Cavalcade of morons/naturalist Emperor update
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Looks like elements of the 82nd Airborne and the 10th Mountain Division are about to get shipped to our southern border to fulfill Donald Trump’s idiotic militaristic fantasies:
The soldiers from the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain have not yet been issued “prepare to deploy orders,” the official told Task & Purpose. Rather, they have been informed that if the secretary of defense orders the Army to send more troops to the southern border, they would be the next to go.
No information was immediately available on Friday about exactly how many soldiers from those two divisions might deploy, but the U.S. official confirmed that the entire divisions would not be sent to the southern border.
Since as of tonight Rapey McDrunkard is going to be the new Secretary of Defense, despite Our Lady of the Perpetually Furrowed Brow’s reservations, those orders are no doubt set to go.
And in case you forget, this is who leads us:
On his first evening back in office, Trump invited reporters into the Oval Office, where he discussed his new decree that NATO members must spend 5 percent of their nation’s wealth on their militaries. (He perhaps is unaware that the United States spends only about 3 percent and would have to come up with another $500 billion annually to fulfill his edict.) Complaining about the “very low” military spending of Spain, Trump told his questioners: “They’re a BRICS nation, Spain. You know what a BRICS nation is? You’ll figure it out.” The 47th president then said that he would “put at least 100 percent tariff on the business they do with the United States.”
Spain, part of the European Union, is not a member of the “BRICS” bloc, short for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (but which, curiously, also includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates). But this, apparently, is news to our belligerent president. The United States might not have been in a conflict with Spain since 1898, but Trump is not one to let bygones be bygones. Remember the Maine! “I don’t know if the affirmation made by President Trump was the result of a mix-up or not,” said a spokeswoman for the unnerved Spanish government. Maybe he’ll “figure it out.” . . .The next evening brought more astounding ignorance from the chief executive. This time, he brought reporters into the Roosevelt Room to unveil a supposed $500 billion joint venture regarding artificial intelligence. But the ruse was exposed by none other than Trump sidekick Elon Musk, who proclaimed: “They don’t have the money.”
At the event, NBC News’s Peter Alexander asked Trump about why he had just pardoned D.J. Rodriguez, who shocked a police officer with a stun gun at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and later boasted that he “tazzzzed the f— out of the blue.” The judge who sentenced Rodriguez to more than 12 years called him a “one-man army of hate, attacking police.”
“Well, I don’t know,” Trump replied. “Was it a pardon?”
Alexander reiterated that it was.
“Okay. Well, we’ll take a look at everything,” Trump said, though his pardons of this and other cop-beaters are irrevocable.
There’s lots lots more like that in the article, which I’m mildly surprised Lord High Chancellor Bezos allowed to appear in his publication. (I assume the vetting process will be tightened up shortly).