John Poff

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John Poff

John Poff

@john_poff

Christian, American

شامل ہوئے Nisan 2012
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
The Royal Navy is no longer fit for service in NATO. In August 2022, HMS Prince of Wales sailed out of Portsmouth to cross the Atlantic for joint exercises with the US Navy. She was the pride of the modern Royal Navy. A four-billion-pound aircraft carrier. The flagship of Global Britain. She made it about 20 miles. Then the propeller shaft coupling sheared & one of only two carriers in the entire British fleet limped back to port and spent the better part of a year in dry dock while American carriers did the work Britain had promised to do. That’s the Royal Navy in 2026. It’s a museum with a TickTock account. I’ve called the Canadian Navy a glorified Coast Guard but the UK can’t even keep migrant boats off its shores. Nelson had over 100 ships of the line at Trafalgar. The fleet that fought WW2 had over 900 warships. Horatio Nelson John Fisher Andrew Cunningham David Beatty Bertram Ramsay Edward Hawke George Rodney Richard Howe John Jellico And First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill are all spinning in their graves. If they were resurrected today they would each give British PMs the lash. Today the Royal Navy has roughly 70 commissioned vessels. Maybe 15 of them are meaningful surface combatants. It sounds marginally ok but any given day, a significant percentage are in dry dock, undermanned, or waiting for spare parts. And China launches more tonnage in a quarter than the Royal Navy possesses in total. You do not rule the waves. You do not rule the Channel. You rule a Wikipedia. And it gets worse. You don’t even rule the world’s imagination anymore. Master and Commander came out a quarter century ago and nobody’s planning a sequel. Scooby Doo got a sequel, Jack Aubrey does not. It’s sad. It’s pathetic. But even more sad is the fact you don’t stand up and demand one. Neither does the former Navy commanding officer you call King. You have decided to roll over instead. All six Type 45 destroyers, the backbone of Britain’s air defense fleet, had to be pulled back for emergency refits because their engines lose power in warm water. Read that again. They were practically useless in the Red Sea because they don’t have enough missiles and you didn’t buy the anti-air computers for their deck guns. Your last few nuclear submarine launches went plop and instead of trying again or calling the American missile manufacturer to court… you shrugged. This is the nuclear deterrent that is supposed to be the foundation of British sovereignty, the reason Britain sits at the UN Security Council, the last credible claim to great power status. It fell in the water next to the boat. Your ancestors circumnavigated the globe in wooden ships powered by rope and canvas. You built a billion-pound destroyer that overheats off Bahrain. Your frigates are too few to cover your own approaches. When Russian submarines transit the English Channel, the French Navy often shadows them because the Royal Navy cannot respond in time. The French. In your Channel. Protecting you. Nelson ain’t spinning in his tomb. He’s in the Atlantic laughing at you. Americans patrol the Gulf you depend on for energy. Americans keep Taiwan’s chips flowing to your factories. Americans are the reason the Houthis have not fully closed the Red Sea to British-flagged shipping. We are happy to help until now. Until Starmer tried selling off our only base in the Indian Oceans then refused to let us land planes. OUR OWN BASE Yes he relented but only under pressure. We will help protect your interests but on one condition: DO NOTHING No selling bases No overflight refusals No more dock denials in Gibraltar No crazy ROE debates No politicians demeaning us in debates No threating Elon Musk And no more 134 Royal Navy Admirals in cosplaying aboard your 15 broken warships. Tell them to hang up their uniforms and go home. OR STAND UP, make the king overthrow parliament & fund a proper navy Fight for your birthright or F*ck off. Your choice.
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Jesús Enrique Rosas
Jesús Enrique Rosas@Knesix·
Trump just announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran and I need everyone to understand what actually happened here because the headlines are going to be hilariously wrong by morning. For five weeks, every foreign policy expert on earth has been saying Trump's deadlines are meaningless. He threatens, he extends, nothing happens. 'Classic bluff.' Except during every single extension, Iran quietly let more ships through the Strait of Hormuz. First Chinese ships. Then Indian ships. Then French, Japanese, Omani. The strait went from "fully closed, global crisis" to "selectively open, we're just doing a toll booth thing now" ...and somehow nobody in mainstream media connected those dots. Tonight Trump posts: ceasefire, two weeks, BUT Iran has to fully open the strait. Not partially. Not the toll booth version. Fully. And Iran already sent a ten-point proposal and almost all the points are agreed to. The country with no navy, no Supreme Leader, no missile production, and no nuclear program just sent a ten-point proposal to negotiate. That's writing your terms of surrender in a nice font. Pakistan literally flew to Washington and asked Trump to please stop because they think they can close the deal. A nuclear-armed neighbor of Iran is begging the United States for two more weeks. But tomorrow morning you will read "TACO Trump Blinks on Iran Deadline" in seventeen different publications, all written by people who have been wrong about every deadline so far and see no reason to start being right now. The deadlines worked. They were always working. Go to sleep. The world is not ending tonight.
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John Poff@john_poff·
@jonwerthen Great post! I'm going to share this with my 25 year old son.
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John Poff@john_poff·
@JHolmsted I'm old enough to remember when beer used to be good.
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John Poff@john_poff·
@iowahawkblog I used to think I could recognize a few cars, then I found IowaHawk. Now I realize my proper place in the car recognition heirarchy.
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Ryan Maue
Ryan Maue@RyanMaue·
North Florida panhandle ski resorts gearing up for February.
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Krauser
Krauser@Krauserrific·
Preliminary PFF charting for tonight has JJ McCarthy with 4 “big time throws” vs 0 “turnover worthy plays”, grading at 91.5 as a passer and 91.9 overall He now leads the NFL in “big time throw” rate at 7.7% — ahead of Burrow, Stafford and Darnold
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John Poff@john_poff·
@iowahawkblog Did you know that Sam Houston was born in Virginia in Rockbridge county? The same county where this new Buc-ee's is located.
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John Poff@john_poff·
@mcrs987 This kind of reminds me of the old Soviet N1 rocket.
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TheSpaceEngineer
TheSpaceEngineer@mcrs987·
I can't get over this something's wrong with the dome profile or something. The gridfins though maaaaaan
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TheSpaceEngineer@mcrs987·
That startup sound is GORGEOUS and it just keeps icing up. Shows the difference between engine chill and actual function perfectly between the first frame and this where it's cycling around the skin
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John Poff@john_poff·
@ChrisMartzWX Being called a "bad scientist" by that troll is a badge of honor. 😃
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John Poff@john_poff·
@maphumanintent True, but not shown to scale. Circle on the left should be much smaller, and the circle on the right ten times bigger.
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Resist the Mainstream
Resist the Mainstream@ResisttheMS·
🔴 BREAKING: Kamala Harris campaign co-chair announces she WILL NOT address supporters tonight. Do you think she's embarrassed?
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John Poff@john_poff·
@wxbrad But....she has maps and stuff! 🤣
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John Poff@john_poff·
@Str8_Cash_Homey 51 - just like another linebacker who was a Jr. and who Pace reminds me of - Sam Mills Jr.
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Adam Patrick
Adam Patrick@adampatrickNFL·
Numbers 50, 51, 52, 54, 57, and 59 are now available on the #Vikings roster Which one should Ivan Pace Jr. wear?
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John Poff@john_poff·
@tweettruth2me I'm just waiting for them to tell me to turn off my A/C and open my windows so I don't kill Grandma! 😀
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No One 🇺🇸
No One 🇺🇸@tweettruth2me·
Weird how climate change has the same adverse side effects as the vaccine.
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