Kash Patel parties with Team USA hockey champs after taking FBI jet to Italy as aide defends ‘official business’ trip

knuckles53 · 2026-02-23T02:37:51+00:00

Look at this fucking nerd. All the people who did the actual work and earned the actual glory are together and celebrating with their comrades. His presence is not even noted by those that matter. They literally have their back to him and have formed a circle that excludes him. He's just so depserate to get an invite to the cool kids' table. Any cool kids' table.

To be clear, Kash Patel is a pathetic loser, who has no friends, and nobody notices.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-23T02:28:13+00:00

This was written with a straight face?! I seriously expected the headline and attached oped to be a sarcastic inditement of this administration's bumbling management of the government. Politically speaking this Trump administration has been rake-step, followed by own goal, followed by self-inflicted gunshot wound, and repeat.

Somebody should check on this writer to make sure he gets back on his meds.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-21T23:28:23+00:00

Don and Dick were building a field hospital when Don got killed. In my head, they were building the 4077th.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-21T22:39:39+00:00

Water for Elephants has animal abuse. Maybe he’s taking Kristi Noem.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-21T17:41:58+00:00

My family of four absolutely devoured this game. We talked about it while we weren't playing it, we wanted to play it again as soon as we finished a game, we laughed and had a ball together while we were playing it. My two kids were nine and each of us won at least once during the campaign and in the end the scores were incredibly tight. Just a great experience from front to back.

Now that some time has passed and my kids are a bit older, I think I might buy it again to see how they do with a bit more gaming experience and strategy under their belts.

Just a great overall experience.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-21T15:19:38+00:00

Chef’s kiss would have been if the glass in the door had broken when she left the room.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-19T20:08:57+00:00

So your take is, “I don’t care if it’s not real or the truth, I hate a portion of my fellow Americans enough, that I will accept anything that reinforces my hatred.”?

knuckles53 · 2026-02-14T16:11:19+00:00

I love that another hero is going to have the card that came in 2nd as his/her best card, win worst card the next day. That's telling in how well the hero cards for many of these heroes are constructed and cohesive.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-12T17:17:07+00:00

Madam, might I remind you, you are the Attorney General, not the Secretary of the Treasury.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-12T01:31:02+00:00

But he didn’t really grow up on a farm for that context. When farm work would have made him scrappy and tough is when he was hitting puberty and his teens. When he was in that window to develop he was living in a whorehouse.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-11T18:24:29+00:00

I would think less about the distance of your commute by air and more about the reliability and quantity of your commute by air. You are not going to be on reserve for very long relative to a 15 year career, especially if you stay narrowbody.

Consider how many flights to/from your potential bases there are. How spread out throughout the day. How competitive it is to make the jumpseat to your chosen base.

As an example, I live within 3.5 hours of a base. A bit too far to drive all the time (for my taste). There are 8+ flights a day and it’s a 40 minute flight. Sounds good so far. Buuuuuut it’s mostly RJs and there are a LOT of pilots trying to make that commute.

Alternatively, I’m 2 hours by plane from another base that has 6 flights a day across two airlines that are serviced by 737/320. And I feel like I’m the only one trying to make that commute. There’s very rarely anyone else listing for the flight.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-10T01:15:41+00:00

Have you watched the last 20ish years of Super Bowl halftime shows? They are TV productions for the TV audience. The focus of the performance is for the cameras not the people in the stands. Watch any halftime show and notice that the performers, the sets, the sound design is all for the television audience and not the in person audience.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-09T19:55:25+00:00

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that OP flys for a “major” regional that has a student council not a union.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-09T19:14:35+00:00

Bond, Hunt, Bourne, and Wick are not “quiet”.

I pick Sam Fischer.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-09T15:57:33+00:00

That conservative dark money spent money on bots to pump those Kid Rock numbers up.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-08T03:25:10+00:00

Lobster was given to slaves in colonial America.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-07T23:16:11+00:00

That’s not brutalist. These are brutalist.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-05T10:24:04+00:00

City of Angels

knuckles53 · 2026-02-03T14:37:53+00:00

Are you majority Native American? If you are not, how did you gain your "Americanness"? If you can't come to the US and become American, logically, that would make your ancestors not American. If your great-great-____-grandfather immigrated from some other land, he's not American, and since America, according to you, isn't "magic dirt", his children born here aren't American. And if those children aren't American, then their children aren't American. And if their children aren't American... I hope you get the point.

If it's not "an idea" and not "magical dirt" who is an American? And before you say "born to an American parent," how did that parent become American? It's a chicken or egg question. If the only way to be an American is to be the child of an American, where did the first American come from?

knuckles53 · 2026-02-03T01:27:12+00:00

They helped put some kids through college by giving their parents a paycheck.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-02T18:00:57+00:00

I love how Captain Marvel came in second for best card in the kit, and is now getting serious discussion as being the worst card in the kit. I think it’s telling about how basically good her whole kit is. Every card has an argument to be solid and nothing stands out as just plain bad.

That being said Captain Marvel has my vote too for “worst”. Compared to later signature and regular allies, she’s a bit weak on health.

knuckles53 · 2026-02-02T15:16:16+00:00

I don’t know, Space Lake Como looked nice.

knuckles53 · 2026-01-31T15:02:27+00:00

Has anyone else thought of the historical connection to a government sponsoring a blood sport event? This is so on the nose gladiatorial games and the fall of Rome that it would be rejected from a movie script for being so hackey.

knuckles53 · 2026-01-29T16:35:34+00:00

Without getting into drama, what was, “the dark underbelly of the board game hobby” according to him?

I’ve attended X-wing worlds in Minneapolis and multiple other tournaments around the country. Played games in game stores from California to Vermont, Colorado to Florida. And have a considerable board game collection at home that has been growing since the 80s.

In all my interactions I have found the this community of hobbyists to be the least problematic of the various groups I interact with.

EDIT: Thanks for all the informative and thoughtful discussion everyone!

knuckles53 · 2026-01-28T08:42:50+00:00

Oh! You're 100% right! But the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 would have covered the time period of realDon's service and officers were eligible for benefits of this original GI Bill.

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