ThunderHorse
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The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Breaking literally everywhere all at once-Bondi says Epstein files tomorrow.
No matter what happens, it won’t be enough- fast enough, enough info, what people want, etc. I’ll just go ahead and lay a bet- if it is tomorrow, and that’s still an ‘if’, I’m going to preemptively say ‘meh’.
No matter what happens, it won’t be enough- fast enough, enough info, what people want, etc. I’ll just go ahead and lay a bet- if it is tomorrow, and that’s still an ‘if’, I’m going to preemptively say ‘meh’.
Cmon
Despite every single headline on the face of the planet, poll numbers flesh out Trump's popularity with the initiatives he is tackling- which are all 80/20 issues. It just so happens the "20" controls 99% of the media and would like you to believe otherwise.
Most notably he underperforms on the economy and inflation- people appear to be impatient with current performance and are saying, "It's my money, and I need it NOW!"
String of polls highlights disconnect between media and public on DOGE, Trump’s first month
Most notably he underperforms on the economy and inflation- people appear to be impatient with current performance and are saying, "It's my money, and I need it NOW!"
String of polls highlights disconnect between media and public on DOGE, Trump’s first month
Devildoc
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And this is where information as a whole gets dicey. We have so much polarization in America, so many compromised sources (starting with the MSM) no one knows the truth and no one trusts the truth. Everything is political these days and truth is relative. Some of us have long held you have to be a junior intel analyst to even hope to understand what's going on. Critical thinking in America is dead and you need critical thinking to understand the world because the information is slanted and the sources plentiful. Bias is baked ito the results.
I watched this great Formula 1 video a few days ago talking about the best F1 team of all time. What is the best? Wins? Wins per races entered? Constructor's championships? Best driver? Wins, wins per season, wins per races started, championships?
What is the best info, the best news source? Most trusted? You can make an argument for anything, anyone, any podcast, any anything. And polls? You mean like those that predicted Trump would never win, much less twice? I'm supposed to believe polls now? Should anyone believe a poll? Only if you agree with the poll will you believe a poll... I think polls are bullshit these days.
I'm kind of dumb I guess. I'll approve or disapprove of someone based on what they say and do. Unfortunately, the media is usually accurate on direct quotes (even f you have to dig for the whole thing and context) and untrustworthy on the results.
YMMV
At my overseas job I was the SysAdmin/ Cyber guy for our network which used mIRC chat for official functions. That didn't stop people from typing dumb shit in whispers or setting up some channels.
That also didn't stop me from reading their private chats because we saved all of that shit.
Never underestimate Joe to get stupid in "secure" chat rooms. Everything is an official government record and usually kept somewhere.
Put enough people of the same rank in the same room with no oversight and EVERYONE acts like a lance corporal or a specialist. O10 and E9 on down.
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The were some high grade shenanigans on mIRC - the best ones were when you were sitting in the TOC during a TIC monitoring mIRC so you could contact the JOC to make sure the CONOP has a plan for CAS
...boy, I'll tell you what - reading that there mIRC when there was a TIC in the TOC
C'MON MAN
...boy, I'll tell you what - reading that there mIRC when there was a TIC in the TOC
C'MON MAN
Earlier this week I was setting up for a briefing for some foreign visitors and before they arrived I recounted to some of my cadets that the biggest career-casualty-producing weapon in all of JSOC was a hot mic during a long VTC. Bro. Turn your mic off before you start talking shit. Or before you start talking about how hot my briefer was. Turn off your monitor before you start making weird faces or changing clothes leaving the room entirely before you're bored. That's rookie shit. You're on the varsity team.
Or, you know, don't do that kind of shit at all.
But nah. Everyone acts like grade schoolers from time to time. Dick, fart, and sex jokes abound.
Can’t say I’ve ever agreed with her on anything until now. 
I saw graphic sex talk, guys (and occasionally gals) playing multiple people at once (sometimes on the same shift), one friend of mine who bragged about blowing the ENTIRE fire department on Al Dhafra (her husband was an F-16 maintainer deployed there at the same time), graphic descriptions of one woman's menstrual cycles, the commander is stupid, this or that officer is stupid, this or that chief is stupid, "meant to send a whisper but posted in a theater monitored and available channel" more times than I can count, R&R plans that slowly fell apart, marriages falling apart, couples arguing, shit talking people, amazing gossip about their sexual habits including closeted homosexuals...
And the best part? They thought wiping their chat window deleted it from the server. Nah, the second you hit that enter key it wrote to a text file.
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Meh.
Hegseth's statements on the issue-
"I don't need to get into the characterization of we know who invaded who. We understand the stakes of this game," Hegseth said in a recent interview, sidestepping a direct answer when pressed about Russia's role.
When asked why there appeared to be hesitation in naming Russia the aggressor, Hegseth deflected: "Does all the finger-pointing and pearl-clutching make peace more likely?"
The media's breathless compelling of speech they and they alone decide that is appropriate from elected officials while peace negotiations (for the first time since this war started, mind you) are clickbait at best, disingenuous at worst.
He said what he said when he was at Fox News. Now he's responsible for ensuring that further escalation of the Russia/Ukraine war doesn't cost American lives. The end goal here is a negotiated peace and an end to the slaughtering of Ukrainians, which, until VERY recently, I was told has to be America's number 1 goal above all else because we are the sole arbiter of peace in the world. Call me crazy, but maybe coming out and saying "RUSSIA BAD WE HATE RUSSIA" from his position isn't in the administration's messaging for the ongoing peace negotiations?
I'll wait for the outrage carousel to come back around on this one.
Devildoc
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When I was a JG (O2), I did a 'tour' as a flag aide to an O7. I was voluntold, but turned out to be a great and very educational assignment.
We were at a conference with a bunch of other flags, and one evening we, the aides, planned to go out. My admiral, a female (and a good looking one, too), said, paraphrasing, 'go out, go drinking, go create debauchery. Just don't record any of it.' And that is exactly what happened.
Wait until after you retire.
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The US Army in the 80's and 90's explained.
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