Alright, my Bluesky feed has shifted from people wryly laughing about that fucking clownshow at Quantico to panicking about the elections and I am gently encouraging you not to do that.

doing it right before they stop getting paid was also a great feat of planning and strategy

HBO's Deadwood

Chuck Schumer is the American Starmer send tweet

he’s going to issue an executive order about AO3 pairings any day now

I assemble the top 800 officers in the country in a single room in Virginia and make them listen to the entirety of Electriclarryland by The Butthole Surfers without saying a word.

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

The general officers in that room aren't more loyal to Trump than before, aren't more blind to what crazy shit to expect than before, aren't more afraid of Trump and Hegseth than before. They're definitely more contemptuous of them, though.

It's going to have horrible consequences, of course, but that's going to include horrible consequences for *them*. Trump and Hegseth just made themselves that much less respected by the military, and more or less openly advertised their intent to give them illegal orders sooner or later.

Too many people take the rambling on display today as another reason for crouching in fear instead of making fun of whatever that shit was.

Hegseth is such a staggering embarrassment. This guy *should* be thinking about the details of Constellation-class procurement, about sourcing production for a few million 155m shells, about the level of the US security commitment in CENTCOM. Instead, he's thinking about push-ups and beards.

Police say they can’t arrest the thieves who cleared out my house as it was my responsibility to opt out of being robbed by them.

Another thing? Most folks who have led big organizations understand that "gather a bunch of people you don't know very well, with big egos and substantial organizational fiefdoms, in a room, and browbeat them for an hour" tends not to be a great way to shift the way that organization functions.

I want the Generals to descend on Hegseth like scarab beetles in 1999's The Mummy bsky.app/profile/wash...

Don’t get me wrong, shit’s fucking scary—but this last week’s worth of absurd headlines and wonky ass shit coming out of the WH really convinces me that they’re are flailing around and grasping at straws that are getting harder to pick up The window for resistance is still open, folks

They will white wash your colored and unsavory history in the jubilee, white boy

Cement your name in history by doing Something Extremely Funny, white boy

you can end the national humiliation with one simple trick, alienated white boy

yeah i'm gonna bring this one up again

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

watched like three seconds of Hegseth and woo call him the Secretary of War cause my boy is bombing hard

That speech was literally Hegseth launching the Mojo Dojo Casa Military.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

Just to be clear these are war crimes. And any committed (small d) democrat should make it clear if/when they win power they will prosecute every war crime.

century of american humiliation

jeffery epstein also liked his signature

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up 90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far

When the Regime falls, Hegseth should swing.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

So yesterday was my uncle's wake. By the time I got back to my motel, I got word that a second cousin in CA, who grew up with my father et al but who I became close with as an adult (because we were both liberals and most everyone else is Fox News brained), had a heart attack and died.

This passage nearly broke me.

GET THEIR ASSES WERNER

There are many violent, obscene images I could conjure here but I'll restrain myself to saying I will absolutely never forgive the Brits for allowing this grotesque, cringe, racist little mutant not just a highly successful political career but also actual joy in life.

“While he has reportedly always been temperamental, two staffers claim the former Fox News star’s mental state has reached new, frenzied heights after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month.” Hegseth may have given himself 800 more reasons to be paranoid.😂

Whether it’s El Salvador, Korea, or the US, military academy classmates are usually bonded for life. They trust each other in extraordinary ways and I’m sure small groups will get together to discuss the various red lines they won’t cross. Hegseth is an idiot for not doing this over secure video.😂

More importantly, if your objective is regime consolidation over the military, then bringing together 800 irritated top officers is the worst possible idea. They wouldn’t normally conspire electronically, but stranding them together during a govt shutdown gives them time to talk & compare notes.🚨

“We need people to report what the 4th estate refuses to”

ok we are definitely dead and in hell

The entire "stable career" employment path has been phased out. It's just managers/executives leading teams of people who spent the last 15 years being laid off or moving from job to job with no path to raises/promotions over and over again.

If Rubio does operation venezuelan freedom, I bet you he feels like he can do operation cuba libre

“I don’t do politics“. Well, politics has no problem doin’ the bending with you; so you better look alive, darling.

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

think a lot about how this guy thinks parents want kids who run on 4 hrs of sleep

Remarkable to see cold war republicans begging democrat leadership to let the government shutdown under trump while mainline progressives keep wringing their wrists over the calculus

Yes, and I absolutely expect that to happen Arrest them anyway, put them through the system anyway, and force them to litigate every pardon's validity one case at a time bsky.app/profile/maxt...

It is the goal of the latter half of my life to see everyone in this Regime dead under color of law.