30 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Why do you ask my opinion on almost every single post I make trying to bait me into what you’re assuming my stance will be?

I agree with Lord Ratner’s take on it. I think a DFC with valor and a Purple Heart, but I don’t think it crosses over into MoH territory. To me it takes a type of gallantry such as saving life/lives of fellow service members while being attacked or superior heroism (e.g. John Leviton). I do respect the fact it’s hard, if not impossible, to directly compare the combat events and actions of the recipients to each other. But in the end I’m not the POTUS, so it doesn’t really matter what I think.

Dude, are you ok?

1 minute ago, HeloDude said:

Dude, are you ok?

Did I not answer your question?

7 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Did I not answer your question?

I’m more concerned that you might not be ok than a silly online discussion. Seriously bud—feel free to DM me, definitely not trying to play any games.

I've never been shot but I've flown a few helicopters and I think it's a tremendous accomplishment to fly a bus into a hot LZ with a few bullet holes in your body. Good job Slover.

Gen Douglas MacArthur got a MOH just by escaping Corregidor so not having himself be taken prisoner like his whole command by the Japanese. I'm sure FDR did it just to get some good out of a disaster.

8 hours ago, FourFans said:

I feel comfortable aggressively telling you to STFU. Especially about a -47 pilot being shot 4 times and still successfully operating a helicopter the size of a bus in combat. I'm doubting you've ever been shot at, much less shot at while actually in range, much less while piloting a helicopter, which I've heard equated to as balancing on a swissball while playing a guitar.
Dear keyboard warrior: Stop talking

Beyond that, it's the CONGRESSIONAL Medal of Honor. Every single one has politics behind it. The president puts it on, but a LOT of other people approve it first. No doubt political shenanigans were at play...but also no doubt this dude did something to deserve it.

Honey, put your dick away.

If you're too emotionally invested in this to read simple commentary, then you're probably not worth talking to at all. But for the fun of it: the simple reality is that there are a metric fuck ton of incredible people who have done incredible things after being shot, and all but a very small few of them went home or into the ground without a medal of Honor.

Now maybe you've never read any medal of Honor citations, but I have. The bar isn't just high, it's in fucking low earth orbit. Maybe this guy deserves it. But for better or worse we have a president who believes any and every institution, convention, tradition, and norm should be upended for his own vanity and glamor. And if that means he can get a medal of Honor attached to his Venezuela mission, he's going to do it by any means necessary. That attaches a very real and very unfortunate skepticism to this particular citation. You can sit at home with your thumb up your ass and not think about it, but I choose to. And since you're on a message board where a bunch of people talk about shit like this, I will take your "aggressive STFU" and file it with some of the other asinine things you said here over the years.

XOXO

11 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

Honey, put your dick away.

If you're too emotionally invested in this to read simple commentary, then you're probably not worth talking to at all. But for the fun of it: the simple reality is that there are a metric fuck ton of incredible people who have done incredible things after being shot, and all but a very small few of them went home or into the ground without a medal of Honor.

Now maybe you've never read any medal of Honor citations, but I have. The bar isn't just high, it's in fucking low earth orbit. Maybe this guy deserves it. But for better or worse we have a president who believes any and every institution, convention, tradition, and norm should be upended for his own vanity and glamor. And if that means he can get a medal of Honor attached to his Venezuela mission, he's going to do it by any means necessary. That attaches a very real and very unfortunate skepticism to this particular citation. You can sit at home with your thumb up your ass and not think about it, but I choose to. And since you're on a message board where a bunch of people talk about shit like this, I will take your "aggressive STFU" and file it with some of the other asinine things you said here over the years.

XOXO

Sounds like I hit a nerve. Noted.

Just now, FourFans said:

Sounds like I hit a nerve. Noted.

Who hit a nerve?

20 hours ago, FourFans said:

I feel comfortable aggressively telling you to STFU.

😘

Edited February 26Feb 26 by Lord Ratner

1 minute ago, Lord Ratner said:

Who hit a nerve?

😘

Don't flatter yourself. You are of no account and your uninformed opinion doesn't matter. This discussion is about preserving the honor surrounding the actions of heroes, as is my response. I will call out anyone who so blatantly critics any MoH recipient, especially those who weren't there. Small individuals who choose to criticize the man in the arena and his rewards all deserve the same treatment: exposure of their cowardice and dismissal. I've worked too closely with real heroes to see their heroism belittled by insignificant men.

Edited February 26Feb 26 by FourFans

30 minutes ago, FourFans said:

Don't flatter yourself. You are of no account and your uninformed opinion doesn't matter. This discussion is about preserving the honor surrounding the actions of heroes, as is my response. I will call out anyone who so blatantly critics any MoH recipient, especially those who weren't there. Small individuals who choose to criticize the man in the arena and his rewards all deserve the same treatment: exposure of their cowardice and dismissal. I've worked too closely with real heroes to see their heroism belittled by insignificant men.

Got it. I definitely did not hit a nerve. Thanks for clearing that up 😂🤣

This twat thinks she should be the next VP of the United States, she also thinks her Foreign Policy knowledge is on point.

Yeah... But....

She's pretty hot.

36 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

This twat thinks she should be the next VP of the United States, she also thinks her Foreign Policy knowledge is on point.

On 2/26/2026 at 4:21 PM, ClearedHot said:

This twat thinks she should be the next VP of the United States, she also thinks her Foreign Policy knowledge is on point.

The bar wasn’t set that high, and yet…

Love him or hate him this is good news for America. Canada purposely and with malice drug their feet on certifying anything Gulfstream for Canada in an effort to protect Bombardier.

Canada Certifies Gulfstream G500, G600

2 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Love him or hate him this is good news for America. Canada purposely and with malice drug their feet on certifying anything Gulfstream for Canada in an effort to protect Bombardier.

Canada Certifies Gulfstream G500, G600

This is the part nobody wants to admit. The rest of the world **was** fucking us. If the last five presidents had been willing to use even the smallest amount of pressure to keep shit like this from happening for 35 years, we wouldn't have needed Donald Trump to come in with the sledgehammer.

This is also why I laugh when people try to use pure tariff rates as a counter-argument to Trump's "reciprocal tariffs." Sure, our allies had relatively low tariff rates against us, but the protectionist measures they employed to favor their industries over ours were rampant and audacious, and until recently, largely unanswered by the United States.

Some very interesting primary results from last night, Texas was ground zero:

State Rep. James Talarico has won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas over Lunatic Rep. Jasmine Crockett. She is the one who called paralyzed Texas Governor Greg Abbott "Governor HotWheels."

Next up after 21 years in office Rep. Al Green, pushed out of his district by the new map, challenged Rep. Christian Menefee, who was elected to the newly drawn 18th Congressional District in a special election last month. Green has been escorted out of the last two State of the Union Addresses.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL and fourth-term congressman from Houston, lost to state Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe. Crenshaw faced difficult headwinds — he was the only House Republican running for reelection in Texas without a Trump endorsement. Crenshaw has been openly feuding with former SEALs Eddie Gallagher and Sean Ryan. In an exchange threatened with some of "his boys at 6."

It’s a similar story up north, where Dallas Democratic Rep. Julie Johnson was pushed out of her district and now finds herself facing a likely runoff against her predecessor in Congress, Colin Allred. Allred, who was leading the vote count but remained shy of the 50% threshold, unsuccessfully ran for Senate against incumbent Ted Cruz in 2024 and dropped out of this year’s Senate primary in December.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton advanced to a runoff in the Senate GOP primary. Cornyn, is seeking a fifth term and hopes to avoid becoming the first Republican senator in Texas history to seek re-election and not be renominated.

Mixed results for Trump. He endorsed 35 incumbents, 18 won. He endorsed 11 challengers, 7 won.

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL and fourth-term congressman from Houston, lost to state Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe. Crenshaw faced difficult headwinds — he was the only House Republican running for reelection in Texas without a Trump endorsement. Crenshaw has been openly feuding with former SEALs Eddie Gallagher and Sean Ryan. In an exchange threatened with some of "his boys at 6."

I'm sure we'll see Crenshaw landing at a K street lobbying firm by the end of the month.

Over here is AR, a man that chased down his daughter's abductor (under restraining order too), confronted, then killed the molester in a scuffle, and now charged with murder, just won the Republican primary for Sheriff of said county. He decided to run because that office mishandled and ultimately lost dash cam footage of the encounter. The judge was pulled off the case too, which is still pending. When he wins (he beat the incumbent at the primary), I'm betting on a clean sweep of that office. Didn't they make a movie like this with The Rock?

https://katv.com/news/local/aaron-spencer-wins-primary-for-lonoke-county-sheriff-in-high-profile-contest

38 minutes ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Over here is AR, a man that chased down his daughter's abductor (under restraining order too), confronted, then killed the molester in a scuffle, and now charged with murder, just won the Republican primary for Sheriff of said county. He decided to run because that office mishandled and ultimately lost dash cam footage of the encounter. The judge was pulled off the case too, which is still pending. When he wins (he beat the incumbent at the primary), I'm betting on a clean sweep of that office. Didn't they make a movie like this with The Rock?

https://katv.com/news/local/aaron-spencer-wins-primary-for-lonoke-county-sheriff-in-high-profile-contest

Outstanding. The dude has no LEO experience, and I'll genuinely believe he'll do a great job. Character matters. AR has a long history of power hungry and otherwise low-professionalism cops. Let's hope he can clean house.

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31 minutes ago, FourFans said:

The dude has no LEO experience, and I'll genuinely believe he'll do a great job. Character matters. AR has a long history of power hungry and otherwise low-professionalism cops. Let's hope he can clean house.

It could go either way, I just hope it goes in the opposite direction of this complete disaster!

DEI long before there was DEI!

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Some very interesting primary results from last night, Texas was ground zero:

State Rep. James Talarico has won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas over Lunatic Rep. Jasmine Crockett. She is the one who called paralyzed Texas Governor Greg Abbott "Governor HotWheels."

Next up after 21 years in office Rep. Al Green, pushed out of his district by the new map, challenged Rep. Christian Menefee, who was elected to the newly drawn 18th Congressional District in a special election last month. Green has been escorted out of the last two State of the Union Addresses.

U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL and fourth-term congressman from Houston, lost to state Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe. Crenshaw faced difficult headwinds — he was the only House Republican running for reelection in Texas without a Trump endorsement. Crenshaw has been openly feuding with former SEALs Eddie Gallagher and Sean Ryan. In an exchange threatened with some of "his boys at 6."

It’s a similar story up north, where Dallas Democratic Rep. Julie Johnson was pushed out of her district and now finds herself facing a likely runoff against her predecessor in Congress, Colin Allred. Allred, who was leading the vote count but remained shy of the 50% threshold, unsuccessfully ran for Senate against incumbent Ted Cruz in 2024 and dropped out of this year’s Senate primary in December.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton advanced to a runoff in the Senate GOP primary. Cornyn, is seeking a fifth term and hopes to avoid becoming the first Republican senator in Texas history to seek re-election and not be renominated.

Mixed results for Trump. He endorsed 35 incumbents, 18 won. He endorsed 11 challengers, 7 won.

In lesser TX primary news: Gonzalez was primaried to a runoff in TX23 by https://x.com/TheAKGuy 43% to 41%.

32 minutes ago, M2 said:

It could go either way, I just hope it goes in the opposite direction of this complete disaster!

DEI long before there was DEI!

Fair point. I feel confident that she didn't single handedly run down and eliminate a threat to children.