Posts by The Wise Old Bat โ๐
Remember when they said we had plenty?
We're f*cked.
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Vaccines werenโt about politics.
They were about keeping people healthy enough to do the job.
You donโt protect a force by ignoring preventable illness.
You protect it by keeping it ready.
Iโm not guessing. I lived this. DNIF isnโt theoreticalโitโs what happens when readiness fails
1/2 Whiskey Pete says flu shot mandates donโt affect military readiness.
Thatโsโฆ not how the military works.
If you get sick โ youโre DNIF.
No flying. No mission.
Now imagine that spreading through a crew or a ship.
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Here I am working on something, and I look at the oil price today - well that was down to $85 last week, but it's back up approaching $100 again.
I have to ask - what did Trump do or say now?
Cheap gas is history. It won't be coming back any time soon, if at all.
Iran is not going to Pakistan for a round 2 of talks, scheduled for this week.
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/19/i...
The Pope should excommunicate JD if he keeps this up.
Growing up we all learned the "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue" song - and were taught that Columbus "discovered" America.
Well, maybe for the Spaniards.
Leif Erikson was here 492 years earlier - this marker is where his home was.
Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Someone made huge trades minutes before Trump made the announcement that caused oil to drop 10%.
I want to know who.
I want someone held accountable.
It gets closer every day.
Don't buy @realDonaldTrump saying it's almost over - this is the train of C-17 cargo planes carrying munitions to the Middle East.
13 by my count.
They won't even give us an estimate of how much this "excursion" is going to cost us.
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/i...
Europe will run out of jet fuel in 6 weeks.
This is on Donald Trump
When you want to understand shipping issues like the current situation with oil tankers, Sal is your guy.
I have listened to Trump say "10 ships went through" and he shows you that it was 3. Same thing when he said "20 ships went through as a present". No, they didn't.
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Again?
This was fun. Sure I rambled - but I can do he weave, too!
This young man was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a Trump Gulag. He was a junior in high school on his way to volleyball practice. His friends and family were traumatized. On No Kings Day 3.0, he came out and spoke to 180,000.
He shouldn't have had to go through this.
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They won't pass, but I wish they would. Of course, who knows who would be next - Jared?
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Marcello Gomes Da Silva said this at the No Kings 3 in Boston and they are words to digest by every American, including MAGAts. He was kidnapped by ICE.
"What kind of future are we building, if fear is stronger than education."
Sometimes the wisest words come from the mouths of children.
May 1st we don't work, go to school, or shop.
Make the regime hear our voices through their wallets.
This link is to a map of locations with an event scheduled.
If you don't have one near you, there are also tools to organize one.
www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/
British RC-135 signals intelligence collection aircraft (I flew on these in the USAF) is heading into Eastern Europe to keep an eye (ears, actually) on Putin's Russia during their war with Ukraine.
I may have missed it, but I haven't seen a US RC here in quite a while.
VICTOR ORBAN HAS CONCEDED IN THE RACE TO REMAIN PRIME MINISTER IN HUNGARY!!!
#ViktorOrban is losing so bad the opposition right now would have a supermajority - and their lead just keeps growing!
@realDonaldTrump couldn't save him.
Orban is losing in a landslide with 53.45% in!
WOW!!
45.71% of the Hungarian vote is in - and right now the opposition party would have a SUPERMAJORITY if this ended now.
Democracy will always defeat authoritarianism.
It will happen here and MAGA will be consigned to history as the worst party to every have the presidency.