bikeage

Northampton Mass refugee living in the Palmetto State. Retired Air Base Defender. Former federal police officer. Raising grandchildren. Still plays with cars.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

They will always sneer at the military. I told a fairly wealthy couple on a cruise during captain dinner that I attended the college of rifle and rucksack--those retards asked where it was.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The sneering is the whole fucking story.

They sneer at Hegseth for talking about fitness. They sneer at the “warrior” language. They sneer at standards. They sneer at discipline. They sneer because @CynicalPublius point goes far deeper than waistlines, drones, or one stupid daytime-TV segment.

His argument is that Hegseth is tearing into an ideological culture that spent years burrowing into one of the most respected institutions in America.

That is why the hatred feels so damn personal.

Cynical’s “skin suit” point explains the fury perfectly: take a respected institution, hollow it out, fill it with your ideology, then demand the public keep saluting the shell because of what that institution used to represent.

Then Hegseth comes in swinging a wrecking ball.

DEI programs. Cultural priorities. Lowered expectations. Bureaucratic rot. All of it suddenly gets dragged into the light and challenged under one brutal standard:

Does this help us win wars?

And that is where the sneering becomes revealing as hell.

While they mock him as some chest-thumping relic obsessed with pushups and beards, his Pentagon is simultaneously building around drones, AI, robotics, autonomy, rapid acquisition, and future warfare.

So the caricature collapses.

The man they paint as backward is pushing technological modernization.

The man they ridicule for demanding warriors is also building the machinery those warriors will use in the next war.

That is Cynical’s larger point: the rage against Hegseth comes from the fact that he is attacking the old cultural order at the same time he is rebuilding the warfighting one.

They keep sneering at the warrior.

Meanwhile, the warrior is ripping their fucking skin suit off the Pentagon.
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[bikeage @scott88gt]

@wolfandbear @jsouth0928 Because thats the message the uni party wants to push.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@codym1917 @absetzer808 So a roach coach on foot? We had beer machines, but this would be epic coming in from the field.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

Here's to hoping I don't burn down the house or the hot rod shop.....

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@GBNT1952 If we didn't lose a nuke and/or if nobody is going to write about it in 20 years, its not a problem...

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@Alladdin1983 At least its women.....

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@mazemoore @SenatorSlotkin She's not doing it, her handlers are.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nan kad akò bilateral ki genyen ant gouvènman Ayiti ak gouvènman Salvadò a, yon operasyon konjwen ki te reyini Polis Nasyonal Dayiti, Fòs Lame Dayiti (FAd’H), Task Force la, ak Fòs Espesyal Salvadò yo reyisi pran kontwòl Estad Sylvio Cator a epi mete l an sekirite. Pandan operasyon an, nou te dekouvri plizyè zo tèt moun anndan estad la.

Kounye a, nou pral tabli yon baz operasyonèl nan estad la pou n ka kontinye avanse pi fon nan teritwa gang yo kontwole.

Kounye a, se nou ki gen avantaj sou teren an.

Mwen mande tout manm gang yo avèk anpil fèmte pou yo kite zòn nan anvan ofansiv la kòmanse.

Moun ki chwazi rete pou konbat fòs nou yo ap oblije sibi konsekans yo.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@price_dominie How do I types always come through followed closely by the you can just do stuff without permission types and the I will prevail types. I got all three streaks depending on the day.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

Remember this when they start the hearings and impeachments.

[House Democrats @HouseDemocrats]

Democrats are fighting to make life affordable again.

We will fund healthcare, stop the war in Iran and bring down the cost of gas.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@ImMeme0 Well at least its women.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@gundy46060 @C_3C_3 Its a big club and you aren't in it.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

I am the luckiest dude on the planet. Two kids totally involved in refinishing this race car. At 11 these girls will be going 70+ mph next spring. We race so you don't have to.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@price_dominie I got lucky, the guy that taught me was 5/87 inf. Showed me how to use my fist for the terrain features. Ironically our son got washed back for land nav. He couldn't "see"

[bikeage @scott88gt]

For those of you who live in the bigger cities. Escape for you means leather personnel carriers and land navigation.

[Dominie 🇺🇸 @price_dominie]

I took some pictures up close and video clips of terrain features. Tomorrow I’ll post them side-by-side with what the map terrain lines indicating them look like.

The most difficult part of land navigation is learning to visualize a 2 dimensional map as the 3 dimensional world it represents. Once you have that part down, it’s as easy as reading a roadmap.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@jsouth0928 @GamingAndPandas Notice the timing. Im sorry but to paraphrase Stephen Miller, Somalia is for somalians

[I’m Your Huckleberry @RossFairchild]

“I’m proud of what this Republican team has accomplished together”
John Thune

Republican team accomplishments:
1.) Blocked Trump’s recess appointments.
2.) Blocked Trump’s US Attorney appointments.
3.) Blocked Trump’s Judicial nominations.
4.) Blocked passage of the SAVE America Act.
5.) Blocked codifying Trump’s EOs and DOGE cuts.
6.) Brought about the worst midterm loss in Republican history.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

Very true... worse yet there is a literal army of O5 and O6 officers across all branches that built their careers on DEI. This cancer must be removed. Root and stem.

[Sole Voice Of Reason @SonOfAristotle]

@votevets All these fired generals and admirals running as Democrats pretty much proved why Hegseth had to fire them.

They were all disloyal Obamabots and Bidenistas.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@TRHLofficial Unfortunately many in power within the Roman catholic church also wear Catholicism as a skin suit

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@themagaking Jordan is all bark, no bite. Buy stock in toner and printers for the slew of sternly worded letters.

[bikeage @scott88gt]

@jsouth0928 @dyingscribe What kills me is nobody mentions the RINO problem in the senate. A lot of democrat initiatives are going to be jammed through.