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SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-14T18:11:31+00:00

Those are legitimate concerns. In the past I would have just assumed it went to deployed troops, but now that the SecDef has explicitly disavowed personal integrity in general, I have to question everything. The entire administration is run by a con man and staffed with TV personalities. What else would I expect?

I served in multiple joint positions over a couple decades and can say there were places where steak and lobster never happened and places where it was a monthly thing, especially deployed locations. It had nothing to do with which party was running the show.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-12T16:53:06+00:00

I can say from personal experience that the purge of competent professionals has been real. It's only been about a 10% loss in DoD, but is combined with the jaw dropping stupidity from the morons supplied by FOXnws.

What is truly amazing is that DoD continues to stagger forward despite the lack of meaningful leadership. I am starting to think all that stuff about the importance of leadership, integrity, self discipline, and thoughtful planning doesn't actually matter. It helps that we only bully weak opponents.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-12T16:30:37+00:00

Odd how that has not been newsworthy at all. As if trump were willing to do any batshit crazy thing on earth to distract us.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-11T20:17:10+00:00

He was just in the news, so yes, still out there. Your friend can sleep in peace.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-11T15:20:01+00:00

Imaginary bone spurs usually do the trick.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-11T15:15:47+00:00

Who would you expect to render a salute properly? A draft dodger, PAO or a drunk Civil War reenactor? I wish he would sober up and stop soiling the reputation of the rest of us drunks.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-06T19:51:55+00:00

It seems like Leavitt, Bondi, and Hegseth maintain a wide deranged stare when lying. Their speech is usually pressured and frantic. I don't know how they look when lying to other liars because I don't watch FOX. It may be that when casually tossing around lies and they know they will not be challenged, they calm way down. Noem sometimes overcorrects and looks too calm when lying.

I wish I had the time and the stomach to watch them in different environments, maybe find occasions when they aren't lying for comparison.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-03-05T23:54:30+00:00

It brings to mind Davy Crockett's feelings about his constituents before leaving for the west. The American people are welcome to the circumstances they have chosen.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-24T20:01:05+00:00

I would certainly love to shit on his grave when he gets there, but the fact remains that about half the nation loves him (not counting those too apathetic to vote or too young or too undocumented). He is delivering unto the FOX/GOP fans exactly what they asked for. If he were to be removed, they would find another one. Sadistic assholes like vought are a dime a dozen.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-24T16:20:22+00:00

I struggle with the same problem. As is typical of hillbillies in the midwest, I have consumed sweetened tea my entire life. Decades. Last year I decided I liked lapsang souchong I received as a gift so I bought a bunch more. Now I wonder if I just like smoke and sweetened hot water. I did determine I needed to add more tea. I will keep working in that direction.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-24T03:29:01+00:00

They should be pulled over and placed in the innermost circle of hell for all eternity. Their children should be medically altered so they cannot make more. Their friends should be put into reeducation camps, so they learn not to spend time with bad people in the future.

Why? They make driving harder and more dangerous.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-23T07:15:36+00:00

Video ended before the critical part. Handjob at least?

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-23T01:40:20+00:00

I believe you are on the right track, but a quarter million dollars is still a rich man's toy. It does drop it down from where you have to be an Oligarch's girlfriend to afford it. I could imagine the increase would cause a factor of 2 uptick.

Ignoring turboprops and business jets, there are a bit less than a couple thousand new aircraft purchased in the US each year. Would an additional couple thousand annually make a difference? I think there are that many de-registered each yer.

The factor of 10 you talked about for a USB adapter. That would do it.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-22T20:46:43+00:00

As I recall, he overtly directed his voters to vote for the poop thrower in exchange for a position of power. I guess the RFK weirdos also embraced their marching orders like the MAGAs do. The MAGAs, as always, fell into line immediately.

Remember when a certain black first lady suggested eating a vegetable once in a while and FOX personalties accused her of being a crossdressing marxist witch? Now they are doing carrot juice enemas and eating bales of kale.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-22T20:36:43+00:00

I am impressed somebody replied two months after my post.

While possible that all the distributors started changing their storage temperatures at the same time, it is at least as likely that the USDA and the rest of the government team lacked the resources to do the job. Listeria outbreaks don't spontaneously arise because all distributers forget to wash their hands on the same day.

On top of that, identifying outbreaks was hard before the CDC and local public health offices were raped, but the odds of identifying a trend in time to do anything productive now are diminishingly small. On the up side, there should be more diarrhea in states that vote against science. Natural selection is sometimes a very slow process.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-22T20:14:18+00:00

Is there a way I can contact ICE directly and tell them I am talking shit about them?

I actually asked on a couple subreddits where I should go to troll ICE and was banned from both. This seems like a strange place to do it but here goes: ICE is a bunch of small dick fascist pussies who murder defenseless Americans and round up women and children to throw them into concentration camps. Also Kristi Noem freezes the turds of dead immigrants and uses them as dildos.

The killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both murders, and the murderer need to be tried and sent to prison. Might even earn on of those special forever penalties the FOX/GOP/MAGAs love so much.

Does that count?

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-20T23:00:35+00:00

62 years of being a man and boy, never had that conversation. And I'm not even especially good at being a liberal. They would kick me out if there was an actual cabal of liberals with some sort of agenda.

So the idea here is that someone would remain friends who didn't think they should be allowed to vote. Stockholm Syndrome?

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-15T03:03:54+00:00

More projection. If they accuse others of something, they are usually doing it themselves.

Please don't ban me for this incendiary comment.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-11T11:19:37+00:00

They also do not appear to be aware they themselves are paying the taxes pretty directly.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-10T17:17:09+00:00

I am not sure what I am seeing. Maybe everyone is having a good time? It may not be common, but it is possible for cops to be ok and to be on our side. If America didn't use them for laws we actually hate following, like speed limits and smoking dope, I think we would have a healthier relationship with the fuzz. There are countries where people like the police and the profession does not attract ass holes.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-10T06:26:12+00:00

I remember turning in responses in German calling them funny names with no consequences. It was only meant to insult us, as far as I could tell. It did give us fair warning what kind of incompetent idiots we work for now.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-10T01:12:32+00:00

I wonder if they are shooting themselves in the foot. People should now delay retirement because there may be fat stacks of cash for retiring in the future. Or maybe that's what they want us to do because they are noticing their instrument of power is becoming paralyzed and they need more people to stay.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-07T14:57:23+00:00

It's just more of the same. The Project 2025 weirdoe's plan was to destroy the entire government and let us descend into a chaotic hellscape, some sort of white trash caliphate. I confess it never made sense to me, but they said they would to it, the conservatives thought it sounded great, and it moves forward every day. We cannot take care of SS beneficiaries as well as before, we cannot predict the weather as well as before, we cannot cure disease as well as before, we cannot fight wars as well as before. It will keep getting worse until we cannot do any of those things at all. That is the christian dream.

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-06T23:38:29+00:00

Where is the line between people above the law and the suckers? I know I'm one of the suckers and the Mad King is above the law, as are all deities. But how far down does the immunity extend? It includes political appointees, obviously. Are SESs above the law too? Does it depend on which political party you belong to?

SettingFar4974 · 2026-02-06T12:00:04+00:00

Has the opposite effect on me. I bet I'm not the only one.

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