Mac William Bishop

There’s a story which may well be apocryphal: at an art exhibition in the 1880s the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin took General Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) on a tour of the gallery. There he led the general in front of his painting, “The Apotheosis of War,” (1871).

This is how you internalize a loser mentality. Instead, to be a winner, just think to yourself: “Trump is going to get everyone but me killed.”

@GradualReform Just really bad urban planning for a nuclear-war-survival scenario.

@MacWBishop Bing bong

Nuclear war absolutely was winnable.

@LauraWalkerKC There were definitely crimes, as multiple convictions and guilty pleas attest. But it’s difficult — if not impossible — to draw a straight line between those crimes and the election outcome.

It is actually possible (and reasonable) to conclude: 1) Russia is an adversary whose efforts to influence the US political process have been documented in exquisite detail 2) The Trump campaign had extensive shady contacts with Russia 3) Trump won the 2016 election fair & square

Just going to keep posting this to counter the ridiculous bullshit until someone makes me stop. The Special Counsel investigation uncovered extensive criminal activity •The investigation produced 37 indictments; seven guilty pleas or convictions; and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions. Mueller also uncovered and referred 14 criminal matters to other components of the Department of Justice. •Trump associates repeatedly lied to investigators about their contacts with Russians, and President Trump refused to answer questions about his efforts to impede federal proceedings and influence the testimony of witnesses. •A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors concluded that if any other American engaged in the same efforts to impede federal proceedings the way Trump did, they would likely be indicted for multiple charges of obstruction of justice.   Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the U.S. election system in 2016 •Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systemic.”[1] •Major attack avenues included a social media “information warfare” campaign that “favored” candidate Trump[2] and the hacking of Clinton campaign-related databases and release of stolen materials through Russian-created entities and Wikileaks.[3] •Russia also targeted databases in many states related to administering elections gaining access to information for millions of registered voters.[4]   The investigation “identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign” and established that the Trump Campaign “showed interest in WikiLeaks's releases of documents and welcomed their potential to damage candidate Clinton”  •In 2015 and 2016, Michael Cohen pursued a hotel/residence project in Moscow on behalf of Trump while he was campaigning for President.[5]Then-candidate Trump personally signed a letter of intent. •Senior members of the Trump campaign, including Paul Manafort, Donald Trump, Jr., and Jared Kushner took a June 9, 2016, meeting with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, New York, after outreach from an intermediary informed Trump, Jr., that the Russians had derogatory information on Clinton that was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”[6] •Beginning in June 2016, a Trump associate “forecast to senior [Trump] Campaign officials that WikiLeaks would release information damaging to candidate Clinton.”[7] A section of the Report that remains heavily redacted suggests that Roger Stone was this associate and that he had significant contacts with the campaign about Wikileaks.[8] •The Report described multiple occasions where Trump associates lied to investigators about Trump associate contacts with Russia. Trump associates George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, and Michael Cohen all admitted that they made false statements to federal investigators or to Congress about their contacts. In addition, Roger Stone faces trial this fall for obstruction of justice, five counts of making false statements, and one count of witness tampering. •The Report contains no evidence that any Trump campaign official reported their contacts with Russia or WikiLeaks to U.S. law enforcement authorities during the campaign or presidential transition, despite public reports on Russian hacking starting in June 2016 and candidate Trump’s August 2016 intelligence briefing warning him that Russia was seeking to interfere in the election. •The Report raised questions about why Trump associates and then-candidate Trump repeatedly asserted Trump had no connections to Russia.[9]

@Mpolymer This is how I know aliens haven’t visited us. Why would they want to? Or if they have, they are basically the weird trailer trash of the universe that everyone else stays away from…

History will not judge us kindly. Concurrently, the aliens who r watching us think we r batshit bonkers. Happy Saturday night all. 😉

@PhilKlay Agreed.

@MacWBishop That said, while Trumpism is particularly degrading of the national character, I think it’s worth more sorrow than self-satisfaction to see all this.

“We are at a very low point in American history if we decline to honor our patriots because a demagogue smears them.”

@Byrdsmanse Never heard of him.

@MacWBishop Jerry will always throw that <wink> in the statement

All this flood-the-zone, attack-attack-attack garbage defending the president’s inhumanity, but have yet to see any substantiated criticisms leveled at Mueller. Instead it’s all reflexive “Russia Hoax!” or “Buh…buh…but my God-King!” bullshit. Some people are fucking lost, man.

@AlxWrghtTwtr Social media is not real life, and tbh there’s little evidence most of these are even actual people.

@MacWBishop “Some” people, aka, so very, very many. 🤦‍♂️

In Trump’s Administration, Military Housing Is Becoming a Hot Commodity nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

@mwgoodm @McCainJack Maj Marc Hohle, Capt Matthew Thomas, Sgt Obdulio Munoz III, and LCpl David Saldana of HMM-361 (based in Miramar) died on April 19th, 1999 when their CH-53E crashed during night training in the Sea of Japan operating out of MCAS Futenma. I remember the S&R op. And the memorial.

@McCainJack @MacWBishop Lost a friend in a low level “training” flight over Puerto Rico baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-lo…. Shane Kimmet, Talon-13, facebook.com/share/v/1Cbxua…

@McCainJack To destroy faith in all institutions. To sow doubt & division. To ensure that there is no aspect of our society which can be held as sacrosanct. To use social media to manipulate our leaders and opinion-makers into focusing on manufactured crises & thus destroy American society.

@eyezcreems @EODHappyCaptain Explain

@EODHappyCaptain @MacWBishop The guy in the middle is an Indian bet you didn’t notice

This comic ran in November 1945. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

People easily forget what Robert Mueller was tasked with investigating: evidence of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. In the course of that investigation, a dozen GRU officers attached to Unit 26165 were indicted, as were Yevgeny Prigozhin, two of his shell companies, and a dozen of his troll farm employees. The charges leveled against these Russians were conspiracy to commit offenses against, or defraud, the United States, identity theft, money laundering and wire and bank fraud. The Mueller investigation wasn't, properly speaking, a counterintelligence investigation. That work fell to the Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), which released its conclusions in five different volumes beginning in July 2019, far more comprehensive and detailed than the Mueller Report, although they individually and collectively garnered a fraction of the attention. "No probe into this matter has been more exhaustive," said the acting SSCI head in August 2020, when the fifth and final volume was released. He was right and deserves a lot of credit in getting to the bottom of Russian active measures and election interference in the 2016 presidential contest. His name was Marco Rubio.

@iAmTheWarax @Snakeeater36 “I’m gonna do a quick and easy deployment or two or eleven to build street cred.”

@Snakeeater36 playing the long game, red. you wouldn't get it

Are you seriously saying that Joe Kent merely went to war zones to get his ticket punched? You might want to pulse the special operations community before you continue to step on your dick with golf cleats….