That one guy.

@FPWellman Even if he was any of those things, none of them disqualifies him from the office, ESPECIALLY as people like you define them.

Hegseth is a racist, a bigot, a sexist, and a white Christian Nationalist. He is the most dangerous member of Trump’s very malevolent Cabinet. He must be removed. The Republican Doormat Congress is the failure.

@Jiggser @KurtSchlichter A guy can dream.

@flyoverflower @KurtSchlichter The US won't leave NATO - I can guarantee it.

The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.

@SamanthaTaghoy Pretty good argument for banning all unions.

Once again, little boys are being targeted while the British State ignores the obvious problem. British boys aren’t gang-raping little white girls above kebab shops. British boys aren’t forcing 6 year old girls to marry them. British boys aren’t stabbing little girls to death at a dance class. British boys aren’t flogging, beating, torturing, and stoning women for daring to show their hair. British boys aren’t banning girls from going to school or getting a basic education. British boys aren’t forcing kidnapping women and forcing them into sexual slavery. British boys aren’t stripping away women’s basic rights, freedoms, and autonomy. British boys are NOT the problem.

@BarackObama @redistrictact Doesn't disenfranchise a single person who is smart enough to be able to legally buy cigarettes.

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@arunp2810 And who is currently giving the US its first clear military victory since 1991 and before then WWII.

Irony. US Army chief, Gen George, rose from Private to distinguished 4-star rank, via West Point, only to be fired by a former National Guard Major who rose to cabinet rank via Fox News & Trump’s patronage.

@Jiggser @KurtSchlichter NATO can go take care of NATO from now on without the US.

@KurtSchlichter Trump must have known he'd likely get negative responses, the attacks were technically illegal, and anyway NATO is solely for defence. Mind you, if he had discussed it with his allies before the surprise attacks he might have got more co-operation.

@gerardtbaker Not interested. You repudiated an alliance because you didn't like who that country elected. This WILL lead to dark places.

The casuistry here is remarkable. This is the simple reality: Like most Americans, most Europeans think this war is a bad idea.Their governments are being asked to take a huge risk by a man who has proved unreliable, volatile and intemperate over and over. Who would do that?

@shanaka86 Don't care. The executive has the perogative to set the staff. Obama used this A LOT, firing a LOT of generals and admirals, which is how we got marine recruiting commercials with rainbow colored cartridges.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@porterstansb A guy was murdered with a hammer. We need common sense hammer control. I can just go buy one at the hardware store for God's sake, no background check or anything!

Race has nothing to do with this. The problem is guns, not people.

@CAgovernor So you are saying your entire coastal economy is about half what you allowed to slip through in fraud during your tenure?

Trump knew his war with Iran would raise gas prices. Now he wants to illegally resurrect a pipeline shut down by courts and facing criminal charges. And it won't even cut prices. I refuse to let Trump sacrifice Californians, our environment, or our $51 billion coastal economy.

@JeffreyLuscombe They cost a borrowed Musk's fortune to pretend to build while palms get greased, no track gets laid, and politicians preen. It's no wonder Leftists love it and conservatives hate it.

Why do Conservatives hate this so much? Anyone?

@MileiSays Being born in "the wrong body" is not a thing. But if it was, Milei would be an American born in a body that just happens to be Argentinian. And Bukele the same, except Salvadoran and maybe an American from about 150 years ago.

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.” “But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

@IraninSA Persians did those things. Not Islamist tyrants.

Stone Age? At a time when you were still in caves searching for fire, we were inscribing human rights on the Cyrus Cylinder. We endured the storm of Alexander and the Mongol invasions and remained; because Iran is not just a country, it is a civilization.

@1776General_ Obama fired way more than that. So did Lincoln. So did other presidents.

Hegseth has fired over 12 generals.

@AdversusN Maybe you share his issue.

Guys I'm beginning to think that the people who insisted that Biden had advanced dementia two years ago were lying to us.

@RichardGlyn99 @Schizointel Who is dumber, a bot or he who engages what he believes to be a bot?

@Schizointel Jesus F-g Christ on a bike. Ascension in British. Are you going out of your way to out yourself as a clueless MAGA bot?

We literally did. We gave over 200 sidewinder missiles. We provided satellite imagery and intelligence sharing, and the aviation fuel needed to sustain UK military operations and gave the United Kingdom the use of Ascension Island and we also offered to literally loan them the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2).

@squawk_hawk @bungarsargon Hell, the end of this term is probably right about the time I retire to east Africa. Tell me why I should care.

@bungarsargon Enjoy your time bootlicking. You will be nothing once this man's reign is over. You tied yourself to a sinking ship.

This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote. What's sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election. So much of their hatred of Trump is just an attempt to evade recognizing that democracy—their neighbors getting what they want when they vote in greater numbers—causes them searing psychic pain.

@CAgovernor You men the federally-funded programs run by California and overseen by the California governor? I seriously would live in any southern state before I would move to CA, and I am a lifelong Minnesotan.

The Trump Administration — home to the biggest fraudsters on Earth — is trying to blame California for issues with THEIR federal programs. Glad to see the Feds finally taking seriously the fraud in the programs they themselves manage...only 15 months after Trump took office.

@TIME Good lord.

Historians may remember the performance as one of the most unflinching acts of musical and theatrical resistance mounted against Trump—or any President, for that matter—in the nation’s history time.com/article/2026/0…

@TheDemocrats Health care should not be a concern for the federal government. It didn't used to be, until they decided to make it much more expensive and riddle it with graft.

$1.5 trillion for bombs, but nothing for health care.