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@_uwomy Champ, bat "boy" for the AAA Durham Bulls minor league team.

They aren't petting him enough!

@FysGo @Mankosmash @johnkonrad HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@CJDate @Mankosmash @johnkonrad Use your brain maybe next time Oh wait, avg american iq is 90. Ok then let me help you, this is 100% AI written.

Ship captain who traveled with Pete Hegseth here. When we toured the nation’s next supercarrier together and sat down to lunch with the crew, every eye in the room tracked Pete. It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity. Everyone from the seaman recruits to the three-star admiral was locked in, because he wasn’t self-conscious, wasn’t buried in his notes, wasn’t reading off a script. Every person in the room felt seen and heard, even the ones who never said a word. Most journalists take copious notes. I soak in details and run simulations. Or maybe that’s not the journalist in me. It’s the ship captain. We were standing in a cavernous hangar bay and I was already running a flooding scenario. What if the ship heeled hard and water poured into the compartment? I was working it fast: watertight integrity, tie-down points, where the water would pool, where the escape routes were. Then a hand landed on my shoulder. Pete. He pulled me back into the room, and we talked briefly. The guy is watching everything. And not just inside his inner sanctum of four-star GOFOs and PhD advisors like Elbridge Colby. He has rare situational awareness for what the warfighter actually needs. And he’s reading X too. I can’t tell you how often something posted on X with real consequence gets clocked by Pete and processed inside his office. The guy has his head on a swivel.

@WadeUpdateLater @paulspadenun The first element listed in Article 134 (Fraternization) is that the accused was a commissioned or warrant officer. Thus, only an Officer can be guilty of fraternization. Enlisted Army personel can be subject to AR 600-32, but not in this case. (I assume USMC reg is similar.)

@paulspadenun @CJDate Still no exact quote because you know you are wrong. Also a clear sign you are wrong when you resort to insults.

This is what it looks like to have a warfighter in a room full of politicians…. Never get them confused. Proud to call @SecWar a friend and even more proud to serve under him.

@paulspadenun @WadeUpdateLater If you actually knew the UCMJ, you'd know that only an officer can be guilty of fraternization.

@WadeUpdateLater A Sergeant claiming the SecDef is his buddy definitely constitutes a violation. That's fraternization.

@Mankosmash @johnkonrad My AI detector says that there's a 90% probability that it's *not* AI-written

@johnkonrad > It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity. Please stop using AI to write your posts. I stopped reading when I saw this. AI is incredibly stupid & weird in style, and worst of all it is ridiculously verbose & is hugely disrespectful of the readers time.

@TradwifeOrigina And yet she hasn't been shot by ICE, but has competed against a trans-"woman".

Statistics 😇

@4thOfJuly365 It certainly is factual that he's a moron.

I wish I could like this 1,000,000,000 times!

@Four_3_Three @ronrule Most people don't have 20 children the same age that they need to all coordinate teaching together at the same pace, but thanks for totally missing the point.

@CJDate @ronrule No. It’s really not at all. Nice try though.

If you homeschool your kids, you should be exempt from the portion of your property taxes that goes to the local schools.

@Four_3_Three @ronrule That's like saying I need to have a restaurateur's license to prepare a healthy meal for my family.

@ronrule Parents who homeschool their kids should be required to have a teaching certificate/license.

Tell me where you were born using only a GIF ?

@ClownWorld Never heard of her

@whiskeypete51 @loonlake55 About $500 per week.

@loonlake55 the buying power of a Mcdonalds employee in 1971 is equivalent to 10k a week in todays money so

Too many young people are resenting Boomers, claiming that Boomers had it " easy " financially in their youth. Here are a few fun facts about growing up Boomer. 1. Almost everyone grew up with one bathroom. Mom, Dad and all 3-6 siblings. 2. If you did get to take a vacation, you drove. With no air conditioning. No cup holders. No iPads. Just black vinyl seats and bologna sandwiches. 3. There were no club sports. No Parks and Rec activities. Summer camp was for rich kids. Get yourself a bike, a stick and a few friends. If you were bored, you laid in the grass and looked at clouds. 4. You ate what was served. Even if it was chicken livers. No DoorDash, no backup Totino's rolls. 5. No AP classes, no PSEO, no "fun" elective. They assigned you to a class. You went. You did what they asked. Or else. 6. Unless you had rich parents, you had a nice VFW wedding. Maybe rent a room at a modest hotel. 7. Most Boomers got their first pedi and mani in their 50s (when their feet got farther away). We didn't even know people got massages in real life, only in Hollywood. 8. You packed your own lunch for decades. 9. No one knew what red light therapy was, a facial, a spa day, or a cold plunge. Your gym was the YMCA. Usually in a rather old building. 10. We grew up with 18 percent inflation, 14 percent mortgage rates, 3 million continuing unemployment claims, and 200 other applicants competing for the same job. Now, this is not to say Millenials and Gen Z have it easy or don't face problems. It's just to say, nobody has it easy or doesn't face problems. My only hope, as my mom would say, is I live long enough to see my kids' kids complain about how easy they had it!

@flossybijou @RiseOfAlberta The most likely scenario is that the referendum will be held, and if it passes, Ottawa will use the provisions of the Clarity Act of 2000 to prevent a successful separation agreement.

@CJDate @RiseOfAlberta It doesn’t matter whether they did or not because the petition will be denied according to federal law

🚨BREAKING: The 177,000 signature threshold has now been passed, officially clearing the requirement for an Alberta independence referendum on October 19th. This is a historic moment for Alberta and signature collection is still continuing.

@flossybijou @RiseOfAlberta Did 177K Albertan citizens actually sign the petition for referendum, or not?

@RiseOfAlberta Too bad that everybody in the movement took every opportunity to make it abundantly clear there was US interference and any referendum will be struck down by the federal judges 😜

@Karolinlea8 I may have remarried 20 months after my first wife passed, but there's still not a day that goes by that I don't grieve for her, even though it's been 20 years. I'm fortunate enough to have a wife who isn't threatened by that.

@GigaBeers nprillinois.org/education-desk…

@GigaBeers Some used bookstraps.

Did backpacks not exist in the ‘60’s?

@SeeRacists I thought the strike to the face was a disciplinary action.

11-year-old boy, while restrained with arms behind his back by two Officers, directed racial slurs toward a female officer and spat on her. The officer delivered a single strike to the boy’s face. No disciplinary action was taken.

@StevenErtelt The problem with children is that some of them grow up to be just like Chelsea Handler.

Chelsea Handler Defends Not Having Kids: We Need “Fewer Screaming Children” buff.ly/zwRKP1c

@itslinklauren The problem with children is that some of them grow up to be just like Chelsea Handler.

Chelsea Handler has released yet another video about how happy she is without children. Right now, there’s a war on the nuclear family. Birth rates are at an all time low according to the CDC. I have plenty of friends without children — there’s nothing wrong with that! I’m a gay guy with no kids either! But why are liberal elites constantly glorifying childlessness? It’s a constant in the media these days.