disguy_ovahea

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Eisenhower warned us about the growing beast that is the military industrial complex after WWII, and all we did was feed it for profit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

An excuse for what? I think I misunderstood your point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I’m still very capable of caring for myself, but I’ve also been caring for my mother since my father passed. It’s very difficult financially in the US. It would certainly cost less to get her into a nursing home than having to rent a two bedroom. Most people can’t even afford to do it now. The US is in a sad state.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

My concern on that front is trust. After electing Trump, Biden, Trump, our allies see the US as a rocking ship. Our allies’ trust in us will take more than a term to regain.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

That’s true, although this administration is perfectly timed to siphon off the largest wealth transfer in US history with the demise of the boomers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Somebody get that man a fedora and a trumpet.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. His condition in Top Gun 2 was his reality. Pneumonia is what took his life, according to his daughter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

In pace requiescat, Doc.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

For those who aren’t familiar with psychographic profiling, there’s a documentary on Netflix about Cambridge Analytica’s partnership with Facebook to influence the Brexit vote and the 2016 US election called, “The Great Hack.” It’s very accessible for the non-technical, and the testimony comes directly from individuals involved in the project. I highly recommend it.

 

March 31 (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, describing them as "a flagrant violation of international law" and the founding United Nations Charter.

 

March 31 (Reuters) - Iran complained to the United Nations Security Council on Monday about "reckless and belligerent" remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, describing them as "a flagrant violation of international law" and the founding United Nations Charter.

 

The filibuster is expected to go through the night, against fast-tracked nominees by the Trump Administration. Booker’s protest appears to be in response to a recent wave of Republican nominees being fast-tracked through the confirmation process, many of whom are aligned with Trump’s second-term agenda and Elon Musk’s increasingly influential role in federal advisory circles.

 

Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all.

 

The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, a research tool that publicizes the status of freedoms and threats to civil liberties worldwide.

 

Tech billionaire Elon Musk agreed on March 2 with a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, for the U.S. to exit NATO and the U.N.

"I agree," he wrote in response to a post from a right-wing political commentator saying "it's time" for the U.S. to leave NATO and the U.N.

The news comes after several Republican lawmakers submitted a bill on the U.S. exit from the U.N., claiming that the organization does not align with the Trump administration's "America First" agenda.

The U.S. was among several countries, including Russia, Belarus, Israel, and Hungary, that voted against a U.N. resolution at the end of February condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Both NATO and the U.N. were founded by the U.S. and other victors of World War II to promote diplomacy and cooperation between nations as well as to prevent another global war.

Musk, an unelected official, currently heads the so-called U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, which has cut significant amounts of government spending, including life-saving foreign aid.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized fellow NATO countries for their perceived lack of contributions to the military alliance and has called for a spending target of 5% of GDP for all members.

Kyiv sees NATO membership as a crucial safeguard against future Russian aggression, but Trump said in February that Ukraine "can forget" about joining the alliance, suggesting its bid was a trigger for the war—an argument echoed by Russian state propaganda.

 
 

Schultz previously served as vice president of resources and government affairs at Idaho Forest Group, where he led timber procurement operations and managed relationships with government officials at all levels.

Translation: He was a timber lobbyist.

 

Schultz previously served as vice president of resources and government affairs at Idaho Forest Group, where he led timber procurement operations and managed relationships with government officials at all levels.

 

Republicans didn’t cut social programs (yet). They did, however, obstruct the rules that would prohibit them from cutting social programs.

 

President Donald Trump fired Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown on Friday night, and said he intends to dismiss the Navy’s top admiral and the Air Force’s second in command — an unprecedented shakeup of the Pentagon’s top brass that will trigger ripple effects throughout the military.

Trump, in a Truth Social post, said he was nominating retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to take Brown’s place. Caine is a partner at Shield Capital, a venture capital firm.

Trump also has claimed Caine donned a ‘MAGA’ hat during their 2018 meeting in Iraq, which is against military regulations.

 

Did the US just become Canada’s 11th Province?

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