Mark 🥓 🥓

Cranky OIF vet, lover of smoked meat

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

“No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” ― Mark Twain

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@amar_4inc @MarcoFoster_ Go away, Jeet.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

Deport his ass.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Zul Mohammed from Pakistan, running for Mayor of Carrollton, TX says:

“No vet has made any sacrifice. I want to make that clear. I do not support the US military. No, I do not support the United States. I look down on both entities”

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@KassyAkiva He’s so delusional

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

Democrats are adamantly pro-terrorist now.

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

At a Graham Platner rally in Portland.

“Would an Israeli flag tattoo be a deal breaker?”

“Honestly yeah, because I don’t support genocide.”

[tree hugging sister 🎃 @WelbornBeege]

😍🇺🇲😍🇺🇲😍

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Just so you know, because nobody else is saying it: there should’ve never been a “ceasefire” with Iran.

Everything Trump allegedly accomplished since then could’ve been done without one in place.

Instead, he allowed lightweights in his administration convince him to work towards a “ceasefire,” because they imagine that’s how conflicts are solved.

Want to ease up on the bombing? Sure. Stop when you want to stop. The stronger position would’ve been to keep the Iranians guessing, kill off more of their leaders, and hit them hard at random moments.

Signaling he wanted a deal let the Iranians know they had a sucker on the line, and they behaved predictably.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@Julio_Rosas11 Send them back.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

This, exactly.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

I have a couple of dogs like this. 😂😂

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@RealTmDaddy @Shouse34 “couldn't secure side pussy if your life depended on it” was where I punched out on the whole thing.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@Shouse34 @RealTmDaddy Consider yourself fortunate.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@heartsabustin @RantyAmyCurtis @PolitiBunny I’m pretty sure we don’t really want an answer 😂😂😂😂

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@TetherCatcher Typical ghetto trash, you’re a complete waste of valuable oxygen.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@mipolitico @ChicagosMayor You should have thought about this before you insisted on closing the mental hospitals.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@SpeakerWelchIL @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc Get back to us when the media stops making it a policy to shamelessly lie on behalf of Democrats.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@awstar11 @CyborgPeds He’s terrorist filth, that’s exactly what he wants

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@HansMul44749589 @awstar11 Go away, murderous terrorist filth.

[Mark 🥓 🥓 @PitmasterMark69]

@heartsabustin I usually set mine to 69, which gets eye rolls from my wife 😂

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I want to tell you a story about a “journalist.”

I’m pretty sure the journalist in question was Scott Pelley, but for reasons I am about to explain I can’t be 100% sure—I just know it was a major US TV reporter.

August, 2003.

I was the G-4 of the 82nd Airborne Division. The IED threat had just become a real thing in Iraq and the 82nd—having just returned from Iraq—was sent back to the fight.

The “Division Support Area” was earmarked for a place called al Taqaddum, or “TQ.” I led the advance party to occupy the site (we drove from Kuwait). TQ was a huge area on a high bluff, west of Fallujah, and had a cratered Iraqi Air Force airfield. Later in the war it was a plush site with a PX and restaurants, but when I occupied it, it was nothing but a bunch of abandoned buildings, hulks of old Iraqi fighting vehicles blocking the runway, nightly rocket and mortar attacks, and constant probing of the huge perimeter by insurgents.

The IED threat was happening because insurgents were pulling artillery rounds out of abandoned Iraqi army ammunition supply points and turning them into roadside bombs.

We had been on TQ about one full day when the front gate called me on the radio: “All American 4, we have some TV reporters here, they want to come in, what should I do, over?”

After telling the gate to check IDs and do a sweep of their vehicle, I said: “Send them to me, over.”

A few minutes later an armored Mercedes pulls up to our TOC. The “talent” is in the very back where I could barely see him, but I’m pretty sure it was Scott Pelley. (Pelley was definitely in Iraq at the time, I checked.)

His producer gets out from the air-conditioned Mercedes plushness and pulls out a map. He arrogantly points to an Iraqi ammo supply point between TQ and Ramadi and demands: “I need you to escort us to this location.”

(They wanted to do a story with reporter speaking against a backdrop of an ammo supply point, because that’s where the IEDs were coming from.)

“NEED? I’m sorry sir, that site is not secured and I am not putting my paratroopers at risk for your story.”

Big disappointment and head shaking. I’m thinking: “The NERVE of this guy. Does he think I work for him?”

He then asks: “Well what will happen if we go by ourselves?”

My response: “You’ll probably die.”

(Important background: TQ also had a giant Iraqi ammo supply point that was inside the wire but we had not cleared it yet—it could have been booby-trapped, we just did not know at the time.)

He points at the map again: “Well how about the ammunition right here? We can just drive over there, right?”

“No sir, you cannot. We have not cleared that site.”

By this time he was visibly angry, he had a chat with the talent in the back, and then they all got back in and left without even saying thank you or good bye.

(Important point: the ammo on TQ he wanted to use as a backdrop for his “story" was SECURED from Iraqis grabbing any of it, yet they wanted to use that as a backdrop for a story on Iraqis grabbing ammo.)

The point of this story is this: those “journalists” were incredibly arrogant, incredibly dismissive of anyone in uniform with dirty boots, and basically oozed a sense of entitlement as if they were on some sort of noble mission, when in reality their mission was to smear the effectiveness of our operations because Bushitler.

When you hear Scott Pelley talk, oozing with arrogance over his “combat” experience, remember that he is of a breed that all think and act alike. To those "journalists," we were not American fighting men and women in combat. No, we were there for their convenience. It sickened me, and still does.

You think you hate journalists enough...