This dude should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom I’m dead fucking serious.
He should run for president and do nothing but play this video.
My youngest son didn’t know how to load a flintlock musket to defend himself from the Redcoats so I used this as an opportunity to teach him. A thread 1/56...
Had no idea we had so many explosives experts on twitter who are also pandemic experts and finance experts. That communications degree from San Diego State really paying off.
My girl kid (14) wants a station wagon for her first car, I have no idea why.
We found a 1986 AMC Eagle in pretty good shape for $3,000 and goddammit I’m tempted.
I mean…this is fucking sweet.
Seeing all the hot takes after big news like this I try to imagine what many would be saying if the POTUS was of the other political party and made the same decision and how reactions might be different.
It’s at that moment you realize most people are just partisan idiots.
I want some crusty ass E-7 with six kids and three failed marriages, who has been to Iraqistan a 15 times in the last 18 years, who puts Jack in his coffee every day just to get through to fight this kid and knock his teeth out before the meth has a chance.
The conduct of our troops on the ground could not be more different than the conduct of our politicians.
These young men and women will always bear the brunt of failed leadership.
“So I own the GIF now?”
“Yes.”
“So nobody can use it right?”
“No.”
“Oh so I get paid royalties?”
“No.”
“Is this the only GIF of this?”
“No.”
“I’m sold. Will you take $50,000 for it?”
“Yes.”
And then we all got rich af
Enlisted Marines have a saying.
You may find it helpful.
When something sucks, they look at each other and say:
“Fuck this shit. Fuck 1stSgt. Fuck the CO. Fuck my recruiter that lying sack of dog shit. Fuck Captain Samuel Nicholas.”
It’s an instant mindset shift
Navy SEALs have a saying.
You may find it helpful.
When something sucks, they look at each other and say:
"FULL BENEFIT"
It’s an instant mindset shift.
• Hiking and it starts pouring rain?
• Driving and your car breaks down?
• Working on a project and lost a draft?
FULL
Thought I’d gather a list of leaders, both elected and appointed, who’ve stepped up and assumed their share of the responsibility for what is happening in Afghanistan.
Here they are:
Lady at the Ace Hardware asked me how I was doing today and I told her she was violating my HIPAA rights.
Not today, you deep state mongrels, not today.
Bringing US troops home from Afghanistan before the job is done is dangerous. American troops are making a difference. If we remove them, it could create a power vacuum for those looking to take advantage of the situation. Wrong move at the wrong time.
As an enlisted dirt person this warms my heart.
The only thing I’d have done different is not had the cots assembled and the sheets and pillows would still be on a truck and they’d have to offload them.
The Rhode Island Convention Center is ready to welcome hundreds of midshipmen from the Naval Academy on Friday. They’ll be spending the night here before heading off to the Army-Navy Game
@GilletteStadium
.
@NBC10
Wild. Dude cuts his arm off with a saw 17 years ago and tells people he’s a vet to get acting parts. Sounds like he’s gotten help since. Feel bad for the guy.
Today I witnessed men waiting for haircuts & a man giving “free haircuts” on pleasant valley & riverside. Haircuts = cosmetology = regulated in
#Texas
right? There’s something amiss here but I can’t put my finger on it.
#atx
@tdlrlicense
is this ok?
#homeless
It’s hilarious that every four years we hear about how fucked up America is from people who want to run it and so they run it and then in another four years we hear how fucked up America is from people who want to run it and so they run it and then in another four years...
These people are the best
Never gonna forget the folks in Bangor, Maine, who saw us off to Afghanistan. Two of the hands they shook would not return with the battalion. It is a powerful gesture.
Seeing lots of “we are gonna lose the next war” shit based on this. Mostly coming from the edgelord types.
One, this shit isn’t new. Marines have been doing this back to 1775. Two, this is the sign of high morale and a cohesive unit, which is deadly to an enemy.
Speech is being delivered as if there was nothing in between immediate withdrawal or another 20 years of war.
Like we couldn’t have done anything to avoid the situation in Kabul.
I don’t buy it.
And save your “5 minutes or 5 years more it would have been the same” garbage.
If Jackson had signed up for anything besides YouTube he’d know that these are Marine recruits about to complete swim qual.
The animosity these people have for our military is so bizarre. And they’ll hide from service with complaints of “wokeism” because they’re cowards.
I love how much Jon Stewart just doesn’t give a fuck about what people think of him.
He’s also done more to advance first responder and veteran well-being than most anything else has for decades. It’s truly impressive.
Exchange between
@jonstewart
and
@DepSecDef
Kathleen Hicks on the defense budget: "I can't figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. To me, that's fucking corruption."
Middle school band concert tonight. Fuck these things. You sit there for two hours to watch your kid play an instrument for 10 minutes. I give zero shits about the other kids. I hear mine play the instrument all the damn time.
Fuck middle school band concerts.
Today is a strange day.
Normally on Monday mornings I’m recording
@ZeroBlog30
with my friends which meant just hanging out & laughing at the shit they say, but not today.
Took a great opportunity and had to leave ZBT. Huge thanks to
@UncleChaps
,
@CaptainCons
and
@katebarstool
Gonna start one of those “do military training and be a man” grifts but it’s just completing online training for 10 hrs a day and then cleaning your room until 0300 so a 32 y/o with a 4th grade reading level can call you a failure cuz you had dust on a vent covered in black mold
Why is everyone freaking out? The plan was always to pull out all but 650 troops and shut down a large airfield and then weeks later send in 6,000 troops and shut down the embassy and use a small airfield with limited capabilities that leads to only 5,000 people getting out a day
People are gonna watch this and honestly think the Corps is going soft.
That scene in Jarhead exists for a reason. Marines have been doing this shit since Samuel Nicholas in 1775. It’s been passed down as our most hallowed tradition.
Found out a buddy from the Marines killed himself today. Father of two who just had his second kid. He was a good dude who did his time well. Not sure how to process it, but please, if you’ve got stuff going on and think you may need some help just go get it. This has gotta stop.
Unbelievable
Somebody is so desperate they’d rather their child be raised by strangers than be raised under Taliban rule.
These Marines are also in an impossible spot but handling it with incredible professionalism.
Our military is still what we believe it to be
If you’re a 42 year-old man who is incessantly DMing and tagging military news pages on IG crying that the Army won’t let you enlist because you’re too fucking old when you sat your ass on the sidelines for 20+ years of war you should stop.
Just saying for no particular reason.
Hearing some stuff. US forces should be going on high alert as we are clearly weakened and at risk with Trump at Walter Reed Hospital. This is a National Security issue and will remain fluid as this goes on.
#coronavirus
Veterans Day is weird. I joined the Marines because that is what I wanted to do.
America & her citizens are worth whatever tiny sacrifice I made. I got out a lot more than I put in. I’m fortunate for that opportunity. I miss it.
Thank you for the sentiment. It’s appreciated.
This isn’t new, or news.
If you think this is a bad thing, go ahead and read about Cpl Cazares who enlisted as a non-citizen and gave his life on March 30, 2012. There are thousands more like him.
My girl kid was craving Vanilla Coke so she rode her bike to the grocery store about 1.5 miles away.
Didn’t pay attention, came home with caffeine-free Diet Coke.
Time for the talk about attention to detail and how her whole platoon could have died.