John Engstrom

According to CBS, citing survivors of the deadly Iranian attack in Kuwait that killed 6 U.S. servicemembers from the Army’s 103rd Sustainment Command, the details of the strike have been grossly misrepresented by the Department of War. According to the report, the strike was a direct hit and as reported previously, defensive measures around the installation were severely lacking. Regardless of this dynamic, survivors leapt to aid their wounded comrades following the impact. Additionally, per the report, before the impact the all clear had already been sounded from a previous alarm and servicemembers had returned to their stations and removed protective gear.

How does the same country jail Martha Stewart and allow this?

replica.startribune.com/infinity/artic… But if we stop funding the places that monitor this kind of data, the problem will go away. Simple

If I had a better entrepreneurial spirit- I’d get some “Lutheran’s for Leo” t-shirts going. Where can I buy one!?

So about “two weeks” ago, the only thing we would accept was absolute surrender. Now we’re declaring victory and negotiating terms that look a lot like how things looked b4 this all started. Truly genius.

This actually aged pretty well. Now we’re back to the infamous “two weeks” timeframe. Just enough for infrastructure week, a new health care plan, a new policy speech, a new tax plan, release his taxes, end a few wars, new trade deals, sign new immigration laws…

Early Trump 2.0, I remember saying to a number of people- across the political spectrum- that I wanted Trump to succeed, because I wanted America to succeed- but he just wears me out, and I didn’t get it. Fast forward- still don’t. At all.

@ErickBoe I actually don’t think he’s nuts- I think he’s deeply flawed, classily arrogant and oblivious to his own ignorance, and a bully who only knows one method.

@JohnEngstrom1 They’ve purged a lot of top military brass over the last year so I’m not as confident in #2 as I should be. And he is

1. He’s not actually going to give an order to do this. 2. Our military wouldn’t carry it out. 3. Deep breaths. 4. More deep breaths. 5. Repeat steps 3-4. 6. There is no way to “sane wash” or “art of the deal” this. This is straight up insane. Fucking insane.

I can get a little tired of Jay Bilas at times- but he is spot on here. Well said

Brief excerpt from “Trump’s Relentless, ‘Utterly Incoherent’ Battles” in the NYT. 1. Perfectly describes MAGA. 2. Same goes for some on the left. 3. We desperately need some moderate centrists to emerge from this existing quagmire. Pure power politics is not the answer

replica.startribune.com/infinity/artic… - State serves up fresh advice on what fish are safe to eat I’ve winced at “Sportsmen for (the GOP candidate)” signs- because ‘Sportsmen’ is used solely as a pseudonym for 2nd Amendment fans. IMO- a sportsmen would be concerned about the environment.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Bombing a country “back to the Stone Age…” is something you’d expect to hear at a bar. Coming from people in power, it’s deeply disturbing. Iran has 90+ million people. Just how would this be achieved? Casualty and cost estimates? Etc

Just makes it all the more painful.

All the feels.

Godspeed, Artemis II. Wow. Just. Wow.

Why not. Current ownership has the “artificial” part down pat, it’s the “intelligence“ part where they’re hurting.

Would auto-ownership be an upgrade over the Pohlads? I mean, it couldn’t be any worse.

Same timeframe for best bud and I- tho we had better seats! Never ever could’ve imagined this in 1981. Great radio show- btw.