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It’s official: Biden is the worst POTUS in our nations history.

The good ones all leave because they're scared they won't be backed up by their leadership. We have lots of LE on our Guard base and many have left their gigs for full time Guard for these reasons. They all say the same thing, I'm one well edited video away from being fired, or worse. These are great people who I imagine we're great cops, trying to be good public servants to their community. Just like active duty experiences, most of the good ones bail and your left with what's left. The good ones who do stay, have an uphill battle. Side note, I could never be LE... I'd be fired, or in jail for excessive force when dealing with some of the assholes/bad guys they deal with daily. I'm very thankful we have those who can keep their tempers in check.

@QUAG thanks lol! I’ve been refreshing this site every two hours, my wife don’t want to listen to me no more on this…you guys are all I got now till they release results!🤣

Slow your roll bro...I made ZERO disparaging personal remarks about you or anyone else. And for the record, I can comprehend that multiple things can be true at the same time...keep in mind much of this is subjective. The point of diminishing returns is certainly subjective and probably tracks more closely with our national objectives. Relegating Russia to non-peer is definitely worth continued investment. Check the Economist and few other news sources that are now reporting on Russia's worsening economic issues. Inflation is now rampant and some think Putin has a tenuous grip on power. This is the great game and should be viewed that way instead of a simple fight in Ukraine.

Sorry dudes, not buying it, when it’s been politicized like it has even the smart college-educated guys can lose their minds. It’s now somehow “liberal” to send weapons to Ukraine. Fuck that noise. It’s a false choice to think that there’s a choice between sending old weapons to Ukraine and securing borders or whatever. It’s a minuscule amount of the budget, and something that nearly everyone in Congress agreed on until key MAGA mouthpieces (that are literally paid by Russian media) started focusing on it. Quitting on the Ukraine is cowardly and reprehensible, don’t care what your airplane quals are.

Not the totality of the dynamic, but the main issue is an accessions/compensation chasm, like everything else in life. No buck no buck rogers. As an employment demographic? No, I don't think you're working with the best psychologically suited for the job; giving some of these types lethal force legal arbitrage is a poor bet all around. Frankly, the compensation situation in some jurisdictions is so bad you attract the exact wrong temperance for the job, as a Hobson's choice. Everybody loses in that deal. Just like educators, you can't afford the people you presume to want. The thin blue line stuff is also caustic and tribal. I argue if jurisdictions paid and thus had the ability to accessions-discriminate to the standard needed, the qualified immunity issue would be moot. #hottake

On topic, a family member got pulled over in GA and was confronted by an angry cop. Situation was described as very unprofessional. Fam said he was accused of cutting the cop off and nearly causing an accident, but said it wasn't him. Fam filed a complaint, requested cam footage, and fought the ticket, which was eventually dropped. I can see a cop getting pissed for what happened to them and then pull over the wrong person because there's plenty of white pickups out there. Not an excuse for the behavior, but the job can wear a good person down. I have a cuz that lived thru BLM riots, and have other F&F in policing. I hope they don't let the bad affect em too much. Good policy is paramount. I see the problem is somewhat like the AF. The good ones get tired of the system and leave for better places. The bad ones thrive and rise in rank. These YT channels are good sunlight.

Civil Rights Lawyer is good as well. I should have included Audit the Audit - https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit They include all the relevant case law.

Lackluster is also great. Everything is backed up by law/case law in all his videos. https://www.youtube.com/@LackLusterMedia Same with this guy. Great content https://www.youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyer

I wanted to believe the numbers were small but man there are a LOT of videos out there. The First Amendment Auditing Community shined a big spotlight on how many cops don't understand our basic rights. As a dude who swore an oath to the Constitution I'm appalled at some of the stuff that is out there. For the record, my brother in law is a chief of police for a large department and we talk about it a lot. He graduated from the FBI academy and as a side gig has been doing all sorts of contract training at departments around the country. He has watched many of the videos with me and is just as appalled. His comments always fall back to two things: 1. A lack of training and 2. Contempt of Cop. It is even worse when you mix the two together. For those that want to know more I highly recommend a youtube channel run by Jeff Gray. He is one of the OG auditors and does not have the caustic insulting approach many of the others have. He rarely insults the officers...on occasion when they clearly push him over the line. Jeff's standard procedure is to stand on public property, usually the steps of city hall, with a sign that says God Bless the Homeless Vets. I've lost track of how many times he has been arrested for holding that sign. He works with a couple of non-profits and tries to hold these department/cities accountable. He donates most of the settlements to charities including homeless shelters. His channel is below. https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH/videos

I stayed single and did well. Fortunately BQZip's mom drove to Del Rio on the weekends to keep my currency up.

Four nights ago, Beale did the Monday Night Football flyover at Levi Stadium. Challenging airspace, to say the least, and led by a young ex T-6 FAIP who is a brand new flight lead. This is how it is done. Perfection IMG_1720.mov Edit: forgot to mention... 58 and 60 year old A-models, with an iPad and a stopwatch

The moment GS positions are cut at a mil base, the state and federal level politicians lose their shit, both sides. They get on news and call the move outrageous, etc. Case in point, look up when DoD deleted JFCOM. However, about half of those cats were contractors. Early in my career, I spent some time around an office that lost it's work. Most of the workers were GSers. So they came in everyday and literally did nothing. Some tried to find busy work, rest played on the internet, and a SrA flirted with a married woman so much her husband left her. Point being, some of those GS are hired to do dumb things. I think we should try getting rid of the dumb things and not put it back on mil dudes. Just hit delete.

Like a stone. Technically Audioslave. Sue me.

We currently have 2 former CV-22 students in the MC-J pipeline; they got non-vol’d to us after last years stand down. Poor guys went all the way through New River and most of the way through the ABQ CV-22 sim before they were swapped. Tough time to be an Osprey guy right now.

At the moment Ospreys only drop from Rucker, that said, the community is undergoing tremendous change right now, who knows what is possible. While its a super cool airframe, it is one I would avoid right now. There is so much uncertainty and so few flying hours to go around, I cannot imagine it will be a healthy place for the young pilot development until it stabilizes.

Every once in a while, you gotta do a Bloodhound Gang night. Uhn Tiss Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo And the famous, Bad Touch.

You have a point well but over 70 years has past since the end of the Chinese Civil War, they have defended their island and they have established their national and cultural identity separate from the authoritarian power on the mainland When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. This will suck when it eventually goes kinetic, we will be attacked physically on our homeland by them and we will be significantly poorer even if we win initially, they will come back for a round two if that happens but the price is worse if we do nothing Computer chips, sovereign debt… whatever, it is who leads this planet that is going to be determined by a conflict over Taiwan We can pretend it’s not, we can say even if we lose a war over it we will still prevail but I don’t think so. Vietnam, Afghanistan were not the same animal as this would be overt direct confrontation with our rival. If we fight and we lose Taiwan (by we I mean the fractious coalition that is the Free World) then the Islamic world, the Global South and others will cut deals with the PRC to their liking Like it or not we have to be able to win and to recognize yes we are sticking our nose around the world in a dispute that a point can be made we shouldn’t but there is time when we should, the distinction between those is not always clear like art vs pornography but you know when you see it This is one of those times Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am just an internet troll but if I were POTUS I would keep the pressure on for a bit longer. If we go all stop and Russia gets to keep all the land gains Putin can declare victory. Access tot he Black Sea is one of the keys to a prosperous and self-sustaining Ukraine. Losing the Crimea was a big hit, Putin has pushed hard at Kherson and everything around the Tendrivs'ka Gulf because it lets him hold all sea-born Ukraine trade at risk...he effectively controls the black sea. If Ukraine gives up other land but gets some of the coast back then we have good grounds to end it. Putin is feeling the pain, I would keep the pressure on until he is willing to give up more.

Kinda a lame attack in Las Vegas. He killed himself in a Cybertruck full of fireworks, in the lobby of the Trump tower. Probably the gayest suicide bombing of the year.

Walk away? Why type of high school romance analysis is this? No, they are not going to willingly "lay it down" against China. They are going to send what they have, where we tell them to send it because they know without us they are nothing more than Chinese vacation destinations. And I bet the Japanese have no interest in finding out how much the Chinese remember about their treatment during WWII. And where does this NATO loyalty come from? As soon as the threat from Russia fell with the Berlin Wall, Western Europe allowed their militaries to crumble into dust, finally free to spend that money on social programs and solar panels. NATO is a joke, and it exists for one reason. We saved them from Russia (and freed the rest of them), and they know we are the only thing preventing it from happening again. So in exchange for our blanket of strength, they had to pull their weight (a whopping 2%). Of course future American liberal politicians found orgasmic elation from the fantasy that we had finally defeated human nature once and for all and "ended history," so they were only too happy to look the other way while the European military capability evaporated. Now Russia is reminding everyone just how scary a few hundred thousand soldiers on your border can be, even if they lack any semblance of training or modern equipment, and suddenly the Euros have a newfound appreciation for NATO. Cute. You have to be delusional (and I know you aren't) if you think any of these countries are going to raise a single pistol against China unless they think it's the only way to maintain their sovereignty and get the Americans into the fight. The Germans sacrificed their entire energy industry for cheap Russian gas, just wait until we find out how dependent these countries are on the Chinese when the time comes to "lay it down." Our loyalty has always been transactional. Welcome to democracy. Thomas Jefferson learned it the hard way less than 10 years after he helped create this country. Many others have learned it since. Exactly. NATO only has value if the members are capable of military projection. And if you've ever negotiated anything, you should know that your have no leverage if you aren't willing to walk away.

Yeah, the mudhen dudes deserved the silver star just coming back to land in a Patriot MEZ.

Have 0/5 times gotten a positive impression after talking to Patriot guys.

I’m just going to remind the room, this would happen more often if the Army had more give a shit with its tactical air defense. The only reason this isn’t happening regularly is we just don’t have that many Patriots in service. Plan accordingly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I hope you boys haven't accidentally summoned PYB back into the chat. ETA: Oh shit! He's still actively posting on his site and clearly still lurks...

Shack...a truly maddening story from my time as an O-6 commander. GS-13 employee is in charge of processing security clearances at the wing...office was actually in the wing HQ. Dude has a severe drinking problem and had several documented issues with discipline actions but never a suspension. He leaves work each day around 1100 to go drink at the local VFW. Anonymous complainant turns him in and an investigation is opened. Dude has a very distinctive yellow Bumble Bee Camaro that is seen parked outside the VFW everyday for MONTHS on end. As I recall OSI documents 37 occasions where he completes his time card saying a full day of work but actually works four hours then spends the rest of the day drinking at the VFW....pictures, time stamps, the works for what should be a slam dunk case. Charges filed and process starts to fire him, he throws the "I am an alcoholic card" and goes into treatment...the union decides to protect him. Coming out of treatment he comes back to work but his security clearance is revoked and his position requires a clearance. Union fights for him all the way to SECAF who ultimately restores his clearance after him pushing papers as an admin for 18 months while someone else did his work. I am told he worked four more years then retired with his pension.