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Dale

@daleesmith.bsky.social

Fourth gen Floridian. Retired Navy Capt (0-6) and real estate developer and project manager.

created December 9, 2024

260 followers 141 following 755 posts

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Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Reminds me of an old adage: Live by the sword, die by the sword.

11/9/2025, 7:44:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Great piece! Loved the Goldfinger reference!

11/9/2025, 7:14:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B0013...

11/9/2025, 7:01:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He's a chameleon. I will never vote for him as president.

11/9/2025, 2:51:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsome gets a few things right, but I will never vote for him as president.

11/9/2025, 2:47:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

She's worthless.

11/9/2025, 2:28:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Weak ass argument.

9/9/2025, 2:57:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I know Burchette very well. He is a POS.

9/9/2025, 2:46:19 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

GSA, not GAO.

9/9/2025, 12:23:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was a young Navy officer, my uncle was the GAO'S manager of the Pentagon during Rumsfeld's tenure. They were planning a large press conference outside in the parking lot just outside his office. The Pentagon's vendor for toilets at the time was called Don's Johns. He saw them and freaked out.

9/9/2025, 12:09:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

"Belief" is a dangerous instinct.

8/9/2025, 11:59:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

The drawing looks like a 14 yo girl.

8/9/2025, 11:51:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

When I was still in college at UW-Madison, my wife and I got an all-black kitten. I named her Reagin, after one of King Lear's "ungrateful daughters".

8/9/2025, 11:33:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for you! Happy Birthday.

8/9/2025, 9:34:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

She's one of my three favorite women players. I'm thrilled she won.

7/9/2025, 1:38:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Disgusting move by this West Point alumni group. Hanks is a well-deserved American icon and patriot.

6/9/2025, 9:02:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Good piece. Thank you.

5/9/2025, 6:57:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out Losing My Religion by R.E.M. on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B01N3...

5/9/2025, 10:00:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out More Than A Feeling by Boston on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B004D...

5/9/2025, 8:45:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Go outside, have a nice drink, and go to bed.

3/9/2025, 2:06:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You're arguing an issue that you will lose to Asha.

3/9/2025, 1:59:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No shit.

3/9/2025, 12:21:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No! Jeffries is as useless as Schumer. Both need to go home.

3/9/2025, 12:19:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

What an idiot.

2/9/2025, 11:42:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

With a heavy dose of insanity.

2/9/2025, 12:44:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel like I'm living in a bad episode of the Twighlight Zone.

31/8/2025, 9:04:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You are an hysterical little fuck!

31/8/2025, 12:34:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Bless you! AI is a fucked up experiment that has already cost lives. It should be heavily regulated until someone can prove its accuracy. The tech bros will fight like hell, but it won't make a dent in their yacht operating costs.

31/8/2025, 12:27:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I would never invest in anything he does. It is and always has been a con job. The investors will get screwed big time.

31/8/2025, 12:16:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Seriously weird.

31/8/2025, 3:32:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

That last line is one of my favorites!

30/8/2025, 8:28:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out We're Not Gonna Take It (2024 Remaster) by Twisted Sister on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B0DZQ...

30/8/2025, 7:32:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Regulate the shit out of it.

30/8/2025, 4:05:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Mark, I genuinely respect you and don't want to see you change directions and embrace the GOP. Having said that, I think you should block more haters immediately and present your ideas as well as you can. If you expect everyone to agree with you, you should just go home.

30/8/2025, 2:35:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you understand how much this bullshit is costing us? Much less the embarrassing misuse of our dedicated Nation Guard and Active Duty troops. Who in their right mind would enlist for this kind of stupid shit?

30/8/2025, 2:21:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Let them fail. They obviously don't know what they're doing.

30/8/2025, 2:16:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Disgusting! Shut AI down and regulate the shit of it. AI is not ready for public usage. Remember, the A in AI stands for artificial, although I think it's worse than that. It's bullshit being foisted on the public that is obviously dangerous as hell.

30/8/2025, 2:08:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Best of luck to both of you. You make a very nice couple.

29/8/2025, 8:20:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No. But I valued Pete's and his music very much.

28/8/2025, 2:30:48 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I like his choices far better than yours!

28/8/2025, 2:26:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately, true.

27/8/2025, 5:02:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fucking insane!

26/8/2025, 10:59:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

How dare you give us this kind of hope?!

26/8/2025, 4:37:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly.

25/8/2025, 6:49:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fully agree. Talk about not meeting the moment.

25/8/2025, 6:42:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

What in the fuck is that?

25/8/2025, 2:50:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I was a journalism major at U of Wisconsin in the mid 70s. Our writing "bible" was Elements of Style by Strunk & White.

25/8/2025, 2:19:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

What in the fuck are you talking about? If you believe that shit, you are smoking something better than I am.

24/8/2025, 4:11:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I. E., use common language to discuss common issues.

24/8/2025, 4:00:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

It was that fucking John Travolta movie. The Beegees ruined the late 60s/early 70s music.

24/8/2025, 3:49:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly. I could damn near crawl an 18-minute mile.

24/8/2025, 3:33:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

What a joke! To get through Navy flight school, you had to clear 8 foot walls and do some really difficult other tasks. This looks like middle school gym class.

24/8/2025, 3:01:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Great piece. Most of those terms leave me cold, and I'm a moderate/liberal Democrat.

24/8/2025, 2:17:18 AM | 2 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Unreal. Though, six or seven years ago, my grandson (Army) was in the Old Guard at Arlington. My wife and I drove up to see him right before Christmas. I was doing U-turns on K St., it was so dead. Your photos remind me of that visit.

24/8/2025, 1:55:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn. Businesses will fail in every area Trump pulls this shit. What a shame!

24/8/2025, 1:25:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Good for you.

24/8/2025, 12:58:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Aristocracy at it's finest. It's amazing how easily corporate America folds.

23/8/2025, 11:51:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out The Times They Are A-Changin' by Richie Havens on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B09CT...

23/8/2025, 11:43:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck.

23/8/2025, 11:40:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn't that be informative?

23/8/2025, 11:36:31 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly right. Is the worst cult I've seen in my 72 y/o life.

23/8/2025, 11:32:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

No shit.

23/8/2025, 11:30:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out The Times They Are A-Changin' by Timothée Chalamet on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B0DQ6...

23/8/2025, 9:57:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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By the way, Trump/ICE/Homeland Security has authorized all of us to carry rifles and shotguns. LFG!

23/8/2025, 6:46:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Time to take stronger anti-Trump measures. Time to fight off these goons.

23/8/2025, 6:25:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I agree. I still don't particularly like him, but he is an "inside the tent" voice we should listen to.

23/8/2025, 6:20:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is insane and illegal. React accordingly.

23/8/2025, 3:04:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Holy fuck.

23/8/2025, 2:58:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He should settle for the veggie subs!

23/8/2025, 2:30:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

This suggests you are not completely open to learning!

22/8/2025, 3:31:47 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Those norms/guardrails are long gone.

21/8/2025, 3:40:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes!

21/8/2025, 3:29:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He is legit insane. He has no idea what he's doing on any issue.

19/8/2025, 1:41:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Down, girl. Garland was the problem.

19/8/2025, 12:17:44 PM | 20 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is insane.

19/8/2025, 12:11:55 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) by The Four Tops on Amazon Music music.amazon.com/albums/B01LY... Just because we all need a happy moment.

19/8/2025, 12:09:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Good morning, smart ass!

19/8/2025, 11:58:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I would love to know who pulled this together. It was brilliant.

19/8/2025, 3:00:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly.

19/8/2025, 2:53:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck him. Hakeem and Schumer are a waste of time.

19/8/2025, 2:48:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

We deserve better than your lame-ass bullshit. Fight, or get the fuck out of the way.

19/8/2025, 2:46:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You must not know the military expression, "Hurry up, and Wait.

19/8/2025, 2:44:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Get off your AIPAC funded ass. Endorse Mamdani, fight the Trump regime with every breath you take, or get the fuck out of the way.

18/8/2025, 12:45:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know who initiated the EU leadership joining the Zalenski/Trump meeting, but they are a master-level chess player. And bless them!

18/8/2025, 9:43:05 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don't know who initiated the EU leadership joining the Zalenski/Trump meeting, but they are a master-level chess player. And bless them!

18/8/2025, 9:43:05 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You must be smoking something better than I am!

18/8/2025, 3:36:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You are hysterical. And a bit full of shit!

18/8/2025, 3:29:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

I know Jimmy Haslam's father and brother well. He ran their gas station empire well. He, obviously, doesn't know how to run a pro football team.

18/8/2025, 3:24:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You are hysterical!

17/8/2025, 2:18:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

You must be close to my age!

17/8/2025, 2:14:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Every Spring in Knoxville, our local Greek Orthodox Church hosts the wildly popular GreekFest. Great dancing, food and festivities. I was surprised it existed in such a red-neck area of our state.

17/8/2025, 1:57:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

How do you think you know that? Why would anyone leak incriminating evidence while they could still use it as great political leverage?

16/8/2025, 5:16:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. He and Schumer are worthless.

16/8/2025, 5:08:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Tom, Putin clearly has kompromat on Trump. You're smart enough to know that by now, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

16/8/2025, 4:01:34 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/8/2025, 3:50:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putin is already fogging the air with other issues, trying to distract from what will be no progress on Ukraine.

15/8/2025, 4:23:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Illegal as well as stupid.

15/8/2025, 4:18:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Jfc Blatantly illegal.

15/8/2025, 4:16:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

He's trying to fog the air with other issues so they can say they made progress, despite not achieving peace in Ukraine.

14/8/2025, 10:43:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dale (@daleesmith.bsky.social) reply parent

Does the term "batshit crazy" ring a bell?!

13/8/2025, 2:32:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view