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Whiskeytide

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34. I hope you're wrong too, but I'm pretty sure that's is ...

Reply to AverageOldGuy (Reply #17)

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 12:03 PM

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… exactly what it is. He’ll hint at what’s to come on the domestic front, and anyone who even looks like they might not support that will be demoted or retired. That will leave only the pro-maga sycophants in control at the top brass level. Someone said last week that if there is going to be any pushback on Тяцмp‘s plan to create an authoritarian US, it will have to come from mid-level officers.

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