Welshman

What the fuck? Tom Hanks at least appears to be the epitome of what an American is. His work on Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers has probably been better for Army recruiting than anything else in the last 20 years.

I’ll take things that never happened for $2000 Alex.

@mjfree It already had long post deployment yard period scheduled before the fire. Pictures from Crete didn’t show any hull damage.

The USS Gerald Ford, one of the largest U.S. aircraft carriers, will be out of service for two years after being struck by Iran. It’s definitely not a fire in the laundry room...

Philly knows what’s up 👐🔥 H/t @thvh5150

@mehdirhasan To be fair he’s equated Christian Nationalist to a white Taliban.

Democratic senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin all told Politico they wouldn’t go on Hasan Piker’s show. But they have all been on Bill Maher’s show, who says Islam is like “the mafia”, the Muslim world has “too much in common” with ISIS, Muslims bring “desert stuff” to the west, and has also used the N word on his show. Why the double standard? Slotkin was on Maher’s show *yesterday*

@UnfilteredSoccr I’m sure there will be… words.

Well. New episode drops Tuesday.

@SetantaADV @ingelramdecoucy @TElcope177989 If you listen to him on any of the Bulwark stuff he’s still conservative. He just doesn’t agree with MAGA or Chrostian Nationalism.

@ingelramdecoucy @TElcope177989 WTF happened to Bill Kristol? Didn’t he used to be one of those “I’m more conservative than you!” kind of Conservatives, or am I hallucinating?

I was curious as well so I went and checked out the website of the org paying for the full page “No More Kings” ad, and imagine my shock…

@greendragonhq My bad.

@Welshmen Some if these on the list are grandchildren, but the data gets murky on them. Tough to find ages names etc.

Here is a list of military-aged (or draft-aged) children of senators who support the war in the Middle East. Why won’t they volunteer for the cause? Banks, Liliana (18) Moreno, Emily (25) Schmitt, Steven (21) Schmitt, Sophia (20) Schmitt, Olivia (18) Lee, John (23) Lee, James (21) Lee, Eliza (19) Cruz, Caroline (18) Budd, Joshua (20) Fetterman, Karl (20) Fetterman, Grace (18) Curtis, Emily (35) Curtis, Jacob (33) Curtis, Kirsten (30) Ernst, Libby (28) Husted, Alex (31) Husted, Kylie (25) Lankford, Jordan (20) Mullin, Jim (25) Mullin, Andrew (22) Mullin, Lara (20) Mullin, Jayce (18) McCormick, Elizabeth (24) McCormick, Tess (22) McCormick, Ava (20) McCormick, Elise (18) Sullivan, Meghan (24) Sullivan, Isabella (22) Sullivan, Laura (20) Ricketts, Roscoe (23) Ricketts, Margot (21) Cramer, Abel (30) Cramer, Rachel (28) Cramer, Annie (25) Hagerty, Tara (20) Hyde-Smith, Anna (25) Marshall, Lauren (35) Marshall, Victor (32) Marshall, Matt (28) Marshall, Cal (25) Cassidy, Kate (30) Cassidy, Will (25) Cassidy, Meg (22) Murkowski, Nick (34) Murkowski, Matt (30) Lummis, Annaliese (37) Johnson, Ben (37) Johnson, Carey (35) Johnson, Jenna (34) Moran, Alex (34) Moran, Kelsey (30) Tuberville, Tucker (35) Tuberville, Troy (30) Barrasso, Peter (35) Barrasso, Emma (32) Barrasso, Hadley (28)

@adamjohnsonCHI @mehdirhasan My guess is Iran is tired of negotiations with two pro-Israel Jews. They’d rather deal with Vance who has reportedly been somewhat critical of Bibi’s influence on getting us to attack.

Tucker using anger over Israel and his own vague, ill-gotten credibly on the issue to polish the Vance 2028 turd??

@usmntonly Yeah if continued the stripes all the way through might have been better, but here we are.

The USMNT vs. Belgium game is gonna be tough to watch with both teams wearing white 😭

Damn, flown through there 6 or 7 times when I was active duty shuffling back and forth between Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait and the states.

De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different on this day, because all over the country, in cities and towns and factories and on farms—north, south, east, west—millions of us are coming together to declare: no kings.

@madrid_mike Like a Chargers/Raiders game back at Qualcomm or SDFC/LAFC match at Snapdragon.

Like swallows returning to Capistrano

🚨 BREAKING: French police foil terror bomb plot outside Bank of America’s Paris HQ (8th arrondissement, near Champs-Élysées). A 17-year-old suspect was arrested early this morning (~3:30 a.m.) while placing a homemade device containing ~5 liters of liquid explosive. Second accomplice fled. SOURCE: @AP @AFP

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@RizzAustin2489 @NextNavy At least the uniformed active duty guardsmen are being paid out of discretionary funds.

@Welshmen @NextNavy I doubt the coast guard is getting this check

Remember, these folks aren’t getting paid to do what they do.

They were picked by their superiors. And by the way the Army takes out names, pronouns, and pictures for their promotion boards. So they looked at the records of the hundreds of colonels up for 1 star and those were among the 3 they picked and the Trump appointed Secretary approved.

@AnnCoulter Promoting them based on their race or gender would betray every principle of merit-based service. You're so close to understanding it.

THE BEGINNING OF DEMOCRAT ENLIGHTENMENT!!! Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island: “Denying the promotions of individual officers based on their race or gender would betray every principle of merit-based service.” (Also the constitution, Jack.)

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