The conception of a future mess

I really really want them to find a way to recall Kelly for a court martial. I think that would go unbelievably well

Well hang on now maybe if we get together some money we can pay them to put a stop to this situation with Cignetti before it goes too far and I have to explain it to my kids

The real war on Christmas is Christmas’ war on Thanksgiving. Soon it’ll be Halloween. Then the Fourth of July. Pretty soon we’ll be trapped in Christmastown with no one to hear us scream but elf freaks with their little red cheeks and gambling addictions

I know we’re in a wildly different system and context here, but if you had our equivalent of a majority like that in the US you could rewrite everything but the laws of physics and they started with a 5-year timer before they had to face election again.

It’s probably not possible but I would pay to see Kelly recalled for a court martial. The actual effect of that would be historic (in a good way) and it would probably destroy Hegseth’s career

I think history will remember the Epstein files as the inflection, but they jumped the shark with Kirk. They tried to use the death of a youtuber as the catalyst to hard launch American theocracy because they’re completely insane & a lot of people shifted their preferences & behavior as a result

Need a SecNav who cares about the arrangement of the fleet more than squishy issues of the Navy’s PR and self-image. But yeah, everything the SEALs do would fit better under the umbrella of the Corps *and* the Marines’ institutional culture would probably improve the SEALs bullshit problem a lot

It’s more than this, but I do think a lot the culture problems begin with them being granted special license to essentially disregard most otherwise universal basic standards of professionalism while CONUS.

I think if you feel rage about a star wars movie you need to check in with yourself, but if you feel rage about a post about a star wars movie, you might oughta buy a flip phone

I can’t put anything above Attack of the Clones, but I also can’t put anything above Rise of Skywalker. Everything else must reckon with that.

Rogue One could’ve been good but they just make it so.

As an aside, Appalachian Studies as a discipline is absolutely *rife* with this stuff, but in the self-aggrandizing noble savage sense. A lot better than it used to be, but it was so bad for so long, it’s still shot right through with it

Vance laid track for it already over a decade ago. I don’t think he intended that reading, nor do I think he’d be amenable to it now, but if you’re unwilling to accept the social effects of poverty as an explanation for anything, there’s nowhere else to go.

It’s actually very easy: planes are troops. Not pilots, ATCs, flight attendants, or any other actual people who make air travel possible. Just the planes

Downstream of the the general problem that for most people left of Romney (including very serious people), anything related to the specifics of defense may as well have cooties & I think virtually every exception to that is active on here

I wonder how long for him. Most of us could spend a long life chasing whatever he’s after because there’d always be something out of reach to underwrite our desire. Not so for him. He’s built the artificial gospel & people actually believe it. It speaks of him like God and it still won’t be enough

Maybe diversity is our strength you know. Could be. My mother she was from Scotland if you can believe it. Scotland. I have a wonderful golf course there but in Scotland they have this thing maybe you’ve heard of it — haggis. Haggis haggis haggis. But Zohran pointed out the wind is basically free

I keep learning things on this subject and adjacent subjects that I really didn’t want to know and I’m earnestly looking forward to when that stops happening

Those are the worst when they’re bad, but incredibly cute when they’re not lol. One of mine was several weeks premie and it took her a few years to get over being very susceptible to pneumonia & upper respiratory infections, I can still hear her little raspy sick voice in my head