He's gonna learn. When the flu sweeps through barracks, he'll lose not only readiness but morale. It will be dire.
Unfortunately, the soldiers and personnel will bear the brunt of this decision.
(Of course, this is an extension of Hegseth's religious war against science. There will be casualties.)
No, it does not.
Each member of the administration deserving of removal would need to be impeached and removed individually.
Your interpretation is, as stated, misinformation. You should delete your post.
Ultimately, the dynamic you describe is one where the left is seen as eminently provocative, wherein rightward reaction is not irrational but, rather, logical and proper.
It seems simple enough: centrists see centrism as the only winning path w/r/t the electorate, so even liberal commentators happily punch left when diagnosing its ills, as that keeps their own position relatively center (which, tautologically speaking, guarantees victory).
They are not left.
IIRC, several people on the ground saw Crooks climb the structure and told officials. Authorities did not address those real-time concerns and warnings.
Beyond that, if security couldn't, you know, secure all the structures, the event should've been held indoors. Incompetence of the highest order.
I think the general idea originates with Mussolini, who began on the left but went on to found fascism as a political ideology. This is an incident of history and says little to nothing about the fact that fascism is a RW phenomenon.
Neoconservatives also famously migrated L to R. Changes nothing.
These same people are the ones who swear that universities are engaged in viewpoint discrimination.
For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.
IIRC, the life expectancy of the average American at the turn of the 20th century was 47 years old. It simply was uncommon to live very long. Lots of diseases; no antibiotics.
Washington famously warned against "factions" (what we would now recognize as parties).
Yes, but O'Brien is of the belief that something "snapped" in just the last week. He's very much wrong on this. It just became *patently undeniable* in that timeframe. bsky.app/profile/nova...
Right. The Experiment has failed. We must start anew.
More Jesus analogies, eh?
Kissinger? I could have sworn it was Daniel Ellsberg who came up with that theory.
That item was revised within days of the incident. The going theory (such as it is) is that a shard from a nearby teleprompter's screen slashed the ear.
I've been waiting for a forensic report on the incident ever since it happened. It should raise suspicions that one has never been released.
What this whole phenomenon shows is that the things guys do to impress other guys aren't what impresses women. These confused young men do not seem to understand the difference.
If you’re angry that activists raised their voices in 2023 & '24 because it endangered the presidential election, you really need to re-examine your ethics.
Biden was content to let this genocide unfold on his watch. Many of his supporters turned a blind eye. This was wrong in every respect.
There’s no other way to stop genocide once it starts. It takes a groundswell of voices to get leaders to act. Had more people in the US agitated against our involvement, we might have been able to stop the crime at a critical juncture and saved many lives.
Political inconvenience is not a valid reason to stay silent in the face of such crimes.
I had an ethical obligation to tell others what was going on. I did that after I examined what constitutes genocide under int’l law. I read the works of scholars, then spoke out.
Great that you saw that destruction of aquifers = genocide. It strikes me that you were content to let the leader of our country continue to fund and enable the wholesale destruction across Gaza & wanted people to shush.
Do you understand? We all, individually, have a responsibility to speak out against such heinous crimes. This is especially true at the beginning of such conflicts, when they can still be stopped. The whole point is to raise awareness so that pressure can be put on govts to intervene.
I spoke out against the genocide as soon as I recognized one was unfolding. That’s my obligation not only as a citizen of the country subsidizing & underwriting the violence, but also as a fellow human being seeing such a monstrous crime taking place.
It’s true that I was late to the issue, for various reasons. I was ignorant of the entire situation until Oct 7 and Israel’s subsequent response. But I got up to speed very quickly.
Apologies for not getting back to you until now. I was severely affected by the Bsky outage from a couple of days ago and could not reply.
I will say that your response here stuck with me, for reasons you may not even understand.
If you’re really curious about my take on this, you can read this essay. novapsyche.substack.com/p/no-dearbor...
What I think doesn’t fit into these tiny Bluesky boxes.
And there is no pretense. Uncommitted sprang up as a msg to Biden that he needed to change his foreign policy w/r/t Israel or risk losing votes. He chose to ignore them right out of the gate, which gave the mvmt legs. We could argue why Biden did that, but his response is what perpetuated the mvmt.
"A Harris organizer who worked on youth turnout said that senior campaign officials gave them an order: When they sent out mass volunteer or fundraising emails and people replied by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as 'no response.' The result? They seldom ended up engaging with voters on that issue. "'We also didn’t create a new category for Gaza responses out of fear that category would be leaked. Instead we were told to mark them as "no response,"' the organizer said, faulting top Harris campaign leaders for failing to address the issue. 'The only "clowns" out there are those who were in senior leadership and decided to abdicate on this issue, who silenced a Palestinian speaker at the DNC, and who told us to ignore it every time a voter asked us about Gaza.'" -- excerpt from NBCNews.com, "'Uncommitted' leaders stand by 2024 strategy after Trump floats Gaza takeover," February 5, 2025 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/uncommitted-leaders-stand-2024-strategy-trump-floats-gaza-takeover-rcna190782
Yes, they did. Perhaps you are not aware. But your lack of awareness does not mean that it did not happen.
This facile answer disregards the reality on the ground at the time. Biden went around Congress twice to give Israel MORE money than what's legally required annually. Many billions were sent to Israel this way, precisely because it was running out of money & munitions.
And you STILL are not putting the blame where it belongs. Harris and her team decided to excise Gaza-first voters. Either they expected them to “come home” and/or thought they could make up the difference with moderate Republican voters.
They made a horrendous bet. And we all lost.
Your reply indicates that, after all this time, you still don’t understand what the demonstrations & agitation was about. Those of us pushing Biden & Harris to take the correct, ethical stand WANTED THEM TO WIN. Holding hands with genocide is what did them in. They needed to course-correct.