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Originally posted by trapper189:
I don’t know what the Civil Air Patrol does, but three of their Cessna 172s were flying along the border with Mexico for much of the day. There we a couple of F-5s as well.

The CAP flies support missions on behalf of CBP and when we task an aircraft we are giving a helo crew a day off.

We look for human foot and vehicle traffic, narcotics, people scaling the walls. We used to see 2 or 3 people. Now we see 20 or more in groups.

We are in radio contact with the primary controller for CPB and they provide the initial tasking but once in the area we talk directly with the agents on the ground.

We are specially vetted to fly these missions. We have legal briefings from JTF counsel on what we can and cannot do. I have been involved in doing these special missions for almost 8 years.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by benny6:
Hegseth is in! VP JD Vance will break the tie.

McConnell pulled a McCain and voted no

McConnell pulled a McConnell. He's a petty, useless, empty shell of what might have been a man at one time. I hope that his apparent physical and mental decline is slow and miserably painful for him and everyone around him. Other than that....... Congrats to Pete Hegseth.

Brad had to open his big fat mouth and confirm what everyone already knows...he's a moron.

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1882969631763075525

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Originally posted by lkdr1989:
Brad had to open his big fat mouth and confirm what everyone already knows...he's a moron.

That clip was priceless. Trump is kicking pieces of shit out of the way so he can get things done. I'm loving his scorched earth game plan. Winning, winning, winning!

The President is not wrong about FEMA, they are an arrogant, horribly wasteful organization that is more about sustaining themselves than helping others.

Example: A former Capt. of mine was a Red Cross volunteer, given his extensive background he was in a leadership role. In his last deployment a local restaurant made box lunches for all of the aid workers. He took the appropriate number over to the FEMA trailer for them as part of the offer from the local restaurant.

A half hour later he heard they had all gone to the next town to a nice restaurant for lunch. He want back over and found the box lunches stuffed in a closet, apparently not up to their standards. He removed them and distributed them to other volunteers.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

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Originally posted by oddball:
Here in Texas, the highways heading into Mexico are jammed with trucks and cars, packed for a long trip. People walking too.

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Where did aliens, who walked from central and south America to flood across our borders get those expensive vehicles????

“You know what makes America great, Holmes? Credit.” Frog, Colors, 1988.

Probably be fun, repoing cars in Mexico.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by benny6:
Hegseth is in! VP JD Vance will break the tie.

McConnell pulled a McCain and voted no

No. McCain's vote was treacherous and a blindside. We all knew this was to be McConnell's vote. It was not a surprise.

It seems they voted against Pete because he'll be effective. Is that really it? If it's because he'll root out wokeness, do they really think woke makes a more effective miliitary? If they're worried about him not having experience managing that large of a budget or manpower, they need to look inward at the effectiveness of their management skills.

You snooze, you lose. Go back to Venezuela.

Thank you President Trump.

Next time, I recommend a dozen M134 mini guns as a backup.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:

The CAP flies support missions on behalf of CBP and when we task an aircraft we are giving a helo crew a day off.

We look for human foot and vehicle traffic, narcotics, people scaling the walls. We used to see 2 or 3 people. Now we see 20 or more in groups.

We are in radio contact with the primary controller for CPB and they provide the initial tasking but once in the area we talk directly with the agents on the ground.

We are specially vetted to fly these missions. We have legal briefings from JTF counsel on what we can and cannot do. I have been involved in doing these special missions for almost 8 years.

Thank you. Sounds like fun.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
The President is not wrong about FEMA, they are an arrogant, horribly wasteful organization that is more about sustaining themselves than helping others.

Example: A former Capt. of mine was a Red Cross volunteer, given his extensive background he was in a leadership role. In his last deployment a local restaurant made box lunches for all of the aid workers. He took the appropriate number over to the FEMA trailer for them as part of the offer from the local restaurant.

A half hour later he heard they had all gone to the next town to a nice restaurant for lunch. He want back over and found the box lunches stuffed in a closet, apparently not up to their standards. He removed them and distributed them to other volunteers.

12 years ago we had a large flood in the city of Duluth. Declared a disaster site so Fema moved in. I was running a route for the usual courier who was out due to surgery. Three times a week I was delivering boxes of crab, lobster and shrimp to their offices. Other times it was boxes of steaks. I don't recall them accomplishing anything. Their office was locked down and had security at a gate. Once you got past that they had security at the door. It was a pain getting past all that and getting a signature from someone to accept the packages. Always wondered why they needed all that security.

When I got out of college I took a part time job with FEMA in Ogden Utah. They paid me for 32 hours of "work" every week. I don't think I actually did anything "significant" for more that 10 hours per week. All we did was put tar coatings on trailer house roofs. Same trailers over and over. Easiest job I ever had. I worked there for 3 months until I landed a software engineering job. Actually the software job was a cut in per hour pay. That agency could be abolished and nobody would notice.

Side Note: A little research revealed that FEMA was started in 1979 by Jimmy Carter. That should tell us what a waste that agency is.

President Trump fires 17 Inspectors Generals in a late-night purge punctuating the end of his first five days in office.

@RealDonaldTrump dismissed 17 federal agency watchdogs. I've covered these IGs for years -- and trust me when I say, even though they are charged with ferreting out waste and abuse, many have long histories of WHITEWASHING reports and playing politics with complaints - I have personal experience reporting on @DoD and @USAID and @DHS IG misconduct. The @DHS IG I reported on roughly a decade ago ended up getting fired.

Among those spared Friday is current Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari Jr., who is conducting multiple investigations into the @SecretService
failures that led to two assassination attempts on President Trump's life. Cuffari Jr. is a Trump appointee from his first term who has faced more than his fair share of liberal attacks and lawfare.

Also spared: Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz remained unaffected.

The move follows Trump’s past efforts, including firing whistle-blower-linked Inspector General Michael Atkinson during his first impeachment trial.


https://x.com/susancrabtree/st.../1883132412755927047

https://x.com/wojpawelczyk/sta...093473160736822?s=46

Hegseth confirmed with 50-50 vote and JDV casting tie vote. McConnell voted no.

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President Trump fires 17 Inspectors Generals in a late-night purge punctuating the end of his first five days in office.

He did this after working maybe a 16-18 hour day; waking up at 5AM, getting on a plane at 9am to North Carolina, spending a good chunk of the day there, flying cross country to Los Angeles touring the fire areas, and meeting with officials, and then flying back home late at night. All of this in one day. And he doesn't seem the least bit tired in this clip. Extraordinary.

Trump accomplished more in his first 4 full days in office than FJB's puppet masters did in his 4 full years occupying the White House.

I love the latest pathetic attack venue from the Left:

“Why hasn’t Trump lowered these high prices like he promised?”

LMAO, the man has been in office 5 FRICKEN DAYS, he’s accomplished more in that time than Puppet Biden did in 4 whole years!

So, you're all now admitting that Biden caused the price of everything to go up I guess? Because you all squawked that “Presidents didn’t control prices!” for the past four years.

There's so much good stuff in this old montage, but I especially love the part where Mark Cuban says that Donald Trump is "lazy".

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1883186819770007817