lawpoke87 said:

Hasn’t Susie Wiles been named Chief of Staff? Thought I read it was historic as she’s the first woman ever to hold the position. Maybe I’m recalling incorrectly ?

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Babe the Blue Ox said:

This sounds like a job for Stigler but he doesn't come around much anymore.

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lawpoke87 said:

Hasn’t Susie Wiles been named Chief of Staff? Thought I read it was historic as she’s the first woman ever to hold the position. Maybe I’m recalling incorrectly ?

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PiKA1000 said:

OK, who is making the “GJ COME
HOME” sign for Thursday??

Maybe a “Got Milkman?” sign?

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drboobay said:

That is partly mitigating for Trump. It does not excuse his silence during the riot or his attempt to use Pence to execute a coup.

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Gmoney4WW said:

The incredibly racist stephen miller is being pushed out front in the spotlight as Chief of Staff? Hopefully he can't subjugate his racism enough, that he exposes himself for the POS that he is, and gets fired quickly.

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PiKA1000 said:

Now, Marion is making a base of $383k. Offer him $1M and he comes. Considering we are (allegedly) paying Wilson $1.9M, I don’t see that as a stretch. TU just has to get in on him before a P4 team that is already looking for a new OC grabs him……if he is who the AD, etc. are wanting.

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Bill Lowery said:

I don’t post on Crossfire and rarely read, but have recently and the ignorance of some posters is astonishing, but not surprising, based on similar comments about Tulsa athletics. After spending a few days reading Crossfire, I’m going back to just reading and commenting on posts/posters in the Alley​

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Transcripts Show President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to "Keep January 6 Safe" Were Deliberately Ignored​

September 20, 2024​

WASHINGTON - Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) revealed that days before January 6, 2021, President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders urging them to do their jobs to protect lives and property. The transcripts released show Trump gave senior Pentagon leadership directives to keep January 6 peaceful - including using the National Guard - which the Pentagon leaders ignored. This revelation directly contradicts the conclusions drawn in the flawed DoD IG reporton January 6, 2021. In response to these revelations, Chairman Loudermilk released the following statement: “Pentagon leadership prioritized concerns of optics over their duty to protect lives,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders and directed them to make sure any events on January 6, 2021 were safe. It is very concerning that these Senior Pentagon officials ignored President Trump’s guidance AND misled Congressional Leaders to believe they were doing their job, when they were not. The DoD IG’s report is fundamentally flawed. It does not draw conclusions from the interviews they conducted, but pushes a narrative to keep their hands clean. We have many questions for them, and we will continue to dig until we are satisfied the American people know the truth." Click here or the image below to see the key excerpts from these transcripts. Click here to read the transcripts in full.

See below for a full breakdown of the Pentagon leaders' choices to ignore President Trump's directives. Days before January 6, 2021, President Trump met with senior Pentagon leaders urging them to do their jobs to protect lives and property. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, recalls a conversation between the Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, and President Trump: Milley: “The President just says, ‘Hey, look at this. There’s going to be a large amount of protestors here on the 6th, make sure that you have sufficient National Guard or Soldiers to make sure it’s a safe event.’… [POTUS said] I don’t care if you use Guard, or Soldiers, active duty Soldiers, do whatever you have to do. Just make sure it’s safe.' [SecDef] Miller responds by saying, 'Hey, we’ve got a plan, and we’ve got it covered.'” On January 5, the Secretary of the Army, Ryan McCarthy, placed unprecedented restrictions on DCNG Commander Major General William Walker to prevent any movement to the Capitol without Secretary McCarthy’s explicit permission on January 6 and 7. On January 6, 2021, the outer perimeter on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol was breached by rioters at 12:53pm. The DCNG arrived five hours later. Click here to view the timeline. These transcripts prove President Trump’s senior Pentagon leaders were focused on OPTICS, instead of doing their job, as the Capitol was breached: Miller: “There was absolutely – there is absolutely no way I was putting U.S. military forces at the Capitol, period.” Director of the Army Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Piatt: “Was optics a concern for us as we prepared to use soldiers downtown in Washington D.C? Absolutely.” As “optics” concerns were being discussed and Secretary McCarthy claims he was ‘developing a plan’, the DCNG was ready to move, less than 2 miles from the Capitol – awaiting Secretary McCarthy’s authorization. Walker’s General Counsel, Colonel Earl Matthews: “We were seeing the Congress of the United States being overrun, and the Guard – and the Capitol Police, the MPD, they need help. We had people at the D.C. Armory who are able to help, and they’re not moving. They’re not allowed to move.” DCNG Command Sergeant Major Michael Brooks: “They were ready to go, and they just couldn’t understand why they were still sitting there. Literally sitting on a bus, just waiting to drive to the Capitol and do the best they could do to support Capitol Police.” At 3:04pm, Miller provided verbal approval to Secretary McCarthy for immediate deployment of the DCNG. What was Secretary McCarthy doing between receiving this approval, and 5:08pm, when the order eventually reaches the D.C. National Guard? Why didn’t he communicate this approval for a full two hours? At 3:18pm, Secretary McCarthy told Congressional Democrat Leadership that the DC National Guard had the “green light” and “is moving”. Two hours would pass before Secretary McCarthy’s deployment order would ACTUALLY be communicated to the DCNG. In these vital hours, the DCNG had been trying but was unable to reach Secretary McCarthy. DCNG Adjutant General Aaron Dean: “[Walker] tried to call Secretary McCarthy three times between 2:30 and 5pm. He said, ‘I haven’t heard from him all day.’ When he tried to call his cell phone, it went straight to voicemail.”

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lawpoke87 said:

Question….why would the federal government seek to enforce a mandate on its people they know doesn’t accomplish its stated objective ? Politics or incompetency is all I got .

As I’ve already stated….the suppression of dissenting speech is a much more concerning act imo.

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PiKA1000 said:

I can agree with this. GJ is making a base of $1M and like I have said, is a Texas guy. The lack of NIL is eventually going to bite TU in the ass big time one day. We can only play the academics card for so long. I’m not saying lowering the academic standards at all, but relying on that as the main selling point for $$ incentive won’t last long in my opinion.

Now, Marion is making a base of $383k. Offer him $1M and he comes. Considering we are (allegedly) paying Wilson $1.9M, I don’t see that as a stretch. TU just has to get in on him before a P4 team that is already looking for a new OC grabs him……if he is who the AD, etc. are wanting.

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Gmoney4WW said:

I find people thinking of hiring GJ amusing. We would have to offer him a massive raise that no one else is offering, including Texas St is offering. That won't happen. Somebody will offer him at least 2 million. I think Texas St would offer that. A couple of hundred thousand higher offer by us with no nil, after our 'courtesy interview' is not going to bring him here. i don't think he would come with no nil, even if we were a mil over every other offer he had. But that's just my opinion.

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PiKA1000 said:

OK, who is making the “GJ COME
HOME” sign for Thursday??

Maybe a “Got Milkman?” sign?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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astonmartin708 said:

Bull crap. There was no evidence of that presented anywhere.

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I don’t post on Crossfire and rarely read, but have recently and the ignorance of some posters is astonishing, but not surprising, based on similar comments about Tulsa athletics. After spending a few days reading Crossfire, I’m going back to just reading and commenting on posts/posters in the Alley​

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Transcripts Show President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to "Keep January 6 Safe" Were Deliberately Ignored​

September 20, 2024​

Gmoney4WW said:

You just just stepped around addressing what should have been obvious reasons for keeping the mandate, and you want to talk about the administration being political about it.

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lawpoke87 said:

My argument all along wasn’t the writing of the mandate. My opposition is the attempt enforce a mandate to keep their jobs on the American people based on the state objective of stopping the spread of Covid which at the time of the attempted enforcement did nothing to stop the spread of Covid. Reasonable people would have seen the vaccine was no longer effective and backed off enforcement. The Biden Admin chose politics over science in the enforcement aspect. That is my objection.

In the big picture the censorship of dissenting views was a much more dangerous precedent based on history. It was no surprise that the censorship quickly spread from Covid related speech to speech critical of the Admin and those related to the same. If history does on thing well it does repeat itself

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Gmoney4WW said:

They were a little slow to get the mandate in place, and they were a little slow to rewrite the mandate. (which is what should have happened) That didn't make it less valid. You are more concerned with the rights of a few, than the welfare of the whole. That is not how it is supposed to work in times of emergency. The workers as a unit, would have been at work more of the time, and the workers as a whole would have suffered less in their healthiness with the mandate. And more work would have been accomplished for the people. In a time of emergency that is more important than 50 or a 100 workers being out of work because they refused to obey the mandate. Their irrational fears of vaccine's caused this to become a much bigger deal than it should have.

At the time the mandate was written, there was no proof it didn't stop the spread, so rewrite the mandate to include this rationale, instead of eliminating the mandate. The reasoning stated in the mandate was determined to be a violation of rights, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been restated for the purpose of increasing the government work force. We didn't know that it lessened the effects and the length of the illness when it was written either. But a third of the people were so up in arms about it that they wouldn't have accepted that rationale at that point either. That doesn't make that rationale wrong.

People's rights weren't trampled, the rationale just wasn't inclusive enough to meet the standards of the courts. It could have been, and should have been.

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aTUfan said:

Two days before, Trump wanted to call up the guard. He was turned down by the DC Police and Pelosi.

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