Reid Nicholson

Retired U.S. Navy. Anti-Majoritarian.

The greatness of America is found in what its Governments can NOT do to its citizens. Or shouldn’t at least.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@CynicalPublius Yeah, I defended Bush and have come to regret it. 2 problems I had in real time were not firing Rumsfeld and not pardoning Scooter Libby.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

It doesn't. But it does cancel the assumption that a couple marrying in a neighboring state are going to bear children that will someday become your surgeon or barber, lawyer or landscaper.

Justice Kennedy waking up on the left side of the bed one morning in 2015 is a bit casual to determine a basic human right. Attempting to reverse it would be unnecessary and foolish for social cohesion but that's the context.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

I received my first gun at 10 years old. Bolt action single shot .22 LR. I needed no introduction to it, I had been around rifles all along. I was trusted to operate it independently because of the real and demonstrated threat of severe corporal punishment if I did something stupid and dangerous.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Be honest with me, Americans 🇺🇸

Do you actually own a gun?

In Japan, I have never seen a real one. Not once.
Not at a friend's house. Not in a drawer. Never.

But online, every American just goes
"oh, mine's in the nightstand"
like it's a phone charger 🔌

So now I'm genuinely curious:
What's YOUR gun? The very first one you ever got?

Is this normal everywhere in the US?
Or just some states?

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@mtaibbi @mtaibbi, this language is insufferable. There is a distinction between "mail-in" and "absentee".

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@CynicalPublius Irish Republicans and Ulster Loyalists having common cause after battling each other throughout the Troubles. The UK government may have a difficult time suppressing reprisals, it was a lifestyle for 30 years.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

Alright people, we only need 4% to break 50%

[mk77_williepete @mk77_williepete]

@LeighWolf @FreddyLA7 now zoom out so @time can update current totals to "more than half of the worlds guns" , and "more than 4.5 trillion rounds of of privately held ammunition"
😊

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@wil_da_beast630 He is the leftist caricature of Pete Hegseth, only with no credentials whatsoever.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@wil_da_beast630 There's a range of human decency that extends from 6 to 13 weeks of a normal pregnancy. Anything outside that is extreme for a healthy mom and child. The debate always degenerates to zero weeks or daylight in the birth canal. Fucksake.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@DA_Stockman Fool. The Navy is as close as it needs to be.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@MOA_Official1 Job training, depending on the job. The majority of American military enlisted do their 4 or 6 year hitch and get out. It may be a better option than attending university without a goal or major set on entry.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@JoshuaBarzon I kinda like "fortnight", as in " The Colonel puts something in his chicken to make you crave it fortnightly, smartass!".

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@mehdirhasan @ConorLambPA @malcolmkenyatta You were wrong twice then. The first was that at the time he was elected, he was unfit for office. Now, he is a moderate Democrat, the last of his kind. His views are mainstream and his policies are to the left of where I vote.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@lpnyofficial Libertarians have great elocution.
Too divided to make revolution.
. but they love to rave.
. 'bout things that enslave.
like gambling, drugs and prostitution.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@TeeeRoy1 @SGTWipper1Each That would be Jody. 😀

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@CynicalPublius Musk maybe the greatest entrepreneur of all time. The team is that good but I could do without SecDef saying the word "lethal". It would be nice if Victor Davis Hanson could do the voice over for the President's pressers as well. Merely stylistic suggestions.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Stones. It's not one or the other thank goodness, but 6 decades of spanning genres is hard to compete with.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@hicasamadim 2x2x2 = 8
5x5x2 = 50
6x6x2 = 72

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@JayJosephVet Everything that happens to you is your fault.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

I've seen neither but I'll take the opportunity to criticize the artistic neglect of the Pacific campaign. It takes nothing away from the D-Day to remind Americans that in the summer of 1944 there were 9 Amphib assaults, 8 of them in the Pacific, from Saipan to Peleliu. Imagining the hell that awaits on that beach takes courage. Knowing what awaits from personal experience and proceeding is another level.

[Reid Nicholson @trn1962]

@HistoryBoomer Left and Right are relative to region and timestamp. Radical, reactionary. Hitler's anti-Marxism didn't make him a Crown and Cross reactionary. It is an exercise in foolishness to attempt to sanitize one's current political view by an aberration.