Roy

[Green Beret Nap Time @GBNT1952]

There is no “proportionate response” in war, and anyone saying otherwise likely has only experienced “war” from the comfort of their internet connection, or they have an agenda.

If you start a war, you open yourself up to the consequences tied to that action.

If you start a war with a more advanced civilization, you will likely get rolled and destroyed as a result.

If you start a war and enough people get angry about it, you may face the wrath of multiple nations attacking and bombing you until you surrender unconditionally.

This is only a hard concept to people who embrace victimhood and like to invent their own realities.

The moral of the story is: don’t start a war, because war is terrible and innocents will die as a result.

People will ignore that logic, though, because how else could they virtue signal about how terrible a war overseas is that they know nothing about and will never, under any circumstances, be forced to be involved with?

If you ride the tiger, you take a chance of getting bit.

End of story.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Funny

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@ShannonJean Don’t need a CDL in a tractor if you don’t go on the public roads

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@LouStagner Some might say it’s their best moments

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact.

Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more.

Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined.

None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily.

This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

[C. Bradley Thompson @CBradleyThomps1]

I'm proud to live in a country where a man can become and trillionaire & make millionaires out of thousands of ordinary, hardworking Americans.

Let me also tell you what I find obscene about his wealth: NOTHING!!!

Bravo Elon!!!

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Here it is, kindergarten level, without the moral sleight of hand.
Rent is something you chose to pay for yourself.
A job is something you chose to accept from someone else.
Those two things are not connected.
Your landlord doesn’t owe you cheaper rent because you’re bad with money.
Your employer doesn’t owe you a higher wage because you want a nicer life.
Wages are not based on what someone needs.
They’re based on what the job is worth and what someone agrees to do it for.
If a business “buys fewer yachts,” no extra money magically appears for wages. That money was never earmarked for you. It belongs to the owner, who took the risk, put up the capital, and might lose everything. Employees don’t share losses, so they don’t get automatic claims on profits either.
If you want more money, you have three options: Get skills that are worth more
Find someone willing to pay more
Start your own business and pay people whatever you think is “fair”
What you don’t get to do is redefine someone else’s success as your entitlement.
“Buy fewer lattes” is advice about your choices.
“Buy fewer yachts” is a demand about someone else’s property.
That’s the difference.

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

Calm. Cool. Collected. Named everyone else on his crew. Said “anyone else would have done the same,” and then saved close to 200 people. A truly humble professional and hero.

I hope this man gets every good thing he deserves.

[Nick H @NickInNC]

A long time ago, I was a Missile Launch Officer. The way I describe that job is 24 hours deep underground praying you don't have to do your job. Because that job is to launch ICBMs with nuclear warheads. As you might guess, people in that job spend a few thoughts on the nuclear unlock codes and who has control of them. It's just a talking point for most people, but when it's your hand that will be turning the keys, it gains some real importance. For the four years before this January, the person who supposedly had that control was not mentally competent. Think about that. If North Korea or China decided to get frisky and launch, the only person with the authority to do anything couldn't even remember what he was doing from one minute to the next or the names of the people he worked with. That should scare the crap out of people. This should be a scandal that makes every other political scandal in our nation's history look like tiddlywinks. Instead the people who knew are pretending nothing was wrong, and the people whose job it was to find these things out are acting shocked but otherwise unconcerned about it. All of the above are hoping the whole story goes away (but only after people buy their tell-all books, of course). It shouldn't go away. There needs to be consequences. We can't let this happen again.

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@TheParTrain Time to take some chances and make some mistakes

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@WarPath2pt0 Crazy!

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

Governments are coming after dissent in the name of “protecting” you from “disinformation.”

They’ll tell you it’s for “your own good.”

Don’t believe them.

America must always stand for free speech.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

From an amazing Michael Crichton talk:

“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once
discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article
on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the
article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything
they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against
evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper.”

[🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat @leslibless]

One of my brothers was Commander of Bagram Air Base [Afghanistan] for 2 years, so I know this as fact.

One of the important functions Bagram had was to heavily guard the massive arsenal of our weapons which were stored there.

When Biden & Milley pulled out fast, those $85 Billion of our assets were left behind for the Taliban, which included brand new:

▪️358,530 assault rifles
▪️126,395 pistols
▪️64,363 machine guns

Other equipment:

▪️$50M in ammunition
▪️Over $1M mortar rounds
▪️28,825 Humvees, including armored gun-trucks
▪️900 combat vehicles
▪️167 aircraft, including 33 Black Hawks, & 3 C-130 Hercules
▪️42,000 pieces of night vision, surveillance, biometric & positioning equipment

In turn, the Taliban shared their newfound collection of weapons with their militant terrorist friends. [1 image below shows them selling the weapons]

Biden continues to fund terrorists, not only with cash, but our weapons.

Spare me the Dems outrage in demanding gun control! They gifted an entire tyrannical regime with the very weapons they want to take away from US! NOT HAPPENING!

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I came across this. I can’t think of anything more moving.

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@LouStagner How much do you think TV coverage distorts our perception when they tend to show mostly spectacular shots?

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@BretBaier Is that a pocket square or a scorecard?

[Roy @slaglesenior]

@pdoocy @JoeBiden Congratulations! Really precious baby. Why on earth would you want to take parenting advice from Joe Biden?

[Roy @slaglesenior]

#ParamountPlus Best shows, worst app in the history of apps

[Roy @slaglesenior]

I’ve heard all the wonderful promises that #AI holds. I’ll believe it if one of the AI chat bots on a website ever understands a question