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Capybara Appreciator. Retired Army/National Guard Infantryperson. Told I was 'mean' on here once. Kinda left of center. Deal with it. also soonergrunt@bsky.app
Sep 13, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
So, Ken Starr, who was Javert, going WAY beyond his mandate over and over again chasing the President (principle result of which was the failure to reauthorize the Special Prosecutor act), who later failed to deal appropriately with several sexual harassment and assault cases at Baylor University (after defending Blackwater in civil term for their wanton murders of Iraqi civilians, and brokered the deal with Alex Acosta to let Jeffrey Epstein walk on multiple pedophilia and child-sex-trafficking charges, and later defended Trump in both impeachments...
Apr 19, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
In 1982, a guy poisoned a bunch of bottles of Tylenol in Chicago and 7 people died, and we all got safety seals in all our bottles of OTC pills from then on.
In 2002, some yahoo tried to blow up an airplane with a bomb in his shoes and to this day, we take our shoes off before... boarding an airplane.
Used to be people were killed and maimed by bouncing around like ping pong balls in cars, but now we have seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones.
Used to be people just rolled the dice going into a restaurant and either had the meal of a lifetime or ptomaine
Mar 13, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
I just love how all these conservatives, who for decades, just took it for granted that the military was a conservative institution, and went out of their way to make and keep it so, with things like forcing the military to show a morbidly obese drug addict (Limbaugh), or serial sexual harassers and adulterers (3/4 of Fox News personalities) openly lying about damn near everything and frequently disrespecting the lawfully elected Commander-in-Chief on TVs and radios in the common areas and duty areas, are suddenly bothered by "political statements" by
Jun 11, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
We should rename Fort Lee, VA for MG George Henry Thomas of Virginia.
While Lee and so many others turned treason, the Virginian Thomas stayed with the colors and fought for his country, at great personal cost. Always under suspicion in the Union, and cut off from his family, he nevertheless did his duty, selflessly and without flash or self-promotion, but yet earning the nicknames "Rock of Chickamauga" and "Sledge of Nashville" for his brilliant victories, including the destruction in detail of John B. Hood's CSA Army of Tennessee. Later, as Commander
Jul 9, 2019 6 tweets 1 min read
There's something pretty fucking tiring going on.
An treaty is signed or a policy enacted that makes the world better than it was. Usually after long negotiation. It's not ideal, but it's the best that was likely achievable in the existing environment.
Then, decades later, in the new environment created by the accomplishment at issue, come along a new group of people who badmouth and question the morals/integrity/intentions of the people who made the agreement or policy under which the new crowd has operated all their lives.
Intentionally not recognizing