“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).
Man escapes police custody…👮♀️
Belfast Northern Ireland.
A balaclava clad man is marched through the streets by the Police but then he makes a break for it …
JD Vance as an Elliot Ness-Like fraud cop is a role that suits him, I think. The VP job, performed traditionally, is stuffy and ceremonial and inert. I like the man-of-action version better, issuing warnings, swooping in on raids, briefing the public on the recovered loot.
Los Angeles: Transient sucker punches elderly customer eating lunch alone at a cafe in Hollywood, steals his wallet and phone. Hero steps up and takes the thief down.
The conviction of Joseph Morrison, accused of providing aid to an informant-swarmed plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, has been overturned.
https://t.co/G3JCh5gGfh
I just have to say this.
I have more combat tours and significantly more time on the military than that JackWagon from Maine.
I have been diagnosed with PTSD also but never once did it occur to me to get a Nazi Death Head tattoo.
In fact, if one of my guys did, I would have thrown them the fuck out of the SEAL Teams.
Anyone supporting that guy might as well get the same tattoo.
This is despicable.
When I was the Air Force Military Aide to Bill Clinton (and again, that was not a political appointee position, it was a military assignment), I served daily with very young staffers who were appointed because of their efforts in the campaign or who their parents were.
I really enjoyed interacting with most of them. Bright kids from Ivy League school. But their naïveté and lack of experience showed. Dramatically.
One day I was walking across the White House “campus,” the “18 acres,” and I encountered one of the young female staffers. We chatted for a bit, and she asked me, “So, why did you join the military? Were your career options limited or were you forced to by a judge?”
I wanted to throat punch her, but I said, “No, ma’am, I volunteered.”
She asked, “But why? Lack of education? No other options?”
“No, ma’am, I volunteered. Really. Not only do I have a Bachelor’s but also an MBA.”
She asked again, “Then why?”
I shook my head and walked away. They simply can’t understand a higher calling. They are incapable of understanding that another human who would selflessly serve.
Therein lies much of the Democrat vs. military disconnect. They’re missing the patriotism chip.