this would enrage the politicians in Congress and in the general public.
Where's the concern? The questions? The Congressional hearings? The explanations from the POTUS and his Secretary of Defense?
From Axios:
"Two key reasons led to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation, announced Monday: the feeling that his modernization initiatives were being blocked, and the chaos created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's firing of senior generals.
Why it matters: Driscoll's wartime resignation, on top of Hegseth's firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George this spring, leaves the military's largest service without Senate-confirmed leadership, civilian or uniformed.
Behind the scenes: Driscoll recently spoke with President Trump and expressed his concerns about the state of the Army. Another person described the situation to Axios simply: 'Sad.' "
A White House official said Driscoll was asked to stay longer, until after midterms. But Driscoll told the White House he felt like it was time for him to go.
Driscoll is expected to leave the Pentagon in the coming days, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported his resignation."
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The Empire, rotting from the top, continues its descent towards eventual collapse.
Hegseth has ruined and degraded our military. I suspect that was the goal.
Sure wouldn't let him play with my toy soldiers.
Here's how corrupt the GOP has become under Trump. Good honorable men are being jettisoned from our military, simply because they disagree with a childlike Sec Def.
Not because they are disobeying orders, because they dare to question the orders before saying "yessir".
But there's more, as there always is with the GOP, and literally all their silent enablers, quiet head nodding supporters and blogging sycophants.
In Texas, the GOP is running scared. Why? Because TX senate candidate Ken Paxton is, according to even some Republicans there, the most corrupt politician they've ever seen. Not just corrupt, the most corrupt. Not just a little corrupt. The most corrupt.
Supporters like Mark Levine, Ted Cruz and more are even online not defending Paxton, but rather telling their supporters we know Paxton's a clown and is a terrible candidate. But turn out and vote for him anyways because without him, we'll lose the Senate.
Think about that, from what used to be the party that argued private immorality disqualifies a person from public leadership. The final nail is now in that coffin, signaling all the hand wringing during the Clinton and other Democratic admins was in fact, just a partisan ploy.
They have now been reduced to begging a felonious, lying president who has cheated on multiple marriages to spend his personal money to "save" the Texas Senate seat and bail out Paxton. And stand by Hegseth.
Your GOP.
The good people of Texas have to make a decision: honor and decency over moral and political corruption. If Paxton prevails, knowing what a morally and politically corrupt human being he is, then I have no hope for this country.
A common framework among religious conservatives is the idea that God often uses deeply flawed individuals to achieve righteous goals. This allows voters to maintain their personal moral standards while supporting a leader who does not live by them.
This is why it is highly likely that Paxton, THE MOST CORRUPT CANDIDATE TEXANS HAVE EVER SEEN, will probably win over Talarico.
The old saying, "A fish rots from the head," is apt here in trying to explain how the Republican Party has completely lost its moral compass.
Shaw posted... "A common framework among religious conservatives is the idea that God often uses deeply flawed individuals to achieve righteous goals.
Certainly... but conservative Christianity mostly rejected that theology when it was politically expedient. Witness how they crucified MLK for his marriage dalliances... And then Clinton, leading to the moralistic statements from Xtian leaders and politicians that I cited above.
It wasn't until Trump came along that they decided to jettison their prior views and adopt the Cyrus model of the corrupt sinner king, who is used by God for the good of the Kingdom.
They've never explained why the switch, what's different today from the MLK and Clinton eras and how Trump, a la Cyrus, is blessing essentially the church.
It really is 100% partisan and they, along with everyone else, know it. They're just struggling to find a way to explain their personal and corporate corruption and support of it, all for access to power.
The Hebrews tolerated Cyrus, sure. And in return, Cyrus did not wipe them out and let them live. They saw God using him. But the never excused the immorality of his actions the way the conservative evangelical world has done with Trump and the GOP.
There is a difference, whether they choose to accept that reality or not.
The clarity relative to the Republican and Empire Christianity hypocrisy grows daily.
As the mid terms draw even closer the panic, lying, a nd hypocrisy will only intensify.
What you posted is the truth. MLK, Jr., was a great Civil Rights leader with a sketchy marital fidelity past. Bill Clinton was a policy wonk, and he both balanced the federal budget and paid down a portion of the publicly held national debt, two things that were very important to the GOP. Not anymore.
In fact, I don't know what is important to the GOP anymore, except worshipping Trump.
Trump has fallen significantly short of his pledged quota to deport one million people per year during his second term.
Barack Obama deported significantly more undocumented people than Donald Trump during an equivalent six-year period in office. Anyone can look this up to verify.
Are you paying attention, skud? You never fail to remind people that the Democrats want "open borders." But that is false. "The Swell Guy," as you've often referred to Mr. Obama, actually in 6 years, equivalent to Trump's 6 years in office, deported more undocumented people than Trump has. And without the Gestapo-like actions taken by Trump's ICE goons. And no Americans citizens were shot and killed in their streets while Mr. Obama was deporting the undocumented.
WE don't have universal health care, our energy costs are high, and food costs are unsustainable.
Women in MAGA states have to bleed out before they can receive normal abortion health care when their pregnancies go bad. Maternal mortality in Texas rose 56% in the first full year following the state's early abortion ban, outpacing the 11% rise seen nationwide during the same timeframe.
So, can anyone tell me how tolerating Trump's moral and political corruption has enhanced life in America?
Anyone?
I fear you are correct, Les.
Putin's puppets are doing a bang up job in undermining our democracy and military capabilities.
We see our CIA director went to the Kremlin for more orders and missions.
Shaw... as it relates to the Obama deportations...
No person I've met across all of my travels in Mexico, including over 30 years, 14 states and countless cities, has ever said they have a right to enter, repopulate, or otherwise immigrate to the US. They believe every country has a right to strong, secure borders.
And they are aware of the Obama deportations and as you all might imagine, the Trump deportations.
They come to the states to work. If they can't get here legally, they try and come illegally, to work. To support their wives, children and families. And they know they can be deported at any moment.
They live with it.
But here's what I've heard the last many months from people there. [Paraphrased] "We get it. We go and if you catch us, you deport us. That's how the game is played. You need workers, we're workers who will do the jobs your ppl don't want, for essentially, chump change.
"And if we get caught, so be it. We'll be back though, because like we need you, you need us."
Just do it humanly they say. Like Obama did. And with dignity.
Scream it from the mountaintops. President Obama is the biggest Deporter in Chief in the history of the US. But he did so humanely.
Why can't POTUS Trump do that?
Ms. Shaw, I should change it the biden democrats supported open borders because before him even the swell guy had the borders under control and most democrats supported border security.
You mentioned that trump has not deported one million border crossers and you are correct nor has he decreased food costs from the biden years of rapid increases.
I still have no reason for entering into a military action against iran. Why did people support trump is a fair and easy question to answer. There was not a competent and reasonable choice.
You mention how can the GOP support trump. The same question how could the DSA/DNC support biden. Trump is not fit for the job and biden was mentally incompetent and even after that was documented the DSA still supported him.
"Overall grocery and food prices increased by roughly 20% to 25% during the Biden administration, though economists attribute this inflation to a complex mix of global and domestic factors rather than direct presidential control.
Causes of Higher Food Costs Pandemic and Supply Chains: Global disruptions from COVID-19 lockdowns created massive bottlenecks in processing, packaging, and transporting goods.
Global Shocks: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drastically spiked international grain and fertilizer prices, while domestic outbreaks of avian flu drove up poultry and egg costs."
It is your OPINION, not a fact, that the Democrats did not offer a competent and reasonable choice in the 2024 election. VP Harris had more experience in government than Trump did, even including his second term. Trump was a one-term president at the time who still was ignorant about how government worked and our own American history.
Trump learned nothing during his first term, except how to grift more, lie more, and break laws with impunity, thanks to the SCOTUS.
I'm pretty sure Ms. Harris wouldn't have destroyed 1/3 of the WH, had a wrestlers on the WH lawn, turned the Oval Office into a place that looks like King Midas threw up in it, close down the Kennedy Center after trying to put his name in front of Kennedy's. And more, and more, and more of this sick, malignant narcissist's corruption.
skud is delusional. Either that or he would prefer either an anarchist or an Attila the Hun. Because Kamala Harris had more qualifications than trump has ever had at anything and would have more likely than not been light years superior to trump.
Ms. Shaw, Once prices go up it is difficult to bring them down and with production costs of food rising I don't see how food prices will decrease. The exception to that is gasoline and if the conflict with iran is ever over gas prices will fall. Never as fast as they rise but they will fall. Maybe they will fall enough to replenish the petroleum reserve that biden plundered.
As to harris, she is so qualified she can't even get support from democrat leaders. Dropped out of a primary without one vote and lost to a hated individual in an election. Not the performance one would look for.
Well, skud, you're wrong. Harris lost to Trump by 1.5 percentage points.
Losing by 1.5 percentage points in a general US presidential election is considered very close. In modern American politics, any national popular vote margin under 2 to 3 percentage points is typically classified as a "margin-of-error" or highly competitive election.
To understand how narrow a 1.5-point gap is, consider the popular vote margins in the 2020 election. Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by about 4.5 percentage points (51.3% to 46.8%). Very big!
Harris's performance, contrary to your OPINION, not fact, was exceptional, considering the questionable influence Elon Musk had in the election -- one quarter of a BILLION dollars given to Trump's candidacy!
Considering Harris had to pull together a presidential campaign in one month's time and with only 3 months until the general election, she did spectacularly well.
This is why millions of Americans have questions about the Trump win.
Again, you're entitled to you low opinion of Harris, but that opinion is not fact.
I forgot to add that Trump DID NOT WIN THE POPULAR VOTE -- AGAIN!
More people voted for someone else rather than Trump.
Trump lost the popular vote in the 2016 election and the 2024 election.
The electoral college vote allows an unpopular candidate to win elections.
Not very democratic. We're the only country that does not elect the leader of our country by popular vote.
The EC is a left-over device that favored the slave states.
"he Electoral College significantly favored slave states in the early decades of the United States. This advantage was not a coincidence; it was primarily driven by the Three-Fifths Compromise, which allowed Southern states to count 60% of their disenfranchised, enslaved populations toward their total population counts. Because a state's number of electoral votes is tied directly to its total congressional representation, this deal artificially inflated the political power of white Southern voters at the executive level."
If you look at the win loss column harris was in the loss side even if it was by one vote. Your argument is very thin because a lot more people voted for someone else than harris.
Since neither one won a majority how do you suggest we anoint a leader. Maybe the same way the DNC/DSA does appoint him because he is harmless and we can control him.
The EC is in place so the smaller states count in a national election. That goes against the wishes of the left and right coasts but how else can the less populated have a say.
Your last statement should have read white Southern Democrats because that is what and who they were.
Even though Hakeem is himself a muslim (albeit a 'crypto-muslim' who hides it pretty well), I guess he is not jihadi enough to satisfy the Abdul El-Sayeds and the Rula Jebreals of the world
President Trump Mopped the Floor with Kamala Harris, who are you Kidding?
The fact is that Trump did not “ mop the floor with Kamala Harris.” You MAGA have been marinated in lies with Trump for so long that you don’t know fact from fiction. You’ve been bamboozled by a conman! 🤪
But it's a bamboozle that makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside. That is all that matters to the MAGAs of trumpistan.
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