Trump's DERP State

NutmeggeRN, BSN · Apr 15

Tweety said:

I remember a man filmed vandalizing a Target store's pride display. Wonder if he got charged with Domestic terrorism?

A guy that recently vandalized a pride colored crosswalk took a plea of "criminal mischief".

At the end of the day, flex or not, Bondi addressing the vandalism against Tesla is appropriate.

Agreed, it should be addressed. I have never supported that vandalism, however...I am not convinced they are domestic terrorists. Of course she is flexing to show off...she nauseates me almost as much as Karoline Leavitt.

toomuchbaloney · Apr 15

People in the USA and across the globe protest against fascism and the fascists who want to impose their will on the people.

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Apr 16

Watch Stun guns used on protestors at Marjorie Taylor town hall meeting

Law enforcement officers detained multiple people and removed them from a town hall held by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in Cobb County, Georgia, after disruptions at the event. At least three people were physically removed by police officers and officers used a stun gun on at least two of the men.

01:12 - Source: CNN

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Apr 16

Politico 4/15/25

Pentagon's 'SWAT team of nerds' resigns en mass

Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. "Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.

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Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon's fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month, according to the director and three other current members of the office granted anonymity to discuss their job status freely, as well as internal emails.

The resignations will effectively shut down the decade-old program after the end of April.

The Defense Digital Service was created in 2015 to help the Pentagon adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid, drone detection technologies and more.

Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD's tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunset, one soon-to-be former employee said....

"They're not really using AI, they're not really driving efficiency. What they're doing is smashing everything,” the former official said.

toomuchbaloney · Apr 16

"Smashing everything"

What would our enemies do that would be different?

toomuchbaloney · Apr 16

The SCOTUS didn't give her immunity from the law. She can be arrested

The constitutional crisis is official.

toomuchbaloney · Apr 16

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-16/pentagon-leaks-investigation-hegseth-17489929.html

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Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was placed on leave a day after two senior political appointees — Dan Caldwell, a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Darin Selnick, the Pentagon's deputy chief of staff — were placed on leave for "unauthorized disclosures.”

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Carroll previously worked at Anduril Industries, a defense technology company that makes drones, and the Defense Department's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, according to his LinkedIn page. Hegseth on Wednesday did not answer shouted questions from reporters about his advisers being implicated in a leak scandal as the defense secretary held at a bilateral meeting at the Pentagon with El Salvador Defense Minister René Francis Merino Monroy.

It looks like Hegseth is participating in an off the record shadow government while overseeing the leaking of sensitive information. This is about the best we can expect from the Trump administration, it seems.

Do you think this makes us vulnerable?

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Apr 17

toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-16/pentagon-leaks-investigation-hegseth-17489929.html

It looks like Hegseth is participating in an off the record shadow government while overseeing the leaking of sensitive information. This is about the best we can expect from the Trump administration, it seems.

Do you think this makes us vulnerable?

YES!

toomuchbaloney · Apr 17

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-children-autism-comments-spark-online-backlash-2060850

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statement that children with autism will "never pay taxes, never hold a job" has sparked sharp backlash online.

It's weird that the Secretary of HHS has no idea that people with autism hold jobs and pay taxes. Heck, hasn't he heard that autism is the excuse that Musk uses to justify his Nazi salutes and fascist attitude?

toomuchbaloney · Apr 18

Yikes.

mtmkjr, BSN · Apr 21

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the chat told CNN.

The chat was set up during Hegseth's tumultuous confirmation hearing process as a way for his closest allies to strategize, two of the people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth continued using the chat, which had more than a dozen people in it, to communicate after he was confirmed, the people said.

The revelation comes as some of Hegseth's closest advisers have begun sounding the alarm about the secretary's judgment, including his former press secretary, John Ullyot, and three former senior officials Hegseth fired last week — his top adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, who served as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense.

toomuchbaloney · Apr 21

mtmkjr said:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/20/politics/hegseth-second-signal-chat-military-plans

It seems strange that Hegseth's tattoos and previous behavior weren't red flags for the people currently sending others off to foreign prisons for their tattoos.