President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[myboynoah]

Why would we want any educated people in the military?

Hehseth is a f'n moron.

But at least they ain't woke in Dept of War.

[frank ryan]

Props to John Curtis. It looks like he is going to gatekeep some white power jabroni from being appointed to high-level position at the state department.

"After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,” Curtis said in a statement Thursday.


The first-term senator’s announcement came after Carl told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a confirmation hearing on Thursday he would not stop making posts and statements as he waits for congressional confirmation.

Members from both parties on the committee grilled Carl over a string of comments Democrats call antisemitic and racist that have surfaced in recent months.

“I greatly understand the importance of restraint and conduct,” said Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank with members dispersed throughout Washington. “I unfortunately have to balance that with my current job, which involves advocacy and I can’t, as I’ve explained, just totally put away my day job. I’m not being offered a job here yet.“


Assuming all Democrats in the Foreign Relations Committee join Curtis in voting to reject his nomination, Carl will not have enough votes to advance to the Senate floor. Carl previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior during Trump’s first term.

In the past, Carl has appeared to endorse the “great replacement theory,” slammed the Juneteenth holiday and called for the execution of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, according to CNN. He deleted nearly 5,000 social media posts since before his nomination, the outlet reported in September.

“We are essentially moving,” he told conservative media commentator Tucker Carlson in April 2024, “to what is effectively, a post-White America.”

https://www.politico.com/live-update...aring-00778566

[BigPiney]

Why would we want any educated people in the military?

Hehseth is a f'n moron.

[frank ryan]

Hegseth is considering banning military officers from getting tuition aid at schools he doesn't like. More unhelpful Owellien bullshit from the Dept. of War. Hegseth is telling officers not to go to these schools:


American University, Boston College, Boston University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western University, Columbia University, College of William and Mary, Cornell University, Duke, Emory, Florida Institute of Technology, Fordham, Georgetown, George Washington University, Harvard, Hawaii Pacific University, Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, MIT, Northeastern University, Northwestern University, New York University, Pepperdine, Princeton, Stanford, Tufts, University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Washington University in St Louis, and Yale.


https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/polit...ion-assistance

[Pelado]

Not be a , but I don't think the left/right continuum captures the reality of politics in the US in normal times. But I suppose it does now if Left = Marxism and Right = ultranationalism. But center-right, center-left, and libertarians being all huddled together in the middle doesn't make sense either.

It's not a linear continuum, though framing it as if it were makes it easier for narratives from both the politicians and the fourth estate.