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God, Family, Country🇺🇸. Husband, Dad, Combat Vet, Lifelong Learner, Intellectual Honesty, Honne & Tatemae #BillsMafia Matt. 13:10-17, 22:37-40, 23:12

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@emeriticus @ShannonJoyRadio JD Palantir. Completely expected and on (bland) brand

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Article 2 section 2 defines the president as the commander in chief of the armed forces. But separation of powers means though the president leads the military, the congress decided when to make war. Otherwise we can just willy nilly attack whoever the flavor of the day is. It’s extremely poorly covered - we haven’t declared a state of war since 1942. Please describe to me what “regime change” in Iran looks like, and how that benefits Americans. I fought in “regime change” wars in the Middle East and the “benefits” I witnessed are veterans collecting disability checks, hundreds of thousands of dead middle easterners no one cares about, and a ballooned national debt. If you think Iran was close to obtaining a nuke, had the technological capacity to create a delivery system to reach American shores, and actually planned to preemptively strike the world’s foremost nuclear power, then you must watch you some Mark Levin.

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@KTmBoyle @pmarca

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@infantrydort We arguably live under greater tryannu today

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@CaseyPutsch The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

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@BenSwann_ Go ahead and lead the charge Mike. Lead from the front!

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@redthunder2022 @BobLonsberry Yep. All the way back to Truman. Congress hasn’t declared a state of war since 1942. If it were up to me: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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@redthunder2022 @BobLonsberry I saw them for 12 years and don’t want to see them again. I also spent my 20’s fighting dumb wars in the Middle East and am grateful 20 something’s today don’t have to do it again (a man can hope). W, Obama, Biden, Trump, they all suck.

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@BobLonsberry Or we can look at it like this- we started a dumb pointless war, got out before it became a catastrophe, and at least 90 million Iranians now get to join the world economy and polite society. Affluent and economically interdependent countries don’t generally go to war

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@AwakenWithJP No. I’m no fan of the Israeli government. But I’m a bigger opponent of war- that invariably hurts civilians far worse. Violence begets violence.

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@infantrydort Like the time I was on the Bn FOB visiting from COP and a SSG lost his leg to 107mm rocket incoming and we couldn’t identify POO because CSM was using raid cam to check for who was wearing PT belts at night instead of who was setting up rockets and mortars.

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Never have truer words been spoken about GWOT

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The more I look at this lighthearted monument idea. the more I think it accidentally captured the entire story of the Global War on Terror.

Not the war itself, but what it became.

A giant restraint stretched across open ground, another buckle fastened by people convinced that every problem can be solved by tightening the strap one more notch.

Those of us who fought that war were not fragile. We crossed oceans, climbed mountains, walked through cities filled with bombs, and carried burdens that would break most people. Yet somewhere along the way an entire generation of leaders became convinced that the greatest threat to those men was not the enemy, but risk itself.

What followed was twenty years of wrapping warriors in procedures, approvals, permissions, reviews, assessments, oversight mechanisms, and legal opinions until the institution slowly forgot the difference between protecting a force and restraining it.

Every buckle arrived with good intentions. Every layer was justified. Every restriction was sold to us as profound wisdom. Nobody noticed that the accumulation of caution was producing its own form of recklessness. We became so obsessed with preventing small failures that we lost the ability to achieve great successes.

That is the lesson staring back at me from this seemingly funny image.

Civilizations are not preserved by eliminating danger. They are preserved by producing men capable of confronting it. A people that spends enough time worshipping safety eventually begins treating courage like a pathology and initiative like a threat. The instinct for survival remains, but it becomes detached from the willingness to act.

History has never been kind to societies that make that trade.

What makes this monument joke so powerful is that it unintentionally captures the hangover of an entire era. An era spent tightening straps while the muscles beneath them slowly atrophied. An era spent managing risk while forgetting that the greatest risks are often the ones created by excessive caution.

If the Global War on Terror means anything, it should be this: never again confuse bureaucracy for strategy, process for progress, or restraint for strength.

The buckle is perfect.

Not because it honors what we were.

Because it reminds us what we became.

And it reminds us what we should never be again.

Cautious to the point of calamity.

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@BrianJ_88 @DudespostingWs 100% Frigate level!

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SpaceX is a fantastic company. Also true that retail investors buying the IPO are paying for founder exits. Wait and buy after the bubble bursts.

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SpaceX is the most overhyped IPO of the decade and it will end exactly the way every overhyped IPO ends. Facebook IPO’d at $38 and traded under that for 15 months. Uber IPO’d at $45 and is still below that adjusted seven years later for a while. WeWork tried at $47 billion and ended at zero. Robinhood IPO’d at $38, hit $85, then $7. Coinbase IPO’d at $381 and was at $40 two years later. Rivian IPO’d at a $100 billion valuation with no meaningful revenue and gave back 90%. Beyond Meat. Peloton. Lyft. DoorDash. Bird. Each one a “generational company” the day it priced.

Each one a wealth destruction event for retail within 18 months. The pattern is not a coincidence. Hype IPOs are designed to transfer wealth from the people buying the story to the people who built the story. The bankers get paid. The early employees get out. The VCs get a markup they can show their LPs. The retail investor gets the bag. SpaceX is a great company. That has nothing to do with whether it’s a great stock at IPO. Greatness was already priced in five funding rounds ago. You are not getting in early. You are buying the exit. The only IPO worth chasing is the one nobody is talking about. Those don’t exist anymore because every IPO is marketed like a movie release. So the answer is: don’t chase. Wait two years. Buy it down 70% when the lockup unwinds and the narrative breaks. Or don’t buy it at all and put the money somewhere the bankers haven’t already extracted the alpha. Hype is not an asset class. It’s a tax.

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@BobLonsberry Ideas:
-price your product better
-have a product worth buying (return on investment for customers)
-don’t blame external factors for having a lousy overpriced product
-dip into that endowment
-layoff some administrators

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@ImBreckWorsham @MrSausageGet The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

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It’s so beautiful! Every SGM on every army installation is creaming himself while wearing eye pro

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@Gruntpa GENTLEMEN BEHOLD

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@vintage997 @trentjhughes Can’t take it to the grave. The Egyptian pharaohs tried. Now they’re either on display in a museum or ground into mummy powder. Money is a tool. Can’t be afraid to lose it.

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@BuffaloBills @JoshAllenQB Deep in the water where the fish hang out lives a glum gloomy swimmer with an ever present pout. I’m a pout pout fish with a pout pout face and I spread the dreary wearies all over the place.