Over 900 years of military experience has been lost due to Pete Hegseth's purge of 25 senior military officers.
"Collectively, they represent over nine centuries of tactical, operational, and institutional experience across every domain of warfare." - Mike Schmitt
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Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh
Given what Kansas City pays for concessions at matches and the fan fest, kudos to Arthur Blank for telling FIFA to shove their prices where the sun doesn’t shine.
Other NFL owners should follow his concession pricing philosophy.
The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.
And there goes the administrative state, and with it, modern governance in America.
We shall likely return to some version of Gilded Age patronage-driven US government, which Trump has basically already launched.
Might be better. Might be worse. This is what MAGA voted for.
Public corruption, utterly obscene, at a scale we’ve never seen. Why do they do it? Bcuz they don’t believe their supporters give a damn about it, and they know the Republican-led Congress won’t do a damn thing about it.
The Johns Hopkins Agora Institute embedded researchers in super-red counties in Wyoming, Michigan, and South Carolina for an ethnographic study of Trump voters. Fourteen of 21 participants had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy. The reasons they gave were consistent.
These voters do not believe they are a silent majority. They believe they are a minority under threat from a wicked cultural majority. They do not want majority rule. They want minority rule - specifically, the ability for their group to exercise power over a majority they find morally repugnant.
Patricia, 50s, South Carolina: "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding who's for dinner." Kyle, mid-20s, Wyoming, a delivery driver: "Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn't be able to feed people cows. We'd all be eating seaweed." Clint, 70s, Michigan: "If we do have a democracy, it'll be a problem."
JVL is scrupulous about the limits of a 21-person sample. He notes Sarah Longwell's counter-thesis - that millions of Trump voters are genuinely motivated by affordability and economic hardship - is also correct. But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.
فرحة سكان مدينة كانساس سيتي لحظة تسجيل المنتخب الوطني لهدف التعادل، في مشهد يعكس الأجواء الاستثنائية والدعم الكبير الذي حظي به "الخضر" خ��ال مشاركتهم في كأس العالم 🇩🇿♥️🇺🇲
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