Bob Wilson

Organic Farmer and Entrepreneur. Former Army Special Forces Officer and #NSC44 Director for #CT. Webster MBA. Comic Book geek and Hair Metal fan.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

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[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 That’s the coolest thing ever

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@slipperywerm @mikenelson586 Cannon

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@Chuck_Ritter92 I think you should commission a bunch of Warhammer 40k figurines. Live stream you with other vets playing Warhammer, building scenarios based on your past experiences. But with orc, trolls, etc. Then, sell them.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.

The crime they do: not reading the paper.

The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.

Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.

Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.

So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.

- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550

Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.

The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.

The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.

She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@VetsForRL Your

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@VetsForRL I don’t think you’re organization took risks when it came to Platner. I think VetsForRL has an issue with values and it needs to address if it wants to be a resource for veterans and an organization that makes our politics better.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

Just an absolute masterpiece of screw-ups. Bravo. Hang these in the Louvre.

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

Any updates?

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@BDHerzinger @RadioFreeTom He’s not wrong that senior military leaders share the blame for the conduct of the war in Afghanistan and the unsatisfactory (and not unexpected) outcome there.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 That’s awesome man.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@kdavids87 @NateSilver538 Jill Biden just wrote a book and made a statement about fearing her husband has suffered a stroke during an interview and in a published book excerpt. It’s news.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 I think I was 17 during that debate.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

This is a tough day for a lot of us. I could do without this partisan crap for one day.

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 That is likely an obscure reference for many folks these days!

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

"Epic Fury is combat... Project Freedom *isn't* combat"

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 Yes that was a totally bullshit dig. Passed on by people with big audiences.

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

There are a lot of reasons to be critical of Secretary Hegseth, but the Ranger School dig is dumb and irrelevant. It has nothing to do with his role as SecDef

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

A very interesting but often sad thing about getting older is that more and more people you know or have read or respected begin to fall apart. Some die young. Some get physically ill or cognitively decline. And some develop serious mental illness or lose touch with reality. One weird thing about this era is people who lose touch with reality do so very publicly and find people who encourage their delusions. (But maybe I just have a dim aura).

[Bob Wilson @aoindependence]

@mikenelson586 When I saw this tweet, for some reason, my brain thought you were talking about Larry Bird, and I was like what the hell crazy shit did Larry Bird say about politics recently??