James Vizzard

I think this is a misrepresentation of what’s happening, but I also think the voter ignorance that has been very very good for the GOP may be biting them in the ass this time. To blame Democrats they have to explain the filibuster to low info voters—good luck with that.

I had a brigade commander who blew off our bn QTB b/c he had a tee time, in the middle of the work day, with a GO. The bde cdr made general despite being the most incompetent commander I ever served under. Anecdata, but . . .

Currently writing a dissertation on military politicization, and whoo boy do I feel this.

Column | Food critic Tom Sietsema is stepping down — and dropping his anonymity After a quarter-century of reviewing restaurants, donning disguises and turning down photos, The Post’s food critic is ready for his next course.

Gaaaaaaaa!!!! We jinxed it! www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

There was a Douglas Adams bit on this, and now I feel compelled to go find it—an economist who hired herself out to rich people to do exactly this. I think Adams may have been a time traveler from the future sent back to warn us.

You mean like Joe and Eileen Bailey from Long Island?

Mountains, cold, cowboys, beautiful scenery. Hard to tell the difference, really.

Imagine being willing to say that out loud.

Isn’t that Wyoming?

I remember getting “killed” as a LT about 10 days into a Hohenfels rotation and feeling like I won the lottery. I got to sleep for 2 hours.

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“Get back to work” is rarely a popular message, and it becomes particularly galling to people who are seeking and not finding work. Watching my kid look for work over the past year, I knew the employment numbers were bad well before the downward revisions.

Note what ideologies we’re NOT keeping out, BTW.

Glad to see that we’re back to criminalizing communism as well. It’s a terrible ideology, but I’m pretty sure it’s also 1A protected.

Ever since Rampell left.

Tom Sietsema just updated his review to “it’s no longer terrible” (not joking)

That may be the most inside-the-Beltway joke I’ve ever seen on this site.

I prefer “malefactors of great wealth”

See also passing state laws that restrict federal law enforcement.

Am I missing something about the Bad Bunny discourse or is it just purely because he performs in Spanish?

Their field general literally told a reporter, on the record, they were basing their arrests on physical appearance.

Diversity is absolutely our strength.

throughout our history, we have successfully integrated people of different races, national origins, faiths, and eventually sexes into our military, drawing on their talents, knowledge, and bravery to create the world’s strongest fighting forces.

Yep. We were on the ass-end of nowhere, so they had an AO. Among other things we had to relieve a company commander after he declared his intent to murder detainees.

2011 in RC-E, my bde RIPed a highly competent and disciplined NG battalion to a very not competent or disciplined NG battalion mid-tour. The variability was high.

They tried that with the Hyundai plant in Georgia, and it went poorly for them.

This has got to be a bit. You could be less ignorant than this just by watching a few HBO miniseries (even from watching a few HBO miniseries?). What if InfantryDort is really just attempting to be Dril for the MilTwitter set?

Many people living here today were alive when america, pre a very specific moment in the 1960s, wasn’t even a democracy; this moment represents a reversion or seriously attempted reversion to things we definitely shouldn’t revert to

When I commanded a btry at Bragg in the ‘90s we had a mission to deploy to Korea in 18 hours, but CIF refused to issue cold weather gear “because Bragg is in a temperate climate.” I pointed out cold weather issue was not in the N-hour sequence and was told to shut up.

Bad news. This one is like malaria—you think you’re over it, but then it just reappears at 2am on a random Tuesday and lasts for about a week.

Fortunately, I was born many years too late to ever watch CBS News. I always thought of it as my grandparents’ network.