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Joe Kent on why we actually went to war with Iran.

@wayofftheres @Gruntpa Can’t wrap my head around this whole thing. Who wins? Who really has the incentive/motive? Is Bret Weinstein right, is this to destroy the Trump administration/legacy? Is it worse, are the puppet masters trying to cause a US civil war? If they try to arrest Kent it may get ugly.

@Gruntpa Bibi’s

Whose bitch is this?

@braxton_mccoy Well damn, thanks for reminding me how many of those dumbass briefings there were though.

It isn't all just EO and SHARP briefings as some desperately want to believe for whatever reason.

Last thing from me on the raid. Whenever we would argue about what US SOF could do to cartels in Mexico if they really wanted to and were not heavily leashed, this kind of thing is what we were saying. The handful of messes in GWOT that people like to point to can largely be laid at the feet of unnecessary political constraints, not strategic, tactical, or personnel deficiencies.

@ronnieadkins Two navy guys being gay, why are so many acting surprised?

I have opinions. 1. None of that exchange was threatening, it was a (stupid) 'flex' 2. A public official suing someone over warranted criticism is also peak stupid, and using the 'we're both team guys' is club bullshit Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

@Snakeeater36 2 just doesn’t have the numbers. 7 and 8 seem like clear favorites. That little portion of Florida happens to make a big difference and 7 edges out 8 imo.

8 or 2….those are the only competitors

@OfAthenry @crusadepepe @DissidentSoaps My honest guess would be a larger number leave conservative than are initially conservative. The problem is very few kids entering college are initially conservative. Most don’t understand or think about politics at that age and are very impressionable.

Sorry guys, but the whole "go into the trades" thing was about removing conservative men from the leadership class.

@crusadepepe Learn a trade from the engineering side. Be at the leadership table and still get fulfillment from building things. Never lose respect for the trades, take every opportunity to get hands on, but also get to influence and/or make large scale infrastructure decisions.

@ROCKBETHENAME @OKState420 @sanpellyenjoyer ✋I’m one and know a handful of them personally. Some people have integrity and aren’t willing to be parasites on society. Nevertheless, for every one of us not abusing the system, there’s at least 10 milking it for all they can. Sadly, it’s usually the ones who never did shit.

@OKState420 @sanpellyenjoyer Yea fucking right now actual combat vet is going to say you know what “i don’t want my Benefits” stop the bullshit

Seriously is there a single veteran who doesn’t get a disability check? A very under-discussed scam. I’m sure a guy with a 6 pack that runs marathons is very disabled

@grayzoneintel Fight the good fight. Get involved locally and win influence. Become the decision maker/law maker/etc and enact change.

@peterboghossian Don’t care to silence them, but that doesn’t mean we have to listen. They should be shunned from polite society until they change their ways. When their communities (including workplaces) reject their degeneracy, then maybe they will change.

Resist the understandable and even gratifying urge to silence those who have attempted to silence others. Censoring dissent, criticism, and even vulgar reactions does not make you a better person. It diminishes you.

@JesseKellyDC @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl I really want to make a crayon eating joke but I remember how many retards in my platoons couldn’t shoot worth a shit so touché.

@Txp_RBI_Xctuxl Must have been Army.

Half the people you served with couldn't land a hit on a man sized target in the prone from 200yds with scoped 30-06?

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people. But we aren't "one people" are we? The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was. We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end. I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect. And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning. I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is. It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose. Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences. And the other side murdered him. Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives. I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk. Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death. I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant. I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago. I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past. There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved. But then there will be a reckoning. My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite. So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more. Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over. Ours is just beginning.

@0xPickleCati @benshapiro Who is we? This feels like it may be the straw that broke the camels back. The side that has done the killing professionally may have just been pushed too far.

@benshapiro Whether you agreed with Charlie or not, bullets can’t be the language. We debate, we argue, we vote. We don’t kill.

Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America - an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.

@wayofftheres @BerzekSavant @BravoKiloActual If things ever did somehow get this fun, and you’re looking for a handful of rotary wing pilots (who could also source the aircraft), this would be a fun couple weeks off work. Purely hypothetical of course.

Oh man…… do we get a couple months lead time for creating target packets, and have our support structure of bros that do the analysis etc for us? 200 man TF, helos and trucks in support…… 2 weeks. Problems are solved. Anybody we didn’t get has fled 1000 man SOF TF, no one escapes.

Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.

@wayofftheres The 5% should be shunned from society.

My son has discovered Mario kart 8, and has challenged me to a Grand Prix….

@FischerKing64 This one hits home. I went from a high performing small consulting firm to public sector engineering. 75% could leave tomorrow and it would only help. I’d clarify that the few people who are carrying the load in the public sector are drowning though.

It is not an exaggeration that you could fire 70-80% of people without much loss. Everyone knows this and it's been said hundreds of times. But some things bear repeating. In universities, you could fire 95% of the administration tomorrow morning and things would improve.

If you've worked in an efficiently run private enterprise, it can be a real shock to get a taste for government work, or life in a university. The latter is much easier, more relaxed - and many people do next to nothing for good salaries.

@dances_fish @disclosetv Please define “we” in this context.

@disclosetv Are we ready for the potential CONUS blowback? No we are not.

JUST IN - Trump signs Pentagon directive to begin using military force against Latin American drug cartels — NYT

@CynicalPublius Why are HR departments across the country (federal, state, and local) all effectively this way? Can we not fix the laws and regulations that got us here? Plenty of good leaders in government who see this and would be glad to fire the dead weight but can’t. Should be fixable.

For those questioning my basis for making these statements, know that in my last job in the Army I ran a 40-civilian shop in the Pentagon. Basically 5 of those people did all the work and the other 35 were unfireable oxygen thieves. People have no idea.

There once was a time in America where being a federal civil servant truly was a sacrifice. You knew you were making less than you could in the private sector, but you felt a duty to your country anyway. This sort of selfless attitude was a great source of pride to such government workers. They were doing something bigger than themselves. But enough about the 1960s. In 2025, the most secure and profitable career a person can have is as a federal civil servant: -Salaries are routinely higher than the median incomes of non-government employees in similar jobs, and include regional cost of living adjustments. -Benefits, vacation, holidays, health care and pensions vastly exceed anything available in the private sector. -Absent a reduction in force, it is almost impossible to be fired. You can do literally nothing productive and if a supervisor tries to fire you, the supervisor will fail. Basically, federal civil servants enjoy careers that are vastly superior to those of most of the people who pay their salaries. But here is what sickens me: While the “sacrifice” of being a federal civil servant no longer exists, the sensibility that somehow “I am a more noble and superior person because I am a civil “servant”” still exists, and is actually more pervasive now than it was in the past. Our civil servants are really our civil masters, and they rub our faces in it.

@CynicalPublius Agreed. Have thought this same thing in the engineering/construction industry countless times. Almost always a sign of mediocre ability and compensating for their insecurities.

One of the really weird things about being a lawyer after being a soldier is watching the number of male deal lawyers who see themselves as some sort of macho apex predator who feel the need to flex on lawyers on the other side with a bunch of aggressive garbage as some sort of intimidation tactic. Rugged? Macho? Intimidating? Dude, the scariest thing you ever did in your life was go ziplining in Belize on a law firm junket. I think this is probably the case in other professions, and anybody who served in the US military in the first twenty years of the 21st Century probably knows this feeling.