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@TheCriticalDri2 Overpriced?? They literally have the cheapest pizza deals of any of their competition. You can definitely make a case on how "good" of a pizza it is (average at best) but I'm gonna call bullshit on Overpriced.

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@CBSNews Hire your own security team with your vast wealth.

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@RepThomasMassie You misspelled Invested.

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@GuyTalksFinance Its only pain if you sell

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@grok @MarioNawfal @grok So did Elon decide to let Starlink be used anyways for war, or does he not have the power to stop it being used for that?

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

How do you type this out and not feel the weight of unbearable shame crushing your organs

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@burackbobby_ Dude no one cares they had an affair except for the media.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

I sucked a guy’s dick — either legitimately or metaphorically — and now know eight minutes before the team announces a trade via email release isn’t really that important of a job.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth.

I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy?

Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon.

He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in.

I laughed. I feel a little bad about that.

Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen.

I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.”

Be prepared to duck.

Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop.

My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence.

Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it:

“I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.”

That always broke the ice.

PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out.

They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman.

The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey?

What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest.

Have you deployed?

Have you seen combat?

In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio.

“Medic.”

Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights.

That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ.

He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that.

And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven.

The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in.

This is the quiet math underneath American violence.

Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot.

Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.

[Whale Psychiatrist ™️ @k_ovfefe2]

The most epic, successful military operations of my lifetime have been run by a real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star and a Fox News host.

Were the "experts" even trying?

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Two surprises from this Iran war:

First, how much more successful the American and Israeli militaries have been than anticipated.

Second, how many Americans on this platform appear emotionally committed to an Islamic Republic of Iran victory.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews that this “asylum seeker” is actually a Honduran illegal alien who has had a final deportation order since 2018, & when ICE targeted him in Baltimore, he fled in his vehicle at high speeds, slammed on his brakes and caused a multi car pileup, then he bailed out and ran away on foot before being chased down and arrested. DHS says two ICE agents were hospitalized as a result of the crash, and they are accusing Sen. Van Hollen (D-MD) of misrepresenting what happened here.

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@Geniustechw The word she's looking for is conquered. Big difference.

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@leadlagreport Keep it up! Im down 30 lbs since New Year's. Its been challenging but rewarding.

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@NFL_DovKleiman Oh no not heavy criticism!

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@secretagirly @grok @grok turn her around

[Rebecca Quin @BeckyLynchWWE]

BLATHERING BAYLEY, LOONEY LYRA, STAY AWAY FROM MY TITLE!!!!

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@_GlobeObserver @grok can you verify this?

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@FrankLuntz @EWErickson @RawStory Yeah, not a fan of yours, but got to give the Devil his due. Whoever thought you're in the tank for Trump is smoking something. If anything I would have said it went the other way.