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Haven't been to a Ruth's Chris in a while, but this was how it was... If you didn't have a jacket, they provided one. Okay, its been a LONG while. Did they go Waffle House for a bit?

Traces of Texas reader Wayne Hill shared this photo of a Texas birthday cake and I thought it highly coincidental as I just now remembered that today is my birthday. 😉

Don’t worry, Iran would never lie about downing a US F-35 fighter jet 🤡

@slocumfortexas Didn't corporations and private people pay like a TON of money to META for "real estate" inside the Metaverse?

@BuzzPatterson @margbrennan Just used your reply to request a community note on this.

@margbrennan It’s “Secretary of War” and I do.

The Secretary of Defense tells the American public to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke Jesus' name....

@Brain_Pwr @RobManess There are no atheists in a foxhole.

@RobManess The only people shocked that service members pray to God are people who've never served this country.

I've never flown a combat mission without a prayer in Jesus name from the Chaplain. Every Commander in their right mind asks for prayers.

@RobManess I'm not even Christian, never was. But back in the day when we were sailing into troubled waters, I never scoffed or rebuffed prayers for my safety. Only a fucking fool would do that.

@BreannaMorello What's that orange plate at the end? And you can get decent I-talyan food in Austin?!

Last night in Austin, Texas so I’m cheating on my carnivore eating ways!

@CynicalPublius Nah, we all all (as conservatives) have that "super power". Since all highly credentialed rivals will very likely be liberal, and impressed only by pieces of meaningless paper.

One of Donald Trump's superpowers is that his highly "credentialed" opponents believe he is an idiot. It's glorious.

@EL4USA I've never experienced this. Is this an electric car thing? I drive a truck, so maybe its just a passenger car thing?

Has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever🙄

@gofishh77 Should have diverted some of that tattoo fund into dental treatment.

I just want to know how one is capable of growing two rows of teeth. Anyone?

@janninereid1 Generally the worst of us.

@Microinteracti1 This stupid Iranian propaganda earned a block. I block all Nazis.

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

I read this up until "we are masters of diplomacy"... That's where you lost me. Its not diplomacy when a certain political party hates the United States and when they're in power will intentionally negotiate terms with opponents in bad faith, nobody on our side, such as the JCPoA

RE: The Way of War of Our Enemies In every hot war the United States has become involved in since the Korean War, we have enjoyed absolute tactical and operational dominance over our enemies. We win every tactical engagement, overwhelmingly. Operationally we can and do dominate any theater of our choosing. No one—and I mean NO ONE—can stand toe to toe with the US military. This has been true for decades. We’ve talked before about the elements of national power—the “DIME” (Diplomacy, Informational, Military, Economic). Our military power is unsurpassed. We are masters of diplomacy. We have the world’s strongest economy. So how do we lose? The INFORMATIONAL component. Our military opponents, from Ho Chi Minh to Osama bin Ladin, knew that the only way to defeat the USA is to demoralize the American populace such that it demands withdrawal and throws the then current Commander-in-Chief out of office. The ONLY way to defeat America militarily is to convince the American people that a war is unwinnable. The slow dribble of IED deaths in OIF was not actually targeting soldiers and Marines—it was targeting YOU, the American people. And CNN eagerly complied with death counts running across the bottom of the screen. The Tet Offensive? It was a decisive US victory that could have ended the Vietnam War in our favor. But Walter Cronkite instead declared the war lost, protests erupted nationwide, and the war was lost. The Highway of Death in Kuwait? We could have taken out Saddam Hussein in 1991 and never needed to go back in 2003, but international media made the attack on retreating Iraqis look “too cruel,” so we halted just short of the finish line. The strategic imperative of every one of America’s military enemies is to break the will of the American people with skewed information, propaganda, and extreme emphasis on America’s minor losses amidst overwhelming military victory. But the Ho Chi Minhs and Osama bin Ladins can’t do that by themselves. They need willing partners in the American media and government. And for Operation Epic Fury, boy oh boy do the Iranian mullahs have an over abundance of American morale killers to draw from in order to defeat America through the informational instrument of national power. Tucker Carlson. Senator Mark Kelly and the rest of the Seditious Six. CNN. ABC. NBC. CBS. NYT, WaPo. Pakistani bot armies on social media. X “influencers” like Cerno, Candace, MartyrMade and Ian Carroll. Every idiot claiming we are fighting “Israel’s war." There is an entire Army of American politicians and media figures who are willingly fighting Iran’s informational war on its behalf (and in some cases, at its behest). America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect. Yet there are so many influential Americans who are desperately determined to make you believe otherwise. In days of old in non-US countries, such people would have been strung up for treason. Thankfully it’s 2026 and we have a First Amendment, so no one fear being treated in such a medieval manner. But we can still ostracize and ridicule such people and sources for the irreparable harm they are wreaking upon the USA as they do the bidding (intentionally or unintentionally) of Theo-fascist mullahs who are determined to set off a nuclear bomb so that the Twelfth Imam will arise from a well in Qom and precipitate the global apocalypse. We all need to choose sides. Are you with America, or are you with theologic-inspired, deliberate Armageddon? And anyone who chooses the latter needs to be the target of mockery, derision and clearly-stated facts disproving their lies. And if YOU are an American Patriot, you can fight that informational war on America’s behalf, right now, right here on social media, right there in your own living room. Your voice matters, and your voice is actually a part of the war. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

@CiCi_Texas_45 Don't like #7 (otherwise known as a BBC)?

4-7 ONLY

@scs_real Let's give the gay Iranian Ayatollah that honor... In case they vaporize at first sight.... Unless Israel already turned him into pink mist.

The aliens will decide this, not us.

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@txradioguy @infantrydort

@jarmaug @infantrydort I haven't seen any Israeli criticism of the aircraft.

Actually no. Answer the question, Tell me how the A10 is only psychologically effective as a weapon. When I’ve seen in with my own brown eyes turn people into pink mist in Kandahar. Use good words so we can be friends Use dumb words so we can be enemies. Because this response angers me. Only because it describes someone who hasn’t been in a gunfight. Make me back off in a righteous way. Show me how I’m understanding this.