"I've never walked into a room so silent … Have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud ... If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose." -Trump to top brass in the US military.
Trump to top military officials: "I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor."
Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within
The military swore an oath to the Constitution and US citizens, not to the president
But the president swears too:
"I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"
...So why might Secretary Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Only four solutions to the puzzle come to mind.
He has some trivial thing to say and does not understand the risks.
He wishes to endanger the lives of the generals and admirals.
He will stage a purge, perhaps involving a loyalty oath or something similar that requires personal presence.
He will tell the commanders that henceforth their assignment will be to oppress American citizens (“homeland defense”). This could be combined with the third scenario: those who refuse will be fired.
Perhaps others can think of other possibilities, but I am afraid that I cannot. --Timothy Snyder, here
“Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately. “Hegseth and every other official who was included in this group chat must be subject to an independent investigation. If Republicans won’t join us in holding the Trump Administration accountable, then they are complicit in this dangerous and likely criminal breach of our national security.” -Senator Duckworth
Article 11, of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli stated: “As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religious or tranquility of Musselmen, and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
kowtow: act in an excessive subservient manner ; kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground.
foment: to stir up trouble ; to apply warm compress
“Look, Donald Trump has maliciously attacked the standards of living of ordinary Americans with his tariffs,” he said. “He’s enormously corrupt. He’s taking billions of dollars in meme coins and other kinds of crypto coins. He cannot afford a free and fair election in 2026, and what he thinks about every moment of the day is, ‘How do I head off a free and fair election in 2026?’ And what is happening now is part of a hastily developed strategy to seize this opportunity created by this terrible tragedy afflicting a family, afflicting many people who admired him, to make political competition in the United States unfree and unfair.”
‘Stephen Miller, a top policy adviser, said there was an
“organized campaign that led to this assassination.” NO. This is a lie.
Miller’s
comments came during a conversation with Vice President JD Vance, who was
guest-hosting Kirk’s talk show from his ceremonial office in the White House on
Monday.
Miller said he was feeling
“focused, righteous anger,” and “we are going to channel all of the anger” as
they work to “uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks” by using “every
resource we have.”
Vance blamed “crazies on the far
left” for saying the White House would “go after constitutionally protected
speech.” Instead, he said, “We’re going to go after the NGO network that
foments, facilitates and engages in violence.”
Asked for examples, the White House pointed to demonstrations
where police officers and federal agents have been injured…’ from here
Aftermath of January 6, 2021, sourced from wikipedia:
The second impeachment of Donald Trump on January 13, charged with incitement of insurrection
Over 890 people were found guilty of federal crimes
One person was killed, 5 people died and over a hundred police officers were injured
Shortly after 2:00p.m., several rioters attempted to breach a door on the West Front of the Capitol. They dragged three D.C. Metro police officers out of formation and down a set of stairs, trapped them in a crowd, and assaulted them with improvised weapons (including hockey sticks, crutches, flags, poles, sticks, and stolen police shields) as the mob chanted "police stand down!" and "USA!".[80]At least one of the officers was also stomped.[81]
Some rioters beat officers on the head with lead pipes,[82] and others used chemical irritants, stun guns, fists, sticks, poles and clubs against the police. Some trampled and stampeded police, pushed them down stairs or against statues or shone laser pointers into their eyes. One D.C. Metro officer was hit six times with a stun gun, was beaten with a flagpole, suffered a mild heart attack, and lost a fingertip.[79][83]Three officers were hit on their heads by a fire extinguisher allegedly thrown by a retired firefighter.[84][85][86]
...After the Capitol siege, the Defense Department intensified efforts to root out far-right extremism among military personnel.[164] ...
...The role of social media in the attack created pressure for platforms to strengthen enforcement of moderation policies prohibiting extremist content to prevent further violence. The response of social media platforms renewedaccusations by some conservatives that their policies and enforcement promote an implicit ideological bias by limiting the expression of conservative political and social viewpointseven through controversial or false statements. ...
...Twitter assessed that two of Trump's tweets on January8 could be mobilized by different audiences to incite violence and replicate the criminal acts perpetrated at the Capitol on January 6 and suspended Trump's main account first for twelve hours and then permanently.[202] Following this, Trump attempted to access alternate accounts, such as the official President of the United States (@POTUS) account, on the platform to continue tweeting and to bemoan the suspension of his account. Still, all tweets were subsequently deleted, and the accounts were either suspended or banned.[203] Furthermore, Trump was banned from other major social media outlets including Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat.[204] In the days following the riots, multiple social media companies began suspending or permanently banning several accounts and users who spread or aided the conspiracy theories that led to the attack. In total, Twitter banned more than seventy thousand QAnon-related accounts.[205]...
...The New York Times reported in March 2021 that the incident had caused groups like Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and the Groyper Army to splinter amid disagreements on whether the attack had gone too far or was a success, and doubts about the leadership of their organizations, reactivating concerns of increasing numbers of lone wolf actors who would be more difficult to monitor and might take more extreme actions.[231]...
82. Reeves, Jay; Mascaro, Lisa; Woodward, Calvin (January 11, 2021). "Capitol assault a more sinister attack than first appeared". Associated Press News. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 12, 2021. Under battle flags bearing Donald Trump's name, the Capitol's attackers pinned a bloodied police officer in a doorway, his twisted face and screams captured on video. They mortally wounded another officer with a blunt weapon and body-slammed a third over a railing into the crowd. 'Hang Mike Pence!' the insurrectionists chanted as they pressed inside, beating police with pipes. They demanded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's whereabouts, too. They hunted any and all lawmakers: 'Where are they?' Outside, makeshift gallows stood, complete with sturdy wooden steps and the noose. Guns and pipe bombs had been stashed in the vicinity.... The mob got stirring encouragement from Trump and more explicit marching orders from the president's men. 'Fight like hell,' Trump exhorted his partisans at the staging rally. 'Let's have trial by combat,' implored his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, whose attempt to throw out election results in trial by courtroom failed. It's time to 'start taking down names and kicking ass', said Republican Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama. Criminals pardoned by Trump, among them Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, came forward at rallies on the eve of the attack to tell the crowds they were fighting a battle between good and evil
“Donald Trump is OK with violence, as long as it’s done in his name,” said Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer who sustained injuries during the attack. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in turn, argued that the Los Angeles protests were “different” than Jan. 6 because “[t]hese are people hurting people out in Los Angeles right now.” Of course, Jan. 6 involved “people hurting people” too—an hours-long battle, in which hundreds were charged with assaulting officers, and more than 140 officers were injured.
“JD Vance lied today on ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ when he said the statistics are clear that this is a left-wing problem,”Hasan told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo. “It’s the exact reverse, right? Exact reverse. You look at the ADL center for extremism, which looked at 444 people killed by extremists between 2013 and 2022 — 75% of them by the right.”
“You look at the University of Maryland study that was done for their terrorism center, which found that from 1948 to 2018, right-wing extremists were more likely to carry out violence than left-wing extremists,” Hasan continued Monday, once again citing accurate statistics.
“You look at the head of the FBI who [President] Donald Trump appointed, Chris Wray, who said the No. 1 domestic terror threat in this country comes from religious and racially motivated extremists — specifically white supremacists,” the journalist added.
“You can keep going, the National Institute for Justice found that the majority of instances since 1990, violent terroristic acts, were right-wing extremists,” said Hasan. “The single-biggest day of political violence, Chris, in our lifetimes, in this country, was Jan. 6, 2021.”
...The former MSNBC host added, “So it’s bizarre for Vance to go on TV or go online and say the exact opposite of what both the official statistics say and the think tanks say, all of our evidence tells us.”
..“This targeting of people for their views, I thought Charlie Kirk was supposed to be a free speech martyr,” Hasan said Monday. “Why are the right using his death to crack down on free speech and American rights and go after this amorphous left?”
'A year ago, as Election Day approached, then-Sen. JD Vance lied about Haitian immigrants living in Springfield, Ohio. When he was pressed to explain why he said things that were untrue about a community in his own state, Vance said on Sept. 15, 2024, that he was willing “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention.” ...Vance’s claim about the “statistical fact” is neither statistical nor a fact.'
“The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) wrote in the first of a series of social media posts on Sunday.
Killer of Kirk appears to be deep in online and gaming culture. Appears to dabble with Extreme far RIGHT politics. In line with Fuentes, head groyper and Laura Loomer, a self professed groyper. Sure wish I didn't know this stupid shit. The right is eating the right, yet, still want to bring their boogeyman left into it. This should just be Right wing theater, nothing more, but then we have guns, so, who knows.
the world's biggest ass kissing machine aka cowardly and complicit
The media is falling in line with martyring a hate monger.
The man who died by gun violence, espoused his belief that in order to defend the 2nd Amendment, U.S. citizens must accept inevitable deaths by guns.
The media will not point out the hateful rhetoric of Trump and the Right and will report on the Right's hateful and derogatory projection onto the Left.
The media is complicit in ginning up the chaos. Will there be big money it? I guess time will tell. Seems like one hell of a gamble with our lives.
“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk
“It was a regular civilian business, supported by American investment, producing everyday items like coffee machines. And yet, it was also a target for the Russians,” Zelenskiy wrote on X. “This is very telling.”
But! But! ...But
Prez Gas whispers wistfully to Macron, "I think he wants to make a deal for me, you understand that? As crazy as it sounds."
YOU ARE GETTING PLAYED, Sir.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Moscow Film Society Presents
I've been waiting for so long Now I've finally found someone to stand by me We saw the writing on the wall As we felt this magical fantasy Now with passion in our eyes There's no way we could disguise it secretly So we take each other's hand 'Cause we seem to understand the urgency
Sorry for your loss, but in keeping company with hate,
you gained nothing
"It doesn’t matter if the scapegoat du jour is sparrows or immigrants or black people or Jews or even wind farms for that matter"quote from kindler from here
“You say, during the war, you can't have elections,” Trump said, cutting in. “So let me just say— three and a half years from now, so you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections?”
“You like this idea?” Zelenskyy said with a laugh...
Putin manipulates him to get rid of mail-in ballots, Lil Donnie floats one: “Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
Trump: "When you go to a voting booth...
they asked me for my license plate, right?
I said, I don't know if I have.
And they said, sure, you have to have it.
Oh, it's a very impressive actually."
(ACTUAL QUOTE)
