I have learned that I live rent free in some people's minds to the point that they creep me on this website and post screen caps on Twitter in outrage. I find it kind of flattering actually.
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I have learned that I live rent free in some people's minds to the point that they creep me on this website and post screen caps on Twitter in outrage. I find it kind of flattering actually.
This gem dragon was legit no fun to do. Plastic did not want to take paint or glue.
I don't think the president wrote this...
Can it play games tho?
I think veterans should get a free EZ Pass but no one asked me...
I don't have a problem with homeless people btw. We have some in the area who have never hurt anyone.
And you will say, but Jack what about your empathy for the homeless? Two points there: 1. I don't care, I don't want my daughter chased down the street by a lunatic. 2. I don't think it is empathetic to take mentally ill homeless people and dump them into the streets all day.
Probably the most reactionary views I have stem from the city subcontracting a shelter in my neighborhood. What was a very safe area is now over run with the mentally ill and drug addicts. Hearing about women getting chased down the street at night, harassed in the park, in addition to petty crime.
Polling stations are now introducing "honor lines" in which veterans and service members can vote first so they can spend more time with their family.
AR-15 forums are for arguing about how the banks decided to take down Gaddafi because he wanted to get back on a gold standard.
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Enjoy this cat content.
Discuss amongst yourselves: web.archive.org/web/20210225...
I wrote this article about Jeff Epstein potentially having been running a blackmail network for an intelligence service ten years ago, in 2015. My boss hit the roof because he didn't want to offend billionaires, and readers in general said I was fucking insane to say such a thing.
It is interesting you mention that. Fiction tells the same boring ass story over and over again, coming of age because we're obsessed with youth. There is very little out there that tells you, okay so here is what comes after all that...
oh man it's really sad. These days I see it for what it is, irrelevant old men angry about getting old and having nothing to say. When I'm that age I'm going to build a HO-scale train layout in my basement instead of posting.
Yeah man, a lot of them channeled their anger from the war into their politics, and well, here we are.
We're gonna get at least ten years of this before they finally move on, and some of them never will.
Did everyone else miss the news that Trump's director of personnel failed a background check, was using a false name, was born in the Soviet Union despite claiming to be from Malta, and has now been made Ambassador to India? nypost.com/2025/06/17/u...
The vetbro cinematic universe is getting quite spicy as we now find ourselves in a post-war environment where guys are retired now, getting into 12-step programs for addiction, and otherwise trying to sort out what the war meant for them in their own minds, if nothing else.
This is a must read. Some in the military thought COSVN was little more than a myth. Frank says one of the CIA's most prolific spies during the war was in that command, and was handled by John Stockwell at one point.
Love the sniper missions in world of assassination.
Exactly this. He knew when he confirmed him that RFK is a dangerous kook.
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Kings county distillery.
Feast your eyes 😆
Hey he only went pan Africa after his first gig as proto OBL failed.
Didn't they basically have single party rule for 90 years?
Speak Spanish or GTFO sounds awfully familiar.
Hilarious read. It's like a combination of Make Mexico Great Again and the Lamentations of Brooklyn's aging hipsters. On one hand I get it on the other... www.bbc.com/news/article...
Two people who used to troll me on there committed suicide in the last year, made me realize I should not be interacting with people who have mental health issues like that.
Christ why are you still on that cursed place?
I've been known to crash some shade down on people.
Outstanding place to get 28mm miniatures. I have many terrain pieces from them.
A lot of comments about how it's not fair to do this to the NG because they probably also don't want to be there. Good! Maybe they are the once you can convince to fuck off. Bubba ICE agent dosent give a fuck, he's into it
That it's too little too late. That it doesn't really matter, that the words are empty and meaningless.
Thanks, Chuck. 🙄
Seeing French films and reading Lovecraft is alpha male stuff now?
Ate at a Polish restaurant, then went and saw Eyes Without a Face in a small theater, woke up today and finished the final edits on my novel, read some HP Lovecraft, and did sandbag PT.
It's funny as hell how I text back and forth with my old company XO from Ranger battalion asking, "did you do PT today Ranger?" The shaming just never ends.
You should hit him up about it. Soldiers in Afghanistan may have been smuggling small amounts of dope but they weren't running the global heroine trade.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Not patient, just debasing herself for money.
Tired of people telling me they are overwhelmed by how fast everything is happening and can't get a grip on it. Actually it is obvious what is happening and you just don't want to accept it.
A Trump Defense Department official sued an astrologer, Amy Tripp, a.k.a. Starheal, with whom he had a 15-month-long affair, after she allegedly texted his wife, “He won’t get confirmed. He’s cooked.’
This episode is a honest look into how far down Special Operations have gone to hide their crimes of various types including their commands and local law enforcement . It makes you wonder how far the rot goes ?
It's just making an easier pipeline between the gun shows to the streets. Could be low effort and poorly coordinated though. One of them lived out of his van like a homeless guy despite having an advanced degree, which to me says hardcore ideologue.
I'm not sure we've had intelligence in general in quite some time.
This is something that keeps me up at night. I've also encountered some extremely suspicious cases of Chinese nationals acting as agents of chaos in the US, like selling ghost guns to inner city street gangs.
hi hello hi you're eight years late is this thing even on
People don't want to think about anything, they just want to watch their Tik Toks. Now the Tik Toks will talk back to them. What could go wrong?
This is something that congress could be legislating but they are a bunch of nursing home candidates at deaths door and have no idea what AI is or how it works or why people would need to be protected.
I know, it's going to be a societal wide issue.
Not even remotely.
We would have won the war if not for some liberal pussy in the back room second guessing our operators and stopping them from doing the whole 'vill.
“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” These companies are fucking evil and should be criminally prosecuted. www.reuters.com/investigates...
All so that some no-talent assclowns can create shitty books and art without actually learning how.
We're staring down the barrel of a gun with this bullshit.
Worse than a cracker barrel logo or a taylor swift wedding?
Hey guys, why is America so fucking divided??? I can't figure it out.
I'll be your Black Water daddy, but we have to keep things constitutional.
I always kind of suspected that the rational actor model was basically a load of bullshit. We make decisions based on intuitions, superstition, and folklore just as much as we base them on facts and figures. Given that, it's amazing civilization has advanced to the degree that it has.
Make Cocaine Great Again
Going to throw out some big words, but: anyone knowledgeable about 4th party collection, parallel construction of criminal cases from sensitive intel, & (possibly) how liaison services play provide CIA requested info, will find a LOT interesting in the reporting. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
8pm
Tonight we air our interview with Seth Harp, author of The Ft. Bragg Cartel. We discuss murder, sex assault, and drug trafficking around Ft. Bragg, and Harp tells us about recently receiving Billy Levinge's memoir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFwz...
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This is what America is now bros. Time to stop writing missives and lamentations about it and understand what it really is.
Yarvin is just a giant 12-year old troll. I knew it the first time I saw him interviewed where he self described as an "international jew."
History is made by men with guns and bombs, I don't know about the rest.
It has been very painful yeah.
I know I’ve been beating a dead horse on here since November, but none of these things have been “warnings”—they are the thing itself actually happening.
Pretty close. I visited him and his family down in Tampa after we were both out of the Army.
yes
Sounds like RT News.
Forgot about these combat cameraman pics I had. Some pics from Iraq in 2009. Last one is me getting a talking to from my team sergeant, who is now pardoned 6JAN rioter. What a world.
I tend to have the same view of people who obsess about child sex trafficking but are totally absent on practical issues that could help vulnerable kids, like foster care reform. It's not *really* about the kids for these people.
The protect the children people are terribly exposed by their fixation on transexuals in school bathrooms while also being silent on school shootings that kill kids every year. The transexual stuff they complain about comes across like some Freudian kink that they can't get out of their mind.
Are ya winning son?
Thus we begin
An interview with Ambassador Eddie Gallagher.
It's happening to Bushwick right now. Once that corporate bullshit gets into the neighborhood you are fucked. It never goes back to mom and pop shops.
If you notice the Giglio Boys Italian American community center in the video, I know a FBI agent that bugged that place in the 1980s. LOLOL
Shade aside, I lived in East Williamsburg for about five years. The Italian community are a class act, nice people. The old ladies will invite you into their home and feed you once they get to know you.
Williamsburg is now an absolutely disgusting neighborhood on par with Times Square, but this festival is fun. You can get a baller ass sausage and peppers hero made by an elderly guido wearing his beaters with white hair on his shoulders and gold jewelry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9Y...
So I wouldn't lump DoD in with this, because while there have been incidents where DoD personnel did drone hysteria (eg the phantom attack at Wright-Pat) the majority of DoD reported SUAS shit is for real and a non-zero amount of it has some degree of weirdness and/or nefariousness
Multiple bills coming due at the same time for this country.
Also blame social media. There was a time when people just worked out for the sake of it and didn't have to fucking post about it.
The guy I was thinking of when I saw this new outrage.
every time i see the title of this Politico piece i'm reminded of Sartre
Russia’s War for High School Leavers | "Russian officials are so concerned at falling birthrates they may cut high school so pupils start families earlier, but they also need cannon fodder for Ukraine."
I know lots of people who constantly see threats to America behind every corner, hidden in plain sight, in sleeper cells, or in creeping government tyranny. Now that that tyranny has arrived, and looks like them, they are silent.
Cutting the head off the snake doesn't work very well in my experience with insurgencies. Hope I'm wrong of course.
Jade. Helm.
Lot of "what ifs" all around.
I'm concerned as it is, but if the mad king kicks it halfway through his term it could lead to something even worse. Great state of the union we got going here.
Unless you are a soldier or a firefighter maybe I don't really see the point.
