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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 19, 2026 at 3:35 pm
(June 19, 2026 at 8:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Nearly 160 troops at an Air Force base in Texas have come down with the flu.
Two months prior, Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional for all troops.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...u-outbreak
Hah! That was predictable. There are 50 guys to a dorm in Air Force basic training with beds about 3' apart. It's the same thing for the other services. Any one of them has the flu, anyone else who isn't vaccinated is also getting it.
So stupid.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 25, 2026 at 5:51 am
Did You Learn Anything, Pete? Well, DID you?
Quote:The U.S. military has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s flu vaccine rules after an outbreak at a U.S. Air Force base spread to affect at least 222 recruits.
Hegseth, 45, made the annual flu shot optional for troops in April, tearing up a requirement that had stood since 1945 in a move that broke with decades of public health guidance. Only about 40 percent of new trainees at Joint Base San Antonio in Texas had been jabbed when the outbreak took hold in early June, down from a previous rate of nearly 100 percent.
Now the Army, Navy, and Air Force have all quietly performed a U-turn, once again requiring flu shots for basic trainees, officials told ABC News, which first reported the worsening crisis. The Pentagon has granted the services formal exceptions to Hegseth’s own policy.
The numbers are getting worse by the day. As of Tuesday, at least 222 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base had been diagnosed with flu, and four had been hospitalized, two sources familiar with the matter told the network. That is up from 159 cases and two hospitalizations a week earlier.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 25, 2026 at 10:43 am
If a foreign power did to the USA what we are doing to ourselves it would be considered an act of war.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 25, 2026 at 2:31 pm
(June 25, 2026 at 10:43 am)AFTT47 Wrote: If a foreign power did to the USA what we are doing to ourselves it would be considered an act of war.
I recall saying that Kegbreath's policy would negatively impact military readiness back when it was announced. I must be clairvoyant, no one could have possibly seen this coming.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 25, 2026 at 3:34 pm
(June 25, 2026 at 2:31 pm)Jackalope Wrote: (June 25, 2026 at 10:43 am)AFTT47 Wrote: If a foreign power did to the USA what we are doing to ourselves it would be considered an act of war.
I recall saying that Kegbreath's policy would negatively impact military readiness back when it was announced. I must be clairvoyant, no one could have possibly seen this coming.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 26, 2026 at 8:25 pm
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 26, 2026 at 8:41 pm
(June 26, 2026 at 8:25 pm)Angrboda Wrote:
Tony Soprano would be proud.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 27, 2026 at 12:38 am
Greg Abbott has signed a law forcing every child to learn and embrace the Ten Commandments.
Legal experts predict this will get struck down for violating the First Amendment.
https://www.erfanmedia.co/p/breaking-tex...s-pass-law
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 27, 2026 at 3:05 pm
(June 27, 2026 at 12:38 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Greg Abbott has signed a law forcing every child to learn and embrace the Ten Commandments.
Legal experts predict this will get struck down for violating the First Amendment.
https://www.erfanmedia.co/p/breaking-tex...s-pass-law
Ironically, the Texas legislature passed the bill on the Sabbath, breaking Commandment No. 4.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
June 27, 2026 at 4:42 pm
^ Let them be stoned!
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