Sam

Dad of three, husband of one, owner of insane dog, old house, work, beer and wine. Not necessarily in that order.

[Sam @law2156]

@UKDefJournal 51, knackered knees, left hip going, cataracts and a disinclination to sleep anywhere but my own bed.

Good luck.

[Ron Wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[Sam @law2156]

@Apple I haven't had an iPhone since 2011. I get charged £29.99 every 6 months for iTunes which I don't have. I tried logging into my old apple account but it states it no longer exists. I have had the same mobile number since 1998. Do something.

[Sam @law2156]

@SapperPantsoff @thesundaysport Ah. RTFQ. My bad.....

[Sam @law2156]

@SapperPantsoff @thesundaysport You sure that wasn't Kelly Brook? Holly Willoughby appears to have no brothers but Kelly Brook's brother was definitely a dapper.

[Sam @law2156]

@Posted_to_BAOR To be fair, Benny was REME. Shaped his beret while wearing boxing gloves.

[Sam @law2156]

@SapperPantsoff Just looked him up. If you are talking about Roland Walker, he has GSM NI, Iraq and Afghan. Given he was Hereford, heptobably has some Op experience not covered by medals.

[Sam @law2156]

@bushontheradio Do it, good for blood flow. Just don't be alarmed when you shit turns red....

[Sam @law2156]

@Mens_Corner__ Absolute genius.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

You see folks, as far as I can tell, from the outside, this is what it looks like: America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip on reality and drag us all into catastrophe.

You want to steal Greenland.
You want Cuba to “make a deal before it’s too late”.
You talk about bombing or invading Mexico.
You kidnap a President and knock off the peoples oil in Venezuela.
You joke about annexing Canada like it should be a shopping centre car park you can just claim because you feel like it.

Do you have any idea how insane that sounds to the rest of us?

This isn’t tough talk. This isn’t strategy. This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like he’s flipping over a Monopoly board because he’s losing. This is not normal behaviour. This is not leadership. This is not strength. This is a walking, talking international crisis.

And Americans, this is where it comes back to you. Not just MAGA, not just the people who voted for him, all of you. Because when the President of the United States starts talking about kidnapping leaders, annexing countries, and issuing ultimatums like a mob boss, the rest of the world doesn’t get a vote. We just get the consequences.

You don’t get to shrug and say, “Well I didn’t vote for him.” That might fly at a dinner party, but it doesn’t fly when nuclear powers are watching this circus and recalculating their own red lines. This is your system. Your presidency. Your responsibility.

From the outside, it looks like America lit the fuse and then wandered off while everyone else stands around the bomb wondering who’s going to cut the wire.

And let’s be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. He’s frail. He’s clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. He’s at the end of his lifespan and acting like nothing matters after him. That is the most dangerous type of leader there is. A man with nothing to lose and an ego that demands constant feeding.

Why should the rest of the world pay for that?

Why should families in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, anywhere, have to worry about war, trade collapse, energy shocks, or global instability because America couldn’t get its own house in order?

This is not about left or right anymore. This is about basic sanity. This is about stopping a psychopath before he does something irreversible. Because once a war starts, once a country gets invaded, once alliances fracture beyond repair, you don’t get a reset button.

So yes, this falls on Americans. You got the world into this mess, and you damn well better roll your sleeves up and get us out of it. Impeach him. Remove him. Contain him. Do whatever your system allows, but do it fast.

Because the rest of us just want to live our lives, raise our families, pay our bills, and not wake up one morning to find out World War Three started because an unhinged old man wanted to feel powerful one last time.

This isn’t funny anymore.
It isn’t theatrical.
It isn’t tolerable.

Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.

[Sam @law2156]

Interesting to note only one country has ever invoked Article 5. The same country that is now reducing its level of commitment to defend the other NATO members.

https://t.co/a1W6lGSFu5

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Let’s stop lying to ourselves.

Under the Good Friday Agreement, hundreds of convicted terrorists were deliberately let out of prison early. Not because they were innocent. Not because justice failed. But because the state decided peace was more convenient than accountability.

Murderers. Bombers. Men with blood on their hands.
Released, rebranded, some even applauded — all while victims were told to swallow it for the greater good.

That decision was brutal.
It was ugly.
But at least it was honest.

The state said: “We are drawing a line. This ends here.”

Now look at what we’re doing instead.

Decades later, the same state is reopening cases against elderly British veterans — men who were sent into Northern Ireland by politicians, under lawful orders, into an insurgency where every decision was made in seconds and judged decades later from a warm office chair.

Many of these men were already investigated. Some more than once. Cleared. Files closed. Lives half-repaired.

And now?
Dragged back again. Not because of new evidence. Not because of fresh witnesses. But because it’s politically fashionable, legally fashionable, and — crucially — safe.

Because veterans don’t riot.
They don’t threaten.
They don’t blow things up.

Terrorists got peace because they had leverage.
Soldiers get prosecuted because they don’t.

That’s the filthy truth.

The state made a deal with men who tried to destroy it — and has kept that deal religiously.
But it has no loyalty to the men who defended it.

And don’t insult people by calling this “justice”.

Justice doesn’t mean:
   •   letting terrorists walk free permanently
   •   while hunting soldiers indefinitely

Justice doesn’t wait 50 years, then suddenly grow a conscience — aimed in one direction only.

This isn’t accountability.
It’s moral cowardice.

The government is terrified of reopening old wounds with former terrorists — but perfectly happy reopening graves for veterans’ families.

And the message to every serving soldier today is crystal clear:

If politics shifts, if history turns sour, if it becomes inconvenient — you will be sacrificed to keep the noise down.

Fight for us.
Die for us.
But don’t expect us to stand by you when it gets uncomfortable.

That isn’t a failure of policy.
It’s a failure of character.

And it’s disgusting

[Sam @law2156]

@WHATSFORDlNNER Smash!

[Sam @law2156]

@Impitoyable @anon_opin What he said.

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

This one thing that drains a man faster than anything in a relationship..

[Sam @law2156]

@Rainmaker1973 Flavour. It's missing flavour.

Sure others have commented the same, but CBA going through 8k of comments.

[Sam @law2156]

@bushontheradio No, but don't be concerned by a red ring around the toilet 12 hours later.

[Sam @law2156]

@OfficerofEngin1 Do you know what, I'm up for this.

Ex Corps, like a drink, deserve a night away.

DM me mate.

[Sam @law2156]

@terrychristian I served 22 years. I have a degree. I joined as a Sapper. You cannot progress in the Army without at least a C in English and Maths. Maybe there are some with 11 yr old reading age, but they are few and far between. I like you Terry, but do your research.

[Sam @law2156]

1ive seen two houses in, our village with their Christmas trees up.

What the a tual.....

It's the first week of November