@kylegriffin1 "They couldn't believe how healthy I was. Healthiest person they've ever seen. They got 15 more specialists for the next cognitive test because they just couldn't believe it folks"
@neeratanden@davidgoldiner@mtmanjaro10 It's wild to be at least tangentially a political "professional" in 2026 and believe that swing voters exist as a meaningful part of the electorate
It does stretch the limits of credulity that someone working at the White House would assume that a USAF Lt. Col. had lacked education or opportunities.
Even if you accept the nonsense premise that Democrats don't understand the choice to serve, everyone knows that commissioned officers have at least a bachelor's degree.
@NilesGApol Yes it is morally wrong to consider someone's ability to perform before making them one of the ~125 or so most powerful people in America. Go off king!
@Indian_Bronson And even then, there was an enormous amount of hand-wringing from the older generations that we shouldn't get into a war against Germany because the youth of America in 1940 were all enormous pussies
The boomer take was alive long before the boomer
@ShaneGoldmacher Surely counting paid canvassers, which could make this unremarkable - depends on breakdown of full-time/part-time.
Lot of money to get your ass kicked though, no doubt
@JoePostingg At least one person has been charged with perjury for changing their name with the specific intent to do something like this and deceive voters.
I assume that's very unlikely to be the case here though, otherwise Sullivan would already be shouting it from the rooftops
@JoJoFromJerz Little known detail of his story: His mom wasn't even an addict before; she just wanted him gone and Percocet was the first offer she got. Rest is history, sadly
@cwjones89@sociologyWV I thought criticism of Ambrose was rooted in accusations of plagiarism rather than accuracy. But a plagiarizer having other issues with the truth isn't hard to believe
@danielnewmanUV I'm the CEO of The Abacus and Jensen is lying; every Fortune 500 CEO is in talks with my team about ditching AI.
And you know I'm telling the truth because it's not at all in my self-interest to say this!
If not for his historic weakness, I think Trump having absolutely no values would have accidentally resulted in some great policy outcomes.
He cares nothing for Israel beyond "you morons love this don't you" and if he had the ability to do anything other than agree with the most recent person to speak to him, he would likely have cut them off long ago because the whole war thing isn't benefiting him politically
@_carlbeijer Sorry if this is a joke I didn't get, but servicemembers were allowed to choose "NO RELIGION" for their dogtags decades before they were allowed to print "Islam"
In WWII you could only be Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or No Religion
@eli777melodies@saturnretcrns@soggybrocoli Having your phone out at a public event should be societally equal to having your dick out, and it should be legal to physically remediate both situations the same way.
It seems indicative of the extent to which Dems have surrendered gun control as a priority issue that I don't think I've ever seen anyone make a single reference to his views/whether they matter
(They are the views you're assuming a 41-year-old rural Maine combat veteran has)
Don't know why that was the first thing that popped into my head. Just seemed remarkable given the extent to which the issue was everywhere not so many years ago