The Navy wasted $10 million putting marbles in cats’ rectums and electroshocking them.
Yes, that was real. We exposed it.
And it was funded by your tax dollars.
Until we shut it down.
We worked with Laura Loomer to get this absurd experiment in front of Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He quickly cut the funding for it.
Ten days later, the Navy went a step further.
They declared that this conduct was “unbecoming of the United States Navy” and delivered an outright ban on Navy funding for dog and cat testing.
This is not a partisan issue. That's why WCW President Anthony Bellotti set out to build a coalition with people across the political spectrum, from MAGA ally Laura Loomer to progressive Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen.
“We united to save the cats.”
@anthonybellotti@Bryce_Nickels@SciFrTheFringe
One thing you need to understand about senior generals is that many of them are effectively socialist.
Think about it. They don’t have the market discipline to require them to be productive. What they produce is pleasing their senior officers, therefore, rising in rank. There’s no bottom line because they have an endless supply of money. Do you think any corporation would keep CEOs who didn’t win a war for 30 years? But look at the Pentagon. Look at the generals who are complaining. That’s them.
Now, reserve generals are a little different because they actually have to operate in the real world as civilians. I had generals who were corporate CEOs. And they were awesome. Still, if you are a senior general, you have spent 30 years in a government command environment. When you don’t like something, you give a command to change it. That’s how they think problems get solved. They don’t understand capitalism or entrepreneurialism – it’s against everything they’ve ever worked for. They want a rigid hierarchy with themselves at the top, making all the decisions. That’s why they’re inevitably for Democrats and such policies as gun control.
They also protect the club. And that means rejecting any kind of accountability. You can do that when you’re in a rigid hierarchy. Why do you think no one ever got fired for the Kabul disaster? And why do you think they are so very upset that Pete Hegseth is picking his generals under his own criteria and not theirs?
You have no idea how it grates upon them that a major is their boss. The last thing they’ll do is look in the mirror and ask why. That’s because they never had to look in the mirror to ask why before now.
Some of them can actually fight – certainly not all of them, as the disasters of the last 30 years have shown – but on any other subject, their views are not only wrong, but actively wrong. They have a child’s view of politics and civilian life. They want to govern by tantrum. But here’s their problem – we civilians are not in their chain of command.
@AnalyticaCamil1 Do you think a single grunt or SOF bro thinks of fighter or ground attack pilots as “lesser”?
You’ve clearly never met one.
An AC130 crew or A10 pilot can’t buy a single drink if grunts are in the bar.
If generals and admirals fought for the troops half as hard as they fight for their own careers and reputations, we’d be having a very different conversation today, wouldn’t we?
It’s remarkable how many retired flag officers discover “moral courage” only after retirement.
@ScottPresler@billysandytodd The reason they hate you, Scott, is the same reasons they hate all of us.
They hate that you care enough to change things.
They hate that you work hard enough to win.
They hate that you make them look bad.
That’s the truth.
I am proud of you, we all are ❤️
@mtaibbi But he believes it @mtaibbi . If for the sake of argument his press is 95% positive. That 5% negative means it’s rigged against him in his opinion
The United States is big, but not big enough for “I’m a Christian conservative who loves guns, low taxes, and family values” to coexist with “We believe in the total eradication of Western civilization”.
One is going to destroy the other and then declare their actions legal after the fact, because our system was never built to adjudicate such diametrically opposed worldviews through the traditional procedural framework.
There is no political system on earth, including our own, that can survive views like this going mainstream and then bumping into each another. One side will cease to exist as an organized political force before this century is out.
It is 10pm and Thune just got unanimous consent (meaning not one senator objected) for the Senate to adjourn 19 days (July 13th) meaning the Senate is going home after tonight’s votes.
I will not be voting to re-open the floor until the Senate gets back to Washington. The Senate is literally running and not ONE senator objected to going on vacation before 4th of July.
John Thune is running and hiding because he doesn’t want to get voter ID across the finish line.