Trying to be kinder, but*Damn* some of you make it hard. Get in trouble: good trouble, necessary trouble. J.Lewis
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457 UK armed forces personnel died during the war in Afghanistan. Beyond those and US fatalities, a further 703 individuals from 30 nations were killed. Hegseth owes each of their families an apology.
Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
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joyce c retweeted
🔥 “Answer the question, Tommy — I think you’re the one who needs to read the constitution, not me.”
@AbdulElSayed skillfully handles a bigoted Islamophobic heckler and exposes him as the true religious zealot in the room.
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Because Trump is Putin's useful idiot. 🤨
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
joyce c retweeted
We can’t even afford to hire school librarians and MAGA thinks we have doctors on staff performing sex changes during recess. Walnuts.
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This is a truly horrific response to a grieving widower, wow. May it haunt Vance for his career.
Vance is confronted by the emotional husband of a soldier killed in Iran War and acts like he had no idea anyone ever died:
Q: It's a hard price to pay. There's a failure in the leadership. How will the leadership be held accountable?
Vance: If there were failures... This is the first time I've heard of this.
joyce c retweeted
Tommy was a plant from the Josh Hawley camp. thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-tee…
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Did I understand this correctly – Russia and the US, the world’s two largest nuclear powers, are doing everything they can to force Ukraine into capitulation, and somehow this damn country STILL refuses to surrender?
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"My great grandmother lived to 98 without vaccines."
Lovely.
Her six siblings who died before the age of five were unavailable for comment.
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Three Facts:
•Tommy wasn't a voter. He was a Christian Nationalist plant by Josh Hawley.
•Tommy isn't worried religious law superseding our Constitution. He admitted he's trying to enact Christian Shariah above the Constitution.
•Zero corporate media outlets will report on how the Muslim Senate Candidate is running to uphold the Constitution, and the Christian sitting Senator is governing to enforce Christian Shariah.
They're not afraid of losing our Constitution. They're afraid of competition.
joyce c retweeted
Since folks are talking about Tommy Teepell, just gonna note that he and (mainly) his father, GOP strategist Timmy Tepell, were a subject of an investigation I did a couple of years ago.
Both have ties to Sean Feucht, who espouses Christian nationalism. religionnews.com/2024/07/08/…
The “Tommy” show in the viral video from Abdul El-Sayed is a former staffer for Sen. Josh Hawley and the son of a GOP strategist.
thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-tee…
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Trump: If Democrats win, “You’re going to be thrown into a system where everyone gets healthcare.”
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Now that @AbdulElSayed has been asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because of his mother’s alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood before he was born, will we be asking Donald Trump to disavow the Ku Klux Klan because of his father’s alleged ties to the KKK in the 1920s?
washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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Sunday Evening Update:
The beach transport machine took me for an evening outing.
Lovely sunset.
Quite acceptable.
Dinner was served on time.
Human is showing signs of improvement.
I’m now back in bed.
It’s been a very busy day.
I’m exhausted.
Retirement is not for the faint-hearted.
Cheerio!
Paddy 🐾❤️
