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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. ~ Hamlet
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@realtrumpstein Hegseth has accelerated regime change since this. What could possibly go wrong ?

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Let that sink in. Career military officers, with decades of service, were shown the door because they had the audacity to say "no" to an order that even Trump himself can't coherently explain the reason for.
And Hegseth — the Fox News cosplay soldier — is out here purging the military of anyone Trump doesn't feel "smarter than." That's not a joke. Trump literally admitted he surrounds himself with people he feels superior to. Hegseth admitted officers were fired because Trump didn't want to share a stage with them.
In 2026, when a general gets fired, you genuinely don't know if it's because they're Black, a woman, or because they refused to march into a war with no strategy and no justification. That's where we are.
These men spoke their conscience. They refused to send American troops to certain death in Iran on behalf of a reality TV president and his Fox News Secretary of Defense — a man whose entire military education comes from Rambo movies and Zero Dark Thirty.
In any functioning democracy, officers of conscience are celebrated. Here, they get fired before lunch.
What did we honestly expect when we handed the Pentagon to someone whose combat experience is a green room and a camera?
Our troops deserve so much better.

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@covie_93 @TheReelRandom Excellent question leading to another crazy ass response,
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@TracesofTexas My brother passed. My Sister-in-law picked this Willie Nelson song for his funeral. I understood then truly what could happen in the blink of an eye.
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Willie and Lukas' version of this Pearl Jam classic is transcendent.
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Right then.
Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic.
No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works.
You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.
Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available?
You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant.
NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours.
You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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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.
Gerard Baker@gerardtbaker
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?
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@morgfair @cooltxchick You would think a 72 year old man would understand comorbidity.
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Yeah...that's kinda the point...they are sick with the MEASLES, which lead to other things...like death...
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow
RFK Jr. on dying children: “Only sick children should die of measles”. (2026)
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About one third of Americans say they have skipped meals, borrowed money, or cut back on utilities to pay for health care. That's in a Gallup poll released in March. cbsn.ws/3NMI7H7
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Everything! The answer is always EVERYTHING …
James Tate@JamesTate121
How about we deport him! WTF is wrong with these people?
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