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the arsonist crying about getting burned.

Citation.
As the CO is pinning it on my chest, I muttered "sir do you know what this is for?" And he muttered back "no fucking clue. Never even heard of it before now."

True story-- after being in the National Guard and going on a peacekeeping mission to Business, I got several medals for that.
Ok, fine
But a couple years later I get called out for an award and I get the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with 2 oak leaves. (3rd award).
The XO just makes the award, no

Wait till you see a National Guard soldier. Each state has awards for various things, and not too long before you start looking like a North Korean general.

Doublespeak

Anyone who's read George Orwell's 1984 will recognize this for what it is.

These statistics literally mean fuck all because they are measuring efficiency, not effectiveness

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

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It's not just you, Sir

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And not a word from Musk, Greenwald, Taibbi, or any of the others.
Hmmmm.

Yeah. That's who we are right now, but it's not who we're supposed to be.

I hope you're right, but this is the guy who did January 6.

Yeah. I got shit to do.
I haven't filled my quotas of sunrises and sunsets watched.

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

I don't recommend a life-threatening staph infection as a weight loss tool, but should you contract a life-threatening staph infection (and you survive it)* and you lose 32 pounds in two weeks, take the win.
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*This is critical.

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Clyde Conway (D–as in Dog) wishes a Happy Ding Dong the Puppy Killer is Gone Day to his four-legged constituents and all humans who celebrate.

I hope you're right, but this is the guy who did Jan 6, and he's now completely surrounded by sycophants and religious nuts.

If everybody follows the law and the Constitution, you are correct. There's been a significant dearth of that happening recently.
He's definitely going to try it, and the current sitting Congress is likely to go along with it.

For context, for everyone else, these kinds of exercises, even headquarters exercises. Take months of planning and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to prepare for them. You don't just cancel them on a whim.

Trump isn't just planning for an Iranian retaliation to kill American citizens, he's hoping for it. Anything he can do to prevent having an election in a few months.

You missed/ignored the "in the real world" part, I see.

And no amount of willfully misinterpreting the Laws of Armed Conflict, or false history, or anti-americanism will change that.

They just did not do it. It's one thing to sink a merchant ship. It's another thing entirely to sink an enemy warship and that's what happened here. Now, had the American submarine surfaced and they machine gunned the survivors, that would be a war crime,and then going about your merry way, is not.

How do you envision this working in the real world?

He also fancies himself a great military thinker.

Let's congratulate our fellow citizens who no longer have to work and spend all their time in leisure due to Grok

They absolutely did not. Submarines of that era could barely sustain their own crews and had very limited capacity to care for others.
And time on the surface in proximity to the enemy was time being mostly helpless in the proximity to the enemy.

that's "no reason to vote for Dems" type shit.