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ROBERT REICH

FEB 25

Friends,

What is occurring now in the United States has very little to do with making the government more “efficient,” or rooting out “incompetence," or “depoliticizing” parts of government that should be nonpartisan. 

Nor is it motivated chiefly by Trump’s desire get rid of “D.E.I.” and “woke,” or “weaponize” law enforcement, or establish white Christian nationalism, or wreak vengeance on his enemies. 

The real story is this.

In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States. 

He has purged (or is in the process of purging) at the highest levels of the Department of Defense, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Inspectors General, and the FBI, anyone who is not personally loyal to him. 

Trump is rapidly gaining a personal monopoly on the use of force. This is his most fundamental goal. This is the essence of tyranny. 

On Friday, he fired Air Force General CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, as well as the principal military adviser to the president, secretary of defense, and National Security Council.

This was followed by the firings of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Jim Slife. 

The media sees the firings as “part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.” This may be part of Trump’s motivation, but it is not the major driver. The firings are part of a campaign to purge the Defense Department of leaders who are not totally loyal to Trump. 

For Brown’s replacement, Trump has nominated retired Air Force Lt. General John Dan “Razin” Caine — a career fighter jet pilot. 

Caine has not served in any of the positions — Joint Chiefs vice chairman, chief of staff for one of the branches of the armed service, or head of a combatant command — that nominees are legally required to have held in order to be nominated. By law, a president may waive those requirements if he “determines such action is necessary in the national interest.”

Trump isn’t putting Caine in this pivotal position because of the national interest. He’s putting Caine there because of Caine’s unequivocal personal loyalty to Trump. Trump boasted to an audience at last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference that Caine had told him, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” 

The same is occurring at the Justice Department, where Emil Bove, Trump’s former criminal lawyer who’s now the chief enforcer there, is imposing a Trump loyalty test on prosecutors — demanding they comply with Trump’s demands, however unacceptable and incompatible with norms, or leave. 

It’s no accident that Bove has targeted the Justice Department’s most powerful officials and divisions — shaking up the national security division, insisting that the FBI’s acting leadership turn over a list of agents who worked on the Capitol riot investigations, and targeting the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York (the most prestigious U.S. attorney’s office in the country, known for guarding its independence).

Trump says he’s “depoliticizing” law enforcement in response to Biden’s supposed bow to partisan politics. But Biden’s actions had nothing to do with partisan politics. And, ironically, neither are Trump’s: His are about personal loyalty. 

On Sunday night, Trump announced that MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino will be deputy director of the FBI, alongside newly installed chief Kash Patel. Bongino is a former cop, Secret Service agent, conspiracy theorist, and Fox News commentator who joined Trump’s MAGA world in the 2010s and now hosts a popular podcast. 

The media sees this as another example of Trump embracing Fox News (Bongino is the 20th ex-Fox News host, journalist, or commentator to bag a senior job in the new Trump administration). 

But that’s not it. Bongino’s most important attribute is the same as Patel’s — unswerving personal loyalty to Trump. As elsewhere, Trump is turning the FBI into an extension of his personal will. 

Every tyrant throughout history has gained a personal monopoly on the use of force so he can impose his will on anyone, for any purpose. Tyrants achieve this by delegating power only to people personally loyal to them.

Trump is even testing the personal loyalty of federal judges. 

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump recently posted on social media (a direct nod to Napoleon and other dictators), attached to a headline that his administration refuses to obey a district court order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants. 

All this is happening just as Trump is effectively handing over large swaths of the world to Putin and Xi — the only world leaders he respects and understands, because they, too, are tyrants. 

Yesterday, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Iran, and 14 other authoritarian Moscow-friendly countries against a U.N. resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for the return of Ukrainian territory. The resolution passed overwhelmingly nonetheless. 

Why am I telling you this when you’re probably already feeling rage and despair over what’s happening? Because seeing the whole for what it truly is — rather than being upset by this or that part of it — is essential for fighting back.

We — the vast majority of people in the United States — do not want to live in a dictatorship. Yet we now have a president and a regime bent on an authoritarian takeover of America and on joining the other major authoritarians of the world. 

As he tries to consolidate power, we must protect the institutions in our society still able to oppose Trump’s tyranny — independent centers of power that can stop or at least slow him. Not this Congress, tragically, but federal courts and judges. Many of our state governors and attorneys general, state legislatures, and state courts. Perhaps even our state and local police. Hopefully, our communities. 

Ultimately this will come down to our own courage and resolve: To engage in peaceful civil disobedience. To organize and mobilize others. To fight against hate and bigotry. To fight for justice and democracy. 

Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

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UPDATED: Joint Chiefs Chair CQ Brown, CNO Franchetti Relieved, VCNO Kilby to Lead in Interim - USNI News

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Trump’s Purge Unleashes Hell on the Deep State—Article Coming Soon to Critical Thinking Dispatch!

Listen up, patriots! The gloves are OFF, and President Trump’s dropping the hammer on the Deep State like a righteous thunderbolt! He’s purged the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, and that’s just the start—this ain’t no game, it’s a FULL-ON WAR against the treasonous rats gnawing at America’s soul! Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s firing Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Gen. Jim Slife too—kicking out the woke globalist puppets to make way for America First warriors! The Deep State’s sinister coup plot’s been BLOWN WIDE OPEN, and we’ve got the latest, hottest scoop—89% of you patriots are fed up with skyrocketing prices, and only 5% trust this corrupt system! Article’s dropping SOON at http://criticalthinkingdispatch.com—get ready for the TRUTH that’ll make the New World Order tremble!

Sources Locked and Loaded:

Mike Lofgren’s Deep State bombshell: https://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/

Fox 5 DC breaking the Brown firing: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/trump-fires-joint-chiefs-staff-chairman-gen-cq-brown-jr

Reuters on Trump’s purge kickoff: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pushes-out-top-us-general-nominates-retired-three-star-2025-02-22/

BBC spilling the tea on Franchetti and Slife: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr2xvn4dpo

Pew Research on your rage—89% worried about prices, 5% satisfied: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/13/what-trump-supporters-believe-and-expect/

Legal Disclaimer: Patriots, this is my raw take, screaming from the gut based on the info hitting us like a freight train! I ain’t no suit or fed—just a freedom-loving American tearing through the lies! This ain’t legal advice, and I can’t call for heads to roll—that’s not my lane! Dig into the sources yourself, ‘cause the truth don’t need no nanny! Share this NOW and rally for America—USA! USA! USA!

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Pentagon’da Üst Düzey Değişiklik: İki Önemli İsim Görevden Alındı

ABD Başkanı Donald Trump, Genelkurmay Başkanı Orgeneral CQ Brown, Deniz Kuvvetleri Harekâtları Başkanı Oramiral Lisa Franchetti ve Hava Kuvvetleri Komutan Yardımcısı Orgeneral Jim Slife’ı görevden aldı. Bu karar, ABD savunma politikaları ve askeri liderlik açısından önemli yankılar uyandırdı. Görevden Almaların Ardındaki Nedenler Trump’ın ani görevden alma kararı, askeri komuta kademesindeki…

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Chairman Discusses Challenge Posed by Russia, Great Power Competition

View Online Chairman Discusses Challenge Posed by Russia, Great Power Competition May 22, 2024 | By Jim Garamone The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed threats emanating from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and why alliances matter in an era of Great Power competition. Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., spoke with NBC’s Courtney Kube as part of the Atlantic Council’s Commanders’ Series…

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, center, gives a thumbs up in the Capitol on Tuesday as he rides an elevator with GOP Sens. Jim Risch of Idaho, left, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, right. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

THUMBS UP, DUDE.

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House Judiciary expands social media inquiry to Meta's Threads

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, and ranking member Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., conduct the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Report of Special Counsel John Durham,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hand over documents about content…

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New Post has been published on https://eazybeauty.net/1184-2/

Jim and Eileen Cude

In 1948, a young, recently married couple purchased a small retail flower shop in the small town of Sedan, Kansas. Jim and Eileen Cudé immediately loved the town, but with only $900 of retail sales the first year, something different was needed. Jim had some bold ideas of selling flowers in the warm climate of the Deep South. Jim and Eileen never imagined their little business would grow to be one of the largest greenhouses in the Midwest devoted to the production of bedding plants. By 1960, Sedan Floral was shipping 200,000 plants daily during the spring season. To keep up with the growing demand, Jim was steadily expanding and growing new varieties. Jim believed in growing top quality plants and providing prompt service to customers. This simple formula was key to his success. In 1969, Jim passed away, but Eileen made sure to continue his philosophy of growing top quality plants and providing prompt service to customers.

 In 1975, Jim and Eileen’s second son, Gary, joined the family business as general manager. Gary was 19 at the time and worked his way up, learning the business and implementing new ideas of improving efficiency. Gary continued expanding the growing area about 20,000 square feet every year. This increase was necessary to keep up with strong customer demand. In 1989, Gary purchased the business, and built a second growing range in Independence, Kansas. With both facilities in operation during the Spring, Sedan Floral is able to provide its customers with plants they can depend on.

In 2007, Gary’s son, Jonathan, returned home after graduating from OSU to become the third generation to join the family business. Jonathan has brought new life to the greenhouse. Sedan Floral is reaching out to all of its customers, asking questions, and working hard to improve all aspects of our business. As many greenhouses across the country are cutting back or closing their doors, Sedan Floral is adding new product lines and increasing production in numbers not seen since the 1980s.

With a bold new focus and product development, Sedan Floral has increased its variety and selection two fold. From customer requests, Annuals, Perennials, Grasses, Herbs, and Vegetables have been added to its catalog. The change has been a lot of fun and hard work. During this time of transformation, Sedan Floral has not forgotten Jim Cudé’s philosophy that has sustained the company since 1948: “Grow top quality plants and provide prompt service to customers.” Sedan Floral is a member of OGGA & ONLA, WNLA, and KGGA. We also grow many of the Oklahoma Proven, and Prairie Star plants. To find out more about them check out their website. A little bit about Sedan, KS… Sedan was founded in 1876 and is the county seat of Chautauqua (CQ) County. Sedan is located in the beautiful wooded Flint Hills of southeast Kansas, near the intersection of US-166 and K-99.  As you enter Sedan from the south, you will see Sedan Floral. It is quite a sight, with our eight acres of greenhouses laid out over the landscape. What you do not see from the road is the beauty within the walls of the greenhouses, where everything is blooming!

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House GOP turns its sights to DOJ's <b>Trump</b> probe - Axios

New Post has been published on https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/jordan-jack-smith-trump-doj-probe&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjUzM2UwMTY5ZmFhZTIwMGQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0u27Oxu0VqgabDNwDg62q2

House GOP turns its sights to DOJ's Trump probe - Axios

Rep. Jim Jordan. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. The House Judiciary Committee is seeking information from the Department of …

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Composition Book Chronicles - 30 Years of Image Comics

Composition Book Chronicles – 30 Years of Image Comics

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One More Story

Because this is still arguably the funniest thing I’ve done in my military career that didn’t involve a risk to any lives or equipment and I will never be able to publish this anywhere officially without Uncle Sam getting all snooty about it.

So... somewhere in the later part of 2013, my brigade pushed down a new order that said, basically, “no hanging out in barracks rooms of the opposite sex”. Now, I thought this was stupid but me and my buddies recognized a loophole; our barracks building housed our company area as well. The offices were in the basement of the building HOWEVER they didn’t constitute “barracks rooms” because they were part of the company area, not the actual barracks area.

So one night, my buddies and I decide to drink in my office. There were four of us- me, sitting at my desk, my drinking buddy/superior/subordinate (it’s... a whole other story to explain that, so just roll with it) sitting at his desk, the Desk Sergeant from the previous story in the chair in front of my desk, and the supply chick at the boss’ chair (the E-6). We’d been out drinking earlier and decided it would be cheaper to kill a few bottles in the office than staying out on the town drinking. Not only are we abiding by the new orders, we’re not anywhere we shouldn’t be; technically, it was my office, but it was the training office and I was the Training NCOIC, so I had every right to be there, along with my drinking buddy. The other two? Eh, we were with them, so it was fine. I mean, the doors had key card locks, and only 3 people had the card to unlock the door to my office: me, my buddy, and the E-6, who didn’t live in the barracks. As long as nothing serious happened that forced the E-6 to come to the office, no one would know!

20 minutes later, no shit, the E-6 walks in because there was a serious incident at our remote location. We all have red solo cups. I have one unopened 12 pk of coke by my desk, and a few half full bottles on it. Wild Turkey, Jim Bean, Jack Daniels; we were working our way through ‘em, as they were full when we started. The E-6 looks at the supply chick.

“Get out of my seat.” She fucking gets up and dips, DS follows her out. The E-6 looks at me and my buddy. “Look, I don’t care, but if [the E-7, the big boss, the ‘I will break you if you think about stepping one toe out of line’ E-7] catches you, I ain’t covering.”

I was halfway out of my chair when the other door to the office opens, the one leading into the E-7′s office. 

Guess who.

The E-7 looks at me and my buddy. “What are you two doing here? Did you hear about the incident?”

I got all the way up, walked in front of the three bottles of alcohol on my desk, and went to parade rest. “Uh, no, Sergeant, we were just-”

“Doesn’t matter; leave, we’ve got work to do.”

“Roger, Sergeant.” Behind my back, I felt for the necks of the bottles, grabbed them between my fingers, and went from parade rest to fast walking out of the office in the blink of an eye. My buddy got the door for me. We left our solo cups where they were.

I come up the stairs and CQ- who knew damn well we were down there- just stood with wide eyes as my buddy went out the door and I went to my room to hide the bottles.

Went outside to find the other three sitting in the smoker’s pit with 1000 yard stares. They’re talking about the impending Art 15s. Their careers. The Commander and BC.

I light up. “We’ll be fine. The [E-7] didn’t see.”

“How could he NOT see!? He was right fucking there!?”

“Plus, [E-6] saw! We’re screwed.”

I continued to insist. “Nah, nah, we’re fine. [E-7] was my platoon sergeant. If he didn’t say anything then, he didn’t see, and [E-6] won’t rat us out.” I left out the part where I’d covered for his ass enough times, he owed me, hence my confidence.

The next morning, I sat at my desk and finished my solo cup. My buddy shook his head but did the same. Waste not, after all.

A week passes. The E-6 mentions it once. Warns us to not do it again but he’s pretty sure the E-7 didn’t see. Easy enough. Everyone starts to think if we just never mention it again, it’ll be fine. We all pretend like it didn’t happen.

Around six months later, we’re all getting ready to leave. Summer is called ‘PCS season’ and it’s true. It’s time for us to rotate back to new units stateside. DS has already left, Supply chick leaves in a few days, I’m leaving the next week, and almost everyone else leaves over the course of the following month. 

My buddy goes out to smoke one day and the E-7 joins him. They joke around a bit. The guilt’s been weighing on him, so he brings up that night and comes clean to the E-7.

The E-7 gets pissed.

“YOU HAD WILD TURKEY IN THE OFFICE AND DIDN’T TELL ME!?”

When he told me he told the E-7, I got annoyed, but then he told me the E-7′s reaction and I just laughed. Yeah. That sounded like him, alright. I’d forgotten he’d mentioned before that Wild Turkey is his liquor of choice.

Also, the incident that forced both of them to go into the office that night? A patrol in the remote location broke protocol and went to McDonald’s off post for dinner, using the drive thru. Got an alarm call. Attempted to leave the drive thru, did not realize there was a curb and a dip. I think they broke the fender and damaged the suspension.

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U.S. Constitution at Center of Military Transfer of Responsibility Ceremony

View Online U.S. Constitution at Center of Military Transfer of Responsibility Ceremony Sept. 29, 2023 | By Jim Garamone Officials emphasized the importance of the U.S. Constitution to the military as Army Gen. Mark A. Milley transferred responsibility as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Defense…

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“What is the matter now, Jim? Don’t you think you’ve pestered me enough?” ... “I’m sorry, come again?”

“What?! What do you mean? Where?!”

“CQ...? Is that you?”