How do I send this to my girlfriend without losing my girlfriend.

Met him once at some random dinner, apparently my mom used to be friends with his son. I've got a 1966 copy of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly soundtrack on vinyl in great condition.

This man will always be a legend.

The two-handed water drink was real. I'm pretty sure it had been documented before, possibly on his campaign trail?

The ramp shuffle seems a little blown out of proportion lol, the guy is 6'3 and he's just a lot of person. I think he was just being careful.

Ho-ly shit. Hahaha. That kid had no idea what he was getting into.

That uniform is a half-inch thick wool coat and I sweat through it front and back lol. Holding onto it for when my future kid/s fit in for my own amusement.

Branched FA! Going to Ft. Sill, OK for BOLC until about August 2021 and then Ft. Wainwright, AK for 2-3 years. After that, no way to tell as of now. I'm heading back to WP in a few days to help facilitate their basic training until late August. It'd be a privilege to touch base with you if you're ever in any of these areas, by the way.

We couldn't burst into laughter but god damn it the whole speech was hysterical. Amazingly, the President did not go off script save for one or two instances where we all held our breaths and prepared for a downward spiral--it never came. It seemed like he was trying his best to keep it together. And thank you, off to bigger and better things.

Too familiar a story. This pains me. A&E didn't bother keeping it because investigators "didn't ask." Investigation concluded, and the story ends there until someone causes enough of a stir to take a second look at what happened when some or all of the evidence is long gone. Good to see ya btw taco.

Live PD and Live Rescue are both fucking insane shows.

"Hey I stopped you over for this busted taillight."

two minutes later

"So luckily we were able to recover 62 pounds of cocaine with cartel identifiers from this truck"

You’d think so. Which is what makes it even more baffling. How would you explain that photo from the news? :D

Good to hear from you boss, same to you.

Just for the record, Milley has been notorious for at least a decade for giving barely half of a whole fuck about his uniform.

I’d offer the counter-perspective of GEN Milley signaling a militant stance. He actually gives such a small fraction of a fuck about showing up to the President’s eyes-wide-shut party that he couldn’t be bothered to dress up. Considering he’s pretty much said it in official memo format, this is far more likely to me.

Bingo:^)

I think you nailed it, well said.

Whities be whitin', indubitably. The follow-on question to how far your vote goes, is what the criteria ought to be for placing backstops and speedbumps in a pure democracy for the greater social good. When and how do we say, "despite your fair and equal election, we're gonna do it this way." Is there a way to do that, without civil unrest and lives endangered and lost, when a majority of people in a locality clearly support the status quo.

Oh hell yeah! No more late night IRC linkups :'(

Ah, I see your point. Luckily throughout history, the collective American daddy issue is nothing a little exposure therapy can't tackle.

As of some memos pushed out from on high, and two or three briefs in the last 24 hours, it seems (edit: in my personal opinion) that the Army (idk about the rest) has come to a consistent and correct page on this. Unfortunately that's all I can say about it but trust that, as an apolitical body, we seem to be standing fast against the political agents that would like us to break that habit. Couple guys lost their jobs or used their blessing of retirement in defense of that, too.

Ay! You too!

OK, I realize I misread kb's post on that one; the establishment of the Senate was quite literally, as you said, for the purpose of appeasing the smaller states (minority power). I had it in my head that he was arguing that the Senate was established to oppress minority states. Anyway thanks for the reminder that I need to brush up on my constitutional history.

Edit: I guess what I want to highlight is that there's an enduring myth that these institutions had some brilliant political theory behind them, that the Founding Fathers had genius and vision, and not that they were the result of shitty people acting like shit heads because they saw that they could get a better deal for themselves. Same as it ever was.

Well, maybe that's kind of what makes it brilliant. It wasn't a product of some monarch's self-proclaimed genius, or divine intervention, or academic experts who, given the time period, believed most ailments could be solved by slapping some cocaine on it. Instead, it was a series of power-brokering, leveraging for selfish ends, truly politics as we know it until a compromise was reached. I'd argue that's what makes it a reliable, integral document: its means and motives are no mystery at all, they're unabashedly human. e- then again this whole experiment was designed with great exclusivity by a very small group of people who absolutely loved themselves, so its a flimsy point to make on my part.