Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue

Who has the TIME?

a police officer wearing a hat and white gloves is saluting at a game . ALT: a police officer wearing a hat and white gloves is saluting at a game .

Did he now?

That’s a 29 point swing. In Arkansas.

Yes

I don’t think about it until bedtime and then you’re already asleep!

I posted it all at once.

Wrong, because pony is not an adjective. You wouldn’t say “the lush, golf course.”

She must be cheating because I don’t snore.

Impulse purchased Loop Dream earplugs at 2am one day last week for no reason whatsoever… and if you too have a grumpy old veteran who snores like a chainsaw in your bed… I recommend them as ear pro. Pretty glorious. #notanadvertisement

1) The Slide Shop in Richmond Hill, GA, which sold movie-themed sliders of all varieties.

2) The pizza place, name forgotten, that delivered a giant fucking chicken and sun-dried tomato pizza to my room when I returned from Survival & Evasion phase of SERE. Went back just months later, it was fine.

Greg Dolezal, a Georgia state senator and conservative Republican who's running to be lieutenant governor, released this bizarre Islamophobic "anti-sharia" ad that, somewhat confusingly, features an AI generated driver that looks exactly like Claire Danes.

It’s posted by MRFF, which seems to confirm that MRFF was, indeed, the source for the story.

MRFF Inundated with Complaints of Gleeful Commanders Telling Troops Iran War is “Part of God’s Divine Plan” to Usher in the Return of Jesus Christ “This morning our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our...

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/mrff...

What’s the name of this organization?

We call it the Department of War

And the head of that department is?

The Secretary of War

And the workers in this organization?

Warfighters

And these people are fighting a war.

Oh no. My goodness no.

Air strikes alone don't work. Never have.

(shamelessly stolen from @she_wants_the_ISRD on insta)

The pyramidal Bass Pro Shop in Memphis with a big explosion on it

BREAKING: Iran has struck the Bass Prop Shops pyramid

For the record. Most TOCs are in fact literally just makeshift offices. You routinely jump TOCs, as in assemble and disassemble them rapidly so you can move locations quickly. It can be as little as a tent with phones and computers on tables.

Did you read the whole thread?

But you hear about the US military’s mistakes because the US military is relatively very accountable for its actions. You don’t hear about every insurgent suicide vest in a market because *that’s the insurgent modus operandi.*

Yes, they SHOULD be better than our enemies. And they actually ARE.

And if you say ROE should’ve been tighter or that targeting should have been more strict, I will absolutely agree with you. I think we should’ve worked harder to reduce civilian casualties. Again, I think the bar for being punished should be more in the “incompetence” realm than “negligence.”

Insurgents killed far more civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq than US forces ever did, and it’s not by a little bit. Independent accounting shows this over and over again. And the insurgents did it willingly, knowingly, purposefully. When US forces did it, it was almost always a Type 1 or 2 accident.

But the bottom line here is that while the US military’s hands aren’t spotless, they’re a damn sight cleaner than basically any other military force outside of NATO, and many within.

Also, reducing diverse cultures to “brown people” may not be sending the message you think it is.

Yet another reason that democracy is not a spectator sport. You have a say at the ballot box and beyond. We’ve fallen into this pit of having a unitary executive who is virtually unchecked by the legislative and judicial branches. That shit has to change.

I am also VERY WARY of the world’s most powerful military force getting into the habit of ignoring their civilian controls. It shouldn’t be the military’s job to put their hands up and say “now hold on a minute, Mister President.”

That’s Congress’ job. That’s Congress’ failure, and the voters’.

Again, this isn’t to excuse the Trump regime’s actions in Iran, or the Trump regime and US Navy’s actions in the Gulf of Mexico and South Pacific. None of this should be happening.

I’m on the record as saying senior officers should be more willing to tell civilian leaders no.

Fuck’s sake, the US military could be *invited in* by a country to help push out invaders and still get called the aggressor; I see that shit basically daily when people talk about Desert Storm when Iraq invaded its neighbors but America is somehow the imperialist in that situation.

I’m convinced that if the US military had been sent in to stop the Rwandan genocide or Assad’s abuses of Syrians, there’d be people on here condemning it with a snort of “the American military exists to kill brown people.” (You know, the US military has killed a lot of Russians, too, and recently.)

But the US military never had a policy of stoning people to death as punishment or of throwing them off buildings for being gay or locking them in cages and setting them on fire or throwing acid in their faces for going to school.

And, yeah, the US helped create Saddam Hussein and ISIS. Absolutely. But the US military didn’t put them in place. Those were strategic blunders by men in suits in DC. Their unintended consequences got a lot of people killed. And the 2003 invasion of Iraq was completely unjustified.