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Friday, October 10, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced that he would sign a letter approving the establishment of a Qatari Emeri Air Force facility in Idaho.

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Trump in 2017: "Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level." Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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-- Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) Oct 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Allah Akbar!

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-10 02:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-10 02:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

What's the over/under on number of states you'd find exploded pieces of Sean Hannity's head if Biden had done this?

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-10 02:25 PM | Reply

WTF?

WHY?

Is this the result of the BRIBE?

No foreign countries have military bases in the U.S., but some have detachments or training programs co-located on U.S. military bases for joint exercises or training.

Sovereignty and policy: The U.S. has historically maintained a policy of not permitting foreign military installations within its borders, a stance rooted in protecting its own sovereignty.

Need for foreign bases: Unlike other nations, the U.S. doesn't need foreign military bases for self-protection, as it has the capability to project power globally itself.

Suddenly we need foreign bases on our soil?

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-10 02:30 PM | Reply

I'm looking forward to Bari Weiss's Fair and Balanced Op-Ed offering full support for this.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-10 02:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Idaho is chock full of neo-Nazis, this will get interesting to say the least.

#6 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-10 02:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

@#4 ... WTF?

WHY?

Is this the result of the BRIBE? ...

My first thoughts and questions as well.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 03:02 PM | Reply

The US has been hosting and training foreigners on our soil for decades. The USMA at West Point allots a small number of slots for foreign cadets. The Ukrainians have been training with USAF and ANG pilots in the US for nearly 30 years. Red State Florida has had Muslim officers billeted at CENTCOM for decades. Red State Texas has hosted foreign pilots at Sheppard Air Force Base since the early 1980s. The School of the Americas and the JFKSWC have been training allied (Muslim and non-Muslim) officers for over half a century, including SOF personnel. Japan has expressed interest in establishing a military base in the US as well, because their people have grown tired of the gaijin presence on their sacred soil, particularly in Okinawa.

And note Islamophobe Laura Loomer bleats she won't vote in 2026, a non-POTUS election year. What about 2028? Poor Laura. She thinks the US is not allowed to have Muslim allies like Qatar, Egypt, Turkiye, etc etc.


#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 03:10 PM | Reply

Like the idiot BOAZ says: "this is what Amerikkka voted for."

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-10-10 03:10 PM | Reply

Larry Loomer is such a drama queen.

#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-10 03:12 PM | Reply

When is the disgusting orange pedo going to give the orcs an air base located on American soil.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-10 03:13 PM | Reply

#11: Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov were keenly looking out the window of their Aeroflot jet when it landed in Alaska.

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 03:19 PM | Reply

Larry Loomer is such a drama queen.
#10 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-10 03:12 PM | Reply

Don't you mean Laura Loomer??

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-10 03:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Related ...

Trump Admin Sparks MAGA Fury With Qatari Air Force Base in US -- 'Betrayed'
www.newsweek.com

... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the U.S. has greenlit the establishment of a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility in Idaho, a move that has drawn backlash from some of the administration's closest Make America Great Again (MAGA) allies, with Laura Loomer saying, "I have never felt more betrayed by the GOP," over the move.

Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist during President Donald Trump's first term and architect of the MAGA movement, told Newsweek in a text message, "There should never be a military base of a foreign power on the sacred soil of America." ...

Conservative commentator Amy Mek wrote in an X post she is "in shock that Washington would approve a deal letting Qatar, Hamas's #1 financier, open a Qatari Air Force facility on U.S. soil at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho."

She added, "It's a shared delusion. We're not building peace. We're building a launchpad for the Islamic disaster." ...



#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 03:21 PM | Reply

Wow...

First Rep Taylor Greene, and now Trump advisor Loomer and fmr WH Chief Advisor Bannon?

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 03:23 PM | Reply

Traitors get the rope

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-10 03:41 PM | Reply


Like the idiot BOAZ says: "this is what Amerikkka voted for."
#9 | Posted by Angrydad a

The US has done this in the past, Germany has one at Hollman, Sheppard AFB is a multi-national base.

What President didn't want this? Was this on the Harris platform?

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-10 03:48 PM | Reply

No foreign countries have military bases in the U.S., but some have detachments or training programs co-located on U.S. military bases for joint exercises or training.

Breathe donorBot, thats all it is, an F-15 training facility. The 391st FS "Bold Tigers" is based at Mountain home, comprised of more than 450 Airmen and more than 20 F-15E aircraft.

#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-10 03:51 PM | Reply

youtu.be

#19 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 03:56 PM | Reply

Breathe donorBot, thats all it is, an F-15 training facility.

Then it's not a base.

It's a facility on an American base. Nothing new.

Headline got me. Should have read much deeper than the tweet.

So she exaggerated a situation just to gin up some anger and get those clicks.

Yeah. I should have known better.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-10 04:13 PM | Reply

www.thedailybeast.com

Every POTUS surrendered 3 American military bases to Russia.

~ IAMRUNT~

#21 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-10 05:00 PM | Reply

swalwell.house.gov

media.cnn.com

m.media-amazon.com

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-10 05:20 PM | Reply

So, this is likely why Qatar "donated" a jet to Pres Trump?

If so, what are Qatar's goals in this transaction?


#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 07:18 PM | Reply

It's a facility on an American base. Nothing new.

Yep. I've been to Mountain Home AFB a few times... Singapore has a similar facility there.

#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-10 07:42 PM | Reply

Don't you mean Laura Loomer??

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-10 03:21 PM | Reply | Flag

Depends. Do you believe gender is fluid? does it flow back and fro? You fuckers are losing the argument.

#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-10 08:39 PM | Reply

@#25 ... You f***ers are losing the argument. ...

If that is indeed the case here, why does your current alias seem to be so focused upon trying to change the topic of discussion?


#26 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 08:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

...does it flow back and fro?

Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow?

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-10 08:45 PM | Reply

Can you tie it in a knot? Can you tie it in a bow?

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-10 08:45 PM | Reply | Flag

I bet you can suck-start a Canadian motorcycle.

#28 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-10 08:52 PM | Reply

@kristaveadwarren

As Hegseth announces that we're now building a Qatari air force facility at a base in Idaho, l'd like to remind @tedcruz that less than two weeks ago he accused Qatar of funding Antifa

There are no grownups in charge.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-10 09:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Breathe donorBot, thats all it is, an F-15 training facility. The 391st FS "Bold Tigers" is based at Mountain home, comprised of more than 450 Airmen and more than 20 F-15E aircraft.
#18 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Someone should tell Hegseth.

That drunken moron is a DEI hire.

Incompetent, white supremacist frat bros need representation too.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-10 09:50 PM | Reply

You fuckers are losing the argument.
#25 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Stay in the closet, or come out.
But make up your damn mind.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-10 09:56 PM | Reply

@#29 ... As Hegseth announces that we're now building a Qatari air force facility at a base in Idaho, l'd like to remind @tedcruz that less than two weeks ago he accused Qatar of funding Antifa ...

Perhaps, just another example of how Pres Trump seems to have put up the occupant of the Oval Office for sale?

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-10 10:13 PM | Reply

From "They fund terrorism" to our closest ally getting part of a US airbase in the US...

And all it cost them a big jet no one else wanted.

#33 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-10 11:55 PM | Reply

Muslims are scum.

Posted by Boaz at 2025-10-09 07:07 PM

One of things things will happen:

1. Boaz will have a seizure, heart attack, and stroke all at the same time after reading this news.

OR

2. Boaz will make an excuse and post for the next month how Qatar is so wonderful.

#34 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-10 11:59 PM | Reply

@#33 ... From "They fund terrorism" to our closest ally getting part of a US airbase in the US...

And all it cost them a big jet no one else wanted. ...

Looks that way.

US Security apparently for sale by the occupant of the Oval Office?



#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-11 12:02 AM | Reply

US Security apparently for sale by the occupant of the Oval Office?

If you want or need anything from the Government of the United States, licking Lewzer's taint is the best foot forward.

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-11 12:21 AM | Reply

@#33 ... And all it cost them a big jet no one else wanted. ...

Seems that way.

#37 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-11 01:03 AM | Reply

@#36 ... If you want or need anything from the Government of the United States, licking Lewzer's taint is the best foot forward. ...

Well, yeah.

Just look at the Cabinet meeting being broadcast where the members of his Cabinet seem to be beholden to providing unfettered praise of their Dear Leader.

Have the White House Cabinet meetings now turned in to the adulation gatherings of North Korea?




#38 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-11 01:08 AM | Reply

Just look at the Cabinet meeting being broadcast....

I can't. I just can't watch that pathic level of sucking up. Nope.

#39 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-11 01:19 AM | Reply

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