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@kyjd75 @magastar2026 He’s wrong on a few things, for sure. But his courage to dig for uncomfortable truths is refreshing.

I used to like Tucker quite a bit, and thought he did a good job calling out the craziness of the woke left. But, imho, he has undergone a seismic shift of policy viewpoints that I have trouble with. My time in the FBI left me with a view of Russia (then the Soviet Union) as an eternal and dangerous enemy of the USA. I still feel that way.

🚨BREAKING:🚨TUCKER CARLSON MAKING PREPARATIONS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028 - The former Fox News anchor turned podcast host Tucker Carlson is reportedly STRONGLY WEIGHING RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT as a Republican in 2028. Would YOU support TUCKER FOR PRESIDENT?

@kyjd75 @magastar2026 Israel, yes. AIPAC….don’t see that mess in the Bible.

@judthoughts @magastar2026 As a Christian myself, I truly believe that Israel is the chosen race of God, and we have a duty to stand with and support them.

@kyjd75 @magastar2026 Agree completely!

@judthoughts @magastar2026 Trump is hardly perfect, he has many faults. But compared to the democrat alternatives, I'll take him everyday of the week.

@kyjd75 @magastar2026 Why? I really respect the way he’s stood up to Trump, while being conservative, Christian, AND calling out inappropriate ties to Israel. Just curious. I respect your views.

@magastar2026 I wouldn't vote for him if he was the only one running

@keefer1536 You did just fine, Amigo….

It is amazing the amount of special forces guys, seals, EOD, rangers, pilots, etc on here. I was a tank mechanic. I feel like I should have done more…lol

@HotepJesus No argument…. Further most of my friends and colleagues from Army, and top companies don’t need the “help” offered by liberals to achieve. They aren’t “black leaders”. They are leaders!

Black people could run America if they weren't tethered to the Democratic Party. Let's argue...

@Jeremybtc Mind…..BLOWN!

A man invented a $2.5 MILLION crime spree, sold it to Hollywood and charged $30,000 per speech to explain how he did it. It was all lies. > Frank Abagnale claimed he spent 5 years as a teenage fugitive. > Impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a Harvard trained doctor and a Louisiana attorney general while forging $2.5 MILLION in bad checks across 26 countries. > Steven Spielberg turned it into a 2002 blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. > It became one of the highest grossing films of that year. > Broadway turned it into a musical. > The FBI hired him as a consultant. > AARP named him their official Fraud Watch Ambassador. > He charged between $20,000 and $30,000 per speaking engagement for decades telling audiences how he pulled it all off. > For 40 years nobody seriously questioned any of it. > Then in 2020 a journalist named Alan Logan spent three years pulling every public record prison document newspaper archive and court file he could find. > Pan Am's own security department told a journalist as early as 1978 "This never happened. You don't forget $2.5 MILLION in bad checks." > Prison records showed Abagnale was behind bars for most of the years he claimed to be a fugitive. > The Georgia hospital had no record of him. > The Louisiana attorney general's office had no record of him. > His only confirmed crime was check fraud totalling less than $1,500. > Logan's conclusion the entire story was not embellished but fabricated. > Abagnale had not committed the con by impersonating pilots and doctors. > He committed it by convincing Hollywood, the FBI and the entire world that he had. The most valuable skill Frank Abagnale ever had was the ability to make people so entertained by a story that they forgot to verify it. That skill made him MILLIONS legally.

@MCCCANM We use our superior judgement to avoid use of our superior skills. Well-played, Sir!

More thoughts on landings: I went to the Reserves & got re-qualified as a KC-10 instructor after a couple years away from the jet. The DO (Director of Operations) assigned me to fly w/ the Wing Commander, who flew jets occasionally now & had only a weird “Senior Staff” Qual in the KC-10. Long story. Anyway, the DO gave me a warning. He phrased it in a nice way, but told me they only allowed certain instructors to fly w/ the Wing Commander. It piqued my curiosity, but I didn’t go on high alert or anything. So, we’re on the last landing of the sortie, really late at night. Things look fine, he’s doing fine, and I’m happy we’re almost done. Somehow in the last 100’, this guy manages to put the jet down almost in the lights leading up to the runway. I’ve never seen anything like it & couldn’t explain it. It was like the universe paused, reset our height above the ground, then resumed play. We touched down on the main gear maybe 50’ from the runway threshold. I didn’t have time to react. I realized we were safe & stopping, so didn’t say anything. I didn’t debrief him, either…he wasn’t going to listen to me anyway. I tried to figure out how that happened. I honestly never did. I didn’t see any yoke movements or power adjustments that would account for it, nor was there any weather that would do it. We were on speed & glidepath. I still don’t really know. Anyway, I talked to the DO the next day. He wasn’t surprised, and reiterated that was why they only let him fly with a handful of instructors. I flew with him again, and it was vanilla, but I watched like a Hawk. That lesson sticks with me. Fast forward to years later, and I haven’t actually flown the KC-10 in a long time. I’m not current & so my qualification has lapsed. I hear my son on a video game group chat telling others something along the lines of “yeah, when my dad retires I get to wave the jet in to parking”. Shit. The kids are expecting that. I was just going to go away quietly…I had a lot going on in those years. A lot. I didn’t have the bandwidth for the KC-10, but now there is an expectation & I can’t let them down. So, the squadron goes to extraordinary lengths & draws up a whole requalification plan for me, which has to be signed at multiple levels. In reality, it’s just to do one last flight, and not even do much flying. The squadron was extremely gracious in this regard. My instructor, a good friend of mine, offers me the last landing. I’ve strapped into the seat for this one…I’d been napping in the back while the other pilots took turns practicing touch & gos for their currency. I considered it, but the jet – which I had thousands of hours on – felt huge now & I was uncomfortable. I declined & put my hands in my lap. He landed & slowed it down. I took over to taxi it in for my kids, and then we had the whole show of throwing water on me, champagne & pictures. And that was it. That was my last landing in a military jet.

@Heavy_pilot767 That guy! Would make a 4 day feel like 2 weeks.

Waiting for Capt Steve to put on his uniform and give us his shitty take on the United incident in EWR

Veteran isolation is brutal and real as hell. This morning I posted about sitting on my porch, sick, alone with my dog, friends completely gone, family living a quarter mile away but never around. No calls. No check-ins. Just silence. I’ve heard the exact same story from way too many combat vets. They come home from war, try to reintegrate, and slowly watch their world shrink: - Friends ghost you because “you’re different now.” - Family stops reaching out when the conversations get heavy. - You stop answering texts so you don’t burden anyone. - You sit in the house for days, fighting your own head, telling yourself you’re supposed to be strong enough to handle it alone. The VA, the churches, the “support” groups, most of them don’t fix the loneliness. They hand you pills or a pat on the back and send you back into the same empty house. So you fight alone. Heal alone. Survive alone. If you’re a veteran reading this and you’re feeling it right now. You’re not weak, you’re not broken, and you’re not the only one. What’s one way isolation has hit you hardest since getting out?

@Brandt_boys @heavenhill Highly calibrated. KY tuned.

@judthoughts @heavenhill Your sniffer might need to get looked at. 😂

Here’s to a relaxing Sunday! ☀️🥃 What’s your go-to pour when you want to unwind? I’m over here with this Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Rye and couldn’t be happier. Drop your favorite rye or Sunday ritual below 👇

I remember 8 years ago most people I know listened to Ben Shapiro, now no one does. I don’t know a single person who listens. Why did you stop listening to Ben Shapiro?

@beinlibertarian Authoritarian response to a manufactured pandemic?

@hwinkler4real What happened to late-night comedy shows?!?! If I want BS politics, I’ll tune-in CNN/Fox. I just want to laugh and enjoy comedy and light banter.

Jimmy is a AMERICAN AND Proud. , He speaks his mind ,, Dont you ?? Isn't one of the the GREATEST reason we live here ??

@lpky @NateMorris @barrforsenate

@NateMorris @barrforsenate You are all a bunch of socialists. Stop pretending you love America.

I’m incredibly proud to join President Trump in endorsing @BarrForSenate. Like President Trump said, Andy knows what it takes to get things done and deliver BIG for the America First agenda. It’s time for all Kentuckians to rally behind our next Senator, Andy Barr!

Nope, you've always been a man and always will be.

Maybe it's time to take responsibility for yourself and your own actions. That's an idea.

@RealJamesWoods It’s time to reset the mess!

Not satire…

@RepKeithSelf NOW!

If the government can shut off your car, then it’s not YOUR car anymore. Kill the Kill Switch!