greg_y

The U and UVA. Like Hedy Lamarr, co-inventor on a U.S. patent AND listed in IMDB … but that’s where the comparison ends.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

He fomented an insurrection. He botched a pandemic. He stole classified documents. He committed every type of fraud known to man. He protects pedophiles. He's a convicted felon. He's an adjudicated rapist. He monetizes the presidency and weaponizes justice. He lies and obstructs at every turn. He's lawless. He's needy. He's compromised. He's narcissistic. He's psychopathic. He's paranoid. He's sadistic. I can go on.
AND YET - no matter how bad we know he is, and no matter how bad the many things we know he did are, remember this: Some of the things we don't yet know he did, are even worse.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

But suppose important people in the administration are themselves engaged in money laundering? Then the decision would not be crazy at all, would it? Checkmate, libs.

[Magachurch Pastor🙏🇺🇸 @magachrchpastr]

I’ve seen so many atheists and liberals on Twitter today saying something like, “President Trump was such a pussy for hiding out in a catering cart.” But I wonder if any of his so-called critics could do that with his same debilitating bone spurs, smh🙏🇺🇸

[greg_y @greg_y]

Guess who never ever had to take his kids to the doctor

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I'm no expert but if a country spends a trillion dollars a year on their military, I don't think it's supposed to run out of missiles after only 6 months of war.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

OMFG

"look, Secretary of Defense is not an entry-level position. it’s a role that’s traditionally been held by lifelong military professionals — for a good reason: the Department of Defense is a ginormous bureaucracy, with millions of employees and a trillion-dollar budget.

Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand has zero qualifications to be running any of that shit. the only thing he’s ever run in his life is his fool mouth.

he’s a weekend chat-show host. he’s the guy Fox News called when they needed a buffoon to pull goofy stunts, like getting drunk on New Year’s Eve, or flipping a skateboard up into his own nuts.

this silly dipshit was barely one step up from a birthday party clown, and now he’s running the entire military? that’s fucking insane.

so no one should be surprised that ‘hey, let’s not run out of missiles’ wasn’t on his to-do list. counting isn’t in Pete’s skill set.

and Donny has no one to blame but himself. he’s the one who made all these dumbfuck hiring decisions. he’s the one who saw Pete flattering him on Fox News and said ‘yeah, here’s my guy, straight outta Central Casting.’

that’s how we ended up with a piss-drunk incompetent in charge of the military. it’s how we got a reality-show never-was in charge of making sure planes don’t fall out of the sky. it’s why the State Department is now run by a neutered coward who is too terrified to point out that his shoes don’t fit. it’s why we have a woman who organized rigged wrestling matches now in charge of education policy. it’s why a sleazy fake-diet-pill-selling scam artist is running Medicare and Medicaid.

not one of these ass-clowns has any idea how to do the important jobs they were handed. they’re all making it up as they’re going along. it would be hilarious if it weren’t totally fucking terrifying.

so, what’s Donny and Petey’s brilliant plan to solve their weapons shortage? they’re going to yell at defence contractors until they magically shit out more bombs.

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote to industry leaders on Wednesday, saying they had no more than 21 days to submit plans to “drive significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” according to the memo, which is previously unreported.

“Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.”

oh yeah, sure. I’m loving this idea. ‘hurry the fuck up and cut corners’ is exactly the kind of work ethic you want to bring to the development and assembly of explosives.

what could possibly go wrong?"

a war, but with morons, by @itsJeffTiedrich https://t.co/qjF7MTxOXk

[Will Saletan @saletan]

No matter what you care about most — national security, economic growth, American dominance — Donald Trump is, above all, an idiot, and he will undercut your objectives through sheer incompetence, even if he claims to share them. https://t.co/wKKFBZYlS0

[greg_y @greg_y]

@StephenM

[greg_y @greg_y]

@AaronBlake @MollyJongFast @Carl_Hiaasen just has to change the names …

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

"We are aware of no instance in American history in which a President unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for. Until now."
https://t.co/CnIA9ndd2l

[greg_y @greg_y]

@RadioFreeTom It is stunning that the hiring rubric of 1) looks handsome/pretty on TV and 2) appears on FOX is not finding the next Stanton, Stimson, Marshall or even Gates.

[greg_y @greg_y]

“Consequential?” Sure. Good for the U.S. long term? Ummmm …

[James Jay Carafano @JJCarafano]

The spin doctors can spin whatever the damn well please, but the historians are going to write that @realDonaldTrump is the most consequential force in reshaping the Middle East in modern memory. https://t.co/J9Fnoqc8k6

[greg_y @greg_y]

@Aviation_Intel Is it too late to send him some “Victory At Sea” black & white videos, except this time it’s the unmanned VLS platforms and high-endurance drones that win the war for the Allies?

[greg_y @greg_y]

So what exactly do we get for our $1T per year in defense spending?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

So Trump has apparently hauled Hegseth in for a shouting match about running out of ammunition, according to The Washington Post. The White House says it never happened, which is what they say about everything, including things on live television.

The world’s most expensive military, run by a Fox News presenter, being scolded by a man who thinks stockpiles refill themselves. Two lost tourists blaming each other for the empty petrol tank. Superpower stuff, this.

[greg_y @greg_y]

@WSJ In order to protect Americans from their own government, maybe we need to ban not just government use of AI for this type of data vacuuming, but its use of any AI. They want to build secret police dossiers à la the Stasi? Make them work for it.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission. The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to activities that could disrupt ICE’s operations, according to federal documents, contractors and former Homeland Security Investigations agents.⁠
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The program has ensnared U.S. citizens and activist groups that alert community members about ICE activity. Contractors prepare daily reports and dossiers on threat actors, identifying the poster’s name, location, date of birth, workplace, Social Security number, vehicle registration and criminal history when possible.⁠
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To unmask anonymous online critics, DHS has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social-media companies, according to people familiar with the matter. Its agents have tracked down Americans at work and on the road, asking them to sign letters acknowledging their online speech about ICE “may” be a crime.⁠
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DHS says it is trying to protect its agents and their families from “coordinated campaigns of violence” that have fueled an 8,000% increase in death threats since Trump took office.⁠
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But civil-rights lawyers and former DHS staffers say the approach has swept up people expressing opinions that are protected by the First Amendment.⁠
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“As far as I can tell, all of this is about people saying naughty things about ICE and immigration enforcement,” said Lauren Regan, a civil-rights attorney who has represented multiple people investigated by the government over their online speech. “Nothing that comes close to true threats.”⁠
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An agency spokesperson said that ICE’s investigative methods abide by the Constitution and respects civil liberties and privacy interests. “Any allegation DHS and ICE are attempting to ‘squash’ free speech is categorically FALSE,” the spokesperson said. “ICE investigates all credible threats towards its employees, officers and families.”⁠
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Read more: https://t.co/CHUoCCebem

[greg_y @greg_y]

@SethAbramson You sent your kid to military boarding school back then is because you couldn’t deal with that kid’s problems any more, and were out of ideas. You hoped military school would somehow straighten that child out. Trump’s pathologies would have made him a handful.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump - who is stupid - is frantically trying to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday. It's all because of his stupidity - his stupid defamation lawsuit stupidly filed against them. Trump’s attorneys - who are stupid by extension -filed an emergency stay motion, urging a magistrate to lift the order she issued last month that the British TV broadcaster is entitled to information on the financial performance of hundreds of Trump’s companies because he stupidly claimed his “brand, properties and businesses” were damaged by a documentary the BBC aired in the U.K. in 2024, stupidly.

[greg_y @greg_y]

@HannaKienzler Translation: he argued against the Known Truths, and so is a heretic, and should be shunned. He has previously hurt people’s feelings, so all his opinions should be discounted.

(I have no idea who he is, or the quality of his work. But this “reasoning” is astounding.)