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Looks like plan b is Desanctimonius https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-mulls-replacing-pete-hegseth-with-florida-gov-ron-desantis-8f682ad2

I'm glad the South Korean people stood up to the coup. I hope the lessons learned is that in a democracy the armed forces should not get involved in domestic politics. Just like the national security community warned before January 6th.

Oh look... https://www.semafor.com/article/12/03/2024/despite-agreement-trump-nominees-may-seek-to-avoid-fbi-background-checks

I'd be happy to subject her to a full field investigation but they would never let her sit through that.

Also, had to explain to ladies in my softball league's board that we should have a bluesky account but then had to accept that our Facebook and instagram accounts only have miniscule numbers and people have heard of those. I will never put up our info on nextdoor.

Seeing a lot of people on bsky saying it was the only place the South Korean coup was being reported. I can see why X would block it because Jan 6. I guess the news moved pretty fast. If true that the story was moving faster on bsky than elsewhere and being screened as well as could be -- judging by the pre-Elon twitter days standard --that is a very good thing.

all the touts are picking GB to win this one. ...

We knew the Kirk Campbell move was coming. Glad it wasn't allowed to linger into the bowl prep.

He’s not worth it

Real patriots want America to be more like Russia and Syria.

Russian assets should not be the DNI. Do you have a rebuttal for that?

South Korea might be modeling behavior for Trump and ilk.

Concur

If the HR manager suggests you try cutting yourself as a coping mechanism it’s probably an indicator they have their own share of problems.

Nah, but it does show that it’s possible to reject a Trump appointment

One possible option: The Falklands War. The Argentinians were trying prove a lot with that. It was on home ground. The British were in Thatcher-era draw down from its post-WWII global force projection to meet its more efficient Western Europe defense commitments. The UK had to travel into the worst possible climate conditions and the Argentinians failed to use all their local advantages against the UK. However this one fails because the Argentinians were a conscript army not a massively funded professional army. Will have to think on this one.

I'm very interested to see "Desmond Was Tripped" diary on this game in the MGOBLOG. What this was in military history was a shocking victory over a hubris-addled opponent on its home court by a force that was without its most reliable weapons but which had a few significant advantages that the hubris-addled opponent insisted on fighting right into the teeth of to prove itself. Maybe the flag skirmish is the better story of that. Maybe OSU are the German veterans returning from WWI to stories of the stab-in-the-back from all the things the Nazis said were the cause of that.

Co-worker who is part of our Michigan fan cluster which has formed in my part of the office dropped Michigan 'M's on the desks of the OSU fans in the office and on different floors. No word on if he was thrashed by Jack Sawyer or if Jason Avant had to rescue the 'M's.

If any of these MAGA creeps were anti-war they would oppose Putin.

This Sawyer character needs to be suspended for the OSU bowl game.

Gaetz didn't get approved.

I don't think the Senate can allow the guy in charge of the largest and most powerful military in the World to be a recess appointment. I think the Senate will have to fight these garbage nominations done probably just to placate his lunatic base.

Tulsi is the real prize Putin wants. Patel is so loathsome to the Senate that something will slip in the wake of this one. If its Tulsi that's really bad.

Hegseth nom will have to overcome "quality control" https://bsky.app/profile/mcbridetd.bsky.social/post/3lccx3napya2o

I would guess that the Hegseth and Patel nominations are in trouble with the Senate. I feel like Trump had to try to ram those through to keep the Proud Boys, certain internet figures, Bannon, etc. on his side.