Atlas Rising

@brithume Absolutely. And I'll go a step further. I know many people who have a very hard time supporting him but do because of his policies, while despising this kind of abhorrent behavior. He's gonna lose some of those people, too. The won't vote Dem. They'll just sit out the midterms.

This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him. There was no need to say anything.

@Tim_Walz Just close one of those Learing Centers. There's your $250 million. You're welcome.

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

@ricodowdle .@EndzonePanthers: Cowboys and Rico fan here. You didn't save shit. Dude went out there and balled for you and earned the right to do whatever he wants. I wish he'd never left Dallas. And I can tell you from experience: If he circles you on the calendar, you better buckle up.

Never in my life!

@RichOToole I don’t live in Houston. But, it appears to me that she thinks that the rules don’t apply to her.

@mehdirhasan .@JesseBWatters, considering the source, I assume that you'll wear this as a badge of honor, as you should.

Jennings smiles and smirks as his fellow panelist talks about 170 massacred Iranian schoolchildren. He is the most loathsome man on cable news, and that's including Jesse Watters.

@DataRepublican @RadioFreeTom Holy shit. @RadioFreeTom completely cooked. Wow.

Hello Professor Nichols, You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them. In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations: “There is only one thing to say about Secretary Powell’s presentation at the U.N.: If this doesn’t do it, nothing will.” You were confident. You were expert. You were wrong. You acknowledged this twenty years later in The Atlantic — the invasion was, in your own words, “one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in American history.” You wrote that from the same institution you are now defending. The Senior Service Colleges produced the officers who managed the Afghanistan withdrawal. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM commander. On September 28, 2021, both testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. The recommendation was not followed. They did not resign or say a word publicly. Then 13 American service members died at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021. Only after that did they testify. Your response, in The Atlantic, August 16, 2021: “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.” Not the generals your institutions trained and credentialed. Not the curriculum that built the career-preserving, NSC-deferring officer class that drove those decisions to their conclusion. The American public, with our short attention span and our SUVs. General Milley, whose career your institution shaped, secretly called his PLA counterpart twice, October 30, 2020 and January 8, 2021, and assured him the US would not strike China, and that Milley would warn him personally if an attack were ordered. You wrote “Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position.” That's not all. Secretary Austin concealed a cancer diagnosis from the White House and Congress for weeks while incapacitated; the DoD Inspector General documented it. At his farewell address in September 2023, Milley publicly called his former commander-in-chief a “wannabe dictator.” You found none of this worth a column. Anthony Tata is a retired Brigadier General. He commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He led soldiers in both wars. And now he has been asked to conduct a 90-day curriculum review of the Senior Service Colleges. Your objection is that he lacks the credentials for the job. You wrote a whole book about credentials. The foundational knowledge of the average American is, in your assessment, “plummeting to aggressively wrong.” Institutions must be insulated from the ignorant. Expertise must not be questioned by those who haven’t earned it. The men who earned your institution’s credentials - over twenty-plus years of your tenure - presided over two of the longest military failures in American history. They managed those failures in line with everything the War Colleges taught them: subordinate military judgment to civilian direction, preserve the relationship, testify about it later. They retired with honors. That is what "expertise" means to you. The question Pete Hegseth is asking isn't whether the War Colleges have credentials. It's whether the credentials mean anything. After twenty-five years on your faculty training generals who only know how to lose war, Professor Nichols, you are the wrong man to answer that.

PS: The guy who's been tapped to lead this 90 day nonsense is Anthony Tata, whose bonkers conspiracy ideas (Obama is a Muslim, Brennan's a commie, etc) were so extreme that the Senate rejected him for a senior job during Trump 45. This time, the GOP caved, and here we are.

@WayneDolcefino .@LinaHidalgoTX, you can go ahead and sit down now. Just not in those seats lol. Bye.

Our embarrassing county judge posted her version of why she got thrown out of the expensive rodeo seats she tried to scam with the “I am County Judge” nonsense. Of course it’s sexism. Then she deleted it. Too late. Aren’t you tired of this? Join me. Lina, please resign. Go get help.

@JoJoFromJerz If he has any idea who you are, I'm guessing Sen. Fetterman will wear your pathetic, impotent, dry-as-the-windblown-Sahara regret as a badge of honor.

I have never regretted supporting a political candidate more than I regret supporting John Fetterman.

@GavinNewsom Exactly. Unborn babies all over the world are celebrating freedom from death before their birth. God bless them. Hopefully this bill passes.

The “freedom” party strikes again.

@rparloff Definitely. That's what you need to do. Impeach. Incredibly original thinking here by this nerd.

We've gotten numb to it, but what Trump/Hegseth is now doing to Anthropic—and what Trump did to the law firms—are not just tantrums, they are impeachable abuses of power. They are, in effect, executive branch bills of attainder. ... 1/3

@TimothyDSnyder Peak TDS. Please get help.

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

@maziehirono Pete isn't gonna be too worried about being criticized by literally the dumbest Senator in office and likely dumbest member of Congress (although @RepHankJohnson may compete for that title, right Guam?). And that's saying something if you know anything about @SenBlumenthal.

Pete Hegseth should resign in disgrace.

@samstein Radical Islamists publicly profess their desire to kill us. Pay attention, dork.

shit like this would be considered grotesque even in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Now we have a sitting US Senator and (likely) future governor just spouting it out

@BulwarkOnline I'm sure it's Russian collusion in plain sight. Right, @SenAdamSchiff? 😂

Sen. Slotkin: “There's press reports that the Russians are helping target US ships and aircraft…If Russia is helping kill U.S. forces, we have crossed a Rubicon…We have to take decisive action on that, and instead, we're giving them breaks on oil.”

@SenBrianSchatz What conditions did you place on the funding?

Democrats just tried to fund TSA, FEMA, and more. Republicans blocked us.

@WerderEdNFL A judge should never request or accept comped tickets anyway. Terrible optics and potential appearance of impropriety. Just my opinion.

I hope she is never comped again.

@SenGillibrand Do you remember that stupid gay rights short video that you posted when you hilariously ran for president, at least for a few days? Yeah, that video would get you in some pretty serious trouble in countries governed by radical Islamists.

This type of Islamophobia is disgraceful and unbecoming of a senator. Delete it immediately and apologize.

@JesseKellyDC Damn. Here, too. Thank you for posting. I needed that today.

Let me bless your timeline with this national anthem from the Houston Rodeo last night. Dusty in here.

@MalcolmNance @gbrew24 Damn, my dude. You got cooked lol. Ouch.

Jesus fucking Christ it’s amateur hour amongst the punditry over this mine issue isn’t it? Let me tell you something, if you’ve never had to go through minefields or mined waters or hit a mine then you should consider listening to the people who have. The commentary is getting silly. Sure, they’re not “wonder weapons” … until the explosion and the massive rush of thousands of tons of sea water and that funny angle your ship takes that makes you suddenly and urgently want to take a “fear piss”. They’re the solid, proven and silent weapon that cancels insurance policies for every merchant ship in the region without ever proving they are even in the water. The US Navy is absolutely not ready for this. The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned. We lost all of our corporate knowledge. Now we’re running an experiment and it’s gonna cost people their lives

@davidfrum Imagine, with all that's going on in the world, that you're so ravaged and broken by TDS that you actually post something this petty and meaningless. And then having to confront the fact that Rubio is your superior in every way. What an awful life.

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