USAID Afghanistan stuff was truly incredible. My favorites include:
1. Solar power street lights (stolen & replaced n*)
2. Pay Opium farmers 2x opium price to grown corn, then sending Afghan to inspect. (Collected corn $, grew opium, bribed inspector, sold opium to Haqqani)
1/2
Democrats spent 25 years saying that Dick Cheney's kids should have to go fight in a war and all it took was Donald Trump agreeing with them to change their minds.
I was on a patrol base where you filled a sandbag before you ate, part of the continuous base improvement. Field grades would visit and breeze past the fill point - it was just a company PB. A JSOC 2-star stopped to fill one, and his FGs came back out to do the same. We felt it.
The last 3 or 4 weeks the algorithm has been so bad on X - it’s hard to justify putting 12-15 hours a day on here and busting your ass when you just get throttled to hell and back for no reason.
I’ve talked to hundreds of large account creators and it’s the same for all of them. None of them understand this insane strategy.
It makes no sense throttling the hell out of everyone when X should want their advertisers getting as many views possible.
I just don’t get it.
I know everyone understands what I’m talking about because it’s happening to everyone.
A US citizen walked 25km w babies and young women and was left outside #Kabul airport last night as military and civilian recovery teams were ordered to stand down. Someone will answer to their maker for what happens next, but those of us who tried will carry the weight forever.
3. illustrious Kandahar shopping mall (paid construction contract in full up front, contractor poured non-reinforced slab and then moved 3 generations of his family to Dubai with the rest)
4. The $43mm gas station was actually DOD's fault, but DOD Civ ranks are filled w fmr USAID
Dont let your ugly wife give you an ugly life
Thats my black pill tweet for you today
Community note
The founder of the channel, the gentleman on the right, posted a thorough, 4:46 video on the reasons he was stepping back from his channel Outdoor Boys, on YouTube:
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None of the reasons he mentions are due to disapproval from his wife.
The gruesome video of the fatal knife attack on Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail car in Charlotte is drawing attention from MAGA influencers seeking to elevate the issue of violent urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering shocking cases. axios.com/2025/09/08/iryna-z…
The one that will hurt forever. I love you little brother and I think of you every time I look at my son. I'll never stop telling my kids your warrior stories and your dumb joe stories. You are my hero eternal. I can't wait to see you again some day.
Less than three weeks after Alec Baldwin shot two people with a gun an assistant told him was unloaded, Kenosha ADA says same thing then w/o clearing it, breaks every single rule of firearm safety by pointing it at the jury while pulling the trigger for dramatic effect. 🤦♂️ #2A
Adoption day is finally here, after five long years. Ladies and gentlemen, Eleanor Nicole Rogers. ❤️ I don't have enough pictures or words to articulate how totally incredible my daughter is. Being an amazing big sister while I was in Afghanistan, 1/3
When my soldier was killed, his mom called me and said she had been crying for almost two days straight and asked me to make her laugh. I told her a funny story and made her laugh then, made her laugh at the funeral, and made her laugh graveside. Still do every time we talk.
This is the "child adjacent to danger/trouble" hustle, you don't want them to see you hauling ass so they take off like when you chase them around the yard or house, but you can get there in time so it ain't worth a panic inducing wind sprint.
The Biden admin took the guard rails off of Medicaid entirely, and able bodied childless adults were the largest new enrollment population of the last four years. This isn't who Medicaid was intended for.
Randy Bryce, labor Union goon, failed congressional candidate, and noted outspoken pedophile defender with the type of take you would expect these days from an established leader on the left, joking about the mass murder of people they don't like. #Progress@commondefense@AFLCIO
The folks hand wringing over #TwitterLayoffs wanted you fired, jailed and your children taken away during the pandemic for disagreeing with them. I won't celebrate people losing jobs, but the oft TikTok'd Silicon Valley elite adult daycare life is hard for normies to connect with
I broke down today. I can’t understand how people I know can be going to movies, concerts, and conventions whilst a genocide is going on like things are normal, my partner held me as I cried: I understand the woman who lit herself on fire more than I do some of my best friends.
I don't want protection from the Sandwich Industrial Complex I want you to stop taking 40% of my money and devaluing what I have left to provide for my family.
We don't need another private equity deal that could lead to higher food prices for consumers. The @FTC is right to investigate whether the purchase of @SUBWAY by the same firm that owns @jimmyjohns and @McAlistersDeli creates a sandwich shop monopoly. politico.com/news/2023/11/21…
“This one remained standing."
First lady Jill Biden received the 2024 White House Christmas tree, a Frasier fir from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, a community recently impacted by Hurricane Helene.
We did everything that was asked of us. We killed bad guys, we protected each other, and we tried to win hearts and minds. I have never been more proud to consider such a group of mighty men and women my family, and I will fight for you until I’m gone. 1/2
I spent several years of my life post service highlighting just that brother. It's time for sunlight on every part of government fraud waste and abuse.
I was born in 1986, the year @tammybaldwin was first elected. I grew up, went to war 3x, got 2 degrees, started a business, had four kids, and volunteer.
What has Tammy Baldwin done since 1986?
Wisconsinites deserve a Senator who works as hard as we do. @EricHovde is that guy.
If it works, he'll go down in history as the best to ever do it. Every single budget of the last 20 years, the troops paychecks are held hostage to pass bad policy that bankrupts our future with endless debt, endless war, and endless corporate welfare. It'll never work again. 🇺🇸
Military recruiting is so bad that I just watched a recruiter ask two kids at the airport USO if they were dependents. They responded "gold star kids" and he rolled right into the join the military pitch and gave them cards. "I can work with you from anywhere." They said nothing.
Tim Walz was a frocked (pretend) CSM who abandoned his soldiers when they went to war after enjoying decades of military training and benefits and that makes him a coward, not a leader.
The 9/11 Hijackers came into the U.S. under Clinton, and he also nixed killing bin Laden when a U.S. team had him lined up.
Tony Fauchi funded gain of function research in Wuhan under Obama, before it escaped into the world.
Love seeing all these people who use the free version of turbo tax put on monocles and pretend to be big business mogul CPAs in the middle of cosplaying as judiciary constitutional scholars. Most of y'all still think wealth is how much cash someone has in the bank, please stop.
Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have created a brand new stereotype for America: “Not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American,” @anneapplebaum writes. “Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans … those are shattered.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
WI voters taking a hard look at politician @tammybaldwin, who won her first election in 1986. Wisconsin deserves more than a federal customer service agent. A Senator who will rise to solve the problems of today and tomorrow. That Senator is @EricHovde.
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Friends if you live in vicinity of a closed @WaffleHouse please evacuate immediately they are more trustworthy and run better than the federal government.
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