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I understand, but I do think there is discussion to be had about whether resigning is the right thing to do.
These situations are always difficult to tell what is going on --

- I know the reflexive reaction is to think some career bureaucrat quit because he doesn't like how the new sheriff does business and is trying to change things.

- But, it's possible -- and I think this may have happened at DOJ -- that when you blow out career people out of fear they won't be loyal, you end up with incompetent clowns.

- I totally understand wanting alpha Pete to transform the tranny woke military, but it is possible that he has no idea how to run it (or at least doesn't know when to defer to other people).
Here we go.
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One source said the decision was unsurprising given tension between Driscoll and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

A second source familiar said that in his resignation, Driscoll “brought up concerns with the administration surrounding Army transformation and readiness and Hegseth’s blocking those efforts specifically by firing the generals who were responsible.”

An Army official said Driscoll “spoke to the president about the current state of the Army and submitted his resignation.”

The departure of Driscoll, an Army veteran and longtime friend of Vice President JD Vance, has been long rumored and comes after months of friction with Hegseth. It also comes six months into the Iran war, which shows no signs of ending.

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I think a lot of people on this board can't stand Ukraine because they know how much we provoked this conflict, funded it once it began, and how that country has been a giant CIA base and money laundering operation.

I think there is a small contingent actually rooting for Putin because if anyone is fighting off globalists trying to break up and sell off his country, it's him.
All we did was galvanize the country against us.
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Tucker was clearly wrong in his assessment of Midnight Hammer. It was an amazing military operation which accomplished its goal with little (if any) collateral damage.

The skyscreamers at the time were right. It would never be enough. Also, if it was so successful, we wouldn't have had to go in again so soon.
Nice Don Tzu play. Start a war, then say you can't vote for Dems because you can't trust them on the war.
I look forward to a ten page thread on who "controls" the Strait.
Not great, but the difference is Trump purported to be someone not influenced by outsiders and they are seemingly shaping his foreign policy.
He did hunt down RobbBobb, though.
The current state of affairs is politicians chimping out and everyone eating up rage bait. It's depressing.
I'm just talking about with respect to our greatest ally. Otherwise, I basically agree with you that Trump is a Carter or Clinton Dem.
This was from Sy Hersh last week.

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I’m telling it now because I have been told that specific evidence about Epstein’s connections to foreign and domestic intelligence services, particularly Mossad and the FBI, though they do exist in government files, have yet to be the subject of materials made public by the Trump administration’s Justice Department and have not come under scrutiny by the Congress and the media.

I had a distressing discussion of the Epstein affair with a well-informed international source I’ve known for a long time. He suddenly volunteered last fall to talk about what he knew about Epstein. His point was that if all the details were to come out about Epstein and Israel it could cause problems for the past and present members of some in the Trump administration, as well as for senior officials in prior Democratic administrations.

My source knew an old friend, the son of a man who left a kibbutz in northern Israel to make money in private business in Tel Aviv. During the 1980s in Tel Aviv, the son—he was far from a whiz kid, so I gathered—was recruited by and eagerly agreed to join Mossad. He became an agent. He was trained in the use of advanced covert Israeli-made photography and recording equipment. In 1982 Yasser Arafat and his senior aides were defeated and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s leadership was expelled from Lebanon. One of the agent’s first assignments was to bug what he thought were the vacation homes of senior PLO officials in their new quarters in Tunisia.

The agent apparently did well enough to be rewarded with a more challenging assignment in the following years—to fly to New York City, buy off-the-shelf listening devices and cameras and covertly install them in a room of Epstein’s apartment in New York City. He was explicitly told to purchase off-the-shelf camera equipment in New York for the risky mission, but, as he sadly related to his friends, he didn’t follow those instructions and instead relied on the high-end equipment on which he had trained for Mossad.

The young Israeli told his boyhood friends that his operation had been compromised and the FBI caught him and immediately realized—given his nationality and the use of expensive Israeli gear—that Israel was aware of Epstein’s client list and its obvious blackmail and extortion potential in the world of international trade and intelligence collection. My source doesn’t know whether Epstein, in turn, provided the FBI with any of the tape recordings or videos. Did he go further, and supply both Israel and the FBI with films and recordings?

Will these questions ever be answered? Was the Epstein-provided sex as a mechanism for collecting information—for whom? Was it blackmail material? Or was Epstein simply making rich friends in high places? In any case, he now had potentially compromising audiotape recordings and videos of prominent men in government and high-end professional life.

The point is Epstein’s ties as an ongoing asset to the FBI kept him out of trouble and also left a large and politically devastating collection of recordings and films that have yet to be discussed publicly or even acknowledged by the Justice Department or the FBI, as well as by the Trump White House. I should note that no one I spoke to for this report mentioned any specific information linking Trump to the Epstein whorehouse.

I shared this account with a sophisticated American official whom I have learned to trust over the years. He told me that there was yet to be a serious nonpartisan investigation of the role of some senior members of the FBI who knew of and abetted Epstein’s collection of compromising videos.

Epstein was seen in 2016 as a possible source for dirt on Trump by the Clinton campaign, the official told me, “because they wanted to get rid of Trump. But Epstein was too smart to get involved.” He added that Epstein became “an asset” for the FBI, while the CIA had done “an analysis of his assets” but “was not interested in him because he was not reliable and had no tactical intelligence.” He has learned during a long career, the official told me, not to become a fan of any president.

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I love Ron, but...
- On one of the issues that splits this board and the right, well, he might be one of the few people even right of Trump.
- May be a neocon in sheep's clothing. But, Trump already punked us as anti-war and I really doubt JD will stay out of conflicts when it comes down to it.

The big concern with Ron winning is I don't know if he has the charisma or draw to pull states in the rust belt. But, I would think he is a layup in GA, NV, AZ, and FLA.
As I said yesterday:
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My choice for U.S. senator is a Muslim communist who supports transitioning children and a GOPe/MIC/surveillance state stooge.

I'll probably be staying home.
So, is China or Iran attacking our grid or what?
I know, these guys think there is a magical ghost fleet escorting tens of millions of barrels per day through the Strait. Uh, can't satellites track ships?

To your point on where ships are, this guy says the blockade is roughly at that line and no ships have cleared any mines.

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re: 2026 U.S. Open thread.

Posted by Bunk Moreland on 8/31/26 at 6:48 pm to
Shelton broken three times in the first set.