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I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here

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@SenWarren I need a boat, why don't you buy me one

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@DissentFu Sounds like bad life decisions

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@simonateba @elonmusk Why in the world would it bother me

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June 6, 1944

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@Babywwir All for me

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@LangmanVince She looks high

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

Natural selection in action.

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@Bruce_L_Hartman Amen

[NFL @NFL]

Joey Bosa gets the pressure and the rookie Maxwell Hairston picks off Mahomes!

KCvsBUF on CBS/Paramount+
https://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt

[Sherri Unfiltered™ @FFT1776]

EVERYONE!!💥
A huge THANK YOU to Timothy Mellon … the man behind the $130M to fund our troops:

A rare public quote from Mellon’s memoir:

“We’ve turned into a nation of takers. Those who produce are punished, those who loaf are rewarded.”

Plz show your gratitude … drop your🇺🇸

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Military and the Press; a War Story

I want to talk about how the Army trains its officers and NCOs to deal with the press, and I want to stress how long-standing public affairs doctrine is EXACTLY what SecWar is enforcing in the Pentagon right now.

One of the things the US Army does really well is to send Brigade-sized units to intense training rotations at what are called “Combat Training Centers” (CTC).

There are three CTCs: (i) the National Training Center in Ft. Irwin, California (for heavy brigade task forces); (ii) the Joint Readiness Training Center in Ft. Polk, Louisiana (for light brigade task forces) (JRTC); and (iii) the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany (for Europe-based forces).

As an 82nd Airborne guy my CTC rotations were usually at JRTC (Louisiana is lovely in July). One of the absolutely beautiful things about JRTC is how they try to stress every single one of what are called the “Battlefield Operating Systems” (maneuver; intelligence, fires, logistics, etc., etc.). They do an amazing job at CTCs that you cannot do at home station training. A ton of money, time and effort is spent so that every soldier in every MOS gets to practice their wartime job in as realistic an environment as is possible. There is a dedicated and highly-skilled “OPFOR” trying to kill you in what is essentially a game of laser tag, but the detail is more than about just shooting. For example, they will have civilian role players and if you drive your HMMWV through a simulated civilian's cornfield you will soon be meeting with the play-actor civilian, the Civil Affairs guys and the JAGs to figure out how to pay the farmer cash for the damage we did.

That’s the kind of real stuff you encounter in war, and having that deep attention to detail in the training scenario is AMAZING training.

One of the areas where this detailed training is especially well-practiced is public affairs. There are make-believe media types roaming the CTC battlefield, and if you are a company commander, battalion commander, brigade commander or CSM, you WILL get formally interviewed on fake TV by one of these make-believe media types. But here is the thing—you are taught to NEVER talk to the media unless a Public Affairs Officer (PAO) is there, the PAO will prep you as to what you should say and should not say, and while you are being interviewed the PAO will be there to save you in case you step in it and say something stupid. I experienced this at JRTC, and the training was invaluable.

But the main lesson is this: never ever talk to the press without a PAO at your side. THAT is how soldiers are trained to deal with the media, and this has been true for DECADES.

DECADES.

And I’ll tell you what, when I was an LTC in Iraq and some NBC News armored Mercedes with a coiffed slick reporter reclining in the air-conditioned leather back seats wearing 5.11 gear like a wannabe Fudd showed up in my AO in the early days of the Iraq War, I knew exactly how to deal with it.

The training worked.

Now consider what Pete Hegseth and Sean Parnell said we are doing in the Pentagon today:

". . . information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released by any military member, DoW civilian employee or contract employee, even if it is unclassified.”

THAT statement—the one that has all the journotards up in arms and mewling like babies with a clogged formula nipple—is a simple restatement of what has been US military public affairs policy, doctrine and practice for the lifespans of pretty much every American veteran, without change.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOLKS. What we are seeing today in the Pentagon is EXACTLY what I trained on while still wearing the uniform.

All of this noise is just so much media-created lies and nonsense.

It makes me sick.

Anyway, I thought that context would be helpful. Never trust the media.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Democrats are so used to media being their propagandists that they totally lose it when asked basic questions. Here’s California’s Katie Porter losing it during an interview.

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@TrumpsHurricane At the mental institution

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@Strandjunker You should read more

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@TrumpsHurricane Office Depot

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

"I got that white girl."

This is a hate crime.

❌Bring back the death penalty
❌End cashless bail
❌Impeach all these judges who release these violent thugs back out on to the street

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wise words

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@sophie_cham2 @CaitlinClark22 @sophaller @WNBA @IndianaFever I'm glad to see you're up and moving

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@SenAdamSchiff What do you mean "these people"