Well. What had happened was

And why are we unwilling or unable to stop these pirates?

Oh because the Iranian gunboats enjoy more freedom of navigation in the straits than US surface combatants.

If they are conducting piracy then it’s closed, these people. Iran controls the SoH.

Iran doesn’t control the strait they just seize ships at will like pirates in the strait.

Ok.

Oh you’re hopeless

It’s his day

Phoeo of a cute cat behind a super market toy set looking at the camera, with the silly caption of "Khajiit has wares if you have coin" which is a known The Elder Scrolls line.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

This is basically saying "no we shouldn't use our own basketball playing dog to win".

Hot damn that’s a good reference

Ok, who let the United Methodists into Liberty?

And a very fine one (1) singular congressman they shall have to voice that anger too.

Indiana GOP state senator says he will vote no on redistricting push after Trump used slur Sen. Michael Bohacek, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, said, “This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references.”

Worth noting that the Indiana GOP redistricting plan failed in part because the president is a piece of shit who won’t stop using slurs.

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I guess there’s been some discourse today about the morality of nakedly partisan redistricting. I have considered that argument thoroughly and I would like to respond by saying *faaaart*

Republicans have deserved to get their necks stepped on for a good long while now. We should’ve done it in 2009, 2021 at the latest.

I haaaate MacArthur and am still offended at the comparison on MacArthur’s behalf. Even with the lobotomy joke.

I genuinely don’t know, does this guy even *have* a family? Like a wife and kids he can see without supervised visitation?

Real quotes from a real active duty Army Lieutenant Colonel.

Fucking dort, man. What a basket case.

The world’s got some perverse incentives and I will never be able to view a viral video without suspecting that maybe I’m being put upon, a mark or a rube. I don’t like that so I’m suspicious of everything.

Conservative influencer attacked by gay couple with baby in West Hollywood after asking about parenting choice A Conservative influencer was allegedly attacked by a gay couple in West Hollywood after questioning them if they were fit to be parents.

Of course my first thought was; that guy deserved it. You approach random people on the street and imply that they’re unworthy parents who will molest their own child and you get what you deserve.

But I also thought, “maybe it’s all staged”

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For what it’s worth I don’t think that Josh Hawley is biblically illiterate. I think he’s an asshole.

A reading from Acts 4:32-36

One time I was complaining about the commute from Pepperdine to UCLA and he was like “you think I live in fucking Bel Aire? We all gotta get to work, Stahlke. And your scholarship isn’t much less than my pay”. Which is perspective.

That man was an absolute font of wisdom and tough love that 20yo Stahlke needed. Had zero sympathy for the travails of cadets. Treated you as a grown ass man and peer. Made you FTSO and MSH

I went the summer after sophomore year as a cadet. Got paid zero dollars for it.

“Stahlke, just think of it as an unpaid internship”

—SFC Jason Detty, May 2005

This remains true.

Yup. And never held command and never went to the maneuver career course. Helluva thing.

Smart guy.

Will never not be funny to me that SecDef Standards never even attempted airborne or air assault, much less Ranger and whose professional military education tops out at the officer basic course

Every former RTB guy I’ve ever encountered has said some version of

“why don’t you you try the course and find out how easy it is now”