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Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials
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Poll -- Will you support Canada or USA if war breaks out?
Certainly, the US could take over Canada militarily, but at what cost? Trump has made America a pariah already, as far as the free world goes. So what happens if the whole free world decides to boycott American products completely? -
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Strange charge at tax office
Guess you missed the bit where the OP said he got money back. Quite ironic that the ‘numbnut’ slur is much more fitting of you than him. -
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Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions. One of the meetings, a high-level discussion at the Pentagon on March 6 between Hegseth and U.K. Secretary of Defense John Healey, took place at a sensitive moment for the trans-Atlantic alliance, one day after the U.S. said it had cut off military intelligence sharing with Ukraine... A secretary can invite anyone to meetings with visiting counterparts, but attendee lists are usually carefully limited to those who need to be there and attendees are typically expected to possess security clearances given the delicate nature of the discussions, according to defense officials and people familiar with the meeting. https://archive.ph/Fwl4Q#selection-2179.0-2191.332 -
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Trump’s Order Mandating Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration Sparks Legal Concerns
NY – Court Blocks Non-Citizens from Voting in Municipal Elections "New York City’s attempt to allow non-citizens to vote in municipal elections was recently terminated by the highest court in New York State. In a 6-1 decision, the high court stated that “the New York constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens.” Who cannot vote? Non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, cannot vote in federal, state, and most local elections. Some people who have a mental disability may not be able to vote. https://www.usa.gov/who-can-vote Congress Approves Civil Rights Act of 1957 An article from CQ Almanac 1957 "One of the notable features of the 1956 election was the movement of Negro votes into the Republican column. Republicans and northern Democrats alike interpreted the returns to mean that the Negro vote, safely Republican from Reconstruction days to 1928, and later, during the New Deal, overwhelmingly Democratic, currently could not be considered the exclusive property of either party. Rather, Negroes were weighing the performance of both parties, especially in the field of civil rights. Republican candidates scored heavily in the 1956 campaign by contrasting President Eisenhower's initiative in the civil rights field with the lack of performance by the Democratic-controlled 84th Congress." Interesting use of language. Still don't find anything that includes non-citizens being allowed to vote. Been this way in the US since the 1700's without challenge. The USofA belongs to US citizens only! IF you don't fight for it, you're fighting against it PERIOD! 🤠 -
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Why are Trump supporters so unwilling to criticize even some of his policies?
I like your question because, for a long time, I had thought the exact same thing myself but never made a post about it because I wouldn’t expect to get a useful answer from any of the Trump diehards. So I didn't see any point in asking. Like you, I have always remained objective, even when I supported a particular political candidate or leader in the past. So it was very hard for me to understand why, in Trump’s case, nobody who favors him can ever find any fault with anything he does. But if you look at it more closely, it starts to make a lot of sense why this is the case with Trump. 1. They are not political supporters. They are cult followers: There is a distinct difference between the two. A supporter can back a politician while still remaining objective and holding them accountable for their faults and mistakes. A cult follower, on the other hand, will defend their leader without question, even at their own expense, and to the point of personal demise. 2. They believe everything he says, even when it’s a lie: Since 90% of what he says is false, they are simply following the lies. This is why they cannot find any fault in anything he says or does—because they only accepts the narrative that he provides to them as the truth. Thus, they are buying into a narrative that does not represent reality. If they see a picture of the smallest crowd in history but he tells them it is the biggest, they believe it without question. And why? Because of reason number one above. 3. Many of them have no real connection to American life or its consequences: The majority of the cult followers on this forum are a unique bunch of Trumpians. At least two-thirds are not even Americans, so they do not fully understand what it is like to be one. Many of them had never even heard Trump’s name before he ran for president, so they have no personal knowledge of his history or how his family destroyed the lives of poor people in New York over the three decades prior to 1990 to build their wealth. As for the one-third who are American, many of them are likely living in Thailand, where his economic, foreign, and social policies have no immediate effect on them. In short, nearly all the Trump cult followers here have no real skin in the game. That allows them to idolize an image of an orange person in a far-off white castle, one they wish were real, one they wish represented a world they would want to live in, and without facing any consequences of that fairy tale. This puts nearly all of them in a unique position. If you read what most of his diehard cult followers write in support of him, the majority speak in off-topic subjects, deflect from the truth, provide no evidence for their claims, and merely repeat the same mantras and lies he throws out over and over. To me, this demonstrates a complete lack of independent thinking and, in many cases, an inability to even distinguish fact from fiction. In real life, these are not the types of people I would ever spend my time with, so it took me a long time to understand how this phenomenon even exists. I don’t come across these types of people in my everyday life. But reading what they write on this forum has taught me a lot. It was difficult to comprehend at first, but it has been very eye-opening. I think if one applies the three reasons I listed above, the whole situation then becomes much easier to comprehend. Even when reading topics from them unrelated to politics on this forum, I have noticed that their perspectives and viewpoints often follow the same sort of irrational patterns. So it's a sad, but true situation that one must accept, which means if you expect to ever get a reasonable or sensible reply from any of them when discussing politics, you, as I have, will find it nearly impossible.
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