7/7 History warns us: when a leader builds a personal police force, democracy is in peril.

ICE under Trump mirrors the tactics of infamous secret police.

The question isn’t whether it’s “as bad.” The question is how far Americans are willing to let Trump go

The difference in mood between exchanged Ukrainian and Russian POWs is painfully apparent. This is not surprising. Ukrainians are coming home to loved ones and a grateful nation. Russians know they will likely be interrogated then thrown straight back into Putin’s meat grinder

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Du bist 30j im Dienst, Ausbildung Einsatz Ausland Führung Verantwortung- dann wirst du nach DC zitiert, und ein ehem. Fox News Kerl kann dir sagen du bist fett.

America's military leaders now got a close up look at the idiot lunatics who are giving them orders. Hopefully now when they get illegal orders, they won't follow them.

Temu Patton and Deck-Stain Quasimodo Do Quantico Two frauds, 800 generals, and a fascist cosplay pageant with real fucking consequences

This was not leadership. It was totalitarian theater. A grotesque parody of command staged by cowards who would not survive five minutes in the world of the people they dared to lecture.

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From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor

Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

I don’t need a message from Newsom. I came to that conclusion on my own. I suspect most of us did. It was based on listening to what Miller says, watching what he does, and understanding history.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

You have to hand it to the generals. Unlike so many other people in this country, they know how to conduct themselves in public. They know they are supposed to be apolitical. So they greeted Trump's political speech with silence. And you could have heard a medal drop when Pete Hegseth finished.

Let's hope that when the time comes, and it will, the military doesn't cave in as the Republicans, oligarchs, corporations, and the SCOTUS. They may be our only hope.

The guy with his head in his hands top left will be first to be fired.

#Hegseth is busy right now reviewing videos of those to see if they showed enough enthusiasm.

This guy truly sums it up

This photo just about sums it up

All those years of devoted service to the country…for this

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Imagine, America's highest-ranking military officers being lectured to by a manifestly unqualified poseur of a defense secretary and a "commander-in-chief" who bought himself a dubious, likely fraudulent medical exemption from service at the height of the Vietnam War.

Love how the media characterized Hegseth’s speech as “fiery” instead of unhinged. We’re betrayed at every turn by journalists and Congressional Democrats.

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

We can’t count on the media. They’ve proven to be useless .

Good luck George! Could we begin with the Fox “Bullshit” clowns and then go from there? How about SCOTUS? Can we finally agree they are giving these mentally ill thugs all the power they want.

And they are members of a cult that gives them carte blanche to impose their will on 330,000,000 of us b/c: Jesus. Makes one wonder what Paula White is whispering into Trump’s ear - that he is an apostle or prophet for the New Apostolic Reformation & as the chosen one he can do the f<>k he wants.

People don’t understand the nuance between mentally ill and sociopathic. Please use correct terminology, they are sociopathic monsters that happen to have some mental illness in the background.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

The generals must be horrified to realize this lunatic is the commander in chief.

If this doesn’t motivate our generals to stand against this administration I don’t know what will. It’s time they adhere to their oath.