Sarcastic Fighter Pilot

I hope Gen Caine is up to the task. I have my doubts, but I’ll wait to see what Caine does.

That said, he will need more that those attributes to serve this CINC. He will lead people who are more qualified than him, who have leadership experiences he doesn’t have, who were passed over for some loyalty test. He is going to be tested by a SECDEF who is the ultimate DEI hire.

I knew both officers, albeit briefly.

CQ is exactly what you would want in a CJCS. You will get the best military advice, absent any political bias to the extent he’s capable of providing it, since he is human.

Razin’ is ambitious, intelligent, & thoughtful. I don’t believe he put on a MAGA hat.

Seriously? Did my high schooler write this?

Add in in-app sports betting and you immediately reach that goal.

I’ll hate it, but it’ll work.

Clearly Trump can’t.

Unless they have actual authority to be there, call the police and have them arrested.

Phenomenal work by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social which I’ve only found on X. Please watch.

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I like how this is said.

Sarcasm aside, that makes sense. How do you prove data obtained via trials is legit when the head of HHS won’t accept scientific conclusions?

Probably something like:

Pharmaceutical companies have no incentive to market drugs that would cause harm, so we will be trusting their internal processes for verifying safety and efficacy.

- The Sackler Family I mean the FDA

Isn’t confirmation a job interview of sorts? Imagine going into an interview and being asked, “Tell me about a time you made a mistake?”

And the response from the interviewee is “I plead the 5th.”

Would you hire that person?

We’ll be greeted as liberators and the oil revenue will pay for the war!

-Dick Cheney has entered the chat.

So they can focus on all the discrimination against white men, I’m guessing?

Not sure if you heard, but RFK Jr says HIV doesn’t cause AIDS so I wouldn’t worry.

Tell your mom that they are going to give billionaires more money by cutting social security and Medicare, and taxing her more.

They won’t cut defense, and they can’t cut enough anywhere else. Have to make interest payments on the debt, which will skyrocket too.

Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

Jamelle Bouie hits it out of the park.

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Alternate headline:

CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION SEIZES US GOVERNMENT, DEM LEADERSHIP LARGELY SHRUGS

The signal to noise ratio with Trump makes figuring out what to address challenging. It’s the flood the zone strategy, and it works because representative governments aren’t meant to have 50% of the body politic operate in bad faith.

Or Officer’s Christian Fellowship.

Something something Deep State, and boy we are breathtakingly fucked.

That’s a helluva juxtaposition. Well done.

Someone call Sen Tillis. Everyone call Sen Tillis. Ask where he draws the line on enforcing the Constitution. What is Trump actually shot someone on 5th Ave? Is that it?

What would courage look like?

Filibuster, take to the airwaves, go on Fox and OANN even. Social media the shit out of them, including on Musks own platform.

But unless our leaders do this, we’re going to cease to be a republic.

Trump or Musk?

I agree, Senator.

SO FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

- A concerned voter

@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social

Please tell SecState he needs to fire Beattie for his blatant racism. Beattie should not hold any government position.

If the congresspeople hit these police with flagpoles, mace, and bear spray and forcibly gain entrance, will the GOP finally call them heroes?