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Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - House plans to consider Senate-passed legislation as early as Monday to toughen military helicopter safety rules, following the January 29 mid-air collision near DCA. The ROTOR Act will be considered in the House under suspension of the rules, usually reserved for bipartisan legislation, with a 2/3rds vote needed for passage. Senate unanimously passed the bill in December. @cspan
https://www.c-span.org/program/us-senate/senators-on-aviation-safety-and-ndaa/670672
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2023891126718025850
Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Jeffries on partial DHS shutdown Day 4 in Winnetka, Illinois on the Democrats' counteroffer to WH: "We haven't been provided a shred of justification from this Administration as to why ICE agents are conducting themselves differently. And our overarching premiss is that taxpayer dollars should be used to make life more affordable for hardworking American taxpayers, not abused to brutalize or kill American citizens."
https://www.c-span.org/clip/news-conference/house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-d-ny-in-winnetka-illinois-with-rep-brad-schneider-d-il/5193442
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https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2023949486116974634
CSPAN @cspan - C-SPAN's Word for Word:
• Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies at 84
Plus, DHS funding, Potomac spill, Colbert, Cooper, McLaughlin and Capitol arrest
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CSPAN @cspan - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24: President Trump delivers the State of the Union address followed by Democratic Response – LIVE coverage at 7pm ET on C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/liveEvent/?state-of-the-union
https://x.com/cspan/status/2023935749528101346
Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius - I’d like to talk about one of the most fundamental duties of U.S. military officers and NCOs.
When you are an officer or an NCO, and your supervisor issues a lawful order that you disagree with, you have a DUTY to tell your boss why you disagree with his/her order.
Many times the boss will listen and change the order. Many other times, the boss will say, “I hear you, I understand your concern, but my original order stands.”
When that happens, you—as the officer or NCO receiving the order—have a DUTY to fulfill that order to the best of your ability.
Not only that, but you have a DUTY to enthusiastically adopt that order as your own. You can NEVER go back to your subordinates and say something like: “We have to do this because the Old Man said so. I totally disagree but we’re going to do it anyway because he is making us.”
That sort of sentiment, if expressed, is absolute poison to good order and discipline and can never be condoned.
Yet, this basic DUTY that every E-5 understands has been lost upon many of America’s senior officers with respect to President Trump and SecWar Hegseth. Derisively ridiculing the orders of the Commander-in-Chief and his appointees is absolutely anathema to good order and discipline.
But this is so much worse than bad-mouthing your battalion or squadron commander. When you are a serving officer or NCO, when you bad mouth the lawful orders of POTUS/SecWar, you are actually bad mouthing the Constitutional will of the American electorate who elected that President to carry out those exact orders. You have become a rogue officer or NCO. You have betrayed the American people. You have become a late-stage Roman Empire Centurion, where national power was wielded only with the ever-changing loyalty of the legions.
If this is you, shame on you. You are violating your oath and have slunk to the cesspool level of military leadership.
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Also, guess what? I just explained another problem with our military’s War Colleges.
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2023948902563770794
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