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Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Kentucky) health issues are affecting Congress, which is returning from recess on Monday and faces a limited number of days left before the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government for fiscal year 2027.

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-- The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 9:00 AM · Jul 9, 2026

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USAF SPs screwed over and disappointed

"I had enough of this lunacy"

US Army BG Eric Widmar bio

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 04:15 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

And the USN is targeting black sailors with this directive:

"Sailors with shaving-related conditions will get one year of medical treatment to meet the USN's clean-shaven face standard or they will be removed from the service."

Razor bumps is a condition that can cause a person to experience painful inflammation after shaving. The condition disproportionately affects Black men, some 60% of whom may experience it."

~snip~

The devious Trumpf junta is finding every possible way to bleachen Amerikkka's armed forces.

Link: More evil from the Trumpf junta

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 04:25 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee last week, OMB Director Russell Vought said the US had spent $30 billion on the Iran War being fought by US military forces to benefit Israel. The real cost is over $100 billion."

~snip~

Source: popular.info

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 04:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"I work my furry little paws to the bone on my XP computer for you people and this is the thanks I get."

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 06:40 PM | Reply

  • US Army BG Eric Widmar, top legal counsel to the CJCS, is stepping down nearly a year ahead of schedule "for personal reasons" after serving in the role since 2024.
  • USAF rescinds an incredible 135 promotions after an "administrative flub."
    Worst-run USDOD in inter-galactic history, hands down

  • #5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-09 11:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

    When the Soviet Union fell, the first signs that it was in such danger was that it couldn't find the money to pay the electric bills for all the military bases. One wonders if Trump and his gang are weakening the American military to that point. Time will tell.

    #6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-07-10 06:41 AM | Reply

    Am I the only one who thinks that Trump and his family are stealing Pentagon money?

    #7 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-10 07:54 AM | Reply

    No.

    #8 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-10 07:55 AM | Reply

    One wonders if Trump and his gang are weakening the American military to that point. Time will tell.

    #6 | Posted by Hughmass

    That time may already be here.

    I think it's reasonable to describe the US military effort against Iran as being fitfull.

    I think that it's reasonable to attribute this not only to Trump's personal incapacity and fecklessness.

    Putin and his friends frankly looted his own nation's defense capacity.

    Therefore, if Plan A didn't work in Ukraine (an almost immediate Ukrainian surrender)nothing would work.

    Well...Plan A didn't work in Iran,

    #9 | Posted by Zed at 2026-07-10 08:29 AM | Reply

    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
    Dwight Eisenhower, 1961

    I'm afraid that choochoo chugged out of the $tation sometime ago.

    #10 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-07-10 08:39 AM | Reply

    Pedo 47 is bankrupting the pentagon like it's one of his casinos.

    #11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-07-10 10:47 AM | Reply

    Of course, it is. Everything is because they're pushing as much money out the door into donor's and their own pockets as quickly as they can.

    This administration is nothing but a heist. A giant unified theft effort by the greediest, biggest pieces of s*&^ our society has to offer.

    #12 | Posted by jpw at 2026-07-10 12:56 PM | Reply

    ... USN's clean-shaven face standard...

    If I remember correctly from my USMC days (way last century) facial hair was an honored Navel tradition. Is this another legacy Kesbreath is destroying?

    #13 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-07-10 01:13 PM | Reply

    This just reminded me of when Homer Simpson got elected Sanitation Commissioner.

    #14 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-07-10 01:15 PM | Reply

    Dwight Eisenhower, 17 Jan 1961: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

    April 1961: New POTUS JFK asks advice from a retired five-star US Army general with 52 years military experience about Asia and communism. General Douglas MacArthur (Ret) had trained the Philippines Army ("I shall return"), was the former American viceroy of occupied Japan who humbled the Emperor, and outsmarted the North Koreans at Inchon with his own D-Day ("Take that, Ike!").

    The "American Caesar" advised the [Catholic] POTUS about Asia: "Make Japan, the Phillipines, and Formosa your Red Lines. Concentrate on domestic issues [sic]."

    June 1963: South Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thch Quang Duc sets himself on fire to protest the ruthless [Catholic-minority] Saigon regime: An oracle of things to come

    JFK: "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one."

    1967: 500,000 US Servicemebers in Vietnam: Our boys

    Tuesday 5 Nov 1968: All good advice ignored, warning signs unheeded, and no lessons learned

    #15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-07-10 04:48 PM | Reply

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