable discharge" back, but.... ). He lost his security clearance while he was serving, because he self-published a book using his status as a SEAL to spew out right wing propaganda. With this bullshit about not caring about war crimes, he should once again be4 stripped of his "honorable discharge"
IOW - this guy Higbie is just another reason why Newsmax is a piece of shit organization - they hire all the assholes who were unemployable elsewhere.
Vietnam was totes humane! Only two million people killed.
True, most of those killed were civilians who died from a nearly decade of indiscriminate bombing and shelling and dropping napalm and white phosphorus on villages (many of those villages in South Vietnam! -- you know, the people the US was "helping").
Because the people the fine people in charge of the US military were trying to kill were mainly just hanging out in the jungle, where they hid out and ambushed the poor 18-year-old kids from the US who were ordered to march around in those jungles until some Asian people started shooting at them. The Asian people mounted those ambushes when they thought they had the tactical advantage, killed as many of those all-American teenagers as they could, then melted away until the next game of hide and shoot. Fun for everyone!
I mean, what word other than "humane" could one use to describe that whole war? Just a dandy little showering of humane bombs and bullets and chemicals that burned the tender, young bodies of uncountable numbers of children.
Hey, at least they didn't grow up to be commies! The US of A was so humane to viciously murder them for their own good.
I'm sure those people who died and their survivors appreciated being freedomed to death.
Vietnam was a battleground America was not used to. The jungle surprised and defeated them May I posit that Iran is the same way? It’s a completely misunderstood battlefield.
And you could also get into how the bombing in Cambodia helped bring about Pol Pot's ascent to power.
Just a complete shitshow from start to finish.
Thanks Truman and Eisenhower and JFK and Johnson and Nixon and the many senators and US reps who made this all possible by funding it for more than two decades.
It was a complete, bloody shit show, which dragged on waaaay too long, and only ended when americans finally became fed up with seeing all the coffins coming home on their TVs.
I very vaguely remember a woman—maybe blonde, maybe in a pantsuit?—many years ago saying something like "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man who should have access to nuclear weapons."
Retired major general on Nicolle says destroying civil targets won't happen. Says there have already been pushbacks against Hegseth requests to attack bridges. But he still is concerned.
Not sure what that means. Military leadership. Said NO. Hegseth didn't order, but he did request. Not sure what would have happened if those were orders.
Another retired guy is saying military leadership know where the line is.
"there are a whole lot of people out there who really believe that the United States of America should get to go around doing whatever it wants to other countries without ever expecting any retaliation" They are the same guys who really believe that they, as individuals, should get to go around doing whatever they want to other people without anyone else fighting back, resisting, or even complaining
Awwwww. She lost her Playmate Jet!
The Trump administration will keep the $70m jet Kristi Noem leased during her time as homeland security secretary, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a department spokesperson and other officials. Select cabinet secretaries and first lady Melania Trump willl have access to the luxury jet, a Boeing 737-Max equipped with a queen-size bed, showers, a kitchen, four flat-screen TVs and a bar.
While leading the Department of Homeland Security, Noem said the agency had leased the plane for deportation flights. The $70m jet was among three luxury planes that Noem faced criticism for obtaining with taxpayer dollars: she also spent $200m on two private Gulfstream jets for herself and deputy DHS secretary Troy Edgar.
Trump announced he was replacing Noem as head of DHS last month, after a series of highly publicized ICE killings in Minnesota.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/07/government-shutdown-congress-house-of-representatives-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-ice-us-politics-latest-updates-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d5643d8f0815f2a879faab#block-69d5643d8f0815f2a879faab
Russia circa 2012.
“Not a peep, though, when I got hit by an Iranian built IED that killed three of my friends right next to me.”
There is NO WAY that this guy saw battle. No one who has been to one war thinks that another is good. Just no way!
forward he cried from the rear …
at the front men died …
generals sat while lines on a map …
moved from side to side …
hanging on in quiet desperation is now OUR way …
Stop the presses! New cease fire agreement offered. Deadline extension in the works! We may live to see another day...
Where are you seeing this?
TACO Tuesday!
And we'll just rinse and repeat and continue this long, slow descent into oblivion instead of getting it all the fuck over with and maybe have a chance of changing our system.
Offered, but not yet accepted.
Close enough for market futures.
Stop overreacting! He didn’t mean it! You’re being hysterical!
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‘There Will Be No Genocide Tonight’: Conservatives Rip Media ‘Hysteria’ Over Trump Iran Threat
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/there-will-be-no-genocide-tonight-conservatives-rip-media-hysteria-over-trump-iran-threat/
This will just normalize his shit even further.
When will it fucking end?
When we stop being "civil" and give him what he fucking deserves. And MAGA.
He's got about three and-a-half hours to decide.
"Gee somebody mentions ending civilizations and you all get up in a bunch!"
But if a guy posts seashells on twitter, now that’s sumpthin to get all het up about!
Shades of Buck Turgidson.
but he’ll see the BIG BOARD ! …
Oh, sweet fluffy lord, the man is actually going with "we'll be greeted as liberators".
Son, who in the ever-loving FUCK do you think will EVER assist US forces overseas? MULTPLE TIMES now we've just abandoned people who helped us, leaving them to be murdered by everyone who knows they helped us. Oh sure, we promised we'd get them and their families out. But we lied to them. Or, more recently, we brought them here and then ICE snatched them up and sent them back.
NOONE believes the US is going to help them out. And with how we've been indiscriminately bombing shit and how Trump has been blathering about how we're going to just wipe the entire country out, you think anyone is going to trust our soldiers over there?
If anything, Trump and Hegseth are doing more to drive up recruitment for terror organizations than anyone else ever has.
If anything Iranians are rallying around the Regime now...
BINGO.
If the US had a decent system of regulation, we'd have far fewer of these animated dildoes "manning" the anchor desks of right wing tv. Wasn't Frothy (Santorum, for the forgetful) trying to outlaw sex toys some years ago?
Frothy, Fuck Ted Cruz, and the Alabama State Lege, among others.
"And Trump was in the Situation Room with no sleep for 48 hours"
This Higbie guy is a bald-faced liar. I suspect even his" "..I got hit by an Iranian built IED that killed three of my friends right next to me...." is even more bullshit, if not outright stolen valor. I guess he was a SEAL in Iraq - but he left his commitment before the end of term of duty, originally given an "honorable discharge" which was later changed to a "general" discharge, a not so honorable status ( he later appealed and got the "honorable discharge" back, but.... ). He lost his security clearance while he was serving, because he self-published a book using his status as a SEAL to spew out right wing propaganda. With this bullshit about not caring about war crimes, he should once again be4 stripped of his "honorable discharge"
IOW - this guy Higbie is just another reason why Newsmax is a piece of shit organization - they hire all the assholes who were unemployable elsewhere.
Yeah. He may have been there for 48 hours but he was snoring, farting and drooling through most of it.
Vietnam was totes humane! Only two million people killed.
True, most of those killed were civilians who died from a nearly decade of indiscriminate bombing and shelling and dropping napalm and white phosphorus on villages (many of those villages in South Vietnam! -- you know, the people the US was "helping").
Because the people the fine people in charge of the US military were trying to kill were mainly just hanging out in the jungle, where they hid out and ambushed the poor 18-year-old kids from the US who were ordered to march around in those jungles until some Asian people started shooting at them. The Asian people mounted those ambushes when they thought they had the tactical advantage, killed as many of those all-American teenagers as they could, then melted away until the next game of hide and shoot. Fun for everyone!
I mean, what word other than "humane" could one use to describe that whole war? Just a dandy little showering of humane bombs and bullets and chemicals that burned the tender, young bodies of uncountable numbers of children.
Hey, at least they didn't grow up to be commies! The US of A was so humane to viciously murder them for their own good.
I'm sure those people who died and their survivors appreciated being freedomed to death.
Vietnam was a battleground America was not used to. The jungle surprised and defeated them May I posit that Iran is the same way? It’s a completely misunderstood battlefield.
"Don't do us any more favors."--Vietnam
Are you counting Cambodian and Laotian victims of Agent Orange and Landmines in that count?
Emphasis on "landmines": they still lurk by the thousands to this day.
I've been there and seen it with my own eyes...
"Those unexploded shells from 1914 through 1918 aren't a barrel of laughs, either." -- French farmers
I think the two million is just Vietnam.
And you could also get into how the bombing in Cambodia helped bring about Pol Pot's ascent to power.
Just a complete shitshow from start to finish.
Thanks Truman and Eisenhower and JFK and Johnson and Nixon and the many senators and US reps who made this all possible by funding it for more than two decades.
It was a complete, bloody shit show, which dragged on waaaay too long, and only ended when americans finally became fed up with seeing all the coffins coming home on their TVs.
yrrrrrr very own
smoking laaaaaaamp:
it lit!!
Maybe the Lord will call him home with a well-timed aneurysm.
Team Aneurysm
Freeing him from his sins
Or [REDACTED].
okay! back in time to attend to my self-appointed duties here, but I want to be a boastful boaster for a minute first:
first course: Midtown Oyster Bar (two black away, really) for three littlenecks and three oysters and a glass of prosecco
then, Chef Basil Yu's James Beard-awarded Yagi Noodles for moar than I can eat
a bottle of excellent but not my very best champagne is in the fridge nao
Mmmmm Now THAT is the way to go out at the End Of The World...perfect, Cap.
"...two black away..."
Are you a knight?
More of a rook I think.
heh!
autoconnect is my waist enema!
Nice Times. 👍
Arby d'Ar!
he's *NOT* invited!!
yarrrrr
I very vaguely remember a woman—maybe blonde, maybe in a pantsuit?—many years ago saying something like "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man who should have access to nuclear weapons."
Anyway, no way we could have seen this coming.
If she had smiled more we might have listened.
But no laughing!!
And less recipes in her emails
Fucking Anthony Weiner
Such a stupid dick.
I don't know what you all are complaining about. I voted to watch Alex Jones ride an atom bomb down while waving his cowboy hat and shouting yee haw.
-Newsmax
Retired major general on Nicolle says destroying civil targets won't happen. Says there have already been pushbacks against Hegseth requests to attack bridges. But he still is concerned.
Pushbacks in the active military?
Could it be that they finally understand unlawful orders?
Good.
Not sure what that means. Military leadership. Said NO. Hegseth didn't order, but he did request. Not sure what would have happened if those were orders.
Another retired guy is saying military leadership know where the line is.
like, the people that would be following the orders.
I'm guessing it never got that far because the leaders said no.
TACO Tuesday . . .
Then that’s it. Their wave has crested, and all that’s left is the splat at the bottom.
Nice. Splat!
I hate being wrong so I do my best to avoid being wrong.
A fine standard to keep to.