Mark Sockwell
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@Amer1can_Barbie Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
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@Amer1can_Barbie Good Morning @Amer1can_Barbie !
Hope you’re doing well today!
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Here's what I told the Speaker in our conference meeting:
We have leverage right now. Use it.
Fund ICE and CBP for multiple years.
Boost their budget by 5%.
Cut every Democrat priority in the bill.
Punish them while we have the chance.
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@cdrsalamander But, didn’t they send their ONE combat ready ship to Cyprus?!
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@maphumanintent @IDFkushoverlord , please, I beg you, do not procreate.
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That's why I was asked to serve, and you weren't.
Kush 🇺🇸@IDFkushoverlord
Asshole this is math . Fuck 1 life if it saves six . This is the trolly meme you fucking loser boomer
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When I was last there 17 years ago, it looked more like an Algerian town than anything in France. I went to the cathedral there and paid my respects to the France that one was and may never be again--especially not in my lifetime. I then grabbed the kids and left.
Sad...but this is the France that generations of French voters desired as seen through their votes.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
🇫🇷 In Saint-Denis, France, thousands of far-left Antifa radicals took to the streets in support of newly elected mayor Bally Bagayoko from the far-left La France Insoumise party. One of his first major acts was signing an order banning evictions where no alternative housing is provided, raising concerns about the emergence of “okupa”-style squatting for illegal migrants, similar to Spain. He is also moving to disarm the municipal police, starting with LBD rubber bullet launchers, with no plans to replenish their ammunition stocks.
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@Arrogance_0024 If YOU were the downed airman, would you want us to lose all of this to rescue you??
This is why the American military is just different.
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Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
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@heckyessica Let’s have this conversation when the 4-year-old is a grandchild. 😁😁😁😁
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4 yo: mama can I have a cookie
me: not right now bud. you’ve had enough sugar
4: okaayyyyy
-5 min later-
4: mama can you get the cookie for me
me: i already said no
4: but dad said yes
me: you don’t ask dad after i gave you an answer
4: but yours was the WRONG ANSWER
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@bigboardgaming @Mountain_Navy Great game.
Carrier — South Pacific should be coming out soon. Update of the old game Carrier from Victory Games.
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Carrier Battles for Phillipines (Compass Games) going on the table soon — hex-and-counter naval-air ops in the brutal Pacific. Tense search rules, great carrier management. Who else plays this? #wargames #WWIIPacific
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@bigboardgaming @Mountain_Navy Might want to check out the upcoming offering from @compassgamesllc — Torpedo Junction.
Flat Top is great if you can play it umpired, double blind.
For me, it’s the two solo games from Jon Southard, Carrier and Tokyo Express. I’m relearning Tokyo Express now.
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@cdrsalamander Your last comment is spot on — saw it first hand when I was training with a firm for 2 months in NYC.
Couldn’t wait to get back to SC.
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As I have said for decades, culturally I have much more in common with my fellow Southerners of sub-Saharan extraction than I do with my fellow Americans of European extraction in the Northeast or upper Midwest, etc.
My family has lived in the Deep South for four centuries. Many of my black neighbors have roots just as deep…and a shared history we’ve worked through together and are still working on.
Yep. This vibes.
I will also note that the most out and in your face racists against black Americans I have ever run into were in the Northeast and Hawaii.
i/o@avidseries
Her post reminds me of something. After I graduated from college, I decided to travel to those parts of the US I hadn't seen before. No one in my family had ever ventured into the South, so that became my first destination. Of course I had heard all sorts of things about how racist the region was. I got a ride from someone in NYC who took me as far as Savannah, Georgia. I walked to the bus station, and took a seat in the lobby. I was surrounded by white and black working class Southerners. Very much unlike an urban bus station in the North, everyone was starting conversations and talking to each other. I observed almost immediately how easily and naturally the black people and white people interacted with one other. They seemed to have much more of a common culture than working class white and black people in the North. Their interactions appeared effortless, not artificial like they often do in the North. I saw this over and over again as I made my way across the Deep South.
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Yep’r…and I have a funny story about one 9mm round out of one of my magazines and the Finnish Army that I’ll happily share over beers.
Cody M 🇺🇸🇲🇨🏴☠️@codym1917
For everyone crying about the troops allowed to be armed on a military installation, consider this: During the GWOT, every single one of us was armed on the FOB / COP / MSS / JSS (installation) 24/7 with a rifle or a pistol and a magazine for force protection. Here I am talking to my gunner and medic (outside the frame) with a fucking 9mm pistol right there. Let the NCO's do their job and stop crying about shit that doesn't affect you. We have been asking for this since 9/11.
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@cdrsalamander Don’t forget what was spent during Kennedy/Johnson
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Too many people don’t know this, and it drives me nuts.
It is part, but not all, of the reason why we saw the starving and distraction of our space program during the Carter, Clinton, and Obama years.
Rich Lowry@RichLowry
I had no idea that civil-rights activists protested the moon landing “The protest began peacefully with Abernathy and the others gathered in front of the NASA gates for a candlelight vigil on the evening of July 14 followed by a march on July 15. As NASA administrator Thomas Paine came out to the NASA perimeter under a lightly falling rain to meet Abernathy and the others in an open field, the group began singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ and media crews recorded the event. Protesters carried signs reading ‘$12 a day to feed an astronaut, we could feed a child for $8.’” history.com/articles/apoll…
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@cdrsalamander As the examples pile up, this thread gets longer and longer.
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Here is another in addition to the long running thread on the pivot that clearly took place in our culture ~2012/13 ... but this time with a twist.
At least in one area, it appears the experience of COVID broke a fever.
h/t x.com/BradWilcoxIFS/…
Brad Wilcox@BradWilcoxIFS
"By 2024, 3 out of 4 boys and half of girls don’t disagree w/ the idea that it’s best if men are the achievers & women take care of the home and family. Those numbers are all-time highs in the history of the survey." @jean_twenge
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The more graphs I see of different parts of our society, the more one thing keeps popping up: the pivot in 2012/3.
Why? That is the interesting question.
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@ClaireCoutinho @cdrsalamander These are the policies that the British electorate have voted for over the last 4+ decades. The British people need to look in the mirror and see who is to blame.
Only the British people can force a change in direction. Do they have the will to do so?
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Last year Britain lost a THIRD of its refineries.
Why? A Carbon Tax on industry that Ed Miliband doubled.
We won’t need any less petrol, diesel, jet fuel, ceramics or chemicals - we'll just rely more on foreign imports.
We must axe the Carbon Tax and save British industry.
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