Aaron Grote

He seems to think he can Task Rabbit his way out of disastrous wars of choice?

I am diametrically opposed to jokes like this.

Trump may not be, either. He's very affected by attractive young men.

I say that earnestly, without even implying anything. It's just a thing in his personality.

I keep thinking their solicitations to both the tanker industry and other militaries would be *so much* more effective if they just sailed one (1) aircraft carrier through the Straight while live streaming the transit & blaring God Bless The USA from the ship speakers.

But they can't.

After letting myself believe I was succeeding because I was smart through most of my 30s, I eventually realized my biggest strength is just a super high endurance for the emotional pain of making things actually happen in a group of people. Glad to see that's still going to pay off.

Think of how much confidence the US could inspire by sailing one (1) aircraft carrier through the Straight while live streaming the transit & blaring God Bless The USA from the ship speakers.

But, despite being able to escort it w more power than most militaries, they haven't.

Because they can't.

Is it that the worst-likely-case-scenario here is so bad that there *is* no price for it?

Like it will either be "everything is fine so this doesn't matter" or "force majeure so contacts don't matter" with no real in between?

And since "fine" seems unlikely, that's concerning.

Another real Kushner go-to:
Here's a photo of you with a prostitute I hired to seduce you. You will now give favorable testimony at my felony trial or I'll show this photo to your wife. Who is also my sister.

THAT Kushner is now the US Ambassador to France.

I haven't been able to find a primary source for that graphic, fwiw.

Gotta say I'm really impressed with how Google's Gemini handles this. Credit where due.

I can't find a primary source for this, do you have it?

That article is great.

One thing stuck in my head is the worst-likely-case-scenario here is so bad that there *is* no price for it.

Like it will either be "everything is fine so this doesn't matter" or "force majeure so contacts don't matter."

And since "fine" seems unlikely, that's concerning.

Yikes. Two is one...

"I won India three times."

Pete didn't mean, "No quarter" he meant, "No Qatar" this makes so much more sense now.

My thing right now is

What do you think the chances are Netanyahu gets in over his head and nukes Turkey?

Not the point but it's crazy how you hear these names like Litani River that will evidently shape Global Events and you imagine like a Significant Thing so you go on Google Maps to see where it is and it's like a ditch? Like a not even very wet ditch?

Prior payments from the ownership group were made to the US Treasury.

My bigger question is, does the Administration see this as a slush fund completely ungovernable by Congress that they get to do with as they please, without authorization or even reporting?

Steel-cutting board 🤣

Y'all a Marine Expeditionary Unit is smaaalllll. Like it's scoped for hot evacuation operations.

There's a version of that organizational structure called a Marine Expeditionary Force that's like 20x+ larger that is for invading places.

I hope if this MEU is used, it's used for what it can do.

Feel like he lifted that from one of like fifty Satya speeches a decade ago?

mmmmm no I think the trigger for this was, "My Generals keep asking what the 'Objective' is and that's annoying so obviously that's woke and we need to remove that word from the curriculum."

Because More Bombing can 100% stop this threat (and its Shahed equivalent).

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Because More Bombing can 100% stop this threat (and its Shahed equivalent).

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I mean, certainly it's not stress and anxiety from ((gestures broadly)) 😉

Thank you. Learned something.

Turn the other sword.

And that's just the preview. Wait until he reads Acts!

Whatever part of the ship hits them, sets them off. Which is different bc it means the likelihood of a given part of the ship hitting the mine is what matters. Seems unlikely that the first part of the ship to encounter a mine is that part. Meaning I question whether it was a mine.

Do mines usually hit the far rear of a ship?