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Doris Miller - Wikipedia

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Doris Miller - Above and beyond the call of duty - VA History

Doris Miller joined the Navy in 1939, on the eve of World War II, as a mess attendant. He was assigned to a battleship at Pearl Harbor, and on Dec. 7, 1941, performed acts of gallantry that earned him the Navy Cross.
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Donald Trump's military draft status — Grokipedia

Donald Trump's military draft status during the Vietnam War era consisted of five deferments that prevented his conscription into the U.S. Armed Forces, including four for educational reasons and one
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Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump​

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN.

During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Navy announced that the Ford-class carrier would be called the USS Doris Miller, recognizing an enlisted sailor who helped defend US forces from Japan’s attack.

It’s unclear what the Navy is seeking to change the name of the carrier to, though two of the sources said there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump. It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/e...hing-it-to-trump/ar-AA2aAYS6?ocid=socialshare
 
Since honoring our nations heroes is now an exercise in power-politics...how about we just quit it.

Name the ship CVN-70, or whatever.

Since they hate true heroes, and their heroes are destructive scum...it's now a time for no heroes.

Until this schitt comes to an end.

TRUMP is not fit to have a ship named after him, even after he's long dead. His tale is going to be one of corruption or pathos, I'm not sure which. Was he bought, or did his mind fail? The answer is to be revealed later.
 
Doug Casey's Take
Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

Aug 21, 2026
Doug and Matt answer viewer questions on which dystopian story best fits the West today, focusing on expanding surveillance tech and a drift toward “1984,” plus a nod to a second dystopia involving “Soma.” They discuss the U.S. pressuring the Netherlands via the MATCH Act to curb ASML chip-tool sales to China, arguing there’s no legitimate state role and warning it could damage ASML and supply chains. On reserve currency, Doug says paper currency is a government substitute for money and predicts a return to gold. They debate China’s “communist” label, claiming the party intervenes less than often assumed and noting high Chinese savings versus low U.S. savings. They cover the Japanese carry trade, U.S. debt, depression risk, preparation advice for a 31-year-old leaving the military and a 44-year-old permaculture worker, draft speculation, Cyprus investing timing, AI/AGI risks, retirement income strategies, and priorities for small monthly investing, ending with an Einstein interest-rate joke and a teaser for an upcoming Bill Buppert interview.

Are We Living in 1984?
 

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Ohio National Guard members question Trump deployments as troop concerns grow​

Reports of military dissent around President Donald Trump’s domestic deployments require careful framing: a handful of Guard members are speaking out, not an entire force in revolt. Their concerns point to a larger debate over mission clarity, lawful orders and the military’s role in U.S. cities.
Donald Trump has faced backlash from U.S. troops over his use of the military at home, with Ohio National Guard members questioning his deployments in a Signal group chat, NPR reports. Their concerns emerged as the administration sent troops to several Democratic-led cities, including Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

The reports have brought growing attention to whether Guard members are being given clear missions and lawful orders, and to the military’s role in American cities. Service members have expressed concern about being drawn into politically charged disputes involving public safety, immigration enforcement and presidential power.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...op-concerns-grow/ar-AA2aKqPL?ocid=socialshare
 
The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation: MAHA channels diffuse grievance into a radical project — a strain of extremism with a long lineage in far-right paranoid conspiracism. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it (Democracy Americana)
 

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
 
Shared humanity, sure.

Where someone who shares humanity, spills the blood of young blonde women with the bad luck to be in the same coach.
 
Idiot.

I'm convinced that's what Trump is, now. Brain-damaged and impaired.

Those behind him are not "just" neocons; they want war for the sake of war, true...but they seem to want complete inversion and chaos over what has been our traditional partnerships. Why would Trump's overlords turn their backs on the Korean democracy, in favor of that chaotic, starving, dictatorship north of it?
 
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I heard Prof. Dave Collum, with Mike Ferris, talking about WHY it was that so many rich and powerful people went and put themselves in compromising positions in Jeffy Epstein's funhouse.

Not because they couldn't get little kids. Most of them could BUY...whole schools, whole orphanages, of little kids to boink.

It was first, the SOCIAL BONDING - go there in the company of other rich arseholes, and demonstrate that you're down with them, you're as thrillingly degenerate as they are.

And with that, and moar important, the thrill. Of letting your social equals SEE you do that sort of thing. It would explain why Trump was on the periphery of this circus - Trump, who had less need of a pedo playpen than most of the others; Trump, who had access to any class or age of women, between his beauty pageant and his tevee show.

This rich idiot just wanted some of that thrill. So he's gonna pick up a diseased, tatted-up, drug-fuzzed street hooker....for kicks.
 
The Frightening Part, is What THEY Know, That WE Don’t Know

Aug 25, 2026 #MoreFromThom #NatalieHarp
The people around Trump, according to reports, call it “the Natalie Harp situation.” The word they’re trying to avoid saying out loud is “Rasputin.”
In the past two weeks we’ve discovered that for quite some time his inner circle been trying hard to keep “Trump’s binky” away from the President of the United States.
What do they know, that they are not sharing?

6:46
 
DYODD with this and make of it what you will.

John Roberts played us for fools: The truth about his biggest deception | Opinion​

There is no bigger con man in the United States than Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Not even President Donald J. Trump.

The con began in September 2005, during Roberts’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Articulate, handsome, and energetic at fifty years old, Roberts seemed to have been culled “straight from central casting,” as Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama actually remarked on the first day of the hearings. Roberts was also convincing—he famously promised that if confirmed, he would serve in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” Seventy-eight Senators, including twenty-two Democrats, fell for the ploy and voted to give him the lifetime assignment.

The biggest yarn Roberts told during his hearing concerned his views on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), a cornerstone of American democracy, which the Supreme Court gutted this past April in a redistricting case from the state of Louisiana (Louisiana v. Callais).

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...eception-opinion/ar-AA2aXufz?ocid=socialshare
 
Note: Posting this for both entertainment and food for thought, nothing more. Not making a political statement so it's up to you what to make of it. Remember, take it fwiw & dyodd.

Why Trump Is Panicking as Support Plummets with Mary L. Trump​


Aug 27, 2026 #MoreFromThom
Thom talks with clinical psychologist, author, and niece of Donald Trump, Mary L. Trump, about the desperation Trump feels and what he is willing to do...

12:20
 
Nothing special or earth shattering, just a little food for thought.

Your Enemy, The Deep State

The Deep State controls the State, i.e., the government. It’s as old as history itself. But the term “Deep State” originated in Turkey, which is appropriate since it’s the heir to the totally corrupt Byzantine and Ottoman empires. And in the best Byzantine manner, our Deep State has insinuated...
goldseek.com
 
Doug Casey's Take

This vid is a kinda plug for a book. Some interesting stuff. No need to watch, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

Aug 28, 2026 Doug Casey's Take
Doug and Matt interview elite traveler Kolja Spöri about his new book, Dr. Danger Zone, a collection of 25 highlight stories from a lifetime of travel to remote and dangerous places, paired with his on-the-ground conclusions that often contradict mainstream narratives. Kolja recounts driving Russia’s northern ice roads in extreme cold, visiting conflict zones and politically sensitive regions, and seeking out famous “watering hole” hotels, including Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson. The conversation shifts to his views on Turkey’s development under Erdoğan, increasing surveillance and political repression in Western Europe—especially Germany—and his belief that Europe is being pushed toward a wider war with Russia while migration is used as a weapon against European civilization. They also discuss his Libya trip during the Arab Spring, his connections that enabled access to places like Chechnya, the FARC, and Mindanao, a rap song made about his life, and his Formula 1 sponsorship career.

Special Guest: Kolja Spöri
55:09

Read Dr. Danger Zone by Kolja Spöri at https://www.amazon.com/dp/3903713023
 
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In defense of Militias. Why they, and the very idea, is now marginalized and dismissed, by the Vote HARDER! crowd.


There’s a reason why civilian militias were one of the first constitutional protections dismantled and rearranged by our government. Sadly, starting with giving the president the ability to call on state militias as a means of suppressing domestic rebellion through the 1800s, then slowly erasing militias altogether and replacing them with the modern National Guard though the Dick Act of 1903 (The NG is now nothing more than another branch of standing military and not a true militia).

An armed and most importantly TRAINED civilian population operating outside of federal oversight is a threat that no oligarchy would ever voluntarily allow. It is the ultimate wrecking ball against government corruption. This is why the 2nd Amendment has already, to some extent, been neutered. It has lost one of two vital parts: Gun rights are still present, but citizen organization is gone. Without both elements the country will never be truly secure and free.

The reason the modern establishment media has been so hostile to the militia concept is because they fear patriot organization more than anything else. They want people isolated from each other, focused only on their own preparedness efforts but constantly vulnerable due to their limited ability to project defense or offense. If you are alone, your circle of security is your house and your front door – you are doomed. If you are part of a militia, your circle of security is your town, or your county, or perhaps even your entire state. You now have a chance to survive and stay free.

There will be people who argue that a militia solution is impossible because in order for such groups to be constitutionally legal they must be approved by the state government they reside in and operate at the whim of the White House. This is only if we were pursuing a “constitutional” militia; I think that ship sailed a long time ago. If the establishment has no respect for the original intent of the constitution, then we can no longer play by the same rules as our forebears. We have to organize outside of the lines.

Militias need to exist whether they are approved or not. Cooperation at the state or county level should be pursued, but this is dependent on the honor of that particular local government. If they are not cooperative and are not honorable then citizens will have to organize anyway.
 
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