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[EODCZ @eodcz]

@Abramjee That’s a pretty nice braai stand!

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@chenweihua @NATO As an American combat veteran, fuck you.

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

🚨 THIS IS TRAGIC

US Marine Corps Colonel and combat veteran, Doug Krugman, "resigned from the military because of Trump," after 24 years of service.

He wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post stating, and I quote:
"United States military officers take an oath to defend the Constitution without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. I swore or repeated that oath under five presidents, starting with former president Bill Clinton. I risked my life for it, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it."

"No commander in chief is perfect. President Clinton’s moral failures are well known. President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq might be one of the worst errors in U.S. history. All recent presidents share responsibility for our failure in Afghanistan. I continued to serve despite all that because I believed the Constitution brought the country more success than failure, and I believed our presidents took their oaths to it seriously."

"With President Trump, I no longer believe that. During his first term, his actions became increasingly difficult for me to justify, culminating with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as it tried to execute its duties. I hoped he had learned from those errors, but it only took a few days of his second term for me to realize he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution."

"Worse than immorality, however, has been President Trump’s willingness to disregard the law and Constitution to achieve his goals. When asked in May about the Fifth Amendment requirements for due process and if he needed to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were "'I don’t know.'"

"Instead of trying to work within the Constitution, or to amend it, President Trump is testing how far he can ignore it. If voters and legislators cannot close the gaps in our laws to clarify the limits to presidential power, those who serve our government will continue to struggle. The next president — of either party — may continue us down this path toward collapse."

"I voluntarily gave up my rank as the president suggested, but the future of our country is more important than any individual’s career, wealth or power. I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country."

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@Maxar There’s a special place in Hell for people like you

[New Wojack City @deusexmoniker]

People just now finding out that starlink satellites are raining down from low orbit faster than they can be replaced is kinda funny

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@BenObeseJecty I was a US Navy EOD Technician and worked with British and French counterparts in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were courageous, competent, and lethal. Nothing but respect for them. Vance is an ass.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

1/ An interesting analysis by ChatGPT on the psychological aspects of the meeting between Zelensky and Trump-Vance is circulating online.

It reveals a masterclass in gaslighting, manipulation, and coercion from Trump and his entourage. Let’s break it down.

1/n

[Mac William Bishop @MacWBishop]

PS: Just adding that the war in Ukraine has been successfully turned into a partisan litmus test. The vilification of Zelensky and of Ukraine in general will continue to gain purchase. There are no good faith arguments which can now be used by US allies to alter this dynamic.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The "Strategic" Bitcoin "Reserve" will go down in history as the greatest single financial scam of all eternity.

Nothing will rival this rugpull. Nothing.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just announced a historic move—Britain, France, and Ukraine have united on creating a ceasefire proposal, that they will present directly to the United States.

The world is watching: will Trump choose peace, or will he keep carrying water for Putin, whose forces continue to disgustingly brutalize innocent women and children?

Huge respect to the UK and France for stepping up and standing with heroes, not tyrants.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

An important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate.

Our discussions focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, our vision for ending the war, and the importance of robust security guarantees.

We take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the United States. We are grateful for the unwavering bicameral and bipartisan support for Ukraine throughout all three years of Russia’s full-scale aggression.

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[EODCZ @eodcz]

@igorsushko You can’t trust anything he says. The proof is in the action.

[Sig Chri 🇺🇦 🇦🇹 @Fella_IA_X25]

Wanna see a 🇷🇺 bot farm in the US sector in action? Well they make errors too.

Sure the Olegs and Olgas all use English names. But there is the one link to a 🇷🇺 domain. All of the 64 retweets are bots.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

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[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

And here we are today. It's a very good read.

President George W. Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, has a message for people who are excusing President Trump's racism:

"I had fully intended to ignore President Trump’s latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it. I had every intention of walking past Trump’s latest outrages and writing about the self-destructive squabbling of the Democratic presidential field, which has chosen to shame former vice president Joe Biden for the sin of being an electable, moderate liberal.

But I made the mistake of pulling James Cone’s 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' off my shelf — a book designed to shatter convenient complacency. Cone recounts the case of a white mob in Valdosta, Ga., in 1918 that lynched an innocent man named Haynes Turner. Turner’s enraged wife, Mary, promised justice for the killers. The sheriff responded by arresting her and then turning her over to the mob, which included women and children. According to one source, Mary was 'stripped, hung upside down by the ankles, soaked with gasoline, and roasted to death. In the midst of this torment, a white man opened her swollen belly with a hunting knife, and her infant fell to the ground and was stomped to death.'

God help us. It is hard to write the words. This evil — the evil of white supremacy, resulting in dehumanization, inhumanity, and murder — is the worst stain, the greatest crime, of U.S. history. It is the thing that nearly broke the nation. It is the thing that proved generations of Christians to be vicious hypocrites. It is the thing that turned normal people into moral monsters, capable of burning a grieving widow to death and killing her child.

When the president of the United States plays with that fire or takes that beast out for a walk, it is not just another political event, not just a normal day in campaign 2020. It is a cause for shame. It is the violation of martyrs’ graves. It is obscene graffiti on the Lincoln Memorial. It is, in the eyes of history, the betrayal — the re-betrayal — of Haynes and Mary Turner and their child. And all of this is being done by an ignorant and arrogant narcissist reviving racist tropes for political gain, indifferent to the wreckage he is leaving, the wounds he is ripping open.

Like, I suspect, many others, I am finding it hard to look at resurgent racism as just one in a series of presidential offenses or another in a series of Republican errors. Racism is not just another wrong. The Antietam battlefield is not just another plot of ground. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is not just another bridge. The balcony outside Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel is not just another balcony. As U.S. history hallows some causes, it magnifies some crimes.

What does all this mean politically? It means that Trump’s divisiveness is getting worse, not better. He makes racist comments, appeals to racist sentiments and inflames racist passions. The rationalization that he is not, deep down in his heart, really a racist is meaningless. Trump’s continued offenses mean that a large portion of his political base is energized by racist tropes and the language of white grievance. And it means — whatever their intent — that those who play down, or excuse, or try to walk past these offenses are enablers.

Some political choices are not just stupid or crude. They represent the return of our country’s cruelest, most dangerous passion. Such racism indicts Trump. Treating racism as a typical or minor matter indicts us."
— Michael Gerson

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@nuck_luck40 @IAPonomarenko Fuck off. Blocked.

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@mikecleere @YourAnonCentral Assault and Battery, False Imprisonment

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@PatrioticCreed @YourAnonCentral No context needed. If they aren’t LEOs, that is Assault and Battery, by definition. If they are LEOs that do not identify themselves, that is Assault and Battery, by definition.

[EODCZ @eodcz]

@WendellPierce Assault and battery by every legal definition. She should be filing charges.