This is how Trump thinks, he thinks better being free.

@AverageJoe1 said
You see, you make the statement. "...hostages being hired to guard prisoners"'.. in a negative tone, like it is a bad thing? Is it a bad thing? What are you fiesty about? Can you speak plain english.
"Average Joe, I am concerned that the hostages will be used to guard prisoners, but I believe that that is not the proper way to do things, because............" You ...[text shortened]... o know in advance that this post wil fly right over your head. it is about conversation, after all.

So not a bad thing for Trump to be building up his own personal army JUST LIKE PUTIN where someone pisses of Trump, oops all of a sudden his proud boy army comes to their door, arrested, put in a prison camp, no police, FBI, CIA or military involved and if they TRY to intervene, guess who wins.

JUST LIKE PUTIN or XI.

But Oh yeah, forgot, that could NEVER happen here, because this is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and we are immune from such things.

Dream on, maybe YOU will piss off trump and Proud boy army comes knocking at your door.
Of course YOU would be immune because your lips are superglued to Trumps ass but me and my family could find ourselves on the bad side of the proud boy stick.
Also, how long will it take before the billionaires start fighting each other for the scraps passed by Trump? LIKE PUTIN'S billionaires, there are billionaire factions in Russia fighting each other.
How long will it take for that to happen here?

I wonder if you would EVER go against Trump in spite of what is coming like the 50% tariff on overseas goods or the CANADA tariff where they send millions of barrels of oil here and we tariff THAT? Where the analysist say gas prices could go up 75 cents a gallon, so again, pushing to four bucks a gallon.
or milk costing 8 bucks a gallon or 3 dollars for a single avocado. And the like, my guess is you would just say, ALL DEMOCRATS fault, my lord Trump has been dealt a bad hand, he is NEVER responsible for ANY of that even though it WILL be Trump doing the tariff and Trump arresting millions of workers so companies fold for lack of workers.
NEVER Trumps fault, right? You will find a way to rationalize ALL the hell Trump is unleashing on the US as we speak.
Killing the green energy initiative so we won't have incentive to buy EV's even though Trump SAID EV's was the future. ALL that just depends on who wet Trumps wallet the most.
Like when he said Crypto was BAD BAD, a few thousand bucks from the Crypto folks and all of a sudden Crypto is GOOD GOOD SO SO GOOD.

@sonhouse said
Hegseth has problems for sure. Battlefield experience is not the best indicator of what it takes for the top defense job though, because it is a way different orbit than your military tours.
You are literally wrangling dozens of generals all wanting their goodies in military hardware and such and having to keep up with the intrigues of adversaries.
This is not the job for ...[text shortened]... ned machine and another dude not so lucky, he DIED from Covid and neither of those three were vaxed.

Hegseth has problems for sure. Battlefield experience

You say this above. Please close your post by telling everyone that Leon Panetta, who had that job in the early 60s had only been a second Lieutenant in the signal corps, , he never even went to Europe. So which is most qualified, I won’t bore you with the two bronze metals, etc., etc. of Pete Hegseth.
You have to get over the story that Pete Hegseth poured beer on a girl when he was in the 11th grade.