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musk should not be part of the equation for National Security or Foreign Policy, Civil or Military.

Grassley and Johnson want to keep spreading Russian propaganda so they charge the informed public servants that warned them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

A new assessment released this week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies contends that the Army's overseas combat posture is stronger on paper than in practice. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

In 2024 Seven major U.S. health insurers recorded $71.3 billion in combined profits. That's not healthcare.....that's a racket.

Autocrats are working together. Why aren't democracies? Nearly a year after publishing Autocrats vs. Democrats, I'm more convinced than ever that we need stronger democratic alliances & more international cooperation. But under Trump, I sometimes question which side we're on.

So, we no longer rely on West Point or Annapolis but a elon musk, arich man who's gutted the government and taken more than generous contracts from the US,and has absolutely no training ? Right got it. How long are republicans going to keep digging the US into a hole it will never climb out of ?

If those who are pardoned in the trump administration have committed high crime against the USA no pardon should be legally accepted that protects them from prosecution.

Is it clear yet that trump "The Great Pretender" is a russian asset ?

I arose. And Lo I turned water into Coffee.

Excellent read.....please take a moment

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ICYMI: A U.S. military strike Tuesday on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean killed four people, according to U.S. Central Command, bringing the death toll in the Trump administration's campaign to stop alleged traffickers in Latin America to at least 227. From Stars and Stripes' Matthew Adams:

We all know why they are hiding the epstein files. And we know why cannon sealed Jack Smith's investigation. They believe that if the truth is not openly released, they are "innocent" and can not be prosecuted. We have a criminal elite in control of critical government departments.

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This guy nails it. 🎯

Out like a light

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A real president does not decide state matters on whims. Tearing down White House, building an arch monument to himself, attacking foreign countries. Jeopardizing the world's oil supplies. Threatening NATO. Playing the big boss on the world stage and bankrupting the US like his hotel/casino.

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Any other president in the history of the US who spoke and acted like trump would have either stepped down or been forced by congress to leave. The man-child has no ethics or integrity.

Now that trump has disrupted oil supplies NATO has a problem getting fuel for its aircraft and other military vehicles. He has single handedly benefitted putin. He has done nothing for the US or its allies. Now he wants to abandon NATO. It is obvious trump works for putin.

The department of justice is conducting a coverup of the epstein files. Toss in judge cannon for sealing Jack Smith's investigation. There's more than sex, drugs, bribery, and extortion....expect espionage and classified info sold through epstein. Expect treason at the highest levels of government.

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trump is no better than putin

FBI laid off agents who worked on the mar-a-lagoon documents case. They knew too much. Someday, it will be revealed that epstein was dealing in espionage and his island was a focal point to draw people in positions of power with access to government information, including trump.

The massive epstein coverup makes the entire trump administration criminals.

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Nothing to see here…just more criminals buying their way out prison.

The epstein files, and the names of every person involved, has turned into a massive cover-up by our doj, fbi, and the "republicans" of Congress. These agencies have committed crimes to shelter criminals from prosecution. These people need to be held accountable and arrested for their crimes.

Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."

Threatening an allied Nato country should be immediate dismissal from office of a president and every one involved.

Fiona Hill.

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

Remember all that talk about draining the swamp ? Now it's overflowing.

Trump as alienated all of our closest and most loyal allies while aligning himself and his policies with the world's most blood-thirsty dictators. The Kremlin has praised Trump's new National Security Strategy (NSS) for being "completely in line with Russian policies."

The heritage foundation: The kind of "conservatives" who dream of bringing back Germany 1938 in the USA under the guise of free speech.

Boy, he's really got delusions of grandeur. He wants all the trappings of culture but hasn't earned one iota. He wants to be acknowledged as an important historic personage even though he lacks any qualities that would distinguish him. Now he wants a Triumphant Arch.

Once again, senior Trump officials are caught lying under oath. After DOJ told a federal judge that an acting US District Attorney independently decided to prosecute Kilmar Obrego, DOJ's own documents prove they were lying and that orders came from the top. It is now the Department of Injustice

Putin:15 years as a foreign intelligence officer in East Germany. working with the secret police focusing on foreign intelligence.The US has the hallmarks of being infiltrated at the highest levels of government. trump favors Putin and appears to seek his advice. Putin is way out of trump's league.

We no longer have a president in the sense of a democratic-republic. The government of the US has been compromised. trump sides with the totalitarianism of putin, not the Constitution and people of the USA. Let's not forget: "republicans" have led the country down the path to Tyranny.

trump compiling "evidence" about 2020 election looks like over compensation of a guilty conscience trying to tidy up loose ends and cover its tracks. It's also a very russian approach of using false evidence to stress someone else is guilty and make it publicly accepted, as well as legally binding.

Have to wonder

Pathogens don't care if you say, "It's Just Weather" or "It's Climate Change". All they care about are conditions in which they can multiply. It's basic cause and effect even if you don't believe it. It still happens. When it does, we need people to figure it out. And it ain't people like kennedy.

If Richard Nixon had done half the things trump has, he would have been skewered. That was during a time when Republicans still had some ethics and moral integrity.

Google "Tangential Speech" and tell me who you think this describes.

Brian Wilson. R.I.P.