Dark Laughter

I don't know how these guys are smart enough to put their pants on in the morning

He looks like his nephews took him on an Honor Flight for dying Counter-Strike players

oh HELL yeah it is finally time to do some Suzerain Poasting on Bluesky

US identifies troops killed during actions against Iran The soldiers, who were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, were killed during an attack by an unmanned aircraft in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

The soldiers, who were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, were killed during an attack by an unmanned aircraft in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

US identifies troops killed during actions against Iran The soldiers, who were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, were killed during an attack by an unmanned aircraft in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

The soldiers, who were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, were killed during an attack by an unmanned aircraft in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Do we have confirmation on where Mike Huckabee is? youtube.com/shorts/YDuNq...

A black holding cover for the book 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' by Chris Kempshall

Wedge Antilles from the Star Wars franchise piloting a snowspeeder in The Empire Strikes Back

‘I have never wanted to suggest that my wartime experiences were any more important or heroic than any other pilot. But so many of them are gone now and I am still here. Their words deserve to be heard’ - Wedge Antilles

'Star Wars: Star Pilots' Oct 2026 (DK) geni.us/StarWarsStar...

muting all BREAKING and CONFIRMED from people who have never reported out a story in their lives.

Better be damn Otis Spunkmeyer muffins or I'm spiking my shit on the ground and storming off from the illegal regime change operation or whatever this is.

Am I the only one who kind of expects Van Riper to come out of retirement, defect to Iran, and attack the US fleet as yet another pompous way to publicly scream that he was right and everyone else is wrong?

Khatami trying to quietly enjoy his twilight years.

Trump contradicts Rubio by saying US attacked Iran because 'he had a feeling' Tehran would attack Washington first

Trump contradicts Rubio by saying US attacked Iran because 'he had a feeling' Tehran would attack Washington first https://aje.news/6bpefy

I wonder what all of this does to career professionals between the retiring in disgust now and the inevitable backlash and housecleaning over the next few years. Some of the DoD's gentleman O-4/O-5s may have to start living their lives like they're going to be seriously looked at for O-7 one day.

You may need to prepare for the possibility the primaries produce a ballot with a married LGBT candidate you feel is anti-trans, a Republican who pledges to round up and murder anyone less straight than the cast of Dragnet, and a grab bag of unelectable vanity candidates auditioning for other jobs.

I think that ship sailed after Hong Kong, if not before the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, and Beijing knows as much from watching the KMT bleed seats in elections, a process Beijing seems to frequently find a way to exacerbate by trying to intimidate Taiwanese voters.

"What's between critical munitions and small arms ammunition?! We need medium arms ammunition!"

"What if we had a war and nobody came?" but it's the Commander in Chief asking the IC the odds of an outcome that doesn't burn the market down after an attributable kinetic strike to assassinate the Supreme Leader of Iran and the entire Guardian Council.

Boomer shithead who thinks he could have been an 8-star general if he hadn't run and hid during Vietnam, now learning about things like ABO and national caveats for the first time.

There goes that. It had a good 2 hour run.

In 2008 Barack Obama was against gay marriage.

Was Barack Obama sufficiently pro-LGBT for you to vote for him in 2008?

I think we're a lot likelier to use the CRAF to get forces into theater because unlike cargo capacity our pax capacity is kind of anemic than to use the CRAF to get civilians out of theater because State forgot to plan to evacuate AMCITs.

His controversy was neglecting the Maritime Administration, and being the Mayor of South Bend is honestly more experience than Barack Obama had coming off his Senate term. The truth is we generally don't get candidates from either party qualified to be POTUS, which is overwhelmingly an FP job.

Honestly? The classmates of people who read The New Yorker but got degrees in IR, polisci, or history. But it can definitely feel like "I'm a monarchist who hates the mad king, and I feel like a man without a country."

In Indiana he had nowhere to go after South Bend, and he went to DC. I think being a cabinet official 14th in line to the presidency is a big enough stage to vet the guy.

So was TR, but not every nerd is Mattis or TR, and that's the problem.

I'm also open to extending this consultancy to cover commanders who are nerds but stand in front of a mandatory formation and start thinking they might be Mattis.

Long story short, I'm offering my services to nerdy pols who grow a vacation beard, look in the mirror or at their boot ass moto picture holding a rifle in uniform, and think they might be Teddy Roosevelt in the Dakota Territory.

On the one hand, I like Pete Buttigieg. On the other hand, this is some JD Vance nonsense.