Follower of Jesus, retired CPA and banker, and constitutional conservative. I believe subsidiarity is the ideal approach to governance (see tenth amendment)
Georgia, USA
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Freeze defense spending on equipment acquisitions and golf course maintenance until they pass an audit and locate missing parts.
NEWS: Trump’s Pentagon has lost track of $31 billion in F-35 parts and the government’s own watchdog says they’ve barely lifted a finger to fix it despite multiple warnings. This administration is too stupid to count its own fighter jet parts and too corrupt to care, as long as the defense contractors keep cashing checks while your Medicaid and food assistance get cut.
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Confirm none of them!
JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
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Now the Fed needs to target zero inflation for 6 years to got the average back down to their 2% target and give consumers a chance to breathe.
B of A:
“.. The Fed’s inflation miss is worse than you think. .. Had inflation been above target for just a year or two, we think the Fed could have accepted 2-2.5% PCE inflation as “good enough” .. But with a large overshoot that’s coming up on six years ..” 👀
#CPI
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Joe Breedon retweeted
I agree with your assessment that the boat strikes are indefensible.
Suspected drug trafficking does not, by itself, justify lethal military force. The reported follow-up strike on shipwrecked survivors makes congressional scrutiny even more urgent.
These are allegations of unlawful killings and abuse of power, not simply disagreements over policy.
Article V deserves a serious examination of the evidence, not dismissal.
Joe Breedon retweeted
They gave the promotion boards instructions over the phone so as not to leave a paper trail. Boards were instructed to pull anyone who enforced a covid mandate, and anyone who was involved in the Afghan pullout.
Hegseth also went after anyone who had even attended or spoken at a diversity event in their careers.
There go all your minority officers.
Pentagon officials purportedly used internet searches on diversity, COVID and Afghanistan ties to withhold board-approved officer promotions. military.com/hegseths-office…
Yay! No US support for Russian war criminals.
A tanker carrying Russian diesel that had briefly signaled the US made a U-turn about 400 nautical miles off New York, compounding uncertainty over deliveries to the North American market - Bloomberg.
It was the last one of three. I consider this a victory.
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This is the logic that kept the US in Vietnam for 20 years. The domino effect.
What are the US interests in continuing a forever war on Iran?
This military action has not been authorized by Congress. A blockade is an act of war and must be authorized by congress or suspended.
It would be a huge mistake to leave the Iranian conflict now. Retreating would signal to our adversaries that the U.S. no longer has the staying power to resist their efforts of aggression.
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Call for a trial and vote. Let the constitutional process proceed.
Hegseth called for the military to “take no quarter” in killing people in boats, which is a war crime even if authorized by the president, and to order a strike on a shipwrecked vessel is another war crime.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪 Sec. Hegseth did NOT hold back on Thomas Massie's impeachment push...
He called Massie “one disgruntled guy” who put together some pretty flimsy articles of impeachment that he says aren't even grounded in the Constitution.
The articles reportedly target Hegseth over actions involving Iran, Venezuela, and strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats.
And Hegseth's response is basically that NONE of it comes close to high crimes and misdemeanors.
Who do you think is right??
Writers: Lynn, Michael
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The sooner Hegseth is shown the door the sooner the Department of Defense can begin the process of rebuilding.
Let’s put this talking point to bed right now.
Holding Pete Hegseth accountable is NOT damaging our military or the men and women who serve.
Quite the opposite. It’s standing up for them.
Accountability is not an attack on the military. It’s a responsibility of leadership.
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Americans really don’t like crooks in government. This is not a partisan issue.
Trump spent the last two years making himself and his family richer while hurting working families with his dumb tariffs and reckless wars. Now he wants to hide from the consequences. He already tried and failed to indict us once. This intimidation isn’t going to stop Elissa or Democrats from doing what the American people overwhelming elected us to do: lower your costs and hold this corrupt administration accountable.
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Ignore Trumpian calls for surrender and finish destroying Russian oil infrastructure. 70% still left to destroy. Then ongoing attacks to demolish any attempts to rebuild.
💥 Ukrainian drone strikes since late October have reduced Russian oil refining by 30%, - Reuters
Ukraine has stepped up strikes on Russian refineries since late October, when a ceasefire agreement between Kyiv and Moscow regarding attacks on energy facilities announced by Trump failed to materialize.
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Those inside and outside the US government who were responsible for interfering with Ukrainian air defense and thereby allowed Russia to inflict civilian casualties must be held accountable and pay a heavy price.
Incoming chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chris Coons:
“Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth, and anyone else who played a role in cutting off Ukraine's ability to defend itself must answer for it. Congress must get to the bottom of this.”
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Joe Breedon retweeted
Tariffs are taxes on Americans.
If Congress repeals the Canada tariffs, that's a tax cut for families and businesses buying lumber, energy, cars, and groceries from one of our largest trading partners.
Republicans should support it. Congress should also take back the tariff power it handed the president.
Just don't use it as cover to raise other taxes. Pair it with spending restraint.
Let people prosper.
Joe Breedon retweeted
Hegseth is gaslighting. No one is going after our military.
Congress is doing their due diligence to PROTECT our military from the dunderheaded decisions of Hegseth, who is one of the greatest failures to ever lead the Defense Department.
Controlling inflation is the Fed Res Bank’s mission.
Raising overnight interest rates is their primary tool to reduce inflation.
Rather than allow the Fed to independently conduct their mission, trump criminally indicted the Fed Chair to try and make him reduce int rates down.
BREAKING: Despite Trump recently claiming that “inflation is solved,” October inflation came in hotter than expected, with consumer prices rising 0.4% for the month.
Core inflation also beat expectations. More bad news for Americans struggling with the cost of living.
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Joe Breedon retweeted
Billboards reading "WHY IS TRUMP SELLING OUT AMERICA TO PUTIN?" have been spotted in Illinois, Atlanta, and Florida.
The message and imagery are directly linked to recent geopolitical decisions that have drawn significant backlash from critics, including Ukrainian-American and Eastern European communities.
Reportedly the organization behind the campaign is called Home of the Brave. It has also produced a video ad and launched a dedicated website titled "Why Is Trump Selling Out America to Putin?" You can visit the website here: whyputinfirst.org
The organization also published an article explaining the reasoning behind the campaign:
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/…
I don't know much about this organization or where else these billboards have appeared. If you have any additional information, please share it in the comments!
Joe Breedon retweeted
Massie: The irony of it is he was attacking Senator Mark Kelly for saying you don't have to carry out illegal orders. Well, that's the consequence of this—Hegseth ignoring Senator Kelly's advice—six of these articles of impeachment are for him carrying out illegal orders
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Are we really going to even entertain the idea that Trump is magically a different guy? I’d rather not waste the time.
Reverting to claims of a rigged election was always where we were going. Stop kidding yourself.
And the GOP self soothing with the notion that Stephen Miller is anything but a negative is political suicide.