say therefore again

They did this while there's an ongoing Russian invasion of Europe (that's also pulled in North Korea) and Xi's got Taiwan blue balls visible from space.

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory

The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

You can cleanly pinpoint the advent of 'modern warfare' as the moment when medical science and state capacity improved to the point that an army could keep most of its soldiers from shitting themselves to death before they've even seen the enemy.

I'll go super regional and say I've never dug Chicken French. Which I find too rich, the sauce breaks easily and all in all really a missed opportunity to have chicken parm, the best food on the planet.

The next Democratic SecDef needs to be someone who says, in public, on TV to a room full of Marines 'because you're adults and you fucking have to.'

Like a true alcoholic divorced Dad he's letting the kids have candy for dinner so that they'll resent their Mom (Democrats) who makes them eat vegetables.

It says a lot about how deeply American voters, particularly Republicans care about The Troops beyond slogans that they had 4 legitimate shots at electing a 'Nam Vet President (Gore, Kerry, McCain x 2), rejected all of them, smeared them as treasonous pussies and elected this fucking guy twice.

8 and 16...how'd we ever win 8? BULL DURHAM

The Jays have improved to 9-13 which means I won't have to deploy this reference. It's a Miracle.

I'm aware that it's been a decade since his already old ass got fired but this does underscore that if you really wanted to rip the guts out of FoxNews you'd simply have to bribe the hair & makeup department.

I did a whole thread some months back about the gems on there. It could've gone forever.

I do lament how hard it is for studios and streamers to commit to original ideas and non-franchise fare but 'this will get the kids in the seats too' has always been the driving force behind mass entertainment in America.

idk, hard to pinpoint an era when it wasn't. Serials & comic books of the 40s. Cheap sci-fi of the 50s. With New Hollywood also came Star Wars, Superman, Planet of the Apes. Disney always.

I love Tubi because you find out the 70s was mostly soft porn made in the Philippines & starring an NFL player

Yes I like doing this in summer especially when I don't want to be sweating in the kitchen all evening

When you have time (even an hour) use the canned whole DOP San Marzanos. Costs less than a jar of Rao's, easily break up with your wooden grandma spoon and simply love to be simmered and fill your home with the aroma of inner peace.

Celenza's really cheating here with the leftover meat and pasta but it remains true that sweated mirepoix + tomato paste + water is a god-tier week night hack that'll save you from ever buying a "convenient" jar of processed Prego. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_k...

Suing the media is the Trump way of getting past a particularly damaging news cycle. Whatever it's about is forgotten by the time the lawsuit is quietly dropped.

Which makes the orgs that capitulated last year especially cowardly and corrupt.

I used to complain that we'd lost a guard rail culturally when Call of Duty stopped making games about fighting fascism and started making games about tech companies declaring themselves God but you know.....

Garbage King bribes his way into Wrestlemania to very specifically be guest commenter for the women's championship match and says nothing the whole broadcast is an Accidental Safdie Bros plotline.

Gorpsmen?

This is the cat hair guy. I remember all the Gorpmans and Bleemers.

Yeah I was gonna touch on that. Most NATO scenarios of defending Western Europe from a full Soviet armored push centered around said tanks running into a brick wall of German mechanized divisions.

He literally just means they hung too many Nazis.

'for which Europe is now paying a heavy price' idk NATO/EU member states have taken exactly zero military combat casualties in Ukraine even as Russia takes Verdun-scale losses.

So guessing what you really mean is you passed a halal cart on your way to a 40k Krieg convention in Stuttgart.

Germany is, as I write this, reorganizing the entire defense strategy of Europe to account for Russia AND the United States as hostile actors. Rapidly expanding its military spending, filling orders for Ukraine, coordinating allied deployments to Greenland.

So clearly Palantir means the other thing

To list of 'prosecutorial/investigative avenues post-Trump' I'd add 'aggressive enforcement of controlled substance laws as they pertain to executives in the Defense industry, especially those with security clearances.' bsky.app/profile/elio...

Batman from The Dark Knight Returns breaking a gun labeled "AI even if you're making fun of it" in half as he says "this is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."

tapping sign

Both are younger than Trump and have probably been brain poisoned into believing medbeds are around the corner so why would they ever give up their meal ticket

This one has a certain air of authenticity.