No a bit thin skinned nor petty is tRump. When you show this to his cult followers they see nothing wrong with it but change out the name tRump for Biden and they go ape shit crazy over it. Again, it is tribalism on full display. Hugs
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s new book recounts the episode.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks after being sworn in as President Donald Trump looks on in the Oval Office at the White House on July 23, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump demanded that the military recall two retired four-star officers who criticized him so they could be court-martialed, a new book says.
According to a copy of ex-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, obtained by TPM, Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William H. McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the President.
“So disloyal,” the book recounts Trump complaining to Esper and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley.
The effort began in May 2020, the book says, after articles appeared in various right-wing news outlets claiming that McChrystal was advising the Democratic Party on ways to use artificial intelligence to damage Trump’s re-election effort. One Breitbart article from the time accused McChrystal of participating in an effort to “track down and counter Trump supporters on social media.”
“This spun the president up,” Esper wrote.
McChrystal was working as an adviser for Defeat Disinfo, a Democratic Party-aligned PAC that planned on using technology to counter false talking points about COVID-19.
“Everyone wishes the Pandora’s box was closed and none of this existed, but it does,” McChrystal told the Washington Post in May 2020, referring to the problem of disinformation.
McChrystal resigned from the military in 2010 following a Rolling Stone article in which he and his staff were quoted speaking disparagingly about senior White House officials, including then-Vice President Biden.
“Are you asking me about Vice President Biden? Who’s that?” the article quoted McChrystal as saying.
In the memoir, Esper recounts a May 2020 meeting between himself, Milley, and Trump, to address the then-President’s anger toward the two retired officers.
“The next thing I knew, Mark Milley and I were sitting in front of the president trying to talk him out of recalling McChrystal to active duty,” Esper wrote.
Trump also purportedly contemplated adding McRaven to the court-martial plan. McRaven was an outspoken critic of Trump during his administration, writing in an October 2019 op-ed in the New York Times that the U.S. was “under attack” by Trump.
“The president told Milley and me that he ‘want[ed] to call them [McChrystal and McRaven] back to active duty and court-martial them’ for what they said,” the book reads.
Esper wrote that he and Milley tried to dissuade Trump from going through with the plan, telling him that the plan would backfire.
But, per Esper, Trump only relented after Milley “promis[ed] that he would personally call the officers and ask them to dial it back.”
McChrystal, reached by email, told TPM that “there was no call I remember — and I would have remembered that.”
He also wrote that it was the first he had heard of the matter, and declined to comment further. McRaven could not be reached for comment.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used donors’ campaign contributions to buy herself a luxury vehicle worth over $92,000, FEC records show. The expenditure will prove controversial as the May 24 primary approaches, not just because of the expensive, swanky nature of the vehicle, but because Greene’s second biggest source of donations is retired Americans—meaning she effectively raided donors’ Social Security checks to buy a tricked-out vehicle from a Buick/GMC dealership. OpenSecrets.org shows that Taylor Greene’s second biggest “industry” donating to her was “retired,” meaning senior citizens.
Read the full article. According to the above report, it appears the vehicle is a fully tricked-out 2022 GMC Yukon XL SUV. And the purchase is legal.
$92,000 of the money Marge Greene raised from senior citizens and small donors from across the country to drain the swamp went to a luxury SUV for her? That thing must have a Space Laser on it or something. https://t.co/52JSaUa4fR
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 10, 2022
Hey .@Marcus4Georgia I wonder if her elderly donors might want to know where their donations to her campaign went.
"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used donors’ campaign contributions to buy herself a luxury vehicle worth over $92,000, FEC records show." https://t.co/zRCP3iK530
— Laura *is tired of GOP BS* Talbott (@LauraTalbott) May 10, 2022
I bet a whole LOT of ppl in Rome, Ga area & thereabouts, wish they could afford to pay (with someone else's $$, natch) cash for a $92,000 vehicle. Must be nice eh, @RepMTG? Do you soak those Meemaws & Pawpaws for gas $ as well or nah? https://t.co/PvRoLa91ay
Not one of her voters will give a shit about this – as long as she continues to hate Democrats and trash everyone on the left (aka “own the libs”) – she can do anything she wants we that money
When retired people on Social Security send money to hucksters like, say, Franklin Graham or Tony Perkins, they’re helping feed one of the most malignant forces in America — rightwing fundamentalist religion.
Not to mention those hucksters’ personal mansions and the like.
Conservative pundit Dave Rubin referred to new White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as a “Black lesbo” and claimed that she only got the job because of her identity. Rubin is a member of the LGBTQ community himself as a gay man, making his comments even more disparaging and curious. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
“Blaze TV host Dave Rubin called the new White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a “Black lesbo” during a recent podcast episode. On Monday’s episode of The Rubin Report, Rubin began to discuss current White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announcing her departure and introducing her successor. “She will now be replaced by Karine Jean-Pierre,” said Rubin. “We know nothing about her other than the most important things — she’s a Black lesbo. And for that, she’s got the gig.” “Very exciting,” he added. “She’s also married to a CNN anchor. You can’t make this stuff up. She’s married to Suzanne Malveaux who’s a CNN anchor. I did not know Suzanne is a lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.” He continued, “You would think in terms of optics, if you were bringing in a new White House Press Secretary, you could maybe, possibly, find someone who wasn’t married to a CNN anchor.” “Do you think that would be possible?” Rubin asked. “But, the impossible is possible with these people.” Rubin, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community, recently received backlash from his own audience after making the announcement that he is set to welcome two children in 2022 with husband David.”
I am the youngest public plaintiff in the “Don’t Say Gay” lawsuit. I am my Florida high school’s first openly-gay Class President. I am being silenced, and I need your help. 🧵
A few days ago, my principal called me into his office and informed me that if my graduation speech referenced my activism or role as a plaintiff in the lawsuit, school administration had a signal to cut off my microphone, end my speech, and halt the ceremony. (2/8)
I am the first openly-gay Class President in my school’s history–this censorship seems to show that they want me to be the last. This threat is not the first that I have received from administration about my queer rights. (3/8)
When administration discovered that I was organizing a Say Gay walkout, they had all our posters ripped from the walls and told me to shut down the protest. They said they would send school security if I did not listen. (4/8)
I held the walkout anyways, and it became our county’s largest protest. I won’t give into threats and I won’t be silenced. I have a plan to fight back again, and this time, I need your help. (5/8)
The SEE Initiative has secured 10,000 Say Gay stickers that we’re prepared to ship to high school seniors across Florida. We want you to wear them on your gowns as you cross the graduation stage, reminding underclassmen that we’re done with highschool, not the fight. (6/8)
For those not familiar with Dave Rubin he has a history. He is after the big bucks. He used to be a liberal / progressive and was on the TYT network. But that doesn’t pay the big bucks so he switched becoming a right wing token gay on The Blase network spouting far right talking points. TheBlaze was a pay television network founded by Glenn Beck. Rubin became wealthy, bought a mansion and cozied up to people that hated him for being gay and insulted Rubins same sex marriage to his face on his own show. Then Rubin said he was moving to the maga haven of Florida from the evil liberal California. That is when his well paying buddies turned on him. See Dave Rubin announced in March that he and his husband, David Janet, had fathered children through In Vitro Fertilization and surrogacy. The right attacked him, his spouse, the babies and are being vicious to him. He is shock by it, they are supposed to attack the other LGBTQ+ but leave him alone as his is their token gay. I am not sure but I heard that Beck turned on him and his show was moved to a crowd funded platform he co-founded. He is a gay version of Candice Owens, a token who spouts what the right wants to hear that the right uses to claim that even gay people (black in Owens case) support their wild ideas.
“She [Jen Psaki] will now be replaced by Karine Jean-Pierre. We know nothing about her other than the most important things — she’s a Black lesbo.
“And for that, she’s got the gig. Very exciting. She’s also married to a CNN anchor. You can’t make this stuff up.
“She’s married to Suzanne Malveaux who’s a CNN anchor. I did not know Suzanne is a lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
“You would think in terms of optics, if you were bringing in a new White House press secretary, you could possibly find someone who wasn’t married to a CNN anchor.
“Do you think that would be possible? But the impossible is possible with these people.” – Homocon podcaster Dave Rubin, on today’s show.
Yes, there are such things as self-hating gay people.
Also gay men who are obviously misogynists, too.
He claims to know all these personal relationship things about Ms. Jean-Pierre, but not a fucking thing about her career or qualifications. When he says “we know nothing,” he’s confessing both is own personal ignorance and lack of caring to go find out.
She has a long history in both politics and press relations dating back to the beginning of the Obama administration.
Misogyny isn’t limited to men in the LGBT world. There are clearly some conservative, lesbian and transgender female misogynists too, not to mention some misandrists of all genders in the LGBT community.
The members of the anti-transgender cults (aka TERFs) which closely work with far-right religious groups like the Heratige Foundation and Liberty Council, are some of the worst misogynists because on one hand they (falsely) claim to be feminists, then support the most misogynistic, anti-feminist groups around.
Western society is institutionally misogynistic (and racist, homophobic, transphobic, and all the rest of it). We have to unlearn the bigotries we absorb. A lot of people don’t bother.
It’s a good deal of work to root out all the racism and sexism and other bigotry we were indoctrinated with and discard it. I know I’m not done, but I am working on it. Some lgbt people just double down on it. I don’t get it.
She’s black and lesbian and therefore must not be as qualified as any white straight man who was under consideration for the job.
Seriously, Rubin just gets more deranged. I guess that’s what happens when you turn on your own community for a gig. No friends except for people who don’t believe he should have any rights. I’d rather starve.
Tennessee cops bust down the door of a 16-year-old transgender girl while she was playing Minecraft on a Twitch live stream for being truant from school. As it turns out, the school rejected her use of her preferred bathroom and was pressured into going to school online, and since she protested the online schooling, she was taken away into foster care. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.
Read more HERE: https://twitter.com/keffals/status/15… “a 16-year-old trans girl from Tennessee was denied an education because she wasn’t allowed to use the correct washroom. the state decided she was truant. while playing minecraft, cops busted her bedroom door down and before dragging her into foster care asked “are you winning””
