The infamous "they refloated the sunk boats" was less that (also ignoring the boats only got sunk in the first place because of a computer glitch Van Riper exploited) and more there was a live training exercise those boats were supposed to conduct
oh god we're going to do the JSOC C-WMD Super Op Jamboree, aren't we?
man, @publichealthguy1.bsky.social was (afaik) the first former CDC person to publicly call *explicitly* for RFK's resignation, rather than gently scold him, and he's currently being called a piece of shit and dogpiled for saying vaccine hesitant parents are facing a bad information environment
He's yelling at the dumbass Fox News guy. Definitely starting to feel the heat. Will it matter? Who knows, but he's not comfy right now and that makes me feel good.
you'd think for how maha these guys are they'd be more concerned about seamen retention
I remember my first aircraft carrier group
They hit like a 4 loko! 1 specifically pointing at you is supposed to be terrifying. Then you have a backup
I guess it’s not that big a deal. If nothing happens and we need it for something literally a threat
World operating in N-0 mode
Well we’re almost all in 5 is basically the max (deployed)
Yes I know we HAVE 11 but you have to put into port
Why put literally all our physical assets into nonsense I will never understand
You don’t double down 3 times with this type of shit unless it’s defense. Which it clearly is not
You know what *is* a war crime? Blowing up a school full of little girls. You can just go with that one.
The "is it a war crime to sink a warship during a war" discourse is going to make me go crazy
the other thing here is that one reason you might know a guy who tends bar at a dive bar that's pretty far from your office is that you have, also, a different business relationship with him
i would be a little surprised but not shocked if that's how the Pod Save boys knew him, Tune Inn is a haul from the WH
Don’t think there’s a great conspiracy here or anything but like, “Huh, how did these DC consultants find this one particular random guy and get him a bunch of buzz and cash early” always felt like it had an answer and hmmm.
I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now
"Great Power Competition means we, the jocks, point the knife at you, the dweebs. The dweebs then give us, the jocks, what we want. The Cheerleaders like this.
The dweebs are not supposed to be holding knives of any sort. Mom!
Hey MA!
NOT FAIR!"
And I want to be super duper explicit about this, the moment Maine Democrats nominate Graham Platner, a guy with a Totenkopf tattoo, for U.S. Senate, there will no longer be any moral high ground for any Democrat to criticize any Republican who openly displays Nazi symbols and use Nazi rhetoric
The media told me Mister Trump used a new tone and made this stop
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that's my president
I get why people say this, but “Trump could’ve kept quiet and rode it out” displays a fundamental misunderstanding of Trump’s psychology.
We are collectively willing the cocaine dealer libel into existence and if we just clap our hands and keep believing as hard as we can
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
thoughts on stephen miller’s rant about “human rights” youtu.be/3RJ_TWtFcMk?...
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
the speaker of the house is a young earth creationist. I am losing my fucking mind
A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible:
"They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."
Let us pause and ponder the reaction if a Democrat called 6 deaths "light casualties."
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor
