Just Say No

@HardTruths25 @Tablesalt13 I don't speak meth. A bigot is someone who is prejudiced on the basis of race. DEI comes in all flavors. People who read race into something that is not there are bigots, however. More accurately racists.

@JustSayNoThankU @Tablesalt13 😝 good for you. If you think you can be a better TSA agent than these three, go ahead Their job doesn’t normally involve gunfire. Your DEI Comment just tells me you’re a weak little bigot.

NEW - Video surfaces of women TSA agents falling and flailing after a gunman opens fire at the Correspondents' dinner, with Trump in attendance.

@a30aew @SECNAV Interesting. I didn't know that and so obviously he was playing to an Australian audience with that. In the U S Navy, the term "shipmate" is an overused phrase that has been abused past the point of relevance. I thought we were getting an offshoot of that. Thanks.

@JustSayNoThankU @SECNAV The funny thing is that 'mateship' appears to be a core Australian value which harks back to the days of the ANZACs in the fight against the Turks in WW1. We've only just observed ANZAC Day here in 🇦🇺 If 'mateship' aligns with DEI, then you are beyond redemption my friend.

For over a century, from the Great White Fleet to today’s Golden Fleet, American and Australian Sailors have served shoulder-to-shoulder. My meeting with VADM Mark Hammond, Chief of Australian Navy, reinforced that mateship. Through AUKUS, we are doing more than delivering submarines—we are building a century of interchangeability and a decisive strategic advantage.

@HardTruths25 @Tablesalt13 20+ years in the USMC and USN flying attack jets off aircraft carriers. 877 traps. 7 deployments. How about you?

@JustSayNoThankU @Tablesalt13 You should apply. Pussy.

@Herronisland @MilesTaylorUSA Then it shouldn't bother you enough to comment on it.

.@MilesTaylorUSA Heads up—I just received an email saying I was being reported for joining GTFOice. I replied stating that unlike the person who emailed me, I hadn’t broken any state or federal laws.

@0littleplaymate @Brick_Suit You sound like you work for the government at tax time.

@Brick_Suit I mean, you can only decide if you will or will not gift a person with some cash. Once you do, how that person spends his money is his decision to make, we don’t get to tell people how to spend their money. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Brick story time: It's not often that I give panhandlers cash but I did last night. Was walking in to a 7-11 and was approached by someone asking if I had extra cash. I made the snap call to help them out with $5. They walked in behind me and bought lotto scratchers. 🫤

@Kolas_Yotaka Thank you for this! I can scroll through the comments and block sooooo many mindless PRC bots!

Just as there can’t be business as usual with Russia, there can’t be business as usual with China. Countries that want to please China shouldn’t become complicit in suppressing Taiwan. Hurting Taiwan’s sovereignty will not solve anything.

@brothermario @RealJamesWoods Right. The thing that never happens never happened again? Get your head out of you TDS deranged a$$.

Uh ... "found over 34,000 deceased people on their voter rol[l]s" is not "34,000 dead persons found voting." Libs of TikTok is obviously written by an uneducated dumbass without logic or proficiency in English. And James Woods is obviously an educated phony without scruples or educated friends. Calling this post by Libs of TikTok proof of a "criminal act" was itself A CRIMINAL ACT. You Republicans keep getting "revealed" for the phony and stupid people you truly are. Having James Woods on your side is no prize. You're making America the Beautiful UGLY. Shame on you.

If every crooked act by Democrats were revealed and dismantled, America would be America again.

@mishtal "Islamophobic" carries no weight anymore. They have used up the meaning. Nobody I know cares about it. At best, when I hear it, I use it to identify the speaker as a nut job left wing activist.

Most terror attacks in the last twenty-one years came from someone with roots in Africa, the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent. And each of those examples identified as a Muslim. Point this out - you will be called Islamophobic. How can we address what we cannot mention?

@Tablesalt13 Easy fix for Carney. Lower the passing standard and then take credit for the improved passing rate.

BREAKING: Success rate for basic training in the Canadian military has dropped to 77% "one platoon with many new immigrants (as little as three months residency in Canada) had a graduation rate of 48 per cent" - Globe and Mail

@LawrenceGostin It absolutely makes us better prepared for the next psyop the government throws at us.

It is time to let go of the COVID origins debate. It does not make the US or the world safer or better prepared.

David Morens’ indictment shows why, under Trump, it’s hard to disentangle political motives from actions in service of justice. He was grossly unethical. But this smacks of selective political prosecution, full of conspiracy theories and grievances about Covid origins.

AOC says "rivers were on fire" because of corporations like Deloitte "pouring chemicals" into waterways. Deloitte is an accounting, consulting, and tax services firm. No idea what she's talking about.

@KemiBadenoch Wow! That's unusual. I wonder what caused that?

Jewish people in our country are under constant attack. This is no longer a growing pattern. There is an epidemic of violence against Jewish people. It is now a national emergency and needs to be treated as such by the Government and public authorities.

@OwenGregorian Bacteria count?

Does it specify that the million residents need to be alive?

@MrAndyNgo Those that can, do. Those who can't, draw. Those who can't draw become courtroom artists

These court sketches of attempted assassin suspect Cole Allen do not look like him.

@GadSaad Some people get height, some people get looks.....

He’s very tall!

@cybertruck If you can't focus on both without assistance you shouldn't be driving.

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@johnkonrad There needs to be Congressional staff term limits.

John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain… The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings. I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with. Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.” It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before. This is how Congress actually works. It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters. The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited. Same man, different staff, different priorities. Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell. It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled. Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on. Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference. That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus. I’m not even willing to name individual staff. John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious. Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article. It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her. Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi. When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door. Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other. Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched. Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily. You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name. They remember mine. Now you know why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​ even Luna can’t vall them out.