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New woman working in the office. She whores around with the CEO and gets promoted. She’s now in charge of HR. She fired a bunch of people who failed drug tests, later bragging and laughing about doing drugs herself, highlighting her lack of integrity from the get go. New CEO is a halfwit brain dead crackpot, told my the board his new VP needs to be a woman of color. He hired said woman as she checks all the boxes. Everyone hates her, she has a new assistant every week. She’s put in charge of the company’s cyber security, the company basically goes into lockdown because she was so incompetent at that task. Company’s stock in the gutter and they are about to file for bankruptcy as other competitors blow them out of the water. Now the board wants to hire said woman as the new CEO. (You are here now) I’ll vote for Trump ten times over than that affirmative action California tramp who said idly while the rest of our world burns (literally, how did you like those pictures from Kabul). Unless you were a deadbeat, 2016-2020 were some of the best years for this country.

Tucker's interviewing. Jeffrey Sachs offers analysis on the whole system surrounding our constant desire to be in a war type stance. Mr Sachs speaks to our pretty constant interference in foreign affairs even when it really doesn't benefit us. The fact we have no coherent foreign policy due to our constant turnover in leadership and so obviously the non-elected bureaucrats end up having significantly more decision making power then our system was designed for. Speaks to what some on here will definitely disagree with in our commitments to Russia on Ukraine and NATO. Our (USA) failure to abide by many commitments we've made to both our allies and to potential threat countries over the years. He draws on his 35 plus years of foreign policy reporting. You might not agree with everything but he knows his stuff even if he also has his own biases. The coverage includes speaking about Cuba, Taiwan, China, Russia, Venezuela, NATO, Iran, Israel ... I watched on 1.25 speed and it was worth the watch if you're interested in our foreign policy and implications to our actions (most of the time) and inaction (very occasionally). Again, nobody is perfectly rational without any bias, but Mr Sachs presents a pretty balanced review/summary of the past 50 years or so.

I look at the 4 years of his administration as compared to the 4 years of this administration, and there is no doubt who I am voting for in 2024. I honestly have serious concerns for us as a country if we have to endure 4 more years of this administration-actually I believe she would make it even worse. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

40 years ago today, 4 Sep 1984, Rockwell International revealed the first production B-1B Lancer (tail number 82-0001) to the public. About 1,500 people attended the rollout (pictured here), where they heard a message from President Reagan, and then listened to a speech from Rockwell Chairman Robert Anderson. The celebratory occasion was somewhat darkened by the crash of one of the B-1’s prototypes a little over a week before, on 29 Aug 1984, which killed Rockwell test pilot T.D. (Doug) Benefield and prompted the Air Force to ground the last flying B-1 prototype. This first production aircraft (82-0001) would eventually get scrapped in the mid-1990s at Ellsworth AFB in compliance with the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). B-1Bs still fly today as long-range, multi-mission bombers for the U.S. Air Force. (Photo: USAF)

Twenty-five years ago today, on 3 Sep 1999 Capt Julie Hudson of the Maryland Air National Guard completed her final mission check ride to qualify as the Air National Guard’s first fully combat ready female A-10 pilot. She’s pictured here standing in front of an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the Maryland National Guard’s 1999 Annual Report. Prior to her training in the A-10, Capt Hudson flew the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, and in her civilian life, she was a commercial pilot for Northwest Airlines. The A-10 itself is a close air support attack plane, nicknamed the “Warthog,” that make an iconic “BRRRT” sound when firing its 30mm GAU-8/A cannon (seen sticking out of the front of the A-10 behind Capt Hudson), which can fire 3,900 water-bottle-sized rounds per minute. (Photo: Maryland National Guard)

Russia and this war are good for the old checking account. Not mine, of course, but some old dudes' in control of the war machine.

Reminds me of Milton and that red stapler.

Tucker has always been ahead of the curve on domestic issues, and almost always wrong on international ones. But you can't really expect someone to be right about everything, can you?

Using this example you provided, Sadi CEO was said he would start WW3, but didn’t. He brought rouge countries in line and treated them as an adult and they played nicely with their neighbors. He also ended ISIS after he came in a cleaned up from the mess he inherited. He didn’t sell out our country for profit like the guy who replaced him or take classified docs out for many years that he had no business doing. Or enrich his family and try to go after his rivals like the CEO who replaced him. Or drive up the cost of everything? can’t be any worse off than we are now and we know what we’d be getting with rehiring the old CEO.

Don't forget the sim time.

I had similar bad timing/unsuccessful at snagging a fighter unit spot when I was in my 20s, and I was in much worse econ position than you in that I wasn't making major FO money at such a young age, nor had the flying quals to be one during the lost decade. I still wouldn't enlist for the sake of a UPT slot, it's a very low percentage play in the aggregate. Odds are you'll end up spinning your wheels and end up encumbered with the impositions of an enlisted job that isn't really going to add much to your primary income generation career. As to fighter or die thing, I get it, I resembled the remark too. Given my experience with the process, and my own outcomes and history now as a middle aged guy within spitting distance of the jelly of the month, I know what advice I'd give you, if you weren't a major FO already. ..But you are one already. As such, I'd just focus on your airline career and fund the F1-rocket/Gamebird airplane fund if you can't get a fighter spot tbh. But I'm me, I'm not you. Good luck to ya.

I remember having a conversation with my 70 year old step-mother right before the 2016 election and she was voting for Hillary. I asked her why. Her answer was "I'm a Democrat so I have to vote for her". I inquired more about her stating she "had" to vote for her. Turns out she thought that because she was a registered democrat she was only allowed to vote for democrats. She had been voting democrat for 50 years this whole time because she didn't know she had the option to change parties or vote for other candidates. I wonder what percentage of the population votes that have zero idea of what/why they are voting.

Tom is good people. He was a phenomenal commander at 1 SOW. He’s got his flaws, but we all do. I appreciate how disruptive he is to the bureaucracy and those who pledge their careers to the status quo.