This is the current weather map for the USA.

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FOX is primarily inaccurate. This language for people planning to travel is very inflammatory. There will be storms and there will add misery to travel, but, the outcomes will not be lasting snow accumulation so much as slush and rain with wind and dangerously slippery conditions.

The current temperature map of the USA is below the FOX News terror alert.

There are absolutely no below zero temperatures on that map of the country. Correction, Idaho reached down to 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Snow can occur in cold temperatures but will not significantly accumulate unless the ground temperatures are freezing. Now, a frigid air mass can accompany a snow storm and start to cool the ground, but, it won’t happen overnight.

So, this is the way I see it. There will be storms and it will be cold with the arrival of the storms. Americans will want to don winter clothes during the storm, especially outside. But, the snow if it accumulated would be better news than if it didn’t. And it won’t, except, at higher elevations. The reason accumulation is good news is because it doesn’t saturate the ground and is a form of water storage. Why is that important? Because stored water in the form of snow doesn’t cause flooding.

I would be aware of melting snow. The melting snow is more like rain, except, slush is far more slippery than rain or snow. Slush in overnight temperatures also freezes. So, while there will be snow there will be hazards with this storm. I don’t know what the airlines are using to decide delays, but, short of high winds it would surprise me if deicers didn’t work well in freezing rain and slush conditions. 

What concerns me more about the impending storms is water runoff and swollen creeks, streams, and rivers.

Any drivers of any age should be prepared for slippery roads and possible flash flood alerts.

Hegseth is a wacko.

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The only reason he is not in prison or worse is because he was removed from the inaugural event as an insider threat (white supremacist). He is a problem that cannot be overlooked. He is an agitator by the sheer fact he took anti-Pentagon views to his viewership on FOX News. 

Hello? Pete what the heck?

The greatest military in the world doesn’t need an extremist on the cabinet. Hegseth is well known to his views. There is no reason to question him further. 

A Defense Secretary cannot be a hothead about the leadership of the top brass of the USA military. He would make life miserable for every commander in every branch of the service. 

Today’s military is all inclusive. There are women who lead, pilot helicopters and fighter jets. There are members and leaders from the LGBTQ community. I don’t know if he pays much attention but his tattoo and it’s implications are a direct insult to the current Defense Secretary.

Leadership exhibiting this level of extremist views would result in problems within the ranks of the military. There is just no doubt he is inflammatory. Any idea what that translates to on the battlefield?

Trump has a real burr up his ass and he wants desertion and division in the military. I would encourage the Senate to keep expecting a realistic person for Defense Secretary and not vote until one is chosen.

Mr. Hegseth needs to have some tattoos removed to exhibit the fact he can be a reasonable person rather than an extremist. It is one thing to have tattoos within the service among other soldiers, but, it is quite another thing to be at the top of the decision makers and exhibit such views with the authority a Defense Secretary can wield.

Someone needs to get real with Trump. This is nonsense. The military is not about political dogma. Honestly.

I have to wonder how much of this is quid pro quo. FOX News? Woke? He had the attention of a lot of right wing voters. “Could I be Defense Secretary if I get you elected?”

Musk is extremely likely outside USA sanctions.

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This is not a coincidence.

Iran is scaling back its rhetoric because Musk probably gifted them with land acquisition. This violates not only Iranian sanctions but also sanctions against Russia as it enhances its trade economics, which includes more Iranian drone shipments that kill Ukrainian children as they sleep. Musk is a traitor relying on the purchase in some low key way of Trump’s pardoning power. 

With this development it is easy to see Trump’s plans for Ukraine. Ukraine will be assigned economic dependency with Russia. NATO needs to accept Ukraine into the organization and move NATO into Ukraine which would bring the USA into support the effort to stabilize Ukraine and return function to the land allowing Ukrainians to return home.

Trump can’t just close out the USA from NATO. He can pretend to have control when he doesn’t. He can be undiplomatic and ridiculed for grotesque behavior, but, NATO is a treaty and a long standing benevolent treaty. Only Congress can pass, modify, or end any treaty. The legislature and its moral content in the value of human life including maintaining our military readiness will rule the next four years. Trump has executive rights, but, no power to alter the course of the USA democracy. He can make life miserable, but, not permanently or exclusively.

Let’s bring Ukrainians home and expand NATO. Only then will Russia be able to negotiate a lifting of sanctions. The interior of Russia is in shambles. The prisoners Putin put on the front lines of his Ukraine conflict are returning home from war with their criminal records expunged and accolades of hero worship coming their way. The returning criminals return to the only life they know as criminals and are basically untouchable. If the local constabulary actually files charges against their heroes, the criminals simply return to the war until they are free to return home again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This includes murderers, pedophiles, and any other unimaginable Russian vermin. 

NATO’s movement into Ukraine will actually liberate the Russian people from an increasingly hostile domestic picture. NATO will end the conflict. Russia and its nuclear threats are its only real resort and amounts to desperation and stupidity. Russia is one of five permanent nuclear powers. It’s propaganda is it’s only real sword. 

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