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[QUOTE=SubCmdr;3082282]I could not have said it better myself.
[URL]https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6065013-hegseth-again-removes-army-officer-promotions/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-pentagon-defense-department-personnel-iran-army-promotion-influencers[/URL][/QUOTE]It's good that Hegseth got rid of the failed DEI project, can't have that sort of incompetence in a war.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3082410]It's good that Hegseth got rid of the failed DEI project, can't have that sort of incompetence in a war.[/QUOTE]The problem is the Secretary is incompetent and does not deserve to hold the position. And quite honestly neither is the current Joint Chief of Staff (white) who retired as a 3 star general only to return and place a black 4 star general in the same position.
Arm chair generals who have never strapped on iron nor stood and faced down evil against a armed opponent (I have) should STFU about stuff they don't know about.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3081745]Thanks for making my point. When Canada imposes 250% tariffs on USA dairy product, you leftards still are against Trump and take Canada's side. Everything Trump does has to be bad for America.
As for Canada and energy, of course, Canada should have pipelines to the open market but you left and your climate change nuttery stopped that at every turn. Now you have done a 180 and somehow building pipelines is sticking it to Trump. In reality, those pipelines are going to take years and here is the dirty little secret. The tar sands of Canada and oil in Venezuela are very similar and while you Dems have been blasting Trump on Iran, you have not noticed what a success is going on in Venezuela.
Venezuela has doubled its paltry oil production. In addition, since Trump took over Venezuela's finances, money is being sent to the people of Venezuela and not finding its way into some dictator's foreign back account, and people on this very forum have commented on it.
$120 billion of Canada's $410 billion in exports were related to energy, but Venezuela has more proven reserves than anywhere in the world. If Venezuela gets its production going before those pipelines are built, the USA may be in the position to tell Canada thanks but no thanks with their oil, and Canada would be fucked..[/QUOTE]You are pretty much correct on everything especially about the great oil deal Trump made with Venezuela and that may really hurt Canada in the future if they do t change their leadership. But you failed to mention that Canada healthcare is terrible. Canada has no Canadian doctors but mostly Indian, South African and African doctors. Canada socialist healthcare is cheap and is great if you never get sick. Wait times for knee or hip replacement is 4-4.5 years. By then you are crippled. Cancer care is even worse. And you forgot to mention is that Canada even tariffs within their provinces not only USA. Canada messed up royally with playing hardball with Trump. They could have had and should have had 0 tariffs between USA and Canada. Canada is a mess and since their media is biased like CNN and MSNow most Canadians are duped. Not sure Canada can recover.
[QUOTE=Spidy;3081559]Friday, Aug. 21, may go down in history as Canada's Liberation Day. It was the day America came for Canada [I]...and Canada said NO! [/I].
[I]"But Mr. Carney did not simply reject a trade offer on Friday. He was openly defiant of the new breed of American aggression. We will not allow any nation to determine our future, he said.
The American president clearly did not know whom he was dealing with. [b]He is following in the grand tradition of American leaders starting wars with people they don't understand, then wondering what went wrong. [/b][/I]
Viva Canada's Liberation Day?[/QUOTE]Canada liberation day may end up being the worst thing that happened to Canada ever. Playing hardball with Trump was for political reasons only and has pretty much destroyed Canada economy. Alberta oil keeps Canada afloat and Trump cutting a deal with Venezuela could be the final blow to Canada. Socialist stupidity has pretty much destroyed Canada. Their unemployment is higher and their inflation is higher than USA and their economy is much worse.
[QUOTE=Spidy;3082224]And MAGA has gall and the nerve to wage a dumbass culture-war about DEI. Talk about hypocrites![/QUOTE]But you love DEI, why so mad?
It seems to me that the hypocrite is you, don't you see that?
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3082188]Not only does it become more and more likely that Repub Donald Trump will leave office after two terms, 8 miserable years, with his classic Repub economic policies and stewardship having failed to create one single net gain private-sector American job, but the even more depressing although hardly surprising fact is it is possible that all three most recent Repub presidents combined, through 20 horrific years of their classic Repub economic policies and stewardship, will not have created one single net gain private-sector American job.
And that's no joke. That is entirely possible.
[B]Jobs Created During Presidential Terms:[/B]
[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms[/URL]
Anyway, back to today.
[B]Private payrolls rose by 38,000 in August, less than expected, ADP reports:[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/private-payrolls-rose-by-38000-in-august-fewer-than-expected-adp-reports.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL].[/QUOTE][URL]https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/ex-iraqi-finance-minister-given-women-of-courage-awarded-by-jill-biden-lands-on-us-terror-watchlist/[/URL]
Lmfao, it's great to see that Biden gave an award to a terrorist. I mean it's not like there was any signs of foul play.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3082463][URL]https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/ex-iraqi-finance-minister-given-women-of-courage-awarded-by-jill-biden-lands-on-us-terror-watchlist/[/URL]
Lmfao, it's great to see that Biden gave an award to a terrorist. I mean it's not like there was any signs of foul play.[/QUOTE]If you think a never-elected lady doing that is funny, you must have thought this early warning of disaster to come was hilarious:
[B]Trump attended fundraiser for Sinn Fin before London terror attack.
Republican presidential candidate attended a 1995 dinner in New York for Irish party accused of supporting terrorism just before attack in London.[/B]
[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/09/donald-trump-ireland-sinn-fein-terrorism[/URL]
[QUOTE]Donald Trump attended a Sinn Fin fundraising dinner in New York just months before the party's allies in the Provisional IRA ended its ceasefire with a massive terror attack in London's Canary Wharf district.
As controversy rages over the Republican presidential candidate's demand that Muslims be barred from the United States to prevent Islamist terror attacks, footage has emerged of the tycoon shaking hands with Sinn Fin president Gerry Adams.
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But less than four months later the PIRA ended its ceasefire with a huge bomb in London's Docklands on 9 February 1996. Two men working in a nearby newsagents were killed in the massive explosion, which caused 100 m in damage to the Canary Wharf / South Quay district.
On his way to the New York fundraiser a few months earlier, Trump would have seen a group of demonstrators protesting ongoing IRA violence, including victims of the 1993 Shankill bomb massacre in which 10 people died. [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Overall active-duty officers are roughly 73% White and ~27% racial minority, compared to 32% minority among all active-duty members. Black service members make up about 21% of enlisted personnel but only 9% of officers.[/QUOTE][URL]https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/percentage-african-american-officers-us-military-2026-fe76af[/URL]
[B]Top US general urges greater racial diversity in military[/B]
[QUOTE]As an example of the failure to increase racial diversity, Milley said that when the current chief of staff of the Air Force, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1984, only 2% of Air Force pilots were Black. Today, Milley said, the Air Force pilot population remains 2% Black.[/QUOTE][URL]https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-government-and-politics-1deffc0efb652716aa44dab756b614d1[/URL]
This might be a good time to remind the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media that Joe Biden's economic policies and stewardship's average monthly jobs creation number was 345,000 to 350,000 and Obama's post inherited 2010 jobs-crashing Great Repub Recession average with every Russia Russia Russia-loving Repub in the House and the Senate doing everything they could to obstruct and delay a Dem recovery from their Great Repub Recession was 160,000 to 227,000 per month. See the A. I. Overview screenshots below.
[B]U.S. added 162,000 jobs in August, but wage growth continues to lag inflation.
Revisions to June and July data boosted payrolls by 55,000, pointing to a labor market that is stronger than many economists believed.[/B]
[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/august-jobs-report-trump-inflation-rcna595974[/URL]
As usual, if you have every reason to make a pathetically low estimate, even a piddling result vs one Dem and the bare minimum average for another will likely cause Repubs and their beloved electioneering partners in MSM doing backflips and cartwheels over it. Especially in an election year.
However, Trump being the classic Repub he is, he saw it as an opportunity to threaten even worse classic Repub results. LOL.
[B]Trump Reacts to Jobs Data: 'Lower The Rate or Ill Stop Trading With Countries'[/B]
[URL]https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-reacts-jobs-data-lower-150722321.html[/URL]
Yep, he is still stuck on Super Stupid over the fact that countries with a fraction of the USA population are not buying as much stuff from the USA at a much higher labor and manufacturing cost as we buy from them at much lower labor and manufacturing cost. And he is demanding his Fed do everything it can to jack up his rate of inflation even more than it is exceeding USA wage growth already unless somebody does something about those trade deficits! LOL. Swear to god.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3082488]If you think a never-elected lady doing that is funny, you must have thought this early warning of disaster to come was hilarious:
[B]Trump attended fundraiser for Sinn Fin before London terror attack.
Republican presidential candidate attended a 1995 dinner in New York for Irish party accused of supporting terrorism just before attack in London.[/B]
[URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/09/donald-trump-ireland-sinn-fein-terrorism[/URL][/QUOTE][URL]https://www.axios.com/2018/01/05/report-obama-administration-backed-off-hezbollah-investigation-1515110648[/URL]
Biden awarded terrorists and Obama let narco terrorists freely finance terrorism and destroy the American society with drugs because he was so weak when it came to foreign policy and incredibly afraid of Iran.
It's amazing how much better President Trump is when it comes to Hezbollah, Iran and foreign policy.
Notice how I'm talking about foreign policy.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3082410]It's good that Hegseth got rid of the failed DEI project, can't have that sort of incompetence in a war.[/QUOTE][B]Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for inept leadership of US military[/B]
[QUOTE]The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as the Iran war drags on[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/05/pete-hegseth-pentagon-military[/URL]
The Secretary of War should do the honorable thing and resign before the current Article 2 leader fires him.
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3082574][URL]https://www.axios.com/2018/01/05/report-obama-administration-backed-off-hezbollah-investigation-1515110648[/URL]
Biden awarded terrorists and Obama let narco terrorists freely finance terrorism and destroy the American society with drugs because he was so weak when it came to foreign policy and incredibly afraid of Iran.
It's amazing how much better President Trump is when it comes to Hezbollah, Iran and foreign policy.
Notice how I'm talking about foreign policy.[/QUOTE]Thanks to Trump and that worthless defense secretary we are losing the war with Iran. How does this make Trump better than Obama?
[QUOTE=ShooBree;3082574][URL]https://www.axios.com/2018/01/05/report-obama-administration-backed-off-hezbollah-investigation-1515110648[/URL]
Biden awarded terrorists and Obama let narco terrorists freely finance terrorism and destroy the American society with drugs because he was so weak when it came to foreign policy and incredibly afraid of Iran.
It's amazing how much better President Trump is when it comes to Hezbollah, Iran and foreign policy.
Notice how I'm talking about foreign policy.[/QUOTE]The first sentence from your link:
[QUOTE]The Obama administration railroaded a U.S. effort to dismantle a Hezbollah drug-trafficking scheme since [b]it conflicted with aspirations to strike a nuclear deal with Iran[/b], according to a Politico report by Josh Meyer.[/QUOTE]Clearly that was by far the smarter and better goal.
Trump twice confirmed that Iran was in full compliance with that Iran deal that Obama and Kerry struck. Right before he tore it up, defunded and removed the inspectors, allowing Iran to do anything it damn well pleased unmonitored for the next several years.
Now he has plunged America into another Repub Forever War with Iran based on his lie and begging Iran to please, please, pretty please agree in writing to the same terms Obama and Kerry had already successfully gotten Iran to agree to without a stupid, counterproductive Repub Forever War.
And you are actually bringing up the subject of drugs in America re Trump? Lolol.
[B]Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric[/B]
[URL]https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5415939/trump-pardons-drug-kingpins-even-as-he-escalates-the-u-s-drug-war[/URL]
[B]SUN: Trump pardons Baltimore drug trafficker who ran multimillion-dollar ring[/B]
[URL]https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/president0trump-pardons-baltimore-drug-trafficker-garnett-smith[/URL]
[QUOTE]BALTIMORE (WBFF) A Baltimore drug kingpin who built a multimillion-dollar narcotics empire and lived a lavish, celebrity-style lifestyle before his arrest was pardoned by President Donald Trump in May, according to federal records obtained by The Baltimore Sun.
Garnett Gilbert Smith, also known as Abdule Jones and Brian Slack, was 44 when he was convicted in 2014 in federal court of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Smith was sentenced to 25 years in prison.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=KeviKev68;3082603]Thanks to Trump and that worthless defense secretary we are losing the war with Iran. How does this make Trump better than Obama?[/QUOTE]Obama lost all dignity, not only his own, but also the dignity of America by letting Iran aligned Narco terrorists freely commit crimes and even chose their side over the American people and US law enforcement. It's embarrassing, Obama took orders by Iran. It made not only himself and his administration the lapdog of Iran, but also the US and the American people! Unbelievable shameful and embarrassing!
It's embarrassing to see how you're unable to accept the facts, unlike you I have dignity. I'd rather die fighting to live free than to live on my knees.
Iran is losing this war, the oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz even CNN is recognizing that. I know that this war is going great as the Iranian economy is crumbling meanwhile I can still take cheap flights because the price of jet fuel is still so low.
President Trump is bringing glory and joy, meanwhile you bring lies and the Trump derangement syndrome and Obama brought shame and humiliation by surrendering to the Iranian regime! Where's your dignity? Why are you so set on being subjugated by the Iranian regime? It's embarrassing!
Unlike you I'm not about taking political sides, I'm interested in the bigger picture. I have shown that by criticizing Trump on various issues. You're a child, you can't admit the truth, you're only interested in spreading hate against President Trump!
This is by the way, exactly why Trump won the presidential election two times and someone like Trump will win it again, you Trump Derangement Syndrome people are not able to put America first.
[QUOTE=EihTooms;3082614]The first sentence from your link:
Clearly that was by far the smarter and better goal.
Trump twice confirmed that Iran was in full compliance with that Iran deal that Obama and Kerry struck. Right before he tore it up, defunded and removed the inspectors, allowing Iran to do anything it damn well pleased unmonitored for the next several years.
Now he has plunged America into another Repub Forever War with Iran based on his lie and begging Iran to please, please, pretty please agree in writing to the same terms Obama and Kerry had already successfully gotten Iran to agree to without a stupid, counterproductive Repub Forever War.[/QUOTE]Obama surrendered, it was embarrassing and shameful. He made USA look weak and increased the Iranian regimes' power over Iran and the broader Middle Eastern region.
It's partially because of Obama's failed Iran deal that Iran has been able to build so many missiles. President Trump is the first President to take so something instead of letting the Iran snowball, with Obama being main culprit.
What se today is the Iranian regime being weaker and weaker and the Iranian economy is crumbling.
President Trump is doing great fixing the problems created by previous administrations and specifically Obama.