I'm starting to think this is more than just winds of change blowing... I think something siesmic is about to happen worldwide... (And I think it's a good thing)
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Pete Hegseth Delights in Violence
His first year at the Pentagon has been marked by uncomplicated celebrations of death.
By Missy Ryan | February 2, 2026, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/02/hegseth-trump-mi
nnesota-ice-military/685848/
Even before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had declared Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist, Pete Hegseth was online trashing his home state. Hegseth, who grew up north of Minneapolis, took to social media in the hours after masked immigration agents shot the ICU nurse with a stark calculation: “ICE > MN.”
“We have your back 100%. You are SAVING the country,” the Pentagon chief told immigration agents in an X post. “Shame on the leadership of Minnesota—and the lunatics in the street.” Hegseth didn’t define the we. He and fellow Cabinet members? The 1.3 million service members he commands? The troops he put on standby for potential deployment to Minneapolis? He hasn’t said. But if there was any doubt about how Hegseth would wield military might if troops were sent to check unrest or dissent in U.S. cities, there’s your answer.
Hegseth, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a National Guardsman before becoming a Fox News weekend host, has repeatedly blamed “woke” and “weak” military leaders for imposing overly restrictive rules of engagement that, he believes, cost U.S. lives and prolonged America’s “forever” wars. Since taking office, Hegseth has been an ardent supporter of Donald Trump’s expanded use of troops in U.S. cities and his aggressive immigration operations. When federal immigration agents surged into Minneapolis, Hegseth put troops on prepare-to-deploy orders in North Carolina and Alaska. Trump has also threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow troops to conduct law-enforcement activities.
In standing with ICE’s hard-line tactics against the citizens of Minnesota, Hegseth not only overstepped his jurisdiction as secretary of defense (he prefers to be called the “secretary of war”); he gave a glimpse of the belligerent approach he might take were those troops to be opposed by citizen protesters such as Pretti and Renee Good. It is one thing to defend your troops as they face enemies abroad. It is quite another to suggest that troops—or other armed government forces—have a free hand to do whatever they want on America’s streets to American citizens.
Asked about Hegseth’s comments, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson said in an emailed statement that the secretary’s mission was to execute Trump’s orders and protect the United States: “We will do everything in our power to stop those who seek to harm Americans and the brave men and women defending our homeland.”
I’ve covered every secretary of defense since Bob Gates, who served George W. Bush and Barack Obama. No Pentagon chief then or since has embraced the jocular yet intimidating rhetoric that Hegseth has employed about the military’s use of violence. At times, uniformed leaders have spouted off in public. Jim Mattis, the retired Marine general whom Trump referred to as “Mad Dog,” made tough-guy quips about how “it’s fun to shoot some people” and the need to “have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” But Mattis turned out to be a check on—rather than an accelerant of—Trump’s most disruptive instincts. Pentagon leaders have almost always publicly couched the military’s use of violence in decorous euphemisms designed to show the solemnity of lethality. Insurgents are “eliminated” or “taken off the battlefield.” Public gloating, in an institution as storied and upright as the U.S. military, is viewed as unseemly.
Not so for Hegseth. His tone and vocabulary regarding the use of force is gleeful, juvenile, and crude. He has posted doctored children’s-book covers that show a turtle named Franklin hanging out of a helicopter, shooting at drug boats. He embraced a phrase that the White House is now touting as Trump’s doctrine for the use of force: fuck around and find out. And he has celebrated lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers in small boa
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
If you were President you'd have me executed today.
Who are you foolin', BootJack?
Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.
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Quote:6ix, you do realize you don't have to hear, see, understand, or give your consent to be tortured to death, right? The United States killed many people like you in the Confederacy without their permission. The same thing happened to the Germans and Japanese, if you recall. No permission, no understanding of why they were being burned to death in their own homes. Just do it and get a medal.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
If you were President you'd have me executed today.
Who are you foolin', BootJack?
Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Trump will build a monument to Trump
February 2, 2026
President Trump says he wants the new triumphal arch he's commissioning as a gate to Washington, D.C., to be the "biggest one of all" in the world, even though the proposed site is situated along a flight path for nearby Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
The design continues to be refined, and the president has said it will be larger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which stands at 164 feet tall, according to a White House official. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that the president wants to build a 250-foot arch, aligning with the 250th anniversary of the country, which would dwarf even the tallest triumphal arch in the world, the 220-foot-tall Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City. For comparison, the Lincoln Memorial, which sits opposite the Memorial Bridge of the would-be arch site, is 99 feet tall.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-arch-dca-airport-flight-path/
The Trump Memorial will be taller than the tallest building in Baytown, where I live.
That building was called "The White House" before it was imploded in 2025:
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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An Abu Dhabi royal paid Trump, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
By Jonathan Chait | February 3, 2026, 12:03 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/trump-spy-shiek-corruption-e
mirates/685859/
The royal family in Abu Dhabi had a problem. Their AI firm, G42, wanted American chips, but both the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress feared letting them have any out of concern that the chips would be transferred to China.
The family solved the problem last year, The Wall Street Journal has discovered, by using the simplest solution that businesses can now employ for a policy obstacle: They seem to have made a deal with the Trump family. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family sometimes called the “Spy Sheikh,” purchased a 49 percent share in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto firm, thus sending $187 million to Trump-family-controlled entities. That spring, the Trump administration reversed American policy and approved the AI-chip transfer.
A sitting U.S. president shouldn’t have a business partner. If he did, ideally, that partner would be a U.S. citizen and not an agent of a foreign government. But if the president is going to have a foreign operative as his business partner, ideally that partner would not have a nickname like the Spy Sheikh.
President Trump has generally managed to confine the proliferating conflicts between his business dealings and the public interest to second-tier news stories. Trump and his spokespeople have rarely had to even defend his choice to operate a global business empire that stands to profit from his decisions.
The Journal’s explosive report, which constitutes the first established instance of a foreign government official buying a large share of a Trump company after the 2024 election, has at least briefly forced the administration and the Trump family to explain themselves. The defenses put forth are not reassuring.
One defense, via World Liberty itself, is that the company need not follow any different ethical standards than other companies. David Wachsman, a spokesperson for the firm, told the Journal, “The idea that, when raising capital, a privately held American company should be held to some unique standard that no other similar company would be held is both ridiculous and un-American.”
The reason World Liberty might be held to a different standard than other firms is that World Liberty was founded by, among others, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Barron Trump, and “co-founder emeritus” Donald Trump during the home stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign.
A normal business can’t simply change government policy in order to enrich itself. Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a blind trust upon taking office to avoid the temptation to tilt the policy agenda in a pro-peanut direction. Other peanut farmers did not have to establish blind trusts in response to Carter’s election. That is the difference between a business owned by a sitting president and one that isn’t.
Wachsman also assured the Journal that Trump and Steve Witkoff, a World Liberty co-founder, “had no involvement in the deal and haven’t been involved in World Liberty since taking office,” as the paper paraphrased his answer. But because Trump’s sons can handle the firm’s business, and presumably have regular opportunities to communicate with their dad, that does essentially nothing to dispel the conflict of interest. All that needs to happen to create a corrupt nexus is for Trump to find out who is giving him money.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, appearing on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, offered two additional defenses that are even less convincing: “President Trump has been completely transparent when his family travels for business reasons. They don’t do so in secret. We don’t learn about it when we find a laptop a few years later. We learn about it when it’s happening.” Blanche elaborated: “The president is ethical. He talks more to the press. He says what’s happening more than any president i
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just lost 2 in Texas and Texas was supposed to be secure for the Republican stronghold vs Democrat
'Absolute collapse of MAGA' has left surprise state up for grabs: strategist
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-midterms/
Marjorie Taylor Greene says MAGA 'was all a lie'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5718355-marjorie-taylor-gr
eene-trump-maga-lie/
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Texas is fine. Democrats win every Special Election. Republicans still haven't figured out how the Democrats cheat in them, but they will.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you do realize you don't have to hear, see, understand, or give your consent to be tortured to death, right?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, Trump's decisions intentionally get people killed:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have never and would never be able to bring any specifics to the table proving any of those allegations as true.
If you were President you'd have me executed today.
Who are you foolin', BootJack?
Nobody is listening to anything you have to say anymore.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Yeah.
The real question is, do YOU understand this?
I think you do, because I don't see you laughing and giving me the Secret Service's number when I show you all the stuff you've posted that I've archived anymore.
Be sure to say hi to Don Lemon for me when you finally figure it out and you're sitting where you belong.
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Kidnappings... the News Anchors mother kidnapped like they do Haiti, Arabia, Mexico, Somalia style...some say its not unlike the USA grabbing Maduro
but kidnappers want money?
KGUN9 of Tucson reports that the Nancy Guthrie ransom note demands $6 million be paid by 5 pm Monday and threatens Nancy's life if the deadline is missed
https://x.com/lookner/status/2020402851789566030
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