Xavier Rivers
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Proud Dad to Marcus Aurelius, our White Golden Retrievers
An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."
I prefer dismissal over coffins.
Trump’s obscene budget.
Absolute bombshell. Professor Jeffrey Sachs confirms that forensic psychiatrists have clinically judged Donald Trump to be a literal psychopath. He is an impulsive, paranoid megalomaniac completely incapable of rational thought, dragging America into a disastrous war.
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…
It is an absolutely insane thing for the president of the United States to say that we can’t take care of our own citizens because we have to go be the world oil police. I’m so done. Public tax dollars should fund PUBLIC services for PUBLIC citizens. PERIOD.
Trump: Jesus entered Jerusalem as crowds welcomed him with praise honoring him as king. They call me king now. Can you believe it?
We all have to pay more for gas and every product transported on airplanes, ships and trucks while paying tens of billions to replenish depleted weapons so Hegseth can blow things up and Trump can watch videos every day of things getting blown up.
🚨The US Navy will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s options for nations dependent on Gulf oil: Buy from us. Secure it yourself. Or wait. Japan: 95% of oil through the Strait. Philippines: 40 days of petroleum left. Taiwan: semiconductor industry at risk. The same allies Trump told to “show some delayed courage.” The same allies who closed their airspace and refused to send warships. Iran started charging tolls and codified Strait sovereignty into law. “Wait for it to reopen naturally” means wait for Iran’s terms. Trump started this war to prevent Iran from closing the Strait. The Navy just confirmed they won’t reopen it. Iran won.
President Trump will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting faith in our public square. Millions of Christians across the country will celebrate Jesus Christ conquering death, freeing us from sin, and unlocking the gates of Heaven for all of humanity, and the President is proud to join Americans during this blessed holiday. President Trump wishes all Christians across America and around the world a very happy Easter.
