Gone too damn young.
Iâm not sure we exactly agree on what the military is âactually for.â The U.S. military has certainly been used most often recently to suppress insurgencies in foreign countries against friendly and has an awful record at that. But that is not fundamentally what a military is for, nor is it especially beneficial for the American people. The important role is stuff like maintaining free navigation of the seas and deterring/repelling armed attacks on the U.S. or our allies.
I also somewhat disagree with your last paragraph. There is not really a coherent set of people âin chargeâ of the military industrial complexâwhich is essentially the problem. The apparatus is unaccountable to anyone and unconstrained by any real objective goals, so it naturally sprawls into this enormous, useless blob that sucks in resources and distributes them to its various organelles. By way of contrast, I would wager that China is still quite a bit more corrupt than the U.S., but its military is operated with real discipline towards particular goals.
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Russia bots have been waiting five years for a shout-out.
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A guy named Tarkus Claypool was born to be a spokesperson for a satanic organization.
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I bet he calls Barron his âlil keyboard warriorâ once a week.
I hope Trump adds this to his wall collection of Time covers.
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I second this. A great image regardless of whether itâs real or a meme.
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If you canât spot the sucker in your first 30 minutes at the table
I donât believe it for a second
https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1261312531227967488?s=21
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LOLing at OPERATION WARP SPEED. This canât be real life.
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Deleted. Meant to reply to post.
A tweet I saw regarding this pic was âThe fifth dentist.â
The final episode of season one of Trial by Media is about Rod Blagojevich, a Democratic senator who was successfully impeached and convicted for auctioning off Obamaâs vacated Senate seat. Great watch and of course features Trump. First when Rod went on Celebrity Apprentice (lolololol) before being fired for not knowing enough about Harry Potter.
âYour Harry Potter facts were not accurate. Who did the research?â Trump demanded to know, in a clip tweeted by IJR editor Josh Billinson recently.
Guest judge Erin Burnett â at the time a CNBC host, now a primetime CNN anchor â looked on in silence as Blagojevich floundered for an explanation.
Then he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and needed a pardon.
Starting in December 2008, a controversial investigation and trial found Blagojevich guilty of public corruption after he attempted to solicit bribes to occupy the U.S. Senate seat vacated by then president-elect Barack Obama. Blagojevich was impeached in 2009, later convicted, and ultimately sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. After an appeal and public support for his release, U.S. President Donald Trump formally commuted his sentence in 2020; imprisoned for nearly eight years, the executive order ended his sentence six years early.
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They called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry âHogwards.â
Later, in the boardroom, Blagojevich continued the blunders, referring to Slytherin as âSlitheringâ and Ravenclaw as âRavencloth.â
Now we know why he got 14 years
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Even Trump was like âwtf I canât even spell Harry Potter and I know that muchâ
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What a lineup. Stefanik is definitely getting severely sexually harassed, btw.
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Yup. Crenshaw not going to be the only one-eyed monster sheâll have to watch out for.
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