United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[benji]

Yes, a monarchy is authoritarian and I relish in the fact it is. Look at the above. This land needs order. A

Do you have anyone in mind who you'll be kneeling before and swearing to obey?

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

it's the big day today isn't it? Can't wait for the parade! 

[HaughtyFrank]

Reuters has a Livestream of the preparations 

https://www.youtube.com/live/HEq8_ZZfhRg?si=geAVxr9FCH0O2cfC

Looks a bit more like some kind of summercamp. I guess it makes sense the army would use this as recruiting event

[killamajig]

Reuters has a Livestream of the preparations 

https://www.youtube.com/live/HEq8_ZZfhRg?si=geAVxr9FCH0O2cfC

Looks a bit more like some kind of summercamp. I guess it makes sense the army would use this as recruiting event

This reminds me of the 4-H County Fair in my hometown. Usually the military would bring a tank and some other military stuff for the kids to climb on and take pictures. With a recruiting booth nearby.

[Nintex]

[Polident]

I’m reading updates on the Minnesota shooting. Sometimes you think you’re reading schizo conspiracy ramblings that happen to be…real?

[Uncle]

I’m reading updates on the Minnesota shooting. Sometimes you think you’re reading schizo conspiracy ramblings that happen to be…real?

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172

the shooter being Vance Boelter, who was previously appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council by Tim Walz


"no kings" flyers found in his car

possible motivation may have been that the victims had broken with party lines and voted against free healthcare for immigrants

[killamajig]

I’m reading updates on the Minnesota shooting. Sometimes you think you’re reading schizo conspiracy ramblings that happen to be…real?

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172

the shooter being Vance Boelter, who was previously appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council by Tim Walz


"no kings" flyers found in his car

possible motivation may have been that the victims had broken with party lines and voted against free healthcare for immigrants

Edit 

Is it still a bannable offense on Reee to wait until we get more info? Like shit just happened hours ago and they expect a full bio and mental evaluation of the perp ASAP

[benji]

Is it still a bannable offense on Reee to wait until we get more info? Like shit just happened hours ago and they expect a full bio and mental evaluation of the perp ASAP

All my animes solve things in 44 minutes or less.

[Potato]

I’m reading updates on the Minnesota shooting. Sometimes you think you’re reading schizo conspiracy ramblings that happen to be…real?

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172

the shooter being Vance Boelter, who was previously appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Council by Tim Walz


"no kings" flyers found in his car

possible motivation may have been that the victims had broken with party lines and voted against free healthcare for immigrants

Edit 

Is it still a bannable offense on Reee to wait until we get more info? Like shit just happened hours ago and they expect a full bio and mental evaluation of the perp ASAP

Always jump to conclusions based on scant information. It's the only way.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I liked the parade but got annoyed by the news coorspondants constantly interrupting. Why couldn't they shut the fuck up and let the guy speaking about the history of the army at the parade do all the talking? 

I give it a 6/10. The sound track wasn't great and a lot of it felt rushed. Next time maybe allow firearms and actual marching.

North Korea and Russia do a lot better. No excuses, America. 

[simiansmarts]

 
 
The coinbase sponsor    

[MMaRsu]

Its FLAG DAY everybody!!

Let us honor the emblem of our nation and the stars and stripes that unite us all. As we display our nations flag and reflect on the values it represents, let’s celebrate the freedom, courage and resilience that makes our country great.

Especially the Russian flag!

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I liked the parade but got annoyed by the news coorspondants constantly interrupting. Why couldn't they shut the fuck up and let the guy speaking about the history of the army at the parade do all the talking? 

I give it a 6/10. The sound track wasn't great and a lot of it felt rushed. Next time maybe allow firearms and actual marching.

North Korea and Russia do a lot better. No excuses, America. 

what youtuber stream where you watching

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/

They just realized they could have been doing this

[benji]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I liked the parade but got annoyed by the news coorspondants constantly interrupting. Why couldn't they shut the fuck up and let the guy speaking about the history of the army at the parade do all the talking? 

I give it a 6/10. The sound track wasn't great and a lot of it felt rushed. Next time maybe allow firearms and actual marching.

North Korea and Russia do a lot better. No excuses, America. 

what youtuber stream where you watching

C-Span.

[benji]

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

if you can't get drunk for the 250th anniversary then where can you get drunk?!

[benji]

if you can't get drunk for the 250th anniversary then where can you get drunk?!

It's what He would have wanted:

Whiskey has been with the America’s armed forces since the earliest days of the republic.

“[T]he liquor ration,” wrote historian Robert Hunt, “was an absolute necessity. No military commander of the 18th century would have thought of leading his troops on any mission without planning for this need.”

...

American commanders began supplying strong drink in 1775 — right after the Continental Army was formed. Congress voted to supply it with beer. Gen. George Washington, who was fond of beer and all sorts of drink, nonetheless felt something heartier was required. “The benefits arising from the moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all armies, and are not to be disputed,” wrote Washington to John Hancock, then president of the Congress. Washington directed that each soldier be issued a gill — 4 ounces — of whiskey each day, and later directed field commanders to reward valor with additional rations. To keep fighting men in their cups, Washington asked Congress to fund the erection of whiskey distilleries. (His request was not satisfied. Washington opened his own whiskey distillery near his Mount Vernon estate a couple decades later.)

The whiskey ration went from being an occasional order to a standing policy for the army. For fifty years (1782-1832), each soldier was entitled to a daily gill.

In June 1779, Washington informed General Alexander McDougall: “I have written to the Commissary urging him if possible to have a pretty good stock of rum at the forts to supply more constantly the fatigue parties.”

[HaughtyFrank]

Internally I think it might actually be good for Trump that the whole parade had a very "county fair" vibe. If he US marines were marching down in perfect lockstep shouting "Happy birthday Trump" in perfect unison everyone would declare this as the start of the fourth Reich. 
Internationally I imagine this was embarrassing though as the countries who give a shit about parades totally outclassed the US. 

Overall would have been wiser to spend the 45 million on something else.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

that 45 million could've went for a drag queen show at the white house. 

[benji]

[benji]

filler's girl is in trouble:

As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel’s campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction.

At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” — and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”

Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according to three people familiar with the episode — two of them inside the administration and all granted anonymity to describe sensitive dynamics.

Her post came a few days after Israel hawks met with Trump at the White House to lobby him to support Israel’s attacks on Iran. In the eyes of Trump and some close to him, Gabbard was warning him not to greenlight Israel attacking Iran. Trump even expressed his disapproval to her personally, the three people said.

Those tensions came to the forefront early Tuesday when a reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump about Gabbard’s declaration before Congress in March that Iran was not seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Trump appeared to dismiss her assessment.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump replied. “I think they were very close to having a weapon.”

It’s a remarkable change in tone from the way the president once talked about the former Democratic representative from Hawaii-turned-Trump supporter. Last fall, Trump touted Gabbard’s backing on the campaign trail. He added her — as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — to his Cabinet in part to highlight the ideological diversityof the MAGA coalition.

But in recent months, Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard’s office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it’s unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president’s principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community.

And Trump has “just been kind of down on her in general,” said one of the people familiar with Gabbard’s interactions with the White House, adding that Trump thinks she “doesn’t add anything to any conversation.”

Gabbard insisted to reporters Tuesday that she and the president are “on the same page” on Iran, and a person close to Gabbard denied any tensions between her and the president. As recently as Tuesday, the two were meeting with other top officials in the Situation Room at the White House, and the administration even changed the time of the briefing to accommodate her schedule to ensure she could attend, the person said.

The Gabbard ally added that she is fully on board with what Trump is trying to do with Iran, and said she has never let her personal views color the advice she provides to the president — nor has she tried to sway Trump to her own point of view.

Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said the president “has full confidence in his entire exceptional national security team” and insisted that “efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work.”

Vice President JD Vance’s team also reached out unprompted Tuesday night to defend Gabbard in a statement, arguing that she is “an essential member” of the team.

“Tulsi Gabbard is a veteran, a patriot, a loyal supporter of President Trump, and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024,” he said in a statement.

Some of Gabbard’s detractors are now holding up Trump’s words to argue that she should get the axe.

“She shouldn’t be in that job,” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who had his own falling out with Trump, said Tuesday.

Video of Trump’s comments about Gabbard on Air Force One have also stirred speculation on Capitol Hill that he has lost trust in her, said one senior congressional aide. Lawmakers of both parties were sharing the video widely among themselves on Tuesday morning, said the aide, who was granted anonymity to share details of private conversations.

“This is not just the hawkish camp,” the person said. “This is every single member sending it around.”

[benji]

During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon

[Nintex]

And Trump has “just been kind of down on her in general,” said one of the people familiar with Gabbard’s interactions with the White House, adding that Trump thinks she “doesn’t add anything to any conversation.”

 

Listeners of Joe Rogan knew this already. 

[TylenolJones]

During a private lunch with the president at the White House last Wednesday, conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Trump that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon

Also Sean Hannity’s open letter to the ayatollah 

[HaughtyFrank]

Big 2000s energy from these guys