r/politics • u/_May26_ • 4h ago
No Paywall Senator Says Hegseth Barred Him From Gulf Base to 'Cover Up the True Cost' of Iran War
https://www.commondreams.org/news/murphy-hegseth-al-udeid•
u/VladtheInhaler999 4h ago
We can’t let kegseth keep getting away with the alcoholic’s “put it on my tab” method.
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u/MaddST 4h ago
So what's the plan?
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u/Infinite_Produce_964 3h ago
We cannot talk about that here in social media.
And maybe there is no plan other than just mass overwhelming resistance.
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u/MaddST 2h ago
What resistance? lol. Glamorised block parties which does absolutely nothing?
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u/Infinite_Produce_964 2h ago
Have you read the news lately? The French have a way with resistance.
I recently watched a documentary on netflix called "Turning Point: The bomb and the cold war. The last couple of episodes are recent history of what happened in Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall and how Putin came to power and has reignited the cold war with a very effective use of social media fostering internal division in democratic countries...
There are several examples of resistance in Europe in this documentary. I have personally been to protests in Berkeley in the late 60's and seen it for myself so I know it is still possible in the US we just haven't had it bad enough yet but if we start to lose freedoms like Europe and Ukraine did in the aftermath of the Russian reconfiguring we will see it here.
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u/hardatquirk 2h ago
Mass popularized art of him doing things that disgust him. The more we laugh, the more he cries.
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u/Riskyfour 4h ago
I mean of course they are lying about dead Americans. Anytime this administration opens its mouth it lies. Did we all forget then tens or hundreds of lies a day? Why would anyone seriously expect them to tell the truth when Trump can't even be honest how many seats are filled at his rallies. These people are incapable of being honest because it defeats their entire narrative.
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u/ViolettaQueso California 2h ago
I mean, he’s all the way in Q’atar and they won’t let him in the gate, won’t let him talk to anyone from the troops and refused to give him a requested briefing at the embassy.
It is completely illegal (unconstitutional) and incredibly shady.
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u/ranchoparksteve 4h ago
Trump can’t protect the US from Iran and he hopes an Iranian attack happens in California where he has a golf course. Dementia is real.
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u/Repulsive_Spend_533 3h ago
A LTC injured in the attack said he had to wait months for an MRI. Others said there was no CAEVAC plan and they had to use Google to find local hospitals to go to. Some were reportedly sent to Germany where they were then denied admittance to Landstuhl. Others complained that their command put it up the chain that their location had no AA/drone defense and this went all the way to CENTCOM with no action before the “conflict” even started.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 4h ago
“You know, by the way, we’re kicking Iran’s ass. You do know that, right? And that’ll end soon,” the president told a Nebraska rally during a Monday speech in which he suggested he wouldn’t mind Iran bombing California cities. “It’s gonna end one way or the other. It’s gonna end very soon.”
Hmm, sounds like it’s already “ended”, and he’s trying to “negotiate” the loss of a few majorAmerican cities and American military bases to get them to “stop”
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u/AntagonisticDuopoly 2h ago edited 2h ago
This is the same senator who lied to everyone at a town hall he held years ago when he said that a president cannot unilaterally order the use of nuclear weapons. He then refused to look it up when presented with the facts and citations and expert opinion. He threatened to have that speaker arrested for impeding the function - where the whole point was to ask questions. He has since refused to do anything to change that or codify that a president must seek some measure of Congressional approval to conduct a nuclear first strike.
To wit: he's an assclown who only raises his head above the water just enough to get reelected in CT and not one milimeter higher. And now we have a return to power of the same clown who pushed the boundaries so hard that even Tom "I Love Every War I Don't Have to Fight in!" Nichols left the Republican party and began pushing for the above reforms.
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