We gave up on “civility” when you tried to stage a literal coup via the “Trump/Russia Collusion” hoax.
We abandoned “comity” when you decided that serial impeachments based on lies and fables were your preferred method of thwarting the Constitutional will of the American electorate.
We decided against “collegiality” after you decided it was better to fabricate criminal charges to defeat your opponents than it was to try and defeat them at the ballot box.
We threw out pretensions of “courtesy” the one-zillionth time you called us “Nazis” while your own candidates sport SS Totenkopf tattoos.
We play by your rules now, Democrats.
Deal with it.
(You too, Mike Pence.)
Years ago when Obama was running for his first term, my neighbors kept talking about how great Obama was. I never said a word to them about being conservative because back then I was more centrist.
At the time I was a 1099 consultant so I paid for my own health insurance. It was about $650 for a family of three and we had a fairly low deductible.
After Obama won and the ACA passed, I lost my health insurance and was told by BCBS that I had to go through the government website to apply.
My insurance went from an affordable $650 a month to $2400 a month with a $10k deductible per family member.
When I said this to my neighbor, they called me a liar. I asked them where they got their news and they said they watched Jon Stewart. I laughed so hard and they never spoke to me again. I’m glad they finally moved.
I just wanted to say this: these are the people we are arguing with online. Completely uninformed buffoons. If you get your information from a late night comedian talk show host, we are not on the same level. Good riddance, Colbert.
So today I had a retired US Navy three-star admiral accuse me of being a bot and having never served in the US military.
I posted a rebuttal, which basically caused this Democrat admiral to get swarmed by a social media army of veterans (and patriotic non-veterans too).
I truly appreciate the outpouring of support, but I am also quite interested in what this says about the mindset of America’s veteran community in 2026, writ large.
Most of us? We served in the GWOT and are still angry about it. We are angry that we were sent to do impossible missions of building liberal institutions in 8th Century tribal societies. We’re angry about ridiculously restrictive ROE that got our friends killed. We are angry that for much of the wars we were inadequately resourced, driving soft-skinned HMMWVs down IED Alley. We are angry that we spent all those years to have, in the end, accomplished very little. We are angry at how the VA treated us when we got out. Most of all, we are angry about watching our friends get killed or maimed (or kill themselves when they got home), seemingly all for naught.
And guess what? We are REALLY angry at the senior generals and admirals who led us down this path and never had the cajones to tell the civilian elected leadership what the real deal was. (We’re not angry at Pete Hegseth’s team—we’re angry at the generals and admirals who caused the problems he and his team are trying to fix.)
That admiral who came at me today? He was one of those GWOT senior leaders.
What you saw today was much less an outpouring of support for me and much more an outpouring of righteous anger at a righteous target.
Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, it’s an interesting phenomenon.