Or you don't go to war at all, which is not an option Don wanted to consider, unlike sane and decent human beings. Which is why that's a really bad quote.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

The same men who will mock women for believing in astrology will unironically declare themselves an “alpha male”, like that isn’t some debunked wolf mythology that supplement salesmen have bullied teenage boys into believing.

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.

We had a doubt if fake news or not. It's not! It's from a New Zealand news paprer in 1912 !!!

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I'm on my 17th year covering the military. That includes a lot of hard-nosed stories that Republicans didn't like and a lot of hard-nosed stories that Democrats didn't like. At the heart of it all, I've tried to always keep in mind rank-and-file troops. So have my colleagues.

Required Reading:

Scotten was unintimidated by a legal hack of Bove’s non-stature. A former Army Ranger, who was awarded two Bronze Stars, Scotten graduated first in his Harvard Law class and was a clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts.

Responding to Bove’s bluster Scotten said: GFY.
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During a deposition last year, Rupert Murdoch sat next to his lawyer who argued—explicitly—that Fox News is successful because it gives viewers what they want, and then cited its post-2020 election denial coverage as an example. The candor is pretty wild: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...