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Steve Schanwald

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Chicago Bulls EVP Business Ops 1987-2015.White Sox 1981-87. Pittsburgh Pirates 1979-1981.U.S AirForce Academy 1978.U.of Maryland '77.Playing life from the tips!

Chicago, IL & Boca Raton FL เข้าร่วม Aralık 2010
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🇺🇸 Ronald Carter
🇺🇸 Ronald Carter@USronaldcarter·
TRUMP JUST FIRED 3 GENERALS IN ONE DAY FOR REFUSING TO PUT TROOPS IN IRAN. THIS IS THE WORST SIGN OF THE ENTIRE WAR. Army Chief of Staff. Training Command chief. Army chaplains chief. All three gone. Same day. No reason given. The Pentagon never gives no reason. When they go silent, it's because the truth is too fucked to say out loud. The generals looked at the ground invasion plan and said no. So Trump fired them. Every general still standing now knows: agree to the invasion, or leave. The professional judgment that was protecting you from boots on Iranian soil just got purged. The real war hasn't even started yet. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨
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BREAKING: Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump: "We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
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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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…

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Gianl1974
Gianl1974@Gianl1974·
A new CNN poll is shaking up the political landscape, suggesting that close to three-quarters of Americans now favor holding former President Trump accountable through impeachment and legal action a dramatic reflection of shifting public opinion. The numbers come at a time when nationwide protests are gaining traction, fueled by growing concerns over foreign policy decisions and the country's military involvement overseas. While political divisions are still deeply rooted, the data points to a noticeable change among independent voters, many of whom appear to be reconsidering their stance and leaning toward stronger demands for accountability. Backers of Trump, however, are rejecting the poll outright, arguing it doesn't reflect the broader public and insisting that a large, quiet base continues to support his "America First" vision. At the same time, constitutional experts are weighing whether mounting public pressure could realistically lead to action on Capitol Hill, especially as global tensions remain high. With protests intensifying and political debate reaching new heights, the administration has largely avoided direct comment, maintaining that its priority remains safeguarding national interests and economic strength.
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Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth@SenDuckworth·
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.
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Sulaiman Ahmed
Sulaiman Ahmed@ShaykhSulaiman·
BREAKING: CHINA DESTROYS TRUMP Trump: We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz China's FM Senator: But the Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war? The root cause of this disruption is your illegal military operations against Iran. You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING”
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Asad Nasir
Asad Nasir@asadnasir2000·
🚨 CIA veteran John Kiriakou: "All my years in CIA, no matter who led 🇮🇱 Israel, they came to 🇺🇸 US and asked, ‘Help us strike 🇮🇷 Iran ! Please!’ Every president refused, until this one. Netanyahu outplayed him, and now we're in a war that wasn’t ours."
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough completely destroys the Trump administration's lie that no one saw the Iran disaster coming. He reveals every previous US president refused to attack Iran because they knew it would trigger a global economic collapse. Total incompetence exposed.
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PoliticsVideoChannel@politvidchannel·
BREAKING: People on X are sharing this Photo of Joe Biden with the hashtag #WeMissJoe
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Donald J. Trumpstein fake
Donald J. Trumpstein fake@realtrumpstein·
“I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth."  ~Joe Biden Repost if you think President Joe Biden was right about everything.
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Melanie Hinds
Melanie Hinds@hinds_mela61795·
Harrison Ford on Donald Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history. He doesn’t have any policies, he has whims.” RETWEET if you stand with Harrison Ford against Donald Trump!
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Trump’s comments last night about “Obama’s Iran deal” were simply wrong. It wasn’t perfect, but it capped uranium enrichment at 3.67%. Since Trump scrapped it, Iran has enriched to 60%—much closer to weapons-grade. And that stockpile still hasn’t been eliminated.
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Canada Hates Trump
Canada Hates Trump@AntiTrumpCanada·
I can’t believe the number of brain dead dipshits in the USA who voted for this fucking idiot 3 times.
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Agolf Twitler Slayer@slayer_agolf·
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Steve Schanwald@SteveMSchanwald·
During Bruce Springsteen’s concert last night, he spoke these words which sum up perfectly how I feel about what is going on in America right now under the so-called “leadership” of Donald Trump.
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Steve Schanwald@SteveMSchanwald·
Won the Highly coveted Polo Club’s Blue Jacket for the second time in 2026(first time in 2023). I win. Google me.
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
NBC News exposes massive insider trading right before the Trump administration launched the Iran war. Elites pocketed millions with advance knowledge of military strikes while ordinary Americans suffer soaring gas prices and job losses. The corruption is staggering.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries@hakeemjeffries·
NEWS MAGA extremists are working behind closed doors to rip away healthcare to fund Trump’s reckless war in Iran. Shameless. Vote them all out in November.
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Don Winslow
Don Winslow@donwinslow·
Honestly, I cannot believe 77 million Americans voted for this absolute fucking clown.
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