I'd take another cal record breaking season or naylor going above .300 at home too though. I love all these guys so much
Even geno, I miss you a bit but not as much as I'm happy to have Emerson around
Wow it's mariners time huh
Julio MVP season this time?
legendary thrift pull
big fan of bob even if i disagree with him from time to time
we need someone around thinking about the practical application of more NSNWs and i can't think of a more goofy guy to do it
I fucked up
I will not elaborate
Please, if you meet me, kill me because eventually the embarrassment will do it anyway and that's less pleasant
The Doha agreement also goes underappreciated as a major setback. Our commitment was not that large anymore but our effects were outsized.
If anything, the failure to respond to 2014 and 2022 swiftly and with force has given China all the ideas that we won't do anything and that they can take it. Our actions are a pittance compared to what Russia is doing. And after four years of ignoring it, we have effectively said that "it's okay."
look, man. this might be controversial around these parts but it is okay to say that Miller is evil without saying that we have somehow given China reasons to do things.
they are going to do it either way. they think Taiwan is rightfully theirs. nothing we do changes that, because it already is.
SMSgt Mac would likely have had a lot to input. Unfortunately, he's no longer with us. But I'll try.
🧵 Thread of polls by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation released on 12/23/25 (with comparison to 11/2025):
"Do you approve of President Lai Ching-te?"
Approve: 43.4% (+5.5)
Disapprove: 48.6% (-1.6)
Unsure / No opinion: 8.1% (-3.8)
TPOF / Dec. 23, 2025
n=1,077
They do this because they hate me
AFRICOM with CENTCOM characteristics
In the future, amerikirov is replaced by amerikiev
trve...
I thought this was about the new stupid navy ships for a solid 15 seconds before I remembered that today is the 24th
Santa overshot Andrews by 15 miles. He went to Rock Creek Park, sir. Walter Reed Hospital is there. My father is there. No father should get presents before his son.
NEW: Ukraine released the latest US-Ukrainian-European 20-point peace plan on Dec. 23. The Kremlin will need to compromise on demands it has long insisted on, including many that are incompatible with both the latest 20-point peace plan and the initial 28-point plan. isw.pub/UkrWar122425
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Impressive images.
"Interferometric synthetic aperture sonar images of the seafloor. (a) Wreck of a barge on a sediment substrate with boulders. (b) Offshore energy production infrastructure. »
🔗📷📑 tos.org/oceanography...
No I'm thinking 2029. Walz's or Rubio's secdef, kinda. Whoever wins in '28
NO ISSUES ONLY OPPS
This skeet is to be read as someone making a pitch in a Pentagon elevator to a very disinterested future SecDef
So the problem with the new ships is that they're oversized. But they're a big hull! So, bear with me for a moment. You know how the Air Force is doing Agile Combat Employment? We could do that too.
So there's this ship, the Ise, and the Japanese put planes on it. If we put F-35Bs on the Defiant,--
NO ISSUES ONLY OPPS
my new conspiracy theory is that the navy has no real issues with programs, everything is just ruined by some external force.
We have no idea if Congress is gonna play ball. At this rate they will look at it and tell them to eat shit. Constellations are toast though
Also following Phelan, he had a very close relationship with Feinberg, who is the one behind the "85% and now" push. The problem is that the constellations were 95% and about 1-2 years difference and these are like, 70% and three years out
If they get told "here's what bossman is telling us to do, do your best with it" this isn't the worst outcome but I see a lot of fingers where they have no place being
I think it's direct from Phelan. I don't have any evidence here but if you're willing to trust me, it would track that he just chose "off the shelf" as much as possible. There's an "85% and now" vs "100+% and later" acquisitions objective with this administration that NAVSEA is averse to.
I'd rather have too many than too few...
