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GrumpyRN said:

So two more lies/untruths to add to Trumps list.

"After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump's team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-un-escalator-teleprompter-ddfc0875301f29d71625b353f2c2f832

 

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Hegseth unveils new restrictions on Pentagon press access.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hegseth-unveils-new-restrictions-pentagon-press-access/story?id=125754272

 

And that is censorship. I grant you not by Trump but it is part of his government.

That's Trump's shtick.  He is the national "Karen". Trump, himself, is lazy and unimaginative when it comes to work.  His published and spoken thoughts are chaotic and confused and fraught with all manner of unintended ignorance and intentional misinformation, sloppy mistakes, and errors of grammar, spelling, or mispronounciation. 

Trump loves to complain about things out of his ignorance and his feelings.  Projection is a centerpiece of NPD behavior.  

GrumpyRN said:

Hegseth unveils new restrictions on Pentagon press access.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hegseth-unveils-new-restrictions-pentagon-press-access/story?id=125754272

 

And that is censorship. I grant you not by Trump but it is part of his government.

They just  want to stop the questions -

17  people and counting

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-carried-out-3rd-fatal-strike-on-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-in-the-caribbean-trump-says

mtmkjr said:

They just  want to stop the questions -

17  people and counting

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-carried-out-3rd-fatal-strike-on-alleged-drug-smuggling-boat-in-the-caribbean-trump-says

Maybe this is why Pete Hegseth is having that unprecedented meeting of the brass.  Maybe this type of military activity is creating some stress and disagreement and and division among them or in the barracks.  

toomuchbaloney said:

Maybe this is why Pete Hegseth is having that unprecedented meeting of the brass.  Maybe this type of military activity is creating some stress and disagreement and and division among them or in the barracks.  

I can only hope that murdering 17 people in international waters creates a little bit of stress, disagreement and division, but I'm not confident any push back will be tolerated.

mtmkjr said:

I can only hope that murdering 17 people in international waters creates a little bit of stress, disagreement and division, but I'm not confident any push back will be tolerated.

Definitely not tolerated.  The fascists expected payback from patriots and that's why they targeted them first.  We talked about the pruning of the military leadership that began immediately upon Trump's swearing in.  Remember when they fired the commander of the Greenland base after Vance visited and made his contentious remarks and the commander tried to reassure the host country the next day? 

I recently asked an active duty army what he would do if/when he was expected to use deadly force on American citizens.  He laughed and said that would be an illegal order.  I replied that obviously it would be illegal but what will you do? He stopped laughing and didn't really answer.  It was clear that he was thinking about that in context of current events. 

The members of military needs to think of how they will respond when they are asked to participate in crimes because that is the trajectory the administration is creating for our military.  Some of them are probably OK with the idea of shooting Americans protesting the Trump administration.  That's been sufficiently justified for them even though it violates the constitution. The spin is dizzying. They hear casual mention of violence as a means to achieve domestic social bliss on the preferred media channel of military installations.  Just recently that media outlet casually suggested we could kill homeless Americans or bomb the UN.  Years ago, we would have called that kind of thing radicalization... if they were Muslims rather than members of our military. 

GrumpyRN said:

But what is the reason that SUDDENLY the rules need changed? Every other administration seems to have managed fine with what was in place. Sounds more like war on the media rather than war on enemies. (Of course this administration sees the media as the enemy, so answered my own question).

Oh yeah?  You keep up with the rules and regulations of the press working in the Pentagon, on a a daily basis,  do ya?

GrumpyRN said:

But what is the reason that SUDDENLY the rules need changed? Every other administration seems to have managed fine with what was in place. Sounds more like war on the media rather than war on enemies. (Of course this administration sees the media as the enemy, so answered my own question).

I agree.  Having to get authorization before releasing information is not freedom of the press.  

Perhaps not giving them access to "freely roam the halls" is a good idea.  I don't have an opinion about that.

Of course starting a group chat with sensitive information that includes a reporter is a bad idea.  Perhaps if you kept your own yard clean, you wouldn't worry about someone else's. 

That's a silly contention, that one must "keep up with the rules and regulations on a daily basis" to be well informed or form an opinion about what happened.  A contention seemingly made in defense of a clear effort to limit what the press can report to the people (who fund the department of war) as they go about killing citizens of another country with zero due process.  It's almost like conservative Americans don't know anything about the first amendment except what is told them in defense of the crazy man in charge.  

I dunno, but I don't think we should be talking advice about vaccines from a guy who can't spell hepatitis, or looks jaundiced.