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Landline Millennial
@_bettercallpaul
Monitoring the Situation from the Garage
Old North State Katılım Ocak 2014
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Darche: "It wasn't necessarily like, wow we were desperate because we have four games left. Cause if it was [that we were] really desperate about this year, I would've made the change a month ago. But I wasn't there a month ago."
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Since my earlier thoughts are now useless (just a few minutes quicker than usual), here's a few thoughts on the #Isles firing Patrick Roy and hiring Peter DeBoer:
-- As one longtime #Isles fan just said in a chat: This franchise has never been proactive in my lifetime. I'll amend that to one time: When Lou pounced to hire Barry Trotz before the ink was dry on Barry's WSH divorce. It made all the difference.
-- Darche and ownership getting aggressive here makes sense to me: Jump what could be a long line for DeBoer at season's end, maybe give the #Isles a jolt into this postseason and move on from a coach GMMD was likely not sold on for the future of this team regardless of whether there were playoffs this season.
-- Could be 5-6 teams looking for coaches once the season ends (TOR, LA, NSH, CBJ, WPG, VGK) and DeBoer/Cassidy/Laviolette would be in demand. As long as ownership was willing to eat $ on Roy and pay up for DeBoer, you gotta act fast.
-- DeBoer's first year behind the bench: Took NJ to the Final in 11-12; took SJ to the Final in 15-16; took VGK to WCF in 19-20; took DAL to WCF in 22-23.
-- Bringing DeBoer in and not searching for a less experienced coach to grow with the younger #Isles tells me ownership wants to win soon. That tells me they're ready to be aggressive this offseason in remaking the roster.
-- Buckle up.
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@willchamberlain He’s a big time expert on the inner workings of the U.S military….from Australia???
Australia—definitely known for churning out experts on U.S. govt institutions
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“Yes, indeed, I’m an expert on the Middle East, global energy markets, and American military norms. Also, since you asked, here’s a recipe for crème brûlée in metric.”
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Is there a guy who is more clearly just regurgitating AI slop than this guy?
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
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…
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@chriswithans @varadmehta He’s a joke—In yesterday’s WSJ’s he’s quoted attacking Trump for merely attending birthright arguments, calling it unprecedented attempt to bully & intimidate justices
So-attending court proceedings=bad
Throwing around baseless rape allegations against private citizen=just fine
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@varadmehta He wrongly accused an innocent man based on Zillow screenshot captures and, in the process, undermined the entire Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. But the NRO was like, "But he's one of us!" and let him persist.
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Siri, why does Donald Trump have a death grip on the Republican Party?
Ed Whelan@EdWhelanEPPC
Unfortunately, no one dedicated to the rule of law should have any interest in serving as Attorney General in this Administration.
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@MorosKostas I get it, but as a former GOP guy from NY, living under the Dems gun laws & other laws made alot of us (NY but non-NYC)GOPers uniquely equipped to understand the threat
it’s become clear that GOPers from deep red states end up more moderate than those from lean red states
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As for Zeldin, I have no reason not to like him I guess, but New York Republicans always make me nervous when it comes to Second Amendment issues.
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@Ejmiller25 You should—In last 2 terms alone:
ACB sided with the libs & for EPA twice (CJR w/conservatives)
Sided w/libs on parts of POTUS immunity (CJR w/cons)
Sided w/libs on Fischer (expanded J6 crimes)(CJR w/cons)
Sided w/libs on crazy lower ct immigration cases(CJR w/cons)
So…
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Hard to take someone serious when they say ACB has been to the left of CJR over the last four years
Landline Millennial@_bettercallpaul
@Ejmiller25 @HTWardish You think Scalia would have been to the left of Roberts over the last 4 years in substance and tone on almost all issues across the board? This case aside—ACB is a bland, uninteresting establishmentarian firmly planted in the center of the court—that’s doesn’t sound like Scalia
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@EWess92 I unfortunately think Trump loses too but Kavanaugh getting the ACLU to admit the language in the civil right act means the same as the language in the 14th A, was a big concession and Kav said as much.
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All the Court watchers explain that President Trump is likely going to lose. I'm not going to disagree. But listening to the argument I'm a lot less sure about how or why than others seem to be. Sauer was excellent.
Read the transcript here: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
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Trump v. Barbara: Birthright Citizenship argument. Listening, what stood out to me, was the ACLU Attorney's argument tension. She argued (1) the three exceptions (diplomats, invaders, Indians) are a closed, unchangeable set but also (2) could not answer where those came from
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@Ejmiller25 @HTWardish You think Scalia would have been to the left of Roberts over the last 4 years in substance and tone on almost all issues across the board?
This case aside—ACB is a bland, uninteresting establishmentarian firmly planted in the center of the court—that’s doesn’t sound like Scalia
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@_bettercallpaul @HTWardish You think Scalia would support the Admin's position ? I don't.
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@varadmehta It’s on the new right now—but they don’t do hippie-style protests
they just go to work & shake their heads as they fill their gas tanks
The fight to take the country back—the fight they thought they’d get when Trump won—is now back page news, so they just get back to daily life
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@Ejmiller25 @HTWardish We thought we were getting a female Scalia…
That’s what held her right flank together in the Senate
Turns out she isn’t
and if that was known then…she would have a problem getting confirmed too—just from her right, not the center or left.
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@HTWardish Ryan does this thing where he just ignores the political realities of replacing RBG within a month of the election. ACB interviewed for the Kennedy seat. She already had a built in network of activists pushing her & had the right jurisprudence. Barbara did not have any of that.
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@BlueBoxDave @BrentScher Are you reading the same chart you are posting?
Positive view of Israel among GOPers dropped 9 points in the last 3 years (2023-2026)
And more with independents—who make up a pretty good chunk of the new right wing coalition
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Israel has lost just 2 points in public support among Republicans since 2013. The antisemitic podcasters are having no impact because they are an information operation not a real phenomenon.
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh
NBC poll: 57% of Democrats have a negative view of Israel. 54% of Republicans view Israel positively. Only 17% of Democratic voters sympathize with Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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@tedcruz @DefiyantlyFree Didn’t take long to go from calling everyone who disagrees with your foreign policy an
anti-semite to peddling anti-Catholic bigotry.
Turns out that there actually is bigotry behind the Israel debate…but it’s not anti-semitism, its hatred of Catholicism
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READ every word of this.
It's the best & most comprehensive explanation of what we're fighting. @DefiyantlyFree
Insurrection Barbie@DefiyantlyFree
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@703Kyle @varadmehta @willchamberlain @GOP And there’s no doubt he would find this dissent hysterical
Trump: “is that him? The swinging dicks guy! We love the swinging dicks guy, don’t we”
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@_bettercallpaul @varadmehta @willchamberlain It would if Trump wasn't obsessed with nominating and staffing the government to look like an early 90s TV movie cast.
So he's likely going to nominate a female because the @GOP never listens to its voters and never learns from past mistakes.
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If the Dems on the Ninth Circuit want to stop being called out by one of their colleagues for dodgy rulings that place their politics above the law, all they have to do is stop issuing dodgy rulings that place their politics above the law. Team VanDyke all the way. Bravo, sir.
Kostas Moros@MorosKostas
The Ninth Circuit is BIG mad about Judge VanDyke's latest dissent from denial of en banc rehearing. Yes, it certainly is provocative. I guess Judge VanDyke may have read "Plain English for Lawyers." But their outrage is misplaced. What they should be outraged at is this absurd situation. Biological men trying to force their way into a Korean spa that serves women and girls? Have we gone mad? I am not some hardcore anti-trans activist, and I criticized the rumors of a "trans gun ban" last year. But this is preposterous. Nobody should be able force their way into a place where women and girls are exposed and vulnerable, with the State of Washington assisting them no less! If a eyebrow-raising dissent helps this get attention (I certainly hadn't heard of this case before now), then good.
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@703Kyle @varadmehta @willchamberlain @GOP Idk he’s going much more Bro energy on his picks in his second term—JD, Pete, Little Marco, RFK
He even replaced Noel with Mullin
Plus I think ACB’s work on the court did any potential female SCOTUS picks no favors
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@NolteNC I’m guessing this guy is just as American as the rest of us?
I mean he’s a U.S. citizen, he got his magic paperwork and everything!
I’m sure Adams, & Jay & Jefferson are looking down from above disappointed with us, wondering why we weren’t more open to assimilating to his ways
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Sounds like you’re the one having trouble assimilating.
Rep. Andy Ogles@RepOgles
Paperwork doesn't magically make you American. Muslims are unable to assimilate; they all have to go back.
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Another “naturalized citizen”.
Bill Melugin@BillMelugin_
Multiple federal sources confirm to @FoxNews that the suspected ODU shooter is Mohamed Jalloh, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone who was convicted in 2017 of providing support to ISIS. He was released in December 2024. Here’s what DOJ said after his arrest in 2016: “Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015, and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Ft. Hood, Texas."
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@NolteNC Why exactly would people from the greatest nation on earth—built by Christians, founded on Western & Christian values and conceived with a Jeffersonian concept of liberty—ever wish to assimilate to the culture of a foreign people who share none of those things with us??
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@mikepompeo Un-American?
Do you even know who the founders were and what they actually thought
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This about as un-American as you can get.
Conflating legitimate concerns over radicalization with a wholesale rejection of one religious group is ignorant and goes against our founding principles.
Rep. Andy Ogles@RepOgles
Paperwork doesn't magically make you American. Muslims are unable to assimilate; they all have to go back.
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@Nicoletta0602 @politicalsock If the graphic is any indicator—they are definitely magic at eating too much
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Is the Planned Parenthood social media intern high?
"Abortion providers are magic." What?
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