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ihaveaquestion

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 09:28 AM Wednesday

The Bulwark - Trump Goes FULL "Fat Elvis"! Generals HUMILIATED at Quantico! Hegseth's MANIC Tuesday! Next Level



Pete Hegseth calls in the nation’s top generals and admirals so he can lecture them about being in shape and ending wokeness and Donald Trump can speak ominously about “the war from within” and using American cities as training grounds for troops. JVL, Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller react to the supremely weird meeting—and then spend some time reflecting on how the first nine months of Trump’s second term have stacked up against JVL's worst case scenario from a year ago.
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The Bulwark - Trump Goes FULL "Fat Elvis"! Generals HUMILIATED at Quantico! Hegseth's MANIC Tuesday! Next Level (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Wednesday OP
Who said, "If you need a teleprompter to function, YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON THIS STAGE" usaf-vet Wednesday #1
Are they trying to kill people? Of course, that is one of the benefits of telling the poorly informed not to take..... usaf-vet Wednesday #2

usaf-vet

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1. Who said, "If you need a teleprompter to function, YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON THIS STAGE"
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 10:05 AM
Wednesday

If you don't know for sure, well, take a guess.

usaf-vet

(7,700 posts)
2. Are they trying to kill people? Of course, that is one of the benefits of telling the poorly informed not to take.....
Wed Oct 1, 2025, 10:53 AM
Wednesday

..... known medications. You kill off the senior citizens, you save Social Security, so those dollars will be available for them to steal when they finally accomplish their lifelong dream.

Think about it when you cut off access to safe health care ... for example, access to abortions, you have limited the poor to seeking unsafe back alley" abortions that can lead to the necessity of lifesaving medical care because of a botched abortion.

I have seen the results firsthand as a military medic scrub tech. Scrubbing to save the patient's life, which in more than one case meant a hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (total removal of all reproductive female organs) because of the extent of the infection, the botched abortion caused.

This meant they would no longer be able to have a baby. Many of these cases involved women just entering their childbearing years.

Closing medical clinics by stopping funding for them. Many of them (or at least a large percentage) are in blue states.

It all starts when the person in the White House hires unqualified individuals to run the agencies that oversee healthcare and emergencies, such as those requiring FEMA.

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