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Furioso Veteranus
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They say I'm disabled, only 80% combat effective. Rabid fan of decentralization, human rights, and republics over authoritarian regimes.
It's been more than one, this isn't an easy place to assimilate coming from the third world. Makes me wonder if support programs for resettled Afghans have been canceled or fell off a cliff in this admin.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
not high centered and all the right wheels are turning, wrong tires.
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Indicative of why he ended up here in the first place, these guys were never going to win vs Taliban. Contrast w bomb making cell that could have taken months to unravel. No deep network of terrorists exist here just people sad with how America turned out for them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchO...
Armed Man Rants About Taliban and Opens Fire On Fairfax Cops In Fatal Traffic Stop
YouTube video by PoliceActivity
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
leadership by example.
November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
becasue lying "collapses their narrative".... new here?
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
uhhmm, no. And anyway hoping someone else will solve your problems by creating bigger problems is as dumb as Swalwell sounds.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
There is a clear difference in the manner this kind of thing gets addressed. One is getting dogged from peers or subs which is really an expression of love, the other inferiority, jealousy, power trip.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I finally read a description of the mistake the Captain made today along with the "get off the grass!!" level of commentary over it. There are plenty of pedantic police in the mil it serves a purpose sometimes, mostly used as a cudgel by the unimpressive and malcontent.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
this will just make it easier to accept the RIF's to come.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Yes please. Our Expeditionary forces can already easily be cut down by a solid third. What are we even talking about here.
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I'd love to know what reports they have after the Quantico trip. Every honeytrap from Alexandria to Macau got their steps in.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
to morally upright to do what needs to be done.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
you would think but unless they were de-mil under INF I can see them slapping new designator on it with some minor improvement calling it good. Some works continued on rocket assisted artillery that's also back on table with the treaty gone and current subtext.
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
These nukes are making a comeback. Some Gen-Z are going to be jumping them again if not already.
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
will just add more institutional fumbling and weakness. It's going to take the next President acting unilaterally in a far more authroitarian manner (yet still consistent with Supreme Court's ruling) to deport and tribunal all the guilty.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
percussion section makes everything else work, as always.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
smoke Turkey breast, the rest of you are pretty crazy have to admit it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Turns out mistakes under the top row do in fact exist according to the very keen to find fault and somehow tie that to the career / man.

This is the kind of guy that could have shown up pantless to mess night and I got no issues with it.

It's performance first for me, Hegseth won't like that.
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Always amazes me the pass MAGA gives Scott Bessent given his tight coupling to Soros. It's almost like they can't read or something.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
he's counting on weakness in the institutions and people just like last time(s). We need to elect someone that will come over the top of what Trump himself has shown, the next President must deport and hold special tribunals.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Only the next President from an official capacity that has been affirmed to have "no limits" can get this done. Any other recourse will fail.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The number of performers within the current ecosystem, engineers at companies with extensive backgrounds and past performance delivering real results is racked and stacked. But no, something else is driving this and I think it's mostly illegal.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I routinely sample custom cocktails of the establishments I visit, beleive me its something I'm "known for" same way as high school friends remember me for being a musician although I never picked up an instrument after graduating.
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
except that was her job to take the fall and she's happy tp do it. This has been the strategy behind all these appointments going back to Jefferson.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The next President can act unilaterally against anyone, regardless of pardon, or other legal status. Supreme Court says so. Vote for whomever most likely to do it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM