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Hey y’all, just reporting back that I got my first dose of the vaccine and I’m happy to say I’ve got full bars of 5G already and I streamed the game last night directly into my eyeballs. It was fantastic! Roll Tide. J/K obviously, but everyone please go out and get the vaccine as soon as you can so we can end this terrible pandemic. Science FTW.

He has been one of the more vocal republicans the last few days. I thought about him on our board. Glad he is speaking up.

I can’t disagree with this based on our current government’s ineptitude. They are damning poor people and small businesses. Even landlords. A more middle grounded solution would have been to provide funds to high risk folks to actually quarantine while allowing everyone that’s not high risk to take whatever precautions they want. Would still result in over hospitalization, so target that problem. To put it in perspective, we could have given the 100M “high risk” Americans 20k this year (enough for food and shelter, don’t come outside) and still had $1T for medical system fortifications (this is an actually insane amount of money) for the same cost as the $3.1T in stimulus bills we’ve wasted. It’s insane. I’m not saying that’s the right answer, but it sure as hell would have done more for America than whatever the hell we did. And it would have actually involved personal responsibility and liberty, at least to an extent.

That's for AGRs. Add this to very long, but distinguished, list of reasons to be a DSG (Drill-Status Guardsman for you AD folk). Seriously, don't be full time!

So for a community that often derides leadership for acting without evidence, preaches innocent until proven guilty, etc...you're upset that she called for gathering evidence and actually having a trial for war crimes?

“Quit hating people you disagree with”. So damned true. The last 30 seconds were the best part.

And now that the election is over... Coumo wants to reopen New York.

Open up the economy. if you’re opposed to this you probably have been getting a steady paycheck every two weeks. check your privilege

That's a very legitimate point, one I agree with. But your attitude towards the virus side of it makes it hard to truly get after the poor govt response because the conspiracy theory whackjobs can't get past the "this is fake" part to have a real discussion. Govt is screwing this up by the numbers. Trump made it worse by a factor of who knows how stinkin much, so now all his Trumpkins will.never admit it, and prolong this much more than it would have been a problem. If reasonable people start acting like it's real, take it seriously, the tools will fall in line, and we can do more common sense things to fix the economy.

I personally know two older people who contracted COVID and died as a result. But they were old people and their lives don't matter as much so I don't really care. /s I'm of the opinion that the virus is real, is causing real economic damage because real people are getting sick and dying. I also believe that we cannot, and should not, shutter our economy because of this virus that the vast majority recover from. But it's kinda ridiculous to discount the true damage the virus has caused simply because you personally don't know anyone who has died from it.

Sorry this is a few days late, but I just don't understand this mentality, or the seemingly small minded support of it. Seriously, people upvote this crap? Pure speculation with absolutely nothing to add to the factual conversation, but definitely leads people unwilling to do research themselves to go on believing this whole pandemic is just made up nonsense by the "man" to keep us down. Or that it isn't bad enough to take seriously. Yep, the powers that be are just continuing this garbage to ruin the economy, exert undue authority over us, limiting our rights and strike fear into our lives... Get real! This could definitely be handled better, but half of the problem is this stupid mentality backed up by nothing close to resembling science.

To me, screw politics. His actions, at the very least for the last 6ish months, have been beyond the pale. Time to show everyone else that wants to blatantly lie that there are repercussions. It would also serve to hedge all the extremists on the D side since a precedent will have been set. Impeach or 25th amendment works for me.

Like stirring a big pot of Kraft Mac and Cheese

Wish we had audio of it becoming unstuck. I feel like there would be a great BQZip’s mom joke in there somewhere.

Number one way I can tell a movie/TV show is going to suck: dead characters coming back. When the producers and writers get attached to the actors instead of the story, the story inevitably crumbles. Just look at Game of Thrones. GRRM loved the world and the story, not the characters, so they died when it was best for the plot. As soon as the source material ran out, we got two seasons of steamy horse shit, because regular ass Hollywood writers and producers took over, and they just know how to stick to the formula. WW84 is just another casualty.

Hey, I've swilled beer in there. Granted, it was like 33 years ago; but it still counts.

Us old retired guys don't do the "tacticool" look very well.

For all the folks complaining that Trump has been muzzled, ya know, there’s a way for him to get his message out: When’s the last time this podium was used? Seemed to work fine for every president preceding Trump. Sorry, but I always thought Twitter was an inappropriate place for presidential messaging anyway. Let’s see the man show his face and explain himself.

Well, whatever happens in the wake of the Capitol riots, you can rest assure the DC types will handle it in such a way as to create the worse possible outcome for everyone, especially the rest of the country who wasn't there taking part... They seem to excel at that.

Go fuck yourself. I have no underlying health concerns and it nearly KILLED me and I can assure you prior I was not already prone to dying. Idiots like you make me want to vomit...truly a clueless fuckwit. Two of my immediate family members were thankfully released from the hospital yesterday after receiving all possible therapeutics and one being given last rites. I am all for keeping things open and using mitigation measures to protect those at great risk but saying this is a nuisance is fucking ignorant. There is a lot we simply don't understand especially as it related to certain blood types.

Mhmm, because we've never attacked targets accidentally with incomplete intel. Come on man, are you new at this? Do you really trust our intel apparatus that much? They are awful!

Ya know I wrote this whole angry reply but I deleted it. Here's what I think: A) I'm glad COVID hasn't affected your family much; count yourself as lucky. B) If you want to end the pandemic-mitigation measures, I hope you're getting vaccinated ASAP and encouraging everyone you know to do the same. I sure am! C) I would tread a bit more lightly re: "Well I don't know anyone who died..." because many, many of us do and it's kind of a dick move to base your entire world view on the extremely narrow lense of your own personal experiences.

Seems like you're really committed to calling "gather evidence and try him in court" a defense of Assad. The whole point is not to launch sorties. Because we've seen that it often causes more problems than it solves...Is Libya better off without Gaddaffi?

Clearly, you're the sample size we should base all info on... Science!

Dude very few people have seen that evidence and Tulsi likely never saw it when she discussed it. Weve all seen intel reports and seen how wildly off base they can be. She was an Army officer she probably remembers that too. She provided a voice of caution. Obama was a warhawk who campaigned on peace, then turned around and entered us into other conflicts most Americans never heard of and deepened out stakes in the two existing conflicts he inherited. That didn't sit well with a lot of Democrats who thought of themselves as the party of peace. The same intel community reported with consensus WMDs were in Iraq. It is considered one of the greatest national intelligence failures of all time and is widely discussed in intel academia. I'm not going to hold a grudge against anyone who said "wait a minute, let's make sure we got our shit straight this time before entering another cluster fuck."

Or just wait a week. Crazy, I know.

Clearly Trump avoided press conferences because he couldn't come up with credible responses in real time. On Twitter he could make outlandish claims without being challenged. And his base ate it up due to confirmation bias. I should add that I'm referring to solo press conferences in which the President takes the podium alone. In his first three years, Obama did 25. Trump did 9.

Yeah but if he had an actual press conference he might have to answer super duper unfair questions from the lame stream media. Questions like: why did you incite an insurrection? why do you continue to deny the results of an election virtually all republicans acknowledge was legitimate? why did you try to pressure the Vice President into doing something he has no constitutional power to do? I suspect this is why you're seeing mainly pre-recorded messages from the president at this point. Yet, somehow he manages to botch those too.

Well those same intelligence agencies said there were WMDs in Iraq. Don't believe everything national intelligence says. They do a decent job most of the time but they have been wrong a lot. I'm not saying they were wrong in this instance but I havent personally reviewed the analysis and I doubt Tulsi had either when she made that comment. You will save lives as a military commander if you always approach intelligence you recieve with scrutiny and skepticism.

Agreed. She's trying to position herself for a fox news gig. She went from actively working against gay marriage, to speaking for Bernie Sanders at the DNC, to suddenly spending every outlet she gets to talk about her newly found conservative positions and rail against Democrats. Add to this her being outright strangely defensive of Assad and I can't figure her out. Plus there is the whole growing up in the cult thing (an offshoot of Hare Krishna called the Science of Identity Foundation) and being married to a guy who's still heavily involved. Sent from my SM-N975U using Baseops Network mobile app

Pretty clear guidelines about relationships with people in your rating chain. Otherwise, I typically don't care. I don't even care he was married. They were separated and divorce was imminent. Honestly, the first question in an adultery investigation should be to the spouse "do you really care?" If the answer is no, move on. But allowing a relationship with a subordinate to spiral to the point that he/she believes they are above their immediate chain is certainly problematic.

You're both right, Conservatives are held to lower standards and Letists never encourage violence, use language that could be interpreted as violence approving or have used language that has degraded our political conversation. https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/politics/eric-holder-republicans-when-they-go-low/index.html https://victorhanson.com/wordpress/tag/punish-our-enemies/

I literally laughed at the fact you don't see your glaring hypocrisy.

I have 10%. They are independent processes. I have heard above 40% disability means you can't get flight status, but I don't know for sure. I would recommend getting a rating before you come off orders.

That seems so wrong, but I’m prejudiced. My EW school was almost six months long after nav school. What good is a WSO who doesn’t know what a prf is going to be to a growler squadron? Such a person would be almost useless in a Weasel or Raven squadron back in the day.

I’m sorry you got non-volled to a pot luck. Next time just have someone else scan your ID and sign the 1522.

Hasn't it been determined that the COVID-19 spreads through respiration, not through food? Hey, you do you. I'm sure nobody missed you at their farewell.

I don't know how much this helps you make the decision regarding the FCI, but consider that if the medical conditions you describe are in your military medical record, they will come to light whether you file for disability or not. The fact that you claim/have disability shouldn't change the decision on your FCI. Those decision should be based solely on the results of your exam. I think someone on this board posted that they received disability for a hearing loss, but passed the FCI hearing test. So, things like that happen.

The 16th SOS owned a bar in FWB for many years, the Fireside. Many a debrief happened there.

I wrote them and got a draft of the proposed new emblem. Not approved yet but in coordination. CD64EF33-660B-45F2-99B4-8039C994B068.pdf

Rule of Thumb: If you cannot drink the tap water in a country, don’t fly their nation’s airlines.

That clip was refreshing. Bravo

The 160th would just crank it up and pull collective until something happened.

Why don’t we start with not requiring military members to pay federal and state income tax? That’s an easy pay increase across the board with no perceptible reduction in tax revenue.

You’re a ing troll. But because your stupid shit might rub off...surface transmission is nearly zero. People are using all that cleaning stuff because they haven’t actually read anything about this virus. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

We spent the last month removing metric tons of equipment and personnel out of an unnamed third world wonder...only to be told we have to prepare to undo that and put everything back in a few weeks..

I have a sneaking suspicion "variant" is a way to keep the public mortified by the virus.