America wins wars by moving things to places and only incidentally by killing people. The corollary is that if a war cannot be won by moving things to places, America is quite bad at it.

Every US military commentator I've watched today is just tiptoeing around the fact that the king is obviously mad, and is almost certain to order them to do insanely bad things.

No no we said that SOF was *exceptional* (Schmittian), not *exceptional* (especially competent)

Democrats should also blame the shutdown on the Supreme Court. We wouldn't be here if they hadn't dismantled Congress's taxing and spending powers and handed them to the dictator.

btw I was snarky about the intercept and the quality of their reporting and mentioned there was only one person there who I trusted to not make shit up, especially to make dems look bad that person is nick turse (author of this piece)

We're Big Pile of Shit-maxxing. We're Century of Humiliation-pilled.

he's a rapidly decaying senile fat catty gossip obsessed with petty slights who throws a temper tantrum over escalators not working who is also the biggest threat to democracy in this country and worldwide probably ever. it do be like that sometimes.

the best fictional depiction of Trump is Homelander imo, because it nails the "stupefyingly dangerous" and "genuinely very pathetic and insecure loser" dichotomy

Every professor that called me hysterical at West Point the last time this dude was in charge owes me a FAT apology

The PLA is literally a marxist organization and they spend like 50% of the time doing mandatory ideological training.

we gave up on truth and virtue as aspirations because the so-called conservatives got tired of defending their values in those terms and decided to use "popularity" instead. their loss, but also our culture's

This isn’t speculation, he was genuinely convinced that this goat rodeo was gonna be truly and genuinely beloved by the rank and file He writes exactly as much in “The War On Warriors”

The entire right-wing freak coalition which now rules us is held together not in spite of, but exclusively by their leader’s crippling dementia

they’re never gonna write this in a headline and thus no one will give a fuck until not-brown bodies are strewn about on camera and even then, it’s a stretch

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

There’s something so funny to me about Trump being hellbent on depicting cities like Portland and Seattle as apocalyptic hellscapes when they are *so white*

i still find it remarkable that the guy most likely to end the american experiment in ordered liberty is donald john trump

It’ll get lost in the sea of Hegseth’s and Trump’s lunacy today (which went more or less how I thought It would), so I’ll point It out. Trump *still* wants to annex Canada. The idea hasn’t left his brain.

i'm sort of fascinated that the cultural imaginary regarding Rowling among a certain subset of users stops at 2015-2020 with her being pro-LGB and neutral on trans rights and not like, what she's been cooking her brain on X since

Oh no I built a politicized and wildly unprofessional paramilitary secret police loyal to me personally but the leadership of the regular military thinks they and I are all a bunch of morons and now my regime won’t consolidate properly, who could have foreseen this

I was wondering the same here. Does being confronted with this stuff literally right in front of all their faces at once change anything for any of them?

Thank God that Trump and his people, all being wehraboos, have no idea how Hitler kept his generals loyal.

Embarrassment is the main thing. He is actually detrimental to the administration's authoritarianism for this reason, I think; literally the only people who find this act even remotely intimidating are panic-brained doomers on BlueSky

Any solution now is going to be long & difficult. There was a super-easy solution -- just don't let the guy win the election -- but everybody had other priorities, I guess, so here we are.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

The President of the United States just stood before an audience of his top military brass and asked for their loyalty as he deploys troops against American citizens. Corporate Media: Are Dems being too combative by causing a government shutdown?

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

The thing is, they do not care if there is no Ukraine

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

The final boss of “misogyny is okay as long as you put ‘white’ in front of ‘women’”

they really think wars are gonna be won by which side can do the most pushups and not which side can convince the other to eat itself from within

There's a genuinely annoying kind of person who thinks that you aren't allowed to mock these guys because that somehow implies you don't think they're a threat

The thing is that the military genuinely would have had no problem staying segregated, all-white, or all-male if not for that pesky little problem where they didn't have enough people when they did that and it turns out it costs less and works better when you just integrate units.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

I kid you not. Americans are now subsidizing Argentinian soybean exports to China. At the same time. American farmers are selling none to China.

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

If Joe Biden were giving this rambling speech, itd be treated as a four alarm fire in every newsroom in the country about his very obvious physical and mental decline. But because its Trump, they'll all mostly just shrug and move past it.

Principled conservative jurists ARE concerned. The 6-3 majority thinks they can put their thumbs on electoral scales to stop Dems from getting a turn again, and if worst comes to worst, just change the rule again.

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

disney: cry harder libs, he's YOUR president! go woke go broke! the nfl: in this house we believe, no human is illegal, and we're standing on business in stolen wabash land

The Secretary of Defense who only got the job because the president saw him on the teevee is complaining about military leaders who were promoted "for the wrong reasons"

This remains the part that astonishes me, far more than the breadth & depth of Trump II destruction. This is a massive story that could support endless reporting, but political reporters appear utterly bored by it, not even a covfefe.

Feels kinda surreal that anyone moderately intelligent person with technical knowledge or the will to acquire it can make the president believe literally whatever the hell they want now. Look, Mister President. Here's a video of Jim Comey and Bigfoot shooting JFK. Better call the Justice Department.

“Strong men make good times etc etc” isn’t necessarily untrue (if also not universally applicable), it’s just that the fascists who repeat it dramatically miscalculate which side of that equation they constitute

Look as a constitutional matter I’m sure “commander in chief of the armed forces” is not a power that a person exercising the powers of the presidency is entitled to delegate freely to whatever senate unconfirmed VDARE contributor he pleases.

Kamala Harris is on a book tour right now because she ran a 107 Day campaign after Biden dropped out following a cacophony of cries over his age and mental capacity. Where is the full court coverage on this??