More Than 60 US Servicemembers Were Injured Building Biden's Grotesque Hamas-Appeasing Gaza Pier -- A Figure That Was Covered Up Until Now

No scolding from the media for covering up injuries to US servicemen.

More than 60 service members were injured as a part of former President Joe Biden's floating aid pier in Gaza, a Pentagon Inspector General report published on Tuesday said, a number significantly higher than had been previously disclosed.
The pier, announced by Biden during a televised address to Congress in March 2024, was a massive endeavor that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute.
But bad weather and distribution challenges inside Gaza limited the effectiveness of what the U.S. military says was its biggest aid delivery effort ever in the Middle East. The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million.

It's repulsive.

While there were no deaths or known direct attacks on the pier, the Pentagon had said three U.S. troops suffered non-combat injuries in support of the pier in May, with one medically evacuated in critical condition.
But the new report by the Pentagon Inspector General said that the number was actually 62.
"Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions," the report said.
The pier became a sore point in Congress, where Republicans branded it a political stunt by Biden, who was under pressure from fellow Democrats to do more to aid Palestinians after months of staunchly supporting Israel's punishing war on Hamas.

So Biden spent $230 million and injured 62 servicemen as a political payoff to Ilhan Omar and the Terror Wing of the Democrat Party.

David Strom:

You would think a Pentagon reporter would dig into the basic facts of a purely American action, but it took a change of administrations and the digging of an Inspector General to reveal basic facts that a moderately competent reporter should have easily dug up.
...
The financial cost was outrageous--almost a quarter of a billion dollars--and the cost in blood was over 60 soldiers wounded--all to deliver a few trucks in aid that were stolen by Hamas as soon as they hit the shores. It wasn't just a debacle; it aided the enemy.

This is a huge scandal.

Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was killed by this pier. It didn't just cost money, it cost LIVES.

Sgt. Stanley died RIGHT before the election so that the Biden-Harris admin could have a talking point to appease their Hamas Caucus base. pic.twitter.com/OIQrvowKhc
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) May 7, 2025

DOGEai
@dogeai_gov
Biden's Gaza pier was a $230M disaster--60+ troops injured, 20 days of operation, zero strategic value. The Pentagon IG report confirms what we already knew: this was a reckless, politically-driven stunt. Sending 1,000 troops into a logistical nightmare to appease Hamas sympathizers isn't leadership--it's malpractice.
Taxpayers funded this chaos while our military faced equipment failures and mission confusion. Real aid requires security and accountability, not virtue-signaling boondoggles that endanger service members.
Prioritize American safety, not performative foreign policy.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (e5NfL)

2 Gaza is gay

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 07, 2025 04:33 PM (w4rYw)

3 A crappy mission put together on the fly by the state department under biden just to appease democrat voters who love the pali's more than they love the US.

Typical democrats who hate the military but use them as props.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (e5NfL)

4 I remember when it was supposed to be how Biden imported millions of Palestinians.

Instead, it just cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

5 The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million.

"its great work if you can get it"
--military contractors

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (2VST1)

6 They were told it was a bad place to build a pier. They did not care. May everyone who caused this man's death spend the rest of their miserable lives in fear of his family.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2025 04:35 PM (s8j++)

7 I wonder how much of that $230,000,000 actually went to building a pier.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (2VST1)

8 You would think a Pentagon reporter would dig into the basic facts of a purely American action, but it took a change of administrations and the digging of an Inspector General to reveal basic facts that a moderately competent reporter should have easily dug up.

This, too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:36 PM (2VST1)

9 Instead, it just cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.

better spending the money than getting the palestinains

Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (i4e1s)

10 The pier was overwhelmed by Hamas export goods.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (pZ64F)

11 The pier crap was one of the most idiotic things ever.

It wasn't designed for those conditions. It wouldn't take those conditions. Even before it was destroyed by the conditions, it didn't produce anything useful when theoretically 'operational'.

But the so-called 'leadership' didn't care.

Because it did exactly what they wanted - create a stupid photo op of them 'doing something'.

When the photo op of 'doing something' is the goal, insane crap like this happens.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (lCHt6)

12 Remember every granny that showed up at the J6 protests was guilty of any injured suffered by any police officer in DC that day.

However neither Biden, the military leadership, or the Gazans are responsible for these injuries.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (t0Rmr)

13 wonder how much of that $230,000,000 actually went to building a pier.

Gotta factor in 10% to "the Big Guy".

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at May 07, 2025 04:37 PM (8yx7s)

14 In the old days when foreigners took Americans hostage they got a hostile visit from the American military.

Now though they get gifts and prizes.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2025 04:38 PM (t0Rmr)

15 If O'keefe's next scandal has him worried about being murdered, he probably has evidence of one of Hillary's many crimes.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 04:38 PM (Da7Vv)

16 The weirdest thing about this to me? Beyond the Politics?

Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore...

They literally go in with the Marines... to coordinate and direct supply operations.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (QAkQ3)

17 They should have air-dropped more stuff and squashed idiots trying to claim "first."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (i24o9)

18 Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore

Yeah the Navy is really damned good at this kind of thing. Not that Huma Abdin or whoever was behind the operation is aware of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (2VST1)

19 Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore...

They literally go in with the Marines... to coordinate and direct supply operations.
Posted by: R

navy is not what it was

Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (i4e1s)

20 17 They should have air-dropped more stuff and squashed idiots trying to claim "first."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (i24o9)

=======

Why do you hate Sponge?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

21 >> Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was killed by this pier.

So he gave into..

*puts sunglasses on*

Pier Pressure.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (l3YAf)

22 Hopefully the brass that Hegseth wants to get rid of include the generals/admirals who were involved with this debacle.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (7v6oI)

23 Yeah, yeah, whatever. But did you see Pete Hesgeth's tattoos?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (Dv3i1)

24 There had been so much covering up by the media about so many things they ought to rename themselves " Bed Sheet Media" or as the guy whose name I forget said about covering up stories with a pillow until they die - Smothering Stories Media"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (42Vb+)

25 Will this scandal be on any of the network "news" stations?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (qBdHI)

26 They should have air-dropped more stuff and squashed idiots trying to claim "first."

Hamas, Palestinian Authority etc send out squads to pick up any food shipments, they don't reach the people. Some of it probably gets distributed to Gazans that the terrorists like and can rely on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (2VST1)

27 Fucking Biden needs to be arrested and tried for treason, dementia or not.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

28 The US Mulberry at D Day also broke up.

Look, Army, you might need a supply port in a REAL WAR on some beach. Might want to get that crap right this time. Work it out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:41 PM (8avO+)

29 First. Thpppt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:41 PM (bF7Q5)

30 So he gave into..

*puts sunglasses on*

Pier Pressure.

EEYAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:41 PM (2VST1)

31 Why do you hate Sponge?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

Envy, mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:41 PM (i24o9)

32 They should have air-dropped more stuff and squashed idiots trying to claim "first."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (i24o9)

Sponge hardest hit. Literally!

Posted by: pookysgirl, not FIRST at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (Wt5PA)

33 Pier Failure? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson and his MSM Cronies at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (a/dOO)

34 Quandarius is a pretty awesome name.

Posted by: Weasel at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (NoW5q)

35 At least the pier didn't sink, h8r!

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (hE5jn)

36 political payoff to Ilhan Omar and the Terror Wing of the Democrat Party

There is no "Terror Wing of the Democrat Party"
It's the whole party.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (D0HYP)

37 21 >> Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was killed by this pier.

So he gave into..

*puts sunglasses on*

Pier Pressure.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (l3YAf)

Sentenced to death, by a Jury of his... Piers?

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:43 PM (QAkQ3)

38 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Piers Ploughman at May 07, 2025 04:43 PM (D0HYP)

39 Remember, the pier is not the political stunt of the previous administration. The real political stunt is the current administration telling everyone the truth about the debacle.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:43 PM (tT6L1)

40 The weirdest thing about this to me? Beyond the Politics?

Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore...

They literally go in with the Marines... to coordinate and direct supply operations.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM

Because the state department was the lead on this project, not the military. And the only rule they had was there could be no boots on the ground in gaza, so they used Army riverine units that are tasked to build bridges across rivers and such.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (e5NfL)

41 Begun, the H1B wars have.

Posted by: Yoda at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (bF7Q5)

42 Obviously, there was a lack of pier review.

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (77rzZ)

43 "You would think a Pentagon reporter would dig into the basic facts of a purely American action..." -David Strom

Why would I think that? "Reporters" means "reporting what your people tell you to report".

We made journalism a province of the "elite" and therefore, they protect their own.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (N1tpc)

44 The weirdest thing about this to me? Beyond the Politics?

Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore...

They literally go in with the Marines... to coordinate and direct supply operations.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (QAkQ3)

It took a while to get the wrinkles out of that, both in the Euro theatre at Casablanca and Guadalcanal and Tarawa in the Pacific. They should have plans and guidelines and equipment for that NOW in readiness.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)

45 "Republicans pounce on dead military members, we interview a grieving spouse..."
--CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, etec

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (2VST1)

46 But American citizens, who lost everything in a historic hurricane, had to spend the winter in tents with supplies limited because they refused to repair the roads.

Trump is for you; Democrats are for them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (bw0ep)

47 terror birds of the Democrat Party >>>> terror wing of the Democrat Party

Posted by: Bulg at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

48 Not surprising at all. Remember, these are the same people that pulled a bug out from AFG from Hamid Karzai airport in the middle of Kabul infested with the Taliban instead of Bagram airbase. Left millions in weapons behind. Left hundreds of friendlies behind to be ravaged by the terrorists, and worst, got 13 American war fighter needlessly killed.

Not surprising at all. Lloyd Austin walked around with his chest of medals with absolutely no shame.

Posted by: Cheri at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (oiNtH)

49 Joey Shitbrain’s Terror Pier is the Afghan withdrawal of Fyre Festivals

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (aeiyZ)

50 The weirdest thing about this to me? Beyond the Politics?

Why was the Army tasked with this, when the Navy has specific Units called the Beach Masters, who are trained and equipped specifically to get large amount of supplies from Ships, to Shore...

They literally go in with the Marines... to coordinate and direct supply operations.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:39 PM (QAkQ3)

The Med is a wide River, especially lengthwise.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (8avO+)

51 41 Begun, the H1B wars have.
Posted by: Yoda at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (bF7Q5)

It's all fun and games until those H1Bs and DUAL CITIZENS decide to bring that fight to our shores...

Which is another reason I think Dual Citizenship should not be allowed... just like the Founders intended...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (QAkQ3)

52 O/T: no pope as yet.

We did these things better back in my day. All I had to do was suggest that invite them to dinner and they all fell right into line.

We all came down to Roma
On the Tiber River shoreline
To make a Pontiff with a Conclave
We didn't have much time.
The Dean and all the Cardinals
Were all scheming hard for votes
But the sole result of the process
Was a cloud of black smoke that floats

Smoke on the Tiber
A black cloud in the sky
Smoke on the Tiber
The previous pope has died.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (W5ArC)

53 Yawn. Has my USAID check arrived yet? I don't have all day.

Posted by: Rep. Mike Rogers, HASC Chairman at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (imQ+3)

54 >>> The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million

Only a quarter billy? That's not too bad as far as government spending goes!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (uCjyK)

55
It turned out that there was a reason nobody had built a pier there.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (7Qdwx)

56 The conservative case for 60 injured soldiers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (ImXfC)

57 More Than 60 US Servicemembers Were Injured Building Biden's Grotesque Hamas-Appeasing Gaza Pier -- A Figure That Was Covered Up Until Now
_______________

The Joseph Biden Memorial Pier.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

58
It's a shame that Joy Anne Reid is no longer with MSNBC to strenuously ignore the death of a Black American serviceman for the sake of a Biden election ploy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (U7Gpi)

59 If we knew everything our governments were covering up, I wonder how sane we would be?

Or filled with murderous rage....

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (jvJvP)

60 Because the state department was the lead on this project, not the military. And the only rule they had was there could be no boots on the ground in gaza, so they used Army riverine units that are tasked to build bridges across rivers and such.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (e5NfL)

So their boots don't count?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

61 It took a while to get the wrinkles out of that, both in the Euro theatre at Casablanca and Guadalcanal and Tarawa in the Pacific. They should have plans and guidelines and equipment for that NOW in readiness.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:45 PM (8avO+)

Spent 4 years on an LPH in the early 80's... lets just say I saw how this is supposed to work.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (QAkQ3)

62 why is anybody interested in whos next for pope after francis

Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (N75FB)

63 The Pentagon IG report confirms what we already knew: this was a reckless, politically-driven stunt. Sending 1,000 troops into a logistical nightmare to appease Hamas sympathizers isn't leadership--it's malpractice.

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At least The Junta wasn't riddled with anti-Semitic pro-Iranian terrorist-loving, -encouraging, and -enabling treasonous spies.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (hE5jn)

64 How much did they pay for the 7 EV chargers again?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (bF7Q5)

65 Begun, the H1B wars have.
Posted by: Yoda at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (bF7Q5)

It's all fun and games until those H1Bs and DUAL CITIZENS decide to bring that fight to our shores...

Which is another reason I think Dual Citizenship should not be allowed... just like the Founders intended...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (QAkQ3)

Make. Up. Your. Mind. pick a country and stick with it.
Its like ranked choice voting.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (8avO+)

66 Not surprising at all. Lloyd Austin walked around with his chest of medals with absolutely no shame.

Posted by: Cheri at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (oiNtH)
_________________

"This one's for typing. That one's for surfing. This other one is for ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

67 In any breakneck-pace major construction project people are definitely getting injured. No question. Even taking your time and using really conservative safety standards that aren't feasible for an op like this, people get hurt.

So there are two questions:

1.) Was helping Iran kill Israelis worth that risk to Americans?

I would say "no."

2.) Were any of the injuries directly caused by Hamas?

If the answer is "yes," then the politicians and officers responsible for this farce should have the same injuries meted out to them by the injured.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (BI5O2)

68 So their boots don't count?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

We said no boots on the GROUND. Boots in water is OK.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (ImXfC)

69 4 I remember when it was supposed to be how Biden imported millions of Palestinians.

Instead, it just cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

I'd rather build 100 piers to nowhere then let in millions of Palestinians, personally.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (uCjyK)

70 60 Because the state department was the lead on this project, not the military. And the only rule they had was there could be no boots on the ground in gaza, so they used Army riverine units that are tasked to build bridges across rivers and such.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 04:44 PM (e5NfL)

So their boots don't count?

they used mil-spec hoverboards

Posted by: anachronda at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (BdTVc)

71 > Because the state department was the lead on this project

I recall in one of Heinlein's books a character enlisted as a volunteer, after briefly thinking over the options for avoiding the draft.

One of those options was "convince an Army psychologist that your talents are better suited for the State Department than the military".

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (W5ArC)

72 We need to find out which one of the Biden autopen drones dreamed this shit up and charge them with felony murder.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (Da7Vv)

73 68 So their boots don't count?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

We said no boots on the GROUND. Boots in water is OK.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (ImXfC)

Yes, and no boots on the ground in Ukraine either! We ordered our guys to wear Tennis Shoes!

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (QAkQ3)

74 Spanish authorities rescued kids from loony parents who had prevented them from going outside for four years and forced the kids to wear diapers and three facemasks each. The police reported that the kids, 8 and 10 gasped when they got outside and were told they could take their masks off. The house was a horror show inside, the kids wearing clothes purchased last in 2019.

https://tinyurl.com/2s5bkbay

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (2VST1)

75 If you think that $230M was spent on that piece of shit pier, I’ve got a nice bridge you might be interested in. Easily 75% of that money never left DC.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (aeiyZ)

76 Crocs on thd ground.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (bF7Q5)

77 Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:48 PM (N75FB)

Because they're Catholic and they care about their faith tradition or they are other Christians who would like to see a more conservative Pipe lead the way on theology and moral issues?

This did not seem like a difficult question.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (42Vb+)

78 We need to find out which one of the Biden autopen drones dreamed this shit up and charge them with felony murder.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (Da7Vv)
---------------

Why? I think we just grab one at random, charge, try and sentence

Let the rest sweat.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (tT6L1)

79 75 If you think that $230M was spent on that piece of shit pier, I’ve got a nice bridge you might be interested in. Easily 75% of that money never left DC.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (aeiyZ)

=======

Now, think about rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

80 With us it would be high heels on the ground.

Posted by: Dutch Army at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (W5ArC)

81 $23M went to the big guy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (ImXfC)

82 So their boots don't count?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

We said no boots on the GROUND. Boots in water is OK.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (ImXfC)

Was this back when Fat Milley had them wearing high heels?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (l3YAf)

83 Not surprising at all. Lloyd Austin walked around with his chest of medals with absolutely no shame.

Unless its a very special dress uniform event, it seems to me the more medals on someone's chest, the less a warrior they are. There were exceptions like Audie Murphy but not many.

You walk around wearing your gongs everywhere and its a sure sign you're a poser.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

84 65 Which is another reason I think Dual Citizenship should not be allowed... just like the Founders intended...
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 07, 2025 04:46 PM (QAkQ3)

Make. Up. Your. Mind. pick a country and stick with it.
Its like ranked choice voting.

gotta have a roster with countries in the friendzone in cas things go pear-shaped

Posted by: anachronda at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (BdTVc)

85 But bad weather and distribution challenges inside Gaza limited the effectiveness

One can only wonder what "distribution challenges inside Gaza" means in this context.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (1GLqY)

86 Why couldn't the supplies have gone through Egypt? There's a small port only about 10 miles away from the Egypt/Gaza border. I'm sure the Egyptians could have be bribed for much less.

Posted by: QRZed at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (KE7HB)

87 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always thinks that at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (T0oeS)

88 Because they're Catholic and they care about their faith tradition or they are other Christians who would like to see a more conservative Pipe lead the way on theology and moral issues?

This did not seem like a difficult question.
Posted by: Fen

it is not going to matter, the cardinals that elected francis are going to elect somebody more anticatholic now

duh?

Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (N75FB)

89 Humans have been living in that area for thousands of years.
For most of that time, they have had ships.
Expert ship builders, sailors, dock builders.

And none of them, ever, tried to build a pier there.
Experts in all aspects of ocean, sea and river navigation.

But they're not a smart as a senile, octogenarian who has never had a job outside of politics.

A proposal that every major media cheered, every Democrat cheered.

Not one expert--that we are always treated to--ever spoke up and expressed even a hint of skepticism.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (bw0ep)

90 Now, think about rebuilding the Francis Scott Key bridge.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

If a pier costs $250 million, I'd say a Bridge in the Chesapeake has to cost at least .. what? $50 billion?

You gotta pay for materials, labor, about 15 levels of skimming on government contracts, outright fraud, bribery, permits, environmental study, paying off the NGO's who run the environmental studies, lots of union no-show jobs for the ~~mafia~~ government employee's friends and family, etc. etc.

The list never ends!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (uCjyK)

91 Why couldn't the supplies have gone through Egypt? There's a small port only about 10 miles away from the Egypt/Gaza border.

"you kidding? We're not opening that gate, some of them might get out and scum up the place."
--Egyptians

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (2VST1)

92 Putting that thing together must have looked like Keystone Cops getting in a train wreck with the Three Stooges on a pile of flaming clown boners.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

93 In any breakneck-pace major construction project people are definitely getting injured. No question. Even taking your time and using really conservative safety standards that aren't feasible for an op like this, people get hurt.
________________

In building the Golden Gate and SF Bay bridges planners expected one man to die for every million bucks spent on the construction. It turned out that that was about right.

The Golden Gate bridge looked like it was going to be the exception until some girder or something fell off, tore through the safety net, and took 20 or 30 men with it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

94 The Joseph Biden Memorial Pier.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

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The first and last terminal stop on his F. Joe Memorial Intercontinental Railroad Bridge To Nowhere.

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (hE5jn)

95 You walk around wearing your gongs everywhere and its a sure sign you're a poser.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

Yep. Same shit with Nork generals, Russkies, Chinamen..

Almost like flag officer class attracts grifters and assholes.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (l3YAf)

96 The experts knew this was a disaster before they went in. These piers aren't rated for Eastern Med seas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (bF7Q5)

97 And none of them, ever, tried to build a pier there.
Experts in all aspects of ocean, sea and river navigation.

Well the Tyrians were great sailors but Israelites and Arabs have never been really known for their sailing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:55 PM (2VST1)

98 Remember every granny that showed up at the J6 protests was guilty of any injured suffered by any police officer in DC that day.

However neither Biden, the military leadership, or the Gazans are responsible for these injuries.

DataRepublican's been doing some digging on the actual reason our alleged elites are wound up about J6. The answer, from their own publications, is that if people stop believing government propaganda about elections, that is the "literal end of democracy".

And now you understand exactly what "our democracy" is as well.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 07, 2025 04:55 PM (2ocoG)

99 I'd go with comfortable low heeled pumps.

Posted by: Corporal Max Klinger at May 07, 2025 04:55 PM (T0oeS)

100 Putting that thing together must have looked like Keystone Cops getting in a train wreck with the Three Stooges on a pile of flaming clown boners.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)
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Somewhere in between Laurel and Hardy trying to paint out of the same bucket and an outing of the Mexican militia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

101 I seem to recall media reports that confirmed that this "Pier" was only operational for 9 days. Where did the "20 days" come from?

Also, don't be too hard on the Biden administration. After all, they hit it out of the park on the Afghanistan departure. The got people killed, abandoned allies, and turned over Billions in equipment to the Taliban. What's not to like.

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 04:55 PM (dIske)

102 "Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions," the report said.
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Maybe his arm got pinched off one weekend at home doing fondue?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (/lPRQ)

103 I find it fascinating that not one of the other Arab countries wants the "Palestinians" anywhere near their turf.

It's not like the Saudis have a shortage of barren wasteland and money. They could easily give the Palestinians better territory than what they have, along with walking around money.

But they won't.

Posted by: Dutch Army at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (W5ArC)

104 O/T: no pope as yet.

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As for the Protestants . . .

Televangelist Jim Bakker says he needs another $1 million to avoid being out on the street 🤔

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)

105 86 Why couldn't the supplies have gone through Egypt? There's a small port only about 10 miles away from the Egypt/Gaza border. I'm sure the Egyptians could have be bribed for much less.
Posted by: QRZed at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (KE7HB)

Because the Egyptians said, essentially, "no. You broke it, you buy it. We're not getting dragged in to this."

So instead of forcing either the Egyptians or Israelis to play ball, which would have been tough diplomatically and involved lots of bribes, the decision was made to build a laughably and unbelievably (in the literal sense of the word) expensive pier that only lasted a month, likely making many people rich in the process.

Realpolitik at play.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (uCjyK)

106 Because they're Catholic and they care about their faith tradition or they are other Christians who would like to see a more conservative Pipe lead the way on theology and moral issues?
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Ceci n'est pas une Pipe

Posted by: Ren� Magritte at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

107 There's no love lost between the Arabs of Israel and Egypt, or the Arabs of Israel and Jordan, or the Arabs of Israel and Lebanon.

It's the dirty, very poorly kept "secret" of this conflict. Even their own brothers would prefer them dead. The Jews probably care more about them than they do. Lachrymose American housewives certainly do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (BI5O2)

108 The experts knew this was a disaster before they went in. These piers aren't rated for Eastern Med seas.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (bF7Q5)
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The use of riverine troops should have been a tip off.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (YqDXo)

109 The list never ends!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (uCjyK)

Don’t forget that cars are evil and the bridge will only allow pedestrian or bicycle access when it opens in 2038.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (l3YAf)

110 I can’t wait until these same people run health care. Think of the cost savings.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (ImXfC)

111 The got people killed, abandoned allies, and turned over Billions in equipment to the Taliban. What's not to like.

"I'll have you know that the Taliban promised to respect women's rights!"
--Biden administration official

"who shit my pants???"
--Joey "Fingers" Biden

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (2VST1)

112 I find it fascinating that not one of the other Arab countries wants the "Palestinians" anywhere near their turf.

It's not like the Saudis have a shortage of barren wasteland and money. They could easily give the Palestinians better territory than what they have, along with walking around money.

But they won't.
Posted by: Dutch Army at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (W5ArC)

I don't get this line of thinking.

Why would they?

What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

113 "O/T: no pope as yet."

I wonder if a Cardinal can vote for himself.

Posted by: Tuna at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (lJ0H4)

114 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at May 07, 2025 04:58 PM (T0oeS)

115 Posted by: n at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (N75FB

So people should just stop caring? Uhh huh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 07, 2025 04:58 PM (42Vb+)

116 I like Dwight Yokum's hit song, "I'm a thousand piers from nowhere."

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 07, 2025 04:58 PM (Aqu9a)

117 Humans have been living in that area for thousands of years.
For most of that time, they have had ships.
Expert ship builders, sailors, dock builders.

And none of them, ever, tried to build a pier there.
Experts in all aspects of ocean, sea and river navigation.

But they're not a smart as a senile, octogenarian who has never had a job outside of politics.

A proposal that every major media cheered, every Democrat cheered.

Not one expert--that we are always treated to--ever spoke up and expressed even a hint of skepticism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM (bw0ep)

Alexander the Great did a few miles north at Tyre in Lebanon. The difference was that there was an island and a walled city on the other end of the to reach.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:58 PM (8avO+)

118 The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (bF7Q5)

119 Even their own brothers would prefer them dead.

"we threw all those inbred losers, lunatics, and monsters out of our countries into Israel to begin with, we don't want them back!"
-Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)

120 What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

Welcome to Canada!

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (jvJvP)

121 They could easily give the Palestinians better territory than what they have, along with walking around money.

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For what? So they can launch their next intifada in Saudi Arabia, like everywhere else that ever played host to these swine? Only a fucking retard let's a single Pali foot on his patch of sand.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

122 There’s a 100 year old bridge between Oregon and Washington that need to be replaced. It’s an interstate highway and spans the Columbia River.

The replacement bridge is going to have bike lanes and pedestrian lanes and light rail. It’s of course going to cost gazillions of dollars. And take 15 years or something to build.

The graft is going to be off the charts, every politician and govt agency in both states is licking their chops.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (ImXfC)

123 113 "O/T: no pope as yet."

I wonder if a Cardinal can vote for himself.
Posted by: Tuna at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (lJ0H4)
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Yes.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2025 05:00 PM (NpAcC)

124 I'd like to think that there was at least one Engineer that looked at this plan and said "Um, no. This is not going to work because....and rattled off all of the reasons" but in the end, money talks and bullshit walks. What a disgrace. Any details on how this soldier died?

Posted by: Cheri at May 07, 2025 05:00 PM (oiNtH)

125 There are any number of assumptions we're making that may be wrong.

First, it is not clear that anyone at the general/flag officer level told Blinken or his underlings that this would not work or even what the risks were, beyond the obvious one of being attacked. This had to have been someone's idea. Whoever championed this idea would have been incentivized to downplay the problems. You know, we might get our hair a little mussed up. But it's budget time, we need to show our stuff.

Second, it is not clear that whoever championed this idea knew it wouldn't work. The DEI officers who run things are unlikely to have a whole lot of experience with actual combat engineering tasks, but a lot of experience with being the social aide to the Deputy Assistant Director of the Defense Research and Engineering Agency and Assistant Professor of Military Science at some random HBC. They had a class somewhere where they learned that the engineers can build piers. They maybe heard somewhere in one of their classes that the Mulberries were the key to logistics success in Normandy until Cherbourg and Le Havre were captured. That may very well be the entire extent of their knowledge on the subject

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:00 PM (eStot)

126 For what? So they can launch their next intifada in Saudi Arabia, like everywhere else that ever played host to these swine? Only a fucking retard let's a single Pali foot on his patch of sand.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (BI5O2)
______________

Jordan nods in agreement.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

127 So Biden spent $230 million and injured 62 servicemen as a political payofF...

I have no words to describe the anger and absolute disgust this generates. There are cells at Ft Leavenworth that are begging occupants. I want the names of the leadership that said this was a good idea, and I want the names of those who fell on their sword over it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (W/lyH)

128
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:51 PM (2VST1)

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Can we please have content warnings? Something like CH!LD ABUS3 and then a few empty lines before something you can't unsee.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (U7Gpi)

129 The key takeaway is that some politicians will use the military as expendable wind-up toys. Since they lie about it the trick is to determine what more visible correlation there may be to avoid service when these fuckers are in office...

Hmmm...

How about retention rates? Those guys would know something.
And maybe enlistment rates...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (/lPRQ)

130 120 What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

Welcome to Canada!
Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (jvJvP)

What up?
- Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (ImXfC)

131 I don't get this line of thinking.

Why would they?

What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

Agreed. I don’t feel obliged to take in whypipo refugees. Sorry, Boers, shoulda used them nukes when you had the chance.

Of course, every white country is obligated to take in unlimited non-whites. For some reason.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (l3YAf)

132 But they won't.
Posted by: Dutch Army at May 07, 2025 04:56 PM (W5ArC)

I don't get this line of thinking.

Why would they?

What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 04:57 PM (uCjyK)

Oh, to give them credit, they did take them. A lot were in Jordan...and tried to overturn the government with terrorists. Then Kuwait took them in...and they betrayed their hosts and welcomed Sadaam in.. Egypt after that..more usurpation and Egypt locked the gates on the border.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (8avO+)

133 No whistleblowers either.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (LRNu1)

134 In building the Golden Gate and SF Bay bridges planners expected one man to die for every million bucks spent on the construction. It turned out that that was about right.

The Golden Gate bridge looked like it was going to be the exception until some girder or something fell off, tore through the safety net, and took 20 or 30 men with it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

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I believe there were over 100 fatalities (96 official, but others mischaracterized) during the construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam between 1931 and 1936.

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (2b9pf)

135 Third, it should not be assumed that the unit was competent. Some people in the unit in MOS training may have built a float bridge under carefully controlled circumstances at Fort Leonard Wood or Fort Eustis. That may be as much as they know about it, other than reading it in a book.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (eStot)

136 Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:00 PM (eStot)

Yeah, that's probably closer to the truth than anything else.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (uCjyK)

137 Army was put in charge of this according to Joint doctrine.

7th Transportation BDE is in charge of a thing called Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS), i.e. expeditionary logistics, which theoretically provides temporary floating docks and causeways for sea logistics in areas where traditional port facilities are unavailable. Kind of like Mulberry Harbors in WWII.

Not sure if it was poor training, poor execution, or poor planning that caused this, but when a specific unit is tasked to do something that is in their wheelhouse, and fails at it so spectacularly and expensively, it should be a cause for concern and investigations at DoD.

Posted by: Soylent Red at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (naiw2)

138 You just know someone brought all this up to the general in charge and was told off and got a black mark by their name for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

139 It would have been only marginally faster to light $230M on fire instead of installing that pier.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (oCS0o)

140 >> The key takeaway is that some politicians will use the military as expendable wind-up toys.

Some? That’s like 99% of politicians. Guys like Vance are the exception.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (l3YAf)

141 Pier into the future.

bet we don't get a refund from Hamas

Posted by: DaveA at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (FhXTo)

142 Ah yes, the pier to facilitate bringing ignorant, violent philistines to the united states.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (y+AhE)

143 What country on this planet (other than our retarded country) would willingly take millions of refugees in to their country permanently?
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Germany
France
Ireland
UK
Belgium
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
Spain
Portugal
Austria
Australia
Canada

I think that covers it. It's almost as if it is planned.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

144 when a specific unit is tasked to do something that is in their wheelhouse, and fails at it so spectacularly and expensively, it should be a cause for concern and investigations at DoD.

*whistling and looking away*
--women captains crashing into gigantic vessels at sea

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (2VST1)

145 So their boots don't count?
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 04:47 PM (8avO+)

We said no boots on the GROUND. Boots in water is OK.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:49 PM (ImXfC)

I slosh in the water corrected, sir.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (8avO+)

146 I didn't think it was possible for me to hate the American Left more than I already did, but this story awakens my inner Kraken.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (pMi6S)

147 I am not super knowledgeable about the Vatican, or the Papacy, but my wife has been going to Rome and Florence every year (give or take terror threats, wars and pandemics) for 30+ years as part of her profession. The Catholic memorials there are in many ways the history of Western Civ., and the development of post-Enlightenment culture. One doesn't have to be a Catholic to recognize that.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (2cS/G)

148 Agreed. I don’t feel obliged to take in whypipo refugees. Sorry, Boers, shoulda used them nukes when you had the chance.

Of course, every white country is obligated to take in unlimited non-whites. For some reason.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (l3YAf)

Yeah, it's a weird argument to me. There are about 1000 clans in the middle east, I am NOT wasting my time learning more about them then I have to, but they have blood feuds going back to literally the times of Moses.

So the idea that "hey, Saudis, you speak Arabic, you should look at the Arabs living in Israel as your brothers" is kind of silly.

Inside Saudi Arabia, they have enough clan divisions and nonsense and moving pieces and buying off of loyalties, etc. without bringing in anyone else.

And that's true in every middle eastern country.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

149 Why couldn't the supplies have gone through Egypt? There's a small port only about 10 miles away from the Egypt/Gaza border. I'm sure the Egyptians could have be bribed for much less.

Posted by: QRZed at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM

egypt said nope. Plus they had their check point with gaza locked down hard. Nothing was going in or out for quite a few months.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (e5NfL)

150
The graft is going to be off the charts, every politician and govt agency in both states is licking their chops.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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It looks like this is something the Trump administration might decline to fund if it can figure out a way around the inevitable Congre$$ional approval.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (U7Gpi)

151 I believe there were over 100 fatalities (96 official, but others mischaracterized) during the construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam between 1931 and 1936.

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 05:01 PM (2b9pf)
__________________

The Patriarchy is so privileged.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 05:05 PM (YqDXo)

152 The graft is going to be off the charts, every politician and govt agency in both states is licking their chops. Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (ImXfC)

One of my favorite rants is that the bridge is not the point, the spending is the point. If a politician has a choice between a $10 million bridge and a $100 million bridge in his district, he's going to vote for the $100 million bridge every time.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:05 PM (eStot)

153 Something like CH!LD ABUS3 and then a few empty lines before something you can't unsee.

Just horrendous stuff done by the same people who put folks into concentration camps for not getting the shot. Imagine that poor 8 year old who spent half their life -- all their conscious years -- under that insane regime.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (2VST1)

154 It would have been only marginally faster to light $230M on fire instead of installing that pier.
Posted by: Octochicken at May 07, 2025 05:02 PM (oCS0o)

You probably could have gotten gazans to make some gimcrack solution if you offered them a quarter of that.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (8avO+)

155 For what? So they can launch their next intifada in Saudi Arabia, like everywhere else that ever played host to these swine? Only a fucking retard let's a single Pali foot on his patch of sand.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 04:59 PM (BI5O2)

This, too.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (l3YAf)

156 BTW, my immigrant Scottish paternal grandfather from Nova Scotia worked on both the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams.

Posted by: ShainS at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (2b9pf)

157 Wow, would be sure they hid that

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (ypFCm)

158 So how many of you Catholics are running for Pope? Come on, the average moron here would do a better job than the last holy person who held the office.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (Da7Vv)

159 146 I didn't think it was possible for me to hate the American Left more than I already did, but this story awakens my inner Kraken.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 05:03 PM (pMi6S)

When it comes to the left, there's always room for more hate.

Posted by: Stateless.. 25% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back next week at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (jvJvP)

160 Why couldn't the supplies have gone through Egypt? There's a small port only about 10 miles away from the Egypt/Gaza border. I'm sure the Egyptians could have be bribed for much less.

Posted by: QRZed at May 07, 2025 04:53 PM
_________________

That begs the question: why are we worried about getting the Gazans humanitarian aid? They caused this problem. Let them figure out what to do about it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2025 05:07 PM (YqDXo)

161 >>>the Terror Wing of the Democrat Party

Or as some would call it, the Democrat Party.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 07, 2025 05:07 PM (VRzI3)

162 Inside Saudi Arabia, they have enough clan divisions and nonsense and moving pieces and buying off of loyalties, etc. without bringing in anyone else. And that's true in every middle eastern country. Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (uCjyK)

We just had Cinco de Mayo, a minor Mexican holiday that has nothing whatsoever to do with Venezuelans or Puerto Ricans or Argentines. And don't even get me started on the term "Asian-American."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:08 PM (eStot)

163 So please tell me why that hack Biden is not going to jail.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (a4NoL)

164 CBS News@CBSNews
In former President Joe Biden's first interview since leaving office, he slammed President Trump's foreign policy, saying "what the hell's going on here?" about what he called Mr. Trump's "confiscation" policy regarding Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Vince Langman@LangmanVince
I know it's hard to understand this senile SOB, but Joe Biden claimed in his first interview since the election that he didn't get out sooner because his administration was so successful

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Trannies and undocumented immigrant undocumented pharmacist everywhere you look!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (L/fGl)

165 I liked the parachuting of huge boxes of MREs better.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (bF7Q5)

166 Because the state department was the lead on this project

I recall in one of Heinlein's books a character enlisted as a volunteer, after briefly thinking over the options for avoiding the draft.

One of those options was "convince an Army psychologist that your talents are better suited for the State Department than the military".

Heh.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 07, 2025 04:50 PM (W5ArC)

Heinlein was a Navy Dude if you didn't guess.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (8avO+)

167 158 So how many of you Catholics are running for Pope? Come on, the average moron here would do a better job than the last holy person who held the office.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (Da7Vv)

Not running: woman. However, I do pray that the next guy is actually, you know, Catholic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (a4NoL)

168 Anyone with any sort of idea about the ocean knew this was going to be a disaster. They didn't give a damn.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2025 05:10 PM (viF8m)

169 If you want to give Palestinians humanitarian aid, send 'em each a big enough hypodermic needle full of potassium chloride to penetrate his own sternum.

It's more humane than just leaving him to keep on being Palestinian.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 05:10 PM (BI5O2)

170 A ha....found it.

I'm assuming a bunch of you are under the impression that this quarter of a Billion dollars couldn't possibly match up to the half-assed floating piece of boardwalk that resulted. You'd be correct. And, before I show you who probably got a nice pay day...keep in mind that the pier was taken down and re-established 3 separate times, which gave it an operation period of about 8.5 days...NOT 20.

Now, which defense contractors got rich?

(((The project, known internally as the Blue Beach Plan, was partially developed by an advisory group called Fogbow, co-founded by Michael Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, and Sam Mundy, a retired Marine Lt. Gen. The Fogbow plan was a strategy created by the American advisory group Fogbow, founded by Michael Mulroy and Sam Mundy and managed by former US Military, Intelligence, and United Nations personnel, to establish a maritime corridor. )))

There you go...Fogbow (run by a democrat hack, Mulroy. A retired Marine General...And, then, we have the Intelligence community, and the UN sticking their beaks in.

Posted by: Orson at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (dIske)

171 @158 Sorry, the celibacy thing thing knocks me out of the race. Also, I don't love Italian food. If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve. (By the way, if a Pope gets elected, he can refuse it, it has apparently been done before, I don't know the historical details)

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (2cS/G)

172 So where does the term "Holy See" come from?

Posted by: Barely a protestant at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (T0oeS)

173 165 I liked the parachuting of huge boxes of MREs better.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:09 PM (bF7Q5)

Yeah, but it's hard to really set the graft machine to 11 when you're parachuting huge boxes of MREs.

I mean sure, there are probably 5 or 6 "companies" controlled by well connected cronies in the supply chain of getting the MRE's to the military who skim along the way, and sure is probably an entire scam industry around making the parachutes, and sure, I'm sure somoenes brother in law has the contract to supply the jet fuel for the helicopters, but like -- you gotta think BIG here. This is a blank check. You only live once. Build the pier! Lots of graft in piers, everyone knows that!

You never let a crisis go to waste!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (uCjyK)

174 @160

>>That begs the question: why are we worried about getting the Gazans humanitarian aid? They caused this problem. Let them figure out what to do about it.

Do you know how many taxpayer funded NGO's that operation probably fed, which in turn funneled money to the Blob of corrupt politician's and remoras that something like that would entail?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

175 Under the boardwalk down by the sea.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:12 PM (bF7Q5)

176 Could be worse, the Biden administration could have left $8 billion (+/-) of weapons, equipment and technology to our enemies which would also lose service members’ lives. Good thing that didn't happen…

You don’t hate the left enough.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 07, 2025 05:12 PM (mZkRn)

177 Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (y+AhE)

178 when a specific unit is tasked to do something that is in their wheelhouse, and fails at it so spectacularly and expensively, it should be a cause for concern and investigations at DoD.

Pretty sure the unit did point out it would not work but were given their marching orders anyway.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (/lPRQ)

179 So where does the term "Holy See" come from?
Posted by: Barely a protestant at May 07, 2025 05:11 PM (T0oeS)

A “see” is a chair, from the Latin word for chair.

Posted by: Holy See, Holy Do at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (l3YAf)

180 I'll be celibate for as long as it takes to tattle on an American puppet President for shitting his pants all over my fancy office furniture.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 05:14 PM (BI5O2)

181 All in all, it was a pier too far.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 07, 2025 05:14 PM (Aqu9a)

182 Can't see it.

Posted by: See no holy at May 07, 2025 05:14 PM (T0oeS)

183 177 Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (y+AhE)

It should go without saying that airplanes are not supposed to fall of the side of ships, despite what maneuvers the ship is making.

That said, ehhh -- whats one airplane in the grand scheme of things?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:14 PM (uCjyK)

184 Anyone with any sort of idea about the ocean knew this was going to be a disaster. They didn't give a damn.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2025 05:10 PM (viF8m)

This.
I recall a number of reports saying putting a pier on that stretch of beach was foolish.
There is a reason there are no piers there.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2025 05:14 PM (W/lyH)

185 Is anyone talking about losing 3 aircraft off the Harry S. Truman in as many weeks? Maybe with a little diversity we could spread out the losses over a few different aircraft carriers.

Posted by: jwest at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (JRfbP)

186 Heinlein was a Navy Dude if you didn't guess.
Posted by: Oldcat
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His brother Lawrence was in the Army, Air Force, and then became a National Guard Major General in Missouri. Older brother Rex preceded Robert at Annapolis.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (ctrM5)

187 Sancta Sedes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (bF7Q5)

188 Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (y+AhE)

Bungie strap came off.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (l3YAf)

189 Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (y+AhE)

He may not have tried the kind of evading you try when your are the target of a missile. A tilty deck would send a plane moving that isn't secured.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (8avO+)

190 188 Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:13 PM (y+AhE)

Bungie strap came off.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (l3YAf)

I heard that after they bungied it in, they forgot to pat it twice and say "that's not going anywhere"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (uCjyK)

191 I recall a number of reports saying putting a pier on that stretch of beach was foolish.

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Zionist lies !!

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (g47mK)

192 185 Is anyone talking about losing 3 aircraft off the Harry S. Truman in as many weeks? Maybe with a little diversity we could spread out the losses over a few different aircraft carriers.
Posted by: jwest
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The captain of the Truman was relieved of command early this year after the Truman collided with another ship. My guess is that the guy wasn't the best commander and left behind a command less than ship shape.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (ctrM5)

193 No other Arab or Muslim nation wants to take in the Palestinians because they’ve tried to start a revolt or civil war in every country that’s let them come in as refugees in large numbers.

Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt could’ve absorbed more Palestinians if they hadn’t tried to overthrow the governments there to install themselves as rulers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

194 158 So how many of you Catholics are running for Pope? Come on, the average moron here would do a better job than the last holy person who held the office.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:06 PM (Da7Vv)

Based on recent history, I don't think being a Catholic is a requirement anymore. So, I'm throwing my mitre in the ring. My platform is:

1. posthumously excommunicate Philip IV;
2. restore the Templars;
3. declare and organize a crusade.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (z5QST)

195 The Pier at Toko-Ri.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (bF7Q5)

196
"Speaking of, I saw where a navy bigwig came out and said that evasive maneuvers wouldn't send an aircraft off the side of a ship."

The front fell off.

Posted by: Monty Python at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (T0oeS)

197 Should have used those self-locking zipties

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (2VST1)

198 that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute.

That is a cumbersome sentence. 'That it took the work of 1000 US troops to carry out'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (ksHMv)

199
Just horrendous stuff done by the same people who put folks into concentration camps for not getting the shot. Imagine that poor 8 year old who spent half their life -- all their conscious years -- under that insane regime.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

===============

I can scarcely bear to think about it. I'd rather continue in my general awareness that evil walks the earth and it preys on the most innocent among us and not learn specific details. Kind of insular and insensitive of me, but I'll help out if/when I'm in a position to do so.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (U7Gpi)

200 I heard that after they bungied it in, they forgot to pat it twice and say "that's not going anywhere"
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (uCjyK)

Ah, yeah, that’s an integral step.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (l3YAf)

201 Kash Patel FLAMES Democrat congresswoman who tries to corner him on
"weaponizing" the FBI.

REP. DEAN (D): "As you and the president continue to weaponize and investigate his perceived enemies, as you follow this blueprint, when can I, a former impeachment manager, expect the FBI at my door?"

PATEL: "Ma'am, you want to know who was targeted by a weaponized FBI? Me.
"You want to know how and why? You want to know what I'm doing to fix it?"

DEAN: "Let me move on."

PATEL: "There are people that violated their constitutional obligations and their duties to the American people and they were rightly called out, and you should give that book to every one of your constituents so they can read about it."

😂😂😂 Let's move on. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (xt/H7)

202 Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt could’ve absorbed more Palestinians if they hadn’t tried to overthrow the governments there to install themselves as rulers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)

Yup. They're like a stray dog that bites. That's all there is. Feed him at your own risk.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (BI5O2)

203 My guess is that the guy wasn't the best commander and left behind a command less than ship shape.

Yeah a bad captain and the whole ship is going to be a disaster. Just ask that Queequeg guy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (2VST1)

204 Not enough duck tape.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (ksHMv)

205 A second look at Mullberries?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (bF7Q5)

206 "There is no "Terror Wing of the Democrat Party"
It's the whole party.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 07, 2025 04:42 PM (D0HYP) "

This!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 07, 2025 05:19 PM (/Ghsb)

207 Is anyone talking about losing 3 aircraft off the Harry S. Truman in as many weeks? Maybe with a little diversity we could spread out the losses over a few different aircraft carriers.
Posted by: jwest at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (JRfbP)

Well you can't do these tricks without losses, as a general i have forgotten said.

I am worried that we have forgotten that these zillion dollar craft have to be replaced if put into regular use and we can't do it any more.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:19 PM (8avO+)

208 I liked the parachuting of huge boxes of MREs better.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Palis tried to catche them. Even the ones coming in hot.
Human Beings were getting crushed!!!!

That I recollect was the justification for trying to build a pier well outside its safe parameters.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 05:19 PM (/lPRQ)

209 It was the strawberries!!

Posted by: Bogart at May 07, 2025 05:19 PM (T0oeS)

210 Ah, yeah, that’s an integral step.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:17 PM (l3YAf)

It's right there in big bold red letters on page one of the instruction manual.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:20 PM (uCjyK)

211
Unless its a very special dress uniform event, it seems to me the more medals on someone's chest, the less a warrior they are. There were exceptions like Audie Murphy but not many.

You walk around wearing your gongs everywhere and its a sure sign you're a poser.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

The Sukhomlinov Effect: all things being equal, the army or general with the most elaborate uniforms is the one which will lose.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 07, 2025 05:20 PM (y9nCu)

212 PATEL: "There are people that violated their constitutional obligations and their duties to the American people and they were rightly called out, and you should give that book to every one of your constituents so they can read about it."

😂😂😂 Let's move on. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (xt/H7)

You'd have to be pretty stupid to use that line of approach on that guy. Dems rise to the occasion.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (8avO+)

213 😂😂😂 Let's move on. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:18 PM (xt/H7)

Nice. Nicer than I would have been. I see no where in your transcript where he called her a stupid, traitorous bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (ksHMv)

214 Parking brake not pier-reviewed.

Posted by: DaveA at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (FhXTo)

215 speaking of terrorists

"British media reported Wednesday that the Iranian nationals arrested in the UK over the weekend were allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in London. According to The Telegraph, the raids that led to their arrests took place just hours before the suspected plot was due to be carried out."

By all means , let's give Iran a free hand and a nuke.

Posted by: runner at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

216 Commie whore was also missing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (ksHMv)

217 The Blade would be a great pope. Except he ain’t Catholic, knows little about Catholic traditions and dogma, thinks pope hats are silly, and probably shouldn’t be left alone with pretty young nuns. He ain’t a filthy commie or gay-curious cretin, though, so he’d at least be better than Francis.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

218 I love the press yelling that evil Israelis have stopped sending food shipments into Gaza. Damn, its like they are at war or something. This is like whining that General Patton isn't sending food supplies into Germany.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (2VST1)

219 Caitlyn Clark for Pope.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (bF7Q5)

220 Yeah a bad captain and the whole ship is going to be a disaster. Just ask that Queequeg guy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
========
Same thing happens to army or air force units. Bad commanders have a multiplicative negative effect on troop performance. Maj Gen. Fredenhall in WWII comes to mind and also Gen. Mark Clark.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (ctrM5)

221 Remember during the Vietnam war, not only did a plane fall off of a carrier, the plane was carrying an H-bomb. Neither was ever found.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (Da7Vv)

222 @208 Imagine being killed by a pallet of "Chicken la King with Noodles, including Chocolate Brownie"? If I'm going down, I want the "Pork in Sauce, including Peanut Butter Cookies".

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)

223 You have to be comfortable wearing really tall hats.

Posted by: As a minimum at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (T0oeS)

224 The Blade would be a great pope. Except he ain’t Catholic, knows little about Catholic traditions and dogma, thinks pope hats are silly, and probably shouldn’t be left alone with pretty young nuns

Like, the Wesley Snipes Blade? In his world, half the cardinals are probably vampires.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (2VST1)

225 149
egypt said nope. Plus they had their check point with gaza locked down hard. Nothing was going in or out for quite a few months.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 05:04 PM (e5NfL)
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We are forgetting the extensive tunnel(s) also at the Egyptian end.

Posted by: Ciampino - you can drive a truck there at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (sPQoU)

226 I challenge every member of the Democrat-Media Complex and of the former Biden Administration to tell us one item, JUST ONE ITEM, on which they were fully truthful to the public during Decrepit Joe's term.

Based on the multitude of lies we now know we were told (so far), I challenge Decrepit Joe and every member of his abominable Administration to prove the names they used in public for those four years are their true legal names.

Posted by: Gref at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (aBgBM)

227 221 Remember during the Vietnam war, not only did a plane fall off of a carrier, the plane was carrying an H-bomb. Neither was ever found.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (Da7Vv)

Eh, probably not too important.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (uCjyK)

228 I loved the Chicken a la King MRE.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (bF7Q5)

229 >> British media reported Wednesday that the Iranian nationals arrested in the UK over the weekend were allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in London.

How were they caught by the Bobbies? Did they mis-gender someone on Twitter?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (l3YAf)

230 "Everything rises or falls on leadership."

Posted by: As a minimum at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (T0oeS)

231 The Biden administration was on tje Muslims side all along

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (ypFCm)

232 How were they caught by the Bobbies? Did they mis-gender someone on Twitter?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (l3YAf)

They said there were only two genders on Twitter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (ksHMv)

233 @Boss Moss, I would have traded you mine for a salt packet.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (2cS/G)

234 "Everything rises or falls on leadership."

Posted by: John Maxwell at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (T0oeS)

235 And now, for your musical interlude:

I give you the Screaming Trees

https://tinyurl.com/2vnm7e6h

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (W2Pud)

236 The Blade would be a great pope. Except he ain’t Catholic, knows little about Catholic traditions and dogma, thinks pope hats are silly, and probably shouldn’t be left alone with pretty young nuns

Like, the Wesley Snipes Blade? In his world, half the cardinals are probably vampires.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (2VST1)
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Better than communists!

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (aeiyZ)

237 Couldn't eat it. Smelled like cat food. And I love cats.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:25 PM (2cS/G)

238 Gay commie vampires are the worst.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (ksHMv)

239 We had a LT who liked beans and franks

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (bF7Q5)

240 Supposedly the Macaroni and Chili was the best MRE, although they have added a ton of different meals lately.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (2VST1)

241 The Blade would be a great pope. Except he ain’t Catholic, knows little about Catholic traditions and dogma, thinks pope hats are silly, and probably shouldn’t be left alone with pretty young nuns. He ain’t a filthy commie or gay-curious cretin, though, so he’d at least be better than Francis.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 07, 2025 05:21 PM (aeiyZ)

Soon after the fall of Rome the people of Milan acclaimed the governor, a dude named Ambrose that had no religious post before their Bishop. Some time later he was making the Emperor do penance for an atrocity in Greece.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (8avO+)

242 The very notion of a "terrorist sympathizer" wing of a major party would have been a call to arms 20 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (RIvkX)

243 We had a LT who liked beans and franks
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (bF7Q5)

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 07, 2025 05:27 PM (ksHMv)

244 25 Will this scandal be on any of the network "news" stations?
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 07, 2025 04:40 PM (qBdHI)

You’d think Piers Morgan would be all over it. I mean, it’s right there in his name, for dock’s sake.

Posted by: haffhowershower at May 07, 2025 05:27 PM (5SvjB)

245 I give you the Screaming Trees

Home town boys. I really liked them because the singer was a baritone. Great band but they lacked the visual appeal of guys like Nirvana.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:27 PM (2VST1)

246 Operation Eagle Claw > Gaza "Pier"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

247 162
And don't even get me started on the term "Asian-American."

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 07, 2025 05:08 PM (eStot)
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Eurasian?

Posted by: Ciampino - you can be at May 07, 2025 05:27 PM (sPQoU)

248 There was one decent spaghetti and meatball entree (early 90') but other than that and a couple others I would trade for everyone's PB or Cheese packets and crackers.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:28 PM (2cS/G)

249 >> British media reported Wednesday that the Iranian nationals arrested in the UK over the weekend were allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in London.

How were they caught by the Bobbies? Did they mis-gender someone on Twitter?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:24 PM (l3YAf)

Like we need to be careful not to offend Iranian terrorists. Of course they were planning an attack.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:28 PM (8avO+)

250 We had a LT who liked beans and franks
Posted by: Boss Moss

Best MRE: 1989 Wornack Company Beef Stew
Dark Brown plastic packaging.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:28 PM (xt/H7)

251 The very notion of a "terrorist sympathizer" wing of a major party would have been a call to arms 20 years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (RIvkX)

Sadly, no. The PLO and Arafat were very chic in the 90s.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+)

252 The very notion of a "terrorist sympathizer" wing of a major party would have been a call to arms 20 years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2025 05:26 PM (RIvkX)

The Dems have always been terrorist sympathizers. All the way back to when the Klan was riding around in robes, on to their support of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Weather Underground, PLO, IRA, etc..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:29 PM (l3YAf)

253 They have all kinda crazy stuff in MREs now like lentils and tiki masala and veggie burgers. That sounds like the kind of thing I'd want to trade.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:30 PM (2VST1)

254
Imagine being killed by a pallet of "Chicken la King with Noodles, including Chocolate Brownie"? If I'm going down, I want the "Pork in Sauce, including Peanut Butter Cookies".
Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (2cS/G)

Chicken a la Thing was bad, but edible. The Four Fingers of Death, however...

I was lucky enough to miss the vomlet, which came out about 15 years after I took off my uniform in the Land of the Big PX.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 07, 2025 05:30 PM (y9nCu)

255 So if you have black skin and live in Toronto are you an African-Canadian?

Posted by: Since you brought it up at May 07, 2025 05:30 PM (T0oeS)

256 As a Jew, I'm a little biased about Palestinians, so I try to put myself in the position of some distaff, lachrymose, borderline retarded consumer of American news media and box wine, who may not know much about sand maggots.

And I still don't get the love for Arabs, and hostility to Jews.

It's a simple proposition: you can't do anything about this war besides get further involved in it, which is highly inadvisable.

So, at minimum, you can choose to withdraw munitions sales and intelligence cooperation with a heretofore friendly country in order to aid a hostile one. Not a fantastic option, but it is one.

Or, stepping even a little further back, you could just admit that the only peace in Israel will be a Carthaginian one, and ask which population you'd prefer to survive.

I'm not choosing the psychotic, retarded one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 05:30 PM (BI5O2)

257 There was one decent spaghetti and meatball entree (early 90') but other than that and a couple others I would trade for everyone's PB or Cheese packets and crackers.
Posted by: Lincolntf

I ate an almost 30-year-old John Wayne cookie. A chocolate covered hard pressed oatmeal type cookie.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:31 PM (xt/H7)

258 Sadly, no. The PLO and Arafat were very chic in the 90s.

And the African National Congress. And yeah back to the ""anarchists" in the early 20th century with guys like Sacco and Vanzetti and the klan. Its practically a Democrat tradition.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:31 PM (2VST1)

259 There was one decent spaghetti and meatball entree (early 90') but other than that and a couple others I would trade for everyone's PB or Cheese packets and crackers.
Posted by: Lincolntf
====

I found the Chicken and Rice most acceptable, or everything edible.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 07, 2025 05:31 PM (/lPRQ)

260 Oh, Black Panthers, and all of those radical groups in the 60s and 70s..

The Democrats have a pretty long history of being terrorist-adjacent. Because terrorism works.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:31 PM (l3YAf)

261 The very notion of a "terrorist sympathizer" wing of a major party would have been a call to arms 20 years ago.
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That was when they were building a mosque at the conquered WTC site IIRC

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - Nose rings and tattoos show that her trauma is her personality at May 07, 2025 05:32 PM (y+AhE)

262 We are forgetting the extensive tunnel(s) also at the Egyptian end.
Posted by: Ciampino - you can drive a truck there at May 07, 2025 05:23 PM (sPQoU)

Not near as extensive as the ones USAID built all over the map. In fact, USAID probably funded the Egyptian tunnels.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

263 Oh, Black Panthers, and all of those radical groups in the 60s and 70s..

The Democrats have a pretty long history of being terrorist-adjacent. Because terrorism works.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at May 07, 2025 05:31 PM (l3YAf)

KKK

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:32 PM (8avO+)

264 Based on recent history, I don't think being a Catholic is a requirement anymore. So, I'm throwing my mitre in the ring. My platform is:

1. posthumously excommunicate Philip IV;
2. restore the Templars;
3. declare and organize a crusade.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (z5QST)
Well said.

Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2025 05:33 PM (LHPAg)

265 They are more open and up front about supporting murderers and lunatics these days though. They usually had some cover back in the past like "we have to protect our white women!" or "Zionist atrocities!" but these days its "I want to marry the guy who assassinated a CEO!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:33 PM (2VST1)

266 Best MRE: 1989 Wornack Company Beef Stew
Dark Brown plastic packaging.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2025 05:28 PM

There was a ham slice MRE we used to get when I was stationed at GITMO back in the mid 90s that was the bomb.

For C rats in the 70s the beans and meatballs one was hands down my favorite. IIRC is also was a B unit and that came with the pound cake in the can.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2025 05:33 PM (e5NfL)

267 MRE drops. Iv'e got it, Iv'e got it. Blankpff.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (bF7Q5)

268 posthumously excommunicate Philip IV

Dig up his bones and burn them like Wycliffe. France was really run by some severely evil men for a long time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (2VST1)

269 @rickb233 We had that. It wasn't bad. But I remember that some of them from that generation coming in got rejected. The soap packet in that particular MRE generation would get open somehow and everything reeked of soap when you opened the envelope. We ditched a bunch, but kept the Twizzler's packs included, even though they tasted a bit sudsy.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (2cS/G)

270 I'm sorry... that music means we're all out of time for today. Tune in next week for another episode of Gourmet Meal Rations Talk on this and other PBS stations.
Sponsored by People Like You.

Posted by: NPR announcer voice at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (T0oeS)

271 "How'd you get the beans above the frank?"

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (VJc7E)

272 259 There was one decent spaghetti and meatball entree (early 90') but other than that and a couple others I would trade for everyone's PB or Cheese packets and crackers.
Posted by: Lincolntf
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I found the Chicken and Rice most acceptable, or everything edible.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Tabasco made almost all of them semi edible except the dehydrated pork patty. That was purely nasty.

Posted by: whig at May 07, 2025 05:34 PM (ctrM5)

273 My platform is:

1. posthumously excommunicate Philip IV;
2. restore the Templars;
3. declare and organize a crusade.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

4. Excommunicate Joe Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Elephants and Earthquakes! at May 07, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

274 NOOD ALERT!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at May 07, 2025 05:35 PM (q177U)

275 that came with the pound cake in the can.

That sounds like a song by one of those late 80s hair metal bands

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2025 05:35 PM (2VST1)

276 Ham Slice, yes! I forgot about that one. Probably the best draw you could get.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 07, 2025 05:36 PM (2cS/G)

277
Sadly, no. The PLO and Arafat were very chic in the 90s.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+)

Rumor was that in the 80s, Eurotrash would pay the PLO to go to Beirut, they'd be given a Dragunov and they'd shoot civilians over the Green Line in the Christian and Druze quarters of the city.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 07, 2025 05:36 PM (y9nCu)

278 221 Remember during the Vietnam war, not only did a plane fall off of a carrier, the plane was carrying an H-bomb. Neither was ever found.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at May 07, 2025 05:22 PM (Da7Vv)
Was that off Spain? I thought they retrieved that one. Pretty sure they retrieved one off Cuba.

Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2025 05:37 PM (LHPAg)

279 Or, stepping even a little further back, you could just admit that the only peace in Israel will be a Carthaginian one, and ask which population you'd prefer to survive.

I'm not choosing the psychotic, retarded one.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2025 05:30 PM (BI5O2)

The irony is that in the time of Christ the Jews were the psychotic retarded ones that the Christians were dodging to avoid getting wiped out.

But yes, there have been lots of examples going back hundreds of years where people far away pick a side based on foolish enthusiams.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:37 PM (8avO+)

280 Based on recent history, I don't think being a Catholic is a requirement anymore. So, I'm throwing my mitre in the ring. My platform is:

1. posthumously excommunicate Philip IV;
2. restore the Templars;
3. declare and organize a crusade.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 07, 2025 05:16 PM (z5QST)
Well said.
Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2025 05:33 PM (LHPAg)

Bringing your own mitre is a real cost saver for the Church. I'm sold.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2025 05:39 PM (8avO+)

281 207 Is anyone talking about losing 3 aircraft off the Harry S. Truman in as many weeks? Maybe with a little diversity we could spread out the losses over a few different aircraft carriers.
Posted by: jwest at May 07, 2025 05:15 PM (JRfbP)
'Listen up, boys and girls. This is a tiedown chain. I want each of you to grab four and follow me to the stern. When we get there you will about face and follow me to the bow. Any questions?'
BM3 Horowitz

Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2025 05:42 PM (LHPAg)

282 Every day, another scandal or three that should, in a sane world, bring bout the utter collapse of the Democratic Party.

Posted by: zombie at May 07, 2025 05:48 PM (pMi6S)

283 The only thing the Bye-gone administration was good for is cover ups, and not even that good. Buffoons.

Posted by: Ghost of the Tsar at May 08, 2025 11:06 AM (dweVS)

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