Mister Cheap

“I’m trying to find my own way back” -Stephen Strange

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Ma’am, with all due respect, you don’t know what you’re talking about. This isn’t about forgetting anyone. It’s about how the Pentagon classifies casualties under named operations.

Those service members were on routine deployments in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. Whether someone later moved their names on a website under Operation Epic Fury, or moved them back, doesn’t change a single thing that matters.

It doesn’t change how they died. It doesn’t change the benefits their families receive. It doesn’t change the honors they earned or the gratitude they deserve.

If we’re going to criticize the Pentagon, let’s do it over facts, not a misunderstanding of how military operations are classified. Those four deserve better than being used to manufacture outrage.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[Mister Cheap @Sgunntre]

@SecRollins @WhiteHouse @Screwworm_RR @USDA @RapidResponse47 Let @MillerForTexas fix it then and quit playing politics

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@RCPolitics Whichever one stops harming itself first….

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@TexasChance @Apple …they just don’t innovate anymore. 😬

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@18B_ACTUAL Is it football season yet?….

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@LouisvilleGun You have to try the carrot cake sandwich cookies from Walmart!

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@SportsRV Like a broken clock is still right twice a day….

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@Sarah4Texas @KennethRWebster @JoshuaWDelano ….and unfollow.

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@Sarah4Texas @ScottPresler I agree it is self-serving and disingenuous, but I would still rather have Paxton than Cornyn.

[Mister Cheap @Sgunntre]

Good article. For those of you with a short attention span, I will summarize:

Don’t act like you are awesome for 6 months out of every other year (election cycle) and then act like a douche the other 18. Voters remember

[kcmagazine @kcmagazine]

What started as a promising political career ended with a strong rebuke. Too bad. @DanCrenshawTX could have gone a long ways. https://t.co/lNOVaakwUp

[Mister Cheap @Sgunntre]

@ArmchairAdml You live in a country where foreign grooming gangs get the victims punished….

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@visionergeo @ArmchairAdml Note: you are supposed to put the credit in the original post. Not a comment after you get a proposed community note….

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@WhiteSnowytr @SeanUnfiltered @SSalisburyShow @rumblevideo @SeanUnfiltered this is a scam. Account us based in Brazil and has 32 name changes

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@ASo1omons I think that means it’s heart healthy and will lower your cholesterol.

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@Boyle_OReilly @Boymomadukes107 @3YearLetterman I thought infallible meant no tripping?

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@ian_mckelvey @IlhanMN Pretty sure wine was also literally invented by Jesus at his buddy’s wedding. Or maybe it was the bachelor party…

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@Osint613 This is Europes bargaining chip in trying to remain under the protection of the US.

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@amuse It wasn’t terror moron. It was sparklers on a champagne bottle being held by an idiot riding in someone’s shoulders that set the ceiling on far. This has been widely reported.