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Saturday, April 19, 2025

The USMC removed Col. Mark D. Bortnem from his position after deciding he was unfit to lead. Col. Bortnem was relieved of his duties as commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort and reassigned to duties at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. "This decision was made due to a loss of trust and confidence in Bortnem's ability to command." The top enlisted leader for the 20,000-person AFSOC was also relieved of duty for "loss in confidence in his ability to fulfill his duties." Command Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green was fired as the command chief and reassigned outside of AFSOC headquarters at Hurlburt Field, FL pending the outcome of an investigation. Officials would not comment on the nature of the investigation. taskandpurpose.com The investigations may determine these two senior military leaders dislike Dotard Trumpf and SECDEF Pete Hogsbreath. read more


1) Ukrainian intelligence releases the voice intercept of a Russian commander losing his temper and ordering his soldiers to shoot at their own comrades in a neighboring unit. "F**k the 55th, shoot them, that's the battalion commander's order, shoot them." The unidentified Russian commander appears frustrated at the adjacent Russian unit for not properly following an order and revealing their positions to Ukrainian troops. 2) The director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service threatened NATO states during a 15 Apr meeting with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, saying that Poland and the Baltic states would be the "first to suffer" if there were any "NATO aggression" against the Russia-Belarus Union State. 3) GOP Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA 8th CD) visits Ukraine's front line and signs an artillery shell for Vladimir Putin. Fitzpatrick, a retired FBI SA, is pictured below. read more


6 Jan terrorist Peter Marocco, the Trumpf junta apparatchik in charge of dismantling USAID, left a meeting at the White House last week to return to his office at the State Department. But when he arrived, Marocco could not enter the building: security told him he was no longer an employee there. Word of Marocco's firing quickly tore through the GOP and MAGA ecosystem, startling Trumpf's loyalists who viewed the aide as part of an elite cohort of administration true believers. Loud voices on the right piled on Marco Rubella, accusing him of undermining their disruptive agenda. Rubella has also differed with Trumpf regarding Ukraine and Russia: www.msn.com read more


Some Trumpf junta members are dissatisfied with Europe's ongoing support for Ukraine. Kiev's European partners have sought to present a united front on Ukraine, pledging additional assistance and preparing a "reassurance force" of troops to monitor a potential ceasefire. Trumpf has rejected providing security guarantees to Kiev and has not announced any new aid packages, aiming instead to broker a ceasefire with Russia. Some Pentagon officials questioned an unspecified ally about why it continues sending military aid to Ukraine, a query that was ignored. Trumpf paused all security aid in March to pressure Kiev to the negotiating table. While the flow of these packages, approved still under the Biden administration, has resumed, economic and military are expected to run out in the coming months. Archived link: archive.ph read more


This skit is 2:45 long and from the long-running "This Show Has 22 Minutes" which is produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia: youtu.be


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#10: These appalling figures courtesy of the NRA and the GOP.

"Guns are the Leading Cause of Death for Children in the US"

Motor vehicle-related crashes used to be the leading cause of death among children and teens.

Source:

www.snopes.com

You could see why some Drudge Retort bloggers enjoy living in Europe but push for gun rights in the US. The chances of them or their children getting killed by guns in Europe is infinitesimal compared to those of us in the US.

BTW: Luigi was just federally-indicted: www.cnn.com

I wonder if Lady Dracula (USAG Pam Bondi) is seeking similar terrorism charges for Phoenix Ikner who killed and wounded more people?

More lachrymose behavior in a US court. This time an ex-NYT editor tearfully apologizes to Sarah Palin in a libel suit: www.thewrap.com

What a country we have. The judges in America are becoming parents listening to sobbing children for bad behavior.

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