Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

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Thank goodness for CC. I can't stand to hear his voice.

Also...

[ponchi101]

Thank goodness for CC. I can't stand to hear his voice.

Also...

And Bukele also said that he had no reason or interest in returning the Venezuelan guy that has been detained there illegally.
The age of the right wing dictator. Pendula do swing.

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And Bukele also said that he had no reason or interest in returning the Venezuelan guy that has been detained there illegally.
The age of the right wing dictator. Pendula do swing.

I think we need to make it clear that all the people that have been sent to El Salvador have been sent without due process so it's all illegal, but the person in question, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is El Salvadoran. That's one of the reasons that Bukele won't return them. Abrego Garcia is the perfect example for Bukele to point at for his own people to tell them that there is no escape.

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Why do these people think he gives a rat's hiney about them?!

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Let's me see...
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That felt good.

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Hillary was too kind calling them deplorable.

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[ashkor87]

Saw a poll by Enten where 52% of Americans are hostile to immigrants .Either the poll is wrong or America has changed a lot ..I lived in the US 14 years, California, Iowa, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, never experienced even a whiff of hostility/racism. ...

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No, they simply have been following the narrative presented by the GOP and have swallowed it.
You know I live in Colombia. The previous major of Bogota, when confronted by the press about the rising levels of crime in the city (which were not excessive) immediately replied: "It is the Venezuelans that are coming into the country".
It takes very little to make a shift in the perception of "the foreigners". It is in our DNA.

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Hegseth team gets new jolt with more allegations involving Signal app
The embattled defense secretary is accused of sharing pre-operational details involving a Yemen bomb strike with a group of close associates and family.

April 20, 2025 at 10:01 p.m. EDT Today at 10:01 p.m. EDT

By Dan Lamothe

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his embattled, shrinking coterie of senior advisers faced new allegations of malfeasance on Sunday, with a report alleging that Hegseth shared sensitive, advance information about a bombing campaign in Yemen with a group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

The operational details were transmitted March 15 through Signal, marking at least the second usage of the commercial messaging application to share sensitive information about forthcoming airstrikes, the New York Times reported.

It follows a report by the Atlantic magazine last month that detailed how senior Trump appointees, including Vice President JD Vance, White House national security adviser Michael Waltz and Hegseth had deliberated about the same strikes on Signal — an encrypted, but unclassified network — after Waltz accidentally included the editor in chief of the magazine in the private group. Hegseth shared operational details there, too.

The new allegations, which The Washington Post could not immediately verify, will renew questions about Hegseth’s judgment, discretion and adherence to long-held policies for how classified information and other sensitive Defense Department information should be handled.

In the aftermath of the first error coming to light, President Donald Trump supported Hegseth, but the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sens. Roger Wicker (Mississippi) and Jack Reed (Rhode Island), requested that the Defense Department inspector general’s office scrutinize the situation. A review is underway.

The Times reported that in addition to Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer; and brother, Phil; others on the chat included Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper; his spokesman, Sean Parnell; his personal lawyer and adviser, Tim Parlatore; and two senior aides; Darin Selnick and Dan Caldwell.

Parlatore, a military defense attorney, had rejoined the Navy Reserve after 12 years out of uniform earlier in March, while Selnick and Caldwell were fired last week, accused of leaking information. Jennifer Hegseth is not a Defense Department employee but has taken an unusually active role for a spouse in Pentagon affairs, appearing at some official meetings. Phil Hegseth is a Department of Homeland Security employee, but has been serving as a liaison at the Pentagon.

Parnell and Kasper did not respond to requests for comment. Caldwell, Parlatore and Selnick declined to comment.

“If true, this incident is another troubling example of Secretary Hegseth’s reckless disregard for the laws and protocols that every other military servicemember is required to follow,” Reed said in a statement. “He must immediately explain why he reportedly texted classified information that could endanger American servicemembers’ lives on a commercial app that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. I urge the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General to include this latest incident in its ongoing investigation of Mr. Hegseth’s mishandling of classified information.”

Separately, on Sunday, Politico published an opinion piece by a former Hegseth spokesman, John Ullyot, that questioned the defense secretary’s ability to do the job. Ullyot, who was removed from his position last month after weeks of colleagues questioning his judgment, backed a joint statement that Caldwell, Selnick and a third fired political appointee, Colin Carroll, released on Saturday that questioned the accuracy of statements Hegseth’s team has made against them.

“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon,” Ullyot wrote. “From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.”

Ullyot assessed that there has been “near collapse inside the Pentagon’s top ranks,” and said that Kasper also has been removed from his position. Defense officials have declined to confirm that personnel change. Meanwhile, Ullyot added, while the Pentagon said it would conduct polygraph tests of those under scrutiny for allegedly leaking information, “not one of the three has been given a lie detector test.”

Ullyot also shared a dim view of Hegseth’s handling of the initial Signal uproar, assessing that he “followed horrible crisis-communications advice from his new public affairs team, who somehow convinced him to try to debunk the reporting through a vague, Clinton-esque non-denial denial that ‘nobody was texting war plans.’”

Doing so, Ullyot wrote, violated public affairs wisdom to deal with bad news right away. He also accused Hegseth’s team of spreading “flat-out, easily debunked falsehoods anonymously” about their now-departed colleagues.

Should the defense secretary be fired, Ullyot added, “many in the secretary’s own inner circle will applaud quietly.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... th-ullyot/