@EricLDaugh You must have not matured beyond the age of eleven if you think this crassness is funny, and coming from a man who is supposed to be respected. Give me a break.
@atrupar That poor girl, so happy and proud and now god knows what she'll have to suffer.
33 thousand "likes" so far on his disgusting tweet. I despair of people.
When I was deployed, my Afghan interpreter saved my life and the lives of my troops during an operation in a remote location outside the wire.
My interpreter was able to let me know that the Taliban had gotten intelligence that we were in the village and would arrive any minute to kill or capture us.
Exactly 8 minutes after we left the village, the Taliban showed up to kill us. Had it not been for my Afghan interpreter, I would not be here today.
For years I wrote letters to get all of my interpreters here to the United States. We made a promise to our Afghan allies, people who risked their lives and their families lives everyday to help us, that if they worked with us we would protect them and get them to safety.
It is the most unpatriotic and dishonorable thing we could ever do to go back on that promise. Not only is it dishonorable, it is dangerous to our current military operation, as soldiers are actively deployed overseas right now with no ability or capability to offer safety to those who agree to work with the United States.
Wonder why Hegseth fired senior staffers at Stars and Stripes? It’s because of reporting like this:
“Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere. The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs that were never designed to sustain a displacement lasting this long. Some evacuees say they have spent tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for basic living expenses. Others are sleeping on the floors of temporary housing, while their cars and furniture are stranded in Bahrain or aboard ships unable to leave the region.”
https://t.co/RDPGHi5gzn
Wonder why Hegseth fired senior staffers at Stars and Stripes? It’s because of reporting like this:
“Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere. The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs that were never designed to sustain a displacement lasting this long. Some evacuees say they have spent tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for basic living expenses. Others are sleeping on the floors of temporary housing, while their cars and furniture are stranded in Bahrain or aboard ships unable to leave the region.”
https://t.co/RDPGHi5gzn
Flock takes their privacy very seriously.
But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.
Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
Under Trump, protected wild horses are going to slaughter.
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
https://t.co/PtZP70ZYTC
Hard disagree. The result of those two words has been that the entire press corps and the internet/airwaves are awash in discussion of how the President of the United States's information gatekeepers keep him inside an info-bubble that leads to catastrophically bad decisionmaking, and how obviously unfit for the job he is.
There's no reason the public will see this story through GOP's preferred frame -- as an alleged insult to a professional woman or as an insinuation about Trump's sexual habits -- because that isn't what this story actually is about. I'd argue that we should stop *allowing* Republicans to frame everything for us.
The irony here is that this is a good example of Dems setting the frame. When Dems point the camera at Trump/GOP vulnerabilities, that's good, not bad. They should do more of it.