I was activated and deployed to the gulf for Deepwater Horizon. We killed ourselves out there, up to our armpits in toxic chemicals, to make sure this was fixed and never happened again.
All undone in an instant, for no other reason than the whim of a rich, entitled monster.
I fought in Iraq. It was an unmitigated disaster from which the region, and America, will never recover.
War with Iran will be worse. And let’s not kid ourselves - this is completely unnecessary. If we’re fighting Iran, let’s be honest about why: Trump’s ego. His sick cult.
I tip 20% even for bad service. Because maybe they had a fight with their partner or they’re having an anxiety attack. Maybe they’re exhausted from working 3 jobs. Hurting their ability to survive won’t help. We have to look out for each other.
Trump: - eats baby -
Sane people: JESUS LEAPING CHRIST YOU JUST ATE A BABY
Deplorables: Haha! Librul tears!
@nytopinion
: “If only self-important leftists had kept quiet, these normally anti-baby-eating types would have remained on the fence.”
Merry Christmas to all the Christians of the world.
To everybody else, including the Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, Pagans, & Jews...
...Happy Wednesday.
Fetishizing veterans makes me feel isolated and alien. I did a job, and I was paid to do it. I don’t need special treatment or care. If America would simply provide medical care to all, it would cover veterans’ needs. What I want, more than anything, is to be like everyone else.
The Republican response to COVID is *exactly* like their response to guns. Tens of thousands of Americans dead, far more than anywhere else in the world (even counting proportionally), and they insist there’s nothing to be done, that this is just how it goes, and take no action.
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I assume all you youngsters talking about “blazing 420” are of course referring to the blazing career of Alcibiades, who in 420 BC was elected στρατηγός (Strategos), an incredible height of power for one so young.
I applaud your interest in the great figures of our ancient past
“I write history”
- Sounds boring.
- Audience suspicious maybe you’re responsible for that textbook that tortured them in high school.
“I speak for the dead”
- Ominous and dramatic.
- Not exactly false.
- Hints at dark power.
- Maybe you’re a necromancer? Impossible to tell
Unlike you, I served in the military, intelligence services, and law enforcement, including 3 spins in Iraq.
So, I’d say I know a thing or two about guns, Tomi.
And one of the things I know is that a lunatic like you shouldn’t be allowed within 10’ of one.
Hey Lefties, “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle.” It stands for “ArmaLite rifle.” You want to take our guns but you don’t know jack about guns. See the problem?
Hope Hicks, one of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff, is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena
Looking at this, I can only assume she’s addressing her freshly summoned army of the undead, before turning them loose on the unsuspecting villagers in the valley below her fell tower.
I promise you there were signs. I promise you there were at least a 100 opportunities for other cops to spot Chauvin’s murderous rot and intervene. Everyone, from his command, to his colleagues, to the system that handed him a gun are culpable. Chauvin must only be where we start
Teens: I have hired many people. If I ever saw an IQ on a resume or in a cover letter, I would burn it, then invent a machine that burns things that have already been burned so that I could burn it again.
Pro tip for teens: spend a couple hundred dollars for a professional IQ test, and dangle the result in front of potential employers. Anyone who demands an arts degree instead is too stupid to work for.
Sure, when Hannibal rides an elephant he’s “the father of strategy,” and “the greatest general in history.” But when *I* do it, I’m “publicly intoxicated” and “guilty of criminal trespass in the Bronx Zoo.”
My favorite Ursula K. Le Guin quote still calms my heart, even all these years after I first read it in A Wizard of Earthsea:
“Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.”
Picture yourself going up to a writer you’ve never met before face-to-face at a party and saying, “Hi! I really don’t like your work. I think you’re a terrible writer.”
Such a dick move! You wouldn’t do that, right? SO WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO IT ONLINE ITS THE SAME DAMN THING
BREAKING: A Tucson jury has found Scott Warren of
@NoMoreDeaths
not guilty of all charges for providing food, water and aid to undocumented migrants in the Sonoran Desert.
Any cop who walks away, allowing harm to come to citizens is a self-interested, petulant asshole who never cared about doing their job in the first place.
If police protection is conditional on immunity to criticism, we don’t have a police force, we have a protection racket.
Finger indexed inside the trigger-guard, instead of along the upper receiver.
Finger touching the trigger.
Muzzle pointed up, instead of at the deck.
The person in this picture is untrained in proper firearms handling, and should not be allowed to touch a gun.
I’m fucking sick of this. I am diagnosed with:
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Major Depression, Recurring
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
I’ve never shot up a mall.
This was never about mental illness. You KNOW it was never about mental illness. It’s *guns* and ideology.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: "I think all over the world people are looking at the United States and wondering what is going on, what is the mental health situation in America where time after time after time we're seeing indescribable horrors."
This reverence for the founding fathers mystifies me. We’re talking about a clique of exclusively white men over two centuries in their graves who lived at a time before electric light when human beings could be property
Maybe we should update our inspiration for good government
Sure sex is great, but have you ever had your cat burst out of the litter box trailing a half-pinched turd she is TERRIFIED of, and then having to extract it while she tries to kill you, and then wipe her butt like an infant JESUS LEAPING CHRIST MY FUCKING LIFE
The world is choked with men who have never fought, lionizing other men whose battle experience they don’t understand, crowing for conflicts they won’t have to shoulder personally, and scolding us when we deviate from their expectations.
Suspended.
For assaulting a man and putting him in the hospital in serious condition.
For failing to render aid as blood pooled beneath his broken skull.
Suspended.
Not fired. Not prosecuted. Suspended.
I got fired from a bartending job for pouring too generously.
When he called the Charlottesville neo fascists, “fine people,” you were fine.
When he called Mexicans “murderers and rapists,” you were fine.
When he put kids in cages, you were fine.
When he cozied up to despots and dictators, you were fine
But now he’s costing you money
"I almost fell out of my chair. I could not believe it," said Beth Callori of Long Island. "I voted for Trump. I thought he was going to be good for this country, but when I got that phone call [about the taxes I owed], that's it, I'm done."
I spent a decade in the intelligence community as a COIN targeting officer. During that time, I deployed to Iraq 3 times to conduct COIN operations. I was a COIN custodial debriefing role-player and instructor.
I appreciate you setting me straight on COIN doctrine. Thanks.
I get that strident political opinions make you uncomfortable, and that you follow me for my novels. I know that you’re exhausted by my constant agitprop, and think artists should stick to making art. I’m sorry for this. I wonder, have you considered going and fucking yourself?
Let me get this straight:
- High speed rail
- Free health care
- Ample public housing
- Rich paying their fair share
- Strong unions
- People can smoke pot if they damn well want to without assholes throwing them in jail
- Rebuilding crumbling infrastructure
Sign me up.
If Amy Coney Barrett truly wishes to obey her god, then she can surely see that his decision to strike her nomination announcement with a plague is a clear sign that she should withdraw from the process.
Just a note for everyone crying “socialism” and “real liberalism” as an excuse for violating worker solidarity and pirating books. Authors *are* workers. We produce art. You’re no different from capitalist exploiters who steal labor/wages. You’re not socialists. You’re assholes.
Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.
The person who has the most votes, Dan. It’s what we call “majority rule.”
You’re in favor of “most land rule.” We have a name for that type of government. It’s called “feudalism.”
I used this hypothetical example: R candidate wins 48 states by identical 54-46 margins, D wins CA, NY & DC by 75-25 margins, D wins national popular vote. Who should win?
If you’re a student suspended or given detention for participating in the walkout and concerned about college admissions:
I’m a former military officer with a distinguished career in intelligence and law enforcement, and I’d be honored to write your recommendation.
Health care workers, but also packers, shippers and delivery workers, food prep and drivers and logisticians, postal workers and check out clerks, shelf stockers and warehouse staff, forklift operators and security guards, manifest keepers and lading specialists. You’re saving us
Let me fix this headline: “People being held accountable for their actions and facing consequences like adults is a fundamental of a mature and ethical society.”
I have taken,
The bag of soup,
That you were probably saving,
For dinner.
Forgive me,
I had to throw it,
At a cop.
I chose soup,
Instead of a brick,
So that if I get caught,
I can say,
This is just soup for my family.
An outstanding example of safe weapon handling. Finger is indexed along the upper receiver outside the trigger guard. Weapon is pointed in a safe direction at the low ready. Muzzle is not scanning unnecessarily.
“America is exceptional” we said as we forced Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, kept human beings as property, slouched through Jim Crow, interned Japanese-Americans. “This is not who we are” we cried as we put Trump in power, permitted each new horror, consequence free.
BREAKING: Gender reveal party went disastrously wrong when a balloon supposed to contain pink smoke instead was mistakenly packed with a 1st C. BC Celtic warband.
The “Never Forget” culture of 9/11 must be re-examined. We have to find a way to mourn the loss while moving past the suspicion, dread, and rage that was what Bin Laden wanted - that give us over-militarization of police and the Forever-Wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. 1/2
This phalanx is a complete disaster both by Classical and Hellenistic Period standards:
- less than 3’ intervals indicates synaspismos (locked shields) formation where weapons can’t be deployed.
- neither spears (doru) nor pikes (sarissa) apparent.
- complete lack of shields.
Another note about Candace Owens, and Tomi Lahren, and Ben Shapiro, and Charlie Kirk, or any of these poison-hearted monsters who crow about duty, bravery, and courage in war.
None of them have ever worn the uniform. All able-bodied. All they had to do was sign up. They didn’t.
You’re not going to frighten anti-intellectuals with being “on the wrong side of history.” History is one of those things in books they don’t read.
We have to make them believe they’re on the wrong side of right fucking now.
Military service is a JOB for which you VOLUNTEER and ARE PAID. MOST military members are in less or equal danger than comparable civilian jobs. It doesn’t make you a hero. It doesn’t make you worthy of worship. You aren’t owed special thanks. We have got to stop this shit.
I’m always gobsmacked that the unironic pro-2A argument essentially comes down to: “I must be armed so I can turn traitor against my free and fairly elected government and maintain the capability to murder police officers who try to enforce laws I don’t personally agree with.”
Meghan McCain, after saying there will be "violence" in America if the AR-15 is banned because it's "the most popular gun" in the country, then declares that she's "not living without guns."
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WEAR A FUCKING MASK AND WE CAN AT LEAST PARTLY GO BACK TO OUR LIVES ITS NOT HARD ITS NOT EXPENSIVE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE A DICK WE WONT GIVE YOU A HARD TIME FOR NOT WEARING ONE BEFORE HONEST NO FOOLING JUST WEAR A DAMN MASK ILL BUY YOU ONE FOR THE LOV
Pretty please Dems: now that you have a modicum of power STOP reaching across the aisle. STOP acting like you can negotiate in good faith with these monsters. Beat them blue.
A reminder to the National Guard: You are *not* obligated to follow illegal orders. You can and will be prosecuted for carrying them out.
You were trained to revere honor. You were trained to have integrity.
You were trained to do what’s right even when it costs you.
In all my years in law enforcement, I constantly heard this loathsome axiom repeated: “Better to be judged by twelve than carried by eight.”
The opposite is true. If you’re not willing to lay down your life for the people you protect, turn the badge in now. It’s them, not you.
Russia fires on Ukrainian ships, captures three - we do nothing.
Migrants are legally presenting themselves at the correct port of entry to request asylum - guns up.
The Trump regime has blackened my soul. There’s a darkness in me that makes me ill. I don’t want the country to come together. I don’t want reconciliation. I want justice. I want punishment. I want the right to suffer as they have made others suffer.
I hate feeling this way.
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Two bunnies demonstrate comparative effective strike ranges of the Roman Gladius Hispaniensis and the Hellenistic Sarissa pike.
JESUS H CHRIST THE GODDAMN CAT LIES DOWN ON MY LAP ROLLS OFF BECAUSE SHES AN IDIOT HOOKS HER STUPID CLAWS INTO MY JEANS OVER MY JUNK TO KEEP FROM FALLING AND WHEN I TRY TO SAVE MY OWN LIFE SHE BITES ME I GET ONE CLAW FREE AND SHE SCRATCHES THE SHIT OUT OF ME WHAT THE HELL
The iconic Acuity Insurance flag in Sheboygan - the largest free-flying American flag in the country - has been torn in half after tonight's storms.
📷: Avdil Luma
“This is not who we are.”
Slavery, Native American genocide, Jim Crow, Lynchings, Japanese Internment, Zoot Suit Riots, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and on and on and on.
This is *exactly* who we are. This is *exactly* who we’ve always been.
Until we own it, we can’t fix it.
At 18 Alexander the Great smashed the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea in 338 BC, securing Macedonian hegemony over Greece and launching what would become one of the greatest empires the world had ever known.
This is raw, untrammeled bullshit, and dangerous propaganda.
I have been on meds to treat PTSD induced major depression and anxiety for years. I have published 9 books, been on a TV show, held a military commission and paid off my mortgage.
Meds (when needed) will HELP you.
I have been staring at this tweet for a solid 5 minutes and I have no idea what it means. It seems so tantalizingly like English and yet . . . I don’t think it is? I keep thinking if I just read it one more time, I’ll understand it.
I’m always puzzled by people who assume that military historians are somehow pro-war. It’s a bit like assuming that oncologists are pro-cancer.
Is it such a complex concept that a person can be passionate about understanding a phenomena they hope will never happen again?
I am an American veteran. I fought so you could respect the flag anyway you see fit, standing, kneeling, even nothing. I don’t require any special respect from you beyond the common decency with which you treat all people. The only thing I want is to be treated like everyone else
The President of the United States has just publicly admitted that he influenced the outcome of a military trial for war crimes, specifically the murder of civilians.
But it won’t matter. Because nothing does anymore.
Congratulations to Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, his wonderful wife Andrea, and his entire family. You have been through much together. Glad I could help!