Harry Balls

Non-robotic, human-like organism just looking for human-type fun.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

“Their names were scratched off or taken off a list in the Pentagon. To me, it is abhorrent, it’s criminal.”

Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling fights back tears as he describes the military’s last roll call, and what it means to erase four fallen soldiers from the Pentagon’s casualty list.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Tariffs are taxes. Full stop. When the US puts a tariff on Canadian goods, the first person paying is the American importer, not the Canadian exporter.

[CjMtheIrish🍀 @CjMfdt]

Trump and Hegseth erased their names.
We won’t.
They gave the ultimate sacrifice. 🙏🇺🇸🙏

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

!! They always drop bombshell stories like this on Friday afternoon !!

[Harry Balls @DonnyTwoDolls]

@RepJeffries DJT has already erased their sacrifice.

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.

Four American heroes killed in Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice.

We will never let their patriotic service or sacrifice be erased.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A Despicable Betrayal of the Dead

Four American soldiers died for this country last weekend. Their bodies were flown home. Their families stood on the tarmac at Dover and watched the flag-draped cases come off the plane. And then the fascist authoritarian Trump regime wiped their names off the official list of the war dead like they were a clerical inconvenience.

1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.

One day the Pentagon's public casualty count said 18 Americans had been killed in the Iran war. The next day it said 14. The four most recent deaths — three in a missile attack in Jordan, one in Iraq — were simply deleted. Military sources told The New York Times the order came because the deaths happened after Trump's April "cease-fire." The Pentagon's official line was the pathetic excuse of "temporary data disruptions."

This is not a mistake. This is a calculated insult. These men and women put on the uniform, followed orders, and paid with their lives. The government they served responded by erasing them from the public record the moment their deaths became politically inconvenient. That is not leadership. That is cowardice dressed up as administration.

There is no honorable way to explain this. You do not get to decide that a soldier's death "doesn't count" because it happened after a speech. You do not get to scrub their names while their remains are still being received with ceremony. You do not get to treat the ultimate sacrifice as a data point that can be adjusted for better optics.

This is the purest form of disrespect: not an open sneer, but a quiet bureaucratic deletion that pretends the dead never existed on the official ledger. Every family who has lost a child in this war just received the same message — your grief is real, but Trump's version of the truth is more important.

That is not how a serious country treats its dead. It is how an authoritarian regime treats them when it has something to hide.

[Rep. Sylvia Garcia @RepSylviaGarcia]

We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance. As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer.

The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado’s name has failed.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Pete Buttigieg: “The outrageous news that we just got with the Trump administration removed the names of four of our service members who were killed in action, apparently because the fact that they were killed in action goes against his fiction that sometimes he says we are actually not in a war, even though everybody knows we are. What I would say to him is when I was in uniform, when I was deployed, I knew that on some level my life depended on the credibility of the people running our government…American lives depend on him telling the truth even when it's hard.”

[Harry Balls @DonnyTwoDolls]

@Acyn Stollen valor, in a sense.

All from the draft-dodging Daddy's boy DJT.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN: The Pentagon removed Michael and the three soldiers who also died this past weekend from the public casualty count of soldiers and troops who have died during the war. Has anyone spoken to you about this?

Gonzalez-Swinton: Nobody has reached out yet. I kind of don't have words for that.

[Boem @Weams1972]

@DonnyTwoDolls @JoJoFromJerz He tries to make his own reality and he’s gotten away with it for a long time.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Trump also repeatedly lied about not having any Casualities in Afghanistan for 18 months in his first administration. The Pentagon corrected him and he just kept lying. He erased human beings who died for our country.

[Harry Balls @DonnyTwoDolls]

@CamRMacKenzie Effectively, Donald John Trump has erased their service to this nation.

He has minimized their worth and their sacrifice.

[Camille MacKenzie @CamRMacKenzie]

If you despised the Trump admin before, brace yourselves … they took some of the KIA service members off the list of those killed during the Iran war saying they don’t count because of the ‘ceasefire’. 🤬

[Harry Balls @DonnyTwoDolls]

@JoJoFromJerz They temporarily acknowledge that they ever existed.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Never forget” them?!?
You evil fucks just erased their names from the death toll.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

It needs to be said that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are happy to send women soldiers to their deaths while refusing to promote them.

[Senator Ben Ray Luján @SenatorLujan]

This is shameful. Resign, @SecWar. 

https://t.co/0EYxhVUz45

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

My god. He looks fucking HORRIBLE. This sweating, bloated, orange sack of shit ain’t gonna make it to the midterms.

Fingers crossed. 🤞🏾