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Ask them if they're from Ireland I was sitting in a bar one day and two really large women came in, talking in an interesting accent. So I said, "Cool accent, are you two ladies from Ireland?" One of them snarled at me, "It's Wales, Dumbo!" So I corrected myself, "My apologies, so are you two whales from Ireland?"

It's a real shame the CDC didn't take the opportunity presented by Covid to message that being morbidly obese is a huge risk factor.

The whataboutism is amazing. I, for one, find the thing most ironic in these discussions to be the title of this thread. Today, in hypocrisy, you defend someone’s actions just because they are a Republican. Also, the President can not unilaterally declassify anything. Notable exceptions include nuclear data, waived data, and intelligence agent locations, among others. Oh, and there’s a process for it, you don’t just get to say “I DECLARE UNCLASSIFIED” like Michael Scott.

Giving $5B to Ukraine has been the most cost-effective use of military money in recent history. Our military uses $800B/yr to essentially LARP.

Our culture is so afraid to say anything to anyone that these types don’t care to accept the reality that they are in. I partially find it sad and partially infuriating that people are significantly affecting their health and quality of life because you can’t “fat shame”.

I’ll bet the poor bastard that got seated next to her wants a refund too. I’d say they’re far more deserving of said refund as well! Here’s an idea: if you need the seatbelt extender, you buy two seats. No judgment. You simply pay for the space you take up.

I don’t think anybody is defending him; they’re pissed at the bigger picture this situation highlights: completely one-sided (politically) actions by the govt vs. conservatives while the same people simultaneously ignore/cover up /minimize egregious shit on the left/tied to the left. If you (royal) can’t objectively see how much the federal govt has turned against conservatives in the last 6 years (including indirectly by ignoring left bullshit while doing the opposite vs. right), you’re willfully ignorant/complacent. The American people cannot be OK with this, even democrats should be pissed. The govt should serve all people, not just the ones that identify with a certain party.

Dear god...he not even acknowledge Hillary Clinton or what she did and how she got away with the same thing they are accusing Trump of doing. For the record, if Trump broke the law I have ZERO issue with him being prosecuted and held accountable. Makes ZERO difference who appointed the FBI director...ZERO. I do not trust the FBI. From FISA warrants to insurance policies to leaked indictments...there exists in those halls a rot. I don't think the entire organization is corrupt but I simply don't trust them. The warrant is one thing, but the government can write whatever they want on that warrant. I certainly hope it was 'squeaky clean", but I prefer to wait for the affidavit and the facts.

And now the strawman argument comes out. You do realize South Korea, Iceland, Taiwan, and France have also tried and found former (or current) leaders guilty. That's not even looking at parliaments, etc. Just heads of state. I'd argue it's situational. Yes it's a banana republic thing to use your power to stay in power. However, it's also a sign of a progressive nation that it can hold current or former leaders accountable through a fair process. In this case if you think an FBI led by a republican (trump) appointee asked for and executed a warrant and authorized by a moderate doj head (who I'll note was recommended by Republicans as center enough to fill a Supreme Court justice slot not 6 years ago, so he probably isn't a magical boogie man) is trying to tighten the reigns on power akin to a banana Republic... Bless your heart.

@Negatory When’s the last time a federal agency raided a previous president’s home? And would you please answer CH’s last question. Look, I’m not defending anybody here, but holy fuck, we just watched something unprecedented in our country’s history go down that has, until now, been a staple of banana republics and communist regimes. Meanwhile the plethora of left organizations and figures who have been glossed over/swept under the rug is astounding. Here’s the major problem: there is no single standard, and when that doesn’t exist, you are looking at weaponization of the government along a party line. That’s the shit that happens in China, Russia, NK, etc. - not the United States of America. Lock up Trump? OK sure, if he’s convicted of something that warrants it by law. But no fucking way if you also don’t go grab the Clintons, Biden, 90% of congress, all of Epstein’s cohorts, probably tens of thousand three letter agency bureaucrats, etc. Regardless of personal political beliefs, stop accepting a pass for one party’s peeps while cheering on witch hunts vs. the opposite party. If you’re not on board with that, then kindly fuck off out of this country. I think you probably agree with that statement - but your words/approach communicate otherwise.

Rank/power doesn’t change someone, it exposes them. If they are toxic as an O-6 then they were toxic before, it’s just no one noticed.

Stop being insensitive Bashi. The rest of the world needs to suffer so that the .0000000000033% (repeating) of the population can not be inconvenienced with their personal problems. Also, please remember that high risk medical conditions did not exist before March-ish of 2020…and thus personal accountability for said high risk conditions was not required.

You lose the “good dude back then” credit the second you pin on O6. after those eagles come on it’s “fuck him” until proven otherwise. seen way too many “good dudes” become toxic fucks once they make rank.

Give ‘em to some CAP units.

Lotta crow needs to be eaten by the “vax or lose your job/freedom” crowd. ”pandemic of the unvaccinated/winter of death”. Huh. How’d that turn out for you?

That is where the similarity stops.

The resemblance between me and BQZIP's mom is striking.

Not trying to ruin another thread with political shit, but this is funny.

Is that a hot dog shoved in her shirt for when she’s hungry again 69 sec after her last snack? 2 seats - pay for them or GTFO. Zero sympathy for fat people on airplanes.

Its inconvievable to me how this wouldn't force you to change your lifestyle. There have been multiple points in my life where I've looked in teh mirror or got a bit winded doing something routine that forced me to get after it again. I can't imagine literally squeezing my way down an aisle, looking another human in the eye and wedging my fat ass into a seat for at least an hour and thinking it's OKAY. I'll give the 5% of obese folks out there with actual medical conditions that make it REALLY hard to stay fit but the rest have issues.

Oh, we're posting selfies now?

I now feel cheated from my UPT experience.

I say we make him go to SOS in residence, after he does it in correspondence of course.

Some hypocrisy In light of recent events.. The "lock her up" crowd suddenly not caring at all about mishandling of classified documents. The "but her emails" crowd suddenly caring so much about mishandling of classified documents. It's wild that people are so mentally broken by political polarization they can't even recognize a standard and apply it equally. Either classified documents matter or they don't.

When’s the last time a president left office literally carrying boxes of classified out of the Oval Office? For that matter, when was the last time a sitting president fomented a riot/insurrection at the Capitol. When was the last time a sitting president threw his Vice to wolves who literally wanted him hanged? When was the last time a former president took the fifth (more than 400 times) in a deposition? (Oh yeah, since this is the hypocrisy thread remember when DJT said: “The mob takes the fifth.” And: “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the fifth?”?) Unprecedented you say? Trump is a master of unprecedented. If unprecedented things are happening to him, it’s because he set a whole bunch of unprecedented shit in motion with his own actions. Why people continue to defend this scumbag is beyond me. Somehow, there are Americans who believe we will better off with more of his buffoonery. Do (royal) you really believe that this country will be better off with another Trump presidency? If I’m a republican, I throw the book at this jack hole and make him disappear forever. He’s made a joke out of the party. If the Republicans continue to double down on Trumpworld, they’ll forever be known as the party of Rudy Giuliani standing in front of a dildo store with cheap hair dye dripping down his face. Pathetic. Him acting like a spectacularly dumb criminal is a gift. It’s like God and Mike Pence (I assume they know each other) are handing the party a way out. TAKE IT!

1. Had he done this while President there might be an argument to be woven. Better if there was an official memorandum stating documents X, Y, and Z are declassified. But with the current situation if the documents are sitting in a safe, still marked classified (rather than appropriately had the markings redacted and marked unclass), and they're not part of the public record (freely accessible via normal means such as a foia request) not a chance in the eyes of the law they were declassified. 2. Did they? Nothing has stated the timeline yet between learning and acting. Unfortunately legal mechanism here turn quite slowly, especially when you consider how squeaky clean a warrant against a former president needs to be due to optics. As for weaponized you do realize the FBI is lead by a trump appointee right? 3. The national archives still manages those records. The location of those records was moved for a specific reason. See the national archives statement here: https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-001 "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) assumed exclusive legal and physical custody of Obama Presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA). NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area where they are maintained exclusively by NARA. Additionally, NARA maintains the classified Obama Presidential records in a NARA facility in the Washington, DC, area. As required by the PRA, former President Obama has no control over where and how NARA stores the Presidential records of his Administration. " The rest of the whataboutism I'll drop because the entire purpose is misdirection. Would it be nice if everyone was held equally under the law? Yes. Is it too late to start just because we didn't in the past? No. If it was you'd never get any progress because what about in 1700 when I could burn witches? It's not fair I'd get jailed for that now. Someone else did it!

Eh, I’ve definitely seen it change people. Power does indeed corrupt.

Sure, I’m fine with both. But you have to look at events in vacuums. If he did what they’re saying, it will require a lot of mental gymnastics for the right to not call for harsh consequences regardless. With that being said, I entirely expect it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-recovered-eleven-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-inventory-shows-11660324501 So, we all agree #TrumpForPrison, right?

Yes. That is called nature.

I’ll remember your comments when you pin on O-6 MS69.

“Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!”

Sorry Taylor stay home and stay safe!!!

I can't remember if it was legal but we may have strapped a fat dude down with a cargo strap. Another time we did a medevac and I asked the nurse what was wrong with the patient and the nurse replied "He's a disgusting fat body". The patient was sitting right below us on the floor. He didn't seem to disagree.

Those administrations had their shit in a sock? Or is it: the George Soros infested media didn’t scrutinize those administrations nearly as they did/do Trump? Bush got us into two wars we arguably lost, Obama decimated our military, the effects of which we are still feeling, but the worst…Trump had mean tweets. Got it! These “insider accounts” always need to be taken with a grain of salt. Not saying Trump isn’t without fault, but many of these “insider accounts” are mid level peons just trying to get their 5 mins of fame.

22 Hillary Clinton Emails Dubbed Top Secret As noted in the investigation liberals don't like to talk about, this was a DELIBERATE effort to remove TS/SCI material from a classified server or package and put it on an unclassified email system...and Comey let her off the hook for it. There are two standards of justice in the country and sadly Conservatives are getting the shaft.

I’d be very surprised if Obama, Bush, and Clinton didn’t have some classified docs in their possession after vacating the office. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The loss numbers for Russia are staggering. In my humble opinion as a knuckle dragging ham-fisted pilot we need to do the following: 1. Continue to enable Ukraine to punish Russia. 2. Provide Putin an off ramp. 3. Think about a post-conflict Ukraine and what happens to all these weapons we have provided.

Something to consider: -Would Russia stop with Ukraine? There are geographic reasons to suspect they would not. Namely that Russia has poor natural geographic borders without controlling the Baltics, Moldova and about half of Poland. There's a reason it ended up controlling those areas after WW2 (negotiated). -Based on what we've seen of their performance in Ukraine, I don't think anyone thinks the Russian military would stand a chance against NATO in a conventional war. I'm not sure US troops would even be needed; but if the US is involved, it is for sure a forgone conclusion that Russia loses badly. -If you grant me those two points for the sake of discussion, does that increase or decrease the threat of a nuclear weapon(s) being used on the European continent?

Wishing you guys the best. I enjoyed my time there & still have many friends on the property. Seems like there’s reason to be cautiously optimistic. If not& it all goes to shit, Brown & Purple (and everyone else for that matter) will likely be happy to leverage your experience.

As a sexual tyrannosaurus superfan of the first Predator, I thought Prey was great. Loved it.

I highly recommend this book to get an idea of what China has been doing for the last 23 years: unrestricted.pdf (oodaloop.com) Unrestricted Warfare, written by two Chinese Colonels back in 1999. I call this a "no respect bunt." After coaching youth baseball and softball for the last 10 years, I see two scenarios where teams bunt-- the classic move the runner into scoring position by sacrificing your batter, or the "no respect bunt." In other words, I know you can't defend this, so I'm going to keep doing it and putting my runners on. These two Colonels believe that it doesn't matter if they lay out their strategy-- we can't defend against it. The kicker is the date that this was published... realize that they've been executing this gameplan for two decades. "I'm going to TELL you that I'm going to bunt... and you still won't / cant stop it." Whether you agree with it or not, it's a very interesting read-- elements of Sun Tzu's "know your enemy..." They've done their homework on us for sure, and I would argue that they know us far better than we admit to knowing ourselves. For me, the most eye-opening part of this book is that they appear to have taken a strategy from our Cold War playbook, and I'm honestly afraid that we're unwittingly playing right into their hands-- spending ourselves into irrelevancy. They discuss the dependency on technology extensively, and that's coming from a late-90s perspective when we were still discussing Desert Storm as the game-changer of warfare. The argument can be made that one of the tactics we successfully employed in the Cold War was forcing the Soviet Union to collapse under the weight of its attempt to keep up with us militarily and economically. Trying to keep up with us militarily ultimately collapsed them because their economy could not keep pace with our ability to spend. The opposite perspective can come into play there as well in that we saw a perceived (or actual) advance in their capability, and we were able to out-produce them, which seems to be a common play today. We see China produce a handful of "fifth gen" airplanes (let's call it 7% the size of our 5th Gen fleet), and our military industrial complex spins into high PRF and proclaims that the sky is falling and we've lost our edge, leading for new calls to "outspend" our adversaries. That's not just the AF-- I've seen many articles detailing the "fact" that China has the largest navy in the world now. But when you look at those numbers, you see that they only have 3 carriers, none of which are nuclear powered and must be refueled every six days. I'm not discounting them outrightly, but I am contending that there's A LOT more than just numbers. But it depends on what your agenda is with respect to how you interpret those numbers. There are hints in this publication that this is a deliberate strategy on the part of Chinese to get us to succumb to our own tendencies. Remember that one of the tenants of Sun Tzu is to win without fighting. They don't NEED to beat us militarily, but if they can get us to collapse under the weight of our own natural tendencies, that's perfect for them. The CCP sits on a precarious perch of their own, as has been discussed extensively in this thread. Unrestricted Warfare shows that if they can engage across the spectrum, and you can take this battle plan and see that they've done just that for the last twenty years, then they can attain a significant advantage without competing toe to toe. China also has the advantage of playing the long game-- that's culturally significant throughout history. We update our approach every four years, and you can make the argument that we have a difficult time of seeing past the next election cycle, be that one or two years depending on the level of office.

How he and Lloyd still have jobs after the global embarrassment that was our NEO of AFG is beyond me. If the 2024 Republican nominee doesn’t play reels of Afghans falling off the C-17, 24/7, they don’t deserve to be President.

B5 currently, soon to be followed by Donkey Punch Pox. Heard that one will be a real pain in the ass!