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Donald Trump is Now an African Legend On Par With Shaka Zulu and Elon Musk

Thanks to vmom stabby stabby stab:

In the last thread, Moron Analyst explained Beau Biden's legendary Bronze Star, received as a JAG officer far from any fighting:


There is a lot of stupid details about military awards, not being able to award the Meritorious Service Medal to troops through much of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, etc. Suffice to say, the Bronze Star became the standard award for many Field Grade (Major and above) officers, and captains commanding companies (how I got mine).

To get it for gallantry in combat, you get the Bronze Star with "V" device, a little silver "V" on the ribbon, denoting "valor". This distinction didn't exist in the past.

Thomas Paine, I think, said that the award, if missing the "V" for Valor, is a basically a Participation Trophy given to most Iraq/Afghanistan vets, meaning only that you served honorably in-theater, not that you did anything heroic in combat.

But Honest Joe sure does have everyone convinced that Beau Biden was engaged in glorious combat with those legendary "burn pits," doesn't he?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:19 PM




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1 1st

Posted by: GF at July 17, 2024 03:18 PM (Z5ThF)

2 Just missed the threepeat

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2024 03:19 PM (JMAcK)

3 The kid has better guards than Trump.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2024 03:19 PM (JMAcK)

4 Hey Uganda kids:

"Tell me who did something that you've never done with your Bronze Star like my son!!!"

[Beau Biden never saw combat.]

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:19 PM (i7Q7S)

5 He's bragging about his worthless lawyer son getting a bronze star for sitting on his butt all day.

Meanwhile, actual heroes who saw their friends get blown up and saved other soldiers quietly go about their lives.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2024 03:21 PM (JMAcK)

6 What does an Ewok know about gaining valor by creating NATO!?!?

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:21 PM (Y8lzz)

7 The kid recreating the fistpump was the best part, IMO.

Posted by: pookysgirl at July 17, 2024 03:21 PM (dtlDP)

8 Bwanna Trump big medicine.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 17, 2024 03:21 PM (n17eQ)

9 If Trump is compared to Chaka Khan then he is a


"God".....

Posted by: Buster Hymannd at July 17, 2024 03:22 PM (qpLSv)

10 Out: Ghanian Funeral Dancers
In: Ugandan Trump Assassination Reinactors

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:22 PM (ynpvh)

11 "burn pits"?

Are we still talking about dry eyes?

Posted by: stu-mic-o-sucks at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (w9Wax)

12 I keep trolling liberals saying their great grandchildren will be told the story of President Trump swatting away the first two bullets with his fist then being hit in the ear while holding three Secret Service agents over his head to keep them out of harm's way.

Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (VP9ao)

13 Mustafa Trump...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (U+vfz)

14 I knew a company CO who wrote himself up for a silver star in Desert Storm. Battalion commander told him to withdraw it or he'd relieve him.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (2UnvF)

15 7 The kid recreating the fistpump was the best part, IMO.
Posted by: pookysgirl at July 17, 2024 03:21 PM (dtlDP


That kid gets it.

Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (Sf2cq)

16 I'm seeing Uganda kids and secret service parodies all over twatter - not seeing any official press conference clips over what the hell actually happened that day.

Posted by: jhawk90 at July 17, 2024 03:24 PM (ggOdn)

17 11 "burn pits"?

Are we still talking about dry eyes?

Posted by: stu-mic-o-sucks at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (w9Wax)

Alex, What is one of the less favored ways of removing axilial hair?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

18 Awesome stuff!

Seriously though -- how many videos from Saturday would be banned from Twitter (now known as X)* if Dorsey was still running the place? How different would the narrative be about the attempt on Trump's life? Hell - how different would the narrative about the sundowner be??


* That's just me goofing on how frequently we still see "(formerly known as Twitter)" in articles and online posts.

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:24 PM (RhGG0)

19 Political assassinations are as likely to change leaders in Africa as elections, no?

That's an interesting perspective, that they see Trump as a hero.

BTW, there's a Telegram tap-to-earn crypto game. Hamster Kombat. 250 million players. You collect these cards and level them up.
Latest card is "Fight fight fight" with a hampster recreation of the Trump fist pump.

Non-political pages on IG are also posting the photo.

This is a lot bigger than the left knows.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:25 PM (A+HXZ)

20 That video is so hilarious.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2024 03:25 PM (wMRY8)

21 They were giving out so many bronze star medals that they changed the rules to allow awarding the meritorious service medal in combat zones. Technically, the two were considered "equivalent" in terms of hierarchy, with the MSM for peacetime assignments and the BSM for combat zones. The numbers of BSMs being issued didn't really decrease, but NCOs and junior officers who had been getting the next award down (ARCOM/Army Commendation Medal) started getting MSMs.

Award inflation was almost bad as current currency inflation!

Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

22 19 Political assassinations are as likely to change leaders in Africa as elections, no?

If there is a political assassination in Africa (or just about anywhere else), you can bet the CIA is behind it.

Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (VP9ao)

23 It's amazing and heartening to see people inspired so much by Trump's bravery and dedication to our nation's people.

Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (Sf2cq)

24 19 Non-political pages on IG are also posting the photo.

This is a lot bigger than the left knows.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:25 PM (A+HXZ)

=======

I saw a poll result earlier today that said that nearly half of all Democrats think the violent rhetoric from the left contributed in some measure to the assassination attempt on Trump.

And Democrats are reupping the same rhetoric.

The assassination attempt and the left's reaction was a light that pierced across the culture that revealed the left as psychopaths, and the left doesn't realize it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (GBKbO)

25 Ace, a very important point: Beau Biden's Bronze Star citation was never revealed publicly.

Nobody knows why he received it.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (i7Q7S)

26 Thomas Paine, I think, said that the award, if missing the "V" for Valor, is a basically a Participation Trophy given to most Iraq/Afghanistan vets, meaning only that you served honorably in-theater, not that you did anything heroic in combat.
___

E-7 and above receive Bronze Stars (without the V device).

E-6 and below receive ARCOMs.

But yeah, they're both pretty much participation trophies.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (+MMwr)

27 Hubby nec served in Vietnam Nam. Are these the same pits where the locals came in and burned the stuff in the latrines? He has a funny story involving gas, a match and toilet paper and poo everywhere. Local papasan covered in both.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (2NHgQ)

28 If Disney made a movie about it, that would accurately reflect the casting.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (Dm8we)

29 There was nothing between the cops and the assassin but a sheet of 10 gauge sheet metal ten feet away over their heads.

Posted by: torabora at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (SRJk7)

30 The left made Trump a folk hero, like Robin Hood. Never make your enemies folk heroes.

To quote the Trump anime: Be the America Japan thinks you are!

Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (Eng1Z)

31 My uncle(RIP) got a bronze star in Viet Nam, on a howitzer team, slinging em hot and heavy.

He didn't speak too much about it, but I suspect his was earned.

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (53oGX)

32 That's just me goofing on how frequently we still see "(formerly known as Twitter)" in articles and online posts.
Posted by: Doof


Musk did not learn the lesson of Prince, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and Prince (The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.)

Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (DgGvY)

33 Sounds like a honorable discharge would suffice.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (1vwBF)

34 I hath performed the nood

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (RhGG0)

35 The kid has better guards than Trump.
-
The kid knew to get
A) All guys who were
B) at least as tall as him

Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (Dnobf)

36 Crow served one tour in Iraq during the initial invasion in 2003, where he served as a platoon commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. Crow was awarded the Bronze Star with the "V" device for valor for actions during the Battle of Samawah. He then transferred over to the 75th Ranger Regiment, where he deployed to Afghanistan twice and was attached to the Joint Special Operations Task Force on the Pakistani border.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (i7Q7S)

37 Someone mentioned a cow on a roof. Is this what is meant?
reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/ 101u9ys/nothing_to_see_here_just_a_cow_on_the_roof/

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (gKWVE)

38 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

39 But Honest Joe sure does have everyone convinced that Beau Biden was engaged in glorious combat with those legendary "burn pits," doesn't he?
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:19 PM



His open claims that Beau 'died in Iraq' not withstanding.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Meh. I've seen African kids reenacting Potatohead's legendary confrontation with Corn Pop for years now. They make little lifeguard stations out the empty food crates that Sally Struthers sends them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (vtRd1)

41 I see that Africans aren't even safe from the scourge of crocs.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (xPl2J)

42 Children in Uganda recreate the assassination attempt on President Trump.


CAN WE GET THOSE KIDS REAL SHOES???

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (f5vQ9)

43 Review of most recent polling data: Biden wins 57 states, 765 electoral votes, 813 million popular votes - all counted between 2 and 6 am the morning after the election.

Posted by: going deep. out. at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (9X60i)

44 Beau Biden did not see combat, nor did he lead troops in any combat mission.

He did not receive the "V" device.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (i7Q7S)

45 Little kids half a world away understand courage better than our retarded commies.
Their "Secret Service" showed better situational awareness than Cheeto and most of her crew.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (VavZF)

46 Someone mentioned a cow on a roof. Is this what is meant?
reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/ 101u9ys/nothing_to_see_here_just_a_cow_on_the_roof/
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (gKWVE)



I believe that's the same video from a different angle.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

47 Where are the short, fat boss girls?

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU)

48 I received the ARCOM and the MSM, but they refused a Purple Heart for the numerous and painful paper cuts I received in the line of duty.

Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2024 03:30 PM (VP9ao)

49 @5

>>He's bragging about his worthless lawyer son getting a bronze star for sitting on his butt all day.

Joe's constant interjecting his into everything is stolen valor by proxy, human shield deployment and waving a bloody red shirt as needed.

As has been said, he's been a vicious, duplicitous, cretin his whole miserable career.

He's never going to not be that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 03:30 PM (XV/Pl)

50 I hath performed the nood
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (RhGG0)b



Whatever happened to keeping your private life private?

Yeech.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

51 They make little lifeguard stations out the empty food crates that Sally Struthers sends them.
Posted by: Cicero


Man. That's ice cold.

Sending starving chillens empty food crates.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (f5vQ9)

52 47 Where are the short, fat boss girls?

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2024 03:30 PM (GUOwU)

At the SS, apparently.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (ynpvh)

53 14 I knew a company CO who wrote himself up for a silver star in Desert Storm.

Sounds like a real... slacker.

Posted by: John "3<3" Kerry at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (gKWVE)

54 I see that Africans aren't even safe from the scourge of crocs.
Posted by: Mark1971

Or Disney tshirts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (qZEuM)

55
I've now met vmom in person and came away unstabbed. I'd like to think I could do the same with bluebell but I'm not taking the risk.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (RKVpM)

56 50 I hath performed the nood
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (RhGG0)b


Whatever happened to keeping your private life private?

Yeech.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

It's not the book thread.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (ynpvh)

57
If there is a political assassination in Africa (or just about anywhere else), you can bet the CIA is behind it.
Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (VP9ao)

_________

"It bore all the fingerprints of a CIA operation. Everyone except the intended victim was killed."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (BxtCO)

58 The assassination attempt and the left's reaction was a light that pierced across the culture that revealed the left as psychopaths, and the left doesn't realize it.
-
Why would they?

Every source of media the pay attention to tells them that they are the majority and beloved the world over. Also, "The Right Side Of History (TM)"

Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (Dnobf)

59 Yeah, well, I'll bet they could some pretty good Biden impressions too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (GDYXN)

60 Musk did not learn the lesson of Prince, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and Prince (The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.)
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (DgGvY)


He also had that weird tranny symbol for a name at one point

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (RhGG0)

61 Beau!!!!!!!! My Beau!!!!!!

*sobs*

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (QlxXp)

62 Having been to Afghanistan…I agree on the assessment of BSMs.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (Nt9p1)

63 The left made Trump a folk hero, like Robin Hood. Never make your enemies folk heroes.

Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (Eng1Z)

TRUUUUUUMP! The man they call TRUUUUUUUMP!

The hero of 'Murica, the man they call Trump!

Posted by: pookysgirl, channeling Firefly at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (dtlDP)

64 I don’t believe the burn pits were the cause of Beau’s brain cancer. I think it was hereditary in light of his father’s own issues.

I’m not a doctor but I have stayed in a Holiday Inn.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (B1dzx)

65 I hath performed the nood
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (RhGG0)b


Whatever happened to keeping your private life private?

Yeech.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)


You're the one who immediately thought of my privates

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (RhGG0)

66 25 Ace, a very important point: Beau Biden's Bronze Star citation was never revealed publicly.

Nobody knows why he received it.
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM (i7Q7S)


Nothing unusual about that.

Posted by: John Kerry at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

67 I thought Xi had a stroke. Did he get better?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (vtRd1)

68 I think it's a fake video because none of the kids are wearing Buffalo Bills World Champions shirts

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (CIS44)

69 @42

>>CAN WE GET THOSE KIDS REAL SHOES???

I bet if Mr. Beast sees that, there will be a shipping container of tennis shoes and Mr. Beast edibles dropped in that village within a week.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (XV/Pl)

70 The wooden firearm game is strong with these kids.
( I remember making a bunch out of paper towel tubes )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (IG4Id)

71 "Tell me who did something that you've never done with your Bronze Star like my son!!!"

Is there any truth to the rumor that Beau Biden stuck his Bronze Star up his butt and ran naked around a Bucky's squawking like a chicken?

Maybe that.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (eDfFs)

72 58 The assassination attempt and the left's reaction was a light that pierced across the culture that revealed the left as psychopaths, and the left doesn't realize it.
-
Why would they?

Every source of media the pay attention to tells them that they are the majority and beloved the world over. Also, "The Right Side Of History (TM)"
Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (Dnobf)

========

Living in a bubble has its effects. Thinking that everyone likes the things you like is an effect.

Some people in that bubble should be smart enough to say, "Wishing that the bullet had gone an inch to the right and screaming about it on social media is not a good look," though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

73 If anyone wants a V, they can have it (cackle)

Posted by: Kamala at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (QlxXp)

74 >>> 67 I thought Xi had a stroke. Did he get better?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (vtRd1)

He's resting his eyes, waiting for party members not 110% down with invading Taiwan to show themselves.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (VavZF)

75 I've now met vmom in person and came away unstabbed. I'd like to think I could do the same with bluebell but I'm not taking the risk.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (RKVpM)


Bold strategy. FAFO

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (RhGG0)

76 I thought Xi had a stroke. Did he get better?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (vtRd1)

Sure did. Shot an 18 today at the Beijing Country Club.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (qZEuM)

77 Burn pits?
Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (dg8Uu)

78
You're the one who immediately thought of my privates
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (RhGG0)



It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

79 He didn't like politicians yet he donated to Biden and registered as a Republican to vote against Trump.
Things change between 15 and 18 years old

KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
Crooks reportedly disliked Republican & Democrat politicians & called a classmate "stupid" for supporting President Trump.
A classmate also reported that Crooks & his friends threatened to "shoot up" their high school.
"I brought up the fact that I'm Hispanic, & I'm for Trump."
"He called me stupid"
"He did not like politicians. Especially during 2016, it was Bernie, Hillary, all of them. He showed that he disliked all of them."
"...he would talk, talk, talk & act like he knew everything, especially politics related
"His friend group...they did make threats to shoot up our school. During our freshmen year, there were Snapchat messages saying Thomas made a threat."
"Everyone was mainly blaming his friend group, but the name that kept coming up was Thomas."
"The signs were there, & somebody definitely had to have known whether he was talking to somebody...Anybody who knew him should have known something was up."
Video: x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1813653212605669828

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (9aVck)

80 67 I thought Xi had a stroke. Did he get better?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (vtRd1)

The longer it takes to report it, the worse it was...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (ynpvh)

81 I received the ARCOM and the MSM, but they refused a Purple Heart for the numerous and painful paper cuts I received in the line of duty.

I missed getting the MSM by a stripe. Had I been an E5 or above, no problem. I was fine with the ARCOM, though, as I wasn't expecting anything.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (dZVON)

82 That was supposed to be a joke about the 'not napping, resting my eyes' thing that was going on a couple days ago.




Go to the doctor, Ace!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (VavZF)

83 "It bore all the fingerprints of a CIA operation. Everyone except the intended victim was killed."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM


Q: How do we know the CIA wasn't involved in the Kennedy assassination?

A: He's dead, isn't he?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (ZANHd)

84 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........
Posted by: Sponge
___

*reconsiders attending*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (+MMwr)

85 They give officers a Bronze star for tying their boots

Posted by: JoshO at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (LmUpe)

86 DEAR GOD. THEY ARE ALL WEARING CROCS!!!!!

GARRETT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!

Posted by: Simplemind at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (la6rf)

87 Something that can't be understated:
For near 10 years now, the left has dumped untold billions into making sure it wasn't "cool" to like Trump, that all the "good" people hated him.

All of that effort, hours and money is gone now: It's cool to support the guy who survived an assassination.

The rotten virus that animates the Democrats is running the body, but the head is gone-- they have no idea how much changed Saturday.
And they're still thinking they can wordsmith their way back to everyone hating Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (A+HXZ)

88 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)


Ummm -- I know there have been a time or two that I've hit the bourbon a bit heavy at the ranch -- but PLEASE tell me I didn't actually do that.

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (RhGG0)

89 5 He's bragging about his worthless lawyer son getting a bronze star for sitting on his butt all day.

Meanwhile, actual heroes who saw their friends get blown up and saved other soldiers quietly go about their lives.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Let's not go overboard on the hate here. Obviously some had harder, and more dangerous, jobs than others, but any time deployed to Iraq sucked, was dangerous, and made loved ones back home worry. If my dad ran for President, I'm sure he'd be proud of my (and my sister's) service...although I'd hope he'd have the good taste not to mention it ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

The main US base in Kosovo in Camp Bondsteel. The local national road right in front of it? Beau Biden Blvd.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (JCZqz)

90 Sure did. Shot an 18 today at the Beijing Country Club.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (qZEuM)

I heard it was 19 strokes

Posted by: Kamala at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (QlxXp)

91 Crocs are the official shoe of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (vtRd1)

92 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........

Those poor horses.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (dZVON)

93 We need to have an award for Presidents who were attacked by assassins.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (asWic)

94 The plot device in movies where the hero narrowly avoids death always makes me think how the movie would end if the hero was killed.

Yeah, that was a funny video but holy hell was this country close to something I don't even think we can comprehend.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (KbCG3)

95 >>> 87 Something that can't be understated:
For near 10 years now, the left has dumped untold billions into making sure it wasn't "cool" to like Trump, that all the "good" people hated him.

All of that effort, hours and money is gone now: It's cool to support the guy who survived an assassination.

The rotten virus that animates the Democrats is running the body, but the head is gone-- they have no idea how much changed Saturday.
And they're still thinking they can wordsmith their way back to everyone hating Trump.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (A+HXZ)

HE SAID PUSSY!!!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (VavZF)

96 Myths.

The Hero of Canton, the Man they call Jane.

Posted by: 13times at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (8FYlD)

97 If there is a political assassination in Africa (or just about anywhere else), you can bet the CIA is behind it.
---------
ALX @alx Jul 16
BREAKING: Secret Service has ramped up security after receiving intelligence of an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump

Cernovich @Cernovich Jul 16
The deep state wants war with Iran.

What better way than for them to “kill two birds with one stone” by removing Trump and leaving the body on Iran?

That’s what they want.

Beware!

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 23h
Did the CIA just declare war on The Republic?

Because this Iran story is too on-the-nose.

Watch the players. That will tell you.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (wse2C)

98 Geez, making Kamala your handle makes any random comment read very differently.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (QlxXp)

99 "Sure did. Shot an 18 today at the Beijing Country Club."

Subtle.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (Z8Yh2)

100 I missed getting the MSM by a stripe. Had I been an E5 or above, no problem. I was fine with the ARCOM, though, as I wasn't expecting anything.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM


When I was a 1LT, my boss put me in for a Joint MSM. The commander said no way in hell a LT was getting an MSM, no matter what he did. My boss got one, despite the fact that he was gone half the time and I was doing his job. I wuz robbed, I tell ya!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (ZANHd)

101 The Japanese anime version is pretty sweet as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbk8R0kg3DY

Posted by: theATL at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (GhJWt)

102 My father received a Bronze Star with Valor for actions during the Korean War in September 1951. The citation specifically mentioned Bronze Star with Valor.

Posted by: RockwellT at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (V7aSV)

103 An unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is "dangerous" for the media to highlight the historic photo of former President Trump standing tall after the assignation attempt Saturday, calling it "free PR" for the Trump campaign, according to a report.

An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks," citing unnamed photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda" because the Trump campaign will use them to "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event."

https://tinyurl.com/khzr3urx

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (NpAcC)

104
Ummm -- I know there have been a time or two that I've hit the bourbon a bit heavy at the ranch -- but PLEASE tell me I didn't actually do that.
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:35 PM (RhGG0)



I do know that SpongeBro can't WAIT to see your new camper.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (Zz0t1)

105 Trump is legen. Wait for it. DARY!

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (z8KUs)

106 I missed getting the MSM by a stripe. Had I been an E5 or above, no problem. I was fine with the ARCOM, though, as I wasn't expecting anything.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
___

In my division, E-6s received MSMs...and even then, it depended on the unit at the company level.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (+MMwr)

107 Musk did not learn the lesson of Prince, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, and Prince (The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.)
Posted by: mikeski at July 17, 2024 03:28 PM (DgGvY)

He also had that weird tranny symbol for a name at one point
Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (RhGG0)

I recall some comedian doing a bit where he wanted to change his name to a fragrance. he would carry the vial in a velvet bag on his belt, and he would say, "Hi. I'm (spritzes fragrance in the air)."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (xPJvm)

108 Living in a bubble has its effects. Thinking that everyone likes the things you like is an effect.

Some people in that bubble should be smart enough to say, "Wishing that the bullet had gone an inch to the right and screaming about it on social media is not a good look," though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (GBKbO)

That whole “hearts and minds” thing, again. Also applies to Leftist orgs like Just Stop Oil.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (Nt9p1)

109 Well those kids are just as cute as can be.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (oaGWv)

110 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Wait, what?

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (DRSnL)

111 Children in Uganda recreate the assassination attempt on President Trump.


CAN WE GET THOSE KIDS REAL SHOES???
Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (f5vQ9)
_____

Those are actually higher-quality shoes than what you'd usually find in a dirt-poor African village. Many kids (and adults) don't wear shoes at all. The crushing poverty in some parts of Africa is almost beyond an American's ability to comprehend, until you've seen it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

112 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

That sounds like an Indian name.

Damn, Doof.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (qZEuM)

113 I do know that SpongeBro can't WAIT to see your new camper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden


HAHAHAH

speaking of, we gonna see you Fri?

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (CIS44)

114 All of that effort, hours and money is gone now: It's cool to support the guy who survived an assassination.
-------

Not only that, it's not so cool to hate on him now, either

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (QlxXp)

115 The rotten virus that animates the Democrats is running the body, but the head is gone-- they have no idea how much changed Saturday.
And they're still thinking they can wordsmith their way back to everyone hating Trump.


Great, now we're going to sound like hipsters. "I liked Trump before it was cool!"

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (dZVON)

116 "Trump is legen. Wait for it. DARY!"

Was that a late entry for cow puns?

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (B0mGw)

117 >>> 103 An unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is "dangerous" for the media to highlight the historic photo of former President Trump standing tall after the assignation attempt Saturday, calling it "free PR" for the Trump campaign, according to a report.

An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks," citing unnamed photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda" because the Trump campaign will use them to "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event."

https://tinyurl.com/khzr3urx
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (NpAcC)

It's already on t-shirts, you fckwits.

Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (VavZF)

118 I was going to say the Dems need to shut down their lunatic wing, but who would be left behind?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (JLq/1)

119 I’m watching a program Savage Builds -Mad Max
where three teams are building Mad Max post apocalyptic cars for a competition. They were doing the building in a warehouse in San Fran. Guess what happened.

The warehouse was broken into and all the power tools were stolen. Welcome to the wasteland bitches !!!

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (B1dzx)

120 92 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........

Those poor horses.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (dZVON)

Unfortunately made me think of a joke involving a naked man with a sign around his neck...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (ynpvh)

121 Wait, what?
Posted by: Jordan61
___

Yeah, like we need any more trauma.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (+MMwr)

122 It's not my fault you consider 'running naked with horses' at the TxMoMe the 'thing to do' every year.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Wait, what?
Posted by: Jordan61

It's always after you head to bed.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)

123
HAHAHAH

speaking of, we gonna see you Fri?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (CIS44)



If you're heading south, yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)

124 My son Beau, who as you know died during his Secret Service tenure in Bloody Butler, Pa., would never have approved of some lousy ass backbencher Congressman harassing me, a Senator for over four decades.

Posted by: Joe Biden, confused and demented, but happy! at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (eGo5o)

125 "He did not like politicians. Especially during 2016, it was Bernie, Hillary, all of them. He showed that he disliked all of them."
-
When he was 12?

Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (Dnobf)

126 An unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is "dangerous" for the media to highlight the historic photo of former President Trump standing tall after the assignation attempt Saturday, calling it "free PR" for the Trump campaign, according to a report.

This is exactly why nobody ever painted a picture of Napoleon on a horse.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (vtRd1)

127 I recall some comedian doing a bit where he wanted to change his name to a fragrance.

Plagiarist.

Posted by: Dick Swett at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

128 Donald Trump is fighting with everything he's got to restore this nation. May we follow his example.

Also, beware the evil propagandists who keep telling us to be either utterly passive or stupidly violent. We must be wise, strong, and courageous.

Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (Sf2cq)

129 "Donald Trump is Now an African Legend On Par With Shaka Zulu and Elon Musk"

Glad to know my seven cents a day has paid off after all these years.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (B0mGw)

130 HAHAHAH

speaking of, we gonna see you Fri?
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (CIS44)


If you're heading south, yes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden a

We are!

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)

131 In a sea of confusion, there is one thing I know for absolute certain. They didn't plan to merely wound Trump. They are in new territory.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (QlxXp)

132 102 My father received a Bronze Star with Valor for actions during the Korean War in September 1951. The citation specifically mentioned Bronze Star with Valor.
-------------
In WWII it was just the Bronze Star. It would seem the V device came later to distinguish between Valor and I was there actions.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (n17eQ)

133 "What the fuck??"

-- Idi Amin

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (iFTx/)

134 The Japanese anime version of the assignation attempt is pretty sweet as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbk8R0kg3DY

Posted by: theATL at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (GhJWt)

135
We are!
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)



Good times. Should be fun!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

136 Let's not go overboard on the hate here. Obviously some had harder, and more dangerous, jobs than others, but any time deployed to Iraq sucked, was dangerous, and made loved ones back home worry. If my dad ran for President, I'm sure he'd be proud of my (and my sister's) service...although I'd hope he'd have the good taste not to mention it ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

The main US base in Kosovo in Camp Bondsteel. The local national road right in front of it? Beau Biden Blvd.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (JCZqz)

My father began his final fortnight on earth in the hospital, and I went to see him. He said to me, this is what you get after 30 years of service. I get the treatment, and pay nothing.

He paused. “Hell, you more so than me. You’ve deployed to war zones, unlike me.” (But the way I see it, he might not of, but he was on the hook for going to Vietnam, for instance, all the same.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (Nt9p1)

137 It's always after you head to bed.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)

=====

Figures.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (DRSnL)

138 Wait, Doof is nude?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2024 03:40 PM (xIWND)

139 Hey everybody! Don't move! I dropped Beau's Medal of Honor sometime after I walked in! Help me look for it and don't step on it! You might rub-off Beau's bloodstain from his near-fatal wound in Tora Bora!

Posted by: Joe "Stolen Valor" Biden at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (5fDan)

140 Ace

For a change of pace, perhaps write about the hobby horse competition in Finland.

Yeah, you read that right - hobby horse.

Monty Python was ahead of its time.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (ZBHce)

141 Wait, what?
Posted by: Jordan61

It's always after you head to bed.
Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)


Right after the shirtless axe throwing

Posted by: Doof at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (RhGG0)

142 Yeah, like we need any more trauma.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (+MMwr)

=====

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (DRSnL)

143 honorable discharge

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (4CdW9)

144


Orange MANDELA!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (x0n13)

145 USN withholds the meritorious service medal for the dumbest reasons.

Posted by: Son of Dad at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (8JB5s)

146 An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks," citing unnamed photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda" because the Trump campaign will use them to "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event."

https://tinyurl.com/khzr3urx
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (NpAcC)

It's already on t-shirts, you fckwits.
Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (VavZF)

Since we are all dumbasses, did Axios tell us “Why It Matters”?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Nt9p1)

147 Biden said he has visited Iraq and Afghanistan "over 40 times."

This isn’t accurate. There is no evidence that Biden has been to either country since being president. The last time he was in Iraq appears to be in 2016. For Afghanistan, it was in 2011.

This guy is a complete POS.

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (i7Q7S)

148 I keep trolling liberals saying their great grandchildren will be told the story of President Trump swatting away the first two bullets with his fist then being hit in the ear while holding three Secret Service agents over his head to keep them out of harm's way.
Posted by: jwest at July 17, 2024 03:23 PM (VP9ao)


LOL!!! Imma gonna have to use that on my moonbat sister-in-law and brother-in-law.

In all seriousness, you had a 78 year old guy get shot in the ear (a few millimeters from an almost-certain death), get up under his own power, evaluate that he wasn't immediately dying, raise a defiant fist, and tell his followers to "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

Rather than cowering, he was preparing the audience to defend themselves if necessary. In those first few minutes nobody knew that there was only a single shooter.

President Trump is a fvcking beast. I'd expect that from a combat leader, not your run-of-the-mill politician.

The man will be a legend in the future.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (pJWtt)

149 Afternoon.

HotAir's Karen Townsend has passed.

HotAir: R.I.P. Karen Townsend, 1955-2024

https://tinyurl.com/4m7s5faj

According to Jazz Shaw no cause of death has been reported but the hurricane went blowing through Houston and the power is still out in a lot of areas there. He also mentions her husband passed last month.

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (1Yy3c)

150 "Obviously some had harder, and more dangerous, jobs than others, but any time deployed to Iraq sucked, was dangerous, and made loved ones back home worry."

I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama, while everyone else got to fight... ...got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (B0mGw)

151 Wait, Doof is nude?
Posted by: nurse ratched


Isn't that how you are supposed to wrassle garden gnome USSS agents?

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (f5vQ9)

152 117 >>> 103 An unnamed photo editor at a major news outlet believes it is "dangerous" for the media to highlight the historic photo of former President Trump standing tall after the assignation attempt Saturday, calling it "free PR" for the Trump campaign, according to a report.

An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks," citing unnamed photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda" because the Trump campaign will use them to "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event."

https://tinyurl.com/khzr3urx
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (NpAcC)

It's already on t-shirts, you fckwits.

Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (VavZF)

TBF, photos of Biden are ALSO free PR for Trump...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

153
Orange MANDELA!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (x0n13)



I marched with that dude in prison!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

154 69 I bet if Mr. Beast sees that, there will be a shipping container of tennis shoes and Mr. Beast edibles dropped in that village within a week.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 03:32 PM (XV/Pl)

Nah, his Resident Troon, Chris Tyson, would probably take them all for himself.

Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (UnA8+)

155 An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks," citing unnamed photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda" because the Trump campaign will use them to "further their agenda, despite the photographers' intent of capturing a news event."

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (NpAcC)

Awwh, the glory hole is too long for the poor baby faggot. Guess he'll have to go back to eating shit.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (QlxXp)

156 But Honest Joe sure does have everyone convinced that Beau Biden was engaged in glorious combat with those legendary "burn pits," doesn't he?

---------------

Beau's died everywhere, man
Beau's died everywhere, man
Died in burn pits of despair, man
Died breathing mountain air, man
Of dying, he's had his share, man
Beau's died everywhere.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Wv0Gp)

157 Those are actually higher-quality shoes than what you'd usually find in a dirt-poor African village. Many kids (and adults) don't wear shoes at all. The crushing poverty in some parts of Africa is almost beyond an American's ability to comprehend, until you've seen it.
Posted by: Elric Blade


Can't find it now but there is some story from a Peace Corps person who wrote about a village in Africa somewhere where a do-gooder thought he'd be a hero and buy shoes for the village. Turns out he bankrupted the local shoe store and no one had shoes after the hero-whitey left to go home.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (IG4Id)

158 My brother got his MSM for pulling a teammate out of a vehicle that flipped into a ditch full of water. He had to submerge himself in that muddy, shit water to do it. Everybody else stood around and watched.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (90TCz)

159 LBJ got a Silver Star for flying in a plane that had mechanical problems and turned back before it was attacked. Politics enters the picture

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (zte34)

160 RIP Karen Townsand.

We never know how many years we have past 29...

And some don't even make it that far.

God be with her.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (tnhKp)

161 153
Orange MANDELA!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (x0n13)


I marched with that dude in prison!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)



A flaming whitewalll be upon you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (x0n13)

162 Those kids seem a lot more professional than the SS bingo brigade. Sign them up to park cars for the boys on Atwells Ave., and let's see if they can be brought along to earn for the Family

Posted by: Ray Patriarca at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (wBaIH)

163 Not only that, it's not so cool to hate on him now, either
---
Yup.
The only ones left hating him are the ones so rotted through they have no humanity in them now.
It's just a simmering, quivering bucket of puss, bile, anger and hate.
They have pushed everything decent out of their lives.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (A+HXZ)

164 Trump’s campaign obviously went to Uganda and put that video together.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (B1dzx)

165 "Isn't that how you are supposed to wrassle garden gnome USSS agents?"

Hey, she may be short, but I bet she's in shape.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (B0mGw)

166 There is not a chance in hell, as a JAG officer, that Beau Biden was anywhere *NEAR* those burn pits.

Not. A. Chance.

That is enlisted work.

Baeu Biden was working in a conex with AC. Not toiling away in the sun at the burn pits.

Posted by: EFG at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (QCAe2)

167 ...I've now met vmom in person and came away unstabbed. I'd like to think I could do the same with bluebell but I'm not taking the risk. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2024 03:31 PM (RKVpM)


A few years back, at the TX Mo Meet, Bluebell presented me with a limited edition, signature-engraved shiv. A prized possession, a thing of rare beauty. Braggin' rights, as it were.

After the surgeon was able to extract it from my midsection, he told me it took a lot of guts to ask her for such a gift.


/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (kQgoX)

168 It's already on t-shirts, you fckwits.
Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 17, 2024 03:38 PM (VavZF)

That pic will be on my coffee cup, ON BOTH SIDES, after it arrives.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)

169 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 23h
Did the CIA just declare war on The Republic?

Because this Iran story is too on-the-nose.

Watch the players. That will tell you.
=
Not the CIA.

The entire Department of Homeland Security.

Posted by: Methos at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (Dnobf)

170 Hey, she may be short, but I bet she's in shape.
Posted by: Ribbed at July

Round is a shape
-Homer Simpson

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (CIS44)

171 An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks,"

Too traumatizing to see photos of people jumping out the burning Twin Towers also.

Fuck these evil vermin.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (ZBHce)

172 Orange MANDELA!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (x0n13)

I marched with that dude in prison!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
******
🤣😂
(it's world emoji day)

Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (NpAcC)

173 22:45 here. Arrived in northern Israel. Here's hoping for a quiet night's sleep.

The reinforced concrete safe room's metal door is swung open, just in case we need to skedaddle there in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (PvTH9)

174 Turns out he bankrupted the local shoe store and no one had shoes after the hero-whitey left to go home.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (IG4Id)


This is exactly why I never donate shoes to Africa.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (vtRd1)

175 https://therightscoop.com/angry and rambling joe biden lashes out at dems concerned with his candidacy during-zoom-call


I want this on live TV to happen

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (fwDg9)

176 That wood tommy gun the one lad has is sweet. Growing up we kids had one wood/metal realistic toy gun like that bought every few years so they were precious, none of us crafted one ourselves. That is good work.

Sticks were what was used if you didn't get the good one, or a baseball bat held reversed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (eoQWY)

177 Orange Mandela?

Does that come with a lemon twist?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (ZBHce)

178 "Round is a shape -Homer Simpson"

Allow me to reiterate my fondness for chunky. And she's still got fitness standards.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (B0mGw)

179 Report/Rumor:

#BREAKING China's President, Xi Jinping, has suffered a stroke during the Third Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (RHGPo)

180 I saw that on X yesterday and thought, my goodness, those kids love Trump.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (MeG8a)

181 Watch the players. That will tell you.
=
Not the CIA.
===
It has been Mayorkis all along...

Posted by: Simplemind at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (la6rf)

182 Says a lot that the Democrats can't even pivot to a "positive" campaign for four seconds while the furor dies down.

I think that might be the intent for switching in Kamala.

America's Mommy!

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (QlxXp)

183 >>photographers who reportedly told the outlet that promoting the viral photos could be a form of "photoganda"
-----

like that photo of 0bama that was turned into the "Hope" poster? Like that?

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (/7KEl)

184 153
Orange MANDELA!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:41 PM (x0n13)

I marched with that dude in prison!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)


Truth. I was there.

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (PiwSw)

185 I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama, while everyone else got to fight... ...got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?
Posted by: Ribbed


There's a monument on the Antietam battlefield commemorating the site where William McKinley (the future President) served coffee and food to the Union soldiers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (v6JzV)

186 >>> 175 https://therightscoop.com/angry and rambling joe biden lashes out at dems concerned with his candidacy during-zoom-call


I want this on live TV to happen
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (fwDg9)

When is the DNC again?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (VavZF)

187 Sundowner should have mentioned the Purple Heart Beau received for that time he stapled his own hand in the office

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (fwDg9)

188 73 If anyone wants a V, they can have it (cackle)

Posted by: Kamala at July 17, 2024 03:33 PM (QlxXp)

In your case, that would be a "VD".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (wtvvX)

189 sorry to hear about Karen Townsend. She was a real one.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (gKWVE)

190 TBF, photos of Biden are ALSO free PR for Trump...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

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By their "logic," all economic numbers (as favorably manipulated as they are) should be suppressed and banned as ALSO free PR for the #OrangeMandelaBad!

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (Wv0Gp)

191 Biden’s son, Beau Biden, received the medal for his service in Iraq in 2008 and 2009 as a member of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. Crow received his citation in 2003 for his actions as a platoon leader in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Battle of Samawah—the largest sustained urban combat that paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne had been involved in since World War II.

LOL

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (i7Q7S)

192 "There's a monument on the Antietam battlefield commemorating the site where William McKinley (the future President) served coffee and food to the Union soldiers."

That's epic.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (B0mGw)

193 I see that Africans aren't even safe from the scourge of crocs.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2024 03:29 PM (xPl2J)



You sneer, but before Crocs they made their shoes out of thatch and cow dung.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (vtRd1)

194 When did Joe get promoted to the bestest, kindest, decentist, most honorable man ever?
I'm pretty he was commonly regarded as a piece of shit prior to 2010.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (JLq/1)

195 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
Posted by: SMOD


OMG! They're killing Winnie the Poo!!!

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (f5vQ9)

196 160 RIP Karen Townsand.

We never know how many years we have past 29...

And some don't even make it that far.

God be with her.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 17, 2024 03:43 PM (tnhKp)



I've been dwelling on this quite a bit of late, as you can all imagine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (x0n13)

197 That wood tommy gun the one lad has is sweet. Growing up we kids had one wood/metal realistic toy gun like that bought every few years so they were precious, none of us crafted one ourselves. That is good work.

Sticks were what was used if you didn't get the good one, or a baseball bat held reversed.

Posted by: Oldcat

Little boys being little boys.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (oaGWv)

198 177 Orange Mandela?

Does that come with a lemon twist?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:45 PM (ZBHce)

And a smokey flavor

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (ynpvh)

199 I got mine for jamming up SEALs for doing their job most like.

Posted by: Beau at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (Y8lzz)

200 When is the DNC again?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (VavZF)

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They should have already just replayed the 2020 one on TV.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (Wv0Gp)

201 Trump is legen. Wait for it. DAIRY!
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fixed

Posted by: a cow on a sloped barn-roof at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (wse2C)

202 A thought that might explain some things that I posted at Insty last night and got some attention. Now in substack form.


https://tinyurl.com/mtf8mzvf

long form:
https://open.substack.com/pub
/entropicemanations/p/a-counterfactual


In short -- The whole situation is too outrageous to make any sense, but the plan was not as bad as it seems if we eliminate on mistake.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (Zu5Ij)

203 IIRC, McKinley served as a sergeant in the Battle of Cedar Creek.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (rj6Yv)

204 >Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

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translation: palace coup

Posted by: Don Black at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (/7KEl)

205 194 When did Joe get promoted to the bestest, kindest, decentist, most honorable man ever?
I'm pretty he was commonly regarded as a piece of shit prior to 2010.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (JLq/1)

When he was the only one left to stop Sanders I guess.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

206 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
Posted by: SMOD


Interesting times are these. And there molders Joey Bidet

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (ZBHce)

207 "OMG! They're killing Winnie the Poo!!!"

He just got voted dictator for life, too. Shame.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (Ectld)

208 >>> 179 Report/Rumor:

#BREAKING China's President, Xi Jinping, has suffered a stroke during the Third Plenary Session of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (RHGPo)

I'll believe it when we see *his* body, as opposed to the bodies of any accused traitors I suspect he's trying to trick. If it *is* true, well then that would seem amazingly hmm, lucky for us...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (VavZF)

209 The defensive snipers who took out the assassin only after he no longer had a clean shot at Trump saved the assassin the inconvenience of committing suicide in a jail cell where the cameras unfortunately malfunctioned.

Posted by: Son of Dad at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (8JB5s)

210 There's a monument on the Antietam battlefield commemorating the site where William McKinley (the future President) served coffee and food to the Union soldiers.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (v6JzV)


Hey, I did the same thing on Jurassic Park and I never got a medal.

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (vtRd1)

211 I think that might be the intent for switching in Kamala.

America's Mommy!
Posted by: ...


America's Hawk Tauh! You gotta put some spit on that thang!

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (f5vQ9)

212 Lol...I knew I could find it. The sign in Kosovo outside of Camp Bondsteel.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/T9GtYSYtPq5KSt3G9?g_st=ac

They have roads named after Bill Clinton, George Bush, Tony Blair...they're very grateful we bombed the shit out of the Serbians lol. They even have a Bill Clinton statue downtown, with a pantsuit shop named "Hillary" nearby!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/gHwSP1aDfEj5tXqQ7?g_st=ac
https://maps.app.goo.gl/ERqNT3Y1myvuZvMX6?g_st=ac

Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 03:49 PM (JCZqz)

213 To be fair serving soldiers coffee and food is more than many politicians ever did for them...

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (HJ9BW)

214 I've been dwelling on this quite a bit of late, as you can all imagine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Hang in there, JJ. Everyone here is pulling for you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (v6JzV)

215 When he was the only one left to stop Sanders I guess.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (eYoxG)


Srs quesschin - why didn't the Dems rally around Pocahontas Shits Like Buffalo?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (gKWVE)

216 "I've been dwelling on this quite a bit of late, as you can all imagine."

No doubt, J.J.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (B0mGw)

217 An Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday argued that the "overuse" of the iconic image can "pose risks,"
--'
Bet they never said that about the "hope" and "change" posters.

That's a thing that's hard to explain, the absolute massive propaganda that was behind Obama.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (A+HXZ)

218 OMG! They're killing Winnie the Poo!!!

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (f5vQ9)

--------------

Disney Pedos hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (Wv0Gp)

219 Dumb question:

If the Demonic Party is successful in removing Joe from the 2024 race, and the new top of the ticket is not Heels Up, that means that USSS, who couldn't find anyone to cover for the highest risk target ever, where exactly are they going to find the qualified personnel to cover RFK Jr, amp up Trump's detail and coverage for JD Vance and add two more VIPS who will get preferential treatment?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (rHxhM)

220 Baeu Biden was working in a conex with AC. Not toiling away in the sun at the burn pits.
Posted by: EFG at July 17, 2024 03:44 PM (QCAe2)


He might have been destroying hard drives that otherwise could have provided evidence.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (D7oie)

221 BREAKING: Biden says he will drop out of the race if doctors discover that he has a "medical condition." Hmm.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

222 There is not a chance in hell, as a JAG officer, that Beau Biden was anywhere *NEAR* those burn pits.

Not. A. Chance.

That is enlisted work.
___

This^

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (+MMwr)

223 The stars seem to be in Trump's favor -- what else can we hope for? A failed delegate coup engineered by Kamala which causes Biden* to throw her off the ticket for Doctor Jill -- or Hunter? Can I ask for that?

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (qUkBO)

224 214 I've been dwelling on this quite a bit of late, as you can all imagine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Hang in there, JJ. Everyone here is pulling for you.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (v6JzV)



It's all in the Good Lord's hands. Thank you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (x0n13)

225 So far the RNC has been a veritable love fest. Happy, positive, hopeful, THANKFUL, and chants of USA USA USA.

Wonder how all the negativity at the Democrat convention will go over. I wonder if they will boo God again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (TQKnz)

226 >Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

---

translation: palace coup
===
In Chinese. Massive brain stroke=bullet to head

Posted by: Cosmic irony? at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (la6rf)

227 mr bezos sells many PDT tshirts with that iconic photo in his emporium. May have to buy one.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (2NHgQ)

228 221 BREAKING: Biden says he will drop out of the race if doctors discover that he has a "medical condition." Hmm.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

Biden wins that one...he has MORE than a medical condition...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (ynpvh)

229 Saw a pickup with the Bronze Star proudly displayed on the license plate. It had with "For Meritorious Service" in small letters below. Unless you were a total screw up every officer I know got one in RVN

Posted by: javems at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (8I4hW)

230 African crocs are probably cheap counterfeit knockoffs.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (xPl2J)

231 I have a question for military or history types. What did soldiers do to earn a silver star in WWII?

Posted by: Mishdog at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (qCWBp)

232 Xi received a booster shot, 9mm Makarov

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (ZBHce)

233 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
Posted by: SMOD
___

Interesting times, indeed.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (+MMwr)

234 Well we know the media decides some things the people should not see, the people jumping to their deaths on Sep 11 2001 for ibstance

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (HJ9BW)

235 That's a thing that's hard to explain, the absolute massive propaganda that was behind Obama.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (A+HXZ)

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Next you'll be telling me that grade-school children were singing songs of praise to him.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (VwGj+)

236 I was shot in the ear once. It was during the Punic Wars. Carthaginian came right up to me with an AR-15 style rifle and said "this ones for Charlottesville". I told him if he wanted to live through the day, he'd better put that pea shooter away. But then his friend Caligula came up behind me in a Klan robe and damn near took my ear right off with a different AR-15. Sounded like a ham bake. Made my ear ring so bad I thought Alexander Graham Bell was calling. Alexander Ocasio.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (QlxXp)

237

It's all in the Good Lord's hands. Thank you!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (x0n13)



The best and most sane way to look at it.

There is a plan, no matter how crazy or emotionally traumatizing.

The Lord tests. The Lord also rewards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

238 Interesting times, indeed.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (+MMwr)


At least now "may the Emperor take note of you" is no longer in force . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (gKWVE)

239 Biden wins that one...he has MORE than a medical condition...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (ynpvh)


Strictly speaking, being wrong on every political issue of the 20th and 21st century isn't a medical condition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (vtRd1)

240 215 When he was the only one left to stop Sanders I guess.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2024 03:48 PM (eYoxG)

Srs quesschin - why didn't the Dems rally around Pocahontas Shits Like Buffalo?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (gKWVE)

Warren was considered near as bad as Sanders.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2024 03:52 PM (eYoxG)

241 he pissed enough people off in that meeting to have them do research - to find out how and why Beau received his star

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (V13WU)

242 >>> 218 OMG! They're killing Winnie the Poo!!!

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (f5vQ9)

--------------

Disney Pedos hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (Wv0Gp)

DeathSantis hasn't started bombing yet.

*taps watch*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (VavZF)

243 For mutually assured dementia, Putin now needs to stroke out

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (RHGPo)

244 My mom told me my father gave all his medals from Korea to her before they were married and my mom’s roommate stole them when she moved out .

My father or mother never bothered to request replacements. I don’t know why because after the Marines my father went into the Air Force for another 12 years until he retired. Can you wear your medals or Service ribbons on your dress uniform that you were awarded from a different branch?

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (B1dzx)

245 When Trump gets elected he should totally go to Africa.

Illegitimate President, coup of the security services, attempted assassination of top rival...it's like Zaire all over again.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (YIxO9)

246
Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"


So Xi Jinping is still able to mentally and physically outperform Joe.

Sort of like spotting Joe 10 on the front and 9 on the back.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (rHxhM)

247 Well LBJ received a silver star on a congressional visit despite the fact that the bomber he was on returned to base with engine trouble...

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (HJ9BW)

248 Those are actually higher-quality shoes than what you'd usually find in a dirt-poor African village. Many kids (and adults) don't wear shoes at all. The crushing poverty in some parts of Africa is almost beyond an American's ability to comprehend, until you've seen it.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 17, 2024 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

When I grew up we went barefoot a lot. I remember once getting a new pair growing up from a low price store and one of them tore the side out in about half an hour they were so crappy. My mom was so mad because getting us all shoes was not a minor expense.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (eoQWY)

249 I think that might be the intent for switching in Kamala.

America's Mommy!
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (QlxXp)

=====

We need a Mamala!

*barf*

Thanks, Drew Barrymore

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (DRSnL)

250 221 BREAKING: Biden says he will drop out of the race if doctors discover that he has a "medical condition." Hmm.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

So he gets to stay in and it's only because he's so healthy!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (KbCG3)

251 The best and most sane way to look at it.

There is a plan, no matter how crazy or emotionally traumatizing.

The Lord tests. The Lord also rewards.
Posted by: Sponge

And we're also pulling for your beloved and you, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (v6JzV)

252 Xi received a booster shot, 9mm Makarov

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (ZBHce)

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This would have never happened had he been wearing a mask.

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (VwGj+)

253 246
Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

So Xi Jinping is still able to mentally and physically outperform Joe.

Sort of like spotting Joe 10 on the front and 9 on the back.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (rHxhM)

a raw potato has more life in it that Joe does.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

254 President Biden, you have an inverted penis and hot dog fingers.

Posted by: Doctor I.V Saline at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (YIxO9)

255 It's all in the Good Lord's hands. Thank you!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM


We'll be pestering Him for you, J.J.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (ZANHd)

256 I have a Makarov. Gave $160 for it brand new. The best bargain in firearms I ever had.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM (pohLc)

257 250 221 BREAKING: Biden says he will drop out of the race if doctors discover that he has a "medical condition." Hmm.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (RHGPo)

So he gets to stay in and it's only because he's so healthy!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (KbCG3)

No reasonable doctor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

258 It's all in the Good Lord's hands. Thank you!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM

We'll be pestering Him for you, J.J.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM (f5vQ9)

259
And we're also pulling for your beloved and you, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:54 PM (v6JzV)



Pre-op today, surgery Monday, then the fun REALLY begins.

And thank you. We are humbled by all the outpouring of support.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

260 195 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
Posted by: SMOD


OMG! They're killing Winnie the Poo!!!

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 03:47 PM (f5vQ9)

Looks like Eeyore is making his move....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM (wtvvX)

261
Beau's died everywhere, man
Beau's died everywhere, man
Died in burn pits of despair, man
Died breathing mountain air, man
Of dying, he's had his share, man
Beau's died everywhere.
Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #

That is hilarious, thanks

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (9SBOB)

262 Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew, ya didn't give no lip to Big Trump

[Chorus]
(Big Trump, Big Trump)
Big Bad Trump
(Big Trump)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (GDYXN)

263 Insty has a bit about a 'photo editor' arguing to suppress the Trump photo because it is free PR to Trump.

Yeah, ok.

Bing does seem to be suppressing the photo. Trump photo. Trump Rally photo. Trump rally shooting photo. Trump assassination is a bunch of lefty wishcasting.

Fucking evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (y31cs)

264 Sefton, how are you doing? I don't come here often enough, only to purge my id.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (YIxO9)

265 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

Why do I get the feeling that God is having His "Taking Care Of Family Business" scene with Trump, Biden, now Xi and leaders to be named?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (rHxhM)

266 Even with those little African kids, no one wanted to play the waddling SS agent fighting a battle with her holster.

Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (0Id0S)

267 It would be hilariously funny if his stroke was due to COVID.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (wtvvX)

268 Pre-op today, surgery Monday, then the fun REALLY begins.

And thank you. We are humbled by all the outpouring of support.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:55 PM


Prayers up, brother.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (ZANHd)

269 Sorry, I stropped to read every word of the post.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (LkLld)

270 Looks like Eeyore is making his move....
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Roo is the real power behind the throne in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)

271 223 The stars seem to be in Trump's favor -- what else can we hope for? A failed delegate coup engineered by Kamala which causes Biden* to throw her off the ticket for Doctor Jill -- or Hunter? Can I ask for that?
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (qUkBO)

It would be hilarious if Jill gets the VP spot...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (exHjb)

272 263 Bing does seem to be suppressing the photo. Trump photo. Trump Rally photo. Trump rally shooting photo. Trump assassination is a bunch of lefty wishcasting.

Fucking evil.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (y31cs)

======

Google isn't. First result for "Trump assassination".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

273 267 It would be hilariously funny if his stroke was due to COVID.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (wtvvX)

Vaxx would be more likely. You'd think he would be smart enough not to take it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (y31cs)

274 Press to Biden: Xi has had a massive stroke and is in critical condition
Biden: I walked 10000 miles with that Chinaman. Walked him right into the hospital. Don't tell me I'm not healthy, Jack . Let's do pushups

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (zte34)

275
Prayers up, brother.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (ZANHd)



Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

276 Saw a pickup with the Bronze Star proudly displayed on the license plate. It had with "For Meritorious Service" in small letters below. Unless you were a total screw up every officer I know got one in RVN
Posted by: javems at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (8I4hW)

Medal inflation is a real thing. I remember reading that the Congressional Medal of Honor was given to every person in a regiment that re-enlisted for the war in one incident. Unlike other medals, they tightened that up considerably since then.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (eoQWY)

277 Re: the bronze stars sans the V...

I felt the same way when the army made berets standard issue for all soldiers. Berets used to only be worn by elite units of the military branches, then everybody got one.

Posted by: Herbert Hoover at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (2xB3Z)

278 >>> 267 It would be hilariously funny if his stroke was due to COVID.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (wtvvX)

ShainS Johnson is right!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (VavZF)

279 Looks like Eeyore is making his move....
Posted by: Tex Lovera

As long as it's not Tigger....that guy's a spaz. Rabbit's an ass, and owl's a pompous dick. Yeah, Eeyore or gopher would probably be the best replacements.

Posted by: Piglet at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (JCZqz)

280 221 BREAKING: Biden says he will drop out of the race if doctors discover that he has a "medical condition." Hmm.

Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (RHGPo)
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I'm just reading now that Schumer and Jefferies got the early DNC online nomination stopped. Uh oh Joe.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (G0vdT)

281 Babylon Bee: Head of Trump Security was Chief Wiggum
https://tinyurl.com/3pndek7d

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (ynpvh)

282 What the axios guy means to say "it's unfair the other guy got shot by one of us and didn't die and it shouldn't qualify as news because people might feel bad for him."

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (QlxXp)

283 195 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"

Don't call a doctor!

Posted by: Zombie Lavrentiy Beria at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (vtRd1)

284 =
Not the CIA.
===
It has been Mayorkis all along...
Posted by: Simplemind at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (la6rf)
==========
It was always DHS. The Secret Service are pimps and could never have outfought Beau.

Posted by: Joe Biden, confused and demented, but happy! at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (l2PRJ)

285 The LBJ mission in World War II is interesting. It is actually pretty muddied in some accounts. Being either B-26 or a B-25.

But yes the B-26 Marauder was what Lt Cmdr USNR Lyndon Johnson flew on that fateful mission. And yes according to Pacific Wrecks the plane suffered an abort that day.

https://pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-26/40-1488.html

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (ZBHce)

286 My father or mother never bothered to request replacements. I don’t know why because after the Marines my father went into the Air Force for another 12 years until he retired. Can you wear your medals or Service ribbons on your dress uniform that you were awarded from a different branch?
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 03:53 PM (B1dzx)

You wear ribbons all the time... but VERY seldom wear medals.

And ribbons you replace every few years due to wear and tear... so your Father probably had all his ribbons.


My Medals all sit in a box, buried in a drawer.... and I know I'm missing at least 2...

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2024 03:58 PM (xaFKb)

287 Oh go away Joe

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (QlxXp)

288 >>> 272
======

Google isn't. First result for "Trump assassination".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

guglag is responding to use of the A word???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (VavZF)

289 Google isn't. First result for "Trump assassination".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

Nice. Thanks. Saved to desktop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (y31cs)

290 273 267 It would be hilariously funny if his stroke was due to COVID.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (wtvvX)

Vaxx would be more likely. You'd think he would be smart enough not to take it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (y31cs)'

China didn't take a spike protein vax...only way to get it would be Covid.

As mentioned, Covid and the vax have the same underlying issue...which is why breaking out what is A vs what is B is impossible...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (exHjb)

291
So Xi Jinping is still able to mentally and physically outperform Joe.

He's dancing with Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (63Dwl)

292 guglag is responding to use of the A word???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (VavZF)

Does not autocomplete, but it does work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (y31cs)

293 Why do I get the feeling that God is having His "Taking Care Of Family Business" scene with Trump, Biden, now Xi and leaders to be named?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:56 PM (rHxhM)
___

"God frustrates the plans of schemers, so their hands achieve no success, highlighting His opposition to the wicked’s designs."

Job 5:12

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (+MMwr)

294 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
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Two words you don't want in the same sentence: Stroke & Massive.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

295 I have a question for military or history types. What did soldiers do to earn a silver star in WWII?

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I'd love to know as well - I recently found out one of my wife's grandfathers was awarded a silver star in WW2. He passed before I met my wife an apparently he was pretty quiet about his service. Internet search seems to indicate that it was solely for valor in combat at a minimum.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (fgmuN)

296 There is not a chance in hell, as a JAG officer, that Beau Biden was anywhere *NEAR* those burn pits.

Not. A. Chance.

That is enlisted work.
___

This^
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (+MMwr)
***
Desert Storm
I remember while sitting on the three holer when the crap detail came to collect the ahhh...deposits. My Sp-4 had detail that day. As I'm sitting there and they drag the can out all I hear is "Damn Sir! Too much of those chicken stew MREs!"
Everyone thought that quite funny.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (6X8wc)

297 Sorry, I stropped to read every word of the post.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (LkLld)
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Reading strop? What, pray tell, is a "reading strop?"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

298 I felt the same way when the army made berets standard issue for all soldiers. Berets used to only be worn by elite units of the military branches, then everybody got one.
Posted by: Herbert Hoover

Sorry, those berets looked faggy. Not like the hypermasculine, stylish dog bowls we wore in the Navy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (v6JzV)

299 TBF, photos of Biden are ALSO free PR for Trump...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 03:42 PM (ynpvh)


Hahahaha! Good point!

Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (Sf2cq)

300 Those kids are so cute!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (w6EFb)

301 Trump is really milking this whole shooting thing!!!

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (QlxXp)

302 270 Looks like Eeyore is making his move....
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Roo is the real power behind the throne in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (v6JzV)


It's pretty easy, actually. Just make sure the Bear has plenty of honey; keep Tigger away from the Red Bull; keep Eeyore away from sharp objects, and wait until Christopher Robin is at school to do anything sketchy...

Posted by: Roo at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (PiwSw)

303 Yeah but did Beau get the most important medal of them all?
The Good Conduct Medal.

Posted by: Reforger at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (xcIvR)

304 President Biden @POTUS Together, my Administration cut Black child poverty in half and grew the American economy to the strongest in the world.

And I am determined to restore my expanded Child Tax Credit.

No child should ever go hungry in America.


@wallstreetbets This post was created by 20 year olds on his social team and does not actually represent the opinion or thoughts of the elderly man being held hostage.

Lol.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (JCZqz)

305
Reading strop? What, pray tell, is a "reading strop?"
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (tT6L1)



Reading the first page of every book, thinking it makes you look smart.

Posted by: LeBron James at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

306 Wonder how all the negativity at the Democrat convention will go over. I wonder if they will boo God again.

I think they will just conduct a bunch of abortions/child-sacrifices on the illegal aliens that have been trafficked.

Other sacraments will be the communal consumption of Booster shots and Fentanyl.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (rHxhM)

307 Dumb question:

If the Demonic Party is successful in removing Joe from the 2024 race, and the new top of the ticket is not Heels Up, that means that USSS, who couldn't find anyone to cover for the highest risk target ever, where exactly are they going to find the qualified personnel to cover RFK Jr, amp up Trump's detail and coverage for JD Vance and add two more VIPS who will get preferential treatment?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 03:50 PM (rHxhM)

The idea that any government organization is short of staff these days is absurd.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (eoQWY)

308 I felt the same way when the army made berets standard issue for all soldiers. Berets used to only be worn by elite units of the military branches, then everybody got one.
___

Thank Shinsheki for that retarded move.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (+MMwr)

309 301 Trump is really milking this whole shooting thing!!!
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:00 PM (QlxXp)

Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (y31cs)

310 You can see a lot of Africans wearing American sports , bands and TV show tees.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (B1dzx)

311
Those kids are adorable. Them and the Ghanaian Pallbearers. Seems like Africa has so much imagination and energy and it gets wasted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at July 17, 2024 04:02 PM (T3es0)

312 OK, I have an idea, hear me out: let's trade 99% of the feralgov bureaucrats for those kids in Uganda.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:02 PM (VavZF)

313 JJ I'm pretty sure the Lord looks out for you like he looked out for Trump. So you got that going for you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2024 04:02 PM (zte34)

314 Yeah but did Beau get the most important medal of them all?
The Good Conduct Medal.
__

*snort*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:02 PM (+MMwr)

315 Uganda would probably say FCK no...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:02 PM (VavZF)

316 310 You can see a lot of Africans wearing American sports , bands and TV show tees.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (B1dzx)

The Bills are the greatest team on Earth!

Posted by: African Kids in the 90's at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (y31cs)

317 Beau's (PBUH) Bronze Star is a lot like LBJ's Silver Star. LBJ wore it on the campaign trail until some uncomfortable questions started to be asked.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (G5Juy)

318 If Trump had been killed, the U.S would be reenacting Uganda now.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (wzAuc)

319 Babylon Bee: Head of Trump Security was Chief Wiggum
https://tinyurl.com/3pndek7d
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Explains a lot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (GDYXN)

320
@wallstreetbets This post was created by 20 year olds on his social team and does not actually represent the opinion or thoughts of the elderly man being held hostage.

Lol.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (JCZqz)



Not to mention, none of it is true.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

321 Thank Shinsheki for that retarded move.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:01 PM (+MMwr)
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I was never in the military and even I thought it was a stupid idea at the time.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (tT6L1)

322 I was seriously injured once at sea - fell off of the second mast in heavy seas while ordered to check on our assigned contact lookout while I was JOOD, the contact was a sailor who had gone off comms on the top mast and was essential to the bridge in the storm...it turned out he was fine, but I fell a deck below in the storm.

The US Navy never deterred - we stayed on course and PIM and when we arrived in port a week later, I was unceremoniously deposited on shore with a broken shoulder into the Mayport Florida infirmary...Aww - that was the old Navy. They made men out of boys...

Posted by: Boswell at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (K+UlC)

323 There is a lookup for Silver Star recipients. valor (dot) militarytimes(dot) com

I just looked up a friend of mine who was awarded one for combat in Afghanistan. Full citation and description was on there

Posted by: brak at July 17, 2024 04:04 PM (25k9m)

324 I awarded Lil' Hunty with my Bronze Starfish. With a "V" device. For Vaseline in combat.

Posted by: Hallie "Family Style" Biden at July 17, 2024 04:04 PM (GykSX)

325 AP poll says 2/3 of Dems want Biden to drop out...damn, this is getting brutal for Jill...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (exHjb)

326 I was never in the military and even I thought it was a stupid idea at the time.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (tT6L1)

Same. But to me, It seems like hats are something that looked good, but again got dumped for some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (y31cs)

327 The Bronze Star got diluted when some WWII general in the Pacific theater decided that Okinawa (in which my father fought) was such a terribly difficult fight that everyone in that battle should get the Bronze Star. This was decided/awarded a few years after the war was over and my father was out of the service. He never received his.

Posted by: WTP at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (4cfLi)

328 I was never in the military and even I thought it was a stupid idea at the time.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:03 PM (tT6L1)
___

Had to carry both the beret and the patrol cap.

Patrol cap in the motor pool, beret outside the motor pool.

One of the few good things I can say about Iraq, no beret.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (+MMwr)

329 Joe Biden can't just drop out of the race, he must also resign the presidency.

Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (HJ9BW)

330 So far the RNC has been a veritable love fest. Happy, positive, hopeful, THANKFUL, and chants of USA USA USA.

Wonder how all the negativity at the Democrat convention will go over. I wonder if they will boo God again.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2024 03:51 PM (TQKnz)


In as much as more than one person there at the convention has declared that it is only due to divine intervention that Pres. Trump is still alive, I'd bank on it. Those Minions of Satan won't be able to help themselves: they will mock God.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (pJWtt)

331 >>> 325 AP poll says 2/3 of Dems want Biden to drop out...damn, this is getting brutal for Jill...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (exHjb)

Now I want to see DOCTOR Jill barricade herself in the Oval Office with a bunch of gubs and refuse to leave.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:06 PM (VavZF)

332
I stopped stropping after I grew hair on my knuckles and started going blind.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2024 04:06 PM (RKVpM)

333 The folks at my base in got the SW Asia Service Ribbon for being "in theater" during the Gulf War.

We were on the Black Sea.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:06 PM (v6JzV)

334 Our government tried to murder trump and did an intentionally sloppy job of it just to prove the point that there is nothing we can do about it. We are a conquered people.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (evvc2)

335 >>Reading strop? What, pray tell, is a "reading strop?"

Do you want me to pull this car over?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (LkLld)

336 Illegitimate President, coup of the security services, attempted assassination of top rival...it's like Zaire all over again.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

The Bungle in the Jungle?

Posted by: SFGoth at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (KAi1n)

337 (it's world emoji day)
Posted by: redridinghood


Dang it, red, now I have to find some other stupid holiday for my opening comment on the ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (dZVON)

338 I have a question for military or history types. What did soldiers do to earn a silver star in WWII?

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I'd love to know as well - I recently found out one of my wife's grandfathers was awarded a silver star in WW2. He passed before I met my wife an apparently he was pretty quiet about his service. Internet search seems to indicate that it was solely for valor in combat at a minimum.
Posted by: Ryan Frank at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (fgmuN)

From Website:

Home-of-Heroes.com

It is the highest award for combat valor that is not unique to any specific branch; it has been bestowed by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marines. It may be given by any one of the individual services to not only their own members, but to members of other branches of service, foreign allies, and even to civilians for "gallantry in action" in support of combat missions of the United States military.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

339 Who thinks the *bidens fear some sort of retribution for screwing over so many people for so long?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (Q4IgG)

340 Hey Joe Blow I'll see your threat to use F-16s against American citizens and raise you multiple young Senators and Cingressmen with actual combat experience.
-PDT
Biden with steam blowing from both ears.
-but but my son beau was blah blah some shit like dat...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (o3Uyl)

341 Nice happy thread from Alex the Chick

https://x.com/alexthechick/status/
1813560251280736599

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (EGSGm)

342 LBJ lived and got a Silver Star from MacArthur. *It still reeks of political favoritism*

Aboard the B-26 "The Virginian" as passenger was Lt Col Francis R. Stevens. That plane was shot down. Stevens was awarded a DFC, Legion of Merit, and a Purple Heart.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:08 PM (ZBHce)

343 Breaking news!!

Bullet fired at President Trump lands in China, hits Chairman Xi.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 17, 2024 04:08 PM (0eaVi)

344 332
I stopped stropping after I grew hair on my knuckles and started going blind.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 17, 2024 04:06 PM (RKVpM)
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After my face was stuck in a permanent joker grin from making faces while a kid. ("it'll get stuck that way!")

Posted by: Herbert Hoover at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (2xB3Z)

345 Now I want to see DOCTOR Jill barricade herself in the Oval Office with a bunch of gubs and refuse to leave.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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She'll chain herself to a radiator or something.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (iZbyp)

346 324 I awarded Lil' Hunty with my Bronze Starfish. With a "V" device. For Vaseline in combat.
Posted by: Hallie "Family Style" Biden

Hey! That's no joke! I know the horrors!

Prince Harry recounted the time his penis got frostbite. He said his penis was “oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatised” when his friend suggested putting an unnamed Elizabeth Arden cream on it.

“My mum used that on her lips. You want me to put that on my todger?” he apparently told her.

He used it anyway though, and said the smell of the mystery ointment transported him back to his childhood.

“I felt as if my mother was right there in the room.,” he recalled.

Posted by: Prince Harry at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (JCZqz)

347 294 Chinese Human Rights reporter, Jennifer Zhang, claims the "brain" stroke was "massive" and Xi Jinping is now in a "critical condition"
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Two words you don't want in the same sentence: Stroke & Massive.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

Her excitement was palpable as she began to stroke his massive willy...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (wtvvX)

348 >>> 341 Nice happy thread from Alex the Chick

https://x.com/alexthechick/status/
1813560251280736599
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (EGSGm)

Phooey, do you have to log in to see the whole thing?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (VavZF)

349 /sock off

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (2xB3Z)

350 341 Nice happy thread from Alex the Chick

https://x.com/alexthechick/status/
1813560251280736599
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 04:07 PM (EGSGm)

Which president won 'like all the states'? That was Literally Hitler, 1980's version.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:09 PM (y31cs)

351 Who had Xi going before Jimmy on their death bingo card?

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:10 PM (fwDg9)

352 LBJ:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Lieutenant Commander Lyndon Baines Johnson, United States Naval Reserve, for gallantry in action in the vicinity of Port Moresby and Salamaua, New Guinea while attached to a B-26 bomber of the 22d Bombardment Group, Far East Air Forces, U.S. Army Air Force, on 9 June 1942. While on a mission of obtaining information in the Southwest Pacific area, Lieutenant Commander Johnson, in order to obtain personal knowledge of combat conditions, volunteered as an observer on a hazardous aerial combat mission over hostile positions in New Guinea. As our planes neared the target area they were intercepted by eight hostile fighters. When, at this time, the plane in which Lieutenant Commander Johnson was an observer, developed mechanical trouble and was forced to turn back alone, presenting a favorable target to the enemy fighters, he evidenced marked coolness in spite of the hazards involved. His gallant action enabled him to obtain and return with valuable information. His gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty, without regard for

Posted by: brak at July 17, 2024 04:10 PM (25k9m)

353 327 The Bronze Star got diluted when some WWII general in the Pacific theater decided that Okinawa (in which my father fought) was such a terribly difficult fight that everyone in that battle should get the Bronze Star. This was decided/awarded a few years after the war was over and my father was out of the service. He never received his.

Posted by: WTP at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (4cfLi)

Turns out my Dad was awarded one for being a combat veteran...my brother ordered one for his shadow box after he passed a few years ago.

Wiki:
As a result of a study conducted in 1947, a policy was implemented that authorized the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal (without the "V" device) to all soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 04:10 PM (ynpvh)

354 Too bad Trump's chance of being elected is dropping like a rock according to Newsweek.

Posted by: Sid at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (pjt5P)

355 324 I awarded Lil' Hunty with my Bronze Starfish. With a "V" device. For Vaseline in combat.
Posted by: Hallie "Family Style" Biden
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First time I heard "family style" in that context was in Idiocracy. Such a great film.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (2xB3Z)

356 The primary voters chose Biden.


Schiff and Pelosi are interfering in the election trying to replace him. Accuse them of that. They will love it.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (NtVYv)

357 surgery Monday, then the fun REALLY begins.

Yeah recovery is a harsh mistress.
Good luck!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (4CdW9)

358 352 LBJ:
...
Posted by: brak at July 17, 2024 04:10 PM (25k9m)

Aw geez. Why didn't he get the MOH?
/sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (ynpvh)

359 The assassination attempt and the left's reaction was a light that pierced across the culture that revealed the left as psychopaths, and the left doesn't realize it.

-----------

I would have thought the desire to cut the balls off of children would have done the trick, but I'm happy some may see the light.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (sX1BW)

360 according to Newsweek.


Sold for $1.

Be better, Sid. Be better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

361 "my base in Turkey," I meant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (v6JzV)

362 Reading strop? What, pray tell, is a "reading strop?"
Posted by: blake


Dunno, but you can skate on it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (IG4Id)

363 Weak sauce Sid.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (Y8lzz)

364
Yeah recovery is a harsh mistress.
Good luck!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 17, 2024 04:11 PM (4CdW9)



The surgery will be one thing. The 5 months of chemo, on the other hand.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:12 PM (Zz0t1)

365 289 Google isn't. First result for "Trump assassination".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 03:57 PM (GBKbO)

Nice. Thanks. Saved to desktop.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 03:59 PM (y31cs)

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Elon Musk tweeted it as well, if you feel like going through his timeline.

It's interesting to see because of the views that his posting of it racked up.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/
1812258574049157405

250 million views.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

366 First video of Thomas Crooks walking around, where he was seen and reported by local police as suspicious 3 times before shooting.
About an hour before the shooting:

https://tinyurl.com/4hy7wvns

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:12 PM (+MMwr)

367 Joe Biden can't just drop out of the race, he must also resign the presidency.
Posted by: steevy
___________

If he says he's not running but doesn't resign, that's when China would move. They don't know if he's desperate enough to accept a war at this point, but that uncertainty would vanish if he's lame duck with no incentives.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2024 04:12 PM (Dm8we)

368 329 Joe Biden can't just drop out of the race, he must also resign the presidency.
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (HJ9BW)


This. He can't drop out cause he's gonna lose. He can drop out cause he demented, which means end of his presidency and the first prezzy to leave because to frail. Dude is in a no win spot.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (uBBbP)

369 Butler PA Township commissioner says the local police were only detailed to traffic, NOT security.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (EGSGm)

370 The folks at my base in got the SW Asia Service Ribbon for being "in theater" during the Gulf War.

We were on the Black Sea.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:06 PM (v6JzV)


And you deserved it!

Posted by: Big Medal at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (vtRd1)

371 301 Trump is really milking this whole shooting thing!!!

has he started wearing an ear trumpet?

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (oY6Yp)

372 Bovine sock off for future commenting.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (wse2C)

373 https://tinyurl.com/4hy7wvns

Posted by: SMH

I'm getting "this page does not exist"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (v6JzV)

374 E-7 and above receive Bronze Stars (without the V device).

E-6 and below receive ARCOMs.

But yeah, they're both pretty much participation trophies.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 03:27 PM


By the time I was there, they had dropped that to E-6 and above got Bronze Stars and E-5 and below got ARCOMs. I was an E-5 that got put in for an MSM by my unit (because higher had not issued any rank-related guidance on those) and I got an ARCOM. Justification for the rejection: he's only an E-5, we don't care what he did (which was a record of zero RCIED strikes on the regiment).

Posted by: Bert G at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (VARTN)

375 Good summary of our current situation, from Sean Davis on X:
https://tinyurl.com/mur995mj

Posted by: Dig gp Must at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (6YBNS)

376 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 23h
Did the CIA just declare war on The Republic?

Because this Iran story is too on-the-nose.

Watch the players. That will tell you.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 03:36 PM (wse2C)

Not sure how they would have tied that nebbish dude to Iran that anyone would believe.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

377 @366
Yo SMH, is that link already gone? Sheesh

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (2xB3Z)

378 369 Butler PA Township commissioner says the local police were only detailed to traffic, NOT security.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 04:13 PM (EGSGm)

Cop: Hey, there's a guy with a rifle on that roof?

Commissioner: Did he drive a car up there?

Cop: No.

Commissioner: Then stand down, Tackleberry!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (KbCG3)

379 BTW, plaudits to TheJamesMadison for accurately judging the dump Biden dilemma the Dems gave themselves. They are stuck with him. Like Double Indemnity: “They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.”

Posted by: electronic means at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (rjJqk)

380 Joe Biden can't just drop out of the race, he must also resign the presidency.
Posted by: steevy
___________

If he says he's not running but doesn't resign, that's when China would move. They don't know if he's desperate enough to accept a war at this point, but that uncertainty would vanish if he's lame duck with no incentives.

----------------

I think he should resign completely, but I think he could just give up running without resigning from the Presidency. However, if the Dems really cared about the country, they would get him to resign, allow Kamala to be the ceremonial head and work with the GOP to find a VP who would really run the show behind the scenes.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (sX1BW)

381 Revolver had a piece that showed dozens of sports figures and celebs posting Trump bloodied but unbowed on their social media. That picture is already etched into history.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (Y8lzz)

382 I have a question for military or history types. What did soldiers do to earn a silver star in WWII?

When I was in Germany (and I assume still), Armed Forces Network provided US television for service members. Instead of commercials, though, there were edumercials, often times recounting heroic actions of soldiers from the past.

Sergeant Joe Snuffy fought off a Japanese assault with his bayonet, then helped man the last perimeter machine gun through the night, killing over 100 Japanese soldiers. Despite 5 assistant gunners with him being shot and killed, he fought through the night and was awarded....the bronze star.

Then, you look at the pile of medals on the shelf where your bronze star for being a fobbit in Iraq for 12 months lays, and you feel like a shitbag, even though you did everything you were ordered to do to the best of your ability lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

383 'm getting "this page does not exist"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
___

Funny, showing up for me.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (+MMwr)

384 Interesting section from AtC's tweets:

alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
·
7h
II. They all think Trump is going to win and going to win in a landslide. That's how the who won like all the states even came up in the first place. They think it will be that level of victory. What's more interesting is they didn't appear to feel any particular way about it.
alexandriabrown
@alexthechick
·
7h
This is especially noteworthy given the demographic and that I live in a battleground state. To them, it was simply the way the world was going to be. Notably, they all thought he was going to win even before the attempt, it was just that now it was certain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

385 329 Joe Biden can't just drop out of the race, he must also resign the presidency.
Posted by: steevy at July 17, 2024 04:05 PM (HJ9BW)

———

He should resign from office but stay in the race and say “I’ll let the people decide “

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (QrqOK)

386 The Deep State wants war with Iran, really? Why? They could've had it with any number of recent Republican presidents. Why did they allow Obama to give them billions? Why didn't they manage to get a coup during the Arab Spring?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (Vvh2V)

387 The very best weapons were made from 12' long tubes that they roll carpet and linoleum on. When I was 11 or twelve we would get them from the alley behind the flooring store, go down the alley behind the Chinese restaurant, and state a mock battle. Chinese kitchen workers would come out and say "No fight, no fight"!

Posted by: Jubilant Delinquent at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (V5BDR)

388 I think he should resign completely, but I think he could just give up running without resigning from the Presidency. However, if the Dems really cared about the country, they would get him to resign, allow Kamala to be the ceremonial head and work with the GOP to find a VP who would really run the show behind the scenes.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (sX1BW)

Telling that all the dems are saying he must stand aside but are not saying that Kamala needs to take over.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (KbCG3)

389 379 BTW, plaudits to TheJamesMadison for accurately judging the dump Biden dilemma the Dems gave themselves. They are stuck with him. Like Double Indemnity: “They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.”
Posted by: electronic means at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (rjJqk)

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I'm an asshole, but I'm an asshole who's right about somethings some of the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

390 Helena, here is the thread read app:

https://tinyurl.com/4uckae2f

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

391 I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama, while everyone else got to fight... ...got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?
Posted by: Ribbed


There's a monument on the Antietam battlefield commemorating the site where William McKinley (the future President) served coffee and food to the Union soldiers.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 03:46 PM (v6JzV)

It is about 50 foot high, by far the largest monument on the field, unless the tower near bloody lane is a regimental monument too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (eoQWY)

392 Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (sX1BW)

Hillary’s head would explode if Kamala became the first woman President.

Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (B1dzx)

393 >>> 375 Good summary of our current situation, from Sean Davis on X:
https://tinyurl.com/mur995mj
Posted by: Dig gp Must at July 17, 2024 04:14 PM (6YBNS)

"And when you add in how little information we've been given about the about the shooter - apparently the only person on earth not on the Internet - you begin to wonder if maybe a group of people at a different three-letter agency might have been working on a parallel track to find and encourage people to take action against Trump at the very same time he was kept vulnerable by Biden's regime."

People they had recruited, given training tips and equipment to prepare for opportunities?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (VavZF)

394 388 I think he should resign completely, but I think he could just give up running without resigning from the Presidency. However, if the Dems really cared about the country, they would get him to resign, allow Kamala to be the ceremonial head and work with the GOP to find a VP who would really run the show behind the scenes.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:15 PM (sX1BW)

=======

I think Biden should fire everyone who is trying to make America worse instead of better.

What I think should happen is unimportant to what will happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

395 I don't know what to tell y'all, but the link is showing up for me.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (+MMwr)

396 I'm an asshole, but I'm an asshole who's right about somethings some of the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Not about Prometheus, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:18 PM (v6JzV)

397 386 The Deep State wants war with Iran, really? Why? They could've had it with any number of recent Republican presidents. Why did they allow Obama to give them billions? Why didn't they manage to get a coup during the Arab Spring?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (Vvh2V)


Because the Deep State wants to LOSE a war with Iran.

Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2024 04:18 PM (UnA8+)

398 >>> Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (GBKbO)

Thanks TJM!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:18 PM (VavZF)

399 Nobody is claiming Iran had anything to do with Saturday. That threat was leaked for a reason but I think it was more likely someone trying to make Cheatle and Mayorkas look like even bigger assholes than they already did.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:18 PM (Y8lzz)

400 READABLE FOR ALL!

alexandriabrown @alexthechick 7h • 16 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
🧵Yesterday I was in a position where I could overhear three women, all in their early to mid 20s, discussing the assassination attempt against Trump. I was trying to ignore it out of simple politeness. Then they started trying to remember which President won like all the states.

They couldn't remember and one said Kennedy and that's when I snapped and said excuse me I don't mean to interrupt but I have a history background and you're causing me pain from that and from my teenage years being your history: it was Reagan in 1984 and well after he was shot. [...]

https://tinyurl.com/mr3k3d9k
unrolled as an ordinary webpage

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (wse2C)

401 If he says he's not running but doesn't resign, that's when China would move. They don't know if he's desperate enough to accept a war at this point, but that uncertainty would vanish if he's lame duck with no incentives.

The logistics and preparation required for China to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan (which I assume you're talking about) would take months, and be obvious to the world. They might still do it, but I doubt it. China has always been pretty patient, and they'll be another weak American president that guts the military, too.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (JCZqz)

402 .

NOOD: Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Was a Trump-Hater, Classmate Claims

Again, that's a NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (O7YUW)

403 402 If he says he's not running but doesn't resign, that's when China would move. They don't know if he's desperate enough to accept a war at this point, but that uncertainty would vanish if he's lame duck with no incentives.

The logistics and preparation required for China to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan (which I assume you're talking about) would take months, and be obvious to the world. They might still do it, but I doubt it. China has always been pretty patient, and they'll be another weak American president that guts the military, too.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (JCZqz)

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Plus the rumored stroke by Xi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

404 It's already on T-shirts...

I predict it will be a popular tattoo. And rightly so.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (zdLoL)

405 From Roadside America.com:

"In 1903, two years after President McKinley had been assassinated, a group of Ohio Civil War veterans erected a 33-foot-tall pillar on the battlefield at Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It marks the spot where, as a teenager in 1862, the future President served coffee to his comrades during combat. The inscription on the monument, which is embellished with an eagle on a globe and a sculpted woman in mourning, notes that McKinley delivered his coffee "under fire" and "personally and without orders."

The tale of McKinley's coffee break bravery became a political asset, told and retold with every election, until it eventually became a presidential hero legend."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (v6JzV)

406
I felt the same way when the army made berets standard issue for all soldiers. Berets used to only be worn by elite units of the military branches, then everybody got one.
Posted by: Herbert Hoover



I got into a beret argument once with a guy who'd been in my unit a couple of years after I left active duty. We were directed to wear brick red berets for our peacekeeping duty (this was in 1990, before the black beret) as the standard uniform cover. This guy was airborne and didn't believe me when I told him about the uniform, so we kinda got into a shouting match until I just told him he was wrong, but I'd still buy him a beer.

Turns out he was a dick anyway, but that's another story.

Honestly, I'd prefer the old BDU cap worn Ranger-style. The beret is worthless except for preening like a peacock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (y9nCu)

407 >>> 390 Helena, here is the thread read app:

https://tinyurl.com/4uckae2f
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

Aha, thanks!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (VavZF)

408 *rummages on the book shelves* Flying Fortress by Jablonski.

Though that trip to Rabual was not the first time Lyndon B Johnson almost lost his life in the Pacific Theater.

The USAF Museum has in the restoration shop Lt. Gen. George Brett's B-17D "The Swoose"

It was on this plane that Johnson could have been lost in the Australian outback as the navigator had malfunctioning equipment. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing near some sheep ranchers as the engines sputtered with fuel starvation.

There were 16 officers and news reporters aboard the plane this day including LBJ.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (ZBHce)

409 Hillary’s head would explode if Kamala became the first woman President.

--------------

I suspect she and Jill are the ones who don't want this the mostest.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (sX1BW)

410 Yes; Those kids in Africa and the one saying "Fight, fight , fight" are really cute.

Is the video of Trump saying that still available or Pravda Media has taken it down?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (rwZUy)

411 Seeing so far its rumors Xi stroked out before Sundowner

But Communists poliburo that's how it works

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (fwDg9)

412 If the news about Xi's stroke is getting out now, he's probably been severely debilitated for a while.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (tT6L1)

413 50 Cent had a picture of Trump up when he performed "Many Men" at his concert either yesterday or the day before.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (INH2d)

414 *rummages on the book shelves* Flying Fortress by Jablonski.

Hey, is he around to take a call? First name is Heywood.

Posted by: Bart Simpson at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (JCZqz)

415 The logistics and preparation required for China to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan (which I assume you're talking about) would take months, and be obvious to the world. They might still do it, but I doubt it. China has always been pretty patient, and they'll be another weak American president that guts the military, too.
Posted by: Military Moron
______

Not saying you're wrong, but that assumes Taiwan could defeat a rushed invasion without US intervention. And maybe they could.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (Dm8we)

416 The US Navy never deterred - we stayed on course and PIM and when we arrived in port a week later, I was unceremoniously deposited on shore with a broken shoulder into the Mayport Florida infirmary...Aww - that was the old Navy. They made men out of boys...
Posted by: Boswell

No Motrin and water in sickbay? Shameful!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (WXNFJ)

417 The Deep State wants war with Iran, really? Why? They could've had it with any number of recent Republican presidents. Why did they allow Obama to give them billions? Why didn't they manage to get a coup during the Arab Spring?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:16 PM (Vvh2V)

There is no one deep state just like there is no one rat in the wainscotting if you have an infestation.

The neocons want war with someone, any one and various factions back wars in Afghanistan (since lost) Ukraine, China, Russia and the Mideast depending on where their clients are.

The State Department were the ones backing the idea that sanctions could destroy Russia without a fight and triggered the Ukraine War. When it turned out that a continental-sized country that has been semi-isolated for 1000 years could grow its own food and not collapse when deprived of Fritos, the Deep State actually had to fight a real war that they could not sustain.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

418 Silver Star in WW2 was awarded for valor. If you were enlisted it took some doing.

Posted by: javems at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (8I4hW)

419 Silver Star in WW2 was awarded for valor. If you were enlisted it took some doing.
Posted by: javems


*Audie Murphy has entered the chat

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (f5vQ9)

420 I got kicked out of the military for masturbating at my post
A dishonorable discharge for a dishonorable discharge

Posted by: MAxIE at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (twxj3)

421 The State Department were the ones backing the idea that sanctions could destroy Russia without a fight and triggered the Ukraine War. When it turned out that a continental-sized country that has been semi-isolated for 1000 years could grow its own food and not collapse when deprived of Fritos, the Deep State actually had to fight a real war that they could not sustain.
Oldcat

You know, the thought occurs to me to send the entire State Dept. over there along with most of the IC.

And Treasury.

And Labor.

And Education.

And Health and Hunan Services.

And Agriculture.

Tomorrow, we could send more.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (WXNFJ)

422 Hillary’s head would explode if Kamala became the first woman President.

Making me root for Kamala is probably the most evil thing you've ever done.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (dZVON)

423 Honestly, I'd prefer the old BDU cap worn Ranger-style. The beret is worthless except for preening like a peacock.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Ja, but the Pickelhaube! Now there was some worthwhile headgear!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2024 04:29 PM (WXNFJ)

424 This will throw China into a mess for a little while, at least keep them down the rest of the year hopefully

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (fwDg9)

425 If he says he's not running but doesn't resign, that's when China would move. They don't know if he's desperate enough to accept a war at this point, but that uncertainty would vanish if he's lame duck with no incentives.

The logistics and preparation required for China to launch a successful invasion of Taiwan (which I assume you're talking about) would take months, and be obvious to the world. They might still do it, but I doubt it. China has always been pretty patient, and they'll be another weak American president that guts the military, too.
Posted by: Military Moron at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (JCZqz)

The best increase the pressure move would be to blockade the island and turn away cargo traffic. Since the US official policy actually is that Taiwan is part of China (and when that happened i don't know, back in my day Taiwan pretended it ruled all China) it would be very touchy and making us tie down the Navy even to return to status quo would be a big L.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

426 And Agriculture.

Tomorrow, we could send more.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (WXNFJ)

I was thinking we would disperse them across the USA, but to foreign lands and war zones is even better.

Might be considered an act of war though.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (eoQWY)

427 The V device has been around a long time, my uncle got two Bronze Stars both with the V in Korea.

I understand during GWOT, guys working long hours to load bombs on B52s stateside got the BS.

Posted by: Don at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (yy2s0)

428 Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

Thank you!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (Vvh2V)

429 "I've been dwelling on this quite a bit of late, as you can all imagine."

No doubt, J.J.
Posted by: Ribbed
====
I'll bet you have, and will continue to do so. Less over time, and a good long time at that. Best to you.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (4780s)

430 I live across the road from a Silver Star awardee. He got it in Vietnam. Helluva story, and I had no idea until my Aunt, who served as an Army nurse in Vietnam, wrote an article about it. His name is Roger Billings.

Roger L. Billings
HOME OF RECORD:
Kansas City, Missouri
AWARDS BY DATE OF ACTION:1 of 1

Silver Star
AWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING Vietnam War
Service: Marine Corps
Rank: Lance Corporal
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Division: 1st Marine Division (Rein.), FMF
GENERAL ORDERS:
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Lance Corporal Roger L. Billings (MCSN: 236133, United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Grenadier with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, FIRST Marine Division (Rein.), FMF, in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 22 February 1968, during Operation HUE CITY, Company D was attacking a well entrenched enemy force, and as the Marines maneuvered forward, the unit came under a heavy volume of small arms and automatic weapons fire. When the company's advance began to lose momentum, due to the intense enem

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (Vvh2V)

431 I have zero sympathy for Biden's snark at Rep. Jason Crow, CO. Crow was one of 7 managers to present a case for impeachment of PDT. He votes the Dem party line almost 100% of the time, and one example is he opposed Trump's ban on trannies in the military. You rode with the devil, enjoy.

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (oiNtH)

432 Lance Corporal billings unhesitatingly moved to an exposed area and directed a heavy volume of accurate M-79 grenade launcher fire upon the hostile positions, which suppressed the enemy fire and enabled his company to continue its forward movement. Alertly observing several enemy soldiers thirty-five meters to his front who were delivering intense automatic weapons fire upon the assaulting Marines and disrupting the advance, he courageously ran across the fire-swept terrain, assaulted the enemy position and killed five North Vietnamese soldiers. Undaunted by the hostile rounds impacting around him, he continued to move about the hazardous area, directing effective grenade launcher fire upon the enemy positions throughout the attack. His aggressive fighting spirit and heroic actions were an inspiration to all who observed him and contributed immeasurably to the accomplishment of his unit's mission. By his courage, bold initiative and unfaltering devotion to duty in the face of great personal danger, Lance Corporal Billings upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (Vvh2V)

433 whoa

@chiIIum
·
8m
Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (LkLld)

434 There was a American Thinker article he was following someone online

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (fwDg9)

435 The Eff Bee Eye shouldn't been anywhere near this investigation

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (fwDg9)

436 The ones who took down Trump are investigating a attempted assassination attempt on Trump.

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (fwDg9)

437 I just saw a headline that Jack Smith has officially filed his appeal of Judge Cannon's decision. I hope that he is denied for lack of standing.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 17, 2024 05:23 PM (nLKwz)

438 " is a basically a Participation Trophy given to most Iraq/Afghanistan vets,"

In the 1st Cav. Div. in Vietnam all E5 and above received Bronze Stars and all E4 and below received Army Commendation Medals as participation trophies.

Posted by: timactual at July 17, 2024 05:48 PM (krsvl)

439 My brothers and I did something just like those little African kids. One day, shortly after Martin Luther King, Jr. had been killed we visited my mom's friends in New Jersey. They had a balcony. We were from an apartment in the City, so this fascinated us.

We took turns, with one of us being MLK falling to the ground, and the other two being the men that were pointing, as seen in the famous photo. Over and over we did this. We did not mean any disrespect, just play acting as children do. (If they don't have their faces stuck in a phone!)

Posted by: jocon307 at July 17, 2024 05:52 PM (EuROc)

440 I love the anime version. What does dojan mean?

Posted by: PJU at July 17, 2024 06:00 PM (G1dq6)

441 Beau probably recieved the medal for having the most convictions of service members for uniform infractions and late returns to base.

Everytime a liberal joins the military it's always as a lawyer, and their caseload seems to 100% be against fellow service members for unserious shit.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 17, 2024 07:15 PM (ajjGL)

442 Aww, those frat boys that rescued the flag in NC are at the RNC

https://x.com/dylanewells/status/
1813689172496142652

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 17, 2024 09:01 PM (Ka3bZ)

443 I hope the campaign has bought the rights to that little gem of stagecraft and filmmaking. It's so fucking perfect, right down to the screaming.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 17, 2024 09:13 PM (9jRyN)

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