Clay Copper

Excuse me, we are focusing on bilaterals and have no need for an organizational relationship with more than 2 members. Current Interagency capacity requires strictly monogamous international relations.

Hard to find a better example of learning from partners to improve US readiness than right here.

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Goo Goo Dolls suffered through a career of some of the worst music video creatives in the biz.

Woke up today with this song I haven't heard in 10yrs in my head for some reason:

🎶 A visionary coward says that anger can be power

As long as there's a victim on TV 🎶

100%, instilling the incredible amount of overconfidence that directly led to the next random fact where I learned the very real limits on the American passport.

I was 20 at the time, I was young and stupid and thought my American passport rendered me functionally immortal.

I snuck into the American Colony Hotel, posed as a conference organizer, and chatted up Secret Service so I could shake Jimmy Carter's hand - got bounced soon after, but then Rosalyn saw them kicking me out and had USSS grab me and sit me next to Jimmy (as "guest of the President lol").

Cool day.

Broadly agree, but where could it have even gone under a white flag? I guess India takes it and then has to figure out what to do with 200+ crew who can't be repatriated indefinitely. Does India bother with that?

"Decadence" lol.

Bessner truly is one of the most insufferable people around.

Glad you chimed in, I thought I remembered reading some convincing arguments about that.

Nvm, I see they got there

SESs trying to harness that appointee swagger

I've got thoughts about requiring civs/ctrs to address AD with Sir/Ma'am too, especially in officer-heavy places where AD all use first names.

a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face . ALT: a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .

Civilians demanding that other civilians refer to them as Sir/Ma'am. I know it's not unprecedented. But I dunno, you gotta have like a real title or something. Ambassador, Senator. Director of a small program nobody knows about and if they did they would shut down tomorrow doesn't cut it.

Crying about the fucking press on Day 5 of the war for reporting casualties is pathetic.

"Ackshually Godfather was the good guy."

I'm sorry, I just think it's suboptimal to go to war with a SECDEF with nothing to lose and everything to prove

Draw a line between your actions and the credible strategic objectives:

We're doing Measures of Performance again! No more woke outcomes metrics! All you need is:

✅ # sorties flown
✅ bombs dropped
✅ brown dudes killed
✅ Tweets sent
✅ Libs owned
✅ Teeth pulled

When the sum across all categories hits 10,000 (per Gladwell) we've achieved victory!

Grapevine, TX is honestly funnier than Iranian Crown Prince.

To quote the Great Robin Williams, "What, was Amish Country booked?"

My assumption is they thought they'd be told we're gonna declare victory and wind things down, but instead were treated to a 50-Day-50-Point plan to hand Iran over to a transitional coalition of Kurds, Rare Earth corps, and the owner of Shiraz Kabab in Falls Church, VA - backed by the 101st.

Devastated. Among everything else, Trump take Eagle half-century unbeaten streak.

Fixing agent spam was a major improvement. It's hard to go back to the old games where everyone has 20 spies and merchants running around at the end of their turn.

We're gonna send Mercy and Comfort to the Gulf to pull escort duty at this rate.

"How's the war going?"

"Well we're underwriting all maritime trade in the Persian Gulf."

*winces

"And we're arming the Kurds to start a popular uprising."

*deep breath*

"And we killed everyone, on the B and C teams we thought could've credibly run the country."

*walks backwards into sea*

To counter the allegations that you have no plan and never had did?

"Um...maybe the Kurds? Everyone liked the SOF guys on horseback, right? Let's try to recapture some of that magic!"

LCS stans totally vindicated. They just needed a mission module you could cheaply toss overboard in case the mission flexed.

On the side of this event, I will be hosting a screening of noted 2000s film "Van Wilder" where you can cringe in silence while mumbling the best lines you still remember having not seen that movie in nearly 20 years.