Very accurate depiction of the attractiveness of most military spouses.

I should ask my wife if we can adopt a Jodi

I'll never understand people who rage against the machine who are part of the machine.

Pretty sure that was Alito, but Roberts is also a piece of shit.

One of the main cheerleaders of the Iraq War. The point stands.

I apologize if you get an off-kilter comment from me. I was leaving it for somebody else and accidentally left ubder your comment.

Yes, I completely agree with you.

Ignorance is strength.

For real, and fuck the heritage foundation that says holding social media to rules is censorship, like Europe is doing with fining x. It's literally protecting your own citizens, bro.

Why ycombinator?

It's fairly common slang among people in the military. With "going to play in the sandbox" being a euphemism for a deployment in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Not the poster, but I'm going to assume they say so because: "Middle East has lots of sand = sandbox" with the additional layer of meaning of "sandbox" as a place where children play and make stuff up, implying (perhaps) that the Middle East tends to be the place where the wealthy and powerful "play around," treating the people who live there (and the war machine they bring to it) as toys for their (sick) amusement. At least this is how I read it.

The issue is congress really. They have the power to stop anything the President does. Sadly too many Republicans are loyal to Trump alone and not the regular people.

Which is "kind of" the reason we should be getting the military on the side of the people and not chasing them into the arms of fascism because they have nowhere else to go...

Like, fucking obviously man...

What you're saying is the reason I said what I said in the first place.

Only hope

That is not the "only" hope, it's the most pain free "good" option. Saying because that option exists means we out all our eggs in that basket, is even dumber than literally putting all our eggs in one basket.

We can't just kick our heels up and hope this works, we work on this and the next 27 different plans that would sequentially be the least painfree while arriving at the "good" result.

I dunno, I'm just venting. It's fucking depressing that every comment is a choice between "too long no one will read" and "if you don't mention everything obvious, you'll have to later".

Iraq wasn't just the GOP. Most Democratic leaders - including Hillary Clinton and Biden - supported and voted for it

There is a certain mindset in the military that believes the military is being wasted if they aren't being actively used. Not everyone, but enough.

Trump already gutted most of the senior leadership in the American military that wouldn't dance to his tune. Plus the American military already has a bunch of right leaning uneducated idiots that are more than willing to 'just follow orders'.

I wouldn't expect anything much out of them honestly. Like most things what Americans portray and what they do is pretty different. It's just a couple steps away from calling themselves the Democratic Republic of America.

You can't think of anything they could do.

That's different and it's incredible naive for you to think the only things that could happen are the things you can think of.