"The public support is the latest sign of Trump allies' attempts to save Hegseth's prospects as he faces a tough confirmation process, amid mounting allegations related to Hegseth's workplace behavior and treatment of women, including a surfaced sexual assault allegation from 2017, which he has denied.

Amid calls for more vetting, Hegseth's name was submitted to the FBI for a background check, and his attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said Thursday that his client had "received the forms yesterday from the FBI, and we're working on them right now."

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How many times must it be said? Only the best people!

As I understand it, the Appointments so far consist of something like 10 billionaires, 11 donors, and 12 former Fox contributors.

Make America For Sale Again!!

"Frankly offensive": UnitedHealth CEO responds to "aggressive" media interest in Johnson murder

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty is appalled by the reaction to the murder of his company's head insurance man Brian Johnson.

The UnitedHealthcare CEO was gunned down in New York City on Wednesday, in a seemingly targeted assassination that was caught on camera. The extensive media coverage and at times gleeful response to the murder on social media were too much for the exec. He called the tone of coverage "frankly offensive" in a video message to employees that was leaked to journalist Ken Klippenstein.

"I'm sure everybody has been disturbed by the amount of negative and in many cases vitriolic media and commentary that has been produced over the last few days, particularly in the social media environment," he shared in the video, which doubled as a warning to employees to keep mum when journalists come calling.

"People are writing things we simply don't recognize [that] are aggressive, inappropriate and disrespectful."

The Ketchup is scared to death!

But Loony Loomer and M. 'Trailor' Green are fighting over him now, so he may calm down.

"Israel used more than 100 aircraft, carrying fewer than 100 munitions, and with no aircraft getting within 100 miles of the target in the first wave, and that took down nearly the entirety of Iran's air-defense system," Radakin said during a Royal United Services Institute lecture in London.

"It has destroyed Iran's ability to produce ballistic missiles for a year and left Tehran with a strategic dilemma in how it responds. That is the power of fifth-generation aircraft, combined with exquisite targeting and extraordinary intelligence," Radakin said.

"And that was all delivered from a single sortie."

Traded them for the Building Permit for the Moscow Trump Hilton.

You know, to match the Dubai Trump Towers he's building now.

full transcript printed below the short vid

Oh, and relatives and sexual predators, drunks, and Russian propagandists.

- corrupt, overspending government

That will be the go to phrase future historians use to describe the second Trump disaster of a Presidency; top Pres Historians who have done so for decades now rate Trump as last or next to last of all Presidents.

Even the conservatives among the Pres Historians all rate him in the last five.

It's just easily confused Trumpers who 'think' he was or ever will be a good President for America's economy.

He's restocked the Swamp with billionaires, donors, and used Fox news contributors.

And that's supposed to be better?

"Lee's tweet thread, along with Musk's apparent concurrence, serves as an outline of the arguments the GOP may use to undermine faith in Social Security, the better to soften it up for "reforms" that will translate into costs imposed on retirees, disabled workers and their dependents.

I recently reported on all the ways that Trump could quietly or secretly undermine his pledge to protect Social Security. Lee's thread and Musk's apparent endorsement are different " they amount to a frontal attack on the program."

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all the details at the link... which ya'll might consider actually reading, as it details the attacks that are coming and why they are LIES.

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Welcome back, missed ya!

The way to financial rationality in gov spending is to grow the economy, not cut off your nose to spite your face.

Funny.... even most of the House ------- at least disliked him. Guess they must be looking to the future for a precedent to keep their own investigations from the public... whom they supposedly represent.

Dude's plonked.

"Musk said there would be a "naughty list" and a "nice list" for lawmakers."

They only have a very small margin in the House, and it's imperative that the individual Republican Corporate Congress Critters know that they get NO campaign money unless they play ball with the Mob Bosses.

The Made Men and Women in Congress are going to have to hit the mattresses.

end UP living

When gramma and grandpa end of living with the kids again, the kids may decide, once again, that spreading out the costs is really a great idea... especially in a democratic republic.

But if you spread out the costs, how can billionaires, the Oligarchs and Corporate PERSONS of America, get tax cuts they can barely figure out how to throw away fast enough as it is now?

So... what we are saying here is that TrumperBelle was chemically castrated at age 5?

Well, it does explain a lot. Obviously we need to test ShrimpDick now.

"The anti-trans ads"

Yes, a terrible problem that ALMOST made the Top 10,000 Problems Facing Americans survey.

A classic Red Herring which pervades even the trusty threads of the old DR, as Trumpers can't actually talk about things like who's being picked to ruin, er, run the government.

#9

Absolutely!

This is the same House Clown Car that couldn't tie it's own shoelaces last time... now a few of them can hold the rest hostage anytime they want.

Of course, some of their nuttiest have been added to the WH Circus that is coming.

"Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People

Just over a year before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered this week in Midtown Manhattan, a lawsuit filed against the insurance giant he helmed revealed just how draconian its claims-denying process had become.

Last November, the estates of two former UHC patients filed suit in Minnesota alleging that the insurer used an AI algorithm to deny and override claims to elderly patients that had been approved by their doctors.

The algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate " and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it."

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- transitioned at the age of 2?

Yes, another of the great, overwhelming problems facing most Americans today.

Or just another red herring among 100's of others that Trumpers have swallowed whole.

Incompetence, incontinence... any of those.

He's guilty of trying to illegally overturn an election according the sworn testimony of his own supporters and staff, many of whom are in prison on the same charges he faces, Ostrich Boy.

Trump opened the can, and the worms are crawling out everywhere.