🧵How the death of my Dad was the tipping point in my decision to disown the Army: My father passed away 5 years ago today after many years battling Alzheimer's disease. My father was absent during my childhood and a philanderer while married. 1/x
Read the comments. The sheer glee that people have for the suffering of a Soldier just because he is Russian is absolutely sickening. This is the mindset of "othering* that is growing within America which will lead to very dark places for our society.
As someone with an extreme fear of nuclear war, I've made the decision to move the family to somewhere safer--rural North Dakota. About as far as you can get from population centers. If nothing else, we'll be safe from the warheads.
My number one guide to the new right today is just have a fucking heart somewhere in your body. I’m not saying to be a be a bleeding heart liberal who’s constantly being triggered but being the opposite of your enemies is not a viable strategy. I see on the new right a complete…
AFGHANISTAN OPIUM POPPY SUPPLY PLUMMETS 95% AFTER TALIBAN BAN (Reuters)
Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world's top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year.
Tracking several indicators on LinkedIn. More job postings for executive protection, corporate security, physical security, force protection, protective intelligence, insider threat investigators, insider risk analysts and global security experts.
Wonder what they are seeing?
I see I have triggered some RW’s with this post. Here’s the skinny: Robert E Lee was an insurrectionist and a fucking loser. He lost the war. Losers shouldn’t have a statue. Fuck him. Fuck his supporters and we should all piss on the ashes of the statue.
The GWOT: A Former Neo-Con’s Tale 🧵: I was a sophomore at the Citadel when I watched live as United Airlines Flight 175 hit the World Trade Center’s South Tower. The hair on the back of my neck stood up and I knew right then that everything had changed. 1/x
"Two-thirds of the new officers commissioned in 2014 would be in the bottom one-third of the class of 1980; 41 percent of new officers in 2014 would not have qualified to be officers by the standards held at the time of World War II"
Henry Ford used his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, to spread antisemitism, almost a century before Elon Musk got into a fight with the Anti-Defamation League.
Go make it an official "we", then we'll have a talk about tropical jungle warfare within a 83,000 sq mi nation, which contains South America's largest unspoiled rainforest...
An invaded, defeated nation, whose corpse is humiliated & desecrated by invaders who can not make in their own lands, so they spread, use what is in place, then leave it in ruin once they can not fix it
There is a huge disconnect between the kinds of things Biden is accomplishing and the media environment we are currently in. It is a Presidency built for a pre-internet era.
The inciting incident was a black soldier pistol-whipped by Houston police for intervening in the arrest of a black woman. When word of it reached the soldiers back at camp, they grabbed their rifles and marched on Houston. But their victims were mostly innocent white civilians.
Many criticize
@Cernovich
and his advocating for not watching professional sports.
As each day passes, it becomes evident you are hated by the players, coaches, owners, leagues, and the list goes on
It was the social glue that kept many together, but it is time to move on. Get…
I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y’all not even good at football. Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football. I’m better than ur goat.
The GOP needs to realize that using the government to advance conservative goals, while punishing those who stand in the way, is the only way forward in order to stave off becoming South Africa
I don't care about Russia, but I do know history. I know of the promise not to expand NATO eastward, I know the 1990s Russian economy was destroyed by the West and Putin was elected in response. Russia has geopolitical interests, and the West ignoring them is how we got here
I am not reflexively anti-Ukraine, but all I see is the absolute absence of a plan and huffy outrage when people like me ask what the hell the plan is supposed to be.
They act like they have earned our trust over the last couple decades. Well, they haven’t. The opposite. This is…
I see 30 retired three and four-star military generals who are directly responsible for how poorly the GWOT & related operations were planned and executed, but never held accountable for their total lack of competency and their role in the unnecessary deaths of my colleagues.
A group of 30 retired three and four-star military generals and admirals traveled to Capitol Hill Tuesday to push lawmakers to approve an emergency aid package for Israel and Ukraine as war rages on in both countries.
NEW: The Pentagon has overvalued U.S. equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion. The error opens up the possibility of more weapons being sent to Kyiv, a senate aid and defence official says - Reuters
Let me make this absolutely, crystal clear. Do not, under any circumstance, try to emotionally manipulate me by invoking the deaths of my fellow Soldiers.
Here's my answer: Fuck Off you two-bit wannabe analyst who's never had an original thought regarding military affairs.
California used to be a red state.
The GOP won 8 out of the 9 presidential elections during the mid-1900s.
Even in LA, Republicans won 6 out of 10 presidential elections
Then something changed. In 1986, Reagan granted amnesty to millions of illegals, the majority of them…
I have grown rather weary over the years of politely requesting to be left alone in my way of life, to be met with calls of "traitor" because I have a different opinion regarding Ukraine. Of course, there's only one thing to do with a traitor, right Jonathan?
@PLVS_VLTRA_
@Paratus2014
@PeterWrangel
You mean Afghanistan, The Graveyard of Empires? You ever wonder why they call Afghanistan that and not Kansas?
What am I saying? You've never wondered about anything in your life.
My shoulder replacement surgery was June 6th, the VA hasn't gone beyond evidence collection. I haven't had physical therapy for my shoulder in over 2 months since no one in VA Community Care Network knows what they are doing.
60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
Don't forget kiddos, violence directed towards certain people or groups is not only acceptable but encouraged within "polite" society...seriously, just check out the comments attached to the Tweet that
@PublishersWkly
thought was acceptable to share, even laugh along with
"Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. then hands will not need to be thrown tonight."
Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year's National Book Awards ceremony.
#NBAwards
Once the regime loses all legitimacy, and they are trying to accelerate this process, it’ll be cartels. Horrific blood feud style violence. Demonic stuff where even Christians will be forced to embrace warfare or perish. And for what? Pointless but the left wants it.
He's dead, the coalition he molded to become President is dead because of the long-term consequences of his and subsequent GOP "leaders" and his legacy should be recognized then quickly brushed into the ash heap of history.
JUST IN - Pentagon warns Congress it is running low on money to replace weapons sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops — AP
Can we crush and destroy those who partner with China to bring in deadly fentanyl, sell children into sexual slavery while executing those in America who oppose them? Or will that harm your bottom line?
Israel has every right to crush and destroy the terrorists who attacked her. Maybe now some folks will understand who is really resisting peace in the area.
It took two battalions of men two weeks to find one guy in a relatively dense part of the country with a hostile populace.
There isn't a better demonstration of how vulnerable the US is to asymmetric operations.
I don't think MAGA realizes just how much it have alienated the entire military community. Same goes for the business community. And the law & order community. And the fiscal conservatives.
Please explain to me in detail what I fought for during the last 20 years, especially as it relates to the GWOT. We have less liberty, an increased national security apparatus and no accountability for 20 years of military/political failure.
Well this is long enough, but this isn't the only story of LTC W, the other involving the abuse of military hostile pay which I shall share later.
Acts like this by commanders is why the Army has a retention problem. I wouldn't piss on LTC W if he was on fire. /fin
Again: This weapon is larger and more lethal than what I carried and used in the military. Absolutely zero reason for any civilian to have access to and use for this.
Yet so it goes, on and on. So many more lives and families shattered.
NEW: US must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization program, a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel said on Thursday - Reuters
Many GWOT Vets are jaded because we have seen 20 years of senior military/civilian leaders go unpunished for making disastrous military/political predictions after intervening in a country. We care about America, but we see our leaders as not caring for us. 13/x
@JoshEakle
Did Barbara Walters normalize evil when she interviewed: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat 1977, Fidel Castro 1977, Vladimir Putin 2001, Muammar Gaddafi 1989, Hugo Chávez 2007, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 2011, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 2005 & Yasser Arafat 1977?
So, did she?
Irish PM Leo Varadker is demanding hate speech laws be passed immediately so the government can arrest Irish individuals who speak out:
"Our incitement to hated legislation is not up to date and we need it through in a matter of week."
It could be a cold, grim New Year for thousands of migrant families living in New York City’s emergency shelter system. With winter setting in, they are being told they need to clear out, with no guarantee they’ll be given a bed elsewhere.
Only 16% of Americans would volunteer to serve if a World War broke out and America was under threat of invasion
Only 6% would volunteer to serve if the US was involved in a World War
A direct confrontation between NATO & Russian forces would ensue. I'm not sure NATO has the ability to establish and maintain a no fly zone. The US Air Force hasn't operated in contested airspace since Vietnam.
When the United States Army Special Operations Command quickly released, without the usual obfuscation of attribution, the results of a Command Climate survey that clearly showed the overall negative attitude & lack of desire for women within their ranks, it became painfully…
I didn't join the Army to die in support of poorly planned & executed foreign policy, written by individuals who never experience the ramifications for their history of repeated failure. The GWOT was a shit show and I don't trust what would be planned for the next go around
US military is filling up with Woke Evil. Death Camp guards. The good news is they are idiots and will not fight well. The bad news is they are idiots and will kill for emotional dog treats. CCP will crush them all.
It's late, many are sleeping, but my Mom could use some prayers. She's headed back to the hospital because her blood pressure just won't stabilize & stay low.
Anything y'all could do or say, is much appreciated.
A record number of people in the United States died of suicide last year, while the country's suicide rate reached the highest level in over 80 years, per Axios.
The biggest problem of recruitment in the US is that military service is de facto a hereditary trait, but veterans have now overwhelmingly turned into a "anti-recruiters" and telling their kids to stay away.
This is a *political* dynamic. Election shenanigans will aggravate it.
I'm a 19 year Army GWOT combat veteran and my health insurance is through the National Guard, Tricare Reserve Select. I received a $4,000 ER visit bill for when I presented with heart attack symptoms. Where is my economic assistance?
BREAKING: Congress has been buying war stocks.
Many bought defense company $GD, General Dynamics.
Numerous Republicans bought heavy into oil + energy companies, with buys in $XOM, $DVN, $CVX.
Democrats bought cybersecurity like $FTNT.
These companies lobby Congress heavily.
100,000 IDF troops for an area approximately twice the size of Washington, D.C and considered the third most densely populated "area" in the world. Sparks are going to fly to say the least. Godspeed.
This is not just an attack on Israel—this was an attack on America.
Finish them,
@Netanyahu
.
They should have hell to pay for what they have just done.