Ben C.

2.6K posts

Ben C.

Ben C.

@Cobro23

Husband & Dad, Veteran Gulf War, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Retired Marine Cobra Pilot, Airline Pilot, College of William & Mary, Drummer, Runner

Southern California Katılım Mart 2009
4.3K Takip Edilen1.3K Takipçiler
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
I’m an airline pilot. Most of my world exists in autopilot and computerized routes. It’s that last few percentage of automation that is nearly impossible to use to replace pilots completely, not just in terms of human capabilities, but economically as well. If you look at the safety record of the most automated aircraft/flights over the last 50 years, tech is almost unbelievably positive.
English
0
0
0
4
Charles Gasparino
Charles Gasparino@CGasparino·
to put a fine point on the posting he's commenting on re the disintermediation of the legal biz because of AI: The credit market source I cited is, in fact, a lawyer
Steady Rolling@SteadyRollingX

@CGasparino Folks should not anticipate much disruption in the law from AI. That shit is wrong so often it is a menace to public order. In a sense, it's not too different from lawyers who lie pathologically. However, if there is to be any hope for "justice," human beings have to be involved.

English
3
3
15
6.3K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
The case has been made since the 79 hostage taking and the bombing of our Marines in Beirut. Not to mention the IEDs we experienced in Iraq sent by the IRGC. Right now, we’re just trying to tune out the endless drone of you click-baiters. Could not care less what you, @MattWalshBlog, and the whole podcast world believe. Just busy unfollowing you all. It’s quite liberating.
English
0
0
1
39
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter@AnnCoulter·
Does the pro Iran war crowd have an argument other than, "YOU'RE AS CRAZY AS TUCKER!"? This is getting to be the persuasion-by-threat I wrote about this week re: voter fraud, masking, climate change, etc etc. You might intimidate people out of saying what they believe, but you don't change any minds.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog

Yes I’m “gravitating” in a certain direction by being skeptical of US interventionism as I have been loudly and publicly for as long as I’ve had a platform. This is a new development. This general point of view I’ve had for the past 15 years is an ominous sign. Yes good point David. You’re an astute observer.

English
259
230
1.9K
184K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
Yep, low income thousands demanding money from their wealthier niegbors. It’s perhaps one of the worst mindsets adults can arrive at in terms of fiscal planning. Living in California and hailing from Maryland, have seen what this hyper emotional thinking does to people’s spirit over time. An endless cycle of disappointments.
English
0
0
0
100
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
I’ll call your lack of argument weak. Been to three wars and never criticize people who didn’t serve or diminish their arguments because I served 20 years and they didn’t. In this case, you are part of a cabal of isolationist reflecting group think and a profound lack of nuance in your views. It’s easy to conclude, you are playing to your overly emotional echo chamber of bros to gain clicks. We have comparisons to your other work, which many of us supported. So even compared to you, this is sadly weak.
English
0
0
0
62
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
Weak? Support the war all you want but don’t pretend it makes you somehow stronger to sit in safety while other people fight. Whether I support the war or oppose it, I’m a 40 year old man and my kids are all too young to go to war. It would take no courage or “strength” to argue in favor of sending other people’s kids off to fight. I’m not claiming it takes any courage to oppose sending them either. I’m just telling you what I think based on my analysis of the situation. For you and me, sitting here in comfort and safety, strength or weakness has nothing to do with it. So stop congratulating yourself and just make your case, if you have a case at all.
Sasha Stone@realsashastone

It does not matter to me what you think, Matt. The truth is that we are at war. Our troops are in harm's way and they need our support. If you can't see that, you're not as smart as I thought you were. Man what a weak set of men we have.

English
242
142
2.2K
131.5K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@MattWalshBlog This is your grift! Time-share a brain and echo to your overly emotional fans.
English
0
0
0
34
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@FareedZakaria 500,000 Iraqis and Syrians died after the @BarackObama reversal. Google the “Obama Hole”, or the al-Khasfa sinkhole in Iraq where ISIS threw entire families into a massive hole near Mosul, Iraq. 4,000-12,000 bodies alone.
English
1
0
28
718
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria@FareedZakaria·
Donald Trump called Barack Obama’s Syria “red line” reversal “a disaster.” But Obama’s red line flip-flop looks like the model of careful policymaking compared to Trump’s many about-faces during the Iran war. My take:
English
118
319
1.5K
199.8K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@FareedZakaria Wow, apologist clown splainin’ doesn’t get any worse than this.
English
0
0
0
28
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
At the end of the day, the @megynkelly s, @TuckerCarlson , @MattWalshBlog (et.al.), and all the rest of the right wingers offer no more to the public discussion than their counterparts of the far left. They are remoras who ride on the sharks, @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk. They ride on them because they have to knowing no one knows them without Elon buying Twitter and Trump’s movement since 2015. They offer nothing except overly emotional diatribes that are so similar and shallow that they never rise above the case they make that the past equals the future. It’s exhausting and boring.
English
0
0
0
7
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
Proving group think is just as prevalent on the right as it is the left. This is literally as good as your case has been Matt. That’s why people are dismissing you as they should. We knew what your ilk would say before anything kicked off because you get clicks from your echo chamber who time-share one brain.
English
0
0
1
21
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
The pro war side can dismiss this all they want. Go ahead. All I can tell you is that I personally know multiple VERY conservative lifelong Republicans voters who are so furious and feel so betrayed that they’re planning to sit out the midterms. I don’t think that’s the right move and don’t encourage it. But this is something I’m hearing pretty often. People are pissed. Maybe that doesn’t show up on this site. Maybe it doesn’t show up yet in the polls. But it’s real. Go talk to people. Actual human people.
English
1.2K
375
5K
179.8K
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
I’ve never seen such a disconnect between the commentary on this site and what I hear in the real world. I’ve talked to dozens of normal conservatives in real life about the Iran War and I haven’t met a single one who’s actually enthusiastically in favor of it. At best they’re warily optimistic. In most cases they’re opposed. In some cases they’re not only opposed but deeply furious. And yet here if you utter a word of criticism about the war you’ll be shouted down by throngs of alleged American conservatives who allegedly have wanted nothing more than for America to go to war with Iran. It just doesn’t reflect what I see on the ground. That’s not just cope because my position is unpopular with “my side.” I’ve held plenty of unpopular positions. I really don’t care. But in this case the social media vs real world divide is stark and unlike anything I’ve seen before.
English
4.4K
2.1K
22.4K
1.2M
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@piersmorgan That’s why PM is talking so much about this war as it covers for the fall of England to unbridled immigration and the sad pedophilia state they have allowed to flourish there. @DLoesch
English
0
0
0
120
Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan@piersmorgan·
But you can have opinions about Israel, right?
Dana Loesch@DLoesch

@piersmorgan To have your opinion considered seriously by actual American citizens? Yes. Don’t you have enough issues in the UK right now?

English
296
190
4.6K
534.3K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
They won’t fight for their country. I marveled in the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq that unless these people were actually defending their own house within their country, they would cower like children. Religious fanatics scare them to death because they will fight to die. But this is as much a case for US involvement as against because we have interests there. Make no mistake though, they will never rise to the occasion.
English
0
0
0
16
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@MeghanMcCain As someone who would love nothing more in politics than someone to unseat these grifter politicians in California, which is where I live, you are guilty of ignoring the reality of ballot harvesting. The Demorats here can literally harvest any political outcome they want.
English
3
0
6
1.4K
Meghan McCain
Meghan McCain@MeghanMcCain·
Spencer Pratt is actually a really impressive change candidate. He's landing brutal blows and his messaging is easy to digest. I've been watching skilled politicians my whole life - don't underestimate his capacity to pull this off and become Mayor.
E X X ➠A L E R T S@ExxAlerts

ALERT: LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt fires back against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after a reporter asked him if being a “reality TV star” is hurtful for his campaign. “That was from 20 years ago. If we look at what Karen Bass was doing 20 years ago, she was in Cuba learning how to make bombs with the people who would then go bomb Capitol Hill.”

English
312
785
8.7K
403.1K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@MattWalshBlog You’ve been wrong about every detail before and after, but you can still claim some sage insight if it goes badly. It’s the whole grift part of your movement that turns people off.
English
0
0
1
13
Matt Walsh
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
Some of us expressed great concern about the Iran War when it was first launched. We were shouted down and condemned as “panicans” and “blackpillers” and even Islamist sympathizers. But it’s pretty clear from how things have gone that our concerns were absolutely reasonable and legitimate. Maybe Trump will get us out of this thing soon and it still won’t spiral into a long and drawn out war. But even if that happens — and I’m not convinced it will — no thoughtful person can deny at this point that the spiral and long war scenario is very much a possibility. No reasonable person, at this stage, can say that our concerns were irrational. What looks irrational now — and always did — is the demand for blind allegiance and unthinking “trust” in our elected leaders, as though we are called to have faith in politicians like we have faith in God.
English
3.2K
2.3K
22.4K
1.9M
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
Seriously, JD Vance has been to war in Iraq. Trump, Vance and anyone else would not need Israel for any assessment of the level of difficulty in this war. The proof? Nearly unfettered destruction of Iran’s military. Not one, say again, not one loss of an aircraft except through accidental shoot downs and a collision. Netanyahu would not have dared to predict such an outcome four weeks in.
English
0
0
0
63
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@TheGrayRider This is what high on ambition and low on talent looks like. @RepNancyMace is showing what an amatuer does when in over their head.
English
0
0
0
10
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@Johnny_Joey Joey - this rumor started in 1992 after the first Gulf War. Every time the Air Force threatens to send them to the boneyard.
English
0
0
0
10
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@RepNancyMace This is a very bad look for any professional! Mace is a snake who will do anything to get ahead. I doubt South Carolina will elect her as dog catcher after this.
English
0
0
0
55
Rep. Nancy Mace
Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace·
The justifications presented to the American public for the war in Iran were not the same military objectives we were briefed on today in the House Armed Services Committee. This gap is deeply troubling. The longer this war continues, the faster it will lose the support of Congress and the American people.
English
1.6K
1.8K
9.7K
1.2M
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@RepNancyMace This is why no one in DC or her old Citadel classmates trust her.
English
0
0
0
100
Rep. Nancy Mace
Rep. Nancy Mace@RepNancyMace·
Just walked out of a House Armed Services briefing on Iran. Let me repeat: I will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing.
English
6.1K
13.4K
84.1K
7.4M
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@McFaul You’ve been wrong on just about everything. Praise from you on military matters would be a negative.
English
0
0
0
9
Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
I opposed Trump's war against Iran. There was no imminent threat to the US. All other means of achieving US objectives were not exhausted. He did not consult with Congress. But if Trump's war produces democracy in Iran, permanent nuclear and missile disarmament & the end of support for terrorists forever, I will praise him.
English
774
146
1.4K
112.1K
Ben C.
Ben C.@Cobro23·
@DrHelenFry The Bell P-39 Airacobra had a rear-mounted engine. This aircraft was pivotal during the Campaign for Guadalcanal as part of the Cactus Air Force.
Ben C. tweet media
English
1
0
12
746

Keşfet

@MattWalshBlog @FareedZakaria @BarackObama @megynkelly @TuckerCarlson @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @piersmorgan