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Should be a wild four years.

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The idea of Chinese insurance seems like a bad joke. Is Xi the beneficiary on every policy?
Speaking of Chinese finance, the extent of debanking in China is like what Null experiences but if it was normalised and actually used as a political bludgeon against dissenters, instead of a one-man gangstalking campaign conducted by mentally ill trannies.
 
mfw i was right about tucker
That he doesn't want war with Iran? Seems pretty obvious. You don't have to sell me on liking Tucker even more. I don't want to like someone who wore a bowtie and advocated for the Iraq war, but everyone deserves a redemption arc I suppose.


Pentagon deputy chief of staff is second Hegseth advisor removed amid DOD leak probe—FoxNews​

Pentagon officials Darin Selnick and Dan Caldwell are being investigated amid the probe
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The Defense Department's (DOD) deputy chief of staff was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday, following the steps of another Pentagon official earlier in the day.
Darin Selnick, the deputy chief of staff for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been removed, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.
Selnick is under investigation for the same leak probe that saw Hegseth aide Dan Caldwell escorted out of the Pentagon by security. Both Selnick and Caldwell are on administrative leave.
According to the Pentagon's website, Selnick is a retired Air Force officer who has worked extensively in veterans' affairs organizations.
"Mr. Selnick leverages his extensive government and non-government experience advocating for veterans to position Service members for productive post-separation lives from the first day they put on a uniform," the biography states.
GENERAL WHO HELPED TRUMP DECIMATE ISIS TERRORISTS IN FIRST TERM CONFIRMED AS JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN
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Pentagon deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick was removed from the Department of Defense headquarters on Tuesday. (Department of Defense | Getty Images)

Both Selnick and Caldwell worked for Concerned Veterans for America in the past, a group formerly led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Reuters reported that Caldwell was placed on leave for an "unauthorized disclosure," as part of an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents.
The probe was announced last month, and concerned itself over "recent unauthorized disclosures of national security information."
HEGSETH QUIPS '99.9%' OF DEI INITIATIVES ARE GONE FROM THE MILITARY UNDER TRUMP’S WATCH
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Pete Hegseth, US defense secretary, during a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. (Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"The use of polygraphs in the execution of this investigation will be in accordance with applicable law and policy," DOD Chief of Staff Joe Kasper wrote in a memo at the time. "This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense."
An official told Politico that the leak concerned Panama Canal plans and Elon Musk’s visit to the Pentagon, among other matters.
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Pentagon officials Dan Caldwell, left, and Darin Selnick are being investigated amid the probe. (Concerned Veterans for America | Department of Defense)

More information about the leak is unknown, and there is currently no evidence to connect Caldwell or Selnick to that leak.
“More information about the leak is unknown, and there is currently no evidence to connect Caldwell or Selnick to that leak.”



Here is a clip of Dan Caldwell talking about Israel. From a podcast a year ago (I think).




Being put on leave gets them out of the room and out of Pete Hegseth's ear when decisions about Iran and Israel are being made.
 
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Feels like an invasion of Taiwan would quickly quagmire into the rest of Asia vs China and N. Korea.
The CCP was really hoping that when Trump announced global tariffs, that the indo pacific region would hoist them up on their shoulders as the new champion

It’s really a great example of echo chambers in action. They could not process that everyone who isn’t their sock puppet actually kinda hates them
 
Politics has become entertainment to me at this point tbh.
To me, that's the problem. During the transition from Obama to Trump, politics went from being something only the grown-ups followed, to becoming a part of pop-culture. The 2016 election season spawned so many memes, and generated so much discussion online, that the Internet never really went back. And everyone in the country put the battle for political ideals at the center of their thinking, and at the center of their creative works, both corporate and independent.

There are just some people who are not cut out for politics, and really never should've gotten into them to begin with.
 
Be real with me: American citizen, haven't done anything outside of trolling to be a threat in the eyes of the Malignant Margarine
Will things actually get better soon? and for who? I know I've baited in this thread before but a lot of outsiders really just think we're fucking outselves over, and we kind of are if the stock market is anything to go by (and don't hit me with the "it's actually based we're causing needless market insecurity)
I'm not a tranny so I don't have any plans on leaving for Canada but I'd like to hear your honest thoughts even if this is A&N
S&P500 line being pumped doesn't benefit the average person to any significant degree. People care about the cost of living, they care about whether they and their children will be able to buy a house, they care about mentally ill sexual deviants telling their children that ackshually they might want to get a head start on chemically castrating themselves because they happen to like playing with dolls instead of cars at the ripe old age of 5, they care about niggers with a phonebook criminal record roaming the streets freely, they care about their neighborhoods being flooded by fentanyl and variously shaded niggers ranging from clithunting Somalians to unironic MS13 Satan worshippers.
 

No one is above the law, eh Letitia? She's guilty of the same exact bullshit she tried (and failed) to nail Trump on. Holy shit. I AM SHOCKED.
It it just me or have the past ~3 years been really fucking bad for black america?
-Will smith chimping out at the oscars
-Lori Lightfoot becoming laughing stock
-Harvard professor "gay" or whatever embarassing herself
-Kanye being kanye
-More black rappers/actors than i can count being outed as pedos and rapists and queers
-BLM leaders outed as scammers, movement dead
-Daniel Penny walks
-The Obama's losing relavence
-Black woman (is she black or indian? I still haven't gotten confirmation on this) loses to trump
-California bitch fucking up the fires in addition to fucking california in every other way
-Rap in general is dying
-This bitch
 
No, they'll work twice as long while doing a quarter as much with a tenth the quality in output for half the price.
I don't see any white guys picking produce. Most the truckers running ghost codrivers got turbans. Can't speak for other industries but in logistics they want some brown skin that can't speak English that'll thank you for the opportunity to run illegally for .42cpm
 
I don't see any white guys picking produce. Most the truckers running ghost codrivers got turbans. Can't speak for other industries but in logistics they want some brown skin that can't speak English that'll thank you for the opportunity to run illegally for .42cpm
Do I really need to go trawl the Internet for proof of what I mean only to show it to you in a listicle format that you'll ignore because it shatters your worldview of 'muh based brown workers'?

This shit is a myth as much as 'diversity is our strength' is a myth. Working longer hours for less pay is not the same as working harder for less pay. If I wanted to get into the weeds about the hows and whys such inefficient workers would get hired on for less pay in spite of their lack of output I'd be here typing up an entire novella I am absolutely certain you wouldn't read.
 
I definitely feel that. Here I've witnessed very lefty type people become the most racist people you can imagine purely from having live near Indians.
Feather or dot? I assume dot, 'cause as an injun, I wish I had the innate power to turn lefties solid red 😂

S&P500 line being pumped doesn't benefit the average person to any significant degree. People care about the cost of living, they care about whether they and their children will be able to buy a house, they care about mentally ill sexual deviants telling their children that ackshually they might want to get a head start on chemically castrating themselves because they happen to like playing with dolls instead of cars at the ripe old age of 5, they care about niggers with a phonebook criminal record roaming the streets freely, they care about their neighborhoods being flooded by fentanyl and variously shaded niggers ranging from clithunting Somalians to unironic MS13 Satan worshippers.

This. Democrats go so caught up in trying to appeal to gender woo sickos and not offend illegal immigrants, they forgot about 90% of the general populace - normal folks who just want to live normal lives free of criminal gangs, criminals roaming the streets, and sick fucks trying to pump kindergarteners full of hormones to "change" their gender.
 
Do I really need to go trawl the Internet for proof of what I mean only to show it to you in a listicle format that you'll ignore because it shatters your worldview of 'muh based brown workers'?

This shit is a myth as much as 'diversity is our strength' is a myth. Working longer hours for less pay is not the same as working harder for less pay.
I get it man, you're hungry for a argument. If you choose to read my argument as "diversity is le good!" then go ahead champ. You box those shadows, I won't stop you.
 
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I don't see any white guys picking produce. Most the truckers running ghost codrivers got turbans. Can't speak for other industries but in logistics they want some brown skin that can't speak English that'll thank you for the opportunity to run illegally for .42cpm
Yes, because we definitely want shitskins who can barely understand English driving a 40-ton vehicle 20 hours over their legal limit.
 
I get it man, you're hungry for a argument. If you choose to read my argument as "diversity is le good!" then go ahead champ. You box those shadows, I won't stop you.
Your argument is 'browns get hired over whites because they work harder' which is false.

It's not boxing shadows to tell you that you're wrong. I'm also tired of having exchanges where I prove this to not be the case and have folks like you waddle off like it's just bullshit as you're clearly posturing to do here, which proves my point that it wouldn't be worth the effort to attempt it here.
 
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