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To confirm, you’re saying when the House report is released you bet there will be proof that Gaetz is a sex offender, which is a felony? You’re betting me alcohol that the house report will have evidence sufficient to uphold criminal charges of felony sex offense? I accept your terms. Let’s gamble.

The constitution doesn't give illegal immigrant pedophiles the right to swing their dong in front of my daughter in a bathroom while making it a hate crime for me to object. you know what, continue your absurd rhetoric. This obvious hysteria is what drove many liberals to abandon the democrat party. I support your TDS self-immolation, continue.

Got any proof? Because if DOJ could have nailed him on it I think they would have. its unfortunate after all we’ve seen recently that an accusation is enough to condemn someone.

Normally I’d agree, but these are exceptional circumstances. Think of his context: he’s been hounded by false accusations, literally had SES level players working with opposing campaigns to fabricate stories about him, his own generals illegally conspired behind his back to undermine his orders…. This has been a unique period on our history. He was given a decisive mandate for change by the American people, and knows from experience he cannot execute without a team committed to his vision. If you were a WG/CC leading a complete re-org under pressure of WW3 and given total hiring authority, would you rather have a team of SQ leaders you trusted to follow your intent or a team who had the normal pedigree but you knew their hearts weren’t onboard with your priorities? An imperfect analogy but it conveys my point. saying “loyalty is a key hiring criteria” plays into the dictator claims made against him, but I also see his perspective. If a boss asked for my loyalty, I’d say “loyalty to what?” The mission? The team? The ideas we took an oath to protect? Commanders intent? Or you personally even if you commit crimes? The first 4 are fine of course, the fifth definitely not. He’d be better served saying “trust” instead of “loyalty” but who am I to give advice? Bottom line I’m excited to see how it plays out and optimistic.

I don't know much about him either but this sounds ok.

Well, he's not a pussy and he hates feckless weak bureaucracy. Good in my book. What do you consider appropriate pedigree for the position?

Confirmed that the 3 US carriers operating into PAP all landed with small arms damage (Spirt, JetBlue & AAL). Time to load CLTs on the 73 and set up an orbit 🗡️

Interesting follow up to the story. I gotta tell you, Elon Musk taking over Twitter and restoring free speech is one of the greatest things to happen in my lifetime.

But they couldn't secure the nomination. He did. So your point is irrelevant.

I have no opinion on his motivations for mishandling classified documents, what kind of response were you expecting? I don’t know the man. And who said he’s a student of national defense? WTF are you talking about? Mishandling classified is a crime. That’s bad and I don’t support or condone it. However selective prosecution of crime is worse. A lot of what you guys simplistically label “whatabout-ism” is legitimate anger at double standards. If the law is the law and people who break it are punished (including Trump) then great! But democrats didn’t offer that, instead they offered lawfare against their political opponents, censoring free speech, men in womens sports, hate crimes for Christian’s praying outside abortion clinics and bail for looters burning police stations. Most of this nation saw it and rejected it.

Those articles are garbage. It asserts a truth (Trump deliberately delayed disaster aide to PR) without providing requisite evidence to convince the reader. An article that says something doesn’t make it true; haven’t you seen this same playbook enough times to recognize it? Give some critical thinking to the links you provided and try seeing them through the eyes of a skeptic; are they still the mic drop evidence you initially thought they were? You find me a Trump supporter on record ordering aid to avoid areas overtly favoring democrat politicians and I’ll say there’s equivalency, but neither link even comes close to that threshold.

No, he appears not to bear ill-will against those he competes with. It's strange to attempt deciphering his actions, but we've seen him shit talk Cruz, Vivek, DeSantis and others then turn around and work with them seemingly without any grudge. His turnabout regarding rhetoric on Kemp is noteworthy. He's tough to figure, best I can guess he doesn't take things personally if you seem useful. i think he won't use her because he doesn't need to, got burned by insiders last time & places her in the same category as Pence who wasn't a loyal ally. But to answer your question, I wouldn't trust her because she appears to place personal ambition over team cohesion and mission accomplishment. What do you like about her?

I hope that happens, and I think any GO is senior. I have some names to suggest if he's looking. And Miley should be pulled from retirement just to get demoted.

It's anomalous in national politics, and definitely bears exploring. The only thing known for certain: it can't be fraud. Biden was the most popular POTUS in our history and the election process is airtight.

I wouldn't trust her.

You're probably right, he's got issues. But the FBI needs somebody with executive experience and a passionate desire to change that place for the better. Which means ruthless destruction of sacred cows.

Hope he fires Wray and appoints Mike Flynn. That place needs a deep cleaning. A political & unaccountable DOJ/FBI is the greatest internal threat we face, a solution must be prioritized. i don't he'll bring in Halley unless he's certain she wouldn't secretly work against him. Which she might. I'm guessing Grenell for Sec State & Whitaker for AG.

Reddit very reasonable right now

Good analysis, but reconcile for me the idea that Russia is incapable of taking a sliver of Ukrainian territory with the idea they are an aggressive near-peer and threat to Europe? It seems they can't be simultaneously so dangerous we're doing containment by attrition but also too retarded to field a capable force even short distances outside their borders. As mentioned, I acknowledge we're in it now with no turning back, so am genuinely curious what we're really dealing with regarding RUS threat potential.

That is a stunning pace of attrition; my western mind struggles to grasp sustaining that volume of casualties. I’m often thought this war was foolish and unnecessary, but here we are and there’s no turning back. Curious what threshold of loss is required to get parties at a negotiating table.

Don’t you love lining up a tight shot between clouds chasing squirters while someone shouts like an auctioneer “1-3 N/A, your sensor your sensor, call pushing with time to release, call in, call…. Standby…. You still in position for immediate release?” 😂 Pro tip the answer is always yes, even if the truth is no. They told me it shows the highest degree of control, making the CG most comfortable. Nevermind the strikes that were aborted because procedures were incomplete, we can do it another day. Better to cancel than take a risk, there’s always tomorrow, we’re not really here to win…. The outcome of AFG didn’t surprise anyone who fought it.

Side note on your last sentence- I’m a member of several GWOT groups and I’ve been shocked how many are full are army dudes with serious psychological issues allegedly from their single deployment… whether or not they saw combat. I say allegedly because I don’t know these people so am taking their comments at face value. I wonder if the Taliban is full of sad ex-fighters dealing with regrets and nightmares. I’m sure not the same due to cultural differences but I am curious what lasting effects they’ll have. Genuinely curious, don’t mean to sound disparaging. For the first part, I’m not sure we actually do know how to kill people and break things on scale. Tactically yes or course, but at the operational to strategic level we proved incapable of leveraging violence successfully to achieve desired outcomes. Yes nation building was a fools errand in AFG, but imagine we didn’t have restrictive ROE and every enemy identified was killed. We would have “won” by pure attrition; or at least not been driven out in shame. Our self imposed rules (from 09-21) made killing them in amounts necessary simply impossible; as they advanced using large convoys in the open we were too caught up in “near certainty” and “proportionality” to be decisive and ruthless. Even the fact we used Type 2 CAS procedures instead of SCAR for interdiction missions with no friendlies present speaks to an obsession with control at the expense of combat effectiveness. I will continue to blame our generals and be convinced we could have killed our way to victory, and although our captains are great at killing our leaders suck at aligning those actions into a sum greater than its parts.

It’s amazing the information gathering possible with publicly available big data analytics. I’d love to see something similar for Trump rallies.

Bro, there isn't an answer to this question for me. I'm not looking to be inspired by a politician, or to become emotionally involved about their opinions. I'm voting for Trump only because I believe his policies will make my life and this country better. I don't care if he shit talks John McCain or some retired general (the GWOT generals can't win and deserve derision anyway). Well I agree with this & cheers back at you; I appreciate reading your opinions despite thinking them completely wrong and slightly retarded. I'm sure we'd have a fun conversation over whiskey then go crush a mission and have each others back 🇺🇸 But you do have TDS 🙂