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US Marines have no Leader

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  • RainmanR Offline
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    Rainman
    wrote on last edited by Rainman
    #40

    In times gone by. . .
    I see no problem with beginning a statement with that.
    When I was a kid. . .
    There are starving kids in China that would gladly eat it. . .

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    • AxtremusA Offline
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      #41

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/01/tuberville-military-promotion-hold/

      Senate Republicans erupt in anger over Tuberville’s military freeze

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      • taiwan_girlT Offline
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        #42

        Contrary to what Sen. Tuberville had said earlier

        As the night wore on, Sullivan and Ernst — herself a former commander in the U.S. Army Reserve and Iowa Army National Guard — continued to bring up new nominations and appeared to become increasingly frustrated. They noted that they were bringing up the nominations “one by one” as Tuberville had once called for, and asked why he wouldn’t allow them to go forward. Tuberville did not answer. “I do not respect men who do not honor their word,” Ernst said at one point.

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        • George KG George K

          Will anyone respond to General Hayden's call to remove the senator from the human race so we can get going and have leadership at the Marines?

          jon-nycJ Offline
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          #43

          @George-K said in US Marines have no Leader:

          Will anyone respond to General Hayden's call to remove the senator from the human race so we can get going and have leadership at the Marines?

          Sure, let’s demote him to Non-Human Primate and make him ineligible for the office.

          They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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          • jon-nycJ Offline
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            wrote on last edited by jon-nyc
            #44

            It really is over the top behavior which no administration could ever capitulate to.

            Normally political hostage taking involves abstractions like budgets or political posts. Who would have guessed even a decade ago that the modern GOP would insert the military in the hostage role.

            They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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            • JollyJ Offline
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              #45

              War eagle!

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • taiwan_girlT Offline
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                wrote on last edited by
                #46

                Well, that was a waste of 10 months.

                https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/05/tuberville-blockade-crumbles-allowing-hundreds-of-military-officers-be-promoted-senate.html

                More than 400 senior military officers were promoted Tuesday following months of delay after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., ended his blockade on military confirmations without winning any change to the Pentagon abortion policy he was protesting.

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                  #47

                  List of people promoted in the afternoon promotion session.

                  https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/12/06/here-are-the-425-military-leaders-finally-confirmed-by-the-senate/

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                  • JollyJ Offline
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                    #48

                    You think it accomplished nothing?

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      You think it accomplished nothing?

                      taiwan_girlT Offline
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                      @Jolly said in US Marines have no Leader:

                      You think it accomplished nothing?

                      From his point of view, yes, it accomplished nothing.

                      However, he did do something that is quite rare in today's political atmosphere. He managed to have a group of almost 99 senators be bipartisan against him. So, I guess we should give him credit for that. LOL

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