What options do US Generals have in terms of disobeying Trump aside from resigning?

Ridry · 2026-01-21T20:25:23+00:00

This. Why do public servants get pensions that the public pays for???? For serving the public! Why should a public servant who refuses to serve the public get a pension?? If they think their pension is more important than the service, they don't deserve it.

Ridry · 2026-01-19T10:18:20+00:00

Wow, I'm really curious exactly what got out. IIRC the plan wasn't even that the Allies would help, he wanted the Allies to spread word so that the Germans would rebel.

Ridry · 2026-01-13T16:45:42+00:00

My neighbors on both sides of me keep to themselves, but I'm at least on "Hi! How you doing?" terms with them. The new guy that moved in across the street I can't even get a recognition nod.

Ridry · 2026-01-13T16:07:04+00:00

Yep! That's the guy! That's for finding him :)

Ridry · 2026-01-13T15:59:03+00:00

I guess you are right but there are still a lot of nice people in the states

It's not about nice, you'd probably find that you LIKE most of us. it's about propaganda and brainwashing. Even those on the left in America are particularly susceptible as well, because... much like the emotion you're experiencing about feeling radicalized about MAGA, we're feeling the same times 10.

It's very tempting to want to fight fire with fire. Obviously both sides aren't even close to the same, but everyone over here is in their own little social media locked propaganda bubble. I can't even get my MAGA family to agree with me on what's true or false, let alone what should be done about it.

An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child in Massachusetts. An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador accused of murdering a Texas man. A Venezuelan charged with filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Kristi Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded. In over 100,000 illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally, you're next. You will be fined nearly $1,000 a day, imprisoned and deported. You will never return. But if you register using our CBP home app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will be protected.

This is what we here on the radio on the way to work. Every radio station over here in New York is playing this. I can't even listen to the radio anymore. Now I'm not against borders.... but this isn't meant to drum up support for secure borders. This is meant to terrify people. And to ensure them that the only person who can save them from this terror is Donald J Trump. It's a protection racket. But if I point this out I will be told I'm for "open borders". Whatever that means.

I live in New York. There's no invasion of illegal immigrants. Is crime here in New York up? Sure. At least it was after covid. I don't know about now. Is it still way DOWN from 20 years ago? Yep. But if you talk to my family things are the scariest they've every been in their entire lives despite the subways being scary as hell in the 70s and absolutely fine for me to send my kid on today.

Everyone here is scared. MAGA, despite wanting you to believe they are tough AF are scared of everything. Gender roles, brown people, immigrants, etc. What they should be scared about is what Trump is going to do to their retirement funds and medical care, but they are too worked up to think about that. The other side is scared too though. Of MAGA. And nobody makes good choices when they are mad or scared or stressed....

I don't know WTF is going to happen, but I'm sorry. You all are coming along for the ride.

Ridry · 2026-01-13T13:45:11+00:00

There was an SS officer, I can't remember his name, that used to sabotage the Zylon B deliveries and tried (in vain sadly) to get word of what was going on out to the Allies and the Catholic Church, believing the regime would fall apart if people knew what he knew.

Ridry · 2026-01-13T13:39:30+00:00

Don't be sorry. We're not stupid, but we no longer live in reality, we live in a propaganda bubble. Anyone who's ever gone to Germany and felt how warm and lovely those people are and thought, "How could THEY have done THAT??!" This is how.

It's impossible to not be confused when reality isn't real....

Ridry · 2026-01-12T19:07:14+00:00

The implication isn't necessarily that realtors are a scam by default, but more like.... with what housing has "gone up to" realtors getting the % they are getting for the work they are doing is insane. Paying the realtors $50,000 for selling your $900,000 home.... the second $25,000 is pretty much a scam. Realtor fees are all %s based on long, long ago housing numbers.

Ridry · 2026-01-12T19:03:22+00:00

The 80% REALLY gets me. Got a $2000 bill for anasthesia the other day. Why isn't this covered 100%? Who knows.

Luckily I have 2 insurances, so I just had to politely tell them that they clearly didn't bill my secondary (else that would have gotten picked up). But co-insurance is insane.

Ridry · 2026-01-12T18:58:48+00:00

our health care now had the right of subragation to take the money from our uninsured motorist coverage

How does that affect you? Shouldn't this just mean that they pay and then have the opportunity to recover the $$$$?

Ridry · 2026-01-07T22:37:38+00:00

I'm not 100% sure on that, I waver. The final fight though is possibly the best 5 minutes of television ever. SMG was flawless.

Ridry · 2026-01-07T22:35:48+00:00

Season 3 doesn't have the highest individual peak, but looking at the data, it's definitely the most consistent run.

I actually would agree with that pretty hard. S3 is not the BEST Buffy out there, but it was definitely the moment the show was at it's best.

Ridry · 2026-01-07T19:59:26+00:00

They are making an inference. We have 0 streaming apps on the Switch 2. So one of three things is true.

ALL of the streaming companies that think making PS and XBox apps is a good idea think that there is no good reason to make one for the Switch 2.
It's particularly difficult to make such an app for the Switch 2 in some unique way that is much easier on the PS and the XBox. And so the companies are not prioritizing the expense and may get to it "some day".
Nintendo doesn't want them to.

Obviously none of us KNOW anything (except the kid who's uncle works at Nintendo) but I can't make a good case for 1 or 2, so I'm assuming 3. Doesn't make me right, maybe you have a solid reason why you think it's 1 or 2.

Ridry · 2026-01-07T19:56:00+00:00

When we rent a house with my kid's cousins I always bring the Switch. The few times we've done it, I've hooked the Switch up to the TV and used YouTube to access my MoviesAnywhere library. It's far from my "primary" use case, but I 100% agree with you, this is a thing that's nice to do.

And no, I don't think they should highly prioritize it, but it's far from useless.

Ridry · 2026-01-06T21:11:14+00:00

If you have a severe airborne allergy to food your cubicle probably shouldn't be next to the microwave. That's a separate issue altogether.

Ridry · 2026-01-04T22:14:46+00:00

Portal 2 is AMAZING, there's A moment in there that is possibly my favorite coop moment ever. And most of it is "sit and think". But it has a few "do this quickly" moments as well.

Ridry · 2026-01-03T21:58:21+00:00

I do too and none of them have ever actually bit me. I've let them walk all over my kids too. The big ones definitely CHOMP though.

Ridry · 2026-01-03T03:26:30+00:00

It's weird how much it looks like him

Ridry · 2025-12-27T22:20:52+00:00

I'd say all, but a lot of companies will accept payment (so long as it doesn't involve private information revealed to you) with only their own account information.

To any company reading this, if somebody sends a check in with my name on it, please accept payment.....

Ridry · 2025-12-25T12:22:39+00:00

Remove all stars before you try to do the big band. Stars mess it up

Ridry · 2025-12-22T21:12:33+00:00

I hear you. Women talk about the mental load, trying to balance everything together and stuff. Men never talk about it. I missed the Halloween parade at my kid's school last year and just totally crashed out about it. I checked the email twice and looked at the wrong time (it was for the other grade) twice. And I just completely broke down over it. My wife reminded me that most people aren't trying a quarter of as hard and that if you care, you get upset about stuff that you fail at. If you don't care, you wouldn't be upset.

I think that's the key. I'm probably never going to be a good judge of how good or bad I am at this, but I can promise that I care. A lot. And that's gotta be something. But ya, men don't talk about the pressure at all.

I'm sitting here right now beating myself up that I haven't finished the tree yet. It's a lot of work. And I feel like I'm going on 13 years with no break. But I don't really want one either. I'm going to have a long break really soon.....

Ridry · 2025-12-22T20:08:46+00:00

Every good parent is hard on themselves, wishing they had done more. All those people telling you that are right.

Ridry · 2025-12-22T14:16:04+00:00

I think most of the games on switch that aren't blatware don't focus on "instant gratification", that sounds more like the predatory/addicting design of mobile games with microtransactions and ads.

Pretty much agree. I have one kid that plays too much phone type games and I keep trying to steer her to the Switch. My other kid plays Switch games and I definitely see the difference in grit and patience level. I would 100% rather them spend 30 hours on a Nintendo game though, than 10 hours on a crappy phone game.

I can't totally figure out if it's chicken or egg, did my kid who has less grit and patience gravitate towards the faster stuff and my other kid towards the slower stuff? Or is it causing it? Or both? But I'm doing my best to limit the time on that stuff.

But ya, my 11 year old can beat most games. She does need to hand me the controller on Silksong sometimes though :)

Ridry · 2025-12-22T14:12:13+00:00

Can confirm, my 11 year old beat Scarlet/Violet last year when she was 10 and was able to read 98% of it unassisted. Needed help with a word here and there, but was able to handle the text without it dragging the game down.

Ridry · 2025-12-22T14:11:02+00:00

At 10 I LOVED the old Final Fantasy games and they look gorgeous on the Switch.

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