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maxrandb's JournalI can't figure out if that was an Admiral briefing Congress on the murder of shipwreck survivors
or, one of my Seaman Recruits trying to explain to me why he missed ship's movement.
Same type of parsed language.
It's all good though....well, "good" until they designate you, or me as "enemies of the state."
"We had to double-tap Max! He was about to post again"
Make no mistake. This state sanctioned murder will eventually spread to a city, or town near you.
This shit has abso-fucking-lutely NOTHING to do with drug trafficking, it's about normalizing extra-judicial killings.
It's just pushing the envelope of what the military will be allowed/ordered to do to those declared "enemies" here at home.
If a fucking O-10 can so schwarmingly justify this, do you really think he'd have a hard time justifying the murder of Americans?
This admiral didn't lose his way...he lost his soul.
Why MAGAt women continue to vote MAGAt
Why would Megan Kelly (a mother of a 14 year old girl) parse Epstein as "not a pedophile" because "14 is different than 8"?
Why do you see middle aged moms wearing "Tr××p can grab my pu××y anytime" T-shirts?
It's the MAGAt mindset.
For a vast majority of American MAGAts, their daughters are merely a commodity. If they can use their looks to hook a rich man, so be it, that's the way of the world. Hell, some will even tell you "it's God's will".
It's why you see a shit-ton of young, bleached, blonde, bubbly girls hanging around Donnie Dipshit.
It's transactional. Its how they've been raised. You give me a handjob, I'll scratch your back.
Megan Kelly would gladly send her daughter to Epstein's Island for a sleepover, if it meant her daughter might bag a billionaire, a spot on Faux News, or generate clicks on her monetized social media site. Shit, you can be a millionaire if you're white, female, attractive (in a 2AM at White Castle kind of way) and drunkenly discuss your handjob lubrication technique.
I might get flamed for this, but I'm not wrong.
Why are they so anti DEI? It's because someone qualified might take a position that would have gone to a girl rated a 10 on Zuckerbergs Facebook origin site.
Sane people think the casting couch is a disgusting, dinosaur symbol of the "Old America". MAGAt men and women see it as an opportunity for power, sex and advancement that's been taken away from them.
You don't fix that.
You don't try to "reach out" to that.
You just need to out vote that.
'Love Reign O're Me" Live Columbus, OH
"On the dry and dusty road,The nights we spent apart alone,
I need to get back home,
To cool, cool rain.
The night is hot and black as ink
I can't sleep and I lay and think
Oh God! I need a drink
Of cool, cool rain"
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One of the reasons I joined the Navy
"I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy.'President John F. Kennedy
From his remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, August 1, 1963.
The "New" Evidence AG Eva Braun is using to open investigations into Democrats
and supress the Epstein files
Democrats Open Double Digit Lead in 2026 Mid-term Generic
https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/a-look-to-the-2026-midterms-november-2025/
Exclusive: Trump approval falls to lowest of his term over prices and Epstein files, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-falls-lowest-his-term-over-prices-epstein-files-reutersipsos-poll-2025-11-18/
The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problem is Americans are not getting paid enough for their labor!
Saw a recent report that said only 1 out of 5 homes bought in the last 12 months were bought by first time homebuyers...and the average age of those first time homebuyers was 40! Sure, now would be a good time for a 50 year mortgage, right? 
Anyone calculate how long you would have to be in a 50 year mortgage before you could just break even?
I have posted about this before. I keep good records. Not only do I have my Social Security report showing what I made in 1980 as a 23 year old, I believe I have kept every tax return I have ever submitted in my almost 7 decades in this country.
IMHO, America, whether under Democratic or Retrumplican control since 1980, has been living under the trickle-down economic bullshit.
We've been sold a worthless bill of goods. Until we destroy trickle-down horseshit, even winning control of the government, results in nothing but nibbling at the margins of what is destroying the Middle Class.
"Pro-growth" is complete fucking bullshit! Take cancer, for example, no one should be "pro-growth" for cancer, but that is what trickle-down is...IT'S A FUCKING CANCER!
Anyway, here is a small part of my story. If you think it could resonate as a simple explanation of how we got to this fucked-up stage in America, feel free to use it.
In 1980, I was a high school graduate working at a grocery store chain in Ohio. As a Stock Clerk I made $12.60 an hour, time-and-a-half for overtime, double-time for Sunday's and Holidays... and even got 8 hours of pay for my birthday, whether I worked that day, or not.
We also had a decent benefits and pension program.
We enjoyed those good wages and benefits, mostly because our major competitor, Kroger, was unionized and our company tried to closely match the Union compensation standards to stave off Union efforts at our company.
The calculator I've used tells me that $12.60 per hour, full time, plus the overtime we averaged, would equate to $96K per year in 2025 dollars. Next time you're at Walmart, or Kroger, ask one of their Stock Clerks if they make $96K a year? Just be ready to run if you need to.
You need to understand. This was a "choice" job for a 23 year old from the Midwest with a high school diploma. This was the type of job that could put you solidly into the Middle Class. You could raise a family, own a nice home, have a car, or two, and maybe afford to take a nice family vacation every year. Hell, you could even afford to take the family out to Sunday dinner a couple times a month, and do the occasional ice cream shop treat for the family.
Not only that, you had a decent pension that you could combine with Social Security, retire at a decent age and live a comfortable and modest life.
If you played your cards right and got some scholarship or financial aid help, you might even be able to send your kids to college.
I left that job to do what eventually became a 30 year Navy career. I managed to make it through the ranks and earned a commission as a Navy Mustang Officer.
I am now retired and enjoy the type of pension and medical benefits most Americans can only dream of.
But back to that grocery store job. Somewhere in the 1980s, this country lost its way.
Suddenly, it was the grocery store clerk or union worker that were the cause of all America's troubles. It was the millionaires and billionaires that were "suffering" under the yoke of Americans who thought their hard work "entitled" them to a modest living and the occasional dinner out with the family.
See, WE were the problem. Our demands for a modest slice of life were keeping all these "job creators" down.
Why should that stock clerk make a decent living? He never hired someone. His wages and buying power never did anything for America. It's the billionaires that need more. I mean seriously, how many yachts is that stock boy buying?
It seemed like overnight that America began to no longer value labor, we valued wealth.
If you want a modest life, get a second job. Drive a taxi. Hell, you have 120 hours a week where you're not working. Go get a second or third job bum!
You think working 40-50 hours a week entitles you to a pleasant night out at the IHOP with your family?
I understand that there is a bit more to it, but what we did 40 years ago screwed over an entire generation.
Now, to get that "comfort" you could enjoy in your golden years, you need to be a Walmart greeter at age 80.
There's something rotten here
Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, J.P "what's his name"
nor anyone else in the Epstein files, sent masked, armed, Gestapo Nazi thugs to violently snatch children, women, old men and day laborers off the streets into unmarked vans, disappearing them to god knows where.
Nor did they send military goons into cities to commit violence against American citizens.
They didn't appoint racist, fascist, misogynistic hacks to a majority on the Supreme Court.
They didn't appoint Eva Braun as the Attorney General.
They didn't appoint a "dry" drunk rapist, O4 National Guardsman to lead the most powerful military in the world.
They didn't appoint actual fucking Nazis to positions of power.
Now, if any of these people participated in the abuse of underage girls, they should be exposed and punished.
But here's one big reason why I am a Democrat. MY OWN PARTY AND THE VOTERS THAT JOIN ME TO VOTE "D" ON ELECTION DAY, will be the very first to run them out of town on a rail if they abused their power whether with underage girls, or the United States military and justice department.
Donnie Dipshit and his MAGAt defenders, in government, could murder our children while they slept, and they wouldn't lose a single fucking MAGAt voter.
Megyn Kelly throws out the "She looked 18" defense
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."How the "eff" far are we going to fall? This is frickin insane!
Please note: I believe that Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter!
If you're a 50 year old man, who is NOT a gazzilionaire, try the "but she looked 18" defense.
Apparently, only Matt Gaetz is able to do that.
Excuse me, I feel the need to go take a shower with bleach and a Holy Stone.
- Holy Stone is an fairly old Navy "torture" device that we used to scrub teakwood decks.
It's true that sometimes you reach the point of diminishing returns
It's easy for me to say "Dems don't cave"! I can be so pissed that enough Dems in the Senate voted to pass a procedural wicket to potentially end the longest government shutdown in history, that I can't see straight.
I can do all that, and it's easy for me. I am retired with a good pension, social security, health insurance, and I am well beyond the "have at least 6 months of your monthly expenditures in the bank. My house and car are paid for. I will not have to decide if I eat this week, or make my rent payment.
But sadly, I am the exception in America.
There are people that are going hungry. There are good, decent people, working without pay. There are millions...in fact...it may be a majority, of Americans that are living paycheck to paycheck.
I am a Democrat, because my party cares about those Americans.
Right now, the Returdlicans control the White House, House, Senate and the Supreme Court. Dems don't have the power to do shit right now.
The shutdown has reached the point of diminishing returns.
I just wish all those voters that came out on Tuesday, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, had come out in 2016 and 2024.
If you want to be pissed at someone, start looking at your neighbors, family, friends, fellow parishioners and coworkers that voted for this Retrumplican shitshow.
The colleges, law firms, corporations, news organization and others JUST DON'T GET IT
They think they are still living in a past fantasy world, where they could kiss Retrumplican ass and shit all over American democracy while Retrumplicans have power, and then rely on Democratic afministrations to come in and Kumbaya their asses.
That world DOESN'T exist anymore...so I promise you...
Maintain your files. Maintain your bank records. Maintain your emails. Maintain your phone records and texts. Maintain your IT equipment!
When this fascist shitshow is over there is going to be a RECKONING!
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