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· Jan 21
Welp, I guess we are now solidly in the “find out” phase of American history.
This is a good explainer video on Tomahawk missile and its relevance to the Ukraine conflict.
youtu.be/D1dQJ4fw-OU?...
I really wish the folks at NYTimes had watch it before posting their truly lackluster sidebar on the Tomahawk today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
It’s a naval weapon.
youtu.be/D1dQJ4fw-OU?...
I really wish the folks at NYTimes had watch it before posting their truly lackluster sidebar on the Tomahawk today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
It’s a naval weapon.
Tomahawked? Inside a U.S./Ukraine Long-Range Strike Plan
YouTube video by William Spaniel
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is a good explainer video on Tomahawk missile and its relevance to the Ukraine conflict.
youtu.be/D1dQJ4fw-OU?...
I really wish the folks at NYTimes had watch it before posting their truly lackluster sidebar on the Tomahawk today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
It’s a naval weapon.
youtu.be/D1dQJ4fw-OU?...
I really wish the folks at NYTimes had watch it before posting their truly lackluster sidebar on the Tomahawk today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
It’s a naval weapon.
There is no serious legal or moral framework under which the deaths of those 11 individuals was anything but murder.
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There is no serious legal or moral framework under which the deaths of those 11 individuals was anything but murder.
As of today, we are no longer even pretending to be the good guys.
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
As of today, we are no longer even pretending to be the good guys.
What if this was all an elaborate April fools prank?
April 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What if this was all an elaborate April fools prank?
Uh-oh head of state not in a suit, time to invade.
March 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Uh-oh head of state not in a suit, time to invade.
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Trump: doing for billionaires what he did for Rudy Guilliani, Michael Cohen, Atlantic City, the XFL…
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Trump: doing for billionaires what he did for Rudy Guilliani, Michael Cohen, Atlantic City, the XFL…
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
Since its founding as a remote walled cantonment in 1156, can anyone name for me a time when the Kremlin has been in the right side of history?
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Since its founding as a remote walled cantonment in 1156, can anyone name for me a time when the Kremlin has been in the right side of history?
ABC news announced they are shutting down 538. Coincidentally, this occurred the day after Trump’s net approval rating went negative on 538’s polling aggregator.
In December, ABC news also agreed to pay $15M to settle a defamation case brought by the president. Disney is the parent company of ABC.
In December, ABC news also agreed to pay $15M to settle a defamation case brought by the president. Disney is the parent company of ABC.
March 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ABC news announced they are shutting down 538. Coincidentally, this occurred the day after Trump’s net approval rating went negative on 538’s polling aggregator.
In December, ABC news also agreed to pay $15M to settle a defamation case brought by the president. Disney is the parent company of ABC.
In December, ABC news also agreed to pay $15M to settle a defamation case brought by the president. Disney is the parent company of ABC.
Well, at least we liberated Andrew Taint.
FML.
FML.
February 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Well, at least we liberated Andrew Taint.
FML.
FML.
Here’s what gets me about Trump and Musk: for all the pain, misery, and chaos they are sewing in the world right now, presumably for their own gain, do either of these guys look happy?
February 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here’s what gets me about Trump and Musk: for all the pain, misery, and chaos they are sewing in the world right now, presumably for their own gain, do either of these guys look happy?
A cologne for men over 40. Call it “Experience” and it’ll smell like book leather, pipe tobacco, & single-malt whiskey. With hints of Icy-hot, stale coffee, a McDonald’s hash brown that’s been in your car seat for 6 months and a fart you just don’t care enough to hold in anymore.
February 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A cologne for men over 40. Call it “Experience” and it’ll smell like book leather, pipe tobacco, & single-malt whiskey. With hints of Icy-hot, stale coffee, a McDonald’s hash brown that’s been in your car seat for 6 months and a fart you just don’t care enough to hold in anymore.
Yelp folks, I made it to 11 AM before y’all made me want to start drinking.
February 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yelp folks, I made it to 11 AM before y’all made me want to start drinking.
Pray for our President.
I recommend Psalms 55 and 109.
And pray for Elon Musk
Though I can’t find a verse that explicitly mentions ass cancer.
I recommend Psalms 55 and 109.
And pray for Elon Musk
Though I can’t find a verse that explicitly mentions ass cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Pray for our President.
I recommend Psalms 55 and 109.
And pray for Elon Musk
Though I can’t find a verse that explicitly mentions ass cancer.
I recommend Psalms 55 and 109.
And pray for Elon Musk
Though I can’t find a verse that explicitly mentions ass cancer.
For the record, every competent General I knew kept his JAG close by. The ones who didn’t tended to retire as Colonels.
February 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For the record, every competent General I knew kept his JAG close by. The ones who didn’t tended to retire as Colonels.
In government, when you move fast and break things, a lot of what you break are people’s lives.
February 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In government, when you move fast and break things, a lot of what you break are people’s lives.
There are 99 names on the Memorial Wall at USAID Headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building. The corresponding CIA memorial at Langley commemorates only 140 fallen, despite being twice the size and having 15 more years of history than USAID.
February 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There are 99 names on the Memorial Wall at USAID Headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building. The corresponding CIA memorial at Langley commemorates only 140 fallen, despite being twice the size and having 15 more years of history than USAID.
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This is the grift.
Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
February 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is the grift.
Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
Trump makes some ridiculous noise and then claims he negotiated a deal. That way he takes credit for Biden Administration accomplishments on the border.
Most Government functions are utterly incomprehensible to the current generation of billionaires, because they involve foreign concepts such as integrity, transparency, and serving the public interest.
February 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Most Government functions are utterly incomprehensible to the current generation of billionaires, because they involve foreign concepts such as integrity, transparency, and serving the public interest.
I believe this move is called the Unsmooth Criminal.
February 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I believe this move is called the Unsmooth Criminal.
Jefferson Davis was the Elon Musk of the 19th Century.
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Jefferson Davis was the Elon Musk of the 19th Century.
In my government position, in four years of the Biden administration, I never received any guidance directing me not discuss any topic, not matter how sensitive.
In the past two weeks I have received no guidance except various things I am not allowed to say.
In the past two weeks I have received no guidance except various things I am not allowed to say.
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In my government position, in four years of the Biden administration, I never received any guidance directing me not discuss any topic, not matter how sensitive.
In the past two weeks I have received no guidance except various things I am not allowed to say.
In the past two weeks I have received no guidance except various things I am not allowed to say.
So if I’m tracking the information provided to me by my president, mentally-ill dwarfs are to blame for the deaths of 67 Americans.
January 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So if I’m tracking the information provided to me by my president, mentally-ill dwarfs are to blame for the deaths of 67 Americans.
Watched Creature Commandos.
G.I. Robot may be my spirit animal.
G.I. Robot may be my spirit animal.
January 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Watched Creature Commandos.
G.I. Robot may be my spirit animal.
G.I. Robot may be my spirit animal.