Here we go again.

#mepolitics

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.

You dumb chucklefuck.

I will once again posit you could win with >70% if the vote with the simple "Police settlements come out of their pension fund, not the city funds" policy.

Hegseth sneered about the military's logistical experts, and now he's got ships stuck with sailors almost starving on them.

But he's still sure the dismissive attitude about the flu won't come back to bite him.

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

So when it comes to beards and hairstyles, discipline requires strict conformity. When it comes to contracting and spreading a preventable illness that directly affects unit readiness, follow your bliss, man.

It’s the reason we don’t have universal healthcare imo. Some white folks would rather die than see Black people get anything at all

Free speech absolutism.

Them: Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the society that made it possible
Me: Ah yes Silicon Valley *should* pay more taxes
Them: Not like that

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Exactly one year ago today:

Screenshot of a tweet by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) quoting Trump speaking on Fox Business about Justice Ginsburg, implying a Democrat could have appointed her replacement — with the note that Ginsburg actually died in September 2020 while Trump was president. A Fox Business chyron reads "Trump on the Supreme Court Justices."

He is “not exactly a young” president. Just saying.

This is…rather telling and incredible.

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"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

Republicans: "I don't appreciate this partisan attack on the President."

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JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

I think the plan is 10 books

Non-agricultural people are being ignorant about the difference and uses of hay and straw in my mentions as a result of this discussion so let's break it all down in broad strokes but finer than these to explain why no one is using hay for a mattress in a medieval setting.

When the White House released their ridiculous “weaponization of government” report, claiming the Biden administration discriminated against conservatives, the press lapped it up

Meanwhile today the Trump DOJ looked to vacate convictions against seditionists and Tulsi Gabbard did this

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Mike Johnson: “There’s something called the ‘just war doctrine’...”

Catholic bishops:

Can confirm

Shameful for us. Totally reasonable response from Zelensky.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology.

This is a serious escalation.

But hey, remember when nobody wanted to fight for universal healthcare? Because it was pie in the sky? How’s that working out? Any follow up on that?

The test question of our time: who was President in 2020?

"the Pope needs to be more careful with theology" lol the hubris is weapons-grade

The vice president is there with a Secret Service detail, but sure

A tweet quoting JD Vance defending Trump’s post depicting himself as Jesus as a joke, with a Fox News screenshot of Vance speaking and a chyron about a “controversial post.”

It's Schrödinger’s joke: It only decides to be a joke when you open the box to ask why Trump said it.