Side note: who here remembers when we would have Dawgtalkers day at training camp? How much fun I had with it - I wish we could garner up the support to have it again
I remember! I wanted to do something special this year for the 20th, and that was high on my list, but I got let go from my job about a month ago and that kinda squashed any plans of doing something "extra". No worries with the site, though: I got a nice severance package, so this site will definitely not be interrupted by this.
I suppose one could say that. I was raised that by omitting the truth made it a lie. But that's when I lived in America and not trumplandia. I have no idea what the new rules are.
Of course once again he and others keep ignoring trump's own words. I guess wherever they get their news from isn't reporting that to them.................
Trump’s South Korea move rattles foreign policy world
President Trump’s decision to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea is being met with derision from Democrats and fears from other allies who are already worried over the president’s past willingness to toss aside longtime defense commitments.
Trump said it was too late to fully cancel what he called expensive and provocative joint exercises known as Ulchi Freedom Shield but directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the drills on Sunday — just a day before they were set to start.
The war games are a major part of a mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and South Korea, meant to protect Seoul from possible North Korean aggression.
The announcement, made in a Truth Social post, further added insult to injury by excoriating Seoul for refusing to help the U.S. in its war against Iran.
This is not the first time Trump has criticized the exercise. In 2018, he said he was suspending the drills after meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
But in curtailing the planned 10-day war game, Trump risks further alienating vital allies and partners, making the U.S. less safe in the process, analysts say.
Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that “watering down U.S.-South Korea military exercises is a risky move that lowers coalition readiness and puts U.S. forces at risk with no real tangible benefit to the United States.”
He said Trump “does not seem to understand that North Korea is part of the ‘bad guys’ team.”
“North Korea threatens key American allies and trade partners — South Korea and Japan — daily,” he added. “Kim Jong Un is not America’s friend, he cannot be reasoned with, and he won’t give up his nuclear weapons. There is no Nobel Prize in Pyongyang.”
The president has said the exercises come across as unnecessarily hostile toward North Korea and has touted his “very good relationship” with Kim.
“Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea,”[/b] he wrote on social media.
“These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful,” the president added.
Trump noted Seoul’s decision not to get involved with the Iran war.
“While somewhat unrelated, I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, ‘No thanks!’” the president wrote on social media.
On Monday, Trump said he was turned off by South Korea not agreeing to help the U.S. denuclearize Iran even though the U.S. has troops in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea.
He told reporters he recently spoke on the phone with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and asked if the South Korean leader would give the U.S. “a little hand” with Iran.
“I called him. I said, ‘Would you like to give us a little hand? We don’t need help with Iran, but if you’d like, give us a hand with Iran.’ He said, ‘No thanks.’ And I said, ‘Wait a minute. We have 39,000 soldiers over there, guarding you from Kim Jong Un, your next-door neighbor, and you’re not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran. That’s strange,’” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office.
“We can’t go around and protect all of these countries, especially when they’re not there to help us,” he added.
Outside observers said it was obvious Trump was frustrated with the lack of support from key U.S. allies on the Iran front.
“Trump obviously he’s got his mind fixed on Iran right now, and it’s pretty clear that he still holds some frustration toward American partners and allies whom he asked for help and rebuffed him, and South Korea is on that list,” said Michael Sobolik, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
Sobolik also said Trump has long held the perspective that South Korea is not doing enough in housing some 28,500 troops on the peninsula — most notably trying in his first term to pull American forces out of the country.
“I think he has locked in this distrust not just of the Koreans but of the value that America being there actually has,” he told The Hill.
That leaves the relationship between the two, “not in a great place,” Sobolik said. “This definitely feeds into preexisting doubt that the Koreans have had about the United States and Trump specifically.”
Lawmakers have also weighed in with their frustration over the scaled back exercises.
“China and Russia are watching how easily this President abandons America’s allies, and they will remember it the next time they test us,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Monday.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called Trump’s decision “shortsighted” and a “mistake.”
“North and South Korea are still technically at war,” Kelly wrote on social media Sunday. “Our ability to help defend our ally against the North Koreans is because our forces are well trained and able to coordinate with the South Koreans.”
“Hollowing out these joint exercises is shortsighted and a mistake,” the Arizona senator added.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) wrote on social media that the reduction “does nothing more than free up thousands of North Korea’s troops to support Putin’s systematic kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of innocent Ukrainian citizens.”
Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said there is precedent for Trump to look at canceling or scoping down exercises with South Korea “in hopes of making progress on talks with North Korea in his first term, which didn’t … pan out.”
He added: “So … it’s something that is at the front of his mind, you know, on a fairly constant basis when he thinks about the Korean Peninsula.”
Blumenthal also told The Hill the reduction of exercises “hurts us. It hurts the alliance. It hurts deterrence.”
Still, South Korea seems to want to improve relations with North Korea and hopes that Trump has the ability to do that. South Korea’s Lee has pushed for Trump to facilitate direct talks with Kim to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Trump, during his first term, met with Kim three times.
Blumenthal said the way to foster dialogue with Kim is not through reduced exercises.
“We get nothing out of reducing our exercise program with South Korea,” he said, adding that it “certainly will appear like a concession … even if that wasn’t the main purpose behind them in the action.”
Some, though, have called the move to reduce the exercises as strategic.
Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, called it “both a necessary and strategically wise one aligned with U.S. interests.”
“For decades, the Pentagon has argued that U.S. military exercises with South Korea advance several objectives, including deterring aggression by North Korea and China; encouraging regional stability; and preparing U.S. and South Korean soldiers to operate together in a contingency,” she said in a statement. “The reality is that there is little evidence bilateral exercises support any of these aims. In fact, they seem to work in the other direction.”
She added that the exercises “unnecessarily burn U.S. resources and readiness at a time when the United States is running low on both.”
Others have said not to panic just yet, as U.S.-South Korea relations have appeared pretty stable up until this point.
“He had a good meeting with President Lee in Busan in October, and he also agreed to give technology to South Korea to allow them to build nuclear short submarines, so it’s possible that something suddenly changed regarding Iran. But I also think there’s a possibility something is going on behind the scenes that we haven’t seen yet,” said Evan Sankey, policy analyst at the Cato Institute.
“If this were to go so far as to withdraw troops from South Korea, then we’re talking about long- term damage,” he added.
Another treaty agreement trump has broken we can now add to the list. Nobody can trust the word of the U.S. anymore because whether we honor an agreement with them can hinge on a single election.
And trump, in his own words said he likes and doesn't want to upset Kim Jong Un. That Kim Jong Un is.......
Oh and don't forget about all the lies about the Iran war, and listen to this (fromJon Ossoff, the next PoTUS)
.... “Remember, last year, they claimed Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated? Then, this year, they claimed it posed an imminent nuclear threat? Both times, lies. On day one of the war, listen to this, day one, the president said the war was quote, ‘Ahead of schedule.’ Ahead of schedule. On day four, he declared victory. Today is day 170,” said Ossoff, who is running for reelection this year.
.... “Listen to this, on day nine of the war, the incompetent Pete Hegseth guaranteed Iranian surrender. On day 14, he claimed Iran’s military had been destroyed. On day 40, he said every single objective had been achieved. That was four months ago,” Ossoff added.
So instead of paying attention to the real time incompetence, lies and corruption in the White House - the right wing spin machine is full overdrive about a fringe group of hardcore crazy communists who aren't part of the Democratic party, but with every post they make they try to make it seem like they are.
So you claim the entire population of Gaza celebrated the acts of Hamas in October? Or was it a select minority of the citizens of Gaza you saw? You try to use an election held in 2006 as your excuse? You do realize that Hamas has not allowed an election since then, right? And you do realize that children don't have the right to vote. That means that anyone who was under the age of 18 in 2006 hasn't ever been able to vote.
It's strange that any Christian would try so hard to find excuses to kill innocent people. What part of the Bible did you get that from?
You fail to see innocent people because you refuse to look and don't want to see them.
Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict
Carroll has received the money in the 2023 case, her representatives said.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from President Donald Trump to reconsider its rejection of his appeal in the 2023 E. Jean Carroll case.
The decision means it's the end of the line for Trump's bid to overturn a $5 million jury award to Carroll, which the writer's representatives said was paid in July.
The Court did not explain its decision and there were no noted dissents. No request for a rehearing has been granted since the 1960s.
A jury determined in 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"
In 2024, following a separate trial, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse.
Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is continuing to appeal that judgment with a petition to the justices currently pending. They are expected to decide later this year whether or not to take up the case.
In his appeal, Trump alleges that his 2019 comments about Carroll -- which were later found to be defamatory -- were "official" statements as president and therefore immune from use in a legal case against him.
Stephen Vogt has severely regressed in his pitcher selections.
He keeps pulling bullpen pitchers with 2 outs and the lead and the next pitcher responds by giving up runs.
I think it is more the pitchers inability to come in and get the out.
no one else throws 2 pitchers in (middle innings) 1 inning. He obsseses over matchups too much.
Maybe so. I don't know how often that happens. Maybe it should happen more often. You never know when a games critical inning is going to happen. The don't always come in the late innings.
No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.
I don't normally care for artists covering songs of other artists. Far are often they are too similar to the original and lack what I consider creativity. Not always but far too often. This is a band I really like that are not that popular but still has quite a following. This cover of Ozzy's songs "Changes" and is certainly not lacking in creativity. They have transformed the song into their own style and sound. 49 Wnchester I really like it.
I’m not sure he was even dismissive of it in terms of he will never be able to do it in an NFL game, I took it more as this game had very few elements of a real NFL game where there will be shifts, coverage disguising, full temper rushing with guys that belong on the league, etc. the HOF game wasn’t just vanilla, it was a hyped practice with a 1/4 of the playbook being ran by 3rd stringers and guys that won’t make a roster.
