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https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-brought-button-trump-used-214335238.html

• Former President Donald Trump used a call button in the Oval Office to order Diet Cokes from staff.
• President Joe Biden initially moved the button off the Resolute desk during his first day in office.
• But it appears the call button which has been around for decades is back.

President Joe Biden has brought back a call button former President Donald Trump used to order Diet Cokes while sitting in the Oval Office after briefly removing it from the Resolute desk.
Photos from Monday show the call box sitting next to Biden's phones, in the same place Trump placed the box when he would sit at there.
The call box was not seen in pictures of Biden on his first day in office last week.
Trump used the wooden call box throughout his entire presidency, and first showed it off in 2017 interviews with The Associated Press and the Financial Times, during which he told reporters: "Everyone does get a little nervous when I press that button."
The call box has been around for decades and other recent presidents have also been pictured in the White House with it, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
It can be used to call White House staff, Secret Service Agents, and other officials, but Trump appeared to have told his staff that if he pressed the button, he wanted a Diet Coke.

It's unclear if Biden has a specific use for the button, or if it will be used more generally.
Like presidents before him, Biden also changed a number of decorations upon entering the Oval Office.
Biden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and opted to feature a number of progressives and activists through the room, including Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the labor leader and civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez.
He also chose to display portraits of Benjamin Franklin, President Thomas Jefferson, and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.

What would you use the button for?

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Medussa posted...

you guys didn't have to get a physical to play sports in HS?

not that i in any way agree with the reasons behind this. but, the more this topic comes up, and the fact that no one else has ever mentioned getting a physical to play HS sports, the more i start to wonder if i was actually molested. that's a scary thought.

I never played HS sports.

but i did hear of people getting physicals.

No idea if they had to get naked during it or whatever

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tag me as "Wacky"

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Cerealmilk posted...

People that live by that typically don't do it arbitrarily.

But regardless country>family? Seriously? A few weeks ago CE hated America lol.

I've never been that big of a family person.

Also I swore an oath to my country so if I wasn't willing to put my country over my family, I wouldn't be able to fulfill my oath.

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Cerealmilk posted...

Obviously you don't

Loyalty to country > arbitrary rules

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Would you?

Traditionally I live by snitches get stitches but in this case I'd turn them in faster than you could say FBI OPEN UP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wX2xBOuzRg

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>topic title says 18

>video title says 16

<_<

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Holy_Cloud105 posted...

Most Americans don't even know you're not supposed to wear clothing or use disposable items such as paper plates and cups with an American flag design but do it anyway. It's not surprising.

Pretty sure you're not supposed to wear an actual flag as clothing.

At least that's the conclusion i remember the last time this was brought up on CE.

I wear a US Flag jacket and US Flag themed shirt basically every day so >_>

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Prismsblade posted...

What exactly are most peoples intentions buning the US flag though?

Especially when whatever noble messages they try to convey are usually lost immediately amongst the shit tons of Americans they've just offended.

It's a pretty strong declaration of your dissatisfaction with the (current) USG.

I mean, its pretty individual based on the exact meaning but I'd take it as it being their way of saying that they want to burn down (ideally, figuratively) the current establishment and replace it with one that will cater more to their political desires.

If the right wing hadn't latched itself so strongly to nationalism and the flag in general, I'd imagine there'd be a lot of flag burners in the right wing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0daB_73tPEI

@Choco

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if I put wacky/wacky in my signature is that considered trolling?

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Prismsblade posted...

I wish people would make up their minds about how significant or not flags are. The same people triggered by Confederate flags being raised at the same time wonder what the big deal is about the US flag that's nothing more then a peice of cloth to them.

Usually its because displaying/wearing the US Flag is just something that's oversaturated to most people so it loses its meaning.

If somebody flies a confederate flag or Nazi flag, its a clear statement of intentions

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TheoryzC posted...

https://youtu.be/CPNZTtoQBmA

They love playing the victim while complaining that liberals whine about being victimized

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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

These conspiracy theorists aren't going away anytime soon, especially if Trump walks free from everything and continues to fan the flames of Q or the election fraud conspiracy for the next four years. The neocon wing of the GOP has basically lost their foothold and they won't ever get it back unless they split the party.

Their best hope is to probably shave off the Q types and try to court moderates back into the fold. They won't do that if the Q types stick around

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tremain07 posted...

What really scares me is in 4 years a scumbag just like these people will beat Biden for re-election

Not if the right doesn't remove its head from its own posterior and ditch the QAnon conspiracy theorists.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

"They're silencing me!" He screams at the top of his lungs on national television, quoted in printed newspaper, featured on some popular podcast, etc.

truly a match made in heaven

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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/535441-intelligence-agency-gathers-us-smartphone-location-data-without

Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have purchased databases of U.S. smartphone location data in recent years without a warrant, agency officials wrote in a memo to a top Senate Democrat.
DIA analysts have searched American location data five times in the past 2 1/2 years, according to the document released Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The Oregon Democrat had asked the agency whether it was interpreting the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States to mean that obtaining data from a third-party broker rather than a phone company does not require a warrant.
DIA does not construe the Carpenter decision to require a judicial warrant endorsing purchase or use of commercially-available data for intelligence purposes, the agency responded in the memo.
The New York Times first reported on the DIA document.
Wyden now plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to address the matter, his spokesperson told The Hill on Friday.
The bill, known as the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act, would offer new safeguards for U.S. citizens' data.
Ashley Gorski, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, said that the DIA memo proves that Congress needs to step in.
"The government cannot simply buy our private data in order to bypass bedrock constitutional protections," she said in a statement Friday. "Congress must end this lawless practice and require the government to get a warrant for our location data, regardless of its source.
The release of the DIA memo comes amid a broader debate over reauthorizing three investigative tools whose legal authority lapsed last year. One of those tools is Section 215, which allows intelligence agencies to covertly obtain court orders to collect any business records deemed relevant to national security.
Friday's confirmation that a government entity is purchasing commercially available location data buttresses a recent wave of reporting on the issue.
Vice Newss Motherboard reported in November that the U.S. military was buying data from a Muslim prayer app via a third-party broker, X-Mode. The app then said it would stop sharing data with the broker.
The Wall Street Journal reported in February that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have used commercial databases to patrol the border and track immigrants.
BuzzFeed News in October reported on an internal DHS memo arguing a warrant is not needed to obtain that sort of data.

In news that should shock nobody

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https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1353807269511704580?s=20

I know youre not used to these, but theyre called consequences, Josh. And youre handling them very poorly. Resign. https://t.co/hgMzMRIpwm

Fucking destroyed lmfao

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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/josh-hawley-muzzling-america-column-censorship-book-insurrection.html

Josh Hawleys lifelong quest to the presidency was initially supposed to run through elite channels of conventional Republican advancement. During the last four years, the plan suddenly changed, and Hawley fashioned himself a Trumpian populist railing against his own class. Now the blueprint has changed once again. Hawley is casting himself as a dissident, a modern Mandela or Solzhenitsyn.
His manifesto has somehow been smuggled past the censors and published on the front page of the New York Post. Its headline decries the muzzling of America, presenting Hawley himself as the most prominent victim of a scourge threatening every American man, woman, and child.
Hawleys tale of his banishment is relatively spare. Until recently, he was an ordinary citizen. Then one day he affronted the powers that be by venturing an innocent view:
On behalf of the voters of my state, I raised a challenge to the presidential electors from Pennsylvania after that state conducted the election in violation of the state constitution.
His only offense was supporting an authoritarian presidents attempt to cancel a presidential election, and then reportedly goading a violent mob as it ransacked the Capitol seeking to kidnap or execute legislators who supported the election results.
For this crime, he was banished from polite society (though not, luckily enough, from his position in the United States Senate). Here, in its entirety, is Hawleys account of the retribution he has suffered:
In my case, it started with leftist politicians demanding I resign from office for representing the views of my constituents and leading a democratic debate on the floor of the Senate.

Taking that cue, a corporate publishing house then canceled a book it had asked me to write. Ironically enough, the book is about political censorship by the most powerful corporations in America. (And will be published by an independent publishing house.) Now corporate America is cancelling my political events, because two parties are apparently one too many for their taste.
The punishments, in sum, consist of the following: His political opponents urged him to resign; some of his donors stopped giving him money; and Simon & Schuster canceled his book deal, forcing him to go to Regnery, a publisher of conservative books. Hawley attempts to weave these affronts into some kind of comprehensive network of social control.
Exactly what principles are at stake here? Certainly not the First Amendment. The constitutional protection of freedom of speech is strong but limited to acts of government. The government cant stop your book, but a book publisher can certainly refuse to print it. The principle of freedom of association protects publishers and other private institutions from being compelled to promote views they find odious.
Now, asserting that the First Amendment merely applies to official state powers does not fully settle the matter. The norm of free speech has broader applications. Many institutions have free-speech norms, applying the same principle (that disagreement within reasonable parameters is needed to challenge orthodoxies) that inspired the First Amendment.
Exactly how we should apply this norm outside the context of government censorship is difficult to define. Ive made the case repeatedly that many newspapers, universities, clubs, and organizations with a progressive bent have wrongly applied hair-trigger standards of offense in a way that risks turning them into airless chambers of ideological conformity.
Youd think Hawleys elite legal training might have prepared him to grapple with the dilemmas of how to apply the free-speech norms to his own situation. And yet, even allowing for the simplifications required by the medium, his argument is a howling void of ignorance. It evinces no awareness that there is even such a thing as freedom of association, or that such a principle might protect the actions of his antagonists.
Hawley seems to believe corporate donors are repressing him by refusing to give him money, as if any free-speech principle compels a business owner to hand his money to a politician even after the politician does something odious. He likewise treats his canceled book deal as a form of censorship.
Hawley isnt wrong to see it as a rebuke. Simon & Schuster is a prestigious mainstream imprint. Regnery churns out right-wing doggerel by the metric ton. The humiliation Hawley must feel to join a list featuring the likes of Dinesh DSouza, Diamond and Silk, and David Limbaugh (the less talented brother of the notorious talk-radio demagogue) is surely very sincere. But he has failed to articulate any principle that Simon & Schuster has violated by deciding not to promote the views of an insurrectionist.
And his claim that he is being repressed because left-wingers called on him to resign is nothing short of parody. Does Hawley even understand what debate is? He seems to treat any impediments to his career advancement as a form of repression. Hawley likens the reactions against him to the political atmosphere in Communist China, where government and big business monitor every citizens social views and statements. I am pretty sure that Communist China does not have dissidents in a legislature, disseminating their views in newspapers and books.
The most comic touch may be Hawleys attempt to connect his own travails to that of his audience. Today the man on the cross may be him, but tomorrow it may be you losing a lucrative source of campaign funds or being forced to accept the indignity of a Regnery book contract. The very thought must send a tremor of fear down the spines of the Posts readers. What cheesy publishing outlets will they be consigned to if they abet the violent overthrow of the government?

This is truly the dumbest fucking timeline.

We went from one of the darker ones to the dumbest fucking one.

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George Lucas went to Hawaii because he expected it to flop.

The fact that literally overnight it became a pop culture hit is insane, considering that was long before the advent of the internet.

Even people who wouldn't be into that stuff, like my mom, wound up going to see it in theaters.

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make sure you loudly ask the waiter/waitress if their water is free of chemicals that turn the frickin' frogs gay

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June went to THAT Trump rally with one question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN7E4xN2IVo

Surprising amount of "It should be" given the location.

imo, you're free to do what you want so long as it's your property and it isn't going to pose (immediate) danger to those around you.

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Bass_X0 posted...

It appeared blurry on my phone screen.

tbf i had to go to the website to look it up since I couldn't make it out either

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https://twitter.com/_cutgut/status/1353444960058527750?s=19

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It's from 2014.

The date between the panels is 6/16 so it's 6/16/14

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Florida is humid, so it's a crappy hot

But I'll take a dry 90F+ any day over cold

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I quit buying jeans.

The only pants I've bought in the past... 5 or so years have been camo cargo pants from Walmart.

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CE says nay nay

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A "Wacky Pack"

disgusting tbh

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Wonder if it'd take as long to show up as the Fight The Power poster did

Its an any amount donation, so I could donate as little as a dollar

Also

100% of proceeds will go to charities in Vermont, including Feeding Chittenden, Chill Foundation, and Vermont community action centers.

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Ving_Rhames posted...

Learn to appreciate yourself first.

Damn, guess I'm doomed forever

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20 topics per page

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passenger vehicle means a motor vehicle (other than a motor cycle or invalid carriage) constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects and adapted to carry not more than twelve passengers exclusive of the driver, and not drawing a trailer

My most driven non-passenger vehicle would have to be a HEMTT Fueler.



One of those.

Got a few thousand miles on them.

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Sounds exactly like something a petty middle aged man that hates life would do

except Trump is 74

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Naysaspace posted...

those LCD price tag things are the absolute worst. I wanna meet the boneheaded executives who thought moving from paper to that would be a good idea. I wanna know how big his bonus cheque for that project was.

Presuming you've worked with them in the past/currently?

Are they unresponsive or what?

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Cpt_Pineapple posted...

Obama=DONE

i can promise you he is the only real reason they want to do this.

They don't give a damn about impeaching Bill Clinton (unless its so Democrats have a twice impeached President like it actually matters) or Jimmy Carter. The other, more forward facing reason would be to get "revenge"

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Irony posted...

Obama and Clinton can't run again and Carter will probably be dead

Carter gonna outlive all of us at this rate

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pinky0926 posted...

Would you say that there are a lot of people around you in the service who think that americas enemies are the liberals?

No but generally speaking you don't talk politics at work.

I know some people who love their guns and own a lot of them and vote accordingly based on that.

I know one very open Trump supporter, they had a big ol Trump banner in their office of Trump in some like Vietnam era gear holding a machine gun. <_< Like a week or so before election they took it down. It was up for months. I dunno if the company commander eventually told them to take it down or what. Definitely never struck me as the kind of person to have a change of heart about it.

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pinky0926 posted...

I mean what's your average army grunt look like? Someone who is 1) not very educated 2) prone to right wing politics 3) prone to being militarised and radicalised 4) someone with a CoD fetish for serving the country

Maybe a decade ago

seeing new recruits coming in half the time I'm just left wondering "why the fuck did this person agree to this?" <_<

Increasingly its just for the GI Bill and/or solid employment for a while. It is decreasingly about serving the country (specifically at least) or because they feel they are fighting America's enemies.

Though I'm not infantry and don't talk to infantry so >_>

pinky0926 posted...

That whole movie jarhead was about people like this who go to war with a hardon for being part of something violent and fantastic and then being underwhelmed with how boring and terrible it all is. I wonder how many of the ones that served just couldn't get their head out of the fantasy of storming something, anything...

Not quite, I'd say a lot of them are just vulnerable people looking for some kind of an identity who got fed a steady stream of "everything you know and love is under attack and coming to an end soon!" so they got whipped into a frenzy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/senate-republican-john-cornyn-impeachment-trump-past-democratic-presidents

The Texas Republican senator John Cornyn warned on Saturday that Donald Trumps second impeachment could lead to the prosecution of former Democratic presidents if Republicans retake Congress in two years time.

Trump this month became the first US president to be impeached twice, after the Democratic-controlled House, with the support of 10 Republicans, voted to charge him with incitement of insurrection over the assault on the Capitol by his supporters on 6 January which left five people dead.

Trump failed to overturn his election defeat and Joe Biden was sworn in as president this week.
After a brief moment of bipartisan sentiment in which members from both parties condemned the unprecedented attack on Congress as it met to formalize Bidens victory, a number of Senate Republicans are opposing Trumps trial, which could lead to a vote blocking him from future office.

If it is a good idea to impeach and try former presidents, what about former Democratic presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022? Cornyn, a 19-year veteran of the Senate who last year tried to distance himself from Trump when it seemed his seat was at risk, tweeted at majority leader Chuck Schumer.
Think about it and lets do what is best for the country.

Democrats hold narrow majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate but it is common for a presidents party to lose seats in elections two years after a presidential contest. Impeachment begins in the House. The Senate stages any trial.

Republican Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has said the mob in the Capitol putsch was provoked by Trump who told supporters to march on Congress and fight like hell. Other Senate Republicans claim trying Trump after he has left office would be unconstitutional and further divide the country.

There are also concerns on both sides of the aisle that the trial could distract from Bidens legislative agenda. Schumer, who became majority leader this week, tweeted on Friday that the Senate would confirm Bidens cabinet, enact a new Covid-19 relief package and conduct Trumps impeachment trial.

The trial is due to be held in the second week of February.

Do what's best for the country and try President Trump. Because if you don't, you just set the stage that the lame duck period is basically free mother fucking reign to do whatever fucked up shit you can dream up as President and walk away scott free because of precedence.

ffs

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Axiom posted...

Military doesn't exactly have high standards. They'll take any dumb fuck willing and able

This is true of the Army, at least <_<

Though I have met people in the Army who had to get waivered in because they couldn't score high enough on the ASVAB >____> tbh if you told me that particular guy wound up joining one of these groups I wouldn't even be able to exist in the same universe as the word "surprised"

Air Force and Navy are notably harder to join (in comparison, at least). Even the Marine Corps has higher standards.

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https://www.dcreport.org/2021/01/23/the-pentagon-could-use-a-course-in-basic-citizenship/

The more we look at the Jan. 6 Insurrection at the Capitol, the more we see attackers with military experience.
A National Public Radio (NPR) analysis of the 140 arrested to date says one in five was a military veteran who clearly had sworn in the past to protect the Constitution and democracy. By comparison, veterans represent about 7% of Americans altogether.
That there are strains of political extremism in the military, outward expressions of support for white supremacy and racism is hardly new. But participation in a violent attack on our Capitol raises questions anew.

Simply put, the military needs to teach basics to our volunteer army to ensure that the troops know what they are defending.
Its a situation serious enough to prompt Defense Secretary-designate Lloyd Austen to start his testimony in Senate confirmation hearings by committing to investigating and uprooting extremism, racism and sexism in the military before he was asked a question.
Of course, others who should know better, including some Republican members of Congress and state officials, also find themselves targets for re-education about basic civics. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) had to be told, for example, that the inauguration date could not be postponed; it is mandated in the Constitution.
NPR reporters reviewed military records, social media accounts, court documents and news reports of those arrested so far. They found that at least 27 of those charged, or nearly 20%, served or are serving in the U.S. military. Several face charges of violent and disorderly conduct at the Capitol. The charges may be upgraded to felonies, including domestic terrorism and sedition.
Weve seen the many videos showing people in military-style helmets carrying zip-tie restraints and makeshift weapons. Some rioters appear to have links to groups like the Oath Keepers, a far-right paramilitary group that includes many retired military and law enforcement personnel.
These reports came as prosecutors filed their first serious conspiracy charges, accusing three members of the Oath Keepers with plotting the riot in advance.

Its Not New
A year ago, The Military Times polled military members. It said more than a third of active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members said they witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks in recent months. Those numbers were higher than in the previous year.
The military outlet said it was a troubling snapshot of troops exposure to extremist views while serving despite efforts from military leaders to promote diversity and respect for all races.
Troops said they saw swastikas being drawn on service members cars, tattoos affiliated with white supremacist groups, stickers supporting the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi-style salutes between individuals.
By contrast, the military has imposed rules for gang members joining our volunteer army. As far back as 2008, according to the FBI, 1% to 2% of the U.S. military belonged to gangs, which is 50 to 100 times the rate in the general population. Upon joining, the military insists on removal of gang tattoos, for example.
The military, which over years has been a model for training and education efforts, is active in training officers to recognize foreign terrorism efforts. However,, it readily acknowledges lagging behind at examining its own ranks for such disturbing trends.
Indeed, the Pentagon had developed programs aimed at increasing understanding the roots of Islamist terrorism, only to find itself surprised by the emergence of lone-wolf outbreaks at home, as in the killings by a rogue Army officer at Fort Hood in Texas in 2013.
Still, that is a long way from seeking to root out affinity within its ranks or among its veterans for the kind of anti-democratic riot that hit the Capitol over a basic desire to declare election fraud and nullification.

Disturbing Images
Air Force veteran Larry Rendall Brock Jr. was photographed in his tactical gear in Senate chambers. According to court documents, he said on Facebook that he was preparing for a Second Civil War, and that we are now under occupation by a hostile governing force.
Jacob Fracker, 29, was an infantry rifleman in the Marine Corps, deployed twice to Afghanistan and is a member of the Virginia National Guard and a police officer. He and Thomas Robertson, 47, an Army veteran, also face charges.
Right-wing militias and anti-government groups are targeting the military and veterans, federal officials say.
General Austin, who would be the nations first Black defense secretary, said he would fight hard to rid our ranks of racists. He added, The Defense Departments job is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we cant do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.
Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow with the Anti-Defamation Leagues Center on Extremism, told NPR that the militarys efforts are largely haphazard and its not like the military is just tolerating white supremacists.
But efforts to address the problem need to be more systematic. Not

Ffs

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pikachupwnage posted...

Always go off brand with medicine.

Fuck paying double for a brand name and maybe a slightly better flavor for liquid medicine.

Is Pedialyte really considered liquid medicine?

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JustMyOpinion posted...

Two other topics about this. Do a simple search next time, kid.

i searched McCarthy, nothing.

I even searched Capitol

I'm not searching every variation

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-everybody-capitol-attack_n_600b9785c5b6f401aea48948

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) attracted attention last week when he said in a floor speech that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
But since then, he has seemed to walk back his criticism.
On Thursday, he told reporters that he didnt actually believe Trump had provoked the mob of his supporters.
In an interview airing Sunday on Gray Televisions Full Court Press With Greta Van Susteren, McCarthy insisted he wasnt changing his tune.
No, I have not changed in that, he said.
He stood by his assertion that Trump does bear some responsibility for what happened. But, he added, so does every other person around the country.
I also think everybody across this country has some responsibility, he said.
McCarthy then started pointing to Democrats who opposed Trump, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), people who are rude on social media and law enforcement authorities who didnt prepare for the attack as some of the people who were somehow responsible.
I think this is what we have to get to the bottom of, and when you start talking about who has responsibilities, I think theres going to be a lot more questions, a lot more answers we have to have in the coming future, he added.
Trumps supporters were in town Jan. 6 for a Stop the Steal rally, full of people who believed that Joe Biden didnt actually win the presidential election. Trump encouraged them to march to the Capitol to stop Congress and his own vice president from certifying the official Electoral College results on behalf of Biden.
McCarthy said Trump told his supporters to protest peacefully.
Indeed, he did say, I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
But Trump also encouraged them to fight.
Were probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because youll never take back our country with weakness, he said. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.
He also turned Mike Pence, his vice president, into an enemy, saying he had better do the right thing. Many Trump supporters who marched to the Capitol were furious at Pence, even talking about lynching him.
McCarthys insistence that Trump didnt provoke the mob is in direct contradiction to what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said.
The mob was fed lies, McConnell said Wednesday. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.

Shut the fuck up McIdiot

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Balrog0 posted...

I buy powdered Gatorade, that's sorta the same thing right

More sugar in Gatorade but generally speaking yeah

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Paragon21XX posted...

I wouldn't buy anything grape-flavored to start with.

In my life I have consumed probably twice as much grape flavored stuff as I have non grape flavored stuff <___<

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