America's Dreyfuss is punished. Could have been worse. Semper Fi
The U.S. Marine who posted videos on social media criticizing military leadership and the Biden administration’s withdrawal of military assets from Afghanistan was issued a letter of reprimand and a forfeiture of $5,000 worth of pay for one month, after pleading guilty to all charges during his court-martial hearing this week.
Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. pled guilty to all six misdemeanor-level charges Thursday, including willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer, dereliction in the performance of duties and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
The judge, on Friday, said he would have given a two-month forfeiture of pay, had it not been for the nine days Scheller spent in pre-trial confinement. Scheller was freed from the brig last week where he was being held for violating an agreement to stop posting criticism on social media.
The judge said he does not condone Scheller’s offenses, but noted his 17 year USMC career, saying that prior to his social media incident, he was an officer with an outstanding record – a record, he said, he weighed heavily.
The letter of reprimand was much less than what was recommended. The prosecution recommended a forfeiture of $5,000 of pay for 6 months and a letter of reprimand. The maximum penalty could have been forfeiture of 2/3 monthly pay for 12 months and a letter of reprimand.
The sentencing came after Scheller was relieved of his command at one of Camp Lejeune’s infantry training battalions in August after posting the videos to Facebook and LinkedIn after a bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul took the lives of 13 U.S. service members as well as dozens of Afghan citizens.
"Did anyone raise their hand and say, ‘We completely messed this up?'" Scheller had asked in a video. "I’m not saying we can take back what has been done. All I asked for was accountability, for people to comment on what I said and to say, ‘Yes. Mistakes were made.’ And had they done that I would've gone back into rank and file, submitted, and accomplished what I wanted."
Scheller is a decorated Marine who has served for 17 years.
His other charges include contempt toward officers, disrespect toward superior commissioned officers and failure to obey order or regulation.
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Trump seems to be making the transmission from a narcissist to a jerk:
Donald Trump’s Hostage Politics
He says Republicans must agree the 2020 election was stolen or he’ll aid the Democrats.
By The Editorial Board
When Democrats complain that Donald Trump is plotting to suppress votes, they have a point—but fortunately for them, the votes he is plotting to suppress are those of his own supporters.
That was evident in January this year in the two Georgia Senate runoffs. Turnout in Republican strongholds fell because Mr. Trump told his voters the election in November had been stolen and the state’s GOP officials were corrupt. Democrats narrowly won both seats in the conservative state, handing the party unified control of Congress and paving the way for an ideologically unleashed Biden Administration.
Now the former President is threatening aloud that he might repeat this act of electoral sabotage in the next national elections. “If we don’t solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented),” Mr. Trump said in a statement Wednesday, “Republicans will not be voting in ‘22 or ‘24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”
What’s notable isn’t that Mr. Trump continues to deny his election defeat and push for increasingly futile “audits” that will go nowhere. Mr. Trump will never admit he lost. Democrats have already used Mr. Trump’s election denial against the GOP to great effect in their California gubernatorial recall rout and are now wielding it in what has become a tight Virginia Governor’s race.
Mr. Trump’s escalation is that he is now explicitly tying Republican acceptance of his election fantasy to a threat of electing Democrats as retribution. The message to Republicans is that if they don’t loudly pretend that he won the last election, Mr. Trump will make sure the GOP loses the next one, too.
Refusal to accept election outcomes in modern American politics is not unique to Mr. Trump. Much of the Democratic Party and intellectual class did not accept the legitimacy of Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory. Stacey Abrams, the celebrated Georgia gubernatorial candidate, has still refused to concede that she lost in 2018. In 2021 congressional Democrats initiated an effort to overturn a certified Iowa House race before thinking better of it.
One crucial difference between Mr. Trump and those Democrats is that Democrats would never be self-defeating enough to try to leverage their election gripes against the interests of their own voters. Democrats have endorsed and amplified Ms. Abrams’s fictions of a stolen election to turn out more Democratic voters so that progressive policies might prevail in the future.
Mr. Trump’s calculus works differently. When his ego is on the line, his voters’ interests are secondary. He might not like it if progressives control government and choke off American energy production or bludgeon social-media companies to censor conservatives. But his priority is that GOP candidates show obeisance to his claims that he was robbed in November. And he’s willing to help Democrats if Republicans refuse or even stay silent.
We wrote after the Georgia runoffs: “We hope Republicans keep Mr. Trump’s contribution to these defeats in mind over the next two years as their taxes and energy costs rise, as woke cultural mandates rain down from Washington, and as more of the economy comes under political control.”
All of that is happening. With the Biden Administration’s polarizing overreach, the 2022 elections are an opportunity for the GOP to retake Congress and check the divisive progressive assault on the U.S. economy and law. But that was also true of the 2021 Georgia races. Mr. Trump may not be finished making his supporters pay for his narcissism.
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Hey there,
I just sat down with Larry Kudlow.
And what we discussed is a must-see for all Americans.
Sincerely,
Marc Lichtenfeld
Chief Income Strategist, The Oxford Club
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US Testing New Bunker Busting Bomb
(RightWing.org) – The US Air Force has tested a new smart bomb it could use to destroy nuclear weapons owned by foreign rogue states. The prototype bomb is an ingenious and cost-effective weapon that uses off-the-shelf parts to create a new capability.
Up to now, the USAF’s chosen bomb for destroying hardened concrete bunkers – like those used to store nuclear weapons – is the GBU-28. This 5,000-pound monster was developed in just three weeks during the first Gulf war, with the first batch made from cut-down 8” howitzer barrels. The GBU-28 can penetrate five meters of reinforced concrete or punch more than 150 feet into the ground, making it devastating against bunkers and tunnels – but it isn’t perfect.
Its biggest disadvantage is that it’s laser-guided, meaning an aircraft or special operations team has to aim a laser designator at the target so the bomb can home in on the reflected light. Heavily-defended targets might be impossible to designate, and smoke, or even bad weather, can block the laser.
On October 12, the Air Force announced the first-ever drop of a BLU-72 Advanced 5K Penetrator. The new weapon uses the same warhead as the GBU-28, but instead of laser guidance, it’s fitted with a guidance kit that uses GPS, so it will guide itself to exactly where it’s supposed to go with an accuracy of around three feet – which, for a bomb packed with half a ton of high explosives, is close enough. It can attack in any weather and doesn’t need a designator.
With the successful testing of the GBU-72, the USAF wants them fast – its 2022 budget allocates $36 million for 125 of the bombs. Rogue states like Iran and North Korea need to pay attention to this new information. They can keep playing with nuclear weapons, but now we can have the capacity to destroy those weapons should we need to.
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More regarding Hunter and his money trail:
JUST IN: Hunter Biden MONEY Trail Discovered - Guess Who It Points To?
It's all coming out! >>
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