And that's setting aside the army's tendency to gatekeep who gets to have an opinion.
No tab? No opinion!
Not CAV? No opinion!
Didn't deploy? No opinion!
Not of sufficient rank? STFU Noob!
Maybe he peaked in ranger school but getting through that is an achievement worth noting. Doesn't make you a good person or good worker or even a good leader.
But it is an achievement.
As a mediocre white cis male let me just say.
The absolute balls it takes a non command O3 to tell thousands of Ranger tabbed soldiers that they have to go do it again because it was too easy as evidenced by the small number of women who have graduated.
Fukn WILD. Levels of audacity never seen.
The funniest part of this is that he didn't understand just how many make it through ranger school every year.
They have a high washout rate, sure, but also a pretty high annual throughput for a military school.
Maybe he thought there weren't that many classes cuz he couldn't get a slot...
If a non-tabbed former Army National Guard Captain who never even held company command revoked that many Ranger tabs in one fell swoop I honestly think we would be the closest to outright mutiny that this country has seen in 100 years.
Even Vietnam had issues.
Just.... George Washington would laugh at him.
It's a bold choice as he rattles the saber with Iran and leaks plans to shift to Cuba.
Jungle warfare, famous for not having disease issue.
Government is serious business meant for serious people.
Illness has been the third army that got to vote in so many battles in history. But there is no war other than GWOT and it wasn't as much for a factor there so clearly we don't need to fight it anymore.
He's gonna contract out logistics huh?
Health readiness is woke, apparently
I feel like there is a hierarchy.
Starts with books because there are gatekeepers and it takes sustained thought to come up with a book.
Then there's social media. Slightly more pushback if you're a tool. But less commitment to the bit.
But podcasting is just letting your dumbass flag fly.
Same reason mediocre men podcast.
There is an inherent belief that that their every thought should be admired by the public at large.
The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site with satirical echoes of the fringe conspiracy theories that Mr. Jones is known for. Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destination for independent and experimental comedy. “I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity,” Mr. Heidecker said in an interview. During a recent trip to Philadelphia, he traveled to the Liberty Bell to film a video in character as the new creative director of Infowars.
Get excited.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
Not picking on the range saying they should have more.
But I think most Americans are under the impression that there isn't a huge US presence on the ground around Iran. And that is incorrect.
The perennial problem of advertising shit that DIDNT happen.
Verification without giving actors ideas?
Accusations of doing nothing?
Google Project Sapphire, it's literally nothing like an Iran snatch and grab op would be.
To start, it was done ***in cooperation with the Kazakhstan government*** lmao
The businesses and markets pricing in a TACO or "cooler heads prevailing" are really missing some key differences between his usual choices and war with deep international implications.
One side deciding when the war ends doesnt care about the stock market at best, and is hostile to it at worst.
Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.
CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
I can't believe there's no Traditional Wife Simulator on Steam
My understanding was that was the US Gov impounding the oil.
Giving letters of Marque today would result in Private military contractors going to war with each other funded by corporations and insurance companies.
So like cyberpunk.
For what?
Piracy worked because you could sell off what you captured or collect a bounty on what you killed.
That doesn't work anymore.
1. Look good.
2. Don't get lost.
3. If you do get lost, see rule 1.
4. Take care of the people who work for or are approximately equal to you.
I did not know that legally trees are made of money and hope to get more information about this particular story.
Some lady went super viral on tiktok for videoing the 20 trees her neighbors cut down on her property and the 7ish foot fence they put up afterwards.
Lawsky is apparently salivating.
CENTCOM posting photos of Apaches flying over the strait of Hormuz (on Twitter of course) really torturing that "no boots on the ground" statement.
They don't have much range and can't aerial refuel.
Except US dollars are 75% cotton and 25% linen. So only trees in the most tortured sense of the word.
Eagerly scrolling for the explainer thread on why trees are made of money legally.
I dislike that this sesawing of traders makes me question the whole point of the indexes. The "wisdom of the crowds" is in question.
