(09-26-2025 03:05 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:09 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 01:25 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 01:22 PM)450bench Wrote:  It’s funny how libs fabricate stuff to frame Trump and celebrate about it as if they’ve accomplished something.
But when the letter of the law is closely followed and they get indicted for actually violating the law, they scream and throw tantrums and blame everybody else.

It’s predictably pathetic

Brats that were never disciplined growing up, never paddled in school, and never taught to respect authority, evolve into the idiots who believe they are never wrong and fall for any story somebody tells them which offers an easy way to obtain an objective.

Thanks to public education they will become the majority when Boomer's and X'ers are gone.

Hell is the absence of reason. They can't think their way out of a box. Hell's coming!

every accusation is an affirmation

I'm not sure what kind of warped reasoning you are demonstrating but accusations are frequently correct. Anyway, my kids got disciplined and they and their families are thriving. They disciplined their kids. Their kids, my grandchildren don't buy into any of the victimization mind traps, and they are all doing well in life.

Liberalism is like witchcraft. As long as you have a glib catch phrase you feel like you can ward off the truth or any adversary. You can't. A glib reply in person might get you in trouble. But the liars who taught you this approach want you to be victimized as that plays into their agenda. Every time I hear them from a young person, I realize how badly our education system has duped them.

I lived through nonviolence, and it was violent. The way Ghandi practiced it before MLK his adherents were frequently killed or beaten. He did shame the British government, but catch phrases didn't accomplish that, toughness and discipline did.

Good luck, you are going to need it. From the sampling of your exchanges, I've read on this forum you really come across as inept with the meaningless phrases you raise like a talisman to subject matter that requires a much deeper understand and expression than what you tender.

One of our neighbors is a psychologist.. We were talking one day about disciplining children. She never disciplined their kids and their kids don't discipline their children either, it's too much of a mental strain..

I said oh.. I discipline mine.. She asked how.. I said the same way I was disciplined.. Belt to butt and explain why... She said you can't do that, people spanked turn out to be dregs of society, and spend a lot of time in prisons.. I said well I hope that wasn't the dissertation you gave to get your doctorates, cause I got whooped.. My sister got whooped, matter of fact my parents instituted the rule of if one of us got the belt we both did to try and curb my sister's behavior.. I said honestly there were nights she couldn't sleep without having her @ss whipped... I said I haven't been to jail or prison, but I built one. I think I turned out ok as did my sister.. Bout that time my kid ran up and I said, when we do it we call it a factory reset.. I asked when was his last FR.. He gave the date and time and why he was reset. I said and what did you learn, and he explained that he should never do the action he did... That was roughly 2 years ago.. This past Easter the same lady was talking to me and said her granddaughter truly needed one that day, I said well it's too late. You can't start now. She said well how are you handling his behaviors.. I said oh we're past the resets, it hurts his feelings more if we take away his iPad or any technology.. We can't do that with her, that's how we get breaks... But your son is always outside, when does he get on his iPad.. I said at night after dinner.. When it's taken away, he has to get creative.

Brother between no discipline, being told at school that everyone is a victim of some majority and if they physically resemble the majority they are forced to repent of the sin of being part of the victimizers, not being taught logic, or not being required to do rote math instead of circle the correct answer, and then getting re-dosed with looser-hood in college only to start life out with a degree and no coherent understanding of how to apply it, and then to top it off their parents gave them every iteration of AI to separate them away from others and destroy social skill development, they are so screwed it is incomprehensible. Hell, the Public Education system was so afraid that children would learn discipline around the end of the 80's they had the kiddies turning in mommy and daddy for spankings.

I have zero confidence beyond technology, that we have any capacity to prosecute a war to a satisfactory conclusion. We will either overwhelm our opposition with massive AI generated first strikes and with professional pilots and precision naval strikes, but if the enemy puts us into a boots on the ground mission, outside of special forces we are screwed. I've never seen so many young people turned into fields of pansies. No grit, no confidence, no toughness, and afraid of a raised human voice.

I've been watching the immigrant labor and artisans working with construction around here. They are mentally tough and don't feel they are owed anything except what they earned. They work hard and turn out a nice product most of the time.

Then I look at young people who were raised without experiencing the consequences of bad choices and how shiftless they are, and withdrawn, and how they expect something for nothing, and I don't like our future. Now I realize not all of their generation are like that, but the reason they aren't is at home, not at the damned school!

BTW: I've had to work around a lot of psychologists. I've found that when working with the children they side with the kids, not for a rapport, but get them to talk and they just keep them talking and they continue to side with them until their parents' insurance runs out. Then the parents get the same kid back, only now he sees his or her parents as the enemy and likes the psychologist. Corporations hire them to work in HR because if they can tag any employee who is challenging the company in any way they can discharge them without fear of legal ramifications. The psychologist shows up at the hearing, the judge takes their evaluation at face value, and the employee gets screwed. They in most cases are paper assassins.

Toss in the fact that the vast majority of them got mail order degrees and had more problems than Carter had pills as the tag line to describe them and you begin to get the picture. And another tell is that their kids are out of control too. They are the biggest farce perpetrated by the left to bully their agenda through. I had one come after one of the families I was helping and when I confronted them, they tried to pigeonhole me with some tag line. I thanked them and then told them I would be happy to show them the report a psychiatrist wrote about me before I entered one of my professions. At the time all entering that field went before a panel of them, not psychologists, but Medical Doctors in that field related to human behavior. I could live with that. Later when those in leadership in the profession realized how much of a validation the in depth written report was that their entrants received from psychiatrists and how it validated their mental health when hired, they ditched the Drs and hired them some mail order psychologists to carry out their hits for employees whose questions caused them to be uncomfortable. I felt sorry for those coming along after me.

I was instructed by the same to only put negative letters in the files of those who worked under my supervision. The stated purpose was to have enough damning material on everyone to be able to fire anyone with cause at any time. I ignored that instruction and placed accolades and corrections in the files. Then they wondered why I had better retention rates and received high evaluation marks from my staff. I told them it was because we worked as a team and with trust.

They thought that was a negative. And mind you this wasn't from my career in corporate life. It was from my charitable non-profit work. Hello!

HUGE EXCLUSIVE: US Attorney Erik Siebert Had a Stunning Conflict of Interest But Kept It Hidden and Got Fired

Quote:What the Legacy Media won’t tell you is that President Trump had every reason for firing Seibert. Erik Siebert the US attorney fired by Trump had prepared a 51 page Memo outlining why Jim Comey should not be charged for crimes he committed while at the FBI. However, Siebert did not disclose that his father-in-law, his wife’s father is the godfather to Comey’s daughter, a stunning conflict of interest. Siebert should have recused himself but he never did.

Roger Stone shared this moments ago:

The Washington Post confirmed this relationship with Comey when former VP Mike Pence obtained Richard Cullen as his attorney.

Vice President Pence became the latest member of the Trump administration to lawyer up Thursday, announcing that he had hired an outside attorney, Richard Cullen, to deal with the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.

News reports described the sterling reputation of Cullen, 69, a former Virginia attorney general and longtime Washington insider who played crucial roles in some of the most high-profile political investigations of the last several decades.

But other parts of his resume attracted even more interest. For three years, Cullen worked at a Richmond law firm with a central figure of the Russia investigation: FBI Director James B. Comey, who was just fired by Pence’s boss, President Trump.
And not only is Cullen his “close associate,” as news reports described, but he is also the godfather of one of Comey’s daughters.

(09-26-2025 12:12 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 11:18 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 10:25 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  This is not going to end well for the administration.

So, enjoy it while you can.

Case in point:

This is being handled by the new trump lackey, Lindsey Halligan. She has zero experience with this sort of thing.

Meet Lindsey Halligan, the 36-year-old former Miss Colorado hopeful who only worked 3 federal cases before trump promoted her to U.S. attorney

She's NEVER prosecuted a criminal case before.

The leak was a violation. Covering up the leak is a violation of law and obstruction. The act of obstruction resets the statue of limitations to the time the evidence that was hidden is discovered by law enforcement. In the end---its not going to matter what linquistic gymnastics he performed before Congress when his answers were clearly crafted to mislead Congress and to cover up violation of laws.

We shall see. But don't say I didn't tell you this will go nowhere.

Oh---I think they will prove he violated numerous laws in court. But this will be a DC or Virginia trial---so he is protected by the hard left jury pools in those states. All he needs is one hard core violence supporting anti-Trump Democrat extremist (which are a dime a dozen in those jurisdictions). That why Comey is so confident of getting off----its literally impossible to convict a Democrat official of anything in those places. The Charlie Kirk killer would probably get off scott free in those absolutely bassackwards lawless jurisdictions. I just want the DOJ to drag it out so Comey has to spend every cent he has defending himself (you know---like he and his buddies did with so many during thier Leftist reign of political lawfare terror). What people dont realize---for the typical person---the mere process of this kind of indictment and the massive toll it takes with respect to finances and time makes the defendant an instant loser in the process even if he is eventually exonerated. Many in Comey's situation see their entire life savings wiped out due to the massive costs required to fight for their freedom against a DOJ that has virtually unlimited resources.

(09-26-2025 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:09 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 01:25 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 01:22 PM)450bench Wrote:  It’s funny how libs fabricate stuff to frame Trump and celebrate about it as if they’ve accomplished something.
But when the letter of the law is closely followed and they get indicted for actually violating the law, they scream and throw tantrums and blame everybody else.

It’s predictably pathetic

Brats that were never disciplined growing up, never paddled in school, and never taught to respect authority, evolve into the idiots who believe they are never wrong and fall for any story somebody tells them which offers an easy way to obtain an objective.

Thanks to public education they will become the majority when Boomer's and X'ers are gone.

Hell is the absence of reason. They can't think their way out of a box. Hell's coming!

every accusation is an affirmation

I'm not sure what kind of warped reasoning you are demonstrating but accusations are frequently correct. Anyway, my kids got disciplined and they and their families are thriving. They disciplined their kids. Their kids, my grandchildren don't buy into any of the victimization mind traps, and they are all doing well in life.

Liberalism is like witchcraft. As long as you have a glib catch phrase you feel like you can ward off the truth or any adversary. You can't. A glib reply in person might get you in trouble. But the liars who taught you this approach want you to be victimized as that plays into their agenda. Every time I hear them from a young person, I realize how badly our education system has duped them.

I lived through nonviolence, and it was violent. The way Ghandi practiced it before MLK his adherents were frequently killed or beaten. He did shame the British government, but catch phrases didn't accomplish that, toughness and discipline did.

Good luck, you are going to need it. From the sampling of your exchanges, I've read on this forum you really come across as inept with the meaningless phrases you raise like a talisman to subject matter that requires a much deeper understanding and expression than what you tender.

like many simple people you're conflating violence with discipline. People can discipline their kids without violence. People who do resort to violence to control children, well probably aren't capable of better.

you'll have to forgive the glib phrases, one can only be cynical watching our country march inexorably towards fascism and dictatorship under dear leader and have "free thinkers" cheer it on.

The group think and victimhood amongst the boomers on this forum are particularly interesting.

I'll be happy to tell you all this in person over beers at a tailgate. I doubt Auburn intends to schedule App State anytime soon however.

(09-26-2025 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:05 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:09 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 01:25 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Brats that were never disciplined growing up, never paddled in school, and never taught to respect authority, evolve into the idiots who believe they are never wrong and fall for any story somebody tells them which offers an easy way to obtain an objective.

Thanks to public education they will become the majority when Boomer's and X'ers are gone.

Hell is the absence of reason. They can't think their way out of a box. Hell's coming!

every accusation is an affirmation

I'm not sure what kind of warped reasoning you are demonstrating but accusations are frequently correct. Anyway, my kids got disciplined and they and their families are thriving. They disciplined their kids. Their kids, my grandchildren don't buy into any of the victimization mind traps, and they are all doing well in life.

Liberalism is like witchcraft. As long as you have a glib catch phrase you feel like you can ward off the truth or any adversary. You can't. A glib reply in person might get you in trouble. But the liars who taught you this approach want you to be victimized as that plays into their agenda. Every time I hear them from a young person, I realize how badly our education system has duped them.

I lived through nonviolence, and it was violent. The way Ghandi practiced it before MLK his adherents were frequently killed or beaten. He did shame the British government, but catch phrases didn't accomplish that, toughness and discipline did.

Good luck, you are going to need it. From the sampling of your exchanges, I've read on this forum you really come across as inept with the meaningless phrases you raise like a talisman to subject matter that requires a much deeper understand and expression than what you tender.

One of our neighbors is a psychologist.. We were talking one day about disciplining children. She never disciplined their kids and their kids don't discipline their children either, it's too much of a mental strain..

I said oh.. I discipline mine.. She asked how.. I said the same way I was disciplined.. Belt to butt and explain why... She said you can't do that, people spanked turn out to be dregs of society, and spend a lot of time in prisons.. I said well I hope that wasn't the dissertation you gave to get your doctorates, cause I got whooped.. My sister got whooped, matter of fact my parents instituted the rule of if one of us got the belt we both did to try and curb my sister's behavior.. I said honestly there were nights she couldn't sleep without having her @ss whipped... I said I haven't been to jail or prison, but I built one. I think I turned out ok as did my sister.. Bout that time my kid ran up and I said, when we do it we call it a factory reset.. I asked when was his last FR.. He gave the date and time and why he was reset. I said and what did you learn, and he explained that he should never do the action he did... That was roughly 2 years ago.. This past Easter the same lady was talking to me and said her granddaughter truly needed one that day, I said well it's too late. You can't start now. She said well how are you handling his behaviors.. I said oh we're past the resets, it hurts his feelings more if we take away his iPad or any technology.. We can't do that with her, that's how we get breaks... But your son is always outside, when does he get on his iPad.. I said at night after dinner.. When it's taken away, he has to get creative.

Brother between no discipline, being told at school that everyone is a victim of some majority and if they physically resemble the majority they are forced to repent of the sin of being part of the victimizers, not being taught logic, or not being required to do rote math instead of circle the correct answer, and then getting re-dosed with looser-hood in college only to start life out with a degree and no coherent understanding of how to apply it, and then to top it off their parents gave them every iteration of AI to separate them away from others and destroy social skill development, they are so screwed it is incomprehensible. Hell, the Public Education system was so afraid that children would learn discipline around the end of the 80's they had the kiddies turning in mommy and daddy for spankings.

I have zero confidence beyond technology, that we have any capacity to prosecute a war to a satisfactory conclusion. We will either overwhelm our opposition with massive AI generated first strikes and with professional pilots and precision naval strikes, but if the enemy puts us into a boots on the ground mission, outside of special forces we are screwed. I've never seen so many young people turned into fields of pansies. No grit, no confidence, no toughness, and afraid of a raised human voice.

I've been watching the immigrant labor and artisans working with construction around here. They are mentally tough and don't feel they are owed anything except what they earned. They work hard and turn out a nice product most of the time.

Then I look at young people who were raised without experiencing the consequences of bad choices and how shiftless they are, and withdrawn, and how they expect something for nothing, and I don't like our future. Now I realize not all of their generation are like that, but the reason they aren't is at home, not at the damned school!

BTW: I've had to work around a lot of psychologists. I've found that when working with the children they side with the kids, not for a rapport, but get them to talk and they just keep them talking and they continue to side with them until their parents' insurance runs out. Then the parents get the same kid back, only now he sees his or her parents as the enemy and likes the psychologist. Corporations hire them to work in HR because if they can tag any employee who is challenging the company in any way they can discharge them without fear of legal ramifications. The psychologist shows up at the hearing, the judge takes their evaluation at face value, and the employee gets screwed. They in most cases are paper assassins.

Toss in the fact that the vast majority of them got mail order degrees and had more problems than Carter had pills as the tag line to describe them and you begin to get the picture. And another tell is that their kids are out of control too. They are the biggest farce perpetrated by the left to bully their agenda through. I had one come after one of the families I was helping and when I confronted them, they tried to pigeonhole me with some tag line. I thanked them and then told them I would be happy to show them the report a psychiatrist wrote about me before I entered one of my professions. At the time all entering that field went before a panel of them, not psychologists, but Medical Doctors in that field related to human behavior. I could live with that. Later when those in leadership in the profession realized how much of a validation the in depth written report was that their entrants received from psychiatrists and how it validated their mental health when hired, they ditched the Drs and hired them some mail order psychologists to carry out their hits for employees whose questions caused them to be uncomfortable. I felt sorry for those coming along after me.

I was instructed by the same to only put negative letters in the files of those who worked under my supervision. The stated purpose was to have enough damning material on everyone to be able to fire anyone with cause at any time. I ignored that instruction and placed accolades and corrections in the files. Then they wondered why I had better retention rates and received high evaluation marks from my staff. I told them it was because we worked as a team and with trust.

They thought that was a negative. And mind you this wasn't from my career in corporate life. It was from my charitable non-profit work. Hello!

I think the kind of kids the volunteer army attracts are largely a group we'd be proud of---more than willing to what it takes to defend the nation. But if it were to come down to an old fashion WWII style wholesale draft----yeah---I agree---Im not confident the kind of stuff we'd be drafting will have the grit required to rush from the open boat ramp right up the beach in order to grab a beach head---well, unless that beach is totally undefended.....then maybe they could do it....but only if they can get to the beach without getting thier phone wet....

(09-26-2025 04:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:05 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:09 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  every accusation is an affirmation

I'm not sure what kind of warped reasoning you are demonstrating but accusations are frequently correct. Anyway, my kids got disciplined and they and their families are thriving. They disciplined their kids. Their kids, my grandchildren don't buy into any of the victimization mind traps, and they are all doing well in life.

Liberalism is like witchcraft. As long as you have a glib catch phrase you feel like you can ward off the truth or any adversary. You can't. A glib reply in person might get you in trouble. But the liars who taught you this approach want you to be victimized as that plays into their agenda. Every time I hear them from a young person, I realize how badly our education system has duped them.

I lived through nonviolence, and it was violent. The way Ghandi practiced it before MLK his adherents were frequently killed or beaten. He did shame the British government, but catch phrases didn't accomplish that, toughness and discipline did.

Good luck, you are going to need it. From the sampling of your exchanges, I've read on this forum you really come across as inept with the meaningless phrases you raise like a talisman to subject matter that requires a much deeper understand and expression than what you tender.

One of our neighbors is a psychologist.. We were talking one day about disciplining children. She never disciplined their kids and their kids don't discipline their children either, it's too much of a mental strain..

I said oh.. I discipline mine.. She asked how.. I said the same way I was disciplined.. Belt to butt and explain why... She said you can't do that, people spanked turn out to be dregs of society, and spend a lot of time in prisons.. I said well I hope that wasn't the dissertation you gave to get your doctorates, cause I got whooped.. My sister got whooped, matter of fact my parents instituted the rule of if one of us got the belt we both did to try and curb my sister's behavior.. I said honestly there were nights she couldn't sleep without having her @ss whipped... I said I haven't been to jail or prison, but I built one. I think I turned out ok as did my sister.. Bout that time my kid ran up and I said, when we do it we call it a factory reset.. I asked when was his last FR.. He gave the date and time and why he was reset. I said and what did you learn, and he explained that he should never do the action he did... That was roughly 2 years ago.. This past Easter the same lady was talking to me and said her granddaughter truly needed one that day, I said well it's too late. You can't start now. She said well how are you handling his behaviors.. I said oh we're past the resets, it hurts his feelings more if we take away his iPad or any technology.. We can't do that with her, that's how we get breaks... But your son is always outside, when does he get on his iPad.. I said at night after dinner.. When it's taken away, he has to get creative.

Brother between no discipline, being told at school that everyone is a victim of some majority and if they physically resemble the majority they are forced to repent of the sin of being part of the victimizers, not being taught logic, or not being required to do rote math instead of circle the correct answer, and then getting re-dosed with looser-hood in college only to start life out with a degree and no coherent understanding of how to apply it, and then to top it off their parents gave them every iteration of AI to separate them away from others and destroy social skill development, they are so screwed it is incomprehensible. Hell, the Public Education system was so afraid that children would learn discipline around the end of the 80's they had the kiddies turning in mommy and daddy for spankings.

I have zero confidence beyond technology, that we have any capacity to prosecute a war to a satisfactory conclusion. We will either overwhelm our opposition with massive AI generated first strikes and with professional pilots and precision naval strikes, but if the enemy puts us into a boots on the ground mission, outside of special forces we are screwed. I've never seen so many young people turned into fields of pansies. No grit, no confidence, no toughness, and afraid of a raised human voice.

I've been watching the immigrant labor and artisans working with construction around here. They are mentally tough and don't feel they are owed anything except what they earned. They work hard and turn out a nice product most of the time.

Then I look at young people who were raised without experiencing the consequences of bad choices and how shiftless they are, and withdrawn, and how they expect something for nothing, and I don't like our future. Now I realize not all of their generation are like that, but the reason they aren't is at home, not at the damned school!

BTW: I've had to work around a lot of psychologists. I've found that when working with the children they side with the kids, not for a rapport, but get them to talk and they just keep them talking and they continue to side with them until their parents' insurance runs out. Then the parents get the same kid back, only now he sees his or her parents as the enemy and likes the psychologist. Corporations hire them to work in HR because if they can tag any employee who is challenging the company in any way they can discharge them without fear of legal ramifications. The psychologist shows up at the hearing, the judge takes their evaluation at face value, and the employee gets screwed. They in most cases are paper assassins.

Toss in the fact that the vast majority of them got mail order degrees and had more problems than Carter had pills as the tag line to describe them and you begin to get the picture. And another tell is that their kids are out of control too. They are the biggest farce perpetrated by the left to bully their agenda through. I had one come after one of the families I was helping and when I confronted them, they tried to pigeonhole me with some tag line. I thanked them and then told them I would be happy to show them the report a psychiatrist wrote about me before I entered one of my professions. At the time all entering that field went before a panel of them, not psychologists, but Medical Doctors in that field related to human behavior. I could live with that. Later when those in leadership in the profession realized how much of a validation the in depth written report was that their entrants received from psychiatrists and how it validated their mental health when hired, they ditched the Drs and hired them some mail order psychologists to carry out their hits for employees whose questions caused them to be uncomfortable. I felt sorry for those coming along after me.

I was instructed by the same to only put negative letters in the files of those who worked under my supervision. The stated purpose was to have enough damning material on everyone to be able to fire anyone with cause at any time. I ignored that instruction and placed accolades and corrections in the files. Then they wondered why I had better retention rates and received high evaluation marks from my staff. I told them it was because we worked as a team and with trust.

They thought that was a negative. And mind you this wasn't from my career in corporate life. It was from my charitable non-profit work. Hello!

I think the kind of kids the volunteer army attracts are largely a group we'd be proud of---more than willing to whatever it takes to defend the nation. But if it were to come down to an old fashion WW!! style wholesale draft----yeah---I agree---Im not confident the kind of stuff the draftees are made up will have the grit required to rush from the open boat ramp right up the beach in order to grab a beach head---well, unless its totally undefended.....then maybe....

That volunteer Army took a knock with mandatory COVID vaccinations. One of my grandson's served in an adjacent area during the Biden use of the army in a support role of the Ukraine. I won't go into what he did. He was a solid recruit with skills as he was certified in the Civil Air Patrol in high school. When they told him he would go to Leavenworth for refusing a COVID vaccination, he took the damn shot. Served with distinction and told them to go to hell at the re-up, and he certainly was not alone.

I'm not as bold of a cheerleader as you are, and I spent a lot of time around Benning and dealt with the soldiers. I absolutely agree that the volunteers have the desire, but quality vs 10 years previously simply wasn't there for boots on the ground. Tech assignments? Yes. Physical requirements for a combat infantry role? Let's just say the incoming recruits were nowhere near in the condition that they would have been even in the 80's or 90's. I'd hate to see what Paris Island went through in the last 20 years, and I have a lot of respect for Marines and what they learn, and for what the Army turns out for Infantry and Airborne. The raw material needs so much more work than it once did.

(09-26-2025 04:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 04:15 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:05 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 02:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  I'm not sure what kind of warped reasoning you are demonstrating but accusations are frequently correct. Anyway, my kids got disciplined and they and their families are thriving. They disciplined their kids. Their kids, my grandchildren don't buy into any of the victimization mind traps, and they are all doing well in life.

Liberalism is like witchcraft. As long as you have a glib catch phrase you feel like you can ward off the truth or any adversary. You can't. A glib reply in person might get you in trouble. But the liars who taught you this approach want you to be victimized as that plays into their agenda. Every time I hear them from a young person, I realize how badly our education system has duped them.

I lived through nonviolence, and it was violent. The way Ghandi practiced it before MLK his adherents were frequently killed or beaten. He did shame the British government, but catch phrases didn't accomplish that, toughness and discipline did.

Good luck, you are going to need it. From the sampling of your exchanges, I've read on this forum you really come across as inept with the meaningless phrases you raise like a talisman to subject matter that requires a much deeper understand and expression than what you tender.

One of our neighbors is a psychologist.. We were talking one day about disciplining children. She never disciplined their kids and their kids don't discipline their children either, it's too much of a mental strain..

I said oh.. I discipline mine.. She asked how.. I said the same way I was disciplined.. Belt to butt and explain why... She said you can't do that, people spanked turn out to be dregs of society, and spend a lot of time in prisons.. I said well I hope that wasn't the dissertation you gave to get your doctorates, cause I got whooped.. My sister got whooped, matter of fact my parents instituted the rule of if one of us got the belt we both did to try and curb my sister's behavior.. I said honestly there were nights she couldn't sleep without having her @ss whipped... I said I haven't been to jail or prison, but I built one. I think I turned out ok as did my sister.. Bout that time my kid ran up and I said, when we do it we call it a factory reset.. I asked when was his last FR.. He gave the date and time and why he was reset. I said and what did you learn, and he explained that he should never do the action he did... That was roughly 2 years ago.. This past Easter the same lady was talking to me and said her granddaughter truly needed one that day, I said well it's too late. You can't start now. She said well how are you handling his behaviors.. I said oh we're past the resets, it hurts his feelings more if we take away his iPad or any technology.. We can't do that with her, that's how we get breaks... But your son is always outside, when does he get on his iPad.. I said at night after dinner.. When it's taken away, he has to get creative.

Brother between no discipline, being told at school that everyone is a victim of some majority and if they physically resemble the majority they are forced to repent of the sin of being part of the victimizers, not being taught logic, or not being required to do rote math instead of circle the correct answer, and then getting re-dosed with looser-hood in college only to start life out with a degree and no coherent understanding of how to apply it, and then to top it off their parents gave them every iteration of AI to separate them away from others and destroy social skill development, they are so screwed it is incomprehensible. Hell, the Public Education system was so afraid that children would learn discipline around the end of the 80's they had the kiddies turning in mommy and daddy for spankings.

I have zero confidence beyond technology, that we have any capacity to prosecute a war to a satisfactory conclusion. We will either overwhelm our opposition with massive AI generated first strikes and with professional pilots and precision naval strikes, but if the enemy puts us into a boots on the ground mission, outside of special forces we are screwed. I've never seen so many young people turned into fields of pansies. No grit, no confidence, no toughness, and afraid of a raised human voice.

I've been watching the immigrant labor and artisans working with construction around here. They are mentally tough and don't feel they are owed anything except what they earned. They work hard and turn out a nice product most of the time.

Then I look at young people who were raised without experiencing the consequences of bad choices and how shiftless they are, and withdrawn, and how they expect something for nothing, and I don't like our future. Now I realize not all of their generation are like that, but the reason they aren't is at home, not at the damned school!

BTW: I've had to work around a lot of psychologists. I've found that when working with the children they side with the kids, not for a rapport, but get them to talk and they just keep them talking and they continue to side with them until their parents' insurance runs out. Then the parents get the same kid back, only now he sees his or her parents as the enemy and likes the psychologist. Corporations hire them to work in HR because if they can tag any employee who is challenging the company in any way they can discharge them without fear of legal ramifications. The psychologist shows up at the hearing, the judge takes their evaluation at face value, and the employee gets screwed. They in most cases are paper assassins.

Toss in the fact that the vast majority of them got mail order degrees and had more problems than Carter had pills as the tag line to describe them and you begin to get the picture. And another tell is that their kids are out of control too. They are the biggest farce perpetrated by the left to bully their agenda through. I had one come after one of the families I was helping and when I confronted them, they tried to pigeonhole me with some tag line. I thanked them and then told them I would be happy to show them the report a psychiatrist wrote about me before I entered one of my professions. At the time all entering that field went before a panel of them, not psychologists, but Medical Doctors in that field related to human behavior. I could live with that. Later when those in leadership in the profession realized how much of a validation the in depth written report was that their entrants received from psychiatrists and how it validated their mental health when hired, they ditched the Drs and hired them some mail order psychologists to carry out their hits for employees whose questions caused them to be uncomfortable. I felt sorry for those coming along after me.

I was instructed by the same to only put negative letters in the files of those who worked under my supervision. The stated purpose was to have enough damning material on everyone to be able to fire anyone with cause at any time. I ignored that instruction and placed accolades and corrections in the files. Then they wondered why I had better retention rates and received high evaluation marks from my staff. I told them it was because we worked as a team and with trust.

They thought that was a negative. And mind you this wasn't from my career in corporate life. It was from my charitable non-profit work. Hello!

I think the kind of kids the volunteer army attracts are largely a group we'd be proud of---more than willing to whatever it takes to defend the nation. But if it were to come down to an old fashion WW!! style wholesale draft----yeah---I agree---Im not confident the kind of stuff the draftees are made up will have the grit required to rush from the open boat ramp right up the beach in order to grab a beach head---well, unless its totally undefended.....then maybe....

That volunteer Army took a knock with mandatory COVID vaccinations. One of my grandson's served in an adjacent area during the Biden use of the army in a support role of the Ukraine. I won't go into what he did. He was a solid recruit with skills as he was certified in the Civil Air Patrol in high school. When they told him he would go to Leavenworth for refusing a COVID vaccination, he took the damn shot. Served with distinction and told them to go to hell at the re-up, and he certainly was not alone.

I'm not as bold of a cheerleader as you are, and I spent a lot of time around Benning and dealt with the soldiers. I absolutely agree they have the volunteers have the desire, but quality vs 10 years previously simply wasn't there for boots on the ground. Tech assignments? Yes. Physical requirements for a combat infantry role? Let's just say the incoming recruits were nowhere near in the condition that they would have been even in the 80's or 90's. I'd hate to see what Paris Island went through in the last 20 years, and I have a lot of respect for Marines and what they learn, and for what the Army turns out for Infantry and Airborne. The raw material needs so much more work than it once did.

My son was at Ft. Benning (Moore) for his BT and 11B training afterward. The drill sergeants did everything they could to get rid of the dead weight and chicks. It all came to a head when the DSs put the 16 ounce gloves on and started pounding on them during hand to hand training. A couple of the girls were knocked out. It trimmed down the platoons a bit following that. My son scored a max score of 600 on the ACFT. Got a coin and pin at graduation. He is now going through ROTC. He said there was some tough dudes in his platoon, but a lot of last resorters too.

(09-26-2025 04:33 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 04:26 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

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(09-26-2025 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 03:05 PM)gdunn Wrote:  One of our neighbors is a psychologist.. We were talking one day about disciplining children. She never disciplined their kids and their kids don't discipline their children either, it's too much of a mental strain..

I said oh.. I discipline mine.. She asked how.. I said the same way I was disciplined.. Belt to butt and explain why... She said you can't do that, people spanked turn out to be dregs of society, and spend a lot of time in prisons.. I said well I hope that wasn't the dissertation you gave to get your doctorates, cause I got whooped.. My sister got whooped, matter of fact my parents instituted the rule of if one of us got the belt we both did to try and curb my sister's behavior.. I said honestly there were nights she couldn't sleep without having her @ss whipped... I said I haven't been to jail or prison, but I built one. I think I turned out ok as did my sister.. Bout that time my kid ran up and I said, when we do it we call it a factory reset.. I asked when was his last FR.. He gave the date and time and why he was reset. I said and what did you learn, and he explained that he should never do the action he did... That was roughly 2 years ago.. This past Easter the same lady was talking to me and said her granddaughter truly needed one that day, I said well it's too late. You can't start now. She said well how are you handling his behaviors.. I said oh we're past the resets, it hurts his feelings more if we take away his iPad or any technology.. We can't do that with her, that's how we get breaks... But your son is always outside, when does he get on his iPad.. I said at night after dinner.. When it's taken away, he has to get creative.

Brother between no discipline, being told at school that everyone is a victim of some majority and if they physically resemble the majority they are forced to repent of the sin of being part of the victimizers, not being taught logic, or not being required to do rote math instead of circle the correct answer, and then getting re-dosed with looser-hood in college only to start life out with a degree and no coherent understanding of how to apply it, and then to top it off their parents gave them every iteration of AI to separate them away from others and destroy social skill development, they are so screwed it is incomprehensible. Hell, the Public Education system was so afraid that children would learn discipline around the end of the 80's they had the kiddies turning in mommy and daddy for spankings.

I have zero confidence beyond technology, that we have any capacity to prosecute a war to a satisfactory conclusion. We will either overwhelm our opposition with massive AI generated first strikes and with professional pilots and precision naval strikes, but if the enemy puts us into a boots on the ground mission, outside of special forces we are screwed. I've never seen so many young people turned into fields of pansies. No grit, no confidence, no toughness, and afraid of a raised human voice.

I've been watching the immigrant labor and artisans working with construction around here. They are mentally tough and don't feel they are owed anything except what they earned. They work hard and turn out a nice product most of the time.

Then I look at young people who were raised without experiencing the consequences of bad choices and how shiftless they are, and withdrawn, and how they expect something for nothing, and I don't like our future. Now I realize not all of their generation are like that, but the reason they aren't is at home, not at the damned school!

BTW: I've had to work around a lot of psychologists. I've found that when working with the children they side with the kids, not for a rapport, but get them to talk and they just keep them talking and they continue to side with them until their parents' insurance runs out. Then the parents get the same kid back, only now he sees his or her parents as the enemy and likes the psychologist. Corporations hire them to work in HR because if they can tag any employee who is challenging the company in any way they can discharge them without fear of legal ramifications. The psychologist shows up at the hearing, the judge takes their evaluation at face value, and the employee gets screwed. They in most cases are paper assassins.

Toss in the fact that the vast majority of them got mail order degrees and had more problems than Carter had pills as the tag line to describe them and you begin to get the picture. And another tell is that their kids are out of control too. They are the biggest farce perpetrated by the left to bully their agenda through. I had one come after one of the families I was helping and when I confronted them, they tried to pigeonhole me with some tag line. I thanked them and then told them I would be happy to show them the report a psychiatrist wrote about me before I entered one of my professions. At the time all entering that field went before a panel of them, not psychologists, but Medical Doctors in that field related to human behavior. I could live with that. Later when those in leadership in the profession realized how much of a validation the in depth written report was that their entrants received from psychiatrists and how it validated their mental health when hired, they ditched the Drs and hired them some mail order psychologists to carry out their hits for employees whose questions caused them to be uncomfortable. I felt sorry for those coming along after me.

I was instructed by the same to only put negative letters in the files of those who worked under my supervision. The stated purpose was to have enough damning material on everyone to be able to fire anyone with cause at any time. I ignored that instruction and placed accolades and corrections in the files. Then they wondered why I had better retention rates and received high evaluation marks from my staff. I told them it was because we worked as a team and with trust.

They thought that was a negative. And mind you this wasn't from my career in corporate life. It was from my charitable non-profit work. Hello!

I think the kind of kids the volunteer army attracts are largely a group we'd be proud of---more than willing to whatever it takes to defend the nation. But if it were to come down to an old fashion WW!! style wholesale draft----yeah---I agree---Im not confident the kind of stuff the draftees are made up will have the grit required to rush from the open boat ramp right up the beach in order to grab a beach head---well, unless its totally undefended.....then maybe....

That volunteer Army took a knock with mandatory COVID vaccinations. One of my grandson's served in an adjacent area during the Biden use of the army in a support role of the Ukraine. I won't go into what he did. He was a solid recruit with skills as he was certified in the Civil Air Patrol in high school. When they told him he would go to Leavenworth for refusing a COVID vaccination, he took the damn shot. Served with distinction and told them to go to hell at the re-up, and he certainly was not alone.

I'm not as bold of a cheerleader as you are, and I spent a lot of time around Benning and dealt with the soldiers. I absolutely agree they have the volunteers have the desire, but quality vs 10 years previously simply wasn't there for boots on the ground. Tech assignments? Yes. Physical requirements for a combat infantry role? Let's just say the incoming recruits were nowhere near in the condition that they would have been even in the 80's or 90's. I'd hate to see what Paris Island went through in the last 20 years, and I have a lot of respect for Marines and what they learn, and for what the Army turns out for Infantry and Airborne. The raw material needs so much more work than it once did.

My son was at Ft. Benning (Moore) for his BT and 11B training afterward. The drill sergeants did everything they could to get rid of the dead weight and chicks. It all came to a head when the DSs put the 16 ounce gloves on and started pounding on them during hand to hand training. A couple of the girls were knocked out. It trimmed down the platoons a bit following that. My son scored a max score of 600 on the ACFT. Got a coin and pin at graduation. He is now going through ROTC. He said there was some tough dudes in his platoon, but a lot of last resorters too.

That's how you instill confidence in a young man, and how in real time the see the reason for the stress. That stress can't compare to combat but is good enough for those who pass it to feel good about trusting those with whom they serve. The process as it once was made leaders out of some, and solid soldiers out of the others who pass basic. Either way it was beneficial. Literally entering combat with those who can't carry their packs for 20K destroys trust. You can't have two standards and maintain quality or trust. Congrats to your Son! You have a right to be proud!

Quote:No wonder that bastard was smiling…

? James Comey’s “randomly assigned” Judge, Michael Nachmanoff…. Once Worked for Him!

Comey served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2002 to 2003 (after serving as a Deputy Attorney General). Nachmanoff clerked for a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia from 1995 to 1996 and later worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the same district from 2002 to 2008—meaning he was working in the office while Comey led it.

The judge should immediately recuse himself.

(09-26-2025 05:10 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:No wonder that bastard was smiling…

? James Comey’s “randomly assigned” Judge, Michael Nachmanoff…. Once Worked for Him!

Comey served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2002 to 2003 (after serving as a Deputy Attorney General). Nachmanoff clerked for a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia from 1995 to 1996 and later worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the same district from 2002 to 2008—meaning he was working in the office while Comey led it.

The judge should immediately recuse himself.

This judge needs to step aside no ifs or buts.

C-SPAN Host Greta Brawner FACT-CHECKS Democrat Caller Who Insists James Comey “Did Everything by the Book” After Indictment of Disgraced FBI Director

Quote:C-SPAN host Greta Brawner wasn’t about to let a Democrat caller rewrite history about disgraced former FBI Director James Comey.

On Friday morning’s call-in program, a Democrat caller named David from Maryland phoned into C-SPAN and insisted that Comey was an “honorable man” who “did everything by the book.”

He even called current FBI Director Kash Patel “a sick man” and “unqualified.” But Greta Brawner wasn’t about to let the caller’s delusional rewrite of history go unchallenged.

David: Thank you for having me on. I think that Comey—his record speaks for itself. He was a very honorable man who served this country. He did everything by the book. I think he was the prime example of someone you want to direct the FBI.

Now, currently, we have Kash Patel, who I think is a complete idiot. He’s sick. He’s a sick man in that position and unqualified. For Trump to go after Comey at this point is very obvious—the trail that led up to this and his feelings about Comey. The only mistake Comey ever made was getting involved with Trump.

Greta Brawner: Well, David, how do you respond to this? This is the Associated Press back in 2019. According to Inspector General Watchdog, Comey violated FBI policies in handling of memos. This is what the Inspector General found: Violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Trump.

The Watchdog office said Comey broke bureau rules by giving one memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the content with a reporter.

Comey also failed to return his memos to the FBI after he was dismissed in May of 2017, retaining copies of some of them in a safe at home, and shared them with his personal lawyers without permission from the FBI.

It goes on to say the report is the second in as many years to criticize Comey’s actions as FBI director, following a separate Inspector General rebuke for decisions made during the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

It is one of multiple Inspector General investigations undertaken in the last three years into the decisions and actions of Comey and other senior FBI leaders. Now, David, you said Comey didn’t make any mistakes.

David: Okay. Well, what I’d like to say is that’s the course of doing business. When Trump had all those documents in his house—Florida, Mar-a-Lago home—what about that? Did that ever get followed up on? What about all the things that he has done: making his own Bitcoin, about going after his political enemies? What about his selling? How selling cars from Elon Musk on the White House lawn? If any other president, especially Obama—if he did that—what would we be hearing from the Republicans?

WATCH:

That caller on C-Span would fit right in with some of the lefties here.

Herridge knows her stuff:

Quote:MORE TO COME
@Comey


Based on my two decades covering
@fbi

@TheJusticeDept
a thin indictment suggests a holding charge with the potential of a more complex, superseding indictment that adds more charges.

This is not only possible, but plausible in Comey's case based on the recently declassified FBI leak investigations via
@FBIDirectorKash
codenamed "ARCTIC HAZE."

The “ARCTIC HAZE” records reveal several FBI senior leaders and Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman said they coordinated media leaks at Comey's direction.

James Rybicki - former FBI Chief of Staff
James Baker - former FBI General Counsel
Andrew McCabe - former Deputy Director
Daniel Richman - Columbia Law Professor

August 14, I was among the first to report on "ARCTIC HAZE." ?

https://scribd.com/document/901652042/20...rctic-Haze

The parties did not respond to my request for comment about the declassified ARTIC HAZE records.

(09-26-2025 05:39 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(09-26-2025 05:10 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:No wonder that bastard was smiling…

? James Comey’s “randomly assigned” Judge, Michael Nachmanoff…. Once Worked for Him!

Comey served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 2002 to 2003 (after serving as a Deputy Attorney General). Nachmanoff clerked for a judge in the Eastern District of Virginia from 1995 to 1996 and later worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the same district from 2002 to 2008—meaning he was working in the office while Comey led it.

The judge should immediately recuse himself.

This judge needs to step aside no ifs or buts.

Ten bucks

No chance that happens.
This is what the inbred, CMA, CYA swamp looks like.

Needs some roundup and be torn out by the ruts.
Gonna need a true third term.

Quote:NOW: President Trump says that more INDICTMENTS will likely be coming against corrupt deep state officials after Comey.

"There WILL be others! That's my opinion. They weaponized the Justice Department like nobody in history...I hope there are others!"

"You can't let this happen to a country."

"It's not a list [of retribution], but I think there WILL be others - they're corrupt! These are corrupt, radical left Democrats! Comey was worse than a Democrat. I'd say the Democrats are better than Comey."

Quote:BREAKING: President Trump just DROPPED THE MIC.

REPORTER: Are you worried a Democrat president will indict your FBI director now? [Following Comey]

TRUMP: "Well, that's what they tried to do! They went after me for 4 YEARS, and that doesn't include the 4 years I had in the White House!"

"It began before I got to office! BEFORE I got to office, I heard rumors about Russia! I said, WTH do I have to do with Russia?!"

REPORTER: Is this revenge, or justice?

TRUMP: "Justice...also, you can't let this go on. They are sick, radical left people - and they can't get away with it. Comey was one of the people...he's a DIRTY COP. Everybody knew it."