Pennywise

a dumpster is on fire with the caption " this little light of mine i 'm gonna let it shine ... " Alt: a smiling cartoon dumpster is on fire with the caption " this little light of mine I'm gonna let it shine ... "

Imagine being Billy Joel right now, having to add a whole stanza about how, y'know, okay, maybe we started a few fires, and holy shit is this latest one completely out of control.

"Would you like to see what other users are washing?"

Absolutely the fuck not.

If he didn't know when he got it, there was absolutely a dude in his unit that was a WW2 buff that told him. Every unit has at least one dude who knows everything about a slice of milhistory.

I don't buy his claim of ignorance for a second.

Disagree with your "live" phrasing, but yes.

MmHmm

Lastly, they are for the soul of your nation and your cause. Limits on war preserve humanity. Mercy transcends violence. After the fighting, there has to be something more. Rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict protect you; abandoning them is dire.

I guess we're just gonna wallpaper over the fact his endorsement is the kiss of death lately.

Behind a truck?

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

An ass whupping.

Ah, very cool!

Do you have a morning alarm to worry about? Cause I'll consider getting these for my wife, but she'll murder me if she misses work.

I had the good fortune to avoid combat, and that somehow is still not good enough for the whackadoodles that get off calling folks baby killers. They're definitely a fun bunch.

A soldier in an unpopular war -- People you'd have thought could help you to end the war and save your soldiers saying the most vile shit to you imaginable, equaled only by the vile shit war supporters say when they find out you went but don't support it for whatever reason.
My life since 2003.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in shambles.

They absolutely cannot fathom that people just want to serve their fucking country as nonpartisan civil servants because they themselves are completely incapable of doing so. It’s inconceivable to them. There is no service ethos. To them, everything is only a means in service to the pursuit of power

So, Thiel is an actual moron. Cool.

I would like to not be ruled over by podcast and crypto betting bros any longer.

Brother, you fuckin what?

bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

Also, most men would just nod along and not really listen, so any explanation would be wasted. 🤷

When even Hell doesn't want you

Pete Hegseth here showing exactly why he was a failed mid-level staff officer.

Taking generations to unfuck everything these clowns are doing.

My wife didn't let me craft one. One night, she just said, "I know you already have the ring, give it."

19 years later, it's still a bit funny. 😃

“Just quit and go to prison” say the people who won’t take direct action against ICE, who continue to pay the taxes that pay for bombs and concentration camps. You want OTHER people to go to prison for your ideals. You want OTHER people to firebomb the Walmart.

That's fair, with the caveat that the last time we really gave the exterminator enough sauce to kill the roach was FDR.

For some reason, Americans love to give progressive politics just enough power to make noise, but not enough to actually accomplish what they want.

The only thing Gen X has over later generations, is that we could see with our own eyes what the boomers stole from later generations. We have firsthand knowledge that society doesn't have to be like this, and we still voted for it. Really disheartening shit, man.

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames